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The Daily Dispatch: February 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs at the South. (search)
, smile not upon the craven youth who may linger by your hearth when the rude blast of war is sounding in your ear! Texas chivalry, to arms! Hardships and hunger, disease, and death, are preferable to slavery subjection, and a nation with a bright page in history and a glorious epitaph is better than a Vassall land with honor lost and a people sunk in infamy. Earl Van-Dorn, Major-General. Attempt to Run the blockade. The New Orleans Bulletin says: The steamer Victoria, Capt. Forbes, appeared off Fort Livingston at the entrance to Barataria Bay, on Tuesday night, and in attempting to run in got aground in the Swash Channel, a mile distant from the fort. On Wednesday morning the United States steamer South Carolina hove in sight and taking a position some three miles from the Victoria (she could not approach nearer owing to the shallowness of the water) commenced firing at the vessel. Up to three o'clock Wednesday afternoon, about two hundred shells had been fired b