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The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], Porter's Great torpedo. (search)
Porter's Great torpedo. --The New York World, in an editorial on Porter's torpedo, gives the following excellent hit at the unhappy trick, so "gunpowders and pranky," which failed to blow down Fort Fisher: "Early in the Anglo-Chinese war the English were amused by the Chinese army, which met them with the sound of gongs, the braying of trumpets, and a corps of gymnasts, who performed all sorts of acrobatic feats, dressed in hideous costumes. For a time the object of these remarkablePorter's torpedo, gives the following excellent hit at the unhappy trick, so "gunpowders and pranky," which failed to blow down Fort Fisher: "Early in the Anglo-Chinese war the English were amused by the Chinese army, which met them with the sound of gongs, the braying of trumpets, and a corps of gymnasts, who performed all sorts of acrobatic feats, dressed in hideous costumes. For a time the object of these remarkable exhibitions was not apparent to the European army, and it was supposed to be a custom of the Celestial observed by them in all their battles — probably in the nature of an invocation to their deities. After the battle, however, they captured the general orders of the mandarin chief, and found that the "Children of the Sun" were ordered to sound their abominable gongs and blow their trumpets when the "barbarians"approached, and were promised that the effect would be so terrifying to the English
The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], Vivid description of a sea "fight.' (search)
Vivid description of a sea "fight.' The Wilmington Journal, whose editor must have "been there before," gives a graphic and consoling account of the sea encounter with the Yankees off that port. He says: "It is said that the land forces under Butler, who came along with Porter to close up our port, got awfully sea-sick. They laid down on their backs and on their stomachs; they grunted; they groaned; they cursed; they prayed; they cast up accounts; they paid tribute to Neptune; they threw up the coats and the waistcoats of their stomachs; they threw up their boots; they became cataracts; they said New York; they cursed their fathers and their mothers — likewise Beast Butler, whom an Irish gentleman denominated ' the baste;' they had a high old time; and if they spoiled our Christmas, it is some comfort to know that they were as miserable as human nature could well be. Butler himself was off his grog, and the black soldiers looked blue and green, diversified by a mottled y
The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], Ingenuity of rebel ladies. (search)
For Hire, two Girls, one about fourteen and the other about sixteen years of age, accustomed to the house. Apply to J. L. Porter, at A. E. Moore's, Cary street. ja 13--3t*