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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
From the South. The following comprises the most interesting items which our latest Southern exchanges contained: Latest from Fort Royal--more Burning of cotton. From the Charleston Courier, of the 9th instant, we extract the following: We learn from a friend that on Wednesday night a mounted detachment of the Beaufort Artillery, under their Captain, amounting to twenty-two men, passed over to the island, visited Beaufort, whose utter desolation and abandonment was relieved only by the presence of one light and the barking of a dog.--There were no signs of the enemy, either on land or on water. Our men then proceeded to the work of destruction. The chief object of the expedition was to destroy the crops of cotton and provisions on Paris Island, which being near to the enemy was crowded by the negroes who had flocked there to escape from the control of their owners. Owing to the absence of boats, this object was but partially effected. A canoe, holding three