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The Daily Dispatch: September 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ran away (search)
ers and by the citizens generally. The Yankees at Hatteras have cut a canal across the point on which the fort is erected, and above the latter, to assist in keeping away the Confederate troops. The water flows very rapidly through this dyke, which is thereby deepening and widening, and it is probable that the small island on which the fortification is built will be entirely swept away by the storms which are common at that locality, especially in the winter. The fortifications of Roanoke Island, twenty-five miles distant from Hatteras, are progressing rapidly, and I learn from persons just in from Carolina that vigorous and judicious measures are in progress to prevent any further intrusion by the Federal vandals upon the soil of the Old North State. Eight of the Southerners who live on the coast, and who took the oath of allegiance to the North, have been arrested and sent to Raleigh.--They were caught with incendiary circulars from the Hessian camp. The Confederate steam