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Yankee movements on the coast

Charleston, S. C., Dec. 29.
--The Yankees have evacuated St. Simon's Island, below Savannah.--They had intended planting the Island with cotton, but receiving information of an expected attack from the Confederates, left in haste, taking with them all the negroes except one, who escaped to him master, and reports that they were preparing for a land and naval demonstration against Charleston.

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