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From Charleston.a Trip down the harbor — Graphic description of Fort Sumter--Morris' Island — Scenes in the city, &c. [special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Charleston, April 15.
For a "special correspondent," who arrives on the scene twenty hours after the "special" occasion is ended, there remain only a few scraps of intelligence to communicate, and they are not new. This morning a boat from the city went down to Fort Sumter, and the excursionists on board had a very good opportunity of viewing the scene of the late fight.
As you leave the city you find Castle Pinkney on your left — a low, circular fortification, painted a bright yellow.
On the narrow ledge around it are seen several awkward squads drilling, their officers trotting them around at a rapid rate.
Those soldiers sent to this fort are chiefly recruits who are drilled for the lower points in the harbor.
But a few moments elapse before you have a good view of Fort Sumter; but how changed.
All the chim<
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.Southern-rights meeting.
Caroline Co., Va., April 15.
A meeting of the citizens of the fifth Magisterial District of Caroline county, and of the lower end of Spotsylvania, was held at Chilesburg to-day.
Col. F. Wood was called to the chair, and Wm. J. Hancock appointed Secretary.
The object of the meeting having been explained, it was moved and seconded that the Chairman appoint a committee of five to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting.
The following gentlemen, viz: John G. Dickinson, E. D. Eve. Capt. R. P. Smith, Dr. N. R. James, and Wm. J. Hancock, being selected, retired for a short time, and made the following report:
Whereas, we have no confidence in a majority of the members of the Convention now assembled in Richmond, and as there are but two alternatives for the Old Dominion — the one to remain in her present degraded condition, a suppliant at a Black Republican footstool; and the other to assum