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ughout the country. But I do not think that the honor, if honor it be, belonged to the late Major Gibbes. During the war Charles Carleton Coffin was the war correspondent of the Boston Daily Journal, his letters appearing over the signature of Carleton. Mr. Coffin is the author of a number of patriotic and historical books. He was quite famous as a lecturer. He delivered the memorial day address at Barnstable, Mass., May 30, 1888. The address was published in the Barnstable Patriot of Junebor. Ships of great tonnage can now enter this port. Fort Sumter has been rebuilt and Fort Moultrie is garrisoned with United States soldiers. As to whom the credit of firing the first gun on Sumter belongs there has been some discussion. Carleton, the war correspondent of the Boston Daily Journal, said it belonged to Edmund Ruffin, of Virginia. A romantic story has been told in public print that the little daughter of Governor Pickens, of South Carolina, while held in the arms of Gen