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North Carolina troops.
--The Raleigh Journal, of Saturday last, furnishes some interesting information relative to the troops of North Carolina, a portion of which we copy:
We learn that President Davis has consented to receive, in addition to the four regiments already in the field, the 5th, 6th and 11th Regiments of Volunteers.
The 5th arrived in Virginia a few days ago. The 6th, Col. Lee's, was to have left yesterday, and the 11th, rendezvoused at Danville, will receive marching orders for Richmond as soon as certificates of the election of the field officers are received at headquarters.
The Sixth Regiment State Troops, Col. Fisher, is expected to leave on Monday.
The Second, Col. Tew; the Third, Col. Meares, and the Fourth, Col. Anderson, are full and only await some slight equipments to take up their line of march.
The Fifth, Col. McRue, is nearly completed, and the right wing will probably leave early next week.
When these troops get to their destination, N
A brave daughter of the South.
--When on Sunday last the enemy's steamer Mohawk came in over the bar in St. Mark's bay, and showed her teeth to the boys in Fort Williams, as if bent on a fight, Mrs. Davis, the daughter of Capt. Kennedy, the Light Keeper, solitary and alone, ascended the light tower with a large Confederate States flag, and in the face of the haughty war steamer, defiantly threw its folds out to the breeze.
Long may it wave.--Tallahassee Floridian.
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], A hero in trouble. (search)
From Key West.
--From a letter received in this place by a schooner, we learn that at the municipal election recently ordered by the Commander of Fort Taylor to be held at Key West, at which none but those who would swear allegiance to the Lincoln Government were allowed to vote, Judge Marvin was elected Mayor.
In his " inaugural" he said that " Jeff. Davis would be hanged as a rebel if taken! " --Tampa (Fla.) Peninsular.