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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gun sleighs in Canada. (search)
Latest Southern news. Affairs on the Potomac — engagement at Port Royal. We gather the following interesting items from the latest Southern exchanges received at this office. From the Potomac — Inefficiency of the blockade — active preparation of the Yankees near Aquia Creek, &C. From the Fredericksburg Recorder, of the 20th inst., we take the following: At and about Evansport there has been firing day and night almost every day and night for the week pass. Thethat Colonel Brockenbrough's regiment had sent their baggage to this place, preparatory to marching to the same point. We should not be surprised if the Federals should essay fight at once, for with them it is now or never. Engagement at Port Royal — a Yankee Reconnaissance, and what came of it — severe cannonade. Gardner's Corner, via Pocotaligo, S. C., December 19.--About half past 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon one of the enemy's gunboats passed by Port Royal Ferry. Our batterie
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 19 (search)
ty in Literary Garb. The Mobile Register has the following interesting article, prompted by the receipt of a recent number of Harper's Weekly: We have before us a copy of Harper's Weekly, of the date of November 30th. It is loaned to us by a friend, and we do not know how it was spirited over the border and through the lines of hostile armies. The great feature in the "illustrations" of the number is what the editor calls "the glorious achievements of the great expedition" at Port Royal. A prodigious amount of artistic and pen and ink is expended in illustrating and bragging over the destruction of a couple of open mud batteries by the whole power of the Federal Navy. Verily, the Lincolnites are thankful for small favors when they come in the shape of military successes. The tone of this well-known Weekly is bitter and vindictive in the extreme against the South. It is the spirit of a vengeful tyrant who would flay his enemies alive, provided he could catch them.
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], "Squelching" the Blockaders (search)
ching" the Blockaders --An Original Idea.--A correspondent from Jeffries Creek sends us the following suggestion, which certainly possesses the merit of intense originality: "Among the many projects for destroying the blockade, the following plan seems to me to combine less risk of life than would attend any other with an equal chance of success; Prepare a number of large iron shells, loaded with 100 lbs. of powder, and a due proportion of destructive missiles. Let the shells be heavier on one side, and let this side be fitted with nipples for percussion caps, communicating with the charge. Take these shells up in balloons, and when at a convenient altitude above the blockading squadron allow them to descend upon the enemy's decks. The shells should be of sufficient weight to penetrate the deck of any vessel upon which they might be dropped. Even if this plan were impracticable upon the seas, it might serve to clear our harbors, such as Tybee and Port Royal."--Mercury.