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The Daily Dispatch: September 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], An account of Fort Chene. (search)
and perfect knowledge of this great wilderness of mud and water than even the Acadians whose little cottages dot the stray oases of dry ground. The triangulations, measurements and soundings, taken by this surveying party, are all on file in the Navy Department at Washington, and copies of them, as a matter of course, are on board of every blockading vessel along that coast. At the same time it may easily be supposed that our Government was acquainted with the same subject, and that Gen. Twiggs has had his eyes upon every vulnerable point along our Gulf line, and is rapidly preparing them for defence against nautical raids for the destruction of our property. Forts have sprung up from swamps, and batteries loom up along bayous as it by the waving of some magician's wand. The lazy alligator, who ever saw more of civilization than the swift skimming of an adventurous brogue, now gapes in wonder at the tramping sentry who paces his newly-made shell-walk, and the white crane s
The Daily Dispatch: September 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], An account of Fort Chene. (search)
Col. J. O. Nixon, editor of the New Orleans Crescent, has accepted the position of Lieut. Col. of Scott's Regiment of Cavalry, recently raised in New Orleans--one of the fluent, in all its appointments, yet mustered into the service. It is said that the Yankee property in the South, subject to the provisions of the sequestration act will not fall for short of three hundred millions. The City Council of New Orleans has ordered the sum of $100,000 to be placed at the disposal of Gen. Twiggs to be used in providing for the defence of the city. Counterfeits.--Counterfeit ten dollar bills on the Bank of South Carolina are in circulation.