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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Central Railroad. (search)
South Carolina. Charleston, Jan. 19. --Lieut. Talbot, Col. Anderson's messenger from Washington, arrived here last night, with gloomy tidings, it is said. The Legislature was in secret session nearly the entire night on the subject. This morning a white flag came from Fort Sumter, the object of which, it is stated, is to demand a suspension of work on the fortifications in the harbor. Lieut. Davis, with four men, is now in the city. The soldiers are witnesses in a murder case, and Lieut. Davis is being entertained by his friends. He drinks to a peaceable settlement of the difficulties. Fort Sumter is allowed to procure fresh provisions from our market daily.
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The worthy daughter of a Hero. (search)
The worthy daughter of a Hero. --All who are familiar with our revolutionary history, must bear in grateful and enthusiastic memory the great services, the heroic courage, and splendid achievements of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, who led the chivalry of the South in so many terrible conflicts and glorious victories over the British. A Rhode Islander by birth, General Greene was sent southward by General Washington as his most reliable chief, and by his brilliant generalship and virtues so endeared himself to the people of this section that he ever afterwards resided in the South, and his descendants have ever been distinguished for their devotion to the honor and rights of the South. We have now before us a letter from a venerable lady, says the New Orleans Delta, the last surviving child of Gen. Nat. Greene, who has reached the advanced age of eighty, in which, addressing one of her descendants, she uses the following noble language: "Rather than hear that Fort Moultrie wa