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The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Southern war matters. (search)
ully. For some time, the enemy have been "excursioning it" in large parties to Bull's Island, distant some five or six miles from this place, making it a depot for runaway negroes and plunder, and a station whence they could be transferred to Hilton Head. Last night, a party of thirty or forty went down, under command of Captain Kirk, with muffled cars, hoping to secure some "food for the halter," The Yankees, however, had exercised so landable a prudence, that they had all retired to their strong-hold on Hilton Head. By slipping rapidly and silently up the bluff, however, they succeeded in astonishing some forty "contra bands," who were politely conducted to the boat and returned this morning to their lawful owners. Having applied a match to the corn-house, (the cotton was already burned,) and looked in vain for a Yankee physiognomy they returned to Bluffton, arriving at dawn. The Reception of the Ordinance of Secession of Missouri by the people. The Memphis Appea