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The Daily Dispatch: may 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
e continuous shelling to which they were exposed; when a small force of the enemy (stated to be about twenty men) landed and hastily spiked the guns and disabled the carriages as far as they could.--As they returned to their boats a body of our sharp-shooters took position on the bank below them, and fired a number of rounds, by which the helmsman and a number of others on board the gunboat are thought to have been "hurt." The enemy, who dear, are removing large numbers of the negroes from Port Royal to North Carolina, for the purpose of putting them a work on the coast of that State. New Orleans. The following item is from the New Orleans Delta of the 25th ultimo: The True Spirit.--Our citizens have seen the white smoke which arose yesterday from smouldering fires in various parts of the city. It was a burnt offering on the altar of liberty. The enemy will be welcome to all the cotton that they will get here Indeed, if it were practicable, there are many who would pre
The Daily Dispatch: may 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], The cotton Ports. (search)
The cotton Ports. anticipated, the Herald and other journals are in a delirium of ecstasy imagined acquisition of a first-rate port in their triumph at New Orleans seem to learn nothing from experience were sure of opening a great cotton port they possessed themselves of Port but the cotton disappeared as rapidly advanced. The planters, with pa devotion, applied the torch to it where it was in danger of falling into their The result at New Orleans will be the as at Port Royal, and in every other cot action which the vandals have invaded. will be burned, it will never fall into their hands, and whatever else they accomplish, they will never obtain those staples for the control of which they went to war. This, at least, is in the power of the South, and this they may depend upon as certainly as upon any future event. The prospect before them is gloomy in the extreme. The crop now on hand cannot be obtained; and another year there will be no crop, for the planters