--The
Charleston papers of Thursday contain a call from
Gov. Pickcas for the assembling of the
South Carolina State Convention, on the 20th inst. They also contain the following items of interest:
‘
The first war vessel put afloat by
South Carolina since the
War of Independence, 1776, was bought by
Gov. Pickens at
Richmond, and altered for service, armed with twenty-four pounders, and regularly equipped.
She started last night on the harbor defence, with her complement of enlisted men:
Lieut. T. B. Huger, commanding, with
1st Lieut. Doner and
lieut. Grimball.
’
She is ready.
for her work of defence, and
Gov. Pickens has directed her to be named
Lady Davis in compliment to the lady of the first
President of our
Confederate States.
A close observation with the aid of a large glass, shows that the parapet guns facing
Fort Moultrie have been concentrated on the east face of this work, to bear on Cuming's Point; it is possible, however, that some of these could be brought to bear in the direction of
Moultrie, if mounted on traverses.
The guns are apparently crowded, and this shows that
Major Anderson proposed paying his respects to a considerable extent to the ugly looking batteries on the point.
Cols. T. G. Lamar and
A. L. Dearing, Aids to
Governor Pickens, by direction of the
Governor, took charge of the working hands on the
Morris' Island batteries for the last eight or ten days. The gallant volunteers, under
Col. Marcy Gregg, most patriotically came forward to do the work in the trenches and on the batteries, like real patriots, considering that to work in the trenches and on the batteries, like real patriots, considering that to work for the batteries was in fact equal to fighting, because it prepared the work to do the fighting.
They came forward in numbers of from one to two and three hundred and fifty, every six hours changing and relieving each other.
