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into in Charleston harbor. The following is a full account of the
transaction:
[From the Savannah Republican, April 5,1861.]
" The vessel fired into from the fort on Morris Island, has
arrived at Savannah. The schooner is the R. H. Shannon,
Capt. Moutz, of Boston, and she was bound for this city, with a
cargo of ice, consigned to A. Haywood. On Wednesday she
was shrouded for many hours in a dense fog, during which she
drifted, through mistake, over the Charleston bar. Soon after,
the fog lifted. The Captain not knowing his whereabouts, found
himself nearly abreast the fort on Morris Island, and while cogi¬
tating over his latitude and longitude, was greeted with a salute
from the fort. He immediately ran up his colors—the stars and
stripes—but that demonstration seemed an unsatisfactory answer
to their summons. Several shot (32's) were fired, into his rig¬
ging, one of which passed through his mainsail and one through
his topsail. * * * The crew suffered no material damage
from the shots, though one of them came most uncomfortably
near the heads of the crew."
HOW ANXIOUS THE SOUTHERN REBELS WERE FOR CONCILIATION.
We select an article, a specimen of hundreds that appeared
in the Southern papers at the time when the evacuation of Fort
Sumter was being discussed in the North, and when the im¬
pression prevailed, North and South, that it would be evacu¬
ated, as a " military necessity."
[From the Houston {Texas) Patriot, April 5,1861.]
" ' THE CHIVALRY' HAS TRIUMPHED, AND THE NORTH ' EAT3
DIRT.'
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" They have been forced to eat dirt, and bow down to the
dominent Southern race, and their shrieks of rage are the only
sounds heard from the North. Through the press ; from the
workshop, from the starving masses; from merchants ruined,
from every trade and condition comes the cry, give up the
forts ; let us eat dirt and live; let us again bow to the superior
race South; let us live. The cowardly eighteen millions North
told us we should not leave the Union. We did it openly and
boldly, and they humbly acknowledged our Government as a
uecessity. They shouted the praises of the Stars and Stripes,
aud dared the chivalry to touch the sacred emblem. We have
torn it down. Wo have placed in its stead the flag of the Con-
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