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Charleston Under Fire

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
November
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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A Charleston correspondent of a Southern paper, gives a vivid picture of the effect f our sbells on tbat city. They tear up the streels, cut the gas pipes, and plnnge the citizens inlo darknesa - thundering against churches and dwelling, and creating generally a great tumult; hut comparatively few persons are ipjured, though narro w escapes are frequent. This writer says : " I saw, hut a few days since, the" interior of a gentlernan's residenoe which a shell had entered. Cutting the tester, and passing through tha pavilion of his bed, it penetrated the opposite Wall, and lodged in the aljoining room. Both birnself aud hia wita were u the house at the time, and he remains there still. In another instance, a similar missile entered a chamber, and passing be tween the slats and bed clothes oí a crib, in which an infant was lying, left the little croature unhurt, hut lost in the convolutitms of its bedding. " Some months ago, while our iutrepid firemen were uiaking every exertion to subdue thefast-npreading flanies in one of the lower wfcrds, the Yankees opened as usual upon the loealiiy. A shell in its parabolic deseen t, entered an engine whioh a numbor of fii'omen were working, and which was surrounded by a large concourse of othcsrs. The mute friend of our homes watt blown to atoms, the trien woro dashed to the grouud ; but, with the esception of a negro who had just taken the place of a white man, and who lost au arm, rosulting afterward in his death, and a very slight wound inflicted on one or two others, none were injured. " Passing through tb& lower wtirdfi of the city, jou would bo pirtioular'v struck with the sad desohition, The elegant mansions and familiar tbofoughfares, once rejaicing in wealth and refinement, and tha theatre ol busy life, the well known and fon'dly chorishod ohurchea, nomo oí' them anoient landmarks, where large asHemblies wore wont to bow at holy altars, aud apacious halls that once blazed wilh light, and rung with fustal sons, aro all doerted, sombre and cheerloxs ; and this i. onhanoed by the fofbidding aspect oí thüt vast district of thu city which wms laid in ashes three yeara ago, and which retnains in urimolested niius, as the mouuinent of' Charleston's long and dreary pause in the grand inarch .-f improvemeut. ÏW There is a girl in Mainc l'iyears old, who weighs 260 ponnds, and uaca- res 51 niches arótind the waist, nnd is only 45 iucuoö in huiyht. Her name is Bartlett.

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Old News
Michigan Argus