Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-04-25
AFFAIRS In DIXIE.
UNION yelling IN NORTH cARorrx

UNION yelling IN NORTH CAROLINA.
fCorres pondence Of the Petersburg Express
SUFFOLK, April lS.-The account given i'm youI
paper Of to-day by your South Mills correspond en
OF the course pursued by the vandals In the vicin
ity Of Elizabeth City is enough to excite the feel
ings Of every man and woman In the whole co un.
try 1t Is painful to learn that all along the coas
of North Carolina there are persons who welcome
the invaders and encourage them in their vic ked
raids. Until we can put an end to such encour.
agenent, we shall have trouble at every point
where the enemy can possibly gain footing.
THE SHILOH BATTLE.
From the Richmond Dispatch, April 1871 81
An Official dispatch received yesterday from
Cornth states that the reports of the several com
our troops captured and brought In fourteen
pieces Of the enemy's artillery and twenty q We
stand Of eelors. The number Of prisoners taken
exceeds three thousand.
TERRIBLE YIRING OF THE MONITOR.
Speaking Of the damage to the Merrimac In
her fight with the Monitor, the Richmond Dis
patch says:
In some places-from the heat and weight of
the shot-the plates were welded together. la
other places the plates were broken, but not
broken through, and the damage~was repaired by
taking on the i'jured plates and putting on
others Her Prov, which was made OF cast-iron
was broken when she ran into the Cumberland
but abe supplied herself with better one.
EXPORT OF COTTON.
From the Richmond Dispatch, April 10
A correspondent OF the Examiner, writing from
Charleston, under date Of April 2, says that ,OOO
the preceding week fhs cotton goes to the
West Indies, where the Yankees buy 1t, and thus
supply their own mills In spite of all we can do.
VIII Congress adj journ without passing some
law to put an end to this crying evil -
THE SURRENDER OF ISLAND NUMBER TEN.
lFrom the Richmond Dispatch
The circumstances connected with the surren.
der Of this position, with all It's guns, ammuni-
tion. &c, are humiliatins In the extreme The
n for,
represented that the enemy, after an incessant
bombardment OF many hours, had inflicted no In.
jury. We were constantly assured that the place
pass 1t. Brigadier General MackalI assumed
command Of the post on the 5th In flaming or.
der, in which he pronounced himself "General
made by Beauregard.a General selected by GEN.
erals Beanregard and Bragg" Two days after.
wards the island was surrendered, and along with
1t, according to the Federal Commodore foote.
seventy cannon, varying from % to 100 pounde rs,
riasd 1t may be that Foo.e desired to magnify
his own achievement by representing the place
stronger than IL really was; but then did not our
own accounts, and the vain boasting Of the Men,
phis tslegraphs, make the defenses just as strong
and impregnable as the Commodore does? They
certainly did, and we re Il not that we have beer,
so oftsn surprised hY tie surIsndes OF foIts and
forttcations that were boasted Of as impref nable
we should Indeed be amazed at the surrender OF
the famed Island No. 10, which has furnished SO
H,sny paragraphs for tslesFaphlhs. - -
Bot even the surrender need NOT have carried
necessarily along with 1t the ammunition and the
boats Could they not have been destroyed!
w by add all this, and the provisions to the new
present OF cannon TO the Federalists? Our gifts
OF cannon have been quite muniHcept--eyeh tc
impoverishing ourselves--and we need not add
80 literally Of other things In our offerings 10
those who are better supplied than we are.
We do not know that we would inquire into
these matters. We are utterly disgusted with
these islands, and trust that they are ended with
Island No. 10. They and the lost forts were ali
fruitful enough Of disappointment and mortiaca.
tom but Island No. 10 seems TO have capped the
up this miserable history, 81.