Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1863-03-21
Effect Of ssie Yankee 'H'I.icsz. as Dca
scribcd by tElc Rebels.
LAUGHING TuRoUoH TEARs-THE "INDIANo-
LA' AFFAIR.
From the Richmond Examiner, Mare


In the early part of the war the Southern
Confederacy was much diverted with the
Yankee fright at "masllcdn batteries, little
thinking the day would soon come for them
to turn the tables on us and Join in general
guliaw over our panic at gun-boats. During
the summer of 1862 the newspapers (bcliey-
ed by the immense Conrad pleaded carno St
" for the Notifications of coasts, harbors
and rivers, and cndcavorcd to prepare the
public mind for the disasters which would
inevitably ensue as soon as the gun-bOats
began to swim in our waters. But Mr..
Davis sneereG at navieS placed his reliance
in the somnolent Mallory, and expended his
energies in the creation, on an average, o!
two brigadiers to each private
True to the prediction of the newspapers
cherished by the noble Conrad, the gun
boats came. They knocked down the mud
banks at Hatteras and alarmed the good
people of the Old North State beyond mca-
sure. Their next essay was upon Fort Henry
little pen. which Mr.. Benjamin supposed
to bc placed, as near rs he could guess, at
the confluence Of the Nile and the Gangcs.
After that, the gun-b0at panic seized the
whole country, and it became a serious quCs-
ton at the Navy Department whether liberty
and the Southern Coniedcracy should exist
in the presence of cannon hoating ON Il
piece of wood in the water.
In this state OF direiul trcpidatlon the
unhappy South remained until the fight 1T
Drury Bluff, On that cmincnce the Irag-
mentary crews of Mir. Maliory's exploded
navy were assembled to contest the advance
o. this modern horror, the iron guu-boat.-
Sailors. marines, and u.imdics did their best
and, with the aid of Providence and some
spunky clud-hopper artillery from the neigh
hood, succeeded inGriying the gun-boata
U,lg was bravery aud skill; but the exploit
was no greater than the thiuc.c had r..-
formed on the Priho. Vet the whole Con.
i,ucmcy threw mp its hat, wcpt, danced,
chuclIcd aud shouted o., il Lyouidas url
Thcrmopyhe had been found again. The
event Was great in that il d.ssipitatcd in q
moment the gun-boat panic. since then
eun-buats have been regarded with such
Indifference that the gentlemen who are act
ing during Mr. Lallory's permanent nap
have discarded nayics altogether, and turn
ed over all marine operations 10 a wild
Tennessee cavalry under Nherl,r, mounted
ON scraggy ponies,
The orsr-Alaiine System has answered
admirably till nov, llut oi late new tenor
has turned up. The telegraph br,nsa rs
tldlugs OF something which b. lfrmhilhslN
described as a "Iuucted Monster oun-
boats aru deemed not more dangerous ihan
dugouts, hut " hen the case J. altered 10 an
interview with a "ruUy,ed Monster tAen
the brave defenders Of the Father ot haler
can do nothing better than make 10 To-
ward tie mouutalns,
Tho reported f,te ~ the lndiauula is even
more disamprhil than hrpical. Here raHr
prrhaps lhe dnyst iran clad la lhg Weston
watrfs, eaptured alter heuic tilu- .r,
rapidly repaired, and dg'linrA 90 l''" 'he
QUEEN OF ihe Mest ia sefie- 81 '',1oi.'
AoAt Ne hear that she aas "a nofsa7ill hll"h
up in the ifue Mcuimac MAllup aillp, Hn4
Nhy Laugh snd hold Seug ,.ats, l'.i you
dle of suri,il uf dfnsiun, % lsnA ,edoiu
nloWn up haoaase, ipisoaih, hal i'pal 81
aui siae siih d rulall hnnsf lAAgn li'i'i
,Ar haek eahlfA " plsnialien lsl ua ~
uf ID, + dnairl duan ihe Niti lflnie iht
inghttasd plu ~ lhr ranitaE iangrif
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