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We are requested to call attention to the following regulation of the Board of Managers, in regard to the Fair to be had on the 14th inst. The Society will meet on Tuesday; the annual address will be delivered on the evening of that day, at the Supreme Court Room, at half past seven o’clock; the Fair will be held on Wednesday, the 14th, opening at 12 o’clock noon, in the Court room.
But little of importance transpired at “Camp Underwood” yesterday, the day being spent entirely in the routine of army duties. The dress parade at 6 30 P. M. was very well executed, considering the slight experience some of the companies have had in the manual of arms, and the entire absence of uniforms and muskets.
Captain Henry Whiting has received his commission as Colonel, and will take command of the Regiment to-morrow.
We learn on direct and reliable authority that a valuable prize has been secured by the Privateer Savannah, which left this port a few days ago between the bars of the Lincoln blockade.
This prize was the brig Joseph, of Portland, (Me.) from Havana, for Philadelphia, with a cargo of sugar, valued at $30,000, and was taken into Georgetown, South Carolina, in masterly style.
As this is this locality near which the command of Cols. Gregg and Kershaw are posted, all information from that point will be read with interest by their friends. A correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch, under date of the 27th, (Monday,) writes :
“Leaving our camp at Chimborazo heights early Saturday morning, we did not reach this place until yesterday evening. All along the route cheering crowds welcomed our coming, and fair hands showered boquets in copious profusion upon us. At Louisa C. H. the citizens provided us with an elegant supper with out any cost but three hearty cheers, which went up, I assure you, from grateful hearts. Many a swarthy son of Africa, leaning on the handle of his hoe, waved his sinewy arms to heaven, as if invoicing God’s blessing upon the labors of those who are determined to stop the march of those who would desecrate our hallowed soil, and take from the humble negro the dearest right he possesses—that of having a kind and able protector in the person of his master.