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August 17, 1861 – The Transfer—Coast Defence, Etc.

We are glad that the time when the forts, naval vessels, arsenals, arms, armaments etc., belonging to North Carolina is to be transferred to the Confederate Government, is near at hand.

That much work has been done on our coast we are willing to admit, and that we have many brave and gallant men on the Seaboard is undeniable, but still the defences are not what they ought to be, nor are the forces as numerous at some points as they should be.

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Entertainment for Children at Seashore Home

Children's Seaside House boardwalk. Photo: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Last Saturday two hundred and fifty crippled children of the Seashore Home listened with delight to the songs sung by Miss Louise Mack, of the Beaux Arts Cafe. The choruses of “Old Fashioned Girl” and “Three O’clock in the Morning” were favorites selected by the kiddies. Mrs. Rennie Cormack, of New York, played delightfully on the piano, Mira. Cormack also played and sang, as did Mr. F. Collis Wildman. Miss Suzanne Sackett made the arrangements.

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August 16, 1861 – Our Fifth Regiment

A Harrisburgh, Penn., paper gives the following description of our Fifth Wisconsin Regiment (in which is our Manitowoc Company,) as it passed through that city:

Fifth Wisconsin Regiment,—This regiment from the far North West, is now in this city, encamped near Camp Curtin. Some things are reported of these men worthy of note. They are chiefly lumbermen, miners and met living upon their own resources. They have been well clothed and furnished by their State, the Legislature having appropriated liberally for such purpose. The following are the regimental officers:

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Reformatory Life Has Not Dulled Love for Thrills in Miss Opal Isley

Photo of Opal Isley

Leg Is Broken in Fall While Trying to Escape From Girls’ School.

REFORMATORY life has not dulled the love for thrills in Opal Isley, 17.

The latest episode In Opal’s exciting young life was a fall from the third floor of the Indiana Girls’ School at Clermont several days ago, while trying to escape, it was learned today. She lies in the Robert W. Long Hospital with a compound fracture of the right leg. A doctor attending her said Miss Isley ran 100 yards before she was forced by pain to drop to the ground.

The girl is under sentence for complicity with the robber band, led by her mother, Mamie Isley, who took several thousand dollars in cash and Liberty bonds from the Alert (Ind.) State Bank In May, 1921. She is pretty. Detectives declare that her mother used her as a tool.

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August 14, 1861 – From Fortress Monroe

Fortress Monroe, August 10—The steamship Quaker City arrived this morning with the prize schooner George G. Baker, of Galveston, and her confederate crew of four men in irons.

The schooner was captured by one of the United Slates blockading fleet off Galveston, and sent to New York, with a United States crew on board. She was captured yesterday off Cape Hatteras, by the rebel privateer York who put four of her own men on board. In the meanwhile, the York was seen by the United States gun boat Union, who gave chase and burnt the privateer, but not until the crew had beached her and escaped.

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August 13, 1861 – Address to the Army from Gen’s Johnston and Beauregard

The following eloquent address of our Generals to the army under their command will excite the patriotic emotions of every Southern reader :

Headquarters Army of the Potomac,
Manassas, July 25th, 1861.

Soldiers of the Confederate States:

One week ago a countless host of men organized into an army, with all the appointments which modern art and practiced skill could devise, invaded the soil of Virginia. Their people sounded their approach with triumphant displays of anticipated victory. Their Generals came in almost royal state; their great Ministers, Senators and women, came to witness the immolation of our army, and the subjugation of our people, and to celebrate the result with wild revelry.