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Craft Stranded in Boston Harbor Due to Heavy Fog

Boston, Feb. 10—Several craft were aground tonight in Boston harbor as the result of trying to find their way through the dense fog which almost without intermission has shrouded the shipping channels today.

The British steamer City of Boston, carrying a cargo from the Orient and bound for New York, edged out of dock this morning. After being held in the upper harbor until this afternoon, she attempted to run out when the vapor bank lifted momentarily. The fog suddenly descended again and the ship grounded on the mud of the lower middle. It was believed that she would be re-floated at high tide tonight.

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February 10, 1862 – The Capture of Fort Henry

The telegraph reports the surrender of Fort Henry, on the Tennessee river, after a short engagement with the gunboats and before the land force had arrived at the scene of action. It is also stated that our forces had advanced fifteen miles beyond Fort Henry and had taken possession of the Memphis and Ohio Railroad bridge. This is an important victory, if we have force enough to take advantage of it. In this event it will be attended with the most important and decisive results. The St. Louis Republican thus detailed the importance of General Grant’s expedition a few days ago:

If the communication between Bowling Green and Columbia can be cut off, the Union forces still have it in their power to achieve such a victory as will make the Confederates tremble from Nashville to Pensacola.

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Dies Committee Report Accuses Anti-Semitic Groups of “Racketeering”

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—American Nazi, Fascist and anti-Semitic organizations are engaged in a form of racketeering as well as in subversive activities, the Dies Committee found in a preliminary report of its investigations. The primary aims of the Nazi-Fascist organizations, the committee said, are: (1) a radical change in the American form of Government, and (2) collection of dues from such misguided citizens as will support them.

Warning “all our citizens against aping the methods of foreign dictators,” the committee said: “In these times when democracy is harrassed from many sides, peewee Hitlers have arisen in our midst urging our people, through an unprecedented volume of propagandistic literature, to resort to force and violence against large sections of our population.” The Nazi leaders were characterized as “aspiring Fuehrers” and “would-be Caesars.”

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February 7, 1862 – The Port Royal Cotton

The comparatively moderate amount of confiscated South Carolina cotton arriving at this port is really no indication of the extent of the work of picking or of the quantity yet to he gathered. It is true that much of the cotton which was grown very near the large rivers and water-courses in the vicinity of Port Royal, and not burned by the rebels, has been brought forward ; but a very small proportion of the whole amount on the islands has yet been brought to Hilton Head for shipment to this port.

The work of gathering goes steadily on; large quantities have been collected on the inland plantations, and ginning is carried on to a considerable extent. The number of contrabands engaged in the work is increasing, and the chief difficulty at present is a want of transportation facilities.

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February 6, 1862 – Tribute of Respect

At a meeting of Capt. Ennett’s Co. (E,) 3rd regiment N. C. State Troops, Sergt. J. W. Stokley was called to the Chair, and Corpl. J. M. Piner was requested to act as Secretury. After explaining the object of the meeting in a few very appropriate remarks, a Committee of five, namely : Sergt. J. R. Jenkins, Corp’l F. M. Redd, Benjamin Marshall, P. P. Hobbs, B. Thompson, were appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the feelings of the Company relative to the death of our much esteemed and worthy brother in arms, Reuben Curtis. After a short debate, the Committee read the following :

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February 4, 1862 – Letter from the Battery

Camp Dupont, Jan. 3, 1862.

Correspondence of the American.

We are in camp on the same old place, and nothing of any interest has transpired since I last wrote. We have had very disagreeable weather for the last three three weeks, it having rained nearly three-fourths of the time. As the getting about is very bad, we have been obliged to stay in camp nearly the whole time, without harnessing out. The roads are in a very bad condition, and it looks to me as if there could be nothing done at present in the way of making a forward movement, and should there be one now the artillery will be obliged to remain behind.