| From the Charleston Mercury |
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| February 15, 1864 |
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| Curiosities for Northern Museums |
| The show men of the North, it appears, are
collecting together Confederate curiosities with which to amuse
Yankeedom. A Charleston correspondent of a Baltimore paper gives the
annexed account of one lately sent to that section: |
| The steamship Massachusetts, which leaves
here for Philadelphia, takes, as rebel curiosities for inspection at
Washington, some of the irons attached to obstructions which the storm
recently brought down from the upper harbor. These irons consist of bars
of railroad iron thirty feet long. To the end of each bar an eye is
rivited, and to the eye very heavy chain shackels are attached to other
eyes in the outer timbers of the raft, whilst the inside timbers were
also secured to the railroad bars by irons. A very heavy and formidable
raft was thus formed -- the timbers being bolted together four feet
deep. |
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