Show the fate F ite of Chai charleston leston Dispa tebes confirm tile the report that charleston ha bat fallon fallen and we are disposed to yield it credence but abeth er or not the impatient rumor ries flies before the be fact it ft is a certainly which cannot much longer be deferred the arena of war has become nari narrowed oa owed down to such limits as aa will speedily bring to bear the resources ot strategy upon the doomed cl atty ty of S ledwon and compel its ev evacuation t on or the surrender of those who attempt its de defense rense at the discretion of shermans Sher mans victorious legions giona le in contemplating this probable con elimination eum mation we are arc naturally led to reflect upon the retribution terrible but just which has followed and finally overtaken this infamous birthplace birth place of treason aiom that hat prolific source have come all the tap political heresies her esies which have ever seriously threatened the peace or endangered the existence of the republic there rose the bigoted school of milliners of whose mischievous creed john G C calhoun was the able but misguided expounder the serpent then spawned which andrew jackson scotched scorched scot ched but unfortunately lid did not kill gradually grew into the hideous monster that afterwards reared its hydra beads all over the south in malignant rebellion the seeds of Hedi sedition tion sown long I 1 ago germinated and produced their bitter fruits fruita the people of charleston who were first tempted to pluck them have had ample opportunity port unity to taste their quality and decide whether they are of the kind that tempt tho the eye but turn to ashes on the lips wo we all remember how bow for many years those hotspurs Hot spurs of the charleston Charl eslon mercury and courier scattered their bitter philippics philip broadcast over the southern lant land how anathema timed the people 0 f the north narth with the vehemence of absolute hate bate and in the imperious imper rous pride of the class to whose vicious taste they pandered breathed treason treaso ir and defiance de flunce toward the national nut authority bority they have waited long for the reward or of their guilt but at atlant ladt it has found them for two dreadful years yean the avenger has oas stood at the gates of the haughty ca capital n nd shaken the pillars of her pride with titanic blows and the iron fron monsters of the deep have kept sleepless I 1 ess in watch thereby lise like before the 0 gloomy portals odthe damned vomiting the thunder boltson bolts of wrath upon the doomed city still on the darkness of midnight flaming eliel shells 18 have marked their meteor courser on high in trails of lurid larid fire hung threateningly in the heavens like the sword of the archangel disaster has followed fast upon their footsteps and perpetually haunted them with the visible terrors of a just retribution bothern to them charleston has been literally a place of torment her fearful inhabitants have wept bitterly in dust and ashes the ashes of their own homes bomes and their wail of des pair air has ascended in in vain how long 0 lord S how long londt va that which they delighted to predict should befall the cities of the north has been verified they least expected ua ma fulfillment and grass has baa indeed grown brown in the desolate streets of charleston nver nover since brimstone and fire were rained from heaven upon the oiliest tie 01 tho the plain haa ban such signal signal upon a rebellious peo pie and shall say ahr not deserved the penally 1 |