Mobile Advertiser & Register

June 8, 1861

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GOOD FISHING WITHOUT BAIT.—The active fishermen in the Navy Yard waters, we hear, are doing a good business.  At the last advices they had had “glorious nibbles” from five twelve-pounder howitzer Dahlgren guns—(made of bronze) which the Yankees had thrown overboard to prevent our extemporizing a gunboat flotilla.  We believe that the guns will be sent at once to the inland waters of North Carolina.  If added, after a proper fashion, to the armament at Ocracock under charge of Capt. Murphey, C. N., we should laugh at the idea of the Federalists attempting to penetrate into the broad sounds of the “Old North State.”—[Norfolk Argus.]