y will be
swept from off this continent? Will not this coming Yankee Congress
force all the world either to cower before them, or check them by
upholding _us_? We think it must. This is a streak of dawn that we
imagine we see. Perhaps we are only nodding--and only dream. Still we
fancy the thing. Let us stand to our arms, and watch for the morning."

The morning dawns at length.

_From the Charleston Mercury, February 11, 1865._

(The last edition published in the city.)

TO OUR READERS.

"The progress of military events, which has occasioned so much public
and private inconvenience and suffering, has not spared the newspaper
interest. The interruption of railroad communication between
Charleston and the interior, produces a state of affairs which compels
us, _temporarily_, to transfer the publication office of the _Mercury_
elsewhere; and to-day's paper will be our last issue, for the present,
in the city of Charleston." (The editor then moved his establishment
to Cheraw, S.C., directly in the line of General Sherman's advance.)

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