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carry out their threats. He has a large number of friends in Elizabeth, who have promised to defend him from violence at all hazards. Launch of the South Carolina floating battery. A Charleston letter, evidently unfriendly to South Carolina, gives the following description of the launch of the floating battery at Charleston: If I had asked any attache of the press in Charleston if he thought Lieut. Hamilton's iron-plated floating battery would be launched this morning, from Mr. Marsh's ship-yard, he very likely would have told me that he "really did not know; it was talked about; it was uncertain," &c. I told one of my specials that if he saw them greasing the ways, or doing anything stirring this morning, to hurry and tell me; so at 7 A. M, he rushed into my room and informed me that everything was ready, and Lieut. Hamilton would give the word in a few minutes. Arrived at Palmetto wharf, I saw a small crowd gathering, which each moment increased, as the news spread