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The feeling in Fort Sumter.

--The Northern papers publish a letter from Capt. Doubleday, in Fort Sumter, in which he says the reports of mutiny in the fort are false, and that the soldiers are ‘"spoiling for a fight."’ The only thing, except fresh meats, received from Charleston, has been a box of candles. He adds:

‘ You need not pay the least attention to anything you see in the Charleston papers in reference to our affairs. If you reflect that when a boat comes with a white flag from Charleston none of our men are allowed to communicate with it, you will easily see that all their stories about us are mere inventions. The men bear privations and severe guard duty very cheerfully. I think they miss their smoking tobacco more than anything else.

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