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The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], Continued. (search)
Continued. --The charge against Hamlin Ghering for selling liquor contrary to law, on the 28th of August, was continued till a future day.
The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], The French Assignats. (search)
ed. Wistar's cavalry recently made a reconnaissance towards Richmond. Leaving Williamsburg on the 26th, they pushed directly for Bottom's Bridge and charged a regiment of infantry in rifle pits, driving them out and across the bridge, with a Federal loss of one killed and one wounded. The object of the expedition was fully accomplished. The command returned with much valuable information respecting the enemy's position and movements near Richmond. Reports from Fort Scott, of the 28th of August, say Gen. Blount has been defeated in Arkansas, with a loss of 300. Five substitutes for drafted men, who had deserted from Meade's army, were executed near Rappahannock Station on the 29th. Fourteen substitutes escaped from the Harrisburg jail on Tuesday night. The Vermont State election on Tuesday, so far as heard from, is largely for Lincoln. Nothing from Charleston or Rosecrans. Great indignation is felt at the capture of the Reliance and Satellite, and the c
The Daily Dispatch: September 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], The currency. (search)
ty and destroyed a large cotton warehouse and other buildings. Deserters say there are but twenty five men in Sumter, and that it will be blown up as soon as an attempt is made to take possession. [This doubtless accounts for the Yankee assault on Tuesday night in barges.] A special dispatch from Memphis says: The steamer Progress, from White river, brings the news that Gen. Davidson, with cavalry and artillery, constituting the advance of Gen. Steele's army, on the 28th of August, drove the enemy, seven thousand strong, across Bayon Metallic bridge, killing and wounding about one hundred and capturing two hundred. Our loss was thirty.--The rebels burned the bridge after crossing. Gen. Steele was at Duval's Bluff on the 31st ult. Relative to movements in Gen. Meade's department, the Herald says: The intelligence from the army of General Meade is not indicative of any immediate movement. Information comes from deserters that Gen. Lee's army is sc
The Daily Dispatch: September 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], The currency. (search)
may see on the stocks. For the sake of the South, however, I hope the rumor may turn out true. The Emperor of the French will, in such a case, reap all the advantages his good will and material support have entitled him to expect from the Southerners; whilst England, though far more unanimous in her sympathies, will have contrived to lose the opportunity of securing a valuable ally without disarming the bitter hostility which prevails against her in the North. [from the London news, August 28.] It will be seen from the memorial to Earl Russell, which appears in another column, that there is reason to believe that the builders of the Alabama, undeterred by the declaration of the legal representatives of the crown that the building of that vessel was an offence against the laws of the country, are about to launch two powerful iron plated rams to prey upon the commerce of the United States. It will be a disgrace to the country and to the administration of our laws if these vess
The Daily Dispatch: August 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Northern News. Mobile, August 28 --A special dispatch to the Advertiser, from Senatobia on the 27th, says the Chicago Times and Memphis papers of the 25th have been received. The Washington correspondent of the first-named paper says the siege of Petersburg is raised. Grant has sacrificed 30,000 men. A Baltimore dispatch says Early's force is estimated at 55,000 men. Adam Johnson is advancing in Tennessee with 1,200 men. A part of Murrier's troops were badly cut up below Fort Donelson. Arms are being clandestinely carried into Indiana for disloyalists. On the 23d, considerable excitement prevailed in Memphis on account of a report that Forrest, Dick Taylor and Loring were about to attack the city.--The populace were wild, and ran under the bluff.--The military took to the boats. Another report, that Taylor was planting batteries on the Arkansas shore, increased the confusion and the military burned out. The excitement prevailed for several hou
The Daily Dispatch: August 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
From Petersburg. Petersburg, August 28. --Since the fight. at Reams's station, Thursday evening, there has been no engagement. Both armies seen resting. The enemy made no effort to retake the position near Reams's from which he was dislodged on Thursday. Fully twelve mile of the Welton railroad have been destroyed by the enemy, the rails and silts being burnt. Among the prisoners capture Thursday was Hancock's adjutant-general. He escaped last night but was recaptured to-day.
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Police arrests. (search)
Singular Occurrence. --A correspondent of the Rebel, writing from East Point, Georgia, August 28th, relates the following: "Among other freight for shipment, we noticed at the East Point depot yesterday, a coffin under the immediate charge of a lady with whom there is connected a strange history. I give it as related by the lady herself. In 1862, Mr. R — volunteered in a Georgia regiment, then, as now, in the army of Virginia. About a year ago, the wife of Mr. R — hearing that her husband was killed in an engagement with the enemy, proceeded to Virginia and brought home his remains and interred them in her garden. After a widowhood of seven or eight months, Mrs. R — was wedded to another, with whom she has lived happily until recently, when their happiness was broken in upon by the sudden arrival of her first husband, who had been taken prisoner at the time he was supposed to have been killed. "But the strangest part of the story is yet to come. A few days after<
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