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The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
States Congress.[adjourned session.] Senate. Wednesday,Aug. 20, 1862 The Senate met at twelve o'clock and was opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Seeley of the Baptist Church. The journal of yesterday was read and approved, and the call of the States and of committees was made without response. Mr. Barnwell, of South Carolina, presented a petition from the Bishop of the P. E. Church in South Carolina, and other Professors of its Theological Seminary, asking exemption of candidates for the ministry from conscription. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Brown, of Mississippi, offered the following, which was afterwards withdrawn, the matter being already under consideration by the authorities: Resolved,That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into what legislation, if any, is necessary to prevent abuses in the matter of introducing substitutes into the army. On motion of Mr. Oldham, of Texas, the Senate adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], The evacuation of Berkeley. (search)
Senate. Wednesday,Aug. 20, 1862 The Senate met at twelve o'clock and was opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Seeley of the Baptist Church. The journal of yesterday was read and approved, and the call of the States and of committees was made without response. Mr. Barnwell, of South Carolina, presented a petition from the Bishop of the P. E. Church in South Carolina, and other Professors of its Theological Seminary, asking exemption of candidates for the ministry from conscription. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Brown, of Mississippi, offered the following, which was afterwards withdrawn, the matter being already under consideration by the authorities: Resolved,That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into what legislation, if any, is necessary to prevent abuses in the matter of introducing substitutes into the army. On motion of Mr. Oldham, of Texas, the Senate adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North (search)
s" on the stage, and men who were so clear-sighted as to see their way out of a scrape, were blind as bats — But they soon saw "stars" on the coats of policemen, and found their mean subterfuges of no avail. When the police, under Chief Eagles and Provost Marshal Kern, visited the vessel about nine o'clock in the morning, just as she was about to leave this "distracted country," they found passengers stowed away in every conceivable place of concealment. Some — like the renowned Henry D. Brown, who was sent up on the underground road, from Dixie, in a box, labelled ", this side up with care," and rode, by mistake, most of the way upon his head — were neatly packed in boxes others were hid under piles of sails, and some word so sick they couldn't leave their berths. After great care and considerable searching on the part of the officials, the cowardly fellows were all ferreted out, and the vessel allowed to depart, minus over one hundred "British subjects," as most of them cla<