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The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
he State, was a prudential measure, designed to guard against the commission of any lawless act by an exasperated people, and at the same time to prevent its occupancy by forces hostile to us, and it will be sustained by our people to any amount of reinforcements necessary to hold it against attack from any quarter. The cutter Dobbin, it appears, had been taken possession of without any State authority whatever, and on application of Mr. Boston, Collector of the port, for her releases Gov. Brown promptly granted it, in the following letter: Sir: The Revenue Cutter J. C. Dobbin, which was seized by some unauthorized person or persons unknown to me has, under the order giver by me to Col. Lawton, now in command of Fort Pulaski, to protect Government property against injury, been recaptured, and is now aground near Fort Pulaski. You will please send a revenue boat and take her into your custody to night, and I will have her hauled off to-morrow morning and delivered to yo
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 28 (search)
Major George Duffey, of Alexandria, has been commissioned by Gov. Letcher as Lieutenant Colonel of the 21 regiment of Virginia Artillery. Mr. Layard, the famous traveler and explorer, has been re-elected a member of the British Parliament against great opposition. When a man wants money or assistance, the world, as a rule, is very obliging and indolent, and lets him want it. Gov. Ellis, of North Carolina, was inaugurated on Tuesday last, for the term of two years, to which he was elected. M. S. Crockett, formerly editor of the Richmond (Va.) Morning News, died in Wythe county, on the 23d ult. Ex-Judge Wm. Kent, son of the late Chancellor Kent, of New York, died there on Saturday last. Jos. G. Brown, a well known merchant of Nashville, Tenn., died on the 1st inst. Another of the editors of the New Orleans Picayune, L. L. Latham, is dead.