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The Daily Dispatch: February 01, 1864., [Electronic resource], Punishment for breaking "The Oath." (search)
Punishment for breaking "The Oath."
--A letter in a Philadelphia paper from Norfolk, Va says:
Mr. John Ford, of Norfolk, for breaking his oath of allegiance and corresponding with the enemy, has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment in the jail there, at hard labor.
He is to be weighted with a twenty-four pound ball and three feet of chain, and to be employed in cleaning the streets.
At the end of his term he is to be sent out of the limits of Gen. Butler's Department, never to return.
In the Kentucky Legislature Messrs. Bell, Guthrie, Burnham, Butler, and Buckner, are candidates for the U. S. Senate.
George Jones, once proprietor of the Richmond Theatre, has been tried in Boston and convicted of being "a common scold."
Mrs. Gen. Gaines, who was connected with the celebrated Gaines will case, has been ordered by the Yankee authorities to return to the South.
Eighteen car loads of coffee passed through Petersburg, Va., on Friday, en route for General Lee's army.
The expedition to Brandon.
--The following is Butler's dispatch to Washington, giving an account of the recent expedition up James river:
Fortress Monroe, Jan. 25. Hon. E. M. Stanton Secretary of War:
Brig. Gen. Graham, by my direction, went with three armed transports and a competent force to the Peninsula, mad