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The Daily Dispatch: March 10, 1863., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
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Affairs on the Peninsula — Seizure ofcontraband goods, &c. A correspondent, writing on the 4th instant from near Williamsburg, Va., gives us some account of affairs on the Peninsula. We give some extracts from his letter: Owing to the utter demoralization of the Pennsylvania regiment of cavalry picketing in and out side of the town, it is avowed by the officers that the men are unfit for duty at any other point.--This verifies what Col. Campbell said of them on the occasion of the Confederate raid into the place, when Col. C. surrendered to our forces under Col. Stingler. Col. C. said: "I surrender, sir. My men are a act of d — d cowards" The Yankees acknowledge that the cost to the Abolitionist Government of holding Williamsburg is upwards of a million of dollars a year. At present they do not picket more than a mile from the town, and that is on the main stage road. I have frequently been within sight and hearing of their pickets at Waller's Mill and other points aroun
sent on for trial before Judge Lyons on two charges — the first being for making a malicious assault on Simon Jacob when armed with a heavy bar of iron and stealing $1,645 in C. S. Treasury notes, State funds, and gold at the Spotswood Hotel on St. Valentine's night February 14th; and, Secondly for maliciously cutting and wounding said Jacob while committing said robbery. James E. Anderson who was sent before the Court by the Mayor on the charge of unlawfully shooting and wounding Dorman Campbell, with intent to maim and kill him was examined and acquitted. Edward Hays, who was sent before the Court to be examined on the charge of breaking and entering in the night time the storehouse of John O. Chiles and Jas G. Chenery, on the 19th of February, and stealing several hundred dollars' worth of dry goods, was discharged from the existing prosecution but ordered to be taken before the Mayor to be examined for attempting to break into the store of C. C. Walters, jeweller, for t