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The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of the Chancellor of England. (search)
youngest child of the Rev. George Campbell, minister of Cupar, and Magdalen, daughter of John Hallyberton, Esq., the head of a family possessing large landed estates in Forfarshire, Scotland, and was born at Cupar, St. Andrews, in the county of Fife, Scotland, on the 15th of September, 1781. His lineage was noble, and could be traced on his father's side to the Ducal house of Argyle. He was educated at St. Andrew's University, commencing at an early age under the tutorship of the Rev. G. Hill, of St. Mary's College. At the age of twenty he had already taken the degree of Master of Arts, and entered on the studies of the English Bar in the office of the celebrated Mr. Tidd, the majority of whose pupils have attained distinction. During the period of his probation, Campbell was employed as a writer of theatrical critiques in the London Morning Chronicle, then the organ of the great Chas. Fox and his adherents, and made his mark as a writer of ability in a walk entirely at va
The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway in jail. (search)
r men think they were out foraging and got in a tight place, which is not unlikely is the true solution of the matter. One of the prisoners is a man who has been living near Bethel for a number of years, and who has been in the habit lately of giving the enemy information of the movements of our troops, their number, &c. He would sometimes resort to the artifice of coming into the camp and selling a few ginger cakes, and taking a few observations, depart for the congenial companionship of his Abolition allies. One of the prisoners is a member of Peyton's Artillery, (said to be a native of North Carolina,) who is charged by his Captain with treason. The fifteen prisoners and their guard were sent on by Gen. Hill, and started from Yorktown at five o'clock Sunday evening, got to West Point at 10 o'clock the same night, having been detained at Gloucester Point awaiting for the member of the Peyton Artillery. The cortege started from West Point yesterday morning with their prisoners.