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The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], A marine infernal machine. (search)
ondence of the Richmond Dispatch. affairs in Mecklenburg county. Clarksville, Mecklenburg, Va., September 3d, 1861. News in Mecklenburg is by no means plentiful. The bountiful harvest, the extraordinary crops of corn in this section, your readers already know. The last County Court appointed the following gentlemen as a committee to superintend the Confederate loan in the county: Henry Wood, E. R. Chambers, William Townes, William Baskerville, Jr., Dr. Samuel. Saunders, and B. W. Leigh. Mr. Wood informs me that the prospect is flattering for a liberal loan. He says, that every one to whom he has mentioned the subject, expresses a desire to sell a portion of his wheat and tobacco for Confederate Bonds. The Secretary of the Treasury may rest satisfied that Mecklenburg will do her duty in this matter as promptly and freely as she has in furnishing largely over her quota of men for the army. Out of a white population of 6,777, this county has sent into the field upwards