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The Daily Dispatch: September 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch. (search)
d confined here for some days and then liberated for want of some clear evidence of his character. No one could derive any intelligent information in regard to him from himself or any one else. He was insane or pretended to be so. He came from the direction of Raleigh as we learn, and it is believed as most probable, that he is an escaped prisoner from that place. Many thought that if insane be he ought to have been detained until he could have given some better account of himself. Dr. Smith has just returned from Norfolk — where, I learn from the papers, he has been laboring with much acceptability as chaplain — to hold a meeting of Trustees of Randolph Macon College. We have not been able to learn the cause of this extra call, but venture to hope that it is to re-open the College for the now present fall session. There is scarcely any other feature of this wicked war which is, to my mind, so disastrous to the future of our country as that of the partial suspension of the e
The Daily Dispatch: September 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Five Dollars reward. (search)
g until the owner be found.--William Kennedy, charged with assault and battery upon Scott, a slave of Thomas G. Bell, was required to give bail in the sum of fifty dollars for his future good behavior.--Alexander Glenn, a negro claiming to be free, and to be a resident of Chesterfield, and charged with throwing stones in the street, was sentenced to be whipped, and committed to jail until he should produce his free papers.--Fannie Taylor was brought up on the charge of being drunk and disorderly in the streets and disturbing her neighbors. Her case was continued to Wednesday.--Lucy Ann Banks, a free negress, arrested on a similar charge, was sent to jail, to answer hereafter before the Hustings Court for her unfeminine conduct.--The case of Patrick Brennan, arraigned for assaulting Bridget Egan, was continued to Wednesday, his witnesses being absent.--Martha E. Smith, alias Oliver, a free negress, was sentenced to receive ten stripes for roaming the streets without her free papers.