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The late Earl of Aberdeen.
By the arrival at Portland of the Anglo Saxon, we are informed of the death of the Earl of Aberdeen.
George Aberdeen.
George Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen, has occupied prominent positions in his life-time.
He was a conservative statesman, descended of an ancient ScottisAberdeen, has occupied prominent positions in his life-time.
He was a conservative statesman, descended of an ancient Scottish house, was born in 1784, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of M. A. in 1804.
In that year, having res and Wellington, which endured only for the vacation of 1834- '35, Aberdeen held the appointment of colonial secretary.
When Peel took office, in 1841, Aberdeen received again the portfolio of foreign-affairs, and appeared to have learned that history tendencies were to be repressed on the accession to power of the protectionist party, the Earl of Aberdeen took office as Minister of Foreign Affairs, under the Premiership er, drove that Ministry out of power, and since then, up to the time of his death, the Earl of Aberdeen has lived in comparative retirement.
The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Patriotic liberality. (search)
Patriotic liberality.
--Mr. Jacob Wabb, living near Ross's Mills, who is sixty-eight years old, and his wife is sixty-five years of age, together plant, hoe and pick out, with their own hands, (having not a single servant or assistant, neither have they a plow or a horse,) two bales of cotton per annum, gave at the meeting at Rosa's Mills, on last Monday, the whole of their crop for the support of the Southern Confederacy.
The Commissioner, Judge L. E. Houston, remonstrated with him, and positively refused to take it, advising him to give only one-half, when he declared he would give the whole of it, stating that he was a soldier under Jackson during the war 1812; that during that time he was three days without anything to eat, and he knew what it was to be a soldier, and further remarking, "I will take my chances for something to eat, and will give everything I have to feed the soldiers."--Aberdeen (Miss.) Conservative.
Mast killed in Mississippi.
--The Aberdeen (Miss) Sunny South, of November 15th, is informed by farmers from the surrounding country, that the and freeze of the 25th ult. killed the mast in that section.
The editor has examined some large white acorns himself, and finds them quite black inside.
He has resided in that section for thirty years, and does not remember such a disaster ever to have occurred there before.
The enemy at Florence, Alabama, and approaching Aberdeen, Mississippi. Mobile, March 7.
--Reliable information has been received that the Yankees have gone up the Tennessee river to Florence, Alabama, with a fleet of gunboats.
At least 400 cavalry were landed, and were destroying everything in their route through Franklin and Lawrence counties.
Latest accounts say they were marching from Moulton, in Lawrence county, southwest through Marion county, in a direct line towards Aberdeen,emy at Florence, Alabama, and approaching Aberdeen, Mississippi. Mobile, March 7.
--Reliable information has been received that the Yankees have gone up the Tennessee river to Florence, Alabama, with a fleet of gunboats.
At least 400 cavalry were landed, and were destroying everything in their route through Franklin and Lawrence counties.
Latest accounts say they were marching from Moulton, in Lawrence county, southwest through Marion county, in a direct line towards Aberdeen, Miss.
The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Reduction in silver (search)
Citizens in Mississippi.
--The Columbus Sun corrects the erroneous impression prevailing as to the populations of the cities in Mississippi.
The population of Jackson is put down at from 3,000 to 3,500.
Vicksburg is the largest city in the State, and its population, we believe, never excelled 6,000 or 8,500.
Natchez, Aberdeen, and Columbus, are all nearly of a size, and have a population of about 4,000.
Sherman's corps. Demopolis, Ala., Feb. 21.
--The main column of the enemy is still at Meridian.
A detachment has occupied Lauderdale, on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
A portion of a column of mounted infantry have occupied Aberdeen.
The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], Yankee Brutality (search)
Yankee Brutality
--A Heroic Young Lady.--The Marietta (Ga.) Rebel has the following:
We have been permitted to read a private letter from Aberdeen, Mississippi, received by an officer at this post from a relative.
From it we gather the particulars of the murder of Mr. Isaac A. Jarmon, a wealthy citizen of Monroe county, and other dastardly acts of the Federal in their recent raid to that section.
When the Yankees were in the neighborhood of Aberdeen Mr. Jarmon and Mr. MeLendon--the latter gentleman being in the regular service of the Confederate States, but at home at the time — attacked a squad of five of them, wounded one, and took three prisoners. The fifth man escaped and reported them.
On the same evening a party of about five hundred went to Mr. Jarmon's house, and finding him in his yard shot him dead in the presence of his wife and niece.
As he fell he fired at a Yankee captain and killed his horse.
As soon as his niece, Miss Sallie Whitley, saw her u