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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], Affairs in New York. (search)
treme beam over armor, 46 feet; depth of hold, 13 feet. It is expected that the Manhattan will be ready for sea say about the 15th of November. The one hundred and sixty rebel officers who were sent on here from New Orleans by the steamer Evening Star, were transferred from Governor's Island to-day to Sandusky Bay, to join the thousands of their fellow rebels confined on Johnson's Island. It seems that these prisoners, while on the steam-tug conveying them from the Evening Star to David's Island, were supplied with an abundance of champagne by certain sympathizing friends, which was so freely imbibed that all hands were in a state of intoxication before their destination was reached. At one time they threatened to attack the guard, and in other respects behaved themselves so scandalously as to create serious alarm on board the boat. There is, I hear, some reason to suspect that the Russian officers were offended at the invitation given to the French and British officers by