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The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notice to our Subscribers. (search)
The manufacture of Cartridges, &c. --The preparations of all implements for the destruction of human life involves a certain degree of peril, which, however, is generally readily obviated by timely precautions, else they would not be made at all. We find that we were led by an over-cautions friend, a few days since, to perpetrate an injustice towards the Confederate officers having in charge the cartridge manufactory, located in Thomas' tobacco factory, near the banks of James River, east of the Petersburg Depot, On a visit thither, our informant thought he had discovered powder scattered on the floor, over which hundreds walked with iron nails in their shoes, rendering the liability great for a blow up at any moment. The fact stated by him was produced by annular delusion, He could not have seen that which is not allowed to exist. A visit to the building has convinced us that an explosion there is an impossibility, unless by spontaneous combustion, and that exigency no human f
The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Wholesale Murderer. (search)
From Western and North western Virginia the accounts are vague. A dispatch from Cincinnati makes it appear that Capt. O. J. Wise, of the Blues, had captured three companies of Federalists. It is probable that an engagement has taken place in the neighborhood of Laurel Hill, between Gen. Garnett's Confederate forces and McClellan's command, since the Cincinnati telegrams inform us that they were approaching each other at last accounts. We have nothing further in regard to the reported engagement of the 7th. If the Federalists were defeated on that day, as has been stated, we should hardly receive any account of it from the North. In consequence of Gen. Scott's order for the suppression of telegraphic dispatches, we have nothing from the Northern Associated Press relative to the army movements on the Potomac. Col. Thomas, the intrepid Marylander, has been indicted for treason and piracy. The captured Hessians are hard at work on our fortifications at Winchester.
The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 25 (search)
Col. Thomas indicted for piracy. Baltimore, July 11. --Col. Thomas has been indicted for piracy and treason. Col. Thomas indicted for piracy. Baltimore, July 11. --Col. Thomas has been indicted for piracy and treason.