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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notice to our subscribers. (search)
writ of habeas corpus or to arrest Col. Burke for contempt. Col. Burke on Thursday made a requisition upon Col. Adams, of the 1st regiment of L. I. volunteers, for five companies, to furnish additional military protection to Forts Hamilton and Lafayette, where a large number of prisoners — including the United States troops who were released on their parole by the Secessionists in Texas, and who are suing in the courts for their release — are now kept. The companies, under command of Lieut. Col. Cross, were immediately furnished, and are now encamped near Fort Hamilton. Various items from Washington. We copy the following from the Washington correspondence of the Baltimore Sun: Secretary Smith distinctly promises and declares, in his address to the New York financiers, that the war, which has now assumed gigantic proportions, shall be vigorously prosecuted. The United States Government have never yet seemed to be in earnest in this war. Of late the Government and the