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The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Pensacola. (search)
t the next sitting of the Grand Jury of the county. Is there justice in this? A speculator who roams the State to buy and sell, if not a merchant is a peddler, and ought to be compelled to pay a license in every county where he transacts business. Will the Attorney-General give an opinion on this subject. It is reported and believed that Mr. Slaughter W. Ficklin, of this place, has been taken prisoner by the enemy. About four weeks since he left home, as an escort to the lady of Col. Tompkins, (the brother-in-law of Mr. Ficklin,) who wished to return to Kanawha. Mr. Ficklin, it is thought, under a flag of truce, passed into the enemy's lines, and cannot get back again. Should this prove true, it will be a source of great affliction to the relatives and friends of Mr. Ficklin. He was an energetic, persevering, far-seeing, and industrious man, and deserves a better fate and higher reward than the dungeon of some castle in Lincoln's dominions. Mr. Chiles N. Brand, one of