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The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], The proclamation of a bully. (search)
Police Court. --Yesterday, Johnson, slave of A. L. Holliday, was arraigned on the charge of robbing Mr. Jas. F. Bowyer of his watch and chain, valued at $125. The watch was not recovered. The prisoner was captured by Policeman Davis, who was seized with suspicion on seeing the darkey sporting the chain, a heavy gold one, on the street. On being questioned as to how he came in possession of the article, he said that a white man had given it to him. This improbable story led to his detention, and the fact that the chain had been stolen leaked out. Its owner identified it. The accused was sent before the Hustings Court for trial. Aleck, a slave, was arraigned for going without a pass, and ordered to be licked in the most approved and orthodox style by the sitting magistrate, who generally frowns in virtuous indignation against all petty offenders. Sylvester, a military nigger, arrested for carrying a shooting iron contrary to law, was likewise ordered a tickling. His p
The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 18 (search)
akly to make much progress. The issue of last Saturday contains the following extra ordinary effusion: The information which we give below is gratifying to the lover of his country. North Carolina at last begins to awake to the fact that J. Davis& to have been making a cats paw out of the Old North State to poke their chestnuts out of the fire, and refuses longer to submit to the disgrace and burden which has been imposed upon her by the scoundrels at Richmond. The old patriotic fires wstructed to, and did, deliver an order to the Virginia chivalry that North Carolina was capable of managing her own affairs, and that no more of her citizens must be taken out of the State. In connection with this matter, we also learn that J. Davis, a few days since, ordered Gov. Clark to furnish them with all the meant of transportation and defence possible, to aid him in the passage to and through the cotton States, and also for additional troops. Gov. Clark, backed by the Convention, i