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The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], C. S. District Court. (search)
C. S. District Court. --Immediately after the assembling of this Court on Saturday, Mr. F. J. Smith, of Alexandria, acting in the place of the District Attorney, who is absent from the city, moved that the Court adjourn, so as to enable the officers to attend the funeral of the late lamented Arthur A. Morson, Esq. In compliance with the request, the Judge postponed the case which had been set for the occasion till to-day.
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Peninsula raid. (search)
orce of the enemy will reach 20,000. General A. Hamilton, the Military Governor of Texas, by letters patent from "Abe the 1st," is supposed to be with them. He has issued no proclamation as yet. The people of Texas are turning out en masse to give the enemy a warm reception. As an evidence of what has been done, Gen. Magruder has advertised for 20,000 haversacks for his army. A "Cotton Bureau for the Trans-Mississippi Department" has been established in this city by Lieutenant-General Smith, under the control of Lieut.-Colonel W. J. Hutchins. It is proposed to buy one half of all the cotton in the State, at a specified valuation, to be paid for by the Confederate Government with specie-paying bonds. The winter rains have set in, rendering the movements of troops in the State exceedingly difficult. No fighting has taken place since the capture of Fort Esperance, near, Saturia. This fort was not designed to meet a land attack, It was evacuated after three day