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The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], 1,000 dollars reward. (search)
r yesterday in the sum of $2,000 each, not to engage in a hostile meeting for the next twelve months. The Mayor announced that the correspondence which was published in the Whig of yesterday between these gentlemen had determined him in the decision which he had given, but, if it was desired, witnesses should be sent for and examined. Mr. Pollard remarked that he was willing to rest his own defence upon that correspondence; "certainly there was no threat on his part in it." Hon. Waller R. Staples, counsel for Mr. DeJarnette, expressed a desire to have summoned Mr. Preston, the gentleman who had acted as the friend of his client in the transaction. He expected to prove by him that the card published in the Whig was prepared and sent to that paper two or three days ago, but that its publication had been delayed by the printers from some cause unknown to him. This statement he thought due to Mr. DeJarnette. It being desirable to prove who authorized the publication of the