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The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], For Hire. (search)
ithdrew. At the meeting next day, Convention delegates to the National Convention were elected, Horatio Seymour, Dean Richmond, Isaac Butts and August Belmont, being for the Stats at large. The Convention made no attempt to erect a platform, nor did the Convention make any formal expression of its opinions in the great questions at issue before the country. The troubles at Fort Jackson, below New Orleans, have terminated in a couple of courts martial, one of which finds Lt. Col. Augustus W. Bennett, 4th infantry corps d'afrique, guilty of "inflicting cruel and unusual punishment, to the prejudice of good order and military discipline," and sentences him to be dismissed the service. Twelve of the privates (negroes) were court-martialed on a charge of mutiny. Two were sentenced to be shot and seven condemned to hard labor. The steam frigate Majars has been ordered to prepare for sea immediately. Six of Admiral Farragut's fleet are ready to leave New York, and three mor