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The Daily Dispatch: November 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Three hundred Dollars Reward. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1865., [Electronic resource], General Sherman and Savannah . (search)
The News.
The peace commissioners.
Messrs. Stephens, Hunter and Campbell, the Confederate peace commissioners, who left here on Sunday morning for Washington city, stopped Sunday night in Petersburg, whence they went through the lines to City Point yesterday morning.
They left our lines on General Bushrod Johnson's front.
As they were making the transit, their characters and the object of their mission being known, our troops set up such a cheering as never was heard before, and continued it till the commissioners were out of sight and well within the Yankee lines, when the clamor was immediately caught by the Yankee troops, who cheered and hurrahed until they were hoarse. --Amidst the deafening shouts of armies, the commissioners went on their way. The next we hear from them will be through the Yankee newspapers.
Gold.
Gold, yesterday, was stiff at forty-five.
The Tallahassee.
The enemy's newspapers have falsely reported the Tallahassee as captured.
She ra
The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1865., [Electronic resource], Sale of Autographs. (search)
Sale of Autographs.
--At an antiquarian sale in Washington city, an autograph letter of Lafayette to Mr. Madison was sold for $16.50; the signature of Napoleon Bonaparte brought $8.50; a letter from William Henry Harrison brought $5.50; John Hancock's autograph, $6.50; Von Humboldt's autograph, $4.75; a letter from Andrew Jackson, $6; a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, $9; Thomas Jefferson's address to the Tammany Society, $5.50; the autograph of Toussaint L'Ouverture, $5.50.
Tragedy in Washington.
In Washington city, on Thursday evening last, Miss Mary Harris, of Chicago, killed Mr. Burroughs, a clerk in the Treasury Department, by shooting him through the heart.
The tragedy has created a good deal of sensation in the United States.
The young lady's statement, made after her arrest to a reporter, says that Burroughs had promised to marry her, and she killed him for not keeping his promise.
The dead man is exonerated in this statement from any charge of seduction.
She had loved him, she said, since she was a child, and though he had at one time urged her to marry him, which was opposed by her parents, he had since married another.
She first determined to prosecute him for breach of promise, and sought him out for that purpose.
The statement says:
A few days before starting from Chigago (two weeks ago), I was walking along the street and saw some pistols in a shop window.
Having learned that many of the ladies in Chicago carried pistols,