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Conduct worthy of Emulation.

--Mark Downey, a well known merchant of this city, has, with a generosity and noble heartedness that cannot be too sufficiently commended, given the large sum of $1,500 to equip two companies of volunteers for immediate service.--These two companies will have good fighting material in them, as they will be composed of the hardy sons of the Emerald Isle. There are plenty of men here who are equally if not better off than the generous Irishman who has thus backed our cause with his means and influence, who have as much interest in maintaining Southern independence and keeping the vandals from desecrating our homesteads, as he, and have not yet put down any money on the three bars. Such parties ought to be incited to help the cause when they see the narration of so disinterested an act of patriotism as we have recorded.

The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. July 23, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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