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The Mayor of Wilmington issued an order last Tuesday, calling on all the white male residents of the town, able to bear arms, and not connected with any military company, to assemble at the Town Hall on Wednesday, at 4 o'clock P. M., to form an organization for the protection of the town. The Edgefield Advertiser gives an account of a recent exhibition, in which one of the performers ‘"sung a song, insisting that some special member of the swine family should persistently continue to upturn the earth with his proboscis or perish in the effort."’ John Bogan, Jr., was tried at Alexandria, Rapides Parish, La., on Saturday last, for the murder of Joseph Smith, and acquitted, Mitchell, tried by the same Court for rape on a little girl, was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The Columbia South Carolinian understands that the authorities of that city have agreed with the Secretary of War to allow the care of one hundred and fifty Yankee prisoners in the district jail, and that a company will be immediately raised to guard them. An infant two months old was killed in New Orleans a few days ago, by its mother accidently rolling upon it while asleep. The first Old School General Assembly composed of the churches of the Confederate States, was held in Augusta, Ga., on the 4th inst. Of the thirty-eight locomotives on the Nashville and Louisville Railroad, the Southerners have seized thirteen. Dr. John W. Lewis, late Superintendent of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, has been elected Superintendent of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad. The Columbus (Ky.) Confederate News announces in its last issue that after that date the paper will be discontinued.
The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. November 9, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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