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The fight in Fairfax county--several Hessians killed and wounded — Mall contractors suspected. Washington, Aug. 29.
--Several Federals were killed and wounded in a skirmish on the Virginia side of the river on Tuesday.
Inquiries are being made as to the loyalty of mail contractors in Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, and much valuable information is elicited.
The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], County meeting at Savannah — acknowledgment to Virginia . (search)
Gossip of Washington correspondents---the "Female Rebels"---Abolition Consuls appointed---a fight near at hand---skirmishing, &c.
Washington, Aug. 29.
--A special dispatch to the New York Times says the captured females have been placed in a commodious dwelling, and that several have been arrested besides those named previously.
Special to Commercial! says Mrs. Grenhow, aunt to Mr. Douglas, is among the arrested.
Mr. Tarman, an old anti-slavery man, has been appointed Consul to Bristol.
Political arrests are not to be published hereafter.
The Republican, of this morning, says that a battle across the Potomac cannot be avoided many days longer.
Elihu Burrett has been appointed Consul to Newcastle, England.
Advices from Virginia report everything quiet, but there are strong indications of an attack within a short time.
The Confederates are in possession of Bailey's Cross Roads, and are bringing up baggage from Springfield, for miles di
The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], A British Claim and threat. (search)
Movement of Texan troops New Orleans, Aug. 29.
--Five hundred Texas troops, Capt. Lee commanding, arrived this evening, after a tiresome overland march, and all in good health and spirits.--Another detachment of one thousand is expected to reach here to-morrow.
The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Moral epidemics. (search)
From New Mexico. Independence, August 29.
--The Santa Fe Mail and Cannon City Express have arrived here, bringing dates to the 17th instant, and Cannon City to the 26th inst.
The Express brought three passengers and $20,000 in gold dust.
The United States troops, seven hundred and fifty in number, who surrendered to three hundred Texan Rangers, eighteen miles from Fort Fillmore, have been released on parole.
The Texans retained their arms and the horses belonging to the companies of mounted rifles.
Gen. W. Petham, formerly Surveyor-General of New Mexico, and Col. Clements, were arrested in Santa Fe and confined in the guard-house, by order of Col. Canby, commander of the Department of New Mexico.
They were suspected of giving improper information to the Texan troops.
At Fort Bliss, below El Paso, Col. Clements took the oath of allegiance and was discharged.
Gen. Petham refused to take the oath, and is still confined in the guard-house.
The Hon.
The Daily Dispatch: September 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch . (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
Affairs in Mecklenburg — a prisoner--Randolph Macon College.
Clarksville, Va., Aug. 29.
Nothing of interest of a military character, has occurred since my last, in this region, save the organization of a new company near here, at Overby's, by the election of Mr. C. Overby, Captains; Messrs. Williamson, Wood and Williamson, Lieutenants.
I understand the company will be equal to any that we have in the service, in appearance and efficiency, and will soon be in marching condition.
Our Court, at its last meeting, made further and ample provision for the families of the volunteers; determined that nothing shall remain undone that can supply the absence of their brave and patriotic husbands and fathers.
A strange specimen of the genes homo was captured near this place and confined here for some days and then liberated for want of some clear evidence of his character.
No one could derive any intelligent information in re
Signs of the times.
The subjoined extracts from late papers will prove interesting to the reader:
[From the New York Evening Post, Aug. 29.]
for Matamoras or A Market.
A day or two ago the Evening Post called attention to the fact that the first applications for clearances to Matamoras, Mexico, made at the custom-house for three years past have been within a week; and, also, that the convenient town of Brownsville, Texas, a little distance from Matamoras, on the other side of the Rio Grande, is quite as good a port as Matamoras, with the known advantage of being near the Gulf, and the probable one of being the port for which the shipments are intended.
A reference to our shipping list to day will show that the William R. Kibbe, whose name is familiar in connection with the recent history of the slave trade, has just cleared for Matamoras.
She sailed to-day under the British flag, with a cargo valued at from twenty to thirty thousand dollars, and consisting o