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An Execrable military Despot.
The order of General Butler, said to have been issued recently in New Orleans, is the most brutal and atrocious act of the military despotism extended over so much of the South.
It will be found noticed elsewhere in this paper.
Butler is a low, vulgar trickster in politics, and must be socially a brute.
Yet he has so much of cunning and shrewdness that we are almost inclined to doubt the authenticity of the paper attributed to him. That Gen. Beauregard shouButler is a low, vulgar trickster in politics, and must be socially a brute.
Yet he has so much of cunning and shrewdness that we are almost inclined to doubt the authenticity of the paper attributed to him. That Gen. Beauregard should have called to it the attention of his army, however, is strong proof that he knew it to be genuine.
Again, it may not be very surprising that the man who threatened the people of Baltimore with, assassination by servile agency, should issue even such a paper as this.
It will indeed shock the civilized world; and the man whose arm will not feel nerved by it to strike a heavier blow upon the enemy, must not only be base born, but dead to all the instinots of humanity.
The Daily Dispatch: may 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Voice of the patriotic dead. (search)
Election of State officers.
--Our citizens will bear in mind that they will be called upon on Thursday next to elect a Sheriff and Commissioners of the Revenue for the City of Richmond.
H. K, Ellyson is a candidate for Sheriff; and John M. Francisco, C. C. Johnson and Frederick Butler candidates for Commissioners of the Revenue for the several wards in this city.
State election.
--An election was held yesterday for a Sheriff of the city and three Commissioners of the Revenue.
Henry K. Ellyson was chosen Sheriff, and John M. Francisco Commissioner of the Revenue for the 1st Ward; Cadmus C. Johnson for the 2d Ward, and Frederick Butler for the 3d Ward, in place of Geo W. H. Tyler, dec'd. The vote polled was a very small one.
The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], Yankee Exaggeration and falsehood (search)
From Corinth. Mobile May 22.
--A dispatch dated Corinth, yesterday, says:
Skirmishing continued yesterday without important results.
Our forces shelled the enemy out on the Farmington road.
No casualties on our side.
The loss of the enemy is unknown.
The indications portend a battle near at hand.
Indeed, the conflict may being at any moment.
A heavy rain this morning postponed movements.
Butler's infamous order has fired our army.
Rev. Dr. Palmer delivered an address to our troops, which stirred them deeply.
A Federal spy will be shot to-day.
[Second Dispatch] Mobile May 21.
--A special dispatch to the Advertiser, from Corinth, last night, says:
There was general picket skirmishing on our right and left lines.
On the left, the enemy threw a number of shells without damage.
On our right, several casualties occurred.
Among the killed is Capt. Richards, of the 31st Mississippi.
The enemy suffered much.
A general engagement is ex