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The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], Interesting History of the Opening of the Alabama's career. (search)
zier parlance,) nor a thimbleful of earth, or blade of grass to call his own. But let our correspondent tell history: Editors of the Dispatch: In your issue of yesterday (Friday) you to the new star just appearing above the military horizon of King Abraham's dominions, and asked, in purport, upon what food that hero fed to make him "fighting Jon Hocker!" Being-familiar with his antecedent during the past ten years, it may be interesting to some of your readers to be briefly told them-- "Jon" Hocker resigned commission in the regular U. S. Army eight or ten years ago, and, imagining he had at last discovered his vocation, under took the cultivation of potatoes in the beautiful Valley of California. He failed in this, and applied himself most industriously to borrowing money of all who would lend it to him, and drinking whiskey whenever and wherever he could obtain it. In this he was eminently successful. To the annoyance of the members of the Pacific Club, of San Francisc