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The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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expresses a wish to consider the questions carefully, and requests the Governor to specify the persons, offences, time of their commission, and such other circumstances as will shew the precise character of the demand. The Governor says in reply that he has sufficient reasons for the belief that by means of grand juries of the counties he would be able to designate the guilty persons, and in the case of Dr. Rucker can designate the offences for which he will be tried. A letter from A. C. Kennedy., Esq., is also transmitted to the Legislature, giving an account of the initiation and treatment of two citizens of this Commonwealth, who, while acting under the military authority of Virginia, took possession of the town of Ripley, including the mails of the Federal Government, and were afterward captured by the Federal forces, confined in jail in Wheeling, indicted for robbing the mails, convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary for four years, and are now convicts in the Penitent