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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1860., [Electronic resource], List of appointments by the Virginia annual Conference of the M. E. Church South. (search)
, J. K. Powers; Coal Field, W. C. Allen; Amelia, Alfred Wiles; Colored Mission, to be supplied; Nottoway, I. R. Finley; Colored Mission, to be supplied; Lunenburg, P. Whitehead; Colored Mission, to be supplied; Brunswick J. S. R. Clark, B. F. Woodward, sup; Colored Mission, to be supplied; Greensville J. K. Littleton; Northampton. W. L. Dalby, J. C. Garlick, sup; Colored Mission, William Grant. Petersburg District.--R. O. Burton, P. E.--Petersburg: Washington Street, Chas. H. Hall. J. B. Laurens, sup; Union Street, Thomas S. Campbell; Market Street, Robert N. Sledd; City Mission, L. F. Way; High Street, Wm. E. Judkins, J. Kerr, sup; Factories, Thos. H. Boggs; Dinwiddie, George F. Doggett; Colored Mission. Thomas Digges; Sussex, L. J. Hansberger, J. A. Riddick, sup.; Prince George N. Thomas, A. Steward, sup.; Surry, Jas. H Jefferson; Smithfield, Jos. E Potts, Jas. A. Crowder; Southampton, B. Spiller, I. M. Arnold, B Devany, sup; Murfreesborough, William G. Lumpkin, R. J. Carson;
ch as a kind Providence has thus far smiled upon us, we may reasonably expect, at no distant day, to have peace and prosperity in our Southern Confederacy. The "Confederate Cadets," now numbering about sixty-five men, and commanded by Capt. J. B. Laurens, have received marching orders, and will leave here on Tuesday morning for Norfolk. This will make the sixteenth company that has left this city since the beginning of the war, and they have left behind them some three or four Home Guard ompanies, which, if need be, they, too, would buckle on their armor and march to aid in establishing the liberty and independence of the South. The "Cadets" may well congratulate themselves upon their good fortune of securing the services of Capt. Laurens, whose military experience in the Mexican war eminently qualifies him for the position he now occupies, and I bespeak for this corps, as well as those that have preceded them, a good account of themselves should they ever come in contact with
istration — and no story, I am sure, has a sturdier hero than this remarkable old soldier. This house descended through many hands till the time of the Revolution, when it was known as the "Moore House," a name which it still bears, from a widow Moore, who at that time owned it. In the preparations and progress of the siege it became Washington's headquarters, and one of its ample rooms is still shown as the place where the "articles of capitulation and surrender" were drawn up by Lieutenant-Colonel Laurens, and the signatures affixed by the British and the allied commissioners. Fire, the ruthless destroyer of too many of the valued antiquities of Virginia, has spared the "Moore House," although it is built of wood. Time, too, has touched it gently. Its frame is still sound, and will yet serve several generations. In Howe's Historical Collections of Virginia a picture is given of this house. This estate got the name of "Temple Farm" either from a temple-like structure that Go