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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Latest Southern news. (search)
ies of the people are "heaping up for themselves damnation against the day of judgment" There are one or two men in this community who had better beware! Population of Paducah. The Memphis Appeal, of the 10th inst., obtains from the Rev. J. T. Pickett, late a resident of Paducah, who has recently arrived at that place, the following information: Out of the original population of Paducah — numbering about seven thousand--only some fifteen hundred now remain at their homes, the resnow remain at their homes, the rest having taken refuge in the South Mr. Pickett confirms the accounts we have heretofore published regarding the wanton acts of vandalism perpetrated by the Hessian soldiery on the property of absentees. In many cases they have broken open locked doors, stolen furniture, mashed up looking-glasses, and ruthlessly cat velvet-cushioned sofas and chairs with their pocket knives--all of this being done in a spirit of wanton revenge towards absent non-combatants.