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The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Bombshells and aristocracy. (search)
Asking relief. --Judge Meredith has granted a writ of habeas corpus to the following free negroes, arrested at Deep Bottom on charge of furnishing information to the Yankee Government, and will give them a hearing to day, or early next week. Their names are William and Sylvia Scott, Wm T and Margaret James, Wm. R. and Elizabeth James, Robert James, Edward George, Shadrack James, Robert and Georgiana Fagan, Billy James, Edward and Sarah Seaft, Wm. Whiting, Henry Pleasants, Norman Harris, Parthena Holmes, Elizabeth Scott, Waltball James, Jos R Fagan, Mildred Fagan, Emily Bradley, Kesiah Fagan, Wm E Fagan, Mary W Green, Marcellus James, and Hester Walker--27 in all.
The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Affairs at Charleston. (search)
Habeas corpus. --On Saturday last the following free negroes — William and Sylvia Scott, Wm. T. and Margaret James, Wm. H. and Elizabeth James, Robert James, Edward George, Shadrack James, Robert and Georgianna Fagan, Billy James, Edward and Sarah Scott, Wm. Whiting, Henry Pleasants, Norman Harris, Parthena Holmes, Elizabeth Scott, Walthall James, Joseph R. Fagan, Mildred Fagan, Emily Bradley, Kesiah Fagan, Wm. E. Fagan, Mary W. Green, Marcellus James, and Hester Walker--27 in all — were before Judge Meredith on a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that they were illegally detained in custody. The warrant on which the parties were arrested named about thirty men; but the officers who executed it, believing that the women and children were equally guilty of aiding the enemy, took them into custody. After hearing the evidence, the Judge ordered the release of the women and children, but held the men for further examination next Wednesday, and directed the constables to proceed at o
The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Promotions in the army. (search)
actures that shuts out the suggestions of fraud and the arts of swindling. You know what you buy when you make purchases from them. You are sure that the articles will not fall to pieces before you get home, or be soon abandoned as useless after you have tried them. The Englishman makes his goods and wares especially in a substantial and reliable manner. The Frenchman will make in some branches a more elegant and a lighter fabric, but one that combines strength with lightness. In one of Scott's novels there is a trial of prowess between Richard of the Lion Heart and Saladin. The former with his battle-axe breaks in pieces a large iron bar. The latter, with his scimitar, severs at a stroke a feather pillow! The comparison illustrates to some degree the difference between the French and English handiwork, at least in some of their departments — the one distinguished for strength, solidity, and massiveness, the other for lightness, elegance, and that sort of force and strength int