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The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], Lost man. (search)
Cutting. --A young man named Calvin Henry was arrested yesterday afternoon by Officer Bibb, for cutting a negro named Pryor, slave of Lucy M. Smith. Henry was found in bed, in a house near the Central depot. The injuries of the negro are not considered fatal.
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], Information from the Eastern Shore of Virginia. (search)
every effort has been made to capture him. The place is well guarded by Federal mercenaries, and it is by the merest accident one can escape. The force at present there is estimated at 2,300. Citizens are kept in complete subjection, and although there are not half a dozen loyal to the Lincoln Government, Gen. Lockwood has threatened to compel them to take the oath. A number of farms have been confiscated — the property of prominent citizens, among whom we may mention Col. Carey, Major Smith, and Mr. Taylor, the latter one of our highly respected citizens. A large number of negroes, some of them the property of citizens in the counties, are engaged on a railroad to run from Saulsberry. The people, though greatly oppressed, express themselves as better pleased with Gen. Lockwood than General Dix. Indeed, the Federal Government affirms that he is too lenient for his position, and his successor is spoken of. He is accused of being a rebel or of secession proclivities, but as
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 15 (search)
elieve the wants of such of the loyal citizens of Virginia as have been arrested and imprisoned by the United States authorities. By Mr. Isbell--Of providing for the payment, by the Commonwealth, of Virginia's portion of the direct taxes imposed by the Confederate Government. By Mr. Whittle--Of inquiring what ordinances of the Convention are required to be submitted to the people for ratification, and into the expediency of so submitting said ordinances at the time of taking the vote on the new Constitution. Bills passed. The following bills, reported from the standing committees without amendment, were taken up and passed: House bill to amend an act entitld an act to incorporate the Atlantic Steam Ferry Company. House bill entitled an act to authorize Hughes Dillard to erect a dam half across Smith's river, in the county of Henry, in a manner not inconsistent with the rights of the Smith's River Navigation Company. On motion, the Senate adjourned.