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The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Camp Pickens. (search)
among soldiers. Rev. C. Tyree, of Powhatan county, said he had just extended the parting hand to ten of the members of his church, and he wanted good books sent to them. Rev. A. E. Dickinson said that the Colportage Board would feel warranted by these expressions of the brethren to send out colporteurs into the army, and that he hoped to be able to have ten of his best men in this work during next week. Rev. R. Ryland read the report on Education, which was discussed by Revs. G. B. Taylor, A. Broadus, T. G. Keen, J. B. Hardwick, M. T. Sumner, and others. I will send you some interesting quotations of Dr. Ryland's report. Rev. T. G. Keen read a report on Domestic and Indian Missions, in which touching allusion was made to the death of the late Capt. Fisher, of this city, who was for years Treasurer of that Board. Rev. M. T. Sumner, of Alabama, advocated the claims of this department. Rev. J. B. Solomon is now reading an admirable report on the state of the co
The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Privateers. (search)
Fighting Preachers. --Rev. H. Talbird, D. D., President of Harvard College, Alabama, me of the most distinguished Baptist clergymen of that State, has been for several days in this city as Captain of a company. Rev. G. B. Taylor, of Staunton, has also been on a visit to our city to attend to some matters pertaining to the company he commands. Rev. P. H. Mell, D. D., Professor in the University of Georgia, has raised a company, and is now on his way to Virginia. Dr. Mell is one of the most eloquent divines in the South, and is of the Baptist persuasion.
The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], $40 reward. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.the military spirit in Orange, Orange C. H., July 16, 1861. All hall the little patriotic county of Orange, in the State of the glorious Old Dominion, the county that gave birth to a Madison, Barbour and Taylor. She has, according to population, more men in the field than any other county in the State. According to the last report of the Commissioner of the Revenue, she has a voting population of 1,000. She has now 600 volunteers in the field, and when her militia leaves, which will be in a few days, she will then have 850 or 900 as good men as ever pulled a trigger. What county in this any other State can beat it? Let us hear. H.
The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway Negro. (search)
o the last, sooner than submit to the detestable rule of Lincoln. We learn from the Civilian that the steamboat Texas Ranger, from Berwick, arrived at Galveston on the morning of the 3d. The Civilian says: The Ranger came in along shore, in three fathoms water, about daylight, and received no attention from the blockading vessels, some three miles distant. The South Carolina had up steam and was moving alternately to the eastward and westward. Mr. J. McElroy, of the house of Taylor & Knapp, who arrived last evening from Galveston, via Sabine Pass, and to whom we are indebted for the Civilian extra, informs us that the arrival of the blockading vessels caused very great excitement in Galveston, and that steps were immediately taken to prevent, as far as possible, vessels bound to Galveston from falling into the hands of the enemy. The blockading vessel South Carolina had captured five small vessels — sloops — before Mr. McElroy left, including the yacht Dart, and t