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The Daily Dispatch: April 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Hooker's army reported on the move. (search)
vis. The discharge of the prisoners was refused. The case was adjourned to the 4th of May, and witnesses balled. In Reading, Pa., several hundred armed men assembled to rescue the prisoners supposed to be there. Large numbers were formed to reinforce them. Treason is taking an insurrectionary form. Philadelphia was frightened lest the mob should march there. The Press says, on the subject of "Treason in Pennsylvania," that "the spirit of crime is not confined to the band in Berks county." The organization is "mightier than a million of men," but "must be overthrown before we can expect peace and triumph." A dispatch from Vicksburg says: "The advices are cheerful, and the health of the army improved. A new canal has been commenced, which runs into the river at New Carthage, and commences a mile above a point opposite the mouth of the Yazoo.--The Switzerland has been repaired and gone down the river with Farragut's fleet. He still holds the river between Vicksburg a