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The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Seizure of a Southern vessel. (search)
d Ohio Railroad, East of Piedmont, anticipated an attack at daybreak yesterday morning from the rebels at Romney, but none came. The pickets had been firing upon one another there for several days.--There are only about six hundred men at New Creek, including the Ringgold Cavalry. A battery of artillery, however, was sent down there yesterday morning. Proclamation of Gen. Kelly. Brigadier General Kelly has issued the following order: Headquarters District of Grafton, Grafton, Va., Sept. 7, 1861. The General commanding desires to reassure the people of Western Virginia that it is the desire and intention of the United States Government to give to the citizens full and ample protection in all their civil and political rights, and that private property, of whatever character or description, shall be held inviolate. In order to secure to the owners of slaves the most ample protection that can be given, as well as protect the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from