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The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Escape of Negro prisoners from Fort Macon. (search)
The Lecture season. --We understand it is in contemplation to inaugurate a series of lectures, by gentlemen of well-known literary antecedents and high reputation, for the purpose of raising a fund for the benefit and relief of our soldiers. The card, as we have seen it, is a rich one, and numbers on its list the following names. Hon. J. L. M. Currie, of Alabama, Prof. A. T. Bledsoe, Dr. A. Subwden Piggot, Thompson, Esq., Rev. Jno-C. McCale, D. D., Cliver P. Baldwin, Esq., Hon. H. W. Hilliard. Dr. G. W. Raghy, Key. Dr. Moore, Dr. M. Edgoworth Lazzrus, and the promise of President Tylor that it can find time during the course he will also make one of the party. Those gentlemen have already accoutred high reputation as lecturers in the prominent cities, and at the object for which they have consented to give their aid in there intellectual and instructive is a noble and one we predict for the
mies of his country. The enemy fled in great confusion toward Rumsey. Many horses, arms, blankets, caps, etc., were captured. Our force was 300--not more than 75 were engaged in the fight. The force of the enemy was about 300. Jeff. Thompson again at work. The Memphis Avalanche, of the 1st inst int. says: A letter to the editor from a well-informed friend at New Madrid, dated last night, informs us that Jeff. Thompson had just returned from a scout near Commerce, MissouJeff. Thompson had just returned from a scout near Commerce, Missouri, where he took the Federal steamer City of Alton. The particulars are not given. The City of Alton left St. Louis on Friday afternoon with the mail for Cairo. Since the above was written, we learn from a gentleman, who conversed with Jeff Thompson, that he did not take the City of Alton, owing to the fact that his artillery and horses broke down, but he captured instead a large lot of clothing and blankets belonging to the Federals at Commerce. He also fired about two hundred roun