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The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
us sums. Many of the merchants and professional men have been impoverished by the exactions of the "Confederacy." The strongest and oldest Union man is Hon. John E. Ward, formerly our Minister to China, and he is dreadfully persecuted by the rebels, who have arrested him at least twenty times while attempting to escape, robbed him of his entire property and some $400,000, and threatened several times to hang him. Mr. Ward says they can kill him if they like, but that he will never surrender his allegiance to the Federal Government, or cease to detest and denounce the miserable abortion known as the Southern Confederacy. He is very anxious to go North, but is so closely watched that he cannot escape. Mr. Biddell thinks that it is not at all improbable that Mr. Ward will be assassinated. in Savannah, unless he succeeds in getting out of the State. The greatest excitement, Mr. Biddell says, reigned throughout the South on the subject of way, and the women of Savannah