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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: September 13, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Nathan R. Smith or search for Nathan R. Smith in all documents.
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Maryland State peace Convention.
--This body assembled in Baltimore on Tuesday last.
Every county in the State was represented--Gen. Benjamin C. Howard, of Baltimore county, was nominated as candidate for Governor of Maryland, and A. Lingan Jarreti, Esq. of Harford county, for Comptroller of the Treasury.
A committee was appointed to prepare an address to the people of the State.
Before the adjournment, Prof. Nathan R. Smith, the presiding officer, in response to a vote of thanks, alluded to an attempt to break up the Convention, and said: "If twenty knives had been plunged into me, I would not have left the stand to which you called me; and I desire the Convention to oppose any action that tries to intimidate them.
Peace and Union go together; war and Union, never." it appears that a party, who had entered the hall for the purpose of disturbing the deliberations, got on the platform and cheered for Gen. Scott and the stars and stripes, and raised a Federal flag.
They were,
Federal telegrams.
The following are the latest dispatches published in the Northern papers:
Skirmishing across the Potomac. Washington, Sept. 10.
--Considerable skirmishing took place last night between our troops and those of the enemy, near the Chain Bridge.
A large scouting party, under command of Gen. Smith, advanced during the night as far as Lewisville, seven miles distant from Chain Bridge, where they were attacked by the Confederate pickets.
John Dwinelle, of company H, New York 79th regiment, was killed, but two officers, one a major and the other a captain in Col. Stewart's Virginia regiment, were taken prisoners by our forces.
They refused to give their names.
Two privates of the New York DeKalb Regiment fell into the hands of the Confederate pickets this morning, near Hunter's Chapel, to the right of Ball's Cross Roads.
A Confederate soldier, who had lost his way, was taken and brought by our cavalry to the Chain Bridge to-day.
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