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The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Southern war News. (search)
t Suffolk and in the vicinity of Smithfield, but few comparatively have died. Thus figures show that the idea of this being an unhealthy section of country is not well founded. The French in New York. The Charleston Mercury, of Wednesday, says: We were yesterday visited by Prof. Du Bos, of Barhamville, who has just returned, by way of Louisville, from the North, having left New York on the 29th ult. He represents the reaction in feeling against the war as very general among commercial men. With the French population the war in especially unpopular, and the French regiment of New York, known as the Gards Lafayette, could only be mustered into service by filling up its ranks — once exclusively French--with men of other nationalities. Changeable. Cairo appears to be an unhealthy place for Yankee generals. First Gen. Prentiss was superseded by Gen. Grant, and now Grant has been superseded by Gen. Charles. F. Smith, We have not learned who will supersede Smith.