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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
hrough it. He was the bearer of numerous encouraging letters written to rebels in this section, and how many letters he has left on the route and proclamations he has distributed in the counties below this is not known. It coming to the years of General Prentices and Colonel Smith, a squad of men proceeded to Mr. Middleton's house and got possession of all the letters and documents in his possession, among which was Gen. Price's late proclamation calling upon 50,000 more men to enlist. Gen. Prentiss considered it proper to hold Mr. Middleton as a prisoner, he being engaged in conveying correspondence for the enemy. A Row among Yankee newspapers. The New York Evening Post, having commented severely upon what it terms the impertinence of Gen. McClellan in demanding of Lincoln a modification of Cameron's report, the Philadelphia Inquirer takes up the gauntlet in McClellan's behalf, and pitches into the Post in the following severe language: An article copied in our news c