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The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway in Jail. (search)
The damage to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal — Reinforcements expected — a ball. [special Correspondence of the Dispatch] Camp Mason, (Taliaferro's Brigade, Near Winchester. Dec. 21 Yesterday Gen. Jackson, with a portion of his command, succeeded in breaking dam No. 4 in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and left it a complete wreck. The dam was guarded by a force of the enemy, but they were repulsed, with but the loss of one killed on our side. This was a very good and important movement, as it will cause the denizens of Washington city to be exceedingly sparing in the use of coal, large quantities of which were shipped by this route to that den of corruption. Gen. Jackson returned to his quarters in Winchester this afternoon, well pleased with the work his command had done. We are to be reinforced in a day or two with six additional regiments, and rumor gives a thousand reasons for this increased strength; but you may look out for stirring events in a very few days, at
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway--$50 reward. (search)
[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch]Incendiarism in Carroll county. Hillsville,Carroll, Co, Va, Dec. 21 Last night, about one o'clock, fire was discovered in a law office adjoining a block of storehouses; and the man who fired the house was seen to run from there by the time the alarm was given. The fire had got under such headway that it could not be stopped. Messrs J. B. Johnson's, James Early's, and C. G. Elliott's storehouses, were laid in ashes. The contents were mostly saved. Had it not been for the masterly exertions of the citizens half of our village would have been consumed. We think the villain has been arrested-a man by the name of Stitwell, a native of this county, but for the last four years he has been in Ohio. His trial has not come off yet. F
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Continued. (search)
e. He is instructed to demand the absolute delivery of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, and their Secretaries. The question will be discussed afterwards. The gun-boat Landril, which sailed Tuesday for New York, has dispatches to Admiral Milne, directing him to repair at once with a large fleet to Boston harbor to receive the Southern Commissioners. The fleet will be composed of about 45 vessels. [special Washington dispatch to the New York Tribune.]Opinions in Washington. Washington, December 21. --Captain Seymour, messenger to Lord Lyons, came here direct from Boston, in an express train, at an expense of $170. Mr. Adams sent no courier; but the dispatch agent at Boston put the bag in charge of a Captain of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Regiment, who did not get here till this morning. At 1 o'clock, Lord Lyons called on the Secretary of State, who was then at the Capitol. He called again at three o'clock. The communication which he made is yet a secret. No Cabinet meet