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The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Telegraphic report of Morgan's raid — Mystifying the Northern operators. (search)
confident that no information could be telegraphed to Louisville to hold the train. Lebanon Junction answered. I then said to him, "Good morning; happy Fourth to you." He replied, "Good morning. How the d — l is this? You have telegraphed via Danville and Lexington that the rebels have burned a bridge within three miles of your place and destroyed the telegraph. Who is at the instrument?" I replied to him: "O, that was only a Fourth of July hoax." I aimed to evade answering that parom Louisville. I told him all right, and asked him to take a drink with me. He said he should like to do so, but had nothing in his office. At this point our conversation dropped. When he stated that he had just received a telegraph, via Danville and Lexington, that the rebels had destroyed the bridge and wires near Lebanon, I was taken by surprise. This was a new line to me — put up since we were last in Kentucky. My replies to his inquiries, however, satisfied him. Fearing, however,
Gen. J. C. Vaughn telegraphs to Knoxville from Richmond, under date of the 16th, that the prisoners from East Tennessee, paroled at Vicksburg and elsewhere, will rendezvous at some point in East Tennessee, instead of Demopolis, Ala. All parties leaving Columbus, Ga., whether ladies or gentlemen, are obliged to pay one dollar for passports. Five thousand Texans have arrived at Morton, Miss., since the fall of Vicksburg, and five thousand more are coming. The Exchange Hotel, at Danville, Va., has been sold, with 127 acres of land near there, for $38,000. Rev. Thos. Murphy, a Catholic priest, of Wilmington, N. C., died on the 20th inst. Hon. Thos. H. Watts, Governor elect of Alabama, is on a visit to Montgomery, Ala.