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The Daily Dispatch: October 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Letter from Western Virginia. (search)
ckaded, their ammunition was exhausted, they were weary and dispirited, fully expected to be captured, and had a white flag ready to haul up at the first approach of our men. Every one is asking why Imboden and Wharton did not come up. I have been out as far as the Blue Sulphur, the seat of a new college. It escaped the ravages of the enemy who visited it, but has been sadly injured by some of our own troops. Notwithstanding the main building had been burnt the year before the war, Col. French suffered his cavalry to burn fences, negro cabins, the flooring from the pavilion over the spring, and even the rails of a large number of bedsteads, the posts being used to picket the horses with. Such wanton destruction of the property of a suffering institution of learning cannot be too severely reprehended. I am glad to know that the General commanding is determined to put the seal of condemnation of such conduct. I learn that it is proposed during the war to pay for the property,
The Daily Dispatch: October 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Letter from Western Virginia. (search)
er term yesterday in the City Hall Present: Recorder James K. Caskie, and Aldermen Sanway, Bray, Jones, and Gary. Mrs. Ann Wright was fined ten dollars and costs of prosecution for permitting her slave to go at large and hire herself out, contrary to law. The Court, acting under authority of an act passed by the General Assembly on the 2d inst., increased the jailor's fees of this city to two dollars and fifty cents per diem. Augustus Simone, arraigned for shooting, a few nights since, Ella Johnson, was examined and sent on to Judge Lyon's Court.--The accused was then remanded to jail. Two negroes, named John and Lemnel, slaves of Samuel Ayres and Watkins Warren, charged with stealing a quantity of ardent spirits, silver ware, window curtains, soap, and candles, from the dwelling house of Seth B. French, were arraigned, found not guilty, and discharged. Robert Page, a free negro, charged with stabbing Sylvester Overton, was examined and ordered twenty lashes.