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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Arrival of a prominent Marylander. (search)
of June, 1861, and imprisoned for eighteen months in the Northern bastiles of McHenry, Lafayette, and Warren. In December, 1862, he was released from Fort Warren, and allowed to return to his home, only, it would seem, to be rearrested on an indictment for treason. In May last this indictment was quashed by the Government, with the view of reindicting him with more distinct specifications.--Finding that he was to have on peace in his down trodden city, he left it and made his way to Canada. Some time during the month of January, in company with three Confederate officers who had escaped from Johnson's Island, he sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, for Bermuda, from which latter point he made his way into a Confederate port. The names of the officers who left Halifax with him are Major Winslow, of North Carolina, and Capts. Johnson and Davis, of Virginia. Few men have been more persistently persecuted because of their attachment to the South and her institutions than Marshal Kane.
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Legislature. (search)
rovide for the importation of certain machinery. A bill to furnish the counties of the State with a model of the flying shuttle attachment for looms. A bill in regard to docketing causes in the Court of Appeals at Lewisburg during the existing war. House bill for the relief of the securities of R. P. Baker, late Sheriff of Grayson county, with an amendment by the Senate. House bill for the relief of the personal representatives of A. B. Urquhart, Joseph E. Gillett, and M. J. Davis. Adjourned. On Saturday, in the House, Mr. Haymond, of Braxton, submitted a resolution providing for the printing of twenty five thousand copies of the three acts of Congress, the Military, Finance, and Tax bills. The following were introduced: A bill authorizing the payment of Captain James E. Smith and company for services rendered as partisan rangers. A bill to prohibit the production of tobacco. An act to amend the Code, 37th section, chapter 61, edition 186
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Debate in the Yankee Congress. (search)
ator from Indiana. What he wanted was to let every man assume the station God intended him to attain. The yeas and nays were ordered, and resulted as follows: Yeas.--Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Clark, Collamer, Conness, Cowan, Dixon, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Hale, Harland, Harris, Howard, Howe, Lane, (Ind.,) Lane, (Kansas,) Morgan, Morrill, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, Willey, Wilson--34. Nays.--Messrs. Buckalew, Davis, Harding, Hendricks, Nesmith. Powell, Richardson, Riddle, Saulsbury, Van Winkle--12. The loyal member from Kentucky would like a few slaves to be Spared. Mr. Stevens offered an amendment to the Conscription bill, that persons of African descent, between 20 and 45 years of age, whether citizens of the United States or not, shall be enrolled and form part of the national forces, and when a slave shall be drafted and mustered into the service, the master shall receive a certificate for
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The movements of the enemy in the South. (search)
ernment." --Some two weeks since considerable sensation was created in this city by the report that two foreigners, had been arrested on the charge of leading an organization which existed in this city, whose object it was to assassinate President Davis, liberate the Yankee prisoners, and overturn the Government generally. The two men arrested and committed to Castle Thunder were named Moses Friedland and A. Heintz. At the time of their arrest it was promised that in a few days developmenstand up and know what he was talking about. While waiting for Friedland, (who had been designated as the man to make my inquiries of,) I overheard Heintz say to the soldiers that a project was on foot among the old women of Richmond to mob President Davis; but that they were not the proper persons to do it.--In his (Heintz's) opinion, the soldiers should be the ones to do it, and if they would the rebellion would soon blow up. Heintz also remarked that he had understood the prisoners here had