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The Daily Dispatch: August 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
anxiously. Affairs in Pennsylvania. A dispatch from Washington, dated the 4th, says: Several military companies have just been organized at Carlisle. The feeling of the people seems to be such that a general plan is only necessary to rally large numbers of the people for defensive purposes. Alarming rumors from time to time prevail as to the intentions of the rebels; but there is nothing to establish their truth. The telegraph line was working to-day from Carlisle to Hagerstown; but there was no particular information from the latter point. Many farmers, with their teams, who, during last Saturday and Sunday, fled in a panic, are now cautiously returning to their homes. The continued alarms of rebel movements have brought all business to a standstill, and a general organization for defence seems actually necessary to restore confidence to the public mind. The following appeal from General Couch, an army officer, to the people, to "bushwhack" the Confed