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The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Confederate Congress. Senate. Tuesday, January 3, 1865. The Senate met at 12 o'clock M.--Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Leyburn, of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Brown offered a resolution that Congress adjourn at 12 o'clock M., on the 24th instant, until the 4th of July next. Laid on the table for future consideration. Senate bill to provide for the compensation of persons whose slaves have been lost, by death, escape to, or capture by, the enemy, while in the service of the Confederate States, was considered and passed. The bill provides that the owner shall secure the full value of slaves so lost, to be ascertained by agreement or appraisement. Several Senate bills were taken up and postponed till future days. On motion, by Mr. Barnwell, Senate bill to guard against the improper construction of the tax laws by officers entrusted with their execution was indefinitely postponed. On motion, by Mr. Semmes, the Senate resolved into executive session; and so
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Charged with Garroting. --William Brown and William Peasley, well-known in this city as dealers in fish, oysters, etc.--the first a detailed conscript and the last a member of the Tenth Virginia cavalry, were arrested and committed to Castle Thunder yesterday on the charge of "garroting and releasing a prisoner (Jack Clark) fd sent to Lieutenant Bates, to be by him forwarded to the army court-martial.--Soon after leaving Castle Thunder, Clark obtained permission from the guard to visit Brown & Peasley's place of business, ostensibly for the purpose of getting some clean clothing; and after remaining a short while there, he started out of the house, butby enabling the prisoner (Clark) to effect his escape. Describing the locality of the occurrence to Captain Doswell, provost-marshal, orders were issued to arrest Brown and Peasley; and when they were taken to the chief-of-police office yesterday, the guard having Clark in custody readily recognized them as the persons who, the ni