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The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Cromwell, Lincoln and Virginia. (search)
The loaded shall fired into the rudder post of the Kearsarge by the pirate Alabama has been sent to Washington as a present from Captain Winslow to Mr. Lincoln, the latter having expressed a wish to have it as a trophy. The death of one of the Democratic members of the New Jersey Legislature gives the Republicans a majority of one in the House, which has not hitherto been able to organize on account of the political tie. The Roanoke river is said to be full of torpedoes from Jamestown up to Rainbow Bluff. Over one hundred and fifty torpedoes have been taken from the river already. They are put up in block tin cans and placed from three to eight feet under the water, and in rows across the river at intervals of a few miles. The Louisville Journal (Prentice's paper), heartily approves and endorses Mr. Yeaman's speech in Congress in favor of amending the Constitution so as to abolish slavery. It deems the extermination of slavery not only a fixed fact, but in every
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], The Savannah "Patriots." (search)
es A. Powell — and unlawfully assaulting and beating Frederick, slave of Martha J. Stamper, in the First Market. John Love was fined fifty dollars for purchasing butter in the First Market to sell again, in violation of a city ordinance. Ann Weaver, free, charged with being a person of evil fame, was ordered to be whipped, and then to leave the city. A negro, named Jim Brooks, slave to Major William Allan, was arraigned on the charge of murdering, in the county of Surry, on the 25th of October, 1862, J. M. Schriver, Joseph A. Graves and George Graves, and wounding, at the same time, Gilbert Wootton, a free negro. The accused, Jim, is said to be one of a party of negroes who committed the above murders at "Jamestown," the former residence of Major Allan, soon after the Yankees took possession of that place. The Mayor postponed an investigation of the case till the 1st of February. One or two other cases, of trivial import, concluded the proceedings for the day.