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The Daily Dispatch: February 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], What will they do with us? (search)
from the President, in response to a resolution of the House, transmitting a statement of the number of quartermasters and the duty to which they are assigned. The Quartermaster-General states the whole number of quartermasters at one thousand, three hundred and sixteen, of whom three hundred and eighteen are engaged on post duty and in connection with the tax in kind. Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Also, the official reports of Generals E. K. Smith, Taylor, Magruder and Price, of operations in the Trans-Mississippi Department. Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. The motion entered by Mr. Chambers, of Mississippi, to reconsider the vote by which the House rejected the bill for the relief of Nathaniel Moore, postmaster at Enterprise, Mississippi, from responsibility for Government funds captured by the enemy while in his custody, was taken up, and the House refused to reconsider. Under the call of committees, Mr. Machen, of Kentucky, from the Co
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
osition on some new line south of the rebel capital. What then will he do? Will he fight or retreat? A telegram from Fort Fisher, North Carolina, the 13th, says: A courier from General Sherman to Admiral Porter arrived at Smithville yesterday, having ridden across the country at great peril, announcing the capture, by Sherman's forces, of the town of Branchville, after three days hard fighting. From the Trans-Mississippi. A letter from the Trans-Mississippi says: Price's headquarters are at Bonham, Texas, four miles south of Red river, in a fine foraging region. Magruder is at Camden, Arkansas, with a part of his command, but the main body (chiefly cavalry) is on a stealing expedition in Texas. The horses of both commands are in an exhausted condition. Magruder has twenty thousand men on his muster-rolls, two-thirds of whom are effective. Kirby Smith's headquarters are still at Shreveport, Louisiana. His entire strength is estimated at thirt
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Judge Lyons's court. --This court was in session yesterday, when the following cases were considered and disposed of: Samuel Clarke, indicted for stealing a cow from Ash Levy, was convicted by the jury and sentenced to three years confinement in the penitentiary. In another case against the accused, indicted for stealing a hog from Henry Smith, he was convicted of petty larceny and sentenced to two days confinement in the city jail. The case of Reuben Morris, indicted for obtaining goods under false pretences from Samuel M. Price & Co., was continued till the March term. A Yankee deserter, named Joseph Johnson, indicted for garroting John Stokes and robbing him of eighty-five dollars, was acquitted. George W. Berry, indicted for stealing a watch from Francis M. Ray, was adjudged guilty of petty larceny and sentenced to six months confinement in jail. The court adjourned till 11 o'clock this morning.
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Burglarious Robberies. --The store-room of Samuel M. Price. residing on the corner of Twenty-ninth and Franklin streets, was burglariously entered on Tuesday night, and robbed of one barrel of corned beef and a dressed hog, valued at three thousand dollars. The thieves entered through the front basement window, which they forced up by means of a crow-bar or some other prizing implement.
The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Hustings Court. --Only one case (that of Reuben Manheim, alias Reuben Morris, charged with obtaining cloth from Samuel M. Price & Co. under false pretences,) was disposed of by the Magistrates of the Hustings Court yesterday. The accused was pronounced guilty, and sentenced to two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The case of Ann Perrin, charged with aiding negroes to escape to the Yankees, which occupied the attention of the court on Monday, was decided in favor of the defendant, and she was acquitted. The court will meet again this morning at 10 o'clock.
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