The Washington correspondent of the New York Express reveals a project on foot to decapitate Old Abe, and put George Law in his place. On Friday last, two negroes, named respectively Moses, for the murder of an Italian organ player, and Isaac, for killing his overseer, were executed in Memphis, Tenn. At Nashville, Tenn., on Wednesday last, 25,000 persons participated in the demonstration in favor of Southern independence. J. M. Freeman, of Norfolk, has been appointed Assistant Engineer in the Navy of North Carolina. Col. R. H. Goodwyn, an old and respected citizen of Columbia, S. C., died in that city on Friday last. Hon. Charles Scott, of Memphis, Tennessee, died in Jackson, Mississippi, on Thursday last. A powder mill has been recently put in operation at Kingston, Ga.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.