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The Emperor of the French has ordered twelve frigates to be laid down, on the tortoise principle, which was first suggested by Mr. Josiah Jones, of Liverpool. These frigates are each to be armed with four a peel guns. The weekly deaths in London, which has ranged for a long period almost invariably above 1,200, declined in the week previous to the last arrival to 1,069. The average number as obtained from the returns of the corresponding weeks of ten years in 1851-60, and corrected for increase of population, is 1,118. A correspondent of the Baltimore Exchange writes from Washington, June 21st, that the Hospital list at Georgetown amounted at that time to 700. The mortality was very great. Hardy Barnes was hanged at the jail in Fayetteville, N. C., on Friday last, for the murder of Albia Rhodes, about a year ago. It is said he made no confession. We learn from the Pickens (S. C.) Courier that Hon. J. L. Orr has been appointed a member of the Confederate Congress, in the place of Judge Withers, resigned. It is stated that a gentleman in Portsmouth will undertake the work of blowing up every ship in Hampton Roads, if authorized to do so by the Government. The exports of ice this year from Boston up to the first instant, amounted to 60,948 tons, against 74,717 tons in the same period last year. Col. Jesse Burks, of Bedford, has received the appointment of Colonel in the army, and will take command of the military forces stationed at Lynchburg. The County Court of Prince Edward last week appropriated $12,500 for the benefit of families of volunteers. F. N. Watkins has been elected Teller of the Farmers' Bank at Farmville, and Wm. G. Venable Discount Clerk. General Dembinski, a police officer, has offered his services to the Federal Government. Some New Yorkers offered a prize for a ‘"National Hymn,"’ and over eleven hundred were sent in. They refuse to take any more. Edward N. Tracy, Esq., a well-known citizen of St. Louis, was accidentally drowned a few days ago. A member of the Richmond Grays was slightly wounded by a bayonet while practising with arms, at Norfolk, a day or two since. It is reported on pretty good authority that the Federal archives have been sent to Philadelphia in sealed cars. Hon. John Janney, President of the Virginia Convention, reached his home in Londoun county, last Sunday, quite sick. Two sons of James M. Whitley, Esq., Johnston county, N. C., were drowned on the 22d inst., while bathing. It is now thought that Mr. Riley, who was accidentally wounded by a pistol shot, in Columbus, Ga., may recover. Texas has an organized force of 8,050 mounted troops in the field and ready for immediate service. Rev. Malcolm Johnston, a devoted and esteemed Baptist clergyman, died at Cartersville, Ga., on the 17th inst. J. H. Brenner has been appointed superintendent of the telegraph from Wilmington, N. C., to Macon, Ga. Ex-Alderman John H. Briggs, of New York, died suddenly on Saturday. Despite the hard times, there are five places of amusement nightly open in New York. Dr. James Power, who was arrested in Lynchburg as a spy, has been released. The Prince Edward Troop, sixty strong, left Farmville on Monday last for Ashland. We hear that some portions of Virginia are suffering severity for the want of rain.
The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. June 28, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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