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The handcuffs.

--A correspondent of the New York Herald, who writes from Covington, Kentucky, has made a wonderful discovery! It appears that Messrs. James B. Clay, John C. Breckinridge and J. W. Stevenson, have alluded in their speeches, in Kentucky, to the large number of handcuffs captured from the Hessians as Manassas; but the audacious writer above alluded to brands the whole story as an infamous lie, and says he has it ‘"from authority just from Richmond that as soon as the news arrived there of the retreat of the Union forces, the negro traders gathered together all the handcuffs in the jails, and sent them clear of the right wing and round to the centre in front, and thus deceived even the rebel soldiers, and had them brought to Richmond as trophies."’ That writer ought surely to be set down as the first inventive genius of the present age, He may be able to humbug the deluded people of the North with such a tale, but the people of the South know the handcuffs were taken from the invaders on the battlefield.

The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. August 29, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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