The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1861., [Electronic resource]

Disobeying a signal.

‘ Last evening some excitement was caused by the battery at the mouth of Wolf river throwing a cannon full within forty feet of the bow of the steams. Jeff. Davis. It appeared that the Jeff. Davis not observing some signals made at one of the forts above, had run down to the city without rounding to, a telegraphic dispatch received here secured for the Jeff. a strong reminder of the necessity of obeying signals, whether made so they can be seen or not. The captain discovered another reminder in his room in the sex as in the shape of a perforated weather boarding, a split mahogany table, and a smashed water jug, the frolics of an innocent Minnie ball. Captain Cabell is a good fellow, and has been bold in his advances toward Cairo, and in "spoiling the Philistines" in that neighborhood, and he will never disobey an order from the proper quarters.

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