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The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Held as a spy. (search)
Ferment in the city Post-Office.
--We understand the clerks employed in the city Post-Office have held a meeting to set forth their grievances in a series of resolutions, passed nem con, expressive of their indignation in regard to the course the Postmaster-General has pursued towards them, individually and collectively, in his passive indifference to their frequent appeals for an increase of salary.
Since the commencement of the war their salaries have not been advanced one cent, while everything else has gone up to enormous rates.
Their present salaries, excepting that of the chief clerk, range from fifty to seventy-five dollars a month, while their board bills amount to ninety and one hundred dollars per month!
And then their labor is of the most onerous kind, working twelve hours per diem, Sundays and week days.
The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], The militia question in Petersburg . (search)
Two negroes were arrested in New Orleans on the 2d instant for using seditions language against the United States, and insulting Yankee soldiers.
Another starved to death, falling dead when asking for a drink of water.
James Flick, a highly respectable widower of Rockingham county, Va., committed suicide on the 7th instant by blowing his brains out. He leaves a large family of children.