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The Daily Dispatch: June 12, 1863., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Military tyranny in New Orleans. (search)
Military tyranny in New Orleans. Military tyranny in New Orleans is growing more grinding each day. Mr. G. W. Betterton, convicted of an attempt to furnish supplies to the Confederated, has been sentenced to pay a fine of $25,000 and be imprisoned at hard labor in Fort Pickens for one year. We note some more of the prominent arrests we find chronicled in the New Orleans papers: In addition to the schoolmistress who was fined $200 because a few miniature "rebel" flag were found on her premises, a Mrs. Allen was fined $30 for saying the American flag was a dirty rag. Another was under arrest for a similar offence, two others for saying they were good Confederates were fined each $5; still another, a "registered enemy" was sent to jail thirty days for declaring he was going into the Confederacy to kill Yankees. Mr. Marzeni was charged with preventing children from singing national airs. The evidence showed that the accused, hearing a little girl singing the Star Spangle