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The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
arters to-morrow. The following is a copy of a permit found in possession of a man recently arrested near this city: "Head's Department of Virginia,"Fortress Monroe,July 10, 1861. "John Doe having taken the oath of allegiance to the United States, and having given his parole of honor not to take up arms against the United States, or give aid, comfort, or counsel to the enemies of the United States, he will receive the protection of all the troops of the United States. "Benj. F. Butler,"Major General Commanding." Saturday night, Mr. Wm. G. Webber, of this city, and a farmer named Shepherd, residing near the Wash Woods, in Princess Anne county, were arrested at the residence of Shepherd by members of the Princess Anne Cavalry, and brought to this city yesterday. The charge was that Webber, who had been refused permission to go North, had gone down to Shepherd's with the intention of getting off to one of the Federal ships, and that Shepherd was aiding him in the e
The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], From banks's column. (search)
Butler on a spree. --The Northern press is not half satisfied with the brilliant achievement of Gen. Butler and Commodore Stringham off Hatteras. It wants them to keep at it, and never stop to eat, drink, or rest, night or day, until the entire South is ravaged. One of the leading Northern papers discourses in the following amiable strain: What followed? "Did the intrepid Butler and the gallant Stringham" go on with the good work? Did they send their prisoners home and spread conuth Carolina troops from Virginia by burning a little coal and raising a smoke off the South Carolina coast? Did they press their advantage and obtain a foothold on the main land of North Carolina? Not at all. The first thing we beard of Gen. Butler, he was in Washington and serenaded, and in the hands of the most superb and vociferous of blatherskites, Gen. Hiram Walbridge, of New York, and he was making a speech and receiving the glorifications of his sublime heroism and Cæsarian exploi