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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], The slave trade. (search)
Prince Alfred arrived at Quebec on Thursday week.
The papers report that there was as much enthusiasm displayed as on the occasion of the entry of Prince Albert.
The resemblance to the latter in feature is remarkable.
He is much shorter in stature, however, than his brother.
A majority of East Tennessee Rebellion delegates have appointed a committee to memorialize the Legislature to permit East Tennessee to secede peaceably from the Southern Confederacy.
This is founded upon rumor.
It is pretended that three fugitive slaves, at Cairo, have been surrendered to their owners in Kentucky.
Picayune Butler never pursues that course, but steals all he can lay his hands upon.
Hon. Nathaniel Greene Pendeleton, who acted as aid to Gen. Gaines in 1813, and was a Whig member of Congress in 1941-3, died in Cincinnati on the 18th Inst.
Telegraphic items.
By way of Memphis, Tenn., we have received the following:
Fort Monroe, June 21--There are rumors here of a heavy Southern advance from Yorktown hitherward.
The Federal pickets near Little Bethel have been driven in.
Persons representing themselves as deserters from Sewell's Point gave such vague information that Gen. Butler suspected them as spies and put them in prison.
The Southerners are erecting masked batteries opposite the Rip Raps.
No correct returns of the killed at Great Bethel have been or will be given.
All surgeons were ordered across the Potomac from Washington last night.
The War Department has discovered that female Secessionists have been carrying on a regular correspondence with Beauregard, via Mt. Vernon.
New York, June 21.--The correspondent of the Commercial, from Washington, says that army officers believe a collision is certain before to-morrow night, the impression prevailing that the Southerners are
The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Future. (search)
From Washington.
--The Southern papers bring us the following intelligence, telegraphed from Washington, June 27:
Financial affairs are becoming alarming here, and it is thought direct taxation must be resorted to. Among other suggestions are those of a newspaper income tax and a stamp tax.
The Ordnance Department has preferred charges against Gen. Butler for violating army regulations in allowing Sawyer to conduct experiments.
Lowe's balloon having discovered a scattering camp in the vicinity of Fairfax Court-House, Lieut. Tompkin's company of cavalry and several companies of light infantry were ordered to proceed there from Alexandria — It was rumored here last night that the cavalry had been cut to pieces.
No official intelligence has been received yet.
It is reported that Gen. Cadwallader has received direct orders from Scott not to advance on Martinsburg.
The New York Tribune says:"It is not true that a cooperation has been made between Adams' Expr
Spicy correspondence.
We had heard that a sharp correspondence had passed between our gallant General Magruder and General Picayune Butler, shortly after the fight at Bethel.
The New Orleans Delta received here yesterday, contained the whole of it as furnished by its correspondent.
We copy the letters this morning.
The miserable pretence of Butler, that he is endeavoring to protect private property, has not even deceived the Northern press.
A correspondent of the New York Tribune denoButler, that he is endeavoring to protect private property, has not even deceived the Northern press.
A correspondent of the New York Tribune denounces the outrages committed by his troops on private property as a disgrace to them and to the age. What barbarities indeed must they not have perpetrated, when the brutal and fiendish New York Tribune complains of them!
We conversed a day or two since with J. Barron Hope, of Hampton, who detailed some of the enormities committed in that town by the vandals of Fortress Monroe.
Not to speak of destruction of houses, gardens, farms, etc., they have destroyed and carried off books from valuable
Gen. Butler and Col. Magruder.
The Yorktown correspondent of the New Orleans Delta furnishes the correspondence between Butler and Magruder, in relation to an exchange of prisoners, after the victory at Bethel.
It is so interesting that we give it in full.
It will be seen that our gallant officer handles the pen as well as Butler and Magruder, in relation to an exchange of prisoners, after the victory at Bethel.
It is so interesting that we give it in full.
It will be seen that our gallant officer handles the pen as well as his artillery:
[Gen. Butler to Col. Magruder.] Division Headquarters, June 11, 1861. To the Officer Commanding the Forces at County Bridge: Sir:
Capt. Davies and Lieut. Potter, of the 6th Regiment New York Volunteers, are about the proceed to the scene of the late engagement, near County Bridge, for the purpose of brinGen. Butler to Col. Magruder.] Division Headquarters, June 11, 1861. To the Officer Commanding the Forces at County Bridge: Sir:
Capt. Davies and Lieut. Potter, of the 6th Regiment New York Volunteers, are about the proceed to the scene of the late engagement, near County Bridge, for the purpose of bringing away any dead or wounded that may have been left behind.
I trust the courtesies of civilized warfare will be extended to these gentlemen, as I have no doubt they will be.--I have some prisoners, taken with arms in their hands, whom you might desire, or be willing to exchange for any persons that might have been so unfortunate