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The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wanted. (search)
Ranaway --$100 Reward,--Ranaway, on Monday, a Negro Boy, named-Essex; about five feet eight inches high; black; stammers slightly; about twenty or twenty-two years old; weight about 150 pounds; formerly belonged to Capt. John Wright, of Plain View, P. O. King and Queen county, Va. The above reward will be paid on his delivery to me at my office, in this city. He may be making his way to West Point, Va. He has a wife in that neighborhood. His upper teeth are dark, from tarter on them. Benjamin Davis. oc 22--ts
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sail and steam. (search)
er Foray. --The work of moral reform has commenced in earnest. Modest virtue may now lift its eyes and smile sweetly at the coming of the long promised millennium. Richmond is to be purged of vices that have started forth at night, from dark and lonely hiding places, and sailed "on obscene wings athwart the noon." Following close upon the proceedings against the exhibitors of unlawful games, comes a demonstration against the cyprian dames, which happened in this way: Officers Quarles. Davis, Wickes, and Blackburn, armed with a warrant issued by the Mayor, at the instance of certain parties, proceeded yesterday to a house on Virginia street, kept by Clara Coleman, and took her into custody, together with Jenny Read, Ella Willard, Anna Willett, Mildred Coleman, and Ann Beasley, and conducted them all to the Station House. The charge against the first is for keeping a disorderly, ill-governed establishment, of evil fame and reputation, and against the others for participating in
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The reported burning of cotton. (search)
Important arrest. --The recent circulation, in this city, of Confederate Treasury notes with forged signatures, has led to extreme caution in the inspection of that currency, and active exertions have been made to apprehend the guilty parties. A man named John Betz was arrested yesterday at Frank's bar-room, on Governor street, by Detective Goodrich and Policeman Davis, in consequence of certain information received, and in his trunk were found two sheets of unsigned Treasury notes, of the genuine plate. Betz, who came here from New Orleans, is a lithographic printer, and was for a short time employed on Government work. The prisoner will probably have a preliminary examination this morning.
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The ladies' horse. (search)
The Congressional election. It is now believed that Walter Preston has been elected as the representative from the 13th district, instead of Fayette McMullen, as heretofore stated. The reports from other districts do not vary from previous publications, though a portion of the State yet remains to be heard from. We are requested to publish the official vote of Rockbridge county, as follows: For Congress — Baldwin 250, Sheen 169, Harper 72, Coffman 55. For Davis and Stephens 580.