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The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
ops to Fortress Monroe, reached here at a late hour last night, and brings some news from Northampton county. While passing up the bay, she was boarded by the Captain of the United States gun-boat Rescue, who informed Captain P. that the Federal forces, in part, had succeeded in marching into Northumberland county, and that over eighteen hundred men laid down their arms. Before the troops advanced a flag of truce, dispatched by the commanding officer for the purpose of circulating Gen. Dix's preclamation, which was said by all who heard it to be fair, and, if carried out, could not but result satisfactority to them. But in yielding to a superior force it was not to be supposed that they have abandoned their principles, but as choosing the least of two evils — of resisting and being overcome by a superior force, or of losing many of their own lives. The captain of the Rescue did not state the oath had been administered to any of the parties, and it was supposed that it was n