Named Entity Results, Point Lookout, Md. (Maryland, United States)

the Baltimore hales. The National Convention will probably be held in the Front street Thearre, with an opposition Framoar convention at the Maryland Institute. The Confederates having been engaged in placing torpedoes in the Rappahannock and Plankatank rivers, an expedition was sent out on the 11th instant and destroyed four of these engines of death and brought in six more. Several prisoners were taken by the expedition, which was under the command of Col. Draper, of the Camp at Point Lookout. The torpedoes were made of powder enclosed in tin cases, and connected with the shore by tarred strings, communicating with a percussion cap, by which each could be fired. By request of the President of the United States, Gov. Parker has issued a proclamation for all the militia force he can raise in the State of New Jersey within fifteen days, the troops to be infantry, exclusively; to be mustered into the United States service by regiments, and to serve for one hundred days; to

A Yankee Sketch of Point Lookout. A writer in the New York Herald gives a description of the prison arrangements as seen at Point Lookout, Md., through Yankee spectacles.--It will be a matter of interest to many of our brave soldiers who have experienced the hospitalities of the place, as well as the general public to read an account, however pose-colored it may be, of this famous prison house. The camp is laid off in divisions, of which at present there are seven; and each division Point Lookout, Md., through Yankee spectacles.--It will be a matter of interest to many of our brave soldiers who have experienced the hospitalities of the place, as well as the general public to read an account, however pose-colored it may be, of this famous prison house. The camp is laid off in divisions, of which at present there are seven; and each division comprises ten companies of a hundred men each, thus making a thousand men to division. Each company is governed by a sergeant, who attends to cleansing his part of camp, calling the roll, receiving and delivering letters, add producing his company to meats at proper house. Besides he is the medium of communication between officials outside and prisoners within the enclosure. There are no Union officers of any rank who have offices inside the prison gate excepting the commissary; who simply is