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The Daily Dispatch: March 1, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e people, at the general election on the fourth Thursday of this month, whether or not a convention of the State shall be called. Messrs. Singleton and Hughes. It has been announced by the Yankee press, and the announcement has been published by us, that General Singleton and Judge Hughes had obtained passports from Mr. Lincoln to visit Richmond. The Yankee papers said the object of their mission was to convince the rebels of the hopelessness of further resistance. They arrived at Varina on Monday, but the freshet in the river, by preventing the running of our boats, has delayed their arrival in Richmond. These visits of Northern gentry are always covered with such a cloud of mystery by our officials that it is impossible to learn anything positively about them; and we are left generally to conjecture as to their objects. We heard on yesterday a report about this Singleton-Hughes visit that, coming as it did from a trustworthy source, surprised us not a little. It is said