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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], National feeling. (search)
Penitentiary convicts.
--From a table showing the nativity of convicts remaining in the Penitentiary, and on the Public Works, on the 30th day of September last, we learn that of 283 born in Virginia, 193 are white, and 90 colored; 15 were born in Ireland; 15 in Pennsylvania; 13 (2 colored) in Maryland; Ohio 11; Germany 11; New York 8; North Carolina 6; New Jersey 3 (2 colored;) Kentucky 2; Delaware 2; Tennessee 1; Massachusetts 1; Italy 3; France 1; Canada 1; Michigan 1; Alabama 1; Connecticut 1, Georgia 1; Maine 1; Louisiana 1; England 3; Scotland 1; New Foundland 1.--Total whites 295, colored 94.
Aggregate 389.
Forty-seven were aged from 15 to 20 years; 94 from 20 to 25; 84 from 25 to 30; 52 from 30 to 35; 31 from 35 to 40; 40 from 40 to 50; 21 from 50 to 60; 8 from 60 to 80.
In the above is comprised one female of 12 years of age, and the prison also contained 12 females at the time mentioned.
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Terrible Company. (search)
A Terrible Company.
--They are organizing a new military company in Memphis, to be called "The Defiants." The Avalanche says of them: "Their uniform is to be black homespun, with red plumes.
Their banner is black — the arms of the State of Tennessee being inscribed on one side in crimson; on the other side will be represented a right hand grasping an unsheathed sword, with the name of the company — the Defiants — written in red letters above.
The whole outfit will be emblematic of death and defiance, and will cost forty dolla