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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
matter of crimination and recrimination, as bitter as hate itself. Jeff. Thompson Turns up again — he Captures another steamer. This indefatigable patriot is never idle, and whenever we hear from him, we find that his energies have been successful in advancing the cause of the South. From the Confederate News, of Columbus, Ky., Dec. 4, we take the following paragraph: A few days since Gen. Thompson, by a stratagem, captured the steamer Empress, on her trip from St. Louis to Cairo. Jeff only got 400 cavalry horses and some other valuables, took the crew prisoners, and set fire to and burned the boat. This information we derive from a gentleman from the other side of the river, and who knows. Another gun-boat. The Confederate News, of the 4th inst., says: There is a large, black, ugly looking customer lying at anchor opposite our wharf, in just about the same place in which the Northern gun-boat A. O. Tyler lay on the 1st September. This boat is a no
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Reported capture of a whale. (search)
War.from the North. We continue our summary of Northern news this morning from the latest papers received in this city. The New York Herald, of the 5th December, came to hand last Monday night; but have made some extracts in our edition of the 9th, from a Northern paper of that date, we find but little else of interest to transfer to our columns: Excitement in Paducah — quarrel among the Generals. The St. Louis Democrat, of the 2d instant, publishes the following dispatch: Cairo. Nov. 28.--On Tuesday last a Secessionist in Paducah, by the name of Woolfolk, hung a secession flag out of his window as some of our troops were passing by, and hurrahed for Jeff. Davis. The man had done the same thing before, on several occasions, and the matter was reported to Gen. Smith, but he refused to interfere. This refusal of Gen. Smith caused great indignation among the troops, and doubts of his loyalty were freely expressed in Paducah. The matter having been reported to Ge