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The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], The ladies of Havana and the South. (search)
pson again at work. The Memphis Avalanche, of the 1st inst int. says: A letter to the editor from a well-informed friend at New Madrid, dated last night, informs us that Jeff. Thompson had just returned from a scout near Commerce, Missouri, where he took the Federal steamer City of Alton. The particulars are not given. The City of Alton left St. Louis on Friday afternoon with the mail for Cairo. Since the above was written, we learn from a gentleman, who conversed with Jeff Thompson, that he did not take the City of Alton, owing to the fact that his artillery and horses broke down, but he captured instead a large lot of clothing and blankets belonging to the Federals at Commerce. He also fired about two hundred rounds into the boat as the backed out, and it is thought had killed the pilot and many others on the Alton. Jeff, returned to New Madrid on Monday afternoon, having made the trip to Commerce and back, one hundred and four miles, in forty-three hours.