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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
ing or endeavoring to heal the breach, are engaged in widening it by letters containing 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