The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], The balloon in warfare.

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Extra session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States .

The Bastards of New York.

Outrage on a citizen of Virginia .

Affairs at Pensacola .

New breach-loading cannon.

The battle of Buena Vista .

The rights and duties of Co-Partnership.

The Southern blockade.

How stands the West ?

A true friend of his country.

Seceding wives.

Crops in South Carolina .

Legacy to a pet our,

Imports at New York.

Send us the News !

Election to-day.

Richmond the Southern Capital .

A Commendable enterprise.

Union men and Secessionists.

Virginia and Maryland .

All hail to the Old North State .

Present and Prospective Proportions of the war.

Tactics of the enemy.

Wheeling Union .

The Affair at Sewell's Point .

Letters of marque.

Suspicious persons.

Convicted of forgery.

First Regiment N. C. Volunteers .

The Purcell battery .

From the South .

Admitted a citizen.

Bibles and other good books for the Soldier 's.

Central Guards.

Major General Lee .

An Old Acquaintance.

Petty Offenders.

Richmond mounted Guard.

The chain Gang.

Beating a woman.

Dealing in iron.

Baptist Anniversaries.

Grand Jury presentments.

Unlawful weapons.

Portsmouth, Va., May 22, 1861.

The North Carolina Convention .

Latest News by Express.

Washington Items.

Later from Texas --Montgomery Abandons Fort Ouchita.

Army and Navy movements-- four regiments ordered to Fortress Monroe .

Reported troubles in Indiana .

New Hampshire military.

Kentucky and Indiana .

Missouri Affairs — Dreadful steamboat Disaster .

Proclamation of Gen. Harney .

Later from Cairo .

"important from Chambersburg ."

Spurious Bank notes.

Riot at St. Johns , N. F.

Nomination declined.

From California

Senator Douglas Recovering .

Additional by the Persia .

London , may 12. --A. M.

Paris , may 12, 1861.

Astounding Bank frauds

Distinguished Southerners.

The wheat crop.

More high Handed measures.

Discontinuance of mails.

From Washington .

Killed at St. Louis .

The balloon in warfare.

Fall of a Bridor.

General Headquarters , Adjutant General 's office may 21, 1861.

The spirit of ' 76 --the Old rifleman.

[for the Richmond Dispatch .]

How to be weather-wise.

Perfectly cool.

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The balloon in warfare.

--John La Mountain, the æronaut, has offered his services to the Federal Government, in the capacity of a scout. He proposes to inflate his balloon, and, accompanied by an engineer, to ascend to any desirable elevation, taking notes of the country, the situation and strength of the enemy, &c.

The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. may 23, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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