The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-18
WHAT WAS NEWS
FIFTY YEARS AGO
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The bill to change ,hu conscript age
mahihS IL seventeen to iifly, VIII COME
up IN ,he Confederate senate at an
carry ui,te IL is 10 be hopeu the SEN
inc House, whereby The age rs connned
TO The present Limits. Amy other meas
nre ousht 10. be entitled. IAN ac, for
n nlt.ns up W9nt1ae."te hospi.als And
o. Stn..atiOn oil thus description OF
loive should be LET, 10 the state, which
needs an organization OF home guarus
10 project The country from raius and
selNilc disturbances.
'ine korts-t'irth IL In.
Mator-Genolai sam Jones teieGraphs
me WAR Department. from Dublin, Va,
as follows The torty-hfth Virginia
Infantry. one OF the best regiments IN
the service. has unanimously re-eniist-
eu Tor the war. No inuucem.nt o.her
IMAM the need for this service was held
out to in"uce them to re-eniist."
Sending Ihcm ON.
-FOUR nunuf ed Yankee prisoners (pri-
vates) are to be sent from this city to
Henderson. Ca. this morning. II is
the Intention OF MAYOR Turner to CON
tinue TO send that number off every
moIning until the whole batch OF pri..
Yates now confined in tins city and
llanNille are gotten rid of.
The First Virginia.
The old First Virginia infantry, from
this city. now at Goldsboro. y. c.. has
re-enlisted for the war. y member,
who writes us this fact. says it would
be very welcome news TO the regiment
81 It's th;nned ranks were filled up by
some OF the new lcvies. The regiment
Is in Eemper's Brigade.
DiSmai Failure.
From New York papers of recent date
ii IL learned that the late movement
on Richmond is acknowledged to have
been dismal failure. and Beast Butler
is in worse humcr than when he CON
fronted Magrudcr at Bethel. "a tcle-
prevail OF the arrest of prominent oih-
GERS who had the late raid on Rich
mond in charge.
Butlcr Is Very Mind.
AS evidence that Beast Butler is very
sore over the failure OF his well-Iaid
plan TO capture Richmond by means of
= raid up the Peninsula. the following
dispatch TO the New York Herald is
given:
FORTRESS Monroe. February 10, 1861
Ine following special order is publish
ed BY order of the commanding gem
eral:
IVY. w, Shore. being by his own con
Iession The correspondent of the New
the articles and letters in which papers
on the recent campaign against Rich
mono are copied with appreciation into
cause OF the country, is ordered TO leave
inns department forthwith. and not to
return under pain of being put to
hard. but honest labor.
by order of Major-General Is f.
Butler.
"R. S. Davis Major and A. A. G.
They Are Coming In.
a dispatch from New Market. Tenn
says; Humphreys Mississippi Brigade,
McLaw's Division, rc-cnllsted to-day
for forty years. or until the war ends
The Ninth Georgia Regiment, Ander-
sons Division, has also re-enlsted
Other br!gades and regiments are fol-
lowing their example"
From Mississippi.
Meridian was evacuated by the Con-
federates yesterday. All the govern
ment property and stores were saved
General Forrest, at Oxford Is CON
fronting column of infantry 5000
strong, sent out from Memphis via
fernando. and twelve regiments OF
cavalry that came from Sherman's
army.