The Norfolk Day Book of this morning has the following:
RICHMOND, March 23. – The House of Representatives have
adopted a resolution to apply a portion of the money belonging to the
contingent fund, to the aid and relief of the captured troops now in the hands
of the enemy as prisoners of war.
Heavy reinforcements are being sent to Old Point. We learn that fourteen Federal steamers were
at Old Point on Sunday, loading with troops, supposed to be for the Burnside
Expedition.
RICHMOND, March 23. – The new Cabinet of President Davis has
been formed: Secretary of State, J. P.
Benjamin, of Louisiana; Secretary of War, John Randolph, of Virginia; Secretary
of Navy, S. R. Mallory, of Florida; Secretary of Treasury, C. G. Meminger, of
South Carolina; Attorney-General,
Theodore Watts; Postmaster General, Reagin of Texas.
The new troops are pouring into this city. – Six or seven of
the new regiments arrived in this neighborhood on Sunday by Railroad.
President Davis has declared martial law over the counties
of Elizabeth City, York, Warwick, Gloster and Mathews.
Accounts are given in the Norfolk Day Book of an engagement
near the Warrenton station on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad on Saturday
last between 300 rebel cavalry, under Gen. Steward, and 500 Yankee
cavalry. 40 of the latter are reported
killed and 100 wounded. – We are said to have lost 6 killed and 18 wounded.
We take the above from the Lynchburg Virginian.
67 citizens of Lomdom were sent to Richmond on the Central
cars Thursday night and committed to the military prison.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 29, 1862, p. 4
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