. . . has given an opinion that handbills cannot be enclosed in newspapers and sent through the mail, without subjecting them to letter postage.
Jamestown, the place where the first English settlement in the United States was made, in 1608, is about twenty miles north west of Yorktown, between the James and York Rivers.
Major General Mitchell, thirty years ago, during the famous bank riots in Cincinnati, when the city government was at the mercy of the mob restored order in a few hours by his personal daring and command of men. Celerity of movements is always one of his characteristics.
The ancient row of large edifices in the rear of the Capitol at Washington has been taken possession of by the government, for the purpose of quartering the hordes of “intelligent contrabands” that are daily flocking to that city in the quest for freedom. It is denominated as the “Hotel d’Afrique.”
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 1
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