WASHINGTON, May 13.
Capt. Boggs, bearer of dispatches from New Orleans, who lost
his ship in the gallant fight there, has been assigned to the command of the
Juniata, a comparatively new vessel of war, carrying 12 guns, now lying at
Philadelphia.
The loss of the Norfolk yard by the rebels burning it, is
much regretted. It will immediately be
rebuilt by the Government.
The military board of Kentucky, who, under the authority of
the loyal legislature of that State, practically took all the military power out
of the hands of Gov. Magoffin last summer, and saved Kentucky to the Union,
have sent a deputation to Congress, to ask for moderate and conservative action
on the part of Congress. They say that the
emancipation act of this district, coupled with the general emancipation
and confiscation bills still pending, are creating wide-spread uneasiness and
dissatisfaction in Kentucky, and is weakening the hands of the Union men there.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, May 14, 1862, p. 1
