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tirmh Primers at Wheeling*The Wheeling Intelligencer of Friday last, aaji there are 110 prisoners in the Athoa-nom, and 21 oat on parole. Capt Bragg arrived there on Thursday from Wirt county, having: in charge some 84 prisoners, moat, if not all cf whom, belonged to the somewhat notorious Moccasin rangers, who have beenpillaging and murdering throughout Wirt, Beene, Gilmer and adjoining counties for some considerable length of time. The cold weather of the past three or four days drove them into their homes. We beve no hesitation in saving that they, are the hardest looking set of vagabonds we ever saw. Some of them are lame, halt and; frosted, and there is scarcely a comfortable anft of clothes in the whole crowd. Among the number is the notorious Dan Dusky, who is said tohave boasted that he had a little graveyard of Ids own, ib which he had buried a considerable number of Union men.The Philadelphia Jbymrer uegee toot theGovernment avail itself of ite pmeant fodlW ties on the Southern coast, and set the con-trahaads at work in the live oak plantations gettiag out ship timber. Live oak is now and has been scarce for months peel, not only at private ship-yarde, but alee at our navy yards. But whai is the use ef urging the Administration to touch the slaves of the rebels?
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Weekly Times
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Thu, Jan 09, 1862
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