Miscellaneous Items
- Aral order has been issued from the burpau of the adjutant general regulating the mode, conditions, &c, for enlisting under the recent " net to encourage the enlistment in the regular army." The term of service hereafter will be five years, or during the war, at the option of the recruit. A bounty of twelve dollars is allowed- six dollars thereof to be kept back until the recruit shall have joincd his regiment for duly. Robert Fulton was convicted at Alexandria, La., rccently, of speaking as if he favored a revoH of the sla ves. A new trial was granted, and it resulted in his cquittal. The Alexandria Democrat says, that M itinerant abolitionists have learned that they cannot pursue their hell-born vocation here, without suffering anawful and ignominious dcath."
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Subjects
Enlistment
American Slavery
Old News
Signal of Liberty
Robert Fulton