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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for March 8th or search for March 8th in all documents.
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From Washington.
Washington, March 8.--The President has accepted the resignations of Adjutant General Cooper and Assistant Adj't Gen. Withers.--It was rumored that Qr. Master Gen. Johnston, of Virginia, was about to resign, but he said this morning that the time for such a course had not yet arrived.
The resignation of Gen.Cooper was accompanied with the regret that he was appointed from, and is a native of, New York.
The Southern Confederacy is making overtures to some of the best officers in the service, and tendering them lucrative offices.
Chas. Jones, late of the Register's Office, has left for the Southern capital, to take office there.
The large crowd at the State Department this morning was much disappointed at the absence of Secretary Seward, who is detained at home by sickness.
[second Dispatch.]
Colonel Lorenzo Thomas has been appointed Adjutant General in place of Col. Cooper.
Secretary Seward is quite unwell to-day.
No official i
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Republicans fighting among themselves. (search)
Ex-Gov. Floyd.
Washington, March 8.--Gov. Floyd has published a reply to the Committee's charges, relative to the Indian Trust Fund defalcation.
He says the acceptances were merely in anticipation of the earnings of Major Russell & Co., and that only $600,000 of them were outstanding, and if the Government will permit their work of the present year to offset these acceptances, that sum can be liquidated without touching the property of the firm now assigned.
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], National feeling. (search)
From the South.
New Orleans, March 8.--The Inaugural is generally regarded here as a declaration of war.
The Legislature has passed resolutions approving of the course of Gen. Twiggs.
Advices from Pensacola say Lieut. Slemmer is raising sand batteries east of Fort Pickens.
The batteries opposite Warrington are being continued.
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], An important letter. (search)
Later from Europe.
Portland, March 8.--The North Briton, with Liverpool dates to the 24th, has arrived.
Commercial.
Cotton dull — all qualities declined ¼d., but very irregular; the principal causes, extreme depression in trade, and want at Manchester, and high rates of interest.
The stock in port was 790,000 bales, of which 600,000 were American
Northern Markets.
Baltimore, March 8.--Flour has a declining tendency, and is quoted at 12 lower — Howard and Ohio $5; no sales.
Wheat steady — red $1.23@1.27; white $1.40@1.60, Corn active — yellow 59@61 Coffee firm at 12 ½@13 Whiskey lower, and quoted at 18 ½c.
New York, March 8.--Cotton quiet.
Flour heavy.
Wheat steady.
Corn quiet — mixed 58@67 ½c.; Southern white 70@75 Pork heavy — mess $17.06@17.12.
Lard firm at 9 ½@10 ¾c. Whiskey 17 ½@17 ½ c. Sugar heavy — Muscovado 4½@6 ¾0@1.60, Corn active — yellow 59@61 Coffee firm at 12 ½@13 Whiskey lower, and quoted at 18 ½c.
New York, March 8.--Cotton quiet.
Flour heavy.
Wheat steady.
Corn quiet — mixed 58@67 ½c.; Southern white 70@75 Pork heavy — mess $17.06@17.12.
Lard firm at 9 ½@10 ¾c. Whiskey 17 ½@17 ½ c. Sugar heavy — Muscovado 4½@6 ¾c. Coffee steady — sales of 3,000 bags of Rio, on private terms, at 12@12 ½c. Naval stores unchanged.--Stocks active and better-- N. Y.