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The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Privateering — its history, law, and Usage. (search)
nment of the persons implicated. By the marine ordinance of France, of August, 1861, French subjects were prohibited from entering foreign private armed service without permission to the king, under penalty of being treated as pirates. Mexico, in her recent war with the United States, made great efforts to induce the citizens of other Governments to accept letters of marque against the commerce of the United States, but without avail. The President, in his message to Congress in 1846, after stating the efforts made by Mexico to induce citizens of other nations to accept letters of marque, says: "It will be for the courts of justice to decide whether these Mexican letters of marque shall protect those who accept them, and commit robberies upon the high seas under their authority, from the pains and penalties of piracy." The practice of nations has uniformly been to consider the line of demarcation between privateering and piracy as very slight, and the courts, i
The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], The failure of the French harvest. (search)
The failure of the French harvest. --Of the French harvest a correspondent of the London Review says, "it is one of the very worst the country has suffered for a long time,"and another writer adds:"The real truth is that the harvest is a bad one." He continues thus: "From information carefully collected in different provinces, the result appears to be: That for anything like a parallel to the present harvest, 'it would be necessary to revert at least to the year 1846!' whilst the majority of farmers declare this year to be considerably the worst of the two! That not only is the yield of the present year inferior as to quantity, but deplorably bad as to quality, the ear being small, light, withered, and dry. That the hard winter having done its work, many agriculturists sought a refuge by sowing in March, but she unnatural heats of June burn up all! The barley (which in certain localities means beer) is in the same state as wheat, and that oats, which promised
The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gun-shot wounds (search)
o know. At the present rate, the Yankee debt in nine years will amount to the sum of $4,320,000,000 and the interest thereon, at the same rate, will be $321,000,000--sums fully equal to the whole British debt, and the interest thereon, if they do not, indeed, exceed them. Indeed, we believe they do exceed them very largely; for the British debt bears, a portion of it, five percent, and another portion three, while the Yankees cannot fund their debt at less than seven and a half per cent. In 1846 the whole public debt of Great Britain was about £990,000,000 sterling, or $4,500,000,000 sterling — It was all funded at five per cent, and by the operation the body of the debt was reduced to about £600,000,000 sterling, or $3,000,000,000. We say that if the present war continue nine years the Yankees will be saddled with a debt reaching 4,320,000,000, and bearing an interest of $324,000,000. We make this assertion because we feel assured that at the end of every year their Government
The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Recruiting in California. (search)
hour the Cherokee regiment formed, leaving a large square, in which the Commissioner, Superintendent, and the Cherokee officials were seated. A Confederate flag was presented by the Cherokees to the Commissioner, which was followed by a speech by Gen. Pike to the Indians, and which was responded to by Mr. Ross. After which Mr. Ross approached Colonel Stand Watie, and offered his hand, assuring him of renewed friendship. Watie took his hand, and said to Mr. Ross, if he had done this in 1846, the Cherokees would now be a united people, but, that there now exists a party in the nation known as the pin party, and as long as they hold their political organization, there could be no peace. Mr. Ross assured Watie that he knew nothing of the party, and that he had nothing to do with it. After a little parley, matters were hushed up, and the Commissioner and the authorities proceeded to the arranging of preliminaries for the treaty. The above particulars were received from a person
The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], The blockading fleet off New Orleans — News direct from the enemy. (search)
s this, united with the squadron of France and Spain, or even without their assistance, can easily put down any opposition which Mexico can make. Nor do we believe that old Abe and all his Yankees can prevent the allies from doing exactly what they please. That he will use high language, talk loudly about the Monroe doctrine, bluster and threater, we do not doubt. But he can impose on nobody but the miserable Mexicans themselves, who well remembering the victories of the Southern troops in 1846 and '47, and supposing then to be so many Yankee triumphs, entertain the most exaggerated notions of Yankee power.--The Yankee Minister, Tom Corwin, has neglected no opportunity to heighten these impressions. He has been intriguing with the Mexican Government to induce them to claim the protection of King Abe, and he graciously accords it, on condition that Yankees troops be allowed to pass over Mexican territory for the purpose of invading Texas. A loan of fifteen million in the meantime h
The Daily Dispatch: November 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], The late Major-General J. C. Fremont. (search)
wo years on the bill of laden of a cargo of pickled beef he had formerly shipped from the Pacific to a firm in New York. These are among his minor adventures. We could relate hundreds of others, but forbear, as they might seem incredible to some of our readers. John Charles was at one time elected Governor of California by the settlers out there, who were not very well acquainted with him. Some other stranger also appointed him lieutenant-colonel in the United States Army. This was in 1846. The following year the Mexican war having broken out, he was promoted a step lower, and made a major of volunteers. The ending of the war has never been attributed to him. In 1847 Commodore Stockton and Gen. Kearny got to quarreling in California as to which of them should play the first fiddle in the government of the country. John haries took sides with the former, but the latter got the best of the row in the end, and at once ordered John Charles to Washington, to be tried for mutiny,
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
r it was ever occupied. I cannot say. After the war, new and better harbors were discovered, new towns built and new channels for foreign trade opened. Capital will go wherever there is a chance for investment, and the wealthy traders of Dumfries, closed their shops, and, taking up their Penates, bid farewell to the old town. After this, disaster followed disaster. The houses were deserted, and soon went to ruin; the stores were labelled "to let," and followed fast in the same way. In 1846 or '47 there was a large fire which destroyed all the lower portion of the town, and time and neglect has nearly carried away the upper. The once busy town has become a ruined burg; the elegant Dumfries about as sorry a place as any one cares to see. Of its present appearance I will try and give some idea in my next, but my candle admonishes me to draw this letter to a close.--Candles are scarce, at 20 cents a piece, and good old Georgia light wood and fat pine splits cannot be found in
The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], A South Carolina traitor. (search)
e poor are doomed to suffer during the ensuing five months; and unless remedial measures be speedily procured, fever and dysentery, created by damp and cold, will spread to an alarming extent among them. Opinions of the Press. [From the London News,Nov. 7.] A considerable portion of Ireland is again threatened with famine. From the mouth of the Foyle to the broad estuary of the Shannon the failure of the potato crop is said to be more general and complete than in any year since 1846. For several seasons after that calamitous era the smaller landholders showed their distrust of the unreliable root; and the reappearance of the disease, though in a modified form, was calculated to check any premature return to the old dependence upon it as a main article of food. Great pains were taken meanwhile to encourage the cultivation of turning mangold, flax, and other green crops. The vast decrease in the laboring population rendered the temptation to plant the prolific potato le
The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Ruins of Hampton village. (search)
es lying around in the ashes. Each house had its well of pure water, bricked up to the surface; these are now about half filled with dirty water and rubbish, and as they are mostly covered up with ruins, one is as apt to step into as over them; so, should any other person visit Hampton, Virginia, we would advise them to be as careful of these wells as they are told to be of the lizards that infest the ruins of Jerusalem and Nineveh. The Baptist Church is in ruins, although only built in 1846. It must have been quite a spacious edifice for a country town. It has a graveyard, but the gravestones are of modern make, and our "Old Mortality," did not linger long. Almost in the centre of what was once Hampton are the ruins of the Episcopal Church of "Elizabeth City" county. If, in the scene of desolation, there is any one object more prominent than its associates, it is this relic. The walls yet remain, but the interior is a blackened mass of rubbish. The owl and the bat may
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], List of the General officers in the armies of the Confederate States. (search)
ss of 1839--Alex. R. Lawton, John P. McCown. Class of 1840--Richard S. Ewell, Paul O. Habert, Richard B, Garnett. Class of 1841--Robert S. Garnett, Samuel Jones. Class of 1842--Earl Van Dorn, Gustavus W, Smith, Mansfield Lovell, James Long street, Daniel H, Hill, Richard H. Anderson, Lafayette McLaws, Alex. P. Stewart, Class of 1843--Roswell S. Ripley, Samuel G. French. Class of 1844--Simon B, Buckner. Class of 1845--E Kirby Smith, Bernard E. Bee, Wm. B. C. Whiting. Class of 1846--Thomas J. Jackson, Cadmus M. Wilcox, David R. Jones, Wm. M. Gardner. Class of 1848--Nathan G. Evans. Class of 1854--J. E. B. Stuart. Generals who were not graduates at West Point. The following Generals were appointed to the old United States Army, without passing through the West Point Academy; David E, Twiggs, appointed in 1812; Wm. W. Loring, in 1836; Thos, T. Fauntleroy, in 1836. The following Generals first saw, service in the Mexican war; M. L. Bonham, Henry R. Jacks
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