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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
nce seeing you, a month or two ago, I have been spending a large portion of my time in the "City of Oaks," and an interesting time we have had of it. The Convention, as you are aware, has now been in session just one month, and have agreed to adjourn on next Wednesday. A larger amount of business, considering its momentous character, has never before been transacted in the same space of time by any deliberative body.--A Convention composed of such men as Ruffin and Badger, Graham and Biggs, Brown and Satterthwaite, Reid and Gilmer, and Ashe and Gerrell, Osborn and Dick, Craig and Kittrell, Melane and Howard, Houston and Jones, Mares and Venable, and the President of the body, with scores of others but little less intellectual, could not be expected to permit any question of magnitude to be disposed of until it had been thoroughly discussed; and this has been done with an ability that I have never known excelled. This will account, and more than compensate, for any apparent delay in
The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
, No. 2, 108 feet span; Buffalo Creek, No. 3, 156 feet span; Martinsburg, 200 feet span; Harper's Ferry, 1,050. Total, 2,156 ft. Fort Pickens. The correspondent of the New York Times, writing from on board the Niagara, May 27, off Fort Pickens, says: I cannot understand why the Government have allowed these batteries to be erected; for nearly the sweep of half a circle they have been planted, and any of them can reach the fort and do much damage. The enemy is reported to Colonel Brown, commanding the Department of Florida, at about 8,000 to 10,000 strong. Another "Criminal blunder." The Philadelphia North American--one of the leading military journals of the United States--thus treats of the affair at Vienna: It is not a little irritating to find that our troops in Virginia have fallen into another of those assassin-planned traps in which the chivalry of Secession rejoice. After the folly and disaster at Bethel, it is amazing that any commander should
The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Scarcity of cotton and the blockade. (search)
committed to the Jail of this county, on the 24th day of April, as a runaway, a Negro calling himself Davy Wheeler, who says he is free and from Lunenburg county. Said Negro is 5 feet 4½ inches high; about 55 years old; a dark brown color, and complains of his right knee being stiff. He will be dealt with according to law. Brown & Tyree, Jailors, je 19--2w* Chesterfield county, Va.,