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The Daily Dispatch: June 19, 1863., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Great Britain and Ireland. (search)
Great Britain and Ireland. --The census of Great Britain and Ireland for 1861, recently published, shows the population of the cities and towns, containing above 80,000 inhabitants, to be as follows: London 2,803,989; Liverpool and Birkenhead 495,587; Manchester and Salford 460,423; Glasgow 394,864; Birmingham 296,076; Dublin 258,328; Leeds, 207,165; Sheffield 285,172; Edinburg 168,121; Bristol 154,093; Wolverhampton 147,676; Plymouth and Davenport 127,382; Newcastle 109,108; Bradford 106,218; Cork 101,534; Stoke 101,207; Hull 97,661; Portsmouth 94,799; Oldham 93,344; Dundee 90,417; Brighton 87,317; Sunderland 85,797; Merthyr Tydvil 83,875; Preston 83,985. No country in the world, out of Asia, contains so many large cities as the British Isles.
The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
n specie, attributable no doubt, to a want of demand for the article for blockade running purposes. The brokers are paying $20 for gold, and selling it at $22. The buying rates of silver may be quoted at $19 and selling at $21. Bank Notes--There is no difference in the prices paid and asked for the Bank Notes of the different Southern States. They are bought at $3.00 and sold at $3.50. Stocks and Bonds.--A heavy sale of stocks and bonds took place yesterday at the office of Messrs. Davenport & Co., Stock Auctioneers. We have been furnished with the following quotations: Confederate 8 per cent. coupons, 68, 103 ½ to 104 ½ do., 78, 113 ½ to 114 ½; do., 77 to 81, 112; 15 m. coupon bonds, 131 ½ to 139; 8 per cent. registered, 100 m. loan, 68 103 ½ 8 per cent convertibles, 104 to 107; cotton loan bonds, 188 ½ to 190, 7 per cent coupons, 100 to 101; 7 per cent. registered, 98; 6 per cent. coupons, 97; 7.30 interest notes, 104 ½ to 105 State Stocks and Bank Notes.--Va., 6
The Daily Dispatch: May 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], A Remarkable Exhibition in New York. (search)
The Fire Marshal then tried the same experiment and made the same report. All of the manifestations were repeated several times, to satisfy the most distrustful. It was especially noted that in every case the inside bolt of the centre door was heard to shoot into its socket in less than a second after the door was closed. This destroyed the theory that the Davenports untie themselves. By way of finale Mr. Lacy suggested that wheat flour should be placed in the hands of the Messrs. Davenport while they were still tightly tied. This was accordingly done by the committee, and any of the flour that had fallen within the box during the operation was neatly brushed away. The doors were then closed for the last time, and still the manifestations continued. Noises were heard; an open hand was shown at the window, and the trumpet was thrown out. The doors were opened and there stood the Davenport brothers, unbound and holding the wheat flour in their hands. The committee failed to
The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
n the English navy. It was through his determined conduct that the vessel was sacrificed. A signal officer was likewise captured, and it is stated that he accompanies every blockade runner. I learn that there are upwards of fifty vessels on the Clyde designed to run the blockade, and upwards of twenty at Bermuda. There is a large side wheel steamer now fitting out as a privateer at Bermuda. She left England as a blockade runner, and has since mounted ten guns. She is represented to be very fast. There is a plan on foot for this vessel, the Florida, and some one or two others of like character, to meet at some point on the coast and endeavor to drive away or destroy our blockading fleets. The rums at Wilmington are designed to co-operate. Commander Davenport, in charge for some time past of the naval flotilla about Newbern, has been relieved from this post and ordered to the Pacific. He originally came out with the Burnside expedition, but has done good service.
The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
on to the action of the Government of Salvador in regard to the rebel pirates Bradshaw and Reynolds, arrested at San Salvador on suspicion of being emissaries of ex-President Barrios, but discharged on their declaration that they were in the employ of the Confederate States, and only there for the purpose of destroying and injuring, as far as possible, American commerce in the Pacific. He says: "I judge that the authorities of these Central American ports would gladly give them up to Commander Davenport, as their plan was to capture the very steamers so useful to them for commercial purposes and the accommodation of passengers; but the cool announcement that the pirates had but to inform the authorities that the sole object of their visit was the destruction of American commerce in order to obtain from them, in effect, free passes to do as they pleased, has somewhat changed the aspect of affairs in this particular." New naval vessels will soon be at Panama and in the Pacific, to repl
The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
itution, but the people of Kentucky from an unnecessary burden in its accomplishment, and declares that Kentucky has furnished nearly seventy-six thousand soldiers to the United States army. Another telegram, dated Louisville, Kentucky, the 7th, says: J. Walker Taylor's rebel forces occupied Owensborough until Friday, conscripting citizens and firing upon steamers, when they left. The New Albany Ledger says that rebel guerrillas have possession of Owensborough, Hawesville, Davenport and Henderson. The Lebanon train was captured by a band of Magruder's guerrillas, near Lebanon junction, yesterday afternoon.--The passengers were robbed and the cars burned. The rebels brutally murdered four discharged soldiers of the Fifteenth Kentucky. Taylor has established his headquarters at Hawesville, and the citizens are fleeing across the Ohio to avoid conscription. A Card from Brigadier-General page. We find the following addressed to the editor of the New Y
The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], The Army of Tennessee. (search)
retary of War, and that the Senate on yesterday confirmed the appointment. Mr. Seddon was still at his post last night. Mr. Wigfall, yesterday, introduced in the Confederate Senate a resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the expediency of abolishing all laws authorizing impressment except by military officers in cases of absolute necessity; and of paying market price for all property impressed by the military. The resolution is based upon the belief that there is an abundance in the country for the uses of the armies, but that it can only be made available by the Government entering the market and paying a fair value for what it purchases. Gold sold yesterday at Davenport & Co.'s auction at forty seven--at the same time could be bought, and was bought, privately at forty five. Some of the knowing ones made a good thing by buying privately and selling at the auction. There is a report that Mr. Blair will be in this city again in a few days.
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Compliment to an Actress. (search)
Compliment to an Actress. --Mrs. General Lander (Miss Davenport) was highly complimented on Friday, in the House of Representatives, for, while every other private bill was "blocked" by the "objection" of five Representatives, no obstacle was placed in the way of the passage of a bill providing for the payment of a very just claim for the expenses of her deceased husband while making one of his wagon-road explorations for Government in the far Western wilderness. Mrs. Lander is now performing at one of the New York theatres.
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Charge of attempted Incendiarism. (search)
house, and on going in, found that an attempt had been made to set it on fire. A barrel of whisky was running, and several pieces of candles were found cut and lighted, with pieces of paper attached, and in such a position as to set fire to the whisky, which was "spreading itself" about the floor. No person was seen about the establishment, and yesterday morning about 4 o'clock Mr. Edwards was arrested at his residence on the charge of setting fire to the store, and taken to the cage. The store was insured in the New York Insurance Company, of which Mr. Davenport is agent. Edwards hails from Norfolk, where he was a merchant, and in "Confederate times" was connected with the ordnance department in this city, with the rank of captain. If it should be proved that he attempted to set fire to the store, it will be shown that his object was to obtain the amount of the insurance. Edwards is fifty-three years old. He was admitted to bail for his appearance at the Mayor's Court to-day.
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