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The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Secession of the Southern Episcopalians. (search)
Decision in a Railroad case. Louisville, Ky., July 11. --The Court has decided against Brady and Davis, in the rail road case, that the Government has the right to stop the road.
The Daily Dispatch: July 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], $40 reward. (search)
ft it from its immovable roots. The South has entered upon the present struggle under great disadvantages, and our only wonder is, when we consider the disparity of numbers, gold, and all the equipments and appliances for a state of war in the possession of the Federal Government and in working order, that we have been able to hold a single foot of ground in Virginia. When we consider the state of things before General Lee assumed the control of affairs, and the mighty energies of President Davis were brought personally in this quarter to the support of the war, we stand amazed at the amount which has been accomplished in so brief an interval. There was a time when the Federal Government could have struck a blow at Richmond which would have involved almost irreparable injury to the cause in the South. But that time has passed by. Our rivers and estuaries, so long without a single battery for their protection, are now bristling with guns, which have beaten back the foe in every
The Daily Dispatch: July 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Crack Cavalry Company. (search)
h other, but are otherwise insignificant. Yet the considerable forces which, if the newspapers speak truly, are being brought up from the South, render it likely that some more important battle will follow. The falling back of the Southerners from Harper's Ferry, and the concentration of Northern troops at O are the chief pieces of military news brought by the last steamer. It is plain that the war will be a much longer affair than the sanguine patriots on either side have expected. President Davis will not plant his flag on Faneuil Hall, or even on the White House, and, on the other hand, if even Virginia is to be conquered and the debatable land of Kentucky secured, something more than a brilliant march will be required. Not that we doubt for a moment the great energy and the high military qualities of the Northern volunteers. From their habits of life and the general well being in which they have been brought up, the American youth are fine material for soldiers, and will
The Daily Dispatch: August 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Twenty-five dollars reward (search)
d the tenth Virginia, on our right, all abreast, charged bayonets up the height, and drove the enemy from the wood. When we reached the open field beyond, we opened upon their disordered and wavering ranks volleys of musketry. They turned and fled for their lives, throwing down their guns, knapsacks, and everything that would encumber their flight. The battle was fought and won. From that moment victory was ours. We drove the enemy from the field at every point. Immediately after the Battle, General Beauregard meeting with our gallant Colonel Elzey, (late a Captain in the U. S. A,) who commanded the 4th Brigade, said to him on the battle-field, 'Sir, you are the Brucher of the day, and have turned the tide of the battle.' On the same day, Col. Elzey was commissioned by President Davis Brigadier General." K. [Our correspondent appends an extract from a letter written by Captain Parker, a gallant young officer, bearing similar testimony. This was published yesterday.--Eps.]
The Daily Dispatch: August 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Confederate cause in Europe. (search)
verthrown the Constitution, not only in the South, but in the North. This the best publicists and reasoners of the country declare is no more than Franklin once asked in your contest with England and elsewhere than in Paris. Mr. Dudley Mann has had no difficulty in procuring material aid in the shape of money, arms of the most improved order, and cavalry and artillery experts of the highest stamp. From what I have personally seen and heard on this subject, I should not be surprised should Davis' Government loom up presently with a naval power that will astonish those who have been idle enough to suppose that the menaces of Mr. Seward in his dispatches and his envoys here would pass unnoted. In connection with the foregoing, we quote from the Washington correspondence of the Baltimore Sun: The London Times has arrived at the conclusion that the war must terminate in Southern independence. That independence may not, even if it exists de facto, terminate the war. It is cl
The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Varied life. (search)
Affairs in Kentucky. Louisville, Ky. Aug. 13. --Crittenden, Davis and others have left for Cras or Richard to persuade the Union men to break up the camp.
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Tennessee and Kentucky. (search)
The messenger it is true, in conversation said that he had heard in Nashville that Secretary Walker had sent a dispatch to Gen. Buckner, giving Gen Polk a discretion to hold or withdraw from the occupation of the post in Kentucky. The undersigned understood the messenger to say that he saw no dispatch of the kind just alluded to and that he heard of it after he last saw Gov. Harris. They have no further information on this subject. They have no knowledge or information that President Davis has issued any order in relation to the occupation of Kentucky, or any place in it. This note is written for the purpose of removing any false impressions that may have been made as to the nature or extent of the message received. The undersigned beg leave to express the hope that something yet may be done to avert the calamities of war which threatens the people of both States, and restore to them not only peace, but a sense of security at their firesides Very respectfully.
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Commander at Mason's Hill and his Aids — a deserter — the enemy's pickets want peace, and don't like to be shot. (search)
Hustings Court. --A called session of this court on yesterday examined John T. Smith, on the charge of felonionlay taking and carrying away a horse; and huggy belonging to Davis & Hutcheson. The court discharged him, the evidence indicating unlawful mischief rather than a theft.
The Daily Dispatch: September 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Terms of the Dispatch. (search)
r, we have little doubt that the act of Congress will cover property in Virginia amounting to thirty or forty millions of dollars. If the Sequestration fund in the other States at all corresponds with the amount of property covered by the act in Virginia, the total fund levied upon in the South must reach one or two hundred millions of dollars, probably much more. It is said that the news of our Sequestration act has produced a profound sensation at the North. The proclamation of President Davis calling for privateers, struck that people as a clap of thunder from a clear sky. The news of our Sequestration act shocks them like the upheaving of an earthquake. It is all the more alarming to them from the fact, that it was enacted in strict retaliation for the Confiscation Law of the Washington Congress.--That unwise body forgot the old adage cautioning the dwellers in glass houses against the imprudence of throwing stones. Not only was the Confiscation Law passed by the Northern
The Daily Dispatch: September 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], President Davis, (search)
President Davis, we are informed, was in his office yesterday, for the first time since his recent attack of illness. Vice-President Stephens, whom we saw in the street, seemed to be enjoying unusual health.
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