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The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1860., [Electronic resource], The mails by the Africa. (search)
The mails by the Africa. The steamship Africa arrived at New York Friday, having left Liverpool on the 10th and Queenstown on the 11th inst. Her mails contain nothing very important not contained in the telegraphic summary. We subjoin some items: The Prince of Wales had not arrived when the Africa left Queenstown. A prospectus had been issued of a Cotton Company, with a strong Manchester Board of Directors, the principal object being to develop the Dharwar cotton fields, in the Bombay Presidency. The capital of the company is fixed at £100,000. The funeral of the Earl of Dundonald had been fixed to take place on the 14th inst. at Westminster Abbey. The projected visit of volunteers to Paris was meeting with so much ridicule and opposition that there was little chance of the scheme being carried out. The usual Mayoralty elections throughout England took place on the 9th inst. At Liverpool the choice fell upon Mr. S. R. Graves. Alderman Wire, ex-Lord May
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fearful tornado. (search)
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Texas calls for one thousand slave laborers to work on the road. They will either purchase or hire. The schooner Annie J. Russell, from City Point, Va., with tobacco, &c., reached New York on Thursday. A regiment of Vermonters arrived in New York Friday, on route for Fortress Monroe. Lieut. Jones, the Hero of Harper's Ferry, has been appointed Assistant Quartermaster General. Paymaster Rhett, of the U. S. army, has resigned. Major Anderson and Mrs. Lincoln have gone to New York.
The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
Late Northern news. The Northern papers, of the 21st do not furnish much news in addition to that already published by telegraph. Gen. McClellan was in New York Friday, the 20th, but would not appear to address the crowds "clamorous to greet him." Gold in New York Friday was 130 . The Herald on a speedy advance. The New York Herald says the people of the loyal States of the Union, as manifested in the late elections, demand an active prosecution of this war East and West. They expect it, too, from the promises held out by the Government, from its vast preparations made and its formidable aggressive movements afoot by land and sea. Particularly in reference to the grand Army of the Potomac! this belief of a forward movement entertained, regardless of the snows, rains, frosts, and thaws of a Virginia winter. The pressing necessities no less than the present advantages of the Government forbid the idea that three or four months are to be wasted in winter quarters. It co
The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the border. (search)
the 10th, collided with another, but he escaped uninjured. [A man born to be hanged will never be killed by an accident.] The steamer St. Louis had sailed from San Francisco with three hundred thousand dollars for New York, and five hundred and eighty thousand dollars for England. W. A. Richardson has been nominated for United States Senator from Illinois. A dispatch from Memphis, dated the 9th, say McClernand supercedes Shorman. The ship George Griswold sailed from New York Friday, with forty thousand dollars' worth of provisions and sixty-eight thousand dollars in money for the suffering operatives in England. The Washington Chronicle says the election of Seymour was an act of rank treason, and gave aid and comfort to Jeff. Davis, that the men who nominated him are traitors, and all, with their leader, guilty of treason. The Herald says telegraphic communication between Memphis and Vicksburg is complete. The Herald says that it is rumored that the
The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], General Lee's (search)
n of, as the citizens had fired on our troops. The stores were opened, and sometimes the Confederates paid for goods with Confederate money, and sometimes they — didn't. Miscellaneous. Commander Henry A. Wise has been appointed Acting Chief of the Ordnance Bureau at Washington. The property of Mrs. Mary E. Dandridge, (formerly Mrs. W. W. S. Bliss,) a daughter of Gen. Zachary Taylor, has been confiscated at Detroit, Michigan. Rear Admiral A. H. Foot, U. S. N., died in New York Friday. He was a genuine Yankee, from New Haven, Conn. A pile of the tabooed papers--New York World, Chicago Times, and quire--were burnt in the streets of Leavenworth, Kansas, on the 19th. A band of music was on hand. The merchants of Boston offered a reward of $10,000 for the capture of the Tacony. The invasion of Pennsylvania has put coal up $1 per ton. T. P. Redfield has been nominated by the Democratic State Convention of New Hampshire for Governor. The Alabama
The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], The law in relation to Substitutes (search)
Gen. Banks's Chief Quartermaster is endeavoring to charter or purchase light draught sailing vessels not to draw over five to eight feet when loaded. The steamship Western Metropolis has arrived at New Orleans, having on board the first battalion Third Rhode Island cavalry. She had a rough passage, during which fourteen horses died. Late from Nassau — the harbor full of blockade runners — the Yankee Fleet Inoperative at Wilmington. The British steamship Corsica arrived at New York Friday, from Havana 16th, Via Nassau, 18th. By this arrival we learn from the Nassau Guardian that the steamers Alice, Wild Dayrell, Hercine, Pet, and Despatch--the latter commanded by the noted Capt, Coxetter, arrived from Wilmington previous to the 16th, and that, with the exception of the Despatch, they had sailed again for Wilmington. The Nassau correspondent of the New York World, writing on the 17th, says: There is, perhaps, no place throughout the world where an American--one wh