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The Daily Dispatch: April 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Virginia tax bill. (search)
Sale of the St. Charles hotel. --This well-known hotel, which is eligibly situated on Main street, was sold yesterday, at public vendue, by Goddin & Appearson, to Spotis, Harvey & Williams, for $79,000. It was purchased as an investment. The original cost of the hotel was a trifle over $82,000.
The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
Supreme Court of Appeals. --The following decisions were rendered last week in cases pending before this Court. Present: John J. Allen, William Daniel, Richard C. L. Moncure, and Wm J. Robertson, Esqs., Judges: Palmore, &c., vs Redd's administrator and others. Appeal from decree pronounced by the Circuit. Court of the city of Richmond.--Myers, Howard & Sands, for the appellants; August & Randolph, Macfarland & Roberis, and Steger & Johnston, for the appellees. Decree reversed. Harvey vs. Skipwith. Upon writ of supersedeas to a judgment recovered by the defendants vs. the plaintiffs in the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond, June 31, 1859. Howard & Sands for the appellants; Crump, Wellford, August & Randolph, and Morson, for the appellees. Judgment affirmed.
The Daily Dispatch: May 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Yankee depredations in Mathews county. (search)
id not leave provisions sufficient to subsist the family for one week. They took from the person of a gentleman a fine gold watch, and on his complaining to the commanding officer, he was told that if he could point out the man who had the watch it should be returned. The guilty party was at once designated, but by the officer, who was as great a thief as himself, was permitted to lie out of the scrape, and retain the watch. They extended their raid into Middlesex, where they captured Lieut. Harvey, who was at home on furlough. About the same time a body of cavalry from Hooker's command, numbering some 600, went down into the Northern Neck, and plundered the citizens of Northumberland, Lancaster, and Westmoreland, stealing and destroying everything in their route. The people are very much discouraged by these repeated outrages, and are clamorous for protection. They think that a few hundred Confederate cavalry would effectually shield them from these plunderers. On Thur
The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
rning, a company of colored men, under the following officers: Capt. Wm. Babe, 1st Lt. Wm. Elliott, 2d Lt. Thos. Moore, received orders for army equipments and transportation. They left in the afternoon. The 1st regiment Washington Brigade, commanded by Col. Wm. F. Small, had 500 names reported in the morning. A battery had also been formed by the sailors at the Navy- Yard, and their guns were shipped yesterday to Harrisburg. The First Ward is also raising a company to be commanded by Capt. Harvey. The 1st regiment of Grey Reserves will probably leave to-day. This regiment is commanded by Col. Chas. Smith. Col. Wm. B. Mann, District Attorney, was very successful; he opened a recruiting station in the morning and by noon his company was full and accepted by Col. Ruff. They left yesterday afternoon for Harrisburg. At the custom-house the most active preparations were being made. A table for recruiting purposes was placed in the middle of the spacious hall, also on the f
The Daily Dispatch: July 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Yankees and the British. (search)
City council --Monthly Meeting, July 11th; present a quorum.--A petition was presented by Mr. Harvey, President of the Danville Railroad, asking that the road should be extended up Virginia street. Also, a remonstrance against the same by J. Johns, Medical Purveyor, and other Government officials. Referred to the Commissioner of Streets. A petition from J. G. Griswold, former Captain of Company D, 1st Va. Regiment, asking to be relieved from liability for $375, contracted for his company, was presented and referred to the Committee on Arms. Mr. Crutchfield, by leave, introduced a bill concerning the weighing of long forage in the Second Market. Referred to the Committee on Markets. Adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: July 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
r from being indifferent !" This is almost as cruel blood letting as that in the pamphlet already referred to, which objected to Mr. Seward's informing Minister Adams, last July, that the "last obstacle to the navigation of the Mississippi had been overcome, and that it was open to trade once more from Prince Rupert's Land" (!) (which is a thousand miles north of its sources) "to the head-waters of the Mississippi;" or that which maliciously suggested that Mr. Seward, in stating to Minister Harvey that "Portugal, in the age of Camoens," brought slavery into this continent, had forgotten that Camoens died in Lisbon in 1579, about half a century before the Portuguese traffic in slaves began on this hemisphere. Intercepted Correspondence. The Chattanooga Rebel publishes a letter from the Colonel Gilbert who broke up the Democratic Convention at Frankfort, Ky., a brother of Gen. Gilbert, of the Yankee army, with whom he is often confounded. The letter was part of the mail
The Daily Dispatch: November 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
The Manchester Paper Mill, which, by the enterprise and energy of Messrs. Harvey and Waterhouse, have been constructed under every disadvantage within the past twelve months, commenced operations yesterday. This mill will partially supply the great scarcity of printing paper, and thus enable the newspapers to enlarge their circulation. We wish the proprietors the greatest success.
The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], Recapture of Negroes. (search)
Recapture of Negroes. --Some twenty-three negroes, found in arms on the river plantation of President Davis, at Hurricane, thirty miles below Vicksburg, arrived in Meridian Tuesday morning. Ten of them are the property of the President, and six belonged to his brother. They were captured by a squadron of Wirt Adams's cavalry, under command of Lieut. Harvey. The negroes fired on our troops when they approached, but fortunately inflicted no injury. What disposition will be made of them is not yet known.--Jackson Mississippian.
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Mischievous story contradicted. (search)
The cage. --The following parties were received at the cage yesterday: Beverly, slave of Hardgrove & Co., charged with having a hog not his own, and believed to have been stolen; Daniel Ryan, a white man, charged with receiving one piece of yarn cloth of the value of $300, the property of John B Harvey; Wm. H. Robertson, charged with intent to break the peace by being engaged in a duel with W. O. McCorkle.
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
Present for Gen. Morgan. --We yesterday saw at the shoe store of Messrs. Harvey, Hellings &Co., on Main street, between 12th and 13th, a most superbly finished pair of full cavalry boots, which are intended as a present from the enterprising proprietors, for Gen. John H. Morgan. In point of material and workmanship these boots cannot be excelled.
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