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The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], The funeral of Mrs. Rose Greenhow. (search)
Trading in greenbacks. --Two citizens of Louisa county, Virginia, named Andrew Jackson and B. A. Benson, were carried before Confederate States Commissioner Sands yesterday morning to answer the charge of trading in greenbacks. The case was partially examined and then continued till this morning. It appears that a Confederr, as provided by law, to purchase greenbacks, applied for some to an Israelite on Main street; but he having none himself for sale, the applicant was referred to Jackson and Benson, who were at the moment in the act of leaving the store. The Government agent applied to them as directed; but the price asked being too high, no bargain was made. In a short time afterwards, the fact that Jackson and Benson were trying to dispose of greenbacks became known to the detectives, and they were arrested. By an act of Congress, the Secretary of War is authorized to purchase Federal green backs; but as that same body has passed a law making it a penal offence in any
The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1865., [Electronic resource], Sale of Autographs. (search)
Sale of Autographs. --At an antiquarian sale in Washington city, an autograph letter of Lafayette to Mr. Madison was sold for $16.50; the signature of Napoleon Bonaparte brought $8.50; a letter from William Henry Harrison brought $5.50; John Hancock's autograph, $6.50; Von Humboldt's autograph, $4.75; a letter from Andrew Jackson, $6; a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, $9; Thomas Jefferson's address to the Tammany Society, $5.50; the autograph of Toussaint L'Ouverture, $5.50.
The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
" (a copy by John Gott) was utterly ruined, crushed to pieces and burned to lime. The books and records in the Regent's room, over the south door of the building, including the effects of the founder of the building, Jas. Smith son, consisting of silver plate, the library of Bishop Johns, of Virginia, and the Beaufort, South Carolina, library, placed in the institution by the Governor for safe keeping, were totally destroyed. The sarcophagus brought from Syria by Commodore Elliot for President Jackson was damaged. The large collection presented to the Institute by Dr. Robert Hare, of Philadelphia, was mostly destroyed. Some that was got out was broken, and many of the pieces are missing. In the offices over the north front entrance, with but little exception, all the correspondence of the institution and a large number of back reports were burned. The east wing was not in the least injured, although the staircase leading from the professors' apartments to the apparatus-room was
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Arrests. (search)
Arrests. --At the lower station-house, on Saturday, the following arrests were reported, and some others which were examined before the Mayor, a detail of which will be found in the proceedings of that tribunal: Andrew Jackson, a negro, for stealing ten dollars from John Perrin: James McFee, a member of the Eleventh United States Infantry, for representing himself to be a policeman and being concerned in the robbery of John Perrin; Armistead Robinson, a negro, for stealing merchandise from Mitteldorfer & Sons; Charles Wilson, of the Eleventh United States Infantry, for being drunk and disorderly in the house of Belle Somers; Sarah Stevens, for disorderly conduct in the street and threatening to shoot Sarah Smith; Lewis Ranson, a negro, for stealing shoes from Morris & Hess; Charles Copeland, a negro, for carrying fire-arms; Isaac Brown, a negro, for discharging a gun in the market; George Williams, a negro, for carrying concealed weapons; H. R. Allen, citizen, for assaulting and
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
The Ladies Fair at Union Station is still in progress. We are requested to remind our readers that, on Christmas day, the beautiful paintings, representing two of the most celebrated scenes in the lives of Generals Lee and Jackson, will be raffled off, and that but fifteen chances remain to be disposed of. These are said to be very desirable works of art, and such as would prove valuable and lasting mementoes of the great battles whose scenes are thereby illustrated.
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1865., [Electronic resource], Southern Baptist Convention. (search)
tice. Such people as Wilson and Sumner and Thad. Stevens are flies in the Union cream-pot. Prentice. The Indiana Republican Convention will be held on the 22d, and the Democratic Convention on March 1st. Some Americans have recently constructed a telegraph across the Andes, to connect various cities of Columbia, South America. The Dominican Republic is in a sad condition. Completely desolated by the recent Spanish invasion, the people are almost destitute. The Mississippi Senate has adopted a resolution for the erection of a monument at Jackson in memory of the rebel dead. The Mississippi river levees are soon to be rebuilt by military authority. A marble statue of Andrew Jackson is to be erected at Nashville. The Indiana Legislature, before adjourning, passed resolutions in favor of hanging Jeff. Davis. Maine is expected to cut two hundred million feet of logs this season. Hon. James A. Bayard sailed for Europe about a week since.
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