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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.4 (search)
t, near Fort Hill, so-called from the remains of an old fort erected there in the days of the British General Braddock, and near the residence of Mr. Clark and his amiable Christian daughter, Mrs. Susan J----s. The latter sent us some appreciated delicacies, and made us a brief visit. I suffered much from my wound to-day. A party of Confederates, perhaps a hundred, marched by the office under guard on their way to some Northern prison. The sight was a painful one. September 21st Major Lambeth, Lieutenant W. H. Hearne, Sergeant Lines and Private Watkins, of the Fourteenth North Carolina, were brought to the office and quartered with us. Captain Frost, of the Fourth Georgia (from West Point, Georgia), died of his wounds in hospital. The ladies gave him much kind attention. September 22d Yankees are continually passing our door, and frequently stop to gaze curiously and impertinently at us, and ask rude, tantalizing questions. They do not wait to be invited in, but stalk
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
etween the supply and demand be maintained. The stand-pipe of the West Philadelphia Water Works, erected by Henry Howson in 1854, is a tube of boiler-iron 5 feet in diameter and 130 feet high, forming an ornamental column, with a base of cut stone and a spiral staircase terminating in a platform. The stand-pipes of the London Water Works are of the following hights:— New River84 to 145 feet. Chelsea85 to 135 feet. West Middlesex122 to 188 feet. Grand Junction100 to 151 feet. Lambeth135 feet. East London60 to 107 feet. Stand-pipe for steam-pump. Stand-pipe. The combined engine power is equal to 4,000 horses: delivery, 17,000,000,000 gallons annually. The horse-power is in excess; a reserve being kept. 8,500,000 gallons are raised by each horsepower annually, to hights varying from 60 to 188 feet; mean hight, 100 feet. Daily supply, 90 gallons per house. The New River Company supplies daily 700,000 persons with 40 gallons of water per head, at an expenditure
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 36: Outlook. (search)
o writing on the wall? The wounds inflicted on America by the civil war were fresh and bleeding, even before they were reopened by the grave events in New Orleans. The two sides seem as bitter as they were a month before the fall of Richmond. Cincinnati, where I write these words, is a great city, chief market of a Free State, looking across the Ohio river into the streets and squares of Covington, her sister of Kentucky. These cities lie as close together as Brooklyn and New York, as Lambeth and Westminster. They are connected by a bridge and by a dozen ferries. Trains and street cars cross the river night and day; the citizens buy and sell, dine and house, marry and live with each other, like neighbours and Christians; yet a plague like the Black Death has broken out between Covington and Cincinnati, and the fanatics on both sides of the Ohio river hate their neighbours with the dark and strained malignity which springs from no other source but fratricidal war. Not many min
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
o visit the Laboucheres. There were Mr. and Mrs. William Cooper and Lord and Lady Bagot. August 2. Sunday. Went to church in Gray's church; wandered about his churchyard; visited the monument of Lord Coke; in the afternoon drove to the chapel at Windsor, where was a choral service; called on the dean, Dr. Wellesley, who took us into the private grounds of the castle; drove by Eton back to Stoke, which we reached about eight o'clock. August 3. Returned to town; by appointment visited Lambeth, where I was shown over the palace by Rev. Mr. Thomas, the son-in-law of the Archbishop; attended House of Commons, where I heard Lord John Russell on the Jews again; dined with Mr. Adolphus, Adolphus and Ellis, the reporters, were each old friends of Sumner. Ante, vol. 1. p. 343; vol. II. pp. 64, 65, 373. and met there Mr. Macaulay, also Mr. Ellis; after dinner also Mr. Paull, Henry Paull. now member for St. Ives, who remembered meeting me at Berlin. August 4. Lunched at Argyll
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oldport days, with ten heliotype illustrations from views taken in Newport, R. I., expressly for this work., Oldport wharves. (search)
sently go spinning off into space and be called an asteroid. There are some people whom it would be pleasant to colonize in that way; but meanwhile the unchanged southern side of the pier seems pleasanter, with its boat-builders' shops, all facing sunward,--a cheerful haunt upon a winter's day. On the early maps this wharf appears as Queen-Hithe, a name more graceful than its present cognomen. Hithe or Hythe signifies a small harbor, and is the final syllable of many English names, as of Lambeth. Hythe is also one of those Cinque-Ports of which the Duke of Wellington was warden. This wharf was probably still familiarly called Queen-Hithe in 1781, when Washington and Rochambeau walked its length bareheaded between the ranks of French soldiers; and it doubtless bore that name when Dean Berkeley arrived in 1729, and the Rev. Mr. Honyman and all his flock closed hastily their prayer-books, and hastened to the landing to receive their guest. But it had lost this name ere the days, ye
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Twelfth Alabama Infantry, Confederate States Army. (search)
Clark. The office was on Main street, near Fort Hill, socalled from the remains of an old fort erected there in the days of the British General Braddock, and near the residence of Mr. Clark and his amiable daughter, Mrs. Susan P. Jones. Mrs. Jones sent us some delicacies, and made us a brief visit. I suffered much from my wound to-day. A party of Confederates, perhaps a hundred, marched by the office, under guard, on their way to some Northern prison. The sight was a painful one. Major Lambeth, Lieutenant W. H. Hearne, Sergeant Lines and private Watkins, of the 14th North Carolina, were brought to the office and quartered with us. Captain Frost, of the 4th Georgia, from West Point, Ga., died of his wounds in hospital. The ladies gave him the kindest attention. Yankees are continually passing our door, and frequently stop and gaze curiously and impertinently at us, and ask rude, tantalizing questions. They do not wait to be invited in, but stalk in noisily and roughly. Th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
th to age. Fifteen thousand families had been ruined for dissent since the restoration; five thousand persons had died victims to imprisonment. The monarch was persuaded to exercise his prerogative of mercy; and at Penn's intercession, not less that twelve 1686 hundred Friends were liberated from the horrible dungeons and prisons where many of them had languished hopelessly for years. Penn delighted in doing good. His house was thronged by swarms of clients, envoys from Massachusetts Lambeth Mss., communicated by Francis L. Hawks. among the number; and sometimes there were two hundred at once, claiming his disinterested good offices with the king. For Locke, then a voluntary exile, and the firm friend of intellectual freedom, he obtained a promise of immunity, Mackintosh, p. 289. Am. ed. refers to Clarkson. The original authority for the fact is Le Clerc, from whom it passed into the Biographia Britannica. which the blameless philosopher, in the just pride of innocence, r
The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
as at Buffalo. Delay will wear out excitement, or excitement will wear out itself. Let men act deliberately, in the fear of God, in the spirit of Jesus and his Apostles. Deliberate thought is conservative power; it produces discreet action. I am ready to go, if we can't get full redress and all our rights. If they won't come down, then, as readily as any man here, will I go and shake hands and meet them at the judgment. They wanted to push us to the wall. I have the blood of an American soldier in my veins, and won't suffer them to trample on me. Several other speakers occupied the time, until near the hour for adjournment. It was moved and carried, that hereafter a unanimous vote would be required to extend the time of a speaker. The City Station, Baltimore, was fixed upon as the place of the next session of the Conference. Rev. Messrs. More, Watson and Lambeth, of the Virginia Conference, were introduced to the Conference. Conference then adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
elected Captain. It numbers 80 men. This makes the fourth for the old Free State, as that county is called. A reliable gentleman, who left Manassas Junction yesterday, states that a Lincoln spy was captured at that place on the day before, trying to make his way through the lines for Alexandria. He had been to Harper's Ferry, and when captured, complete and accurate drawings of that post were found on his person. He was to have been shot yesterday morning at 11 o'clock. His name was Lambeth, and formerly a citizen of Alexandria. The Ladies' Aid Sewing Society are doing good service in this city. In addition to the large amount of work done gratuitously, they give work to hundreds of needy females whose protectors have gone to the wars. God bless the ladies ! what a world we would have without them ! This is the last day of grace under the old postal arrangements, and it would be well for all persons to note the fact that to-morrow they will have to dispense with th
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], European News (search)
To be sent away. --Geo. Snider, arrested some weeks since as a suspicious character, was carried before the Mayor, who directed that he should be sent to Baltimore the first favorable opportunity. Snider is a sadler by trade, and came here to work for King & Lambeth. Were he a reputable character, he could easily procure employment, for saddlers are in demand. His antecedents, however, are of the most objectionable kind. "Out West"--a prolific locality for all kinds of isms — he was earnestly, if not prominently, attached to that ism which has the prefix "Black Republican" before it. No doubt after getting to Baltimore Suider will migrate to Cincinnati, where he came from.
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