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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 31 (search)
only one volley before he fled. Darkness coming on, the pursuit was discontinued. In this short space of time we drove the enemy before us about two miles, and from three breastworks and two abatis. We captured a considerable number of prisoners. Captain W. T. Renfro, commanding the right wing of the Fifth Alabama, after Colonel Hobson had been wounded, brought in two hundred and twenty-five, and Colonel Lightfoot, of the Sixth Alabama, one hundred and five. Among the prisoners was Colonel Packer, Fifth Connecticut, and several other officers. We captured three pieces of artillery, and part of a fourth piece, which was claimed by another brigade. We also captured a lot of ammunition and a quantity of small arms. The Third Alabama captured and have now in possession two stands of Federal artillery colors, and the Sixth Alabama captured one battery flag. Being with the brigade throughout this brilliant charge, I can personally bear witness to the gallant bearing of the officers
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
h flour. It is usually a follower or piston which presses upon the flour, but in some cases the flour as it falls into the barrel is continuously packed by a spiral, as in the example. The barrel is placed on a platform suspended by a steelyard and by a weighted cord passing over a pulley. The steelyard takes under and clamps another pulley attached to the former one, driving it against a block above. On sufficient deposit of flour the steelyard is depressed, the roller freed Flour-Packer. from the upper brake, and the barrel of flour descends. Flour-sift′er. A domestic sieve for separating lumps or accidental trash, such as insects, from the flour of the bin or barrel. As a substitute for the hands, a flat coil of silvered wire is adapted to vibrate over the meshes of the sieve and expel the flour. Flour-sifter. Branching-machine for artificial flowers. Flow′ers, Arti-fi′cial. Ornaments simulating the natural products of the garden; made from wire, gauze,<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
ingham's mode of furling sails by rolling the yard. The latter lies in the bight of the chain, and is rolled as it is raised or lowered, the yard-arms resting in hoops slung from the lifts. Parbuckle. Par′cel. （Nautical.) A wrapping of tarred canvas on a rope to prevent chafing. It is cut in long, narrow strips, well tarred, and made up into rolls before commencing to lay it on the rope. Usually, the rope is wormed, then parceled, and then served. See under those heads. Wool-Packer. Par′cel-ing-ma-chine′. 1. A press in which yarn, cloth, or wool, etc., is bundled up compactly for tying. See bundling-press, page 405; fleece-Tyer; Woolpacker, etc. The example is a machine for bundling and tying fleeces. The fleece is laid upon the table, the slotted belt brought over it and attached to the treadle-lever, whose depression draws the belt and brings up the twine-carrying fingers through the slots in the belt and over the fleece. 2. A machine in which strips
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
me perfectly blanched. Then they are left two or three days in a drying-room heated by steam, are trimmed, if necessary, in a lathe, and are finally papered for market. The trimmings, the draining from the molds, etc., are saved for the manufacture of inferior grades of sugar. The old method of employing molds takes a longer time and is more expensive than the centrifugal process, and is gradually being superseded by the latter as the taste for loaf-sugars declines. Sugar-mill. Sugar-Packer. Sug′ar-pack′er. A machine for packing sugar in barrels. In the example, the barrel to contain the sugar rests in a cavity in the platform, and by means of a forked bar with a screw clamp on each fork end, the upper rim of the barrel, with the filling bag, is tightly clamped, while the single opposite end of the forked bar is fitted to a crank, from which it receives and imparts to the barrel a reciprocating motion. Sug′ar-pan. See evaporator; sugar-fur-Nace; sugar-machinery<
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Our pioneer educators. (search)
and main spring of that first of American schools for young women. And her reward was not long delayed It came in the triumph of her own school. It came in the increased stimulus she had given to the cause of woman's education. It came in the readier facilities accorded to young women in our collegiate institutions; and still more signally in those large institutions expressly for women which her success had made possible. We can now readily see how much South Hadley, Oberlin, Antioch, Packer, and Vassar are indebted to her pioneer work. While achieving this success at home, she had not been unmindful of the claims of woman abroad. In 1830 she had sought abroad the rest and health which her home duties required, and the relief from her professional work gave her the opportunity to examine the educational condition of women in other lands Her womanly heart was touched with the report which came to her of the degraded condition of woman in classic Greece, and on her return she
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
it; nor will he recede from or change his present policy. Great rejoicing is manifested by the Union men in this city that a commission is about to be appointed by Pennsylvania to meet the Virginia Commissioners in this city, and that ex-Governor Packer has consented to act as one. Before this commission starts for Washington, it is absolutely essential that the Legislature of Pennsylvania should comply with that portion of Gov. Curtin's Message and that part of Gov. Packer's valedictory,Gov. Packer's valedictory, in which the repeal of all laws which, by implication, may be construed to interfere with the Fugitive Slave law is recommended. Gov. Seward has taken the initiative, with other prominent gentlemen, in getting up a grand Inauguration Ball, at which men of all sections can join, and dance "all hands round." Bills are being prepared by the Military and Naval Committees of the House, and by the Committee of Ways and Means, for immediately placing the country upon a war footing.--The Pre
The Daily Dispatch: December 06, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
The John Brown meeting in Boston,its breaking up. The breaking up of a meeting in Boston, on the 3rd inst., held in memory of John Brown, has been noticed in our telegraphic dispatches. A negro named J. Sella Martin was chosen chairman of the meeting, and symptoms of a row immediately followed. The Express says: A call for a committee of one hundred to preserve order was received with hisses. Three cheers were given for Gov. Packer of Pennsylvania, and his letter to the Committee was called for. Mr. Sanborn appealed to the audience to keep order, and was replied to with hisses and groans, interspersed with cheers for the Constitution. The Chief of Police was present with a force, but made only a temporary lull of the storm. Martin commenced a speech, which was broken up with the noise, on which he laid all the blame of existing political troubles upon the conservatism of the cities, and States and Wall streets. The committee came in with an organization
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1860., [Electronic resource], Washington, Dec. 25th, 1860. (search)
in the Union, only excepting that of New York.--The great counties of Berks, and Montgomery, and Lancaster, and Northampton — Lancaster alone exhibiting a population of one hundred and sixteen thousand--would swell this force into an army more powerful than all the Southern States combined could put into the field. These, with the fighting men of the other counties of the States, properly roused and officered, could soon be made ready for any call on the part of the proper authorities. Gov. Packer, always keenly alive to the honor of his country, should act in the present exigency with unusual promptitude." Does this encourage delay on the part of Virginia? Is she scared? Then, for the comfort of her timidity. I give the reply of the Philadelphia Pennsylvanian to Forney's threat of war. The editor says: "We desire to say in the most emphatic language to this epistolary 'dog of war. ' 'Occasional.' that we do not intend to have the Abolitionists for masters at any ti
The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Methodist Episcopal General Conference and the slavery question. (search)
Message of the Governor of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, Pa.,Jan. 2. --Gov. Packer's message to the Legislature takes strong Union ground. He terms secession rebellion. He urges that the statutes of Pennsylvania be purged of all laws which may be rightly charged as violating the rights of a sister State. He recommends the Reprisal act of '76, allowing the slave claimant the right to choose his remedy under the State or National law; also, that the master have the right to retain the services of his slave while sojourning or passing through the State. He further recommends the re-enactment of the Missouri line by an amendment to the Constitution, the amendment to be ratified by State Conventions, if Congress refuses to let it emanate to the people. He closes by expressing devotion to Pennsylvania and to the Union, which her citizens will defend through every peril.
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
Moultrie by three rockets let off at the eastern and of Sullivan's Island, and that he left in great haste, thinking it was a signal for attack. This is not so, however, though it is certain he did not take much time in transferring his command. This is evidenced by the condition of the quarters of the officers — such as hats, cents, opened, with books on the floor, and stool overturned. Message of the Governor of Pennsylvania. In his message to the Pennsylvania Legislature, Gov. Packer, after discussing the Personal Liberty law of Pennsylvania, makes the following suggestions: While a majority of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Prigg case, held that a State had no constitutional right to provide by legislation for delivering up fugitives from labor, a minority were then of the opinion that State laws, consistent with and in aid of the constitutional injunction, were valid and proper. And this minority opinion is now the judgment of th
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