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The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
s M. Clay' is nominated as Minister to Russia. It is the object of the Navy Department to keep an iron-clad in the neighborhood of Newport News. Bands of vagabond Mexicans have invaded Texas. They are not only discountenanced by Mexico, but are sternly condemned. Two or three rebel officers were captured during Fitzhugh Lee's recent raid in Stafford. One was Capt. John Alexander, of the 2d Virginia cavalry. The rebels failed in their object and retreated in great haste. Gen. Stuart commanded in person. VanDorn, it is reported has crossed the Tennessee river at Florence, with 8,000 cavalry, to reinforce Gen. Bragg. The rebel force beyond Mt. Sterling, Ky., was said to be scattered in their retreat. Hon. Simon Cameron has resigned the post of American Minister at the Court of St. Petersburg. In his letter to the President, of January 23, he says: "When I undertook this responsible trust you will remember that the end of the rebellion was supposed to be
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], Attack on Gloucester Point. (search)
Stolen property restored --Several months since, during an Abolition raid into Jefferson county, Va., a party, headed by a Michigan Major, entered the house of Col. Washington, and after giving it a thorough ransacking. carried off the plunder they did not destroy. The leader of the party made himself conspicuous in his attachment to a highly valued family relict in the shape of an or final picture, by Stuart. of Gen. Washington, which his descendent did not have time to secrete before the arrival of the vandals. He boxed it up and sent it to his home in the North as a prize captured by himself in honorable warfare. Afterwards one of our Generals, operating in Tennessee, captured the thief, and he was sent to this city. When his arrival was noticed the owner of the picture applied for his detention on the ground of his having committed grand larceny. An arrangement was finally effected between the Government and the accused by which the latter bound himself to restore the
The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia. (search)
the joint committee with Charles Scott & Co. The majority report provides that the State shall impress certain portions of the salt works, (belonging to Messrs, stuart. Scott & Co.,) including the houses tenements, wells fixtures, engines, and appurtenances, offices, horses, and mules, wagons, hands, provisions, forage, &c. belonging to the company aforesaid, which she will lease for one year from the 15th day of March, 1863, to John N. Clarkson, for the sum of $100,000--to be paid to Stuart & Co; and in consideration of which the said Clarkson agrees to furnish to Virginia 700,000 bushels of salt — bagged and delivered at the railroad depot — at the rate of $1.50 per bushel. The minority report proposes to award the contract to Chas Scott & Co., the owners of the property, for a like amount of salt, to be bagged and delivered in like manner, at the rate of $2.33 per bushel. The majority report was sustained by Messrs. Barbour and Prince. Mr. Magruder urged the adopti
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], Exported crossing of the Rappahannock by the enemy. (search)
t the enemy, in considerable force of cavalry and artillery, have crossed the Upper Rappahannock at Kelley's Ford, in Culpeper county. The presumption is that they contemplate an advance upon Cordonsville. Kelley's Ford is some dutiness from Fredericksburg and much farther from Richmond than the latter point, so that this movement cannot be regarded as an advance of the grand army. It may be, however, that Hooker has concluded to try another route for his "on to Richmond" move, and to avoid the Confederate batteries at Fredericksburg, has moved his forces to the Upper Rappahannock in the hope of fewer obstacles in the passage of that stream. Passengers by the Central train last evening state that the same report was current at Cordonsville yesterday. Another rumor reached the city last night that Gen. Stuart had encountered the enemy in Fauquier county on Monday, and that their force being superior he was compelled to fall back before them. These reports lack confirmation.
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
esolution was agreed to. The consideration of the Salt Contrast, entered into by the committee with Messrs. Scott & Co., was the next business in order; and the question was upon the substitution of the minority report of the committee, contracting with Col. John N. Clarkson for a supply of salt. Mr. Coghill resumed his remarks on the question, commenced on Monday evening, and concluded, and was followed by Messrs. Collier and Johnson, the latter of whom took occasion to defend Messrs. Stuart, & Co. from some aspersions thrown upon them. The speaking was continued by Messrs. Robert- son, Thompson, Early, and others, up to the hour of recess, 3 o'clock. [The President, on Monday evening, on the eve of adjournment, laid before the Senate the resignation of John Robertson, Senator from Richmond city, which was, on motion of Mr. Johnson, laid on the table. The refusal of the Senate to receive and print in any form the protest of the Senator against the bill passed, t
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
To be sent away. --Three hundred and nineteen Yankee prisoners will be sent under flag of truce this morning to City Point. Of this number one hundred and ninety-two are prisoners of war, and one hundred and twenty-seven citizens or civil prisoners. Among the latter are Edwin Dorsey, son of Dr. Dorsey, and John J. Humas, a State Senator from Maryland, captured by Gen. Stuart when he made his raid into Pennsylvania. Included in the list of citizen prisoners are also a number of renegades from Tennessee and Kentucky, some of whom were arrested for bridge burning, engine stealing, and similar crimes in the States named. The departure of these prisoners will relieve the Confederate Government of a considerable item of expense.
The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], Another raid by Capt. Mosby. (search)
Another raid by Capt. Mosby. Capt. Mosby, of Gen. Stuart's cavalry, made another successful dash into the enemy's lines, on Tuesday last, at Bristol Station, on the Orange and Alexandra railroad. The Yankees had a picket force at that point, consisting of a major, a captain two lieutenants, and twenty one privates, all of whom together with their horses and other equipments, full into the hands of the gallant Mosby without a struggle. The main body of the enemy was some five miles distant. The privates captured were paroled, the horses sent to camp, and the officers to the "Libby" prison in this city, where they arrived on Saturday evening.
The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], Personal. (search)
Personal. --Major-Gen. N. G. Evans, the hero of Leesburg, arrived in Richmond on Saturday, and is stopping at the Ballard House. Colonel T. L. Rosser, of Stuart's cavalry, who was severely wounded while leading his regiment into action at Kelly's Ford has also arrived in this city. His wound is doing well.
The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], The late Yankee advance on the Rappahannock. (search)
eed to the James River and Kanawha Canal, which they were expected to strike at or near Columbia, In Fluvanna. Thence, crossing the James river, their course was laid out through Cumberland county to Farmville, or the High Bridge over the Appomattox, near that place. The destruction of this bridge was one of the pet objects of the expedition. After the accomplishment of this feat the expedition was to work itself out of difficulty by passing round between Petersburg and the North Carolina line, so as to strike be Yankee lines in the neighborhood of Suffolk. Impossible of accomplishment as this feat would seem to be the distance to travel and the risks to run are no greater than those incurred by the dating Morgan in some of his raids in Kentucky and Tennessee. But the Yankees not only lacked a Morgan to execute this bold scheme, but met with such men as Stuart and Lee, whose vigilance is a sure guarantee that no Yankee laid into our lines can ever be successfully undertaken.
The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia (search)
to the disbursement of the appropriation to the Virginia Military institute, was tabled. The report of the Committee on Confederate Relations touching the constitutionality of sequestration and confiscation of the property of alien enemies in Virginia, denying the authority so to do, was concurred in and reported to the House. Mr. Coghill, Chairman of the senate Committee on Salt offered a joint resolution announcing a contract entered into between the Committee of both Houses and Stuart, Buchanan & Co., for a supply of salt. The Senate then adjourned to meet at 8 o'clock Friday evening--devoting the day to the observance of the occasion of fasting and prayer. House of Delegates.--The House met at 10 o'clock. Senate amendments to House bill incorporating the Virginia Glee Club, were concurred in. On motion of Mr. Glimer, a special committee was appointed to report a bill amending and reenacting the 3d section of an act passed March 4th 1862 providing for
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