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The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], Five Hundred Dollars reward. (search)
s one of three or four of these vehicles we see at Paris — with American trotting horses, generally the cast-off horses of the Emperor; he had an American-built house at St. Cloud, an American stable, American bee-hives or houses, and American "traps" in his kitchen and elsewhere. He even called his best romances "Jessie," after a beautiful and accomplished American lady, formerly of Washington. Among the unpublished literary works left by M. Mocquard, there is said to be a translation of Tacitus.--The deceased, who had long been a widower, leaves a fortune estimated at more than a million of francs to his four children--two boys and two girls. The eldest son is the Emperor's notary, the second an officer in the Chasseurs d' Afrique. We are promised a new step soon in the way of centralization. There is talk of creating in the Cabinet a Ministry for the city of Paris, with, of course, M. Hausemen for Minister. Thus, while the gentleman charged with the management of the post
The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], The Origin of newspapers. (search)
e newspaper, was the Acts Diurna, (proceedings of the day,) a kind of gazette, published daily at Rome, under the authority of the Government. It contained an account of the proceedings of the public assemblies, of the law courts, of the punishment of offenders, and a list of births, marriages and deaths. The proceedings of the public assemblies and the law courts were obtained by means of reporters, called actuaries. The proceedings of the Senate were not published till the time of Julius Cæsar, and this custom was prohibited by Augustus; An account of the proceedings of the Senate was still preserved, though not published, and Tacitus informs us that scene Senator was chosen by the Emperor to compile the account. The Actor was frequently consulted and appealed to by later historians. Macanley, in the twenty-first chapter of the fourth volume of his history of England, has given a highly entertaining and instructive sketch of the rise and progress of newspapers in England.
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1865., [Electronic resource], Meeting in Baltimore for the Benefit of Presbyterian ministers in the South. (search)
the admiration even of their enemies. Overwhelmed at first with amazement and grief, they soon recovered the natural composure and elasticity of their character, and, like a stout ship in a storm, bowed gracefully to the billows of adversity. Now almost buried in the dreary troughs of the sea, and losing sight of the sky, and anon ascending some tremendous wave, and catching a glimpse of a wide and clear horizon; but, whether sinking or rising, still afloat, buoyant and progressing. Tacitus, speaking of the Britons while subjected to the Romans, says: "They cheerfully complied with the levies of men, the imposition of tribute, and all the necessary demands of government, provided they received no illegal treatment or insults from their governors; for those they bore with impatience." The character of our ancestors sixteen hundred years ago has been transmitted to their descendants; and, animated by the conciliatory dispositions of the President and he quiet order of the milita
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