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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 4: Jefferson Barracks. (search)
General Atkinson dropped down the river to Prairie du Chien, on August 3d; and, having delayed there until the 25th, proceeded to Rock Island. In consequence of the movement of cholera-infected troops from Chicago to that point the pestilence broke out there, and carried off a number of victims. Lieutenant Johnston was attacked, but recovered after severe suffering. Lying upon the floor, he was wrapped in heavy blankets, drenched with vinegar and salt, and then dosed with brandy and Cayenne pepper; the Faculty must decide whether he recovered in consequence or in spite of the treatment. The doctors yet disagree as to the mode of cholera propagation. Lieutenant Johnston, from his own observation, inclined to the belief that cholera might be averted, from isolated places at least, by strict quarantine. Lieutenant Johnston, on his return to Jefferson Barracks, found that the absence which had proved so fruitful to him in professional experience had been a season of sore tri
John James Geer, Beyond the lines: A Yankee prisoner loose in Dixie, Chapter 12: (search)
er I could not do something toward benefitting them. Yet when such men as Washington and Jefferson failed, how should I succeed? But, exclaims the tender-footed Union man, you would not intimate that Washington was an abolitionist? To such an one I would say, Hear the words of that great and good man. The benevolence of your heart, my dear Marquis, is so conspicuous on all occasions, that I never wonder at fresh proofs of it. But your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slave, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally among the minds of the people of this country! But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented to the Assembly, at its last session, for the abolition of slavery, but they scarcely obtained a hearing.-Letter to Lafayette. Rising early the next morning, I walked abroad to view the works of God; and as I limped along, I thanked him e
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 45: the cruise of the Sumter and the havoc she committed. (search)
dford recaptured by the U. S. Steamer Powhatan. capture of the Joseph Maxwell. President Lincoln's proclamation. the Sumter at the island of Trinidad. Semmes' absolute authority. order of the Confederate secretary of war. the Sumter at Cayenne and Paramaribo. the Powhatan in close pursuit. the Sumter thoroughly equips at Maranham. the governor's courtesy to Semmes. discourtesy shown to the officers of the u. S. Steamer Powhatan. the Joseph Parke captured and burned. capture ofr giving the pilot to understand that he was bound to Barbadoes to look after the U. S. S. Keystone State, which vessel he had learned was in pursuit of him. Semmes had satisfied himself that the display of the Sumter and the Confederate flag in Cayenne and Paramaribo had had a most excellent effect on the fortunes of his young republic! The Powhatan arrived off Surinam River only two or three days after the Sumter sailed. The pilot said she had caulked her ports in and sailed for Barbadoes
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Vi. Slavery under the Constitution. (search)
4. Again, in a letter to the same, of May 10, 1186: The benevolence of your heart, my dear Marquis, is so conspicuous upon all occasions, that I never wonder at any fresh proofs oa it; but your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipate the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself in the minds of the people of this country! But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented tery, but they could scarcely obtain a reading.--Ibid., vol. IX., p. 163. In a remarkable and very interesting letter written by Lafayette in the prison of Magdeburg, he said: I know not what disposition has been made of my plantation at Cayenne; but I hope Madam De Lafayette will take care that the negroes who cultivate it shall preserve their liberty. The following language is also Lafayette's, in a letter to Hamilton, from Paris, April 13, 1785: In one of your New York Gazett
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 168 (search)
ed and delivered to the authorities by the privateers. The object of the proclamation, it insists, is that an influence may be exerted to render the prosecution of privateer warfare as bloodless as possible, by offering an inducement for checking the conflicts on the sea at the earliest stages of the actions when victory is secure — to induce care for the wounded and other prisoners, that they may be brought alive and safe to a port where a live prisoner is worth $25 to his captors. A secessionist proposes through the Mobile Register to raze Fort Pickens with red pepper. He would mix red pepper and veratria with the powder in the shells, and make the garrison cough themselves out of the fort. The morals of the people down there must be improving, for it was only last week a correspondent of a Mobile paper proposed to poison our men. They like any way, it seems, better than fighting. The correspondent of the Register ought to be banished to Cayenne.--Beston Transcript, June 1.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 123 (search)
oal, the captain refused to go until he was supplied, and the Governor had not the means to make him go, although there was a Dutch and French steamer of war at the time in port. Previous to entering the port of Surinam the Sumter had gone to Cayenne, (French Guayana;) but the Governor of that place would not permit her to enter or receive supplies of any kind; in consequence of which the Sumter was obliged to proceed to Surinam under sail. Had vessels been sent in pursuit of her at once afen caught outside, and has cruised after such vessels, being enabled to do so by the aid of neutrals. The French are the only people who have acted honorably in this matter. The Sumter was ignominiously turned away from the only French port (Cayenne) she tried to enter; the Governor would not permit him to go in on any terms, though entirely out of coal. There is but one remedy for such a state of things — an order to capture, sink, or destroy any vessels cruising against United States c
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Marbois, Francois de Barbe, Marquis de 1745-1837 (search)
became the principal agent in the most important operations of the embassy while Luzerne was minister. After the return of the latter Marbois remained as charge d'affaires, and resided in America until 1785, arranging all the French consulates. He was afterwards appointed Intendant of Santo Domingo, and returned to France in 1790, when he was sent as ambassador to the German Diet. Having offended the ruling party in the course of the fierce French Revolution, he was condemned to exile at Cayenne. On his return, Bonaparte, then First Consul, nominated him as the first councillor of state, and in 1801 he was made secretary of the treasury. He successfully negotiated the sale of Louisiana to the United States in 1803. He served in conspicuous posts in civil life, and was among the first of the senators who voted for the deposition of Napoleon in 1814. Louis XVIII. created him peer and made him keeper of the seals in 1815. Soon after that he was created a marquis. On Napoleon's
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 17: (search)
the Sumter runs short of coal, and is obliged to bear up Cayenne and Paramaribo, in French and Dutch Guiana sails again, a made sail; it being my intention to run down the coast to Cayenne in French Guiana, with the hope of obtaining a fresh suppl small island, off the coast, and one of the landmarks for Cayenne. The night was fine, and moonlit, and we ran in, and anch French pilot-lugger lying to, waiting for us. We were off Cayenne, and the lugger had come out to show us the way into the acely realize, that this was the famous penal settlement of Cayenne, painted in French history, as the very abode of death, ane. Hither are sent all the sick sailors, and soldiers from Cayenne. August 17th.—Morning clear, and beautiful, as usual, i and was last from Martinique, with convicts on board, for Cayenne. Running short of coal, she was putting into Paramaribo, r, since the display of the flag of our young republic, in Cayenne and Paramaribo, has had a most excellent effect. Sept.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
cy, New Mexico16.65 Fort Defiance, Arizona14.21 Salt Lake, Utah23.85 Fort Bridger, Utah6.12 Sacramento, Cal19.56 San Francisco, Cal21.69 San Diego, Cal9.16 Meadow Valley, Cal57.03 Dalles, Oregon21.74 Fort Hoskins, Oregon66.71 Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory38.84 Fort Colville, Wash. Ter.9.83 Neah Bay, Wash. Ter123.35 Sitka, Alaska83.39 Vera Cruz, Mexico183.20 Cordova, Mexico112.08 Bermuda55.34 San Domingo107.6 Havana, Cuba91.2 Rio Janeiro, Brazil59.2 Maranham277.00 Cayenne116.00 Toronto, Canada35.17 St. Johns, Newfoundland58.30 St. John, N. B.51.12 To these may be added the following figures of foreign rainfall:— London, England24.4 Liverpool, England34.5 Manchester, England36.2 Bath, England30.0 Truro, England44.0 Cambridge, England24.9 York, England23 Borrowdale, England141.54 Dublin, Ireland29.1 Cork, Ireland40.2 Limerick, Ireland35 Armagh, Ireland36.12 Aberdeen, Scotland28.87 Glasgow, Scotland21.33 Bergen, Norway88.61 Stockholm20.
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 24 (search)
cribed its prosperity and order as almost incredible. You might trust a child with a bag of gold to go from Samana to Port-au-Prince without risk. Peace was in every household; the valleys laughed with fertility; culture climbed the mountains; the commerce of the world was represented in its harbors. At this time Europe concluded the Peace of Amiens, and Napoleon took his seat on the throne of France. He glanced his eyes across the Atlantic, and, with a single stroke of his pen, reduced Cayenne and Martinique back into chains. He then said to his Council, What shall I do with St. Domingo? The slaveholders said, Give it to us. Napoleon turned to the Abbe Gregoire, What is your opinion? I think those men would change their opinions, if they changed their skins. Colonel Vincent, who had been private secretary to Toussaint, wrote a letter to Napoleon, in which he said: Sire, leave it alone; it is the happiest spot in your dominions; God raised this man to govern; races melt unde
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