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The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], Five hundred Dollars reward. (search)
ops reached Waynesboro', General Sheridan sent four couriers, each with a copy of an order to General Hancock, to send a brigade of infantry and one of cavalry to meet the prisoners at or near Mount Jackson.--Two of the couriers were killed, and two were captured. Hence the order did not reach its destination. The prisoners all arrived in town to-day, footsore and weary. From Savannah. The steamboat Amazon, Captain Dillon, a valuable river vessel, arrived at Savannah, Georgia, on the 2d instant from Augusta, having run down the Savannah river through a network of rebel obstructions and torpedoes placed in the channel to prevent her escape. She was piloted by a runaway slave. Captain Dillon, becoming disgusted with rebel rule, determined to make his way to the Union lines, which, after surmounting, various obstacles, he finally succeeded in doing, bringing with him his steamer, his family, household furniture, two hundred bales of cotton and other valuable property.
The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e nightly announced. From Georgia. Recent advices from Augusta are unimportant, but furnish us some Georgia gossip. The enemy abandoned and destroyed Dalton on or about the 20th instant.--Rumor does not state what route they then took. Colonel Dorragh's and Captain Terry's cavalry commands have been presented as "nuisances" by the Grand Jury of Madison county. The ship Lawrence, with two thousand four hundred bales of cotton, which went ashore at the mouth of the Savannah river, has been raised, and placed in the dry dock at Savannah. "The Ranger" is said to be the name of a new Confederate war steamer now afloat; and the Yankee have sent two steamers to look after her. A large number of negroes were recently drowned while attempting to reach Savannah, from Brier creek, on a raft. From Alabama. The preparations for the defence of Mobile are very complete. Provisions for a six months siege have been accumulated. General Taylor has done every
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1865., [Electronic resource], French industrial Exhibition. (search)
amounts of money have been raised, and great efforts made for twenty years, in South Carolina, to establish factories at various points in that State, but without much success. They even went to far as to bring operative from New England; but the experiment proved a failure. The war swept away the last vestige from that unfortunate State. Nor has there ever been manufacturing, to any great extent, in the planting States of the Gulf. A story is told in the South of a planter near the Savannah river who hauled his cotton by team from his plantation to the river, down which it was sent to Savannah on a boat, from which; in time, it was sent by steamship to New York, whence it was transported by railroad to some town in the interior of New England, where it was manufactured into cloth, after which it was returned by railroad to New York, shipped back again to Savannah, carried up the river, and then hauled by team to the plantation from which it originally came, where it was finally u
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