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The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], Army correspondence. (search)
flour. The steamer Connecticut arrived on Thursday evening, bringing a large supply of naval stores and a heavy mail. J. P. Tweed, of Cincinnati, and E. W. Fox came as passengers. Fox in the new postmaster. In the column we find that the schooner Pathway cleared for Boston, and that the U. S. Propeller from Pensacola, transport ship Tamerlane, (with troops,) from Ship Island, and bark Daniel Webster, from Ship Island, had arrived. The ship Havelock, from Boston, bark Harris Lane, from Bordeaux, and United States steamer Constitution, were below, coming up. The following items will also be found interesting: Hon. Pierre Soule, former U. S. Senate, and Provost Marshal of the city, had been arrested on a high political charge, and would probably be sent North. The organ of Butler was exulting over the prospect of Halleck getting Beauregard hemmed in so that there would be no chance for him to escape, and then lating his army. The originally about the currency was
The Daily Dispatch: June 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Foreign gossip. (search)
d, who were anxious to go to the United States and take service in our army, will save the Minister and Consul here no small degree of labor, For the past year scarcely have not received at least a dozen applications each from officers either in actual service or retired, who were anxious to go to the United States and take service in our army, Business at Lyons is already said to be looking and already a shipping agent in Paris has "put up" two ships, one from Havre and the other from Bordeaux, so sail for New Orleans in the middle of June. Shipments, However, will not be large, as merchants here fear that even were the people inclined to buy, the deteriorated condition of the currency and the doubt about the future would prevent them from making any large or sure parents. Said Pascha, the Egyptian Viceroy, who has been reinforced by the arrival of his private band of forty musicians, accompanied by twenty Egyptian sailors, whose curious costumes are different from those of
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], Estimated stock of cotton in Europe. (search)
Estimated stock of cotton in Europe. --We publish below a comparative statement of the stock of cotton now on hand in Europe, with that which was on hand at this time last year. The delicit as will be seen, is very large, and if a supply is not very soon obtained it is obvious that the cotton factories of England must generally stop working: On the 1st of June, 1862, as Compared with the same time last year. 18611862 Hamburg, bales147,700839 Bremen14,100350 Amsterdam26,8001,739 Rotterdam8,6501,450 Autwerp8,300500 Havie329,75038,700 Bordeaux3,15000 Marsellies9,6501,930 Genoa4,500450 Trieste6,3501,750 Glasgow39,0002,000 London48,25051,000 Liverpool1,148,800328,287 Total1,644,000428,037 1,644,000 Deficit1,216,267
The Daily Dispatch: August 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Arrest in Baltimore. (search)
Arrest in Baltimore. Levi K. Bowen, Esq., Consul to Bordeaux under Pierce's Administration, and Naval Officer of Baltimore during Buchanan's Administration, and brother of Mr. John A. Bowen, Superintendent of the Southern Express Company, of this city, was arrested in the Monumental city, a few days sinces by the agents of Lincoln for treason. He was subsequently released, after an Irksome detention.
The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], Direct trade. (search)
gia. His efforts were first directed to Belgium, in the hope of forming a contract with the "Belgian American Company." In this he failed. The Belgians are more a manufacturing than a commercial people, and the above company seemed averse to enter into any engagements as regards the management of steamships. Mr. King then directed his attention to France, in addressing a memorial to the French Minister of Commerce. --He succeeded in inducing the French Government to change the law granting a subsidy for a Northern line to New York, and substituting Savannah for New York, and extending a Southern line from Bordeaux to the West Indies, to the same port. This was accomplished after great labor by Mr. King. Mr. King's next step was to form a contract with Mr. Frederick Sabel, of Liverpool, for a line of steamers from that port to Savannah, on the payment of a subsidy of one hundred thousand dollars as soon after peace as possible, which he was authorized to do by the laws of Georgia.
The Daily Dispatch: September 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], The currency. (search)
symptom or not is matter for conjecture, but we all know how it will be viewed at Washington. Political men of all parties here consider that the establishment of the new state of things in Mexico renders the formation of an alliance with the Confederate States an indispensable necessity, and there is nothing surprising in the report that negotiations should be going on with a view to bring about that great result. There is also a report that well-known shipbuilding firms at Havre and Bordeaux are building cruisers for the Confederate States, but it is probably a canard due to the alarmed imagination of the Federals and their friends. "The thief doth fear each bush an officer," and every Yankee skipper in a European port sees a future Alabama in every vessel with a clean run that he may see on the stocks. For the sake of the South, however, I hope the rumor may turn out true. The Emperor of the French will, in such a case, reap all the advantages his good will and material supp
The Daily Dispatch: November 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], Three hundred dollars reward (search)
rd from except Calvert and Montgomery counties. Goldsborough's (Emancipationist) majority is 26,662. The counties to be heard from may redoubt it 1,000. Creswell's majority over Crisfield in the 1st district is 1,721. Harris is elected in the 5th district by nearly 2,000 majority. The combined vote of Calvert and Holland would have heat him. The Russian war steamer Ryanda has arrived at San Francisco. Marshal Forey, the distinguished French officer, arrived in New York last week on board the French frigate Panama. Mr. Seward, upon his return to Washington, is said to have declared that the French Government, urged by the representations of Mr. Dayton, our Minister, has arrested the six rebel rams lying at Nantes and Bordeaux. Major Houstain and Lieut. Von Weilson, who made their escape from the Libby prison at Richmond, had arrived at Fortress Monroe safely. They tell a "thrilling" story of their adventures. Gold in New York Saturday was quoted at 147¼
The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Northern Virginia. (search)
t it will be in the course of the next twelve months, and before the fatal vote for peace or war. That vote once given, all good Americans will have to shut themselves up for another four years. The "Confederate rams" in France — prospectof their Seizure. The Paris correspondent of the New York Times writing on the 26th ult., thus speaks of some steam rems which he alleges are building in France for the Confederacy: Some weeks' ago it was announced in the journals of Nantes and Bordeaux that vessels-of-war were being built in those towns for an unknown destination, but which were suspected to be for the Confederates Since then investigations have taken place which appear to establish the following tacts: After the judicial decision in England in the case of the Alexandria, several of the leading shipbuilders of France, who, till then, had resisted the offers of the Confederate agents, agreed to enter into a contract for the building of ships for the Confederate navy and pr
The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
omonfort is at the head of the National troops. The arrival of Maximilian is anxiously looked for by the friends of the monarchy. The Confederate steamer Georgia put into Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, on the 15th ult., to obtain supplies of coal and provisions. A lot of rebel documents were captured in the Cornubia, among them letters from Mr. E. De Leon, of Paris, to President Davis, in one of which he expresses the belief that there is no intention on the part of France to recognize the Confederacy. Gold in New York, Monday, 147½, Virginia sixes, 55. European items. The Mexican Consuls at Paris, Bordeaux, and Havre, had been compelled to cease the discharge of their duties. The Consuls of Gautama were acting for them. Earl Russell has proposed a basis of negotiation between Germany and Denmark on the Hoistein question. It is stated that the authority to build the rebel rams in France was given under the assurance that they were intended for the Chinese.
The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
on Johnson's Island, liberate the prisoners there, and convey them into Canada.--They did not intend to violate British neutrality, but only to rescue two thousand men from such wretched quarters, designed to kill them by slow degrees. Yankee version of the French action about the Confederate rams. A telegram from Washington, dated the 15th inst., says: The authorization which was granted by the French Government to Mr. Annan for building and arming ships-of-war at Nantz and Bordeaux was obtained by him on the false pretences that they were to be sold to the Chinese Government, and to be used in the waters of China. It was not known nor suspected that these vessels were designed for the rebels of the United States. Information of that design was obtained by this Government only a short time ago, and the French Government promptly revoked the authorization when that information was laid before the Emperor. Justice to France requires that this statement should
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