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The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Damages awarded. (search)
crue, expired to-day, and the department will therefore avail itself of that means of meeting the wants of the Treasury. Although Ex-Governor Banks had signified his willingness to accept the office of Quartermaster General, with the rank of Brigadier General, it was thought best, for reason of State policy, to confer upon him that of Major General. The revocation of the leave of absence of Carl Shurz was solely on account of the desire that the business of the American legation at Madrid should not be suspended, the former minister having left the Spanish capital. Colonel Jonathan Emery has been appoint-dispatch agent at Boston for the State Department. The receipts into the Treasury for the week ending on Monday last, were $380,000. A gentleman who arrived here this morning, from the neighborhood of Centreville, Va., about 23 miles from Alexandria, reports that he was informed that about 4,000 Southern troops were in that vicinity. He also confirmed the
The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
The New Squadron of Spain. --The Correspondancia, of Madrid, of May 9th, has the following: Spain does not think of declaring war on any power, but she is doing all she can not to be disarmed or surprised in the event of a European conflict. This is the reason why she is causing vessels of war to be constructed both at home and abroad, and why she is making warlike preparations.
The Daily Dispatch: November 6, 1860., [Electronic resource], New and beautiful Fall and Winter Goods! (search)
Later from Europe.arrival of the Atlantic. Sandy Hook, Nov. 6. --The steamship Atlantic, from Liverpool on the 24th ult., has arrived. At the Newmarket races, Ten Broock's Umpire beat Tom Bowlins in a match for 1,000 sovereigns. The recent census of Russia shows the population to be 79,000,000. It is reported that the Pope's nuncio at Madrid has remitted to his Holiness 20,000,000 francs raised by the Spanish bishops. Gen. Lamoriciore will return to France. The enlistments for the Papal army have ceased. It is said the Ambassadors of Prussia, Spain and Portugal, are preparing to quit Turin. The vote in Sicily was almost unanimous for annexation to Sardinia. Victor Emmanuel would be in Naples on the 28th, and the proclamation of the Sicilian vote would be made the following day. The Papal nuncio had left Paris in consequence of orders from Rome. Commercial. Liverpool, Oct. 24 --Cotton quiet. Flour and Wheat firm.
The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1860., [Electronic resource], Presidents Message. (search)
ous character than they have been for many years. Our citizens have long held, and continue to hold, numerous claims against the Spanish government. These had been ably urged for a series of years by our successive diplomatic representatives at Madrid, but without obtaining redress. The Spanish government finally agreed to institute a joint commission for the adjustment of these claims, and on the 5th day of March, 1860, concluded a convention for this purpose with our present minister at MadMadrid. Under this convention, what have been denominated "the Cuban claims," amounting to $128,635.54 cents, in which more than one hundred of our fellow citizens are interested, were recognized, and the Spanish government agreed to pay $100,000 of this amount "within three months following the exchange of ratifications." The payment of the remaining $28,635.54 was to await the decision of the commissioners for or against "the Amistad claims;" but in any extent the balance was to be paid to the c
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1860., [Electronic resource], High Mass. (search)
rs, but it was thought that more intelligence might have been displayed in endeavoring to detect the cause and devising means to stop the leak. Various suggestions are made in the report relative to the construction of such vessels, the better to ensure the safety of the passengers. Lord Lyons and Sir Edmund Head had been created Knight, Commanders of the Bath. Lord Napier has been appointed Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburg, vice Sir John Crompton, who has been removed to Madrid. It was again rumored that Lord Cowley was to leave Paris, and goes to India to assume the duties of Governor. The supposed robbery of British citizens in Mexico will cause determined action on the part of the British government, who were awaiting official confirmation of the report. The French decree, retracting all warnings to journals, is published. The Paris Bourse was dull and drooping; three per cent, rentes were quoted at 681.90 It was rumored that D'Kanyon Di
The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], The attempt to Assassinate Marshal O'Donnell. (search)
The attempt to Assassinate Marshal O'Donnell. --Marshal O'Donnell, or rather the Duke of Tetuan, as he is known since the recent war in Africa, was nearly assassinated in Madrid, on the 7th of December. A Madrid paper of the 8th says: Yesterday evening, at six o'clock, as the Duke of Tetuan was leaving the Senate, a bystander, wrapped in a cloak, approached him, and presenting a pistol, fired at him, saying, "Die, traitor!" A short-hand writer present, who was also a physician, at ot, who was also a physician, at once examined the General's wound, and found that it was very slight. On feeling himself wounded, the Duke exclaimed, "Neither the African balls nor those of Madrid can hurt me!" When the event became known, the English and French ministers, and other members of the diplomatic body, and a great many members of the two Chambers, waited on the Marshal to congratulate him. The assassin, after firing, ran off, crying, "Viva la Reina!" but was pursued and captured.
The Daily Dispatch: June 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 21 (search)
Congress to call a "National Convention," and stop the war if possible. First Lieut. Lewis, of the Metropolitan Rifles, in Washington, D. C., was accidentally and fatally shot on the 21st inst. by one of his comrades. George Vandenhoff, the actor, has been lecturing in Liverpool on the American war, taking a decidedly Northern view of the case So say the U. S. papers. A German brewer, named Conrad Reminger, was suffocated to death in a beer vat in New York last Thursday. Madrid papers consider it likely that the dissensions between Spain and Mexico will be satisfactorily arranged. Anderson, the fugitive slave, whose case created some excitement in Canada, has arrived in England. Prince Frederick of Prussia and the Princess Royal will visit England with their baby in the course of the next month. Hon. Geo M. Dallas, of Philadelphia, declines to be a candidate for the Washington Congress. Gen. McClelland and staff, left Cincinnati on the 20th inst
The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], King cotton. (search)
er warehouses. As well as we understand a rather obscure telegram in the French newspapers, this uneasiness is betraying itself in something like rioting dispositions. A number of the Moniteur, published several days before the dispatch referred to, says, "Barcelona, which is a manufacturing city, begins to feel some of the effects of the crisis in America. Cotton, which is the raw material of its manufactories, is becoming rare and costly. A deputation of manufacturers has gone to Madrid to pray, among other things, for a reduction of the duty on cotton." The Havre Chamber of Commerce recently wrote a letter to the Minister of Commerce to express hopes that measures would be taken to protect French interests in the present state of American polities. He replied: Paris, May 23, 1861. Gentlemen: You did me the honor on the 4th inst. to treat of the hostilities which have commenced between the two sections (fractions) of the old (ancients) American Union, a
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], List of wounded men in General Hospital, Charlottesville, Va. (search)
Dispatches from Europe. --The Charleston Mercury contains the following announcement: "We learn that Senor Moncada, Spanish Consul for the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, has dispatched special messengers to his Government in Madrid, as well as to the Governor General of Cuba, giving the full accounts of the great clout of the 21st inst. He has also made arrangements to have the latest news of the war, from Southern sources, regularly telegraphed to Madrid immediately upon the arrival of the steamers at Liverpool. This would imply that her Catholic Majesty's Government is not far behind England and France in anxiety concerning the issue of the war,"
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], [from the New Orleans true Delta.] (search)
" Then our Prince Montagnard rose from his seat and cried violently out: "Sir, we are as genuine Frenchmen as yourself, Mr. Vignette." This was his first parliamentary debut — Elected in January, 1849, a colonel of the Paris Guard National, he showed himself often in uniform and began, evidently, to fancy himself a little too much like the old Napoleon, from whom he unfortunately got nothing but the face. At this epoch his cousin Louis, being President, sent him as French Ambassador to Madrid, but the Red Republican colonel, not liking the stiff and ceremonious court of Queen Isabella, he quickly returned to Paris, where, in an extra meeting of the General Assembly, on the 12th June, 1849. he made a warm defence of his brethren (Montagnards) who had just been imprisoned for having revolted against the shipping af 30,000 men to subjugate Rome under Mazzini, Safl and Garibaldi. Unhappily the so-called Burggraves did not listen to his appeal, and decreed Paris in a state of siege a
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