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The Daily Dispatch: February 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Muhammadanism to be inaugurated in Paris. (search)
Muhammadanism to be inaugurated in Paris. A traveled Turk, Hadji Abd-el-Hamid by name, has become sufficiently cosmopolitan in his taste to be willing to take up his permanent abode among "dogs of infidels." He has established himself, with his family, in Paris, and, being still a good Mohammedan, he proposes to erect there a mosque, and, in connection with it, an Eastern inn, or caravanserai, baths a la Turk, and a school for instruction in the Koran. Muhammadanism to be inaugurated in Paris. A traveled Turk, Hadji Abd-el-Hamid by name, has become sufficiently cosmopolitan in his taste to be willing to take up his permanent abode among "dogs of infidels." He has established himself, with his family, in Paris, and, being still a good Mohammedan, he proposes to erect there a mosque, and, in connection with it, an Eastern inn, or caravanserai, baths a la Turk, and a school for instruction in the Koran.
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
received a valuable present of a fortress in the Lebanon mountains, from the wife of a deceased Pasha. Whatever may be the future of French occupancy, the past and present is to be accredited to the humane desire of the Emperor to suppress the horrible butcheries of the Druses. His own prompt action alone saved the unbutchered of Syria, and his forces must remain to insure their safety. -- But to return to visit to the encampment. The roads amid mulberry groves and hedges of us. Cates for Turk and Frenchman her spring up along the way, and seem well patronized, notwithstanding they present little of the attractiveness of the cafes of the Boulevards of Paris. The road was filled with French soldiers, Turkish soldiers, Algerines, Bedouins, horsemen and footmen, donkeys and donkey men, camels and camel men, and women with various costumes. Our French omnibus, with its team of mules and horses, and its black Nubian driver, added to the strange mingling of the European and the Ori
The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
nnection with the attack on the bridge. At this point, the Abolitionists go their field battery in operation, when a charge was made on them, in which Captain Archy Richards, of Bath; Thomas E. Simms, (for multi Ticket Agent on the Danville R. R. well known here;) and Dangerfield, of Bath, were killed, and several desperately wounded A brother of the Dangerfield who was killed, as above mentioned, (both of whom belonged to the Bath Cavalry,) had his leg carried off by a cannon shot. Mr. Turk, for High Sheriff of Augusta, together with those mentioned as slain, showed the most determined bravery. The Virginians were finally dislodged from the bridge and were driven back on a locality called the Willow where they repulsed a savage onslaught on their position, and besides were enabled to afflict much damage on their enemies, who defend from further offensive operations. The most reliable advices place the loss in killed on our side at 7--the wounded at from 15 to 25 Of the Abol
The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Reconnoissance by rail. (search)
has been made extremely useful as a beast of burden in the transportation of enormous quantities of "contraband of war," by which term we do not now refer to the live ebony to whose sole use the U. G. Railroad is so exclusively devoted. The service to which railroads are put in the conveyance of men and material in war bears its full proportion to the employment of this great labor-saving and timesaving device for more peaceful purposes. But if any famous commander, Frank or Hun, Hun or Turk, European, Asiatic, American or African, has heretofore pressed locomotives and trains of cars into the scouting branch of military matters, we confess ourselves ignorant of the when and where.--We rather incline to the opinion that military men in general would scout the idea. An Ohio General, however, has resorted to the novel expedient of steaming away, by rail, with a hundred or two soldiers, some miles into the region occupied by the enemy, to reconnoiter. The extraordinary ruse certai
The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Shocking scene. (search)
ntion of England and Germany against Mehemet All, who had led Egypt into revolt, and the Sultan's Grand Admiral, who treacherously surrendered all his fleet to the enemy. By the treaties of 1840 and 1841, Turkey was admitted into the political system of Europe, and from that day the Sultan has been passive in the hands of Western diplomacy. He was happily not one of those weak characters who refuse to be moved as well as to move. By advice of Reschid Pacha, his Vizler, a most enlightened and able Turk. he made many important reforms in the administration of justice, the tolerance of religion, the educational system, and the financial leviese of the empire. He offered a nobly sacred asylum to the refugees of Hungary, and rather than violate a Mahomedan's traditional hospitality, ran the risk of a serious war. For the last ten years of his life he has been destroying his nerve and brain by dissipation; and his long-expected death has at last come, as the result of that course.
The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], The fate of Tyrants. (search)
y, for the sphere of its operations, was the extended and dangerous sea-coast of the United States--a coast that never gives the sailor that "sea-room" which makes his vocation comparatively easy, and which exposes him continually to that most dreaded of all nautical evils — a lee-shore — so pathetically referred to by Jack's poetical wife at Portsmouth in her anathema of the Admiral: "You've sent the ship in a gale to sea, On a lee-shore to be jammed; I'll give you a piece of my mind, old Turk, Port Admiral, you need — d." A knowledge of the revenue laws is required in addition, which of course is not expected of naval officers, and an equal aptitude in the management of guns and small arms. We were never more surprised than to hear that the possibility of not recognizing this branch of the old national service had ever entered into anybody's mind. If it was necessary to prevent smuggling by revenue cutters under the old regime, it will be tenfold more so under the new. Mo<
The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Medical Department of the army. (search)
Arrival of prisoners. --The Central train yesterday afternoon brought in another lot of Federal prisoners from Western Virginia--Three of them are deserters from the 15th Indiana regiment--an Irishman, a Scotchman, and a Kentuckian. They came into our lines bearing a "flag of truce,"improvised for the occasion from the rear portion of the Irishman's shirt. This Irishman, by the way, is a rollicking sort of a boy, and the novelty of his situation yesterday seemed to afford him much merriment. The other prisoners, fourteen in number, are Union men, or Lincolnites, from Hardy and Pendleton counties.--They came from Staunton in custody of Col. Turk, H. W. Sheffey, Richard Hardy, Philip Trout, and J. M. McCue, of Augusta.
The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The second American Revolution, as Viewed by a member of the British parliament. (search)
The Swine Stealers. --The case of a negro woman, charged with surreptitiously obtaining a supply of pork, noticed on Saturday, led other parties into difficulties, which brought them up all standing, like bristles on the fretful pork upine. Strange to say, though hogs have been stolen from somebody, that somebody is recorded upon the police book as The Unknown. Thus, a negro named William, a confederate of the woman above-mentioned, was punished on Saturday for stealing a hog from The Unknown, making the second African who has suffered for depriving that mysterious personage of his property.--No. Three was a free negro by the name of Mortimore Redman, in reality a black man, who gave the information that led to the arrest of the others. It came out in the examination that he was addicted to practices which would be inexcusable even in a Grand Turk, and the Recorder sent him down also under sentence of thirty-nine. From all we can hear the end is not yet.
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], A duel. (search)
the flames to Moloch, and drowned their cries with boisterous strains of music. Possibly, the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald thinks that he has complimented Lincoln and Seward in this pen and ink portrait. They may consider it a compli- ment, and they may accept it as such, but their worst enemies have never said anything of them which will so sink the two men in the estimation of all Christendom. It is all in keeping with Lincoln's original local that "Nobody is hurt;" but there is no tyrant living, be he Turk or Christian, who would be " full of mirth," amid such scenes of bloodshed, death and sorrow as have come upon Lincoln's own country; no Prime Minister of any sovereign in any age who would not blush to be described as going forth amid afflictions which have darkened every hearthstone, and such public perplexities and calamities as might well melt the most callous heart, and draw tears from Heaven, "puffing his Havana with a gay and festive air!"
The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], $50 reward. (search)
war is claimed by New England philosophers as the result of Puritan ideas. a grand step in the march of Puritan progress. No one can doubt the fact. and by such fruits let the world judge the line which has borne them — It is a war of aggression of interference with other people's business, of wholesale spoliation, robbing, and murder in fine, the Round head war of Oliver Gromwell over again, and no war ever had in it less of the principles of Christianity, or even common humanity.--If any Turk or heretic of modern times has conducted a warfare on principles more antagonistical to the Gospel than the present Puritan crusade, we do not know where to look for his record. Such exhibitions as these ought to satisfy all true Christian men of the danger of fanaticism, in whatever shape it may present itself. Moderation in all things is the true Christian rule. When men undertake like the Puritans, to be wiser and holier than Revelation itself, they generally end by proving themselves b
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