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The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Special notice. (search)
From the North. late Northern news by way of Centreville. Centreville, Dec. 1,P. M. --New York papers of the 29th of November have been received here. The Herald. of that date, says that the destination of Butler and Burnside's expeditions is to reinforce Sherman at Port Royal. A portion of Butler's force left Hampton Roads on Wednesday last. The Times says that the Cabinet is divided on the policy to pursue in regard to slaves. Messrs. Chase, Cameron, and Welles are in favor of emancipation, and Messrs, Seward, Blair, and Bates are against emancipation. The Herald expresses the opinion that McClellan will not advance. On the other hand all the signs are otherwise. Refugees who reached Centreville this evening, from Alexandria, report that an immense collection of wagon trains are on this side, and general movements are indicative of speedy operations. Forage is very scarce in Washington city, and animals are suffering severely. Coal
The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Florida on a Frolic. (search)
a Frolic. --We find the following in the Mobile Evening News, of Friday last: The Confederate States steamer Florida came up to town about 7½ o'clock this morning, and now lies in the stream not a bit the worse for her brush yesterday morning, which is more than the enemy can say for himself. As far as we have been able to ascertain the particulars of the affair, they are as follows, and from a reliable source: About 9 o'clock yesterday morning, (4th instant,) the Florida, Capt. Welles, C. S. N., came in sight of a large three-masted propeller, inside of Horn Island Pass, and put after her, first signaling to the Pamlico, which was in company, to turn back. The enemy showed some disposition to fight, but after exchanging a few shots, concluded to try her heels, in which she had a superiority. The Florida however, pursued her for about three miles outside the Pass, when she relinquished the chase, the sea being too rough for her to wore her guns with effect. Durin
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway--$5 Reward (search)
n upon her escutcheon as it has never yet borne, and a damaging blow to her prestige among the nations. It remains now to be seen what course the bloated and arrogant despotism at Washington will pursue. If it were not as pusillanimous as it is base, no one could doubt that it would instantly and indignantly refuse the demand of the British Government.-- It has committed itself to the act of Commander Wilkes, not only through the intimations of Lincoln in his message, by the letter of Secretary Welles, emphatically approving the conduct of Wilkes, and regretting that he had not seized the vessel as well as the Commissioners, but by the act of imprisoning and keeping in prison the Commissioners. If it now submits to the humiliating demand of Great Britain, it will sink itself to a state of abjectness which no nation has ever reached, and become a hissing bye-word and laughing stock through the whole world. If, on the other hand, it rejects the demand, it will be ground to power betw
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
Presidential mansion, and shared the honors with Mrs. Lincoln with a modest grace and dignity that won her hosts of admirers. She is of medium height and fine form. Her eye is hazel, splendid and speaking. Her face is not what a sickly stripling fresh from college would call handsome, but it beams with gentleness, affection, intelligence and determination. Mrs. McClellan was modestly but richly attired. She retired with the General at an early hour. Secretaries Cameron, Smith, and Welles, and ladies, were present, also Assistant Secretaries Scott, of the War Department, and Seward, of the State Department, with their ladies. The great fact which marked the levee with some degree of importance, and which may hereafter be quoted as significant is, that the Ministers of England, France, Spain, and Prussia did not appear at the levee; but the Ministers of Russia, Sweden, Bremen, and Nicaragua were present, and the Russian Minister was especially cordial in his conversation
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], $15 reward (search)
nd Stripes cost the owners $36,000, and after using her one year, George D. Morgan, a government agent, appointed by Secretary Welles, bought her for $55,000 and turned her over to the government. Mr. Morgan testified that Secretary Welles employed Secretary Welles employed him with the understanding that he was to have two and a half per cent. from the seller for all ships he purchased. The committee show that thus far he has made over one hundred thousand dollars. This important and startling fact will account for th, who was expelled from the House of Representatives for corruption. In September last, the committee requested Secretary Welles to discontinue the services of Mr. Morgan, but he refused. Since that time, the committee show that Mr. Morgan has lions of dollars. No vouchers were required or given. Governor Morgan transferred his authority to Geo. D. Morgan, Secretary Welles's special favorite, who, with Cummings, made all the disbursements — Weed & Company appear to have controlled the em
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Great Uprising in Eastern Kentucky. (search)
Amusements. --While the mirth and music of Welles and Company continue to excite the pleasant emotions of the multitude at Metropolitan Hall; and the Theatre furnishes a pleasant entertainment for large audiences every night; the youth and beauty of the city contrive the means of driving away dull care by home amusements, from which not only they, but their favored friends of maturer years also, derive social benefit. A series of tableux vwants, in which some twenty beautiful young ladies participated, is among the more recent of these delightful parlor entertainments.
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
From the North. arrival of released prisoners.--more Resignations, &c. [Special Dispatch to Richmond Dispatch.] Norfolk, Jan. 17.--Drs. Jeffry, Page, and Lindsay, formerly of the United States Navy; Colonel Pegram; Captains Johnson and Sutton; Adjutant Pool; and Lieutenant is Lassell and Ball, or the North Carolina Seventh Regiment, who have been imprisoned in Fort Warren, arrived here this evening, under a flag of truce, from Fortress Monroe. They state that it was currently reported and believed in Baltimore, when they passed through that city, that Welles, the Secretary of the Navy, and Smith, Secretary of the Interior, had resigned. Expectations were high at the North relative to the success of the Burnside Expedition. A French steamer is reported to have arrived in Hampton Roads. F.
The Daily Dispatch: January 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the Potomac (search)
pprehension of hosting between the United States and any forets Power. Reported resignation of Secretaries well and Smith. The Norfolk Day Book, of the 18th instant, gathers the following information from passengers recently from the North by the feat flag of truce boat which has reached that city: The report of the resignation of Cameron had scarcely reached us, before news is born to us of the resignation of other member of the Cabinet at Washington. It is now reported that Welles, Secretary of the Navy, and Smith, Secretary of the Interior, have followed the example of Cameron and throws their commissions. In other words, ill. Cameron, being fully convinced that the ship must sink, they have gathered up as much of her treasure as possible, and forsaken her. Their places will be filled it is said, by Mr. Colfax, of Indiana, and Mr. Holt, of Kentucky The report which reached us that Humphrey Marshall had cut up the Yankees is corf corroborated by intelligence f
The Daily Dispatch: February 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], War Matters. (search)
gency, showing that although he had paid less than the owners asked, he had also paid more than the vessels cost; that in some cases vessels were charged to the Government at a higher price than the owners received; that the arrangement of Mr. Secretary Welles, allowing Mr. Morgan to take two and a half per cent, from the seller, was placing him in antagonism to the Government which employed him; that the percentage was in fact taken from the Government, and the $90,000 which Morgan had received as to allow the Treasury Department, at its option, to pay the interest on Government bonds in coin or paper. At the conclusion of the debate, Mr. Holman, of Indiana, offered a resolution, censuring Mr. Cameron, the late Secretary of War, and Mr. Welles, the present Secretary of the Navy, for their action in employing Alexander Cummings and George D. Morgan; but without coming to a vote, the subject was postponed till Friday next. The report of the Conference Committee on the bill providing f
The Daily Dispatch: February 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], $10 reward. (search)
her to make peace with the South, and peace means dismemberment of her great empire. So far as I can see, America must either retire from her present contest, defeated and humiliated, or she must enter upon one of the most terrible struggles which the history of mankind may ever record.--I see no other way. No concessions, however humble, will be of any avail. Mr. Seward may abandon every point of international law asserted in the dispatch in which he surrendered the rebel Commissioners; Mr. Welles may order the stone fleet to be taken out of the mouth of the Charleston harbor, and put a stop to all similar enterprises; the President may order an exchange of prisoners, and conduct military operations according to the rules of civilized warfare; you may do every possible thing to concilliate the powers of Europe, but all will not avail. The Confederate Government will be acknowledged if it be in existence three months longer, and the Southern ports will be opened. I will g
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