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The Daily Dispatch: March 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], The affair at Gloucester Point. (search)
fault has been found with his conduct by either the patients or their friends, or the physicians." On motion of Mr. Scott, the Committee on the Fire Department were instructed to purchase, at a cost not exceeding $850, the necessary fixtures to complete the steam fire engine presented to the city by the insurance companies. On motion of Mr. Grattan, Resolved, That the rent of the poor-house and lot now occupied by the city as a poor-house be advanced to $1,300 from the 1st of last January, payable quarterly, the city to pay the taxis and insurance on the property. A petition was presented from members of the Fire Brigades, asking to increase the pay of the privates in the same. Referred. At the request of the Committee on Streets generally, the Council discharged them from the consideration of a number of petitions from citizens asking street improvement near their property. Mr. M. L. Stratton, the Auditor of the city, in obedience to the ordinance, submit
The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
thdrawal he shall not be required to assign reasons. Pending the consideration of a motion by Mr. Brown, of Miss., to lay the resolutions on the table, the Senate went into secret session. House of Representatives--The House met at 12 o'clock, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Jeter. The Chair laid before the House a communication from the President, transmitting from the Secretary of War "a supplemental estimate of the funds required for subsistence of the army from 1st of January to 30th of June, 1863." Referred to Committee of Ways and Means. Also, a communication from the President transmitting response of the Secretary of the Navy--a response to House resolution of the 5th of February, in regard to the number and amount of claims for vessels seized for public use. Referred to Committee on Naval Affairs. Also, a communication from the President transmitting from the Secretary of War an estimate of the amount required for the fulfillment of contracts m
The Daily Dispatch: April 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Confederate tax bill. (search)
$50 Datchers and bakers, $0 and one per . All persons engaged, or intending to engage, in any biginers named in the 5th section, shall within every days after the passage of the act, or at the time of beginning business, and on the 1st of January in after register with the district or a account of the name and residence of each person, of corporation engaged of interested in the business with a statement of the time for which and the place and manner in which the same is in the coy one teeth of the dividend and reserved fund annuily. If the annual shall give a profit of more than tea and less than twenty per cent on capital stock, to be paid; more than twenty per cent, one-sixth. The tax to be collected on the 1st of January next and of each year thereafter. A tax of ten per cent on all profits in 1862 by the purchase and sale of flour, corn, bacon pork, cals, hay, rice, salt, iron, or the manufactures of iron, sugar, mola and made of case, butter, woolon clot
The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], The 7.30 or 2 cents Per diem, interest bearing $100 Confederate Treasury notes. (search)
st, in arrear on the 7.30 Treasury notes, in payment of public dues, has never before been submitted. By the terms of the Act of April 17th, 1862, these notes bear an interest of two cents per day on each hundred dollars, and said notes are declared to be receivable in payment of all public dues, except the export duty on cotton. The legal effects of the words "two cents per day," is to make the interest a daily accruing debt, and, when this is followed by a direction that the notes are to be received for public dues, it seems to be a necessary legal conclusion that the accrued interest must attend the principal in its office of paying the public dues. I am of opinion, therefore, that the interest accrued at the date of any payment to the public, should be allowed whenever the 7.30 notes are received for a public due. The notes, it retained by the holder, receive payment of interest, annually, on 1st January. Very respectfully, C. G. Memminger, Secretary of Treasury.
The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], Reported cavalry fight. (search)
prevent a supply to our enemies. Miscellaneous. On the 9th ult., there were 44,951 sick in the United States. A party of ten Confederates went down York river on the night of the 16th inst., and landing proceeded to the Half-way House, about three miles from Great Bethel, where they captured and carried off a sutler's goods and several horses — a daring feat, they having gone fifteen miles within the enemy's lines. The European immigration at the port of New York since January 1 numbers 55,427. Gold was quoted in New York on the 17th at 45¾a45¾, and cotton at 58 cents. The laborers on the New York Central Railroad have had a strike for higher wages, and had a riot at Albany, N. Y., on the 17th. Major-Gen. Hunter and a small army of Colonel, &c., on his staff, have arrived in New York from Hilton Head, S. C. Judge George W. Wood has been nominated by the Democrats of Pennsylvania for Governor. Walter Lowrie was nominated for Judge of the Suprem
The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], The cotton trade to Nassau. (search)
,764 Grand Total32,075 the following is a statement of the exports of cotton from January 1st to June 24th, 1863: Exported to European ports23,817 bales. Exported to ports in the United States.2,695 bales Total exports26,412 bales. on hand5,663 bales. it will be seen from the statement of receipts of cotton in Nassau that 2,704 bales came from Matamoras, in Mexico. This cotton is all transhipped to New York by the firms who are engaged in the Matamoras trade. Since Jan. 1st, 2,381 bales of this Matamoras cotton has been shipped to the North, and 313 bales, a late arrival, remain on hand. By subtracting the exports of Matamoras cotton from the general cotton exports, we shall arrive at the following: Exported to European ports23,817 bales. Exported to ports in U. States.204 bales. It is presumed that none of the cotton sent to Bermuda finds its way to the United States, unless it is transhipped from England, which is not likely now, as it comma
The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], The United States and Japan. (search)
to communicate this, formally or informally, to the people of the Southern States. My belief is that they already know it; and when they choose, if ever, they can communicate with me unequivocally. Nor do I think it proper now to suspend military operations to try any experiment of negotiation. I should, nevertheless, receive with great pleasure the exact information you now have and also such other as you may in any way obtain. Such information might be more valuable before the 1st of January than afterward. While there is nothing in this letter which I shall dread to see in history, it is perhaps better for the present that its existence should not become public. I therefore have to request that you will regard it as confidential. Your obedient servant, A Lincoln. Northern Politics. The National Committee of the Douglas and Breckinridge wings of the Democratic organization met at the St. Nicholas Hotel, New York, on Monday, and organized by electing Aaron
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
fered a resolution, which was passed, calling on the President, if not inconsistent with the public interest, to furnish the Senate with copies of General Whiting's reports in relation to running the blockade at Wilmington, N. C. At 1½ o'clock P. M., on motion of Mr. Brown, of Miss., the Senate adjourned. In the House, Mr. Conrad offered a resolution that the President be requested to inform the House what amount of cotton has been exported from the Confederate States since the 1st of January last, and also the value of goods imported into the Confederacy in the same time, and, as near as possible, the class of these goods. The resolution adopted by the Committee of the Whole, and recommended by them, to refer the subjects of currency and taxation in the President's message to a select committee of one from each State, was taken up by the House and altered so as to make the committee seven. The calling of the States for bills and resolutions was then commenced.
The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], The report of the Secretary of the Treasury. (search)
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury. In the annual report submitted by Secretary Memminger to the two Houses of Congress we find the following resume of the present financial condition of the Government: Receipts from January 1st to September 30th, 1863. For 8 per cent stock$107,292,900 70 For 7 per cent. stock38,767,650 70 For 6 per cent. stock6,810,050 00 For 5 per cent. stock (call certificate.)22,992,900 00 For 4 per cent. stock482,200 00 Cotton Certificates, (act April 21, 1862）2,000,000 00 Interest on Loss140,210 00 War Tax4,128,988 97 Treasury Notes391,623,530 00 Sequestrations1,862,559 27 Customs934,798 68 Export duty on Cotton8,101 78 Patent Fund10,794 04 Miscellaneous, including repayments by disbursing officers24,498,217 93 Total$601,522,893 12 Expenditures during same period. War Department$377,988,244 00 Navy Department38,437,661 00 Civil, miscellaneous, &c.11,629,278 00 Customs56,636 00 Public Debt32,212,290 00 Notes can
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], The raid into Southwestern Virginia--depredations of the enemy. (search)
ested for curtailing the redundancy of the circulation, and thereby enhancing its value; the bill of Mr. Lyons is one of those best deserving consideration. We subjoin it in full: A Bill to be entitled an act to prevent the further issue of treasury notes, and to fund those now in circulation. Section 1.The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That it shall not be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury to make and issue any Treasury notes after the first day of January next, but he may reissue notes heretofore made, as hereinafter specified. Section 2.Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be executed--millions of dollars of the bonds of the Confederate States of America, payable twenty years after date, and bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent, per annum, payable semiannually; and that he cause the same to be sold, from time to time, privately, or by public auction, as he may deem b
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