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The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], Attack on Washington, N. C. (search)
John Van Buren said at the St. Patrick's dinner in New York that Lincoln should not stop to consider the color of the troops necessary to the suppression of the rebellion. A negroes, belonging to a Mrs. McNash, near Nashville, Tenn. died on Monday, the 9th instant, at the advanced age of one hundred and nine years. A match was made between Hessian and King, in Dublin, Ireland, on the 18th ult., to fight for $5,000 a side on the 8th of December. Rev. Robert Baird, the traveller, died in New York recently.
The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
and improved by trials of speed and endurance, racing is kept up and will ever have its votaries. We understand that, despite the alarms of war and the troubles incident thereto, arrangements have been entered into for two meetings this fall — Petersburg and Richmond — and that the finest stock on the continent are to contest the palm for superiority-- "Planet," the world renowned, has been matched against Lord Clyde, $10,000 aside, four mile heats. Four or five untried ones are to go a four mile heat sweepstakes, $1,000 entrance — others are to run three, two and one mile heats for handsome purses and stakes; and all grades and classes are to have opportunities for showing their value and testing their blood. The first meeting will take place on the 24th of November, and the sport to terminate at Broad Rock about the 8th of December. We presume that invitations have been extended to turfmen throughout the South, and that many of them will be here as participants in the sp
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Legislature. (search)
Ran away --A negro boy, Jim, was sent to me from Caroline county, Va, 8th December, and nothing has been heard of him since. He is a mulatto, 18 years old, slim figure, about five feet six inches high; had on when last seen a uniform coat, blue pants, and boots I will give a liberal reward for his arrest. J W Chandler, Battery No. 4, Richm'd Defences. de 15--3t
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], The English and Yankee "International" prize fight. (search)
n his daily excursions he was also generally accompanied by Bill Royal, who is matched to fight Mace for the championship in December next, and who is also training at Newmarket. King has also gone into training; but we have not yet heard of the locality he has selected, or who are his mentors. Jack Macdonald, the staunch friend and second of Heenan, will be with the latter during the last two weeks of his preparation, to put the final polish upon him for the great encounter on the 8th of December next. The last deposit ($500 a side) of the stake of $10,000, was fixed for the 19th inst., when the whole amount would have been deposited. Both men have issued their colors — an expression which requires a word of explanation. In England it is the invariable custom for the principals in a prize fight to dispose of a large number of silk neckerchiefs of various fancy patterns, which are termed their "colors" among their respective friends, under the expressed condition that if succ
The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
s journeys" culminated in the first negro insurrection of the war. Mrs. Banks's party was a splendid affair. We were shown one of the cards, which fell into the possession of a Confederate prisoner, who made use of it by spending an hour among the Yankees. The card is in a new style, precisely five inches long by two and four-tenths wide. We give a copy for the edification of the ten of Mobile: "Mrs. Nathaniel P. Banks requests the pleasure of your company Tuesday evening, Dec. 8, at 8½ o'clock. On daneera, Coliseum Place." Among recent items of news, Capt. Girard reports the burning by Confederate partisans of two schooners engaged in transmitting cattle on Bayou Lacombe, between Madisonville and Pass Manchaca. On his way through it was reported by three different Confederate pickets which he met that on Friday, the 11th, Gen. Taylor gave Franklin's division a whipping at the month of Red River, driving them to the gunboats, and on the 12th bombarded Bato
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], President's reception (search)
ion, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights of established institutions in those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease." The amnesty Proclamation. Lincoln has had several thousand copies of his Proclamation of December 8th, declaring an amnesty to all Rebels of the rank of Colonol and under, providing they take a prescribed oath, printed in large type in the shape of a handbill, and at the end of the Proclamation is the following: "The book wherein to record the taking of the above oath, by such persons as may apply, is in the custody of--, at--, who is authorized to administer the said oath to such persons of that vicinity, and is required to give every person requesting it a certificate in form belo
The Daily Dispatch: January 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], 200 dollars reward. (search)
h, a bill was submitted and referred, providing for the establishment of a Bureau of Emancipation, under the Secretary of the Treasury. The resolution for the expulsion of Senator Davis, of Ky., was referred to the Judiciary Committee. Joint resolutions of thanks to Hooker, Meade, Howard, Banks, and Burnside, were passed. Awful disaster in child Cathedral destroyed by fire--two thousand women burnt to death. An awful disaster occurred in Santiago, the capital of Chili, on the 8th of December. The Immaculate Conception was being celebrated in the church of the Jesuits. It was about 7 o'clock in the evening and the crescent of light (gas) that formed the pedestal for the Virgin Mary fired the wood upon which it rested, and the flames sprung wildly over the building. There were ten thousand persons in the church. The suddenness of the fire was awful. The dense mass of women frightened out of their senses, numbers fainting, and all entangled by their long swelling dresses, r
The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], Re-enlisting for the War in General Lee's army. (search)
tending to divide the Union men of the country and intensify the animosities of the war. Debates arising, the resolutions lie over. Poster. The following correspondence is published in the New York papers as having occurred between the two commanding Generals in East Tennessee. Headquarters Confederate Forces, East Tennessee, Jan. 3, 1864. To the Commanding General United States Force East Tennessee: --Sir — I find the proclamation of President Lincoln, of the 8th of December last, in circulation in handbills amongst our soldiers. The immediate object of this circulation seems to be to induce our soldiers to quit our ranks and take the oath of allegiance to the United States Government. I presume, however, that the great object and end in view is to hasten the day of peace. I respectfully suggest for your consideration the propriety of communicating any views that your Government may have upon this subject through me, rather than by handbills circulated a
The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States . (search)
t Bailey had confessed to them he would furnish passports from one to sixty days. His charges were $150 for a furlough; $1,500 to $2,000 for a discharge; that he had blanks at home, and would all them up if an old discharge was shown him; that he could counterfeit any hand writing after an hour's practice. E. O. Person testified that he knew the accused, Bailey; that he sold him a passport to go to Weldon, N. C.; a detail for seven days, and a furlough to go to Weldon, N. C. on the 8th of December last, for all of which he paid him $50; that when witness returned to his regiment he informed Adjutant Moore about the matter; that he afterwards had a conversation with Bailey and asked him how he got these discharges and passports, and he said he had some blank discharges, "c., at his house, and that he bought the passports; said that he had given $700 for one for a man to go away on to North Carolina, but that the man was taken up and brought back to Castle Thunder. From informatio
The Daily Dispatch: February 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], An Established religion. (search)
last proposition. Mr. Titian J. Coffey, who signs himself as Acting Attorney-General, has issued, under the instructions of President Lincoln, a circular upon the restoration of the property of repentant rebels.--The liberality of the propositions contained in this last official document from the Northern Department of Justice may be judged from the extract which we publish below. The circular seems designed as an authoritative interpretation of Father Abraham's proclamation of the 8th of December Many persons against whom criminal indictments, or against whose property proceedings under the confiscation laws, are pending in the Courts of the United States, growing out of the participation of such persons in the existing rebellion have in good faith taken the oath prescribed by the proclamation of the President of the 8th of December, 1863, and have therefore entitled themselves to the full pardon and restoration of all rights of property, except as to slaves, and where the
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