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The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Jomini and his career. (search)
fying and defending the frontiers of the empire. On the accession of Nicholas to the throne, he was appointed aide-de-camp general, and charged with directing the military education of the Imperial heir. General Jomini's first published work is his "Treatise on Grand Military Operations, " which appeared in 1804, and is considered the most important of his works. In 1811 he began the publication of his "Critical and Military History of the Revolution," which was not completed until 1824.--It is a strictly scientific work, in fifteen volumes, with four atlases. In 1827 he published anonymously the "Life of Napoleon, " which General Halleck has translated. The work is written as though it was Napoleon himself speaking, and the author represents him as arrived in the Elysian Fields, and relating to the assembled heroes — Alexander, Casser, Frederick, and the lesser lights,--the story of his wonderful career. It is said that Jomini originally intended to make it a more comple
The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], Runaway.--one thousand Dollars Reward. (search)
American Reci, and his powerful pen was employed in vindicating American principles and institutions against the throng of English writers then perambulating through the country and using their efforts to ridicule and bring them into contempt. In 1824 Mr. Everett delivered the annual oration before the Phi-Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, General Lafayette being present. The address was most favorably received, and his apostrophe to the noble Frenchman elicited the warmest applause from an imm to the series of his public addresses, a series running through the last forty years of his eventful life. "The articles in the North American Review attracted universal attention, and the voters of his district (Middlesex), in the autumn of 1824, elected him to the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, where he held a seat for ten years, being re-elected at the expiration of each term. In 1835 he was chosen Governor of Massachusetts, and was re-elected for four successi
The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], Interesting Chapter on circus elephants. (search)
setts, and injured his so badly that he died in a few days. Hannibal, the largest elephant that has ever been in this country or Europe, and probably one of the largest that has ever lived, is now at the menagerie buildings in Broadway. --Although about seventy years of age, it is thought that he is still growing, and it is certain that he is in the enjoyment of a most excellent appetite. Mr. Frost estimates that it has cost over $50,000 to feed Hannibal since he arrived in this country in 1824. Tippoo Saib is a large and exceedingly well-trained elephant, and is also now included in the collection of Van Amburgh & Co. He is the "heavy man" among the artists of the menagerie company. There have been many other elephants in the country at various times, but those mentioned above are the once that have acquired the greatest notoriety. Method of Treating elephants. Female elephants are generally, if not invariably, gentle and docile, and may be managed by any one. There ma
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], The railroad projected by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company in the Valley of Virginia. (search)
s upon her, in spite of her remonstrances, protests and furious opposition of every kind. They ruined half her merchants, and left all her ships rotting at the wharves; but she did not succeed in shaking them off. She opposed the war of 1812, and extended her opposition to the verge of treason. Many think some of her sons actually committed treason. But she could not prevent the war from being declared, nor had she any influence in producing the peace. She opposed the tariffs of 1816 and 1824, but they passed, in spite of her, and in spite of the gigantic labors of Daniel Webster, the greatest man ever born on her soil. She succeeded in passing the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 (for her policy had changed); but they were so odious that they nearly produced a separation of the States, and were repealed or compromised away to prevent the actual occurrence of that threatened catastrophe. She succeeded in electing John Quincy Adams, but all her efforts could not prevent his utter overthr
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