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The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
eneral-John A. Logan. The latter is now in New York, whence he will proceed to Savannah. If any change of commanders is made in Kentucky, it is understood that General Butler will be assigned to that department." Miscellaneous. The schooners Logwood, Gazena and Mary have been captured off the Mexican coast. They were blockade-runners. George D. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, arrived at City Point from Richmond on the 30th, and started North. As soon as certain intelligence is received from General Sherman, which is daily expected at Washington, Colonel Mulford will be sent to Richmond to complete the arrangements necessary to secure the exchange of all the Yankee prisoners. There were more people killed and wounded by railroad accidents in the United States last year than in any preceding year since 1854. One hundred and forty accidents occurred; four hundred and four lives were lost, and one thousand eight hundred and forty-six persons were wounded.
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
for Atlantic steamers, and constructing a telegraph from thence to join the American lines. These gentlemen obtained in 1851 an act of the Legislature of New found land for this purpose, which act also conferred certain exclusive privileges; but having got into difficulties without fulfilling the terms of the act, they induced some American gentlemen to form a new company, called the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company. The act of incorporation of this company was passed in 1854, and gave them, amongst other privileges, the exclusive right for fifty years of landing cables on the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador, without any conditions as to the time within which this right was to be exercised. This exclusive right of landing cables on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador was transferred in 1856 to the projectors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company upon the condition that it should be exercised before 1862. The Company obtained from the British Government in 18
The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], Interesting Chapter on circus elephants. (search)
ng several of his ribs. Bolivar then made a charge for him, and would have finished him speedily had it not been for the interference of his keeper. Elephants are subject from physical causes, at times, to fits of moroseness, sometimes increasing to frenzy, when they are very dangerous, unless properly secured. Then they pay no regard to keeper or any one else. It was during one of these fits of madness that Hannibal made his celebrated raid on the road between Pawtucket and Pall river in 1854, when he escaped from his keeper and ran nine miles, destroying everything in his way. These fits can generally be foreseen and guarded against. Elephants do not like tobacco, but the stories told, and generally believed, in regard to their visiting, with dire vengeance, any one who should offer them the weed, are all stuff. Indeed, there was an elephant here some years ago, called Poodah, that would eat paper after paper of fine-cut with the greatest apparent relish. Generally, however, t
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], The late Duke de Morny. (search)
7, bequeathed him 40,000 francs, and from that time he has been noted as a most successful speculator and financier. He made his first appearance as a speculator in the manufacture of beet-root sugar, and has since been connected with most French speculations. Previous to 1848, he was for eight years a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and in 1849 was elected to the Legislative Assembly. --The advent of Louis Napoleon brought him prominently before the public, and in the consummation of the coup d' etat of December, 1851, he was the right-hand man of his half-brother. He held the office of Minister of the Interior until 1852, and was subsequently chosen a member of the Corps de Legislatif, over which body he has presided since 1854. The peculiar amenities of his manners, and the grace of his presence and conversation, won for him friends everywhere. Sir Robert Peel said of him: "He is a spick, span man, of considerable a plomb, and one of the greatest speculators in the world."
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
committing the theory that cholera is contagious in such a thorough manner as to entitle his production to a careful consideration. The facts which he presents in a pamphlet just issued, in relation to the progress of the cholera in Providence in 1854, show clearly that the disease was not contagious in that city at that time. A careful examination of the statistics of the cholera warrants the following recapitulation in regard to the different localities in which it appeared in that city, ande disease, though much exposed; of all the colored population, not one had the disease; in the American population, where one person died, one thousand nine hundred and two escaped; in the foreign population where one person died, one hundred and thirty-eight escaped. "If the disease was not contagious in Providence in 1854, it is not likely to be in 1865; and if not contagious there then, it is not likely to be so elsewhere next year, or when it may next visit us."--Newport (R. I.) News.
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], Virginia Medical College. (search)
ng the receipts of California gold at this port during the present year. It will be seen that the aggregate is largely in excess of the two previous years. It appears that the total amount of treasure brought by sea from the auriferous regions of the Pacific slope during the last twelve years is upwards of three hundred and seventy-seven millions; but it must be remembered that these figures only represent the freight list of the steamers, and do not include the sums brought privately by passengers on their own and friends' accounts which, with the overland shipments from the new territories, would probably swell the total to more than five hundred millions. Since 1854 our aggregate exports of specie have amounted, in round numbers, to four hundred and forty millions, or nearly four times as much as has come back to us from foreign countries. At the worst, however, we are now about two hundred millions better off in precious metals than we were twelve years ago.--New York Herald.
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