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James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Spenser (search)
cording to individual temperament. That of Winthrop and Higginson had a mellowness of which Endicott and Standish were incapable. The gradual change of Milton's opinions was similar to that which I suppose in Spenser. The passage in Mother Hubberd may have been aimed at the Protestant clergy of Ireland (for he says much the same thing in his View of the State of Ireland), but it is general in its terms. There is an iconoclastic relish in his account of Sir Guyon's demolishing the Bower of Bliss that makes us think he would not have regretted the plundered abbeys as perhaps Shakespeare did when he speaks of the winter woods as bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang: But all those pleasant bowers and palace brave Guyon broke down with rigor pitiless, Ne ought their goodly workmanship might save Them from the tempest of his wrathfulness, But that their bliss he turned to balefulness; Their groves he felled, their gardens did deface, Their arbors spoil, their cabinets
The Daily Dispatch: April 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
The U. S. Loan. Washington, April 2. --The U. S. Government loan of $8,000,000 was taken to-day at an average of about 93½. Nearly $30,000,000 were bid for. [second Dispatch.] Washington, April 2. --The following are the principal successful bidders for the loan : In New York: Bank of Commerce, $2,500,000; Drexel & Co. $1,000,000; E. Whitehouse, Son & Morrison, $400,000; James Gallatin, $150,000; Bank of America, $500,000; Ocean Bank, $100,000; Bank of North America, $250,000; Marie & Katz, $180,000; Bliss, Williams & Co., $100,000; John A. Dix, $25,000; J. W. Walcot & Co., Boston, $300,000; Sweney, Ritterhouse, Faut & Co., Washington, $150,000. There was no bid below 93 18-100, which will be successful. A considerable amount will be taken at 94 and par. About $27,000,000 was bid for.
The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Virginia. (search)
a late hour on Wednesday night. They were deposited in Holliday street, near the office of the Marshal of Police, and will be immediately mounted for effective service. Military orders. Gen. Trimble yesterday issued an order appointing Col. Bliss to the command of the troops at the Calvert station, and he will take such steps as he may deem necessary to perfect the organization and discipline of his command. All commanders of uninformed companies are required to make their reports to him, and all communications to headquarters must be made through him to receive attention. Col. Bliss, it will be remembered, was the Adjutant General, and a most efficient officer, at "Camp Baltimore, " in 1840.--He is a graduate of West Point, but long since left the service. Armories of the volunteers. The armories of the volunteers yesterday presented a lively aspect. Throughout the whole day the men were drilled in squads, and many of them are already prepared to take the field, s
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], A slight mistake. (search)
f war, and five minutes given to answer in. Col. Reeve would not agree to the terms (which are very hard for a military man) unless Col. Van Dorn would convince him that he had sufficient force to execute it, by permitting an officer of his command whom he would designate, to see the troops and report to him; the prompt answer returned was that he should have that opportunity to see the troops, and the more he saw of them the less he would like it. The officer designated by Col. Reeve was Lieut. Bliss, a young officer of distinguished bravery, well known in the U. S. Army, who mounted a horse and rode down the line of our troops, and was repeatedly cheered. Suffice it to say, on his report, Col. Reeve surrendered with his command, together with all the public property in his possession, unconditionally as prisoners of war, giving his honor as a gentleman and soldier, that he would report himself and command at Col. Van Dorn's camp on the Leon that evening at 6 o'clock. Instantly
The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Camp Pickens — Company "H"--Justice to Capt. Beggs--Miscellaneous News. (search)
. Affairs at Washington. Washington, June 27. --The announcement of the arrest of Marshal Kane, of Baltimore, has excited considerable remark here. Members of Congress continue to arrive daily, including a number from the West.--Among those who have arrived here is Martin F. Conway, Representative from Kansas. The New York 28th Regiment of Volunteers arrived here this morning. Fire at East Saginaw. Detroit, June 27. --The store and wharf of Messrs. Curtis, Bliss & Co., at East Saginaw, were destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning. Loss estimated at $50,000--insured for $20,000. Two of the warehouses of R. Sheldon & Co., at Houghton, Lake Superior, containing a large amount of mining supplies were burned on Thursday night. Loss between twenty and thirty thousand dollars. Fatal accident. Albany, June 26. --Early this morning our citizens were shocked to hear of a very serious accident which happened to Gilbert L. Wilson, the Treasurer of the
The Daily Dispatch: December 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wanted — negroes.-- (search)
n important work. From Arizona. The Houston (Texas) Telegraph, of the 221 ult, has been permitted to make the following extract from a privates letter from one of the officers of a Texas regiment in Arizona to a relative in Houston. It was written from Las Cruces, under date of November 2d. "I have nothing new this time to write about, only that we are hourly expecting the Abs. from New Mexico 2,600 strong. Everything like stores, &c., have been removed to Fort Quitman, below Bliss; and we intend fighting them here, relying on a just Providence to equal our numbers. Our force, all told, is but 600, but good and true men. Expresses have been sent to Sibley to hurry up. I expect to be in Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico, Christmas day. Some twenty Californians have just arrived here from California. They bring dates of September 12th, and we learn with pleasure that Sumner is not coming here with troops, that he can't raise them." Missouri refugees in Texas.
The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Sinking cause of Jeff. Davis and his Southern Confederacy. (search)
C. S. District Court. --The Court on Saturday entered orders for the sequestration of debts due, and the sale of property of alien enemies, included in the following cases; Confederate States against Sublett & Bro.--debt due New England Butt Company; John J. Toler — house and lot belonging to Charles R. Allen, of New York, alien enemy, with rent due thereon; H. F. Dade & Co.--debts due J. R. Jaffrey & Sons, Agans & Co., J. M. Davis, Bliss, Wheelock & Kelly, Jacobus & Bleavett, Peddie & Morrison, and J. H. Kirkpatrick & Co., alien enemies; Geo. G. Booth — debts due Adolphus J. Marndel and Richard Stotesbury, alien enemies; Wm. F. Halley — property of James H. Rice, alien enemy; John C. Patterson — debts due J. K. Jaffrey & Sons, Bell Pace, Lavender & Co, J. B. Lippincott & Co., Evans & Hassell, Baldwin, Linderman & Co., Wm. Ryan & Co., and Henry Dulirring & Co., alien en
The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Chops. (search)
Departure of paroled United States officers. --We noticed the arrival here, some six weeks since, of Colonel Bunford, Captain Bliss, and Lieutenant Van Horn, of the Sixth Infantry, U. S. A., who surrendered themselves prisoners of war last summer in Texas to Colonel Eart Van Dorn, of the C. S. A., and who were paroled to return to the North as soon as opportunity should afford. They came on by themselves, in accordance with the requirements of their parole, and reporting to General Winder, were assigned comfortable quarters at Castle Godwin. They remained there until yesterday, when, all things being in readiness for their departure, they were escorted by the officer in charge of Castle Godwin (Captain G. W. Alexander of Maryland,) to the Petersburg care, where they were received by Lieutenant Winder, and delivered to Lieutenant Porter, to be escorted to Norfolk and sent to Fortress Monroe via flag of truce. Before leaving, aided these officers expressed themselves highly gra
The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War. (search)
or four or five months. In consequence their families are exposed to severe privations and often to absolute want. We hope the Secretary of War will apply himself to the remedy of this evil. There also needs to be amendment in this particular nearer home. We learn that the regiment of artillery that now man the forts in this harbor have received no pay for six months, and that some of their wives and families have in consequence had to seek shelter in the poor-house. We understand that Gen. Bliss says that the money to pay them has been ready for some time, and that the men have not been paid only because the officers do not furnish the pay rolls. It is hard that the men should suffer for their officers' fault, and it would be better that such incompetent officers should resign than that the families of our soldiers should suffer want by hard-earned money being withheld. The Second "Napoleon." The following paragraph appears in a recent number of the Albany (N. Y.) Journa
The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], Ignorance is Bliss. (search)
Ignorance is Bliss. --A private letter from Mr. Charles Wright, on the gunboat Banton on the Mississippi river, to his sister in the city, gives an amusing account of an interview with a lumberman up the Yasoo river who has never heard of the troubles about secession, and received his first intimation that war was raging from our force on the gunboat. He had been in the gum swamps for two years. When he lost our gunboats and heard of the war he was much astonished, as may well he supposed. He was on his way, at the time, to Vicksburg, to secure a marked for his lumber. --Rochester Ex.
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