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The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
he MoFlimsy school. We may look out, now, for a perfect furore in that direction, There was a time when calicoes dotted with little round spots, and called "Nelson bullets," were all the rage in England and America. We all remember when the Kossuth hat threatened entirely to supplant the more unpretending of our own day. These were tributes paid by admiration to celebrity. But apart from the admiration attached to particular individuals, scarlet has in all ages, been the peculiar color of Mars and his worshippers. Even the star named after that god has a fiery red appearance, as though it indicated the character which he was supposed to bear. The Spartan color was scarlet, adopted, we are told, to prevent the blood from showing upon the garment. The British uniform is scarlet, and the grandest pageant probably in the world is the parade of a British regiment in full uniform, drums beating and colors flying. The lion will rouse himself at the sight of man in scarlet, when nothin
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The starry heavens. (search)
the Hyades, is the planet Uranus, plainly visible to the naked eye, and the next interior to Neptune. Farther eastward of the meridian is the imperial Jupiter, shining with a steady, burning lustre, which rivals in brilliancy even Sirius in the southwest. A line drawn from Jupiter through Regulus, and continued as far eastward, will point at Saturn, always easily recognized by its pale, steady lustre.-- These two great planets will continue to adorn our evening sky for some months to come.--Mars and Venus only are wanting to make this planetary spectacle complete. The splendid constellation Orion, in the meridian, presents sufficient starry attractions for one night; but Procyon and Sirius of the Hyades and Pleiades, will ever be present to divide its glory and share its homage. The beautiful star Capella looks meekly down from the zenith, on all these; and the great, brilliant circumpolar constellations, Cassiopeia, the Great Bear, and the contortious Draco, outwatch them all
The Daily Dispatch: April 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
aded faction in control at Washington have branded upon a once proud and just Government, but now a ruined, dreary throne, whose leaders seem wrathfully bent upon a still more fatal destruction. While I write, the shadowy hopes and doubts that have heretofore existed in regard to the fulfillment of the "peace policy" promised to be pursued towards the Confederate States, are winging their everlasting flight from our peaceful and happy shores, and face to face we seem to stand with bloody Mars. All "reconstructive breathing" will soon be hushed; all "recorganizing dreams" will vanish into thin air, and shadows like the one in Richard III., whose bright hair was "dabbled in blood," will become fearful realities. The next gale that reaches your State may bring with it the odious din and clash of arms — and American blood will have been shed by American hands. It is now believed from reliable Washington advices, and other information, that a delay of hostilities cannot long exi
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ross Winans. (search)
President Davis. Eminent as Jefferson Davis is as a states man, he is also beyond all doubt one of the first military men of this country. Some of the Northern journals have the justice to accord to him great powers as a General. The Cleveland Plaindealer styles him "a genuine son of Mars." The Bangor Democrat says: "Whatever estimate Republicans may place upon the character of Jefferson Davis, all parties know and agree that he is not a man of bluster and bluff, but a man of terrible determination, who means what he says, and whose resources of mind rise in grandeur in proportion as the difficulties by which he is surrounded increase. He is one of those very, very few gigantic minds which adorn the pages of history, of whom it may be said :--"Desperate courage makes one a majority." The latent powers of his soul and intellect have been fully called forth on but one occasion. When the flower of the Mexican cavalry, numbering 8,000 strong, came down on his hand of 400 M
The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
lliam and Mary College, and am surrounded by a number of "Young Guard," who are, like myself, intent upon writing to the "loved ones at home." Judging from the Greek quotation from Euripides which is boldly traced upon the black-board that swings from the wall of the room which we inhabit, this must have been the lecture room of the Greek Professor. The College, as your readers are aware, has been vacated some time since by the students and professors. The muses have fled, and the iron-eyed Mars now rules over these classic precincts. Our Regiment (the Third) left the Central Fair Grounds yesterday morning about six o'clock, and straightway proceeded to the wharf at Rocketts. Not a member of our company knew his destination, and many conjectures were formed on the subject. In sooth, we were entirely in gloom thereto, until the Glen Cove hove within sight of King's wharf. Our trip was a delightful one, and nothing occurred to stifle the cheerfulness and contentment of the sold
The Daily Dispatch: may 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Personal. (search)
They took a carriage early in the morning, and proceeded direct by Long Bridge, returning late in the afternoon. No molestation was met with, but they were suspiciously scrutinized by secession troops on their journey. They passed through most of the streets of the city in search of the polls, but no places of voting were discovered. Going down on the wharf opposite which the United States steamer Pawnee is anchored, overlooking the town, which they found guarded by a Virginia militia man with a fowling piece, Mix inquired of the chivalric son of Mars, "Can you give me the name of that vessel in the steam, yonder?" "Sir," replied the man with the fowling piece.--"What wharf is this we are on?" gruffly responded the great tragedian. "I do not know," was the answer; "but I will ask the sergeant." Off went the man with the fowling piece, who in a moment returned, and gave the required information. "All right," responded the tragedian, when he and his friend moved off up the town.
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Madness of the Administration. (search)
The Zouaves of New Orleans. A friend remarks to us that he thinks if the daguerreotypes of the French Zouave regiment now in this city could be taken and sent to Gen. Butler, he would immediately evacuate his present quarters. Heaven help his Vermonters or Ellsworth's so-called Zouaves when these fierce-faced and genuine sons of Mars come after them! The New York firemen will find a conflagration the like of which they never witnessed in their combustible city, and which they have no machinery for putting out.
The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
Fugacious sons of Mars. --Henry Jones and Samuel Wesley, the parties named as having been arrested near Bumpass', in Louisa county, as suspicious characters, were sent to jail by the Mayor yesterday till called for by the "Stephens Rifics," to which company they belonged previous to the development of fugacious tendencies on their parts.
The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Confederate Loun. (search)
emale education.--A few days ago, the Captain resorted with a few members of his class, to the residence of A. H. Arthur, Esq, for the purpose of practicing, with the following result. The target was placed ten paces distant. Mrs. W. H. Stevens rang the bell four times out of five shots, with a rest, and eight times out of fifteen off-hand. Mrs. Garvin four times with a rest out of five, and four times out of fifteen off-hand. Mrs. Gen. T. C. McMackin twice out of five times with a rest, and six times out of fifteen off-hand. Mrs. A. H. Arthur twice out of five times with a rest, and seven times off-hand out of fifteen shots. Capt. Travis says that it equals any shooting he ever saw by any class. We are in no danger when every one of our noble ladies is a hero, and can use the weapons of Mars upon their enemies as effectually as they play the battery of their charge upon their friends.--Who would not battle for them? Vicksburg is a head taller than any place in the South.
The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Will they dare? (search)
e sort a quite pleasurable excitement. I would advise, from experience, all who may be on outposts to adopt the following plan for being speedily prepared at a call to arms in the night: Lie down with the clothes on, the shoes on the right side of the pallet, the hat just at the head, and the musket and accoutrements on the left side. Thus prepared, a soldier can, at the slightest alarm, and with the least possible delay, spring from the arms of Morpheus into the proper attitude of a son of Mars. It appears that the Yankees in the affair at Vienna had a cannon mounted on a car as a swivel, to turn in all directions on a pivot; but this, like all their improved arms, availed them not. God was with us and we slew the invaders by scores. This morning early, two Federal regulars were captured by a detachment of a Mississippi regiment within a few miles of here, and the vigilance of our troops is at times rewarded by occasional glimpses at most suspicious and toryish looking men
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