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The Daily Dispatch: February 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
re all Irish, and they add, that of 43 prisoners on board, on arriving at Cadiz, all the negroes, who former a large proposition of them, were retained as part of the crew of the Confederate steamer. As each of the Captains relates circumstances somewhat different from the other, we shall take each in turn, and first of Captain Lioxie. His vessel, the Eben Dodge, was 1,222 tone, and belonging to Bedford, whence she sailed on the 20th of November last on a whaling voyage to the South Pacific. She was provisioned and provided in all respects for a three years voyage, and had a large store of water. Her crew had three years clothing, and the findings of ship and crew were of the best. On December N. M. W., about ten o'clock A. M. weather thick, a steamer Bove in sight, showing. American colors, and immediately fired across the bows of the Eben Dodge, and then running up the Confederate flag, stun ranged alongside, coming up under her stern. Captain Semmes ordered Cap
The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
--More confidence is felt in the cotton trade. Middling Uplands are quoted at from 22 to 23 cents per pound. Liverpool, Feb. 7. --The stock of American cotton at Liverpool is 201,970 bales. The quantity of cotton at sea at the present time from America is not a single bale, while at this date last year there were 310,000 bales. New York, Feb. 25. --The North Star arrived to-day from Aspinwall, and she brings $759,000 in specie. The intelligence from the South Pacific coast announces that peace reigns from Ecuador to Uruguay. There is a strong feeling against the Spanish Government because it has threatened to reconquer all her former provinces. The Lincoln Government has taken military possession of all telegraph lines in the United States. A skirmish occurred on Tuesday near the Occoquan, between a body of Texan Rangers and Federal troops. Several of the latter were killed and wounded. The nomination of General Winfield Scott as an
The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
ce to his rank he was brought to the hospital and laid among the dead. His friends prepared to give him a decent burial, and were about to carry the body out, when the Colonel rolled over, and in tones more like those of a man drunk than dead, called out, "Ben, John, where is my whiskey flask? " The Burning of the Golden Gate. In commenting upon the causes of the destruction of the steamship Golden Gate, the New York Times says: The disaster was wholly unexpected. In the Eastern Pacific half the terrors of sea travel are disarmed. In July there are no frightful gales and tremendous seas to imperil the strength of the vessel. Unless the pilot wander from a well defined course, there are no reefs nor shoals where he may be suddenly sunk. So plain and secure has been the journey from San Francisco to Panama, that the voyager has come to regard it as less formidable than the crossing of an inland ferry. But from the one danger of which no vessels is free, even when
The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], The embalming business in the U. S. Army. (search)
tes and Territories alluded to, by at once asserting their independence of the Government of the United States, would realize great and inestimable advantages, among which may be reckoned the following 1. Relief from the taxation to which they are new subjected, amounting annually, as is supposed, directly and indirectly, to the sum of fifteen millions of dollars. 2. The exclusive control and enjoyment of their vast mineral treasures. 3. A permanent monopoly of the navigation of the Pacific ocean, and the commerce of China, Japan, and the Indies; and whereas, it is now well ascertained that far the most convenient route for communication by railway between the Pacific and Atlantic costs would be along aline extending through some half dozen or more of the most populous and wealthy States of this Confederacy, thus indicating a class commercial connection in future between the grand Confederacy which may be expected shortly to spring into existence along the Pacific slope of this C
The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], Two days later from Europe. (search)
here were thirty-four hands, all told. Captain Setames (late of the Sumter) behaved hospitably to the crew. The Alabama has taken and burned four whalers within a short time. The Alabama took an American schooner (name unknown) while the Cairngorm was off Flores. The Okmulgee was a ship of four hundred and fifty eight tons burthen, the largest hailing from Edgartown. She was commanded by Captain Os born. She sailed from Edgartown. on the 2d of July last, bound for the South Pacific. The London times on the American news — not much Gained for the Federal. The London Times, of the 27th says that if McClellan's dispatch contains a true account of the engagement in Maryland of which it is in great doubt, "a gleam of success has a little brightened the darkness of the Federal cause." It adds: Though a greater victory than that now claimed would still leave the Federal Government in a desperate position, the military advantage, contrasting as it does with su
The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
kee House of Representatives on Tuesday the Engineer Corps bill was taken up. A long fight followed. The Democrat succeeded in carrying by one majority an amendment that no black man should be a commissioned officer in the national army; this was modified by a later amendment, got through by two majority, that no black men should be commissioned except as company officers over companies composed of Africans only. The bill then passed. The bark W. Gifford, at New Bedford, from the Pacific Ocean, reports as follows: On the 14th of February, in lat, 269 lon 678, saw a square rigged vessel on fire. Did not go to her assistance for fear of the Alabama. The London Times ridicules the rebel Mason's debut at the Lord Mayor's banquet, and says that when the Federal are obliged to leave the Confederates in quiet possession of the States it will be time enough to discuss recognition. Tom Thumb and his wife, who are at their home in Bridgeport Conn., complain of the effec
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
e was the Indianola? The Monitor was again act out in the stream and let go down on the Queen. All the forts got to firing and signalling, and as the Monitor approached, the Queen turned tall and ran down stream as fast as she could go, the Monitor after her, making all the speed of a five-knot current. The Warrenton Fort fired bravely and rapidly, and, it was reported that the Monitor in "a very vulnerable spot." The Government is advised of rebel movements for privateers on the Pacific ocean. Four Secession females were to-day arrested by the Provost Guard, on Pennsylvania Avenue, through which they were riding in a carriage, cheering for Jeff. Davis and singing Secession songs. Latest.--London, Feb. 27. --The Spanish Ministry have resigned. It is reported that Norway is forming a new Cabinet. The Polish question is unchanged. General Magles's removal caused great regret.--Two or three Generals said "they would not be far behind Gen. Nagles in their jour
The Daily Dispatch: October 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], One Hundred Dollars reward. (search)
nt and too ready, perhaps, to grasp at anything that may be held out to them as a remedy; and the tide of passion, I fear, threatens to prove too strong for the counsels of moderation, of wisdom — perhaps, even of justice. Mr. Speaker, I now close my public life. Some ten years of it have been devoted to the duties of this hall of Legislature of my native State. I have served here, sir, in our halcyon days of peace and prosperity, when scarce a ripple disturbed the surface of that pacific ocean over which the bark of State smoothly glided, or when at most the mock tempests of party alone lashed us into a factitious and transitory excitement. I was here, too, during that delusive calm--"the torrent's smoothness ere it dashed below"--which was followed by our being suddenly precipitated into that gulf of whirling trials and troubles with which we have been since struggling. I have been here through all the real and terrible tornado, in the very heart and centre of which we are
The Daily Dispatch: October 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
men, and he told the garrison that he came, upon hearing of their peril from refugees, the men shouted until the rebels took alarm, thinking that these reinforcements were but the advance of an army. To push out a strong picket up and down the road, and move toward Rolla the same night, ws the next thing; and this was done, and the position evacuated, before the rebels knew which way the force went. Thirty miles were made that night, and in the morning St. James's station, on the South Pacific road, was reached, where the entire command took the cars for Rolla, and reached it in safety, seven hundred strong, after fighting every mile of the way and undergoing such hardships as such campaigning involves. General Ewing lost no property, save the ammunition for the siege guns in Fort Davidson, which was blown up; and his entire lost no property, save the ammunition for the siege guns in Fort Davidson, which was blown up; and his entire loss in killed and wounded will not exceed
The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
perceive, at a glance, the manner in which English interests will be affected by this great work. It leads from the port of Said, on the south coast of the Mediterranean Sea, to the port of Suez, on the Red Sea. Across the latter there is unrestricted passage to the Straits of Babelmandel, through which entrance is obtained to the great Indian Ocean, which washes the shores of Arabia, Persia, Hindoostan and the Burman Empire, and which furnishes passage by the Straits of Malacca to the Pacific Ocean, and along the whole Eastern coast by Siam, China and Japan, clear up to the Russian possessions. The whole of this immense country has hitherto been accessible to Southern Europeans by passing out of the Mediterranean Sea, through the Straits of Gibraltar, and sailing down the entire western coast of Africa to the Cape of Good Hope, and then northwest to the entrance of the Indian Ocean at the Straits of Babelmandel. England, by its westerly position, had the easiest course to Ind
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