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The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Robbery of a Government Train. (search)
Trade with Boston. Boston, May 8.
--The steamer Ben De Ford sails hence to-morrow, with a full cargo for Baltimore, by permission of the Secretary of the Treasury.
She is forbidden to call at Norfolk.
The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Great excitement (search)
Hdq'rs Virginia Forces, Richmond, Va., may 8th.
General Orders No. 12.
Col. John B. Magruder, of the Provisional Army of Virginia, is assigned to the command of the Virginia Forces in and about this city.
He will execute the duties assigned to his predecessor by General Orders No. 3, current series.
Col. Magruder will select from his command a suitable officer to perform the duties of Assistant Adjutant General. By order of Major General Lee. my 9--3t R. S. Garnett, Adl't Gen'l.
The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Good for them. (search)
Alexandria and Washington Affairs.
Alexandria,May 8.--The city is all quiet Rumors of the occupation by Lincoln's troops are not credited.
Twenty-three steamers, in the United States employ, are now in the Eastern Branch of the Potomac.
Vessels, loaded with troops, ammunition, and provisions, are continually passing this city for Washington.
In Washington, to day, Col. Ellsworth's "Pet Lambs," 1,100 strong, were sworn in at the War Department.
Travel between New York and Washington is now uninterrupted — passengers going by Perryville.
To-day was the day for the Federal troops to pass through Baltimore.
It is not known whether they did or not.
From Washington.
The Alexandria Gazette has the following by special express:
Washington, May 8.
--The continued stream of Northern troops that is pouring into the Federal Metropolis occasions no remark or surprise, though the citizens are evidently becoming tired of this thing.
The soldiers now in the city are very numerous, and they are well armed; but a practical eye soon discovers among them various faults and some bad discipline.
Although people are not now arrested e to the Constitution and laws.
The officers of his staff have followed his example.
The first occasion was when he entered the service, and the second when in command of Fort Moultrie, in the "Calhoun nullification" times.
Washington, May 8.
--Mr. Simonton, of the New York Times, was seriously but not dangerously wounded this afternoon.
Just as he had passed a military outpost on the city suburbs, the captain levelled a gun down the road, which accidentally exploding, the ball
The Daily Dispatch: may 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Telegraphic News. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: may 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], The telegraph. (search)
Southern Congress. Montgomery, May 8.
--In the Congress, to-day, President Cobb read a dispatch from D. P. Hill, Commissioner from Georgia, announcing that the Arkansas Convention had passed unanimously an unconditional ordinance of secession.
Mr. Norton, of Florida, offered a resolution of inquiry as to the propriety of appointing chaplains to the navy.
Adopted.
Mr. Ochiltree, of Texas, introduced a bill providing compensation to the disbursing officers of the several Executive Departments.
Mr. Conrad, of Louisiana, moved to appoint a Committee on Claims, which was adopted.
Secret session followed.
The Daily Dispatch: may 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Northern Pleasantries. (search)
[the Post-office Department.] Montgomery, May 8.
--The Postal Department is ready to take charge of the mails at any moment that Congress directs.
The office seals, books, blanks, routes, and clerical force are complete.
No detentions to the mails need be feared in consequence of any policy of the Lincoln Government.
Heavy failure. Philadelphia, May 8.
--Chas. Henry Fisher, banker, has suspended.
Liabilities, about a million.