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The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
State armory. --The estimate of funds needed to meet engagements for the State machinery under the contract with Messrs. Joseph R. Anderson & Co., is as follows: 1st of March $20,000;1st of June $60,000; 1st of September $50,000; 1st of December $50,000. The amount of the original contract was $158, 59040; additions ordered by the Master Armorer, Mr. Salmon Adams, by letter of November 21, 1860, $1,174.50; subsequent contract for supplying set of barrel rolling and welding machinery, &c., $14,600--total amount of contract, $172,364.90. Sub-contracts have been made with other parties, and approved by the Commissioners of the State of Virginia, for the supply of machinery, to the extent of about $75,176; and good progress has been made towards the execution of the work undertaken by them. Most of the machines for the machine shops of the armory are ready for erection as soon as the building is ready to receive them — and that is nearly the case. Immediately on the conclusion of
The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Annapolis. (search)
n Virginia. Harper has his plan of the campaign, like all the New York editors; but we have no room for details. He recommends the instant seizure and occupation of Baltimore, and then, he says,"a column should move on Richmond. Richmond is important, first as the capital of Virginia, and secondly, as the greatest depot of arms and flour in the Southern States. The entire rebel force is armed and fed, at this moment, by Richmond. It should be in the possession of the Government before 1st June." Having captured Richmond, Mr. Harper proceeds to demolish the West. He says St. Louis, Mo.; Louisville, Ky.; and Memphis, Tenn., should be occupied by Northwestern troops, and the strong points on the river fortified. The editor orders fifty thousand men for this purpose, and a "home reserve of an equal number to fill vacancies after battles." This is a prudential provision. The home reserve should be made up of men of undaunted spirit, for every man of them will be needed. "Kent
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
Insurrection in Ruatan. New Orleans, May 2. --The schooner Aramenta, from Ruatan, reports an insurrection in Ruatan by the Indians. Fifteen British officers are said to have been killed by the insurgents. Capt. Dunn's West India Regiment had left for the scene of action. The English Government is to give up the island on the 1st of June, positively, whether Honduras accepts it or not.
The Daily Dispatch: may 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Telegraphic News. (search)
--A party of 50 West Point Cadets were detained here last night by the police on the supposition that they were about to join the secessionists, having received information that they had been purchasing arms at New York. The mistake was soon rectified, and the train on which they were detained proceeded on towards Washington, where they will be commissioned as second lieutenants. Washington May 8. --A Board of Medical Officers convenes at the Naval Hospital, New York, on the first of June, for the examination of candidates for admission to the Medical Corps of the Navy. New Orleans, May 6. --The blockade of Pensacola, with several English ships inside the harbor, it is expected will cause the immediate interference of England. The largest portion of the officers on board the U. S. ships off the Southern coast are known to be warmly in favor of the Confederacy. The schooner Horace, with United States troops from Texas, had passed the Balize, enrout
The Daily Dispatch: may 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 33 (search)
The funeral service for the late Bishop Onderdork was celebrated at Trinity Church, N. Y., Wednesday, Over one hundred clergymen, all robed in white surplices, were present, and the church was crowded in every part. Lieut. A. Jackson, of the U. S. Cavalry, adopted grandson of Tennessee's honored soldier, Old Hickory, has resigned his commission, and is now on his way to Montgomery, to wield his sword in defence of Southern soil. Bernard Hooe, Esq., late Assistant Chief Clerk in the Pension Office in Washington, who has been in that office for sixteen years past, resigned his position on the 27th ult., and returned to his native State. A person named Joshua Aley, has been arrested at Rensselaerville, N. Y., charged with causing the death of Miss Antoinette Converse, by producing an abortion. The Bank of North Carolina has declared a dividend of 4 per et., payable the 1st Monday in June.
The Daily Dispatch: may 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], $25 reward. (search)
il 27th, has arrived. The subject of American hostilities was engrossing public attention in England. The news of the bombardment of Fort Sumter created considerable sensation, and produced a slight depression in English funds.--The London Times considers the result of the contest inexplicable, considering that a barroom difficulty would have occasioned more bloodshed. The Great Eastern was in the hands of the Sheriff, under an execution. She was, however, advertised to sail June 1st, the company having offered to deposit the amount claimed. Affairs at Warsaw were unchanged. All the towns in Poland were occupied with military, and many arrests continued to be made. There were reports of an intended demonstration on the 29th of May, the Czar's birth-day. The insurrectionary movements in the Neapolitan provinces were spreading. Martial law had been proclaimed at Abruzzi and other places. Commercial. Liverpool Cotton Market.--The market closed firm. S
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
A formidable corps. The Texas Rangers will be one of the most effective branches of the service in the coming struggle. The movements of Major Ben McCulloch have been already alluded to, and we now learn that the Hon, Thomas Lubbock, a distinguished citizen of Houston, Texas, is raising a company of Rangers, who propose to defray their own expenses to Virginia, and expect to arrive in Richmond by the 1st of June. Their arms will be double-barrelled shot-guns and Navy six-shooters.
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Tea. (search)
Southern postal affairs. --It will be seen by reference to our Montgomery correspondence, that the Postmaster General has issued his proclamation, announcing that the Department will take entire control of postal affairs in the Confederate States on the 1st of June.
The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.our New postal arrangements — a Suggestion to postmasters. Mossing Ford, Charlotte, May 27. It is understood that the Post-Office Department of the Confederate States does not expect to be able to furnish stamps for the prepayment of postage, immediately on the assumption by that Department, on the first of June, of the full control of our postal affairs. And not a little inconvenience, to both postmasters and the people, may result from having to pre-pay in money every letter mailed.--I beg leave to suggest a method by which that inconvenience may be obviated. Let each postmaster write his name, or some other mark, on small slips of paper, (or in the case of offices having a large custom, something of the kind might be printed,) and issue these, at the rate of five cents each, to the known customers at his office, twenty-five cents worth, or a dollar's worth at a time.--These slips could then be attached to letters mailed as stam
The Daily Dispatch: may 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
d to find that the authorities are fully alive to the great crisis in our affairs and prepared to exhaust all the resources of the country in the maintenance of our cause.--Congress has authorized a war loan of $50,000,000, and empowered the President at his discretion to increase the army of volunteers to 150,000 men. The seat of Government is to be changed for the time being to Richmond, where the archives of the Government and the Secretaries of State will be duly installed by the 1st of June. President Davis will no doubt be in Virginia before you get this to take the command in the field of all the troops concentrated there for our defence. He will be worth fifty thousand men to our cause, and will soon teach Lincoln's myrmadons that our country is never to be subdued while there is a man in the South to raise an arm or a woman to raise a son. You will be gratified to learn that the cotton crop has been curtailed this season, and a greater breadth of land devoted t
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