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The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War in the West. (search)
ge amount of ammunition of a superior quality, three hundred bags of coffee, and an immense amount of commissary stores, from which the Federal army are now drawing their rations. He says, further, that he cut a canal six miles long around the island from above, four miles of which was through a heavy forest, and sawed off the trees four feet under water. He reports his capture of troops to be fragmentary portions of seven regiments, namely: The 1st Alabama, Colonel Stedman. Col. Alex Brown's regiment, Tennessee. Colonel Baker's, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Col. Clark's Tennessee. Col. Marsh Walker's Arkansas, 40th Confederate regiment. Col. Smith's Arkansas. Col. Terry's battalion, Arkansas. The total number taken is not far from eighteen hundred. He describes our guns as being but indifferently spiked; but we may say the same of Yankee work in this respect. Modern appliances for the removal of spikes are so ingenious that a si
The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
$2.00 to $3 per bbl.; according to quantity. Molasses — New Orleans, $1.30 to 1.40 cts. Nails — Old Dominion, 10a11 cents. Offal (mill)--Bran, 30 cents; shorts, 35 cents. Brownstuffs, 40 cents; shipstuffs, 70 cents. Oil — Tanners', $1.12a1.50; machine, $1.50a$2 per gallon. Oats — We quote 80 cents per bushel. Rye--$1.50a$2.00 per bushel. Seed — Clover Seed, $12a$14--latter by retail; Timothy, $5½a$6½. Soda — Best English, 40 cents per lb. Sugars — Brown, 24a26 cents per lb.; coffee, 27a28 cents. All qualities firm. Salt — Some sales of North Carolina Salt at $11 per sack of 100 lbs. Tallow — 15a16 cents per lb. Wheat — Red $1 10al. 20; white $1.15a1.25, and dull. Few buyers at these prices. Wool — Market firm, and arrivals light 20 a 95 cents per pound. Money matters. Specie — We quote gold at 90 to 100 per cent. premium; stiver at 70 to 75 per cent. premium. Bank notes — Nearly all S
The Daily Dispatch: May 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], Powhatan (search)
att, Judge T S Gholson, Mr N H Massie, Mr J L Bacon, Dr P H Foster. Widows and Orphans of Deceased Clergymen.--Rev C Walker, D D; Mr Samuel Tyree. Episcopal Fund,--Rev G Woodbridge, D D; Col T H Burwell. Accounts of Treasurer of Missionary Society.--Rev R R Mason, Mr John E Page. Parochial Reports.--Rev Wm Friend, Mr Samuel M Bailey. New Parishes.--Rev H Stringfellow, Col R E Withers. Elections.--Rev Wm McGuire, Mr T S Garnett. Finance.--Messrs J Stewart, Alex Brown, and E B Pegram. The report of the Executive Committee of the Diocesan Missionary Society was read by the Rev. Dr. Minnegerode. The report of the Standing Committee was read by Rev. D. F. Sprigg. Mr. Latane moved that the report of the Diocesan Missionary Committee be referred to the Committee on the Affairs of that Society. Mr. Sprigg moved as a substitute the following resolution: Resolved, That Rev. Mr. Latane, Rev. C. Walker, D. D., and N. H. Massie be appoint
The Daily Dispatch: May 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], Federal Atrocities in Arkansas. (search)
Coming and going. --Yesterday twenty six Abolition soldiers, captured at various times in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri, were received at the Libby prison. They were robust fellows, but dirty. Yesterday morning thirty six Abolition officers and one Yankee surgeon were sent to City Point by flag of truce. Amongst the prisoners now at the Libby warehouse are Messrs. Brown and Richardson, correspondents of the New York Tribune, captured while endeavoring to pass Vicksburg in a boat. Colburn, New York World correspondent, has been sent home. It has not yet been determined what course to take by way of retaliation for the shooting of three Confederate recruiting officers in Kentucky by Burnside's order. The murder is held as legal by the Government he represents, and would seem to demand some action of the same sort on our part.
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], Another Victim. (search)
Another Victim. --George Brower youth, was arraigned before the Mayor to answer for being engaged in the gartering and robbery of P. L. Gregory on last. Gregory identified Brown as being in the party by whom he was beaten and robbed and as having run off with the robbers after effecting their purpose but could not say that Brown laid hands on him. The Mayor remanded him for examination, with others of the party similarly charged. Another Victim. --George Brower youth, was arraigned before the Mayor to answer for being engaged in the gartering and robbery of P. L. Gregory on last. Gregory identified Brown as being in the party by whom he was beaten and robbed and as having run off with the robbers after effecting their purpose but could not say that Brown laid hands on him. The Mayor remanded him for examination, with others of the party similarly charged.