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The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
he habit of receiving the attacks of big dogs by squatting on the ground and showing a double row of long, sharp teeth at them, or, in other words, carrying out Addison's idea of "grinning horribly a ghastly smile." So, according to Mr. Fisher, it will be when the big dogs of the North attack the little dog of the South, "They will smell around the little fellow, take a good look at his long, sharp, white fangs, and — retire to a neighboring fence — and — think better of the matter." Mr. Burnett brings good news from old Kentucky. He says cockades are plenty, and, to use his own words, the country is in "a blaze of fire." Intelligence of the same sort comes from East Tennessee. Andy Johnson has been hung repeatedly in effigy. Even such Union men as Gen. Zollick offer are in despair. I heard a little while ago that John S. Pendleton Esq., whose distrust of South Carolina has been proverbial, is now one of the strongest secession men in the county of Culpeper. I have reason to<
The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
arolina Coalfield Road, to ten miles, and report by bill or other wise; by Mr. Duckwall, of withdrawing from the files of the House a petition in reference to erroneous assessments of the property of Ben and Isaac Deford, of Morgan county; also, bill 132, on the same subject, and referring same to Finance Committee; by Mr. West, of providing by law for the equitable distribution of public arms in the various sections of this Commonwealth; by Mr. Baskerville, of granting to B. W. Love and Isaac Burnett, free persons of color, the privilege of enslaving themselves without compensation to the State; by Mr. Gibson, of reporting a bill for the payment of an account of J. P. A. Gutter, for services rendered the State. Coast and Harbor Defence.--Mr. Bisbie, of Norfolk, offered the following: Whereas. The immense coast line of Virginia is measurably unprotected against the incursion of an armed enemy or marauders, by which every portion of our territory bordering on the ocean river