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The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Debate in the U. S. Senate--Garret Davis. (search)
Debate in the U. S. Senate--Garret Davis. In the U. S. Senate, on the 8th, Senator Hale introduced a resolution to investigate the condition of the Navy and the manner and mode of procuring supplies, &c. Mr. Davis (Ky.) said, I have been referred to so repeatedly by the Senator from California and others, that I feel it necessary to say a few words. I have observed the restiveness of the Senators about examinations being made into the acts of this Administration. They are propell we must sustain the Government, and go on spending and fighting until the rebellion is subdued. I do not believe that this Administration has fraudulently expended money, though it may have been fraudulently obtained from the treasury. Mr. Davis said: I think that the Senator who preceded me said that the office of a loyal man was to sustain the Administration in the performance of its duty. I support every just measure of this Administration to carry on the war to a speedy and succes
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Queen Victoria godmother for a "Colored" Baby. (search)
of Africa, and educated by the Rev. J. Schon, chaplain of M. I. ville Hospital, Chatham, at the expense of her Majesty, who always took the most lively interest in her welfare, and occasionally had her at court.--On the occasion of the marriage of the young princess to J. Davis, Esq., a colored West India merchant, who has since settled on the Gold Coast, the Queen took the most lively interest in the event, and made Miss Forbes several handsome wedding presents, all of which were fully described at the time. Intelligence has now been received of a further mark of favor conferred on Mrs. Davis, who has just given birth so a daughter, to whom her Majesty stood godmother by proxy. At the same time the Queen has presented to her godchild a beautiful gold cup, with a salver, knife, fork and spoon, of the same metal, as a baptismal present. The cup and salver bear the following inscription:-- "To Victoria Davis, from her godmother, Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, 1863."