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The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1860., [Electronic resource], Destructive fire in Memphis (search)
ie, saddle and harness manufacturer; South Memphis Lodge of Masons; a Jewish Benevolent Society, called the Order of Druids; J. C. Ward, bookbindery; John Sevier, grocer and commission merchant; F. Stillman & Co., millinery; E. F. Risk, tin and sheet iron manufactory; and Norwell, Boon & Co., grocers and commission merchants. The aggregate loss sustained is estimated at $175,000. During the fire, the rear of the burning building fell, crushing one fireman to death, and severely wounding several others. It is feared that two or three firemen were buried beneath the ruins. The second fire, which was discovered about midnight, broke out in the Calhoun Block, one of the finest blocks in the city, directly opposite the Overton Block. Owing to a scarcity of water, the firemen were powerless to save, and the structure was destroyed. It was occupied by Smith & Co., dry goods merchants, and by H. T. Farnsworth & Co., druggists. --The aggregate loss will reach $75,000, it is thought.
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1860., [Electronic resource], Post-Office affairs. (search)
Public Hiring of Negroes. --Will be hired at "Wakefield," the farm next adjoining Mr. George W. Doswell's, in Hanover county, on Monday, the 31st day of the present month, (December,) about Forty Negroes, consisting of Men and Women, Boys and Girls. They will be hired as farm hands and house servants — in no instance to labor on works of internal improvements, or an occupations considered hazardous; and with the further express understanding that they are not to be re-hired by those who hire them publicly without the written consent of the undersigned. Bonds with approved security will be required in every instance. B. W. Richardson, Execu'or of Mrs. Judith Smith, dec'd. de 20--dtd
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1860., [Electronic resource], Succession movement at the South. (search)
Public Hiring of Negroes. --Will be hired at "Wakefield." the farm next adjoining Mr. George W. Doswell's, in Hanover county, on Monday, the 31st day of the present month, (December,) about Forty Negroes consisting of men and women, Boys and Girls. They will be hired as farm hands and house servants — in no instance to labor on works of internal improvements or on occupations considered hazardous; and with the further express understanding that they are not to be re-hired by those who hire them publicly without the written consent of the undersigned. Bonds with approved security will be required in every instance. B. W. Richardson. Executor of Mrs. Judith Smith, dec'd. de 20--dtd
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1860., [Electronic resource], Succession movement at the South. (search)
l, subject only to the paramount claims of God upon them. Convention proceedings. Charleston, Dec. 20. --The following is a continuation of the Convention reports of yesterday, from the point at which it was stopped in the dispatches to the press: The special order for one o'clock was the appointment of four special committees. Mr. Hutson said that the business of the Convention would be of greater and wider importance than any other ever held in South Carolina. Mr. Smith proposed a Committee of Commerce, and also a Committee on Postal Arrangements. Mr. Maryck said that small committees work with greater certainty than large ones. A debate took place about the power of the Legislature in this matter. The Committees on Commerce and Postal Arrangements were increased to thirteen, and the resolution adopted. A resolution authorizing a committee in relation to the slaveholding States was adopted, and also a committee on foreign relations was
The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1860., [Electronic resource], Peruvian cotton. (search)
Public Hiring of Negroes. --Will be hired at "Wakefield," the farm next adjoining Mr. George W. Doswell's, in Hanover county, on Monday, the 31st day of the present month. (December,) about Forty Negroes, consisting of Men and Women, boys and Girls. They will be hired as farm hands and house servants — in no instance to labor on works of internal improvements, or in occupations considered ; and with the further express understanding that they are not to be re-hired by those who hire them publicly without the written consent of the undersigned Bonds with approved security will be required in every instance. B. W. Richardson. Executor of Mrs. Judith Smith, dec'd. de 20--dtd
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1860., [Electronic resource], The public Press on Secession. (search)
Public Hiring of Negroes. --Will be hired at "Wakefield," the farm next adjoining Mr. George W. Doswells, in Hanover county, on Monday, the 31st day of the present month, (December,) about Forty Negroes, consisting of Men and Women, Boys and Girls. They will be hired as farm hands and house servants — in no instance to labor on works of internal improvements, or in occupations considered hazardous; and with the further express understanding that they are not to be re-hired by those who hire them publicly without the written consent of the undersigned. Bonds with approved security will be required in every instance. B. W. Richardson. Executor of Mrs. Judith Smith, dec'd. de 20--dtd
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1860., [Electronic resource], High Mass. (search)
Public Hiring of Negroes. --Will be hired at "Wakefield," the farm next adjoining, Mr George W. Doswell's, in Hanover county, on Monday, the 31st day of the present month. (December,) about Forty Negroes, consisting of Men and Women, Boys and Girls, They will be hired as farm hands and house servants — in no instance to labor on works of internal improvements, or n occupations considered hazardous; and with the further express understanding that they are not to be re-hired by those who hire them publicly without the written consent of the undersigned. Bonds with approved security will be required in every instance. B. W. Richardson. Executor of Mrs. Judith Smith, dec'd. de 20--dtd
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1860., [Electronic resource], Virginia post-offices. (search)
Public Hiring of Negroes. --Will be hired at "Wakefield," the farm next adjoining Mr. George W. Doswell's, in Hanover county, on Monday, the 31st day of the present month. (December,) about forty Negroes. consisting of men and Women, Boys and Girls. They will be hired as farm hands and house servants — in no instance to labor on works of internal improvements, or in occupations considered hazardous; and with the further express understanding that they are not to be re-hired by those who hire them publicly without the written consent of the undersigned. Bonds with approved security will be required in every instance. B. W. Richardson, Executor of Mrs. Judith Smith, dec'd. de 20--dtd
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1860., [Electronic resource], Later from South America. (search)
Public Hiring of Negroes. --Will be hired at "Wakefield," the farm next adjoining Mr. George W. Doswellis, in Hanover county, on Monday, the 31st day of the present month. (December,) about Forty Negroes, consisting of Men and Women, Boys and Girls. They will be hired as farm hands and house servants — in no instance to labor on works of internal improvements, or on occupations considered hazardous; and with the further express understanding that they are not to be re-hired by those who hire them publicly without the written consent of the undersigned. Bonds with approved security will be required in every instance. B. W. Richardson. Executor of Mrs. Judith Smith, dec'd. de 20--dtd.
The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], Republican "Invincible" and the inauguration of Lincoln. (search)
mpolitic, and the destruction of Republican liberty; one by Mr. Vallandigham, substituting the Crittenden resolutions; one by Colfax, that the laws of the Union should be enforced, and the Union of the States maintained, and that it is the duty of the President to protect the U. S. property with all the power placed in his hands, and one by Morris, of Ill., that in pursuing any plan for the adjustment of the existing difficulties we will keep steadily in view the preservation of the Union under the Constitution as a paramount consideration. After a desultory debate, in which Messrs. Cox, Pryer, Smith of Va., Jenkins, Sherman, Stanton, Colfax, Noe, Hinchman, Montgomery, McClernand, and Harris of Va., participated, all pending propositions were, on motion of the last-named gentleman, referred to a committee of fourteen--one from each State represented — to report on at a future meeting to be called by it, if it agreed upon any plan. After this action, the meeting adjourned.
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