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The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Proceedings of the Methodist Annual Conference. (search)
, was adopted by the Conference. The Board distributed — dollars, which paid about sixty per cent, upon the claims before them — something less than the amount paid in previous years. The dividend would have been very much smaller but for the action of sundry preachers, before noticed, who declined to prefer any claim for deficiencies, although with some these were great. Rev. W. W. Bennett gave notice that he was authorized to receive any moneys which any of the preachers had for W. T. Smithson, of Washington city. An immediate meeting of the Distribution Committee of the Relief Society was called, and the presiding officer being a member of that body, called the Rev. W. W. Bennett to the chair. Rev. L. S. Reid, aided by the Conference Secretaries, paid over to the preachers the several amounts allowed by the Board of Stewards, to the claimants upon their funds and when this was concluded, the Conference about nine o'clock, took a recess, to allow the Bible and Tract
The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
lamation is said to have been purchased for the sum of $3,000 by a Chicago doctor. The Free State General Committees of the parishes of Orleans and Jefferson, New Orleans, have passed resolutions inviting the friends of freedom in the slave States to meet at New Orleans on Jan. 8, instead of at Louisville, Ky., as previously suggested. Late New Orleans advices report the river to be again blockaded, and no shipments to New Orleans on private account are allowed to be made. W. T. Smithson, the banker, has been sentenced by a Court Martial to five years confinement in the New York penitentiary, for "treasonable correspondence with the enemy." A Washington telegram says that the "Copperheads are rubbing their hands to-day over the news that the Governor of Maryland has become a party to a scheme to nullify the recent election of the Union candidates in that State, by withholding from them their certificates. " Flour advanced 10 cents per barrel. The wheat market
The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], By the Governor of Virginia. (search)
ives at Philadelphia and Cincinnati was simply a suggestion of his name. His friends promised in this caucus to support cordially any man who might be nominated at Chicago. A bill will shortly be introduced in Congress, and will probably pass, putting all male free negroes in the Yankee States, between the ages of sixteen and sixty, in the military service. The Marshal of the District of Columbia, under the confiscation act, has seized the property of Senators Trusten Polk and W. T. Smithson. Gen. Meade arrived at Philadelphia on the 12th and was serenaded. He made a speech urging his hearers to do everything to put then in the army, as the only way to crush the rebellion. He promised to do everything himself to crush out armed traitors. Wilson's resolution to expel Garret Davis from the Senate was taken up on the 13th.--An immense crowd attended. Seward and nearly all the representatives were on the floor of the Senate. Wilson and Davis both spoke. Davis said
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Southern representation — a Gleam of hope. (search)
Forgery. Baltimore, December 15. --A forged check, purporting to be from Colonel Robert Colevan, proprietor of the Eutaw House, for one thousand dollars in gold, was successfully passed a few days ago on W. T. Smithson & Company, bankers.