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The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], Anxious to be in a Row. (search)
Anxious to be in a Row. --The Irish people are assuredly the most bellicose of men. It is not enough that they should recruit the armies of President Lincoln in a quarrel with which they certainly have nothing to do, but already they are designing an intervention in the Dane German conflict. A gentleman of Cork, well known from his professional abilities, his social eminence, and his success in the hunting field, has written to the King of Denmark, offering the services of a hundred Irish gentlemen in the war, the corps to be called the "Alexandria Cont Guards, " In honor of the Princess of Wales. These heroes are all to be men of good position, to equip and mount themselves, to wear uniform of the national colors, and to exhibit the metro "Right against Might," thus exactly reversing the watchword of their brethren in the Federal ranks To improve the idea, the projector has written to the Prince of Wales to ask his sanction for the movement. Sixty-four gentlemen have already
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales. (search)
Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales. --The Queen is for Germany, not only in obedience to the proclivities of her dead husband and in friendship of his brother Prince Augustenburg, but because her niece, the Princess Leiningin, is Augustenburg's wife, and has always been high in favor with her Majesty, who appointed the lady's brother, the Prince of Leiningin — an officer in the British navy — to the command of the royal yacht. The Prince of Wales and his party hold with Denmark, and for war on its behalf and that of the papa of the pretty Princess. I believe it is a historical tradition that all reguing monarchs are at Isssue with their heirs apparent, and if Queen Victoria and her first born be not greatly belied by those who pretend to know, they are no exception to the rule. Not to put too fine a point upon it. It is said that they quarrel like cat and dog. Her Majesty likes to have her own way, as was very well known in Prince Albert's time, and the Prince needs none
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], The American campaign in London and Paris. (search)
rnals here will be found in to-day's Spectator and the editor does full justice to the pluck, endurance and generalship exhibited in the rebel army led by Lee. Without being a rout of the enemy, the Spectator says, If ever a General was entitled to have "victory" inscribed on his banners it is Grant, for the eight days fighting from the 5th to the 13th of May. The editor says, had the Danish shown half the fervor of the Union troops the Prussian army would now be sleeping under the sail of Denmark. Since the tempest in a teapot caused by the Treat affair, nearly three years ago, there has been nothing like the absorption of all public topics by the American news that we have witnessed during the last ten days. The intelligence just brought by the Scotta has caused a little depression to the former prospects of the Union cause; but still little doubt exists that Richmond must fall. How much Sigel and Butler may have suffered by the attacks made on their forces seems uncertain, b
The Daily Dispatch: June 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later Foreign News. (search)
tion of the Southern Confederacy. The consideration of the motion was postponed until the 17th. It is stated that the Emperor Napoleon has sent two commissioners to America to report the progress of the war, and that they are authorized, in conjunction with England, to renew overtures for the cessation of the carnage The Alabama left the Cape of Good Hope on the 25th of March. The proposition of the London Conference to detach Holstein and the southern part of Schleswig from Denmark has been rejected by the latter. Arrival of Maximilian at Vera Cruz. Maximilian arrived at Vera Cruz on the 28th of May. At 2 P. M the Novara entered the bay amidst a salvo of one hundred cannon. Fort Union, the ships, the wharf, were all crowded with banners At 5 o'clock Almonte, accompanied by other officials, proceeded on board the Novara. In the meantime a proclamation from the Emperor had been issued, beginning, "Mexicans, you have desired to have me," and expressing his
The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
dle with — that they have ceased to be formidable. Certainly none that Great Britain can devise will make Austria and Prussia relax their grip upon the throat of Denmark. Will she send troops upon the continent? The English troops are brave — none more so — but where they are to be had in sufficient quantities to furnish anything like an adequate support to Denmark in her present desperate strait we do not see. As for her old expedient of a blockade, that is not to be thought of. The only party she could injure by it would be her own subjects. The nations of the continent are connected by a system of railroads spreading out in all directions, like the wehe ports of France, Holland, and Belgium, and thence by rail to all parts of Europe. The fact is, we do not believe that England can now be of any service to Denmark, by means at least of her fleet. The villainy of this whole Danish business — and there has been villainy enough in it — consists in her having tempted Denmar
The Daily Dispatch: September 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], Tribute to women. (search)
Tribute to women. --The celebrated traveler, Layard, paid the following handsome tribute to women: "I have observed that women in all countries are civil, obliging, tender and humane. I never addressed myself to them decently and friendly without getting a friendly answer. With men it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barrens of hospitable Denmark, and through honest Sweden and frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the widespread regions of the wandering Tartar; if hungry, dry, wet, cold or sick, the women have been friendly; and to add to this virtue, (so worthy the appellation of benevolence,) those actions have been performed in so free and kind a manner, that if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught; and if hungry, ate the coarsest morsel with double relish."
The Daily Dispatch: October 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Government bags found. (search)
Whatever may be our wishes or our opinions, it is absolutely out of our power to give Canada efficient assistance by land in the event of war. We are the more anxious to impress this upon the Canadians, because we observe in recent newspaper articles a feeling of irritation against this country, and a disposition to accuse England of falling short of her duty. We have allusions to the desertion of Britain by the Romans, and a comparison of the treatment of Canada to the treatment of Denmark. We beg our Canadian contemporaries not to waste precious time in recrimination, or seek to involve a question in angry discussion which requires all the good sense and calmness that can be brought to bear upon it. Were we to hold out to Canada the most unbounded hopes of the most unlimited assistance in the case of invasion, Canada must very well know that it is quite out of our power to give effect to them. By sea we are able to give efficient help; but all the fair speeches and promise
The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Five hundred tons of shells and cannon balls have been taken out of the water in the port of Frederica, Denmark, and a considerable quantity yet remain; but, owing to the depth of water, they will be left undisturbed.
The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
the President will state the fact in response to the resolution. Miscellaneous. There is increased activity in the blockade-running business at present, no less than five steamers having been recently launched in the Clyde for that purpose. Furthermore, the rebels are enlisting men and sending them, one by one, to the Rappahannock, now used as a receiving ship and lying at Calais. They despair of getting her out. The iron-ram originally built for the rebels at Glasgow and sold to Denmark has been resold, it is said on good authority, to Spain. --The Danish Government has acted in perfect faith to us in this as in other matters. Lord Lyons, on his return to London, staid for some time at the Norfolk House, St. James Square, the residence of his sister, the Duchess of Norfolk, also the birthplace of George III., of happy memory. He is now at Arundel Castle, one of the abodes of the great ducal family, and convalescing. Among social items of news, we learn that the
The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
ng Theodore, who has imprisoned his own son on suspicion of participation in it. At latest dates a great and decisive battle was expected. Near to the noble old town of Stirling, stands, amid the windings of the Forth, the ruins of Cambuskenneth Abbey; and amid these deserted ruins has been lately discovered the tomb of King James III. Queen Victoria has signified her wish to erect a memorial stone or cross over the remains of her royal ancestors, James III. and his Queen, Margaret of Denmark. During the excavations, several large oak trees were found in one of the foundations. These were carefully removed and placed in the tower. Having lain for seven hundred years in a wet soil, the oak has become of quite a black color. An American gentleman lately saved the Emperor Napoleon and the Emprise Eugenie from an accident on the ice by warning them away from a dangerous spot. The Emperor immediately took the Empress to the carriage, and both thus escaped the accident which
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