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The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Portsmouth (search)
es daily about the application of the blockade, but not a word of complaint has been uttered by any of them. The Government has just been put in possession of important information in regard to the movements and operations of the rebel army. Their exact motive has not yet transpired, but the Gover?ment is taking advantage of it, and will be ready in three or four days to meet the Cenfederate forces at every point. It appears that a large force is now marching from the South for Harper's Ferry, and from thence will attempt to force their way into Pennsylvania. Their object is to draw off a portion of the forces concentrating at Washington, and attack them at both points at the same time. If the Government is compelled to send any considerable portion of the force now in Washington, or expected there, of course it will weaken them some, but not as much as the South anticipate. The information that the Government is in possession of is highly important, and entirely re
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fearful tornado. (search)
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Texas calls for one thousand slave laborers to work on the road. They will either purchase or hire. The schooner Annie J. Russell, from City Point, Va., with tobacco, &c., reached New York on Thursday. A regiment of Vermonters arrived in New York Friday, on route for Fortress Monroe. Lieut. Jones, the Hero of Harper's Ferry, has been appointed Assistant Quartermaster General. Paymaster Rhett, of the U. S. army, has resigned. Major Anderson and Mrs. Lincoln have gone to New York.
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Terrorism in New York — effect of the war on business, &c., &c. (search)
is is true. The Pennsylvania House of Delegates on Tuesday passed unanimously the $3,000,000 loan bill, and authorizing the raising of fifteen additional regiments. Policeman Evans has been committed for trial at Washington, for killing a volunteer named Howard. Mr. James L. Coleman, a well known citizen of Augusta, Ga., was killed last week by a fall from a railway train. A young man by the name of Hilliard, of the "Marion Rifles," was accidentally shot in the leg at Harper's Ferry, on Tuesday last. D. H. Todd, of New Orleans, brother-in-law of Mr. Lincoln, has been appointed first Lieutenant in the army of the Confederate States. The Cincinnati Commercial says the frost of last week has destroyed nearly all the peach crop in that section. A letter from an officer of the 7th Regiment says they expect to return to New York on the 15th inst. Lieut Jones, who set fire to the Harper's Ferry works, is appointed Assistant Quartermaster General, with t
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Portsmouth,Va May 11, 1861 (search)
says that the steam gun was in a wagon attended by three men, on the way to Harper's Ferry. A great exploit! The in ventor, Mr. Dickinson, is said to have been one pers profess to have received an account of the "condition of the rebels at Harper's Ferry," and it is thus telegraphed from Harrisburg: A letter has been receier in the Army of the Confederate States, saying that most of the troops at Harper's Ferry are provided with inferior arms; that they are badly provisioned; that the that, an attack by any thing like an adequate amount of Federal forces upon Harper's Ferry must be successful. The writer has seen twenty years of service, and is corthern troops) were to be held in readiness to march to certain points near Harper's Ferry, that Pennsylvania and other free State troops were to encamp near or on thons. A Stock Train, bound for Baltimore, was seized the other day, at Harper's Ferry. The train consisted of five car loads of beeves and one of horses, from O
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Portsmouth,Va May 11, 1861 (search)
many troops upon Washington as are already enrolled and mustered into the service of the Lincoln Administration. Several Regiments have left Washington within the last two or three days for the Relay House. Their ultimate destination is Harper's Ferry. Mr. Sanford, agent of the Adams Express Company, arrived on Thursday with seven hundred thousand dollars in specie for the Government, from New York, under the escort of the 52d Cavalry. A battery commands the railroad at the Pointe Adams Express Company, arrived on Thursday with seven hundred thousand dollars in specie for the Government, from New York, under the escort of the 52d Cavalry. A battery commands the railroad at the Point of Rocks, twelve miles below Harper's Ferry, while the bridge across the Potomac is commanded by another battery. Scouting parties range the country for fifteen miles north, east, and west also, who, upon the slightest alarm, are to communicate by a system of signals agreed upon.
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Southern Volunteers. (search)
Southern Volunteers. --Dispatches from Frederick, Md., announce the passage through that city of several companies of "Southern volunteers" en route to Harper's Ferry. They have only side arms with them.