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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.11 (search)
s Alabama, which had been sunk by the Kearsage a few months before. The Shenandoah was commissioned on October 19th, and that day cleared for Madeira. The journal of Commander Waddell is now in possession of the Navy Department, and it is a most interesting record of the career of the Shenandoah. On October the 30th the cry of Sail ho! rang out from the Shenandoah's masthead. Immediately she bore down upon the distant vessel, an American bark the Alina, of Seaport, Me., bound for Buenos Ayres with railroad iron. She was on her first voyage, thoroughly equipped, nicely coppered, and beautifully clean—a tempting prize. Defence on her part was out of question, and the Confederates boarded and scuttled her, after appropriating such of her furnishings as they could make use of and taking the crew prisoners, six of whom afterward volunteered their service as active men on the Shenandoah. The Alina was valued at $95,000. On November 15th, the Shenandoah crossed the equator. The
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.34 (search)
d Mrs. Jefferson Page, became the Mecca of Americans who visited that city. For a score of years Commodore Page was blind, but retained the full possession of his mental faculties. Besides his service at sea, Commodore Page surveyed and made soundings for the old Fire Island Channel, New York harbor, and for some years was stationed at the Naval Observatory in Washington. A widow, a daughter (the Countess of Spinola), Professor Frederick Page, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., and Philip Page, of Buenos Ayres, South America, sons, survive him. He also has many relatives who reside in this State. The Page homestead at Shelley is now occupied by his grand-nephew, Richard Page. The death of Captain Page recalls to the minds of those who knew him many thrilling incidents in connection with his life. As Mr. Virginius Newton was one of the officers of the Stonewall, commanded by Captain Thomas Jefferson Page, a representative of The Times saw him yesterday evening. Mr. Newton gave the follow
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.15 (search)
e others dozing or asleep, William Tillman, the negro cook, carried out a preconcerted plan, killing the three with a hatchet and throwing their bodies overboard. After retaking the vessel, the steward was in command, and shortly afterwards the S. J. Waring was carried up to the Battery in New York harbor by the pilot-boat Jane. After having captured a good number of Federal ships and retained their crews as prisoners of war, the Davis, on July 9, took the ship Mary Goodell, bound for Buenos Ayres, and on account of the fact that the ship was useless to them, and not desiring to destroy life and property as a ruthless conqueror, Captain Coxeter placed his prisoners aboard and allowed the Mary Goodell to go free. The havoc made by the Jefferson Davis on the Atlantic coast, the privateer having captured prizes which amounted to over $200,000, caused the greatest consternation and excitement in Northern ports. Immediately upon learning of her career, the government at Washington o
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The cruise of the Shenandoah. (search)
ith return dispatches. In October, 1864, he was ordered as executive officer of the C. S. S. Shenandoah, and after her unique cruise surrendered to the British Government in Liverpool, Eng., in November, 1865. In December, 1865, he went to Buenos Ayres, and remained in the Argentine Confederation until 1867, when he returned to his home in Virginia. In 1868 he was appointed captain of one of the Bay Line steamers between Baltimore and Norfolk and Portsmouth. He served in that capacity use papers cancelled and all necessary legal steps connected with the bona fide sale taken before any overt act. On October 30, 1864, we captured the first prize, the bark Alina, Captain Staples, of Searsport, Maine, from Newport, Wales, for Buenos Ayres, with railroad iron. There was no notarial seal (required under law to establish ownership) to the signature of the owner of the cargo, and so she was, as an American vessel, with her cargo a legal prize. An order was given that nothing on a
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 27: (search)
Chapter 27: Rockingham's ministry Assents to American independence. 1782. the hatred of America as a self-existent state Chap. XXVII.} 1782. became every day more intense in Spain from the desperate weakness of her authority in her transatlantic possessions. Her rule was dreaded in them all; and, as even her allies confessed, with good reason. The seeds of rebellion were already sown in the vice-royalties of Buenos Ayres and Peru; and a union of Creoles and Indians might prove at any moment fatal to metropolitan dominion. French statesmen were of opinion that England, by emancipating Spanish America, might indemnify itself for all loss from the independence of a part of its own colonial empire; and they foresaw in such a revolution the greatest benefit to the commerce of their own country. Immense naval preparations had been made by the Bourbons for the conquest of Jamaica, but now from the fear of spreading the love of change Florida Blanca suppressed every wish to
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 3., Deacon Samuel Train. (search)
ry and Andover pike. He halted at Medford to eat his frugal meal on the spot where he afterwards built his home and where he died. He began business in Boston as a dealer in boots and shoes, near where the Quincy Market now stands. By degrees he added thereto a trade in hides and leather, and was among the first, if not the first, to embark in the importing of hides from South America, and for many years was the leading importer, having established the house of Flint, Peabody & Co., at Buenos Ayres. About forty years ago he associated with him as partner the late Enoch Train. At one time he was one of the largest ship-owners. At the time of his death he was, next to Timothy Dodd, our oldest living merchant in this city. His immediate contemporaries and business associates were Robert G. Shaw, Benjamin Bangs, Samuel C. Gray, Thomas Wigglesworth, George Barnard, and the Pickmans, Silsbees, and Rogers, of Salem. He was remarkably regular in his business habits, frugal in his livi
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Literary Medford. (search)
hor of many monographs on ethnology and made himself an authority, through observation, on the customs and languages of the Northwestern Indians. Much of his work was given to the Smithsonian Institution, and he filled many important public positions. Judge Swan presented the collection of Indian relics and curios to the Medford Public Library in 1880. In 1856, a Medford lad of seventeen, Nathaniel Holmes Bishop, with forty dollars in his pocket, shipped before the mast and sailed to Buenos Ayres. From there he tramped, with a caravan of natives and aliens, over the Pampas, the Cordilleras, crossed the Andes through the snow, dangerously alone, landed in Chili, where he shipped again for the long voyage around Cape Horn, and reached home with five additional dollars in his pocket. The journal of this One Thousand Mile Walk Across South America is of thrilling interest, and filled with geographical and ethnological data and descriptions of the flora and fauna of the countries he
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
Bark ashore--eight persons drowned.Boston,March 19. --The bark Harvest Queen, of New York, from Buenos Ayres, for Boston, is among the breakers of Scituate, and will be ashore at low water. Eight of her crew were drowned in attempting to land.--The captain was saved. Assistance has been dispatched to her relief.
The Daily Dispatch: April 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Naval intelligence. (search)
Naval intelligence. --The U. S. steamer Seminole sailed from Montevideo Jan. 21, for Buenos Ayres. The U. S. frigate Congress, from Rio Janeiro, and the U. S. steamer Pulaski (flag-ship,) from Buenos Ayres, were at Montevideo Jan. 31. Naval intelligence. --The U. S. steamer Seminole sailed from Montevideo Jan. 21, for Buenos Ayres. The U. S. frigate Congress, from Rio Janeiro, and the U. S. steamer Pulaski (flag-ship,) from Buenos Ayres, were at Montevideo Jan. 31.
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Buenos Ayres. (search)
From Buenos Ayres. --The latest intelligence from that place is up to the 14th of February. The news of the terrible massacre at San Juan, previously reported, is confirmed. The number of men butchered in cold blood after the capture of that place is given at six hundred. At Buenos Ayres the most terrible excitement prevaiBuenos Ayres the most terrible excitement prevailed in consequence, and revenge was the sentiment of all parties. The General Government of the Argentine Confederacy has approved the action of Colonel Saa, the commander at the slaughter, by making him a present of two thousand ounces of gold. In the course of a few months the old feud between the Federalists and the Unitarians is expected to break out again. The former party is mainly confined to the upper provinces. The Governor of Buenos Ayres had addressed a letter to the Federal Administration, demanding an explanation in reference to the San Juan affair — an event that is charged upon the intermeddling conduct of that province itself, which is
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