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The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], The capture of the New Orleans Barracks. (search)
the afternoon.-- Wm. Graves, James M. Ragland, James F. Stone and Frank Brigarri, of Liberty, G. T. Akers, of Lynchburg, and Wm. Willis, messenger of Adams' Express Company between Lynchburg and Knoxville, testified in regard to the receipt of South Carolina money like that passed to parties in Richmond, connecting the prisoners with the transactions in every instance. This closed the evidence for the Commonwealth. Judge Crump, counsel for Chilton, introduced but one witness, James F. Johnson, Senator from Bedford county, who testified that he had known the prisoner from childhood; that his character previous to this occurrence was excellent, and that his conduct had always been most exemplary in every respect. He was at this time about 17 years of age, and had for several months previous to this affair been employed as agent of Adams' Express, and as telegraph operator at Liberty, a position of considerable responsibility. Riddell then requested the Mayor to send to t
The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
Superstition. Dr. Johnson, we believe, or some other critic, has told us that if a poet were, in his day, to introduce witches and fairies into a play as Shakespeare did, he would be laughed at, and that their introduction into Macbeth and the Midsummer Night's Dream, was only tolerated because the people of the day in which they were written universally believed in the existence of both the supernatural phenomena in question. With all due reverence be it spoken, we doubt the truth of thour minds by the tales of the nursery. Set it in opposition to our imagination, and the struggle produces a sort of twilight of the mind, in which we half believe and half discredit, and which lasts through the remainder of our lives. Whatever Johnson may have thought or said to the contrary, there is a vein of superstition running through the human mind just as perceptibly now as in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. He, himself, though undoubtedly a powerful reasoner, believed in the Cock Lane g
The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Attractive bill. (search)
h she complains, as to the remedy and its application before a resort to other measures of redress; and Whereas, it is desirable to give expression to that intention which really exists among all the members of the Convention to sustain the State in the course of action which she has pronounced to be proper for the occasion: Therefore, Resolved, That all the members of the Convention, including those who voted against the Ordinance as well as those who voted for it, will sign the same as a pledge of the unanimous determination of this Convention to sustain and defend the State in this our course of remedy with all its responsibilities, without regard to individual approval or disapproval. Its adoption of the Ordinance was signed by all except about a dozen delegates, and those, it is believed, will sign to-morrow. A. H. Stephens, Lintin Stephens, Governor Johnson, and other friends, signed the Ordinance. A demonstration on a grand scale is going on to-night.