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The Daily Dispatch: May 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
grounds around the President's House, and at the Capitol, on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, in Washington. That sort of "delight," we imagine, is something like the jolly fellows in "Borgia," who tried to sing after they got pissed. "Billy Wilson," as he is called in New York city, is getting up a regiment of "Roughs," who will probably be "Rough and Ready," from the racy descriptions of the New York press. Wilson says there will not be a thief, burglar, or baggage smasher in New YorkWilson says there will not be a thief, burglar, or baggage smasher in New York, after he marches his troops out. They will find congenial spirits in Washington. The Baltimore American states that the largest holders in that city of salt provisions have agreed to make no advance in their prices in consequence of the present disturbed condition of affairs. The great bulk of the stock is in few hands. The New York Herald has subscribed three thousand dollars towards the war which Lincoln is now making upon the South. Bennett has made forty times that much out of
The Daily Dispatch: May 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Twenty-five dollars reward. (search)
From New York. New York, April 28. --In the Northern States, cities, &c., including private subscriptions, the sum of $11,230,000 has been contributed for war purposes. [This is a considerable "letting down" from previous accounts. The steamers F. W. Brune, Fanny Cadwallader, and Wm. Woodward have been chartered by the United States Government, and left New York Saturday morning for Trenton, N. J., to take troops to Washington. Several seizures of gunpowder on board vessels were made Saturday night. About 15,000 troops are in quarters and destined for Washington. Alderman Wilson's "Fighting Zouaves," 500 strong, are quartered in the old Government houses at Staten Island.