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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for France (France) or search for France (France) in all documents.
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From Norfolk.
We have received a copy of the Norfolk Day Book, of May 19. In the editorial column we find a very fair account of the repulse of the Federal gunboat flotilla on James river, and a notice of a rumor that England and France had recognized the independence of the Southern Confederacy.
From the local department or the paper we copy the following:
Our city has been remarkably quiet for a week past, the streets presenting day by day much the appearance of one prolonged Sabbath.
Occasional groups of citizens can be seen on the sidewalks talking of the present condition of things and speculating of the future.
The most perfect order reigns throughout the entire community, and we are glad to be able to chronicle the fact that the people have respected themselves and the city too much to engage in any acts which might have gotten them in trouble, without being of any practical benefit to any one.
Almost all the stores continue closed, and there is very little a
The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], Attention, ladies. (search)
The lost cotton.
--It is stated that the English and French who owned cotton in New Orleans destroyed by the rebels, are making out their bills against the United States for their loss.
England not having recognized the Southern Confederacy, and the United States ignoring its existence, it is said that the Governments of France and England recognize the validity of these claims, and will enforce their adjustment.
It will be hard on the Yankees to lose the cotton which they so much co and then be compelled to pay for it.