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1st (search for this): article 15
Old Point. --The troops at Fortress Monroe are not allowed to pass beyond the picket guard. and the strictest military discipline prevails. On the 1st inst. there was received at the fort, from Baltimore, twelve boxes of grape shot, together with a great many iron castings, used in mounting guns.
2nd (search for this): article 11
men prefer to enter the Navy as landsmen to enlisting as soldiers. At all events, all Friday and Saturday the recruiting business at Cedar, Chatham, and Hudson streets, was seriously affected by the Cherry street establishment. There is some talk — but no orders — about a bounty being given. Recruits arrived on Saturday from the neighboring offices, and went over to the island. Preparations at Pensacola. A letter to the New Orleans Delta, dated Warrington Navy-Yard, Florida, the 2d inst., says: The works first commenced are in a highly finished state, and new batteries have been commenced within the past three days. I should think Lieut. Slemmer would begin to consider the erection of so many in such close proximity to each other as hardly tending to strengthen his tenure of office as monarch of the island of Santa Rosa. There are thirteen companies at present here from Alabama, numbering, on an average, about ninety men each, two companies from Georgia, one of them
3rd (search for this): article 6
e State, will merit, and certainly should receive, the censure of all good men. The Courier furnishes the following items of intelligence: Mr. Chas. A. Forsyth, lately engaged in the Department of State at Washington, passed over the South Carolina Railroad last Sunday evening, bearing dispatches from the Southern Commissioners to President Davis. At a meeting of representatives from all the Banks of this city, held at the Planters' and Mechanics'Bank, on Wednesday last, the 3d inst.,it was-- Resolved, That the representatives of the Banks present at this meeting, will recommend to their respective Boards to redeem on the demand of the Confederate Government, in Lincoln, their bills, which may be received in payment for subscriptions to the Confederate Loan in South Carolina, agreeably to the terms and proposals of the Secretary of the Treasury, as set forth in his circular to the several Banks, of the 27th of March, 1861. At an adjourned meeting held Friday a
6th (search for this): article 1
uction voted for him at the election. He also alluded to the meeting in Powhatan, and reviewed the circumstances connected therewith, to show that he did not consider himself instructed by his constituents; but believing that a majority of the voters of the two counties were in favor of secession, he should cast his vote in that direction on every test question. The resolutions were referred. Mr. Goggin, of Bedford, presented a series of resolutions adopted in that county on the 6th inst., declaring it the duty of the State of Virginia to unite her destiny with the Confederate States of the South. Referred and ordered to be printed. Mr. Willey. of Monongalia, gave notice that on to-morrow he should ask for a decision on his taxation resolutions, one way or the other. Mr. Hull, of Highland, offered the following resolution: Resolved, That a committee of three he appointed to take into consideration the propriety of reducing the number of employees of the
12th (search for this): article 21
Col. J. M. Sanborn, late Commissioner of the State of Michigan, has offered to take the contract to supply Fort Sumter with men and provisions for the sum of $500,000. Charles L. Blevins, a medical student from Selma, Alabama, aged nineteen years, blew his brains out with a pistol, at New Orleans last week. Chas. Pape, the actor, was married in Cincinnati Friday, to Miss Virginia Howard, of the same profession. M. Lamartine having disposed of his property in Macon, is about to return to Parie and offer his works for sale at his own house. The anniversary of the birthday of Henry Clay is to be celebrated in New York, on the 12th inst. Ex-President Millard Fillmore has accepted an invitation to presides at the Unitarian Festival in Boston, in May next. The steam mill of John Brown, near Camden, S, C., was burnt on the 28th ult. Loss $10,000. Maj. T. H. Holmes, of 7th Infantry U. S. A., who resigned, is a native of Virginia.
25th (search for this): article 12
Henrico Circuit Court. --Judge John M. Gregory, of this Court, will commence the trial of criminal causes now on the docket on the 25th inst. The number of criminals now listed is three, all of whom are charged with murder, viz: Joseph Bernard, for the murder of Jno. Oscar Taylor, and Randolph Bennett and Wm. T. Meltoa, for the murder of a free negro, on the old Williamsburg Stage Road, some months since.
28th (search for this): article 21
Col. J. M. Sanborn, late Commissioner of the State of Michigan, has offered to take the contract to supply Fort Sumter with men and provisions for the sum of $500,000. Charles L. Blevins, a medical student from Selma, Alabama, aged nineteen years, blew his brains out with a pistol, at New Orleans last week. Chas. Pape, the actor, was married in Cincinnati Friday, to Miss Virginia Howard, of the same profession. M. Lamartine having disposed of his property in Macon, is about to return to Parie and offer his works for sale at his own house. The anniversary of the birthday of Henry Clay is to be celebrated in New York, on the 12th inst. Ex-President Millard Fillmore has accepted an invitation to presides at the Unitarian Festival in Boston, in May next. The steam mill of John Brown, near Camden, S, C., was burnt on the 28th ult. Loss $10,000. Maj. T. H. Holmes, of 7th Infantry U. S. A., who resigned, is a native of Virginia.
January (search for this): article 1
Iron ships. --The Edinburgh Review for January last, says:--"The truth is that the controversy between iron sides and wooden walls is as yet by no means conclusively determined, either by argument or experiment. Our eminent contemporary, the Quarterly Review, has given a most positive opinion on the subject. According to him, the success of iron or iron-plated ships is so absolute and complete, that we have nothing to do but to build the British Navy de novo--to employ all our money and means on this new class of vessels, and to throw the whole work of naval construction into the private yards of our chief engineers, as has been done for the Warrior and the Black Prince. Sir Howard Douglas, on the contrary, in an answer to the Quarterly Review, stakes his reputation on the assertion that 'vessels formed wholly of iron are utterly unfit for all the purposes and contingencies of war,' and that no ship has yet been been produced capable of 'resisting the penetrations and impacts
February 20th (search for this): article 7
Naval intelligence. --The United States steam sloop Richmond remained at Messina on the 20th of February. The Richmond had one man killed and several others badly hurt a few days previous by the fore yard coming down by the run while they were on it, through the carelessness of a sallow in cutting the lashing.
March 26th (search for this): article 6
The First London street Railway. --The first passenger railroad in London commenced running on the 26th of March. It was built by G. F. Train, and was intended as an experiment, with a view to more extended operations. The road is only a mile long, from the marble arch, Hyde Park, down to Uxbridge road.
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