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The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fearful tornado. (search)
Simois and Xanthus joined streams to overwhelm him — suppose we put him in the falls of James River near Haxall's mills — what muse will condescend, upon our invitation, to sing the horrors of the "Diving Rock," or the dark mystery that closes around "Little Hell?" What divinity shall we invoke to out the knot of the difficulty when we shall have once gotten him in the water? And our mountains; noble mountains they are, beyond a doubt. Ida was not more worthy to be the favorite resort of Jupiter, than some of them. Olym?us certainly did not better deserve to be the home of all the Gods; the place where Vulcan constructed palaces for them all, from the thundering majesty of Jove, down to the insinuating grace of Mercury. And mountains are favorites in the eyes of the poets. Not a bard but has something to say about them, from Homer to Tennyson.--The Soottish poets especially have made us familiar with every spur and cliff of their highlands. The old pocts tell us not only of Ida
The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Confederate Loun. (search)
one of the Tennessee regiments, a few weeks ago, in Lynchburg, is now in that city, awaiting trial. A man named Eugene Seyere was shot and killed in Memphis last Monday night by some person unknown. "Sons of Dixie" is the name of a company in Cherokee, Ala., who have offered to serve during the war. Gen. Wm. J. Lytle, a well-known citizen of Murfresboro, Tenn., died on Saturday last. Capt. P. H. Lee, of the Nansemond Cavalry, has purchased the celebrated trotting horse "Jupiter" for $700. It is stated that the editor of the Cleveland (Ohio) Herald is among the killed in the skirmish at Vienna. Wm. H. West and B. P. Rankin, United States Marshals, are heavy defaulters to the Government. Capt. Sterling Anderson, an old citizen of Appomattox county, Va., died on Tuesday last. The National Intelligencer says that unless it receives assistance from its Northern subscribers, the paper must be discontinued. The Philadelphia druggists have agreed
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.the Fourth at Camp Jackson. Gams Jackson, Pig's Point, July 4, 1861. One year ago the American people were vig na with their shouts of freedom, from the show cizd mountains of Maine to the beautiful Rio Grande, standing one united nation in praise and commemoration of this day. But now different now. That union is broken which bound as to our unworthy foe, and a new Republic has sprung forth, like Minerva from the brow of Jupiter, born to be the wide of the world, and the glory of the skies. We feel proud of the sublime position the Southern States have taken — that this very day, threatened with subjugation, we are still me for the very same principles of 76 which declared against oppression, and that of right we ought to be free. At an early hear this morning, our two Feziments and one Louisiana Regiment met on the parade grounds, according to previous notice. They were soon formed this battle lines by our Abie and distingui
The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
ains, and, by way of punishing Spain for the invasion of St. Domingo, will appropriate Cuba. "Ye Gods! Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he hath grown so great?" Is this a genuine voice from Olympus, or is it only the shrill squeal of that unscrupulous Sawney, who made his fortune out of the Life and Times of Helen Jewett? What a pitch of arrogance and craziness in this man, who is morally and socially one of the most contemptible of his race, to be thus aping the thunders of Jupiter! England and Spain will laugh to scorn the indignation of the North, even if it manifested itself through an Executive and official mouthpiece, instead of that two-penny trumpet, the New York Herald. The North is doomed, and, worst of all, she has damned herself. The keenest ago-any of the doomed must be in reflecting that they were the architects of their own ruin.--New York has raised an army to eat her own throat. "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen," and the Herald must learn to
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], For hire. (search)
marquee, and evidently felt uneasy. Having undergone the troublesome operation of undressing — thanks to our civilization, which necessitates many other inconveniences — I folded my garments and placed them on the foot of my bed, as chairs and wardrobes are luxuries not appurtenant to camps. I had only just reclined, and was upon the point of falling into the embraces of Morpheus, when, with a sharp, harsh sound that almost set my teeth on edge, I found my support going from under me. By Jupiter! it was too bad. The canvas at one side of the bedstead had taken summary leave of the tiny nails that attached it to the timber frame-work; so I had no small difficulty in maintaining my equilibrium during the night, which I managed to accomplish by a number of "strategic movements" probably not known before in military experience. This camp bedstead had, to all appearance, never been used before, but it was now fairly "used up." Oh, you peccant, recreant military contractors of Richmond
The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Jackson's army. (search)
goon and other habiliments. To cross some of our thoroughfares requires almost as much courage and intrepidity as a trip to California, or a balloon ascension, or popping the question to an elderly virgin or a young widow, or any other dangerous experiment. They who are mounted on horseback or in vehicles, and are thus raised above the level of lowly pedestrianism, often seem rather more anxious than otherwise to distinguish themselves by demolishing a few of those crawling human insects who use their own feet and legs for the purpose of locomotion. At least the necessity of getting along rapidly seems to be a stronger consideration than the crushing of a few foot passengers, or the breaking of a score of arms and legs. The grand principle is that every man must look out for himself, and the prevailing idea is that humble plodders on foot must scamper like mice or roaches when the mounted dignitaries come rattling along amidst volumes of dust, like Jupiter in his cloudy chariot.
The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
ed; and, that if it were not for the Leviathan (marine) and the elephant, (negro,) having lent their allied power to him the pretended Northern lion would have been devoured long ago by the so-represented Southern jackass! Really, the boasting propensities of that once fiery people who have fallen so low under the yoke of fanatical Republicans, merited some lesson, and Providence has wisely inflicted it. Will that open our eves to reality and truth? Is it doubtful? Quod sult perdere, Jupiter dementel. The brutality of the Federal commander in Baltimore — Despotic Acts in his department — treatment of the Confederate wounded. A Baltimore correspondent of the New York Times, under the caption "Are we a Christian People?" has a long review of the official conduct of Major General Schenck, commanding the department of Maryland. He says: No one has denied or attempted to palliate his course in regard to John Glenn, who was arrested on the merest suspicion and sent S
The Daily Dispatch: May 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], Rossini's latest composition (search)
s friend, Count Wippern, near Paris, before about five hundred people. It is written for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass solo, with chorus, and on this occasion was accompanied on two pianos and a harmonium. Rossini was present, and the Sisters Marchislof, with Gardoni and Agnesi, were the singers, the chorus numbering only twenty voices, while among the audience were Meyerbeer, Auber; Carafa, Mario, Duprez, and other composers and artists. The composition, though often florid, is yet described as very grand and fully worthy of the great master. The most noticeable features of the mass are a Kyrie, a majestic Gloria, a "Cruelfixion" solo, a Sanctus, sung by an unaccompanied chorus, and a fugue, Cum Sanctu Spritu. After the performance, the ladies present insisted on kissing Rossini. Meyerbeer called him "Jupiter," Auber, in burlesque patronage, said "he has talents worthy cultivation;" and Bagler, the director of the Italian opera, offered him as much as $60,000 for a new opera.
The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], The Georgia militia. (search)
f the feeling of what is called "society. " Its very incapacity to understand any great popular movement, any large faith in the necessity for reform and improvement, renders it extremely make in its perception of social changes in matters of opinion and interest in the mercantile, the snobbish and the aristocratic mind. The language it has used with respect to the Queen's retirement shows that, in its own estimation, the time is at hand when she will abandon it — when every body will give Jupiter-James the credit, Just as they did during the Crimean war, when, obtaining private advices that Her Majesty intended returning from Balmoral, he wrote an editorial commanding her to do so, on the grounds that it was not seemly that she should be holiday-making while England's best and bravest were enduring the hardships of that terrible campaign. These little dodges remind one delightfully of the practices and pretences of an amiable contemporary of yours at the corner of Fulton and Nassau
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