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The Daily Dispatch: February 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
Sudden death, --William Calder, a native of Scotland, employed by Sampson, Pae & Co., dropped dead yesterday morning, near the Danville depot, of disease of the heart, of which he had been complaining two or three days.--Dr. Little, coroner of the city, was sent for, but deemed an inquest unnecessary.
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
nblushing effrontery, how, on his last cruise, he took a brigantine, bound from Ostend with a cargo of flaxseed for Ireland, and sunk her; took also the ship Lord Chatham, loaded with porter and merchandise, which he manned and sent to Brest; met a Scotch coasting schooner, loaded with barley, which he says he "could not avoid sinking; made sail after ten or twelve merchant ships, which he "thought an enterprise worthy attention"; and made an expedition to Whitchaven, on his native coast of Scotland, where he kindled a fire in the steerage of a large ship, surrounded by between three and four hundred others, whereof he coolly says: "I should have kindled fires in other places if the time had permitted. As it did not, our care was to prevent the one kindled from being easily extinguished. After some search, a barrel of tar was found, and poured into the flame, which now ascended from all the hatchways. The inhabitants began to appear in thousands; and individuals ran hastily towards
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Cholera and cattle plague. (search)
London to the State Department, under date of November 30, 1865, to the effect that no reliable indications of cholera have yet appeared in England, but it is the general conviction of intelligent people that it will visit that country in the spring, and preparations are being made to meet it. Our Consul at Liverpool also writes under the same date that the cattle plague is making sad havoc in that district, and is on the increase. From seven hundred per week the deaths in England and Scotland have gone up to twenty-five hundred. Our Consul at Oporto writes, under date of November 18, 1865, that the cholera had entirely disappeared from the city of Elvas, and the bulletins of the General Council of Health in Lisbon announce the country as free from the epidemic. It is untrue that the "Rinderpest" or cattle plague had broken out in that country. A disease, called the "hoof and tongue" disease, has prevailed to some extent, but few cases have proved fatal. It is an infectio
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], The cotton question. (search)
rs and State immigration agents to aid them in that enterprise, and some of them propose to supply the Southern States from the surplus they obtain, thereby imposing a tariff on the emigrant who comes South. It is well known both in England and Scotland that the fearful struggle of the late war disorganized the whole labor of the South, and that the opening to skill, industry, and capital, presents at present more favorable inducements than at any period of the history of this country. The que Now, what appears to me to be the nearest way to obtain the desired object is, viz: First, that the State should appropriate a small sum of money for the benefit of immigration, say $10,000, to be applied in advertising in England and Scotland, through the various towns and country villages. A very small sum would suffice for this object, say $500. An office should be opened in Richmond, where a registry should be kept, where the emigrant's name and description would be recorded, and
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
connection with the proposed Scotch emigration to Virginia. For this estate, comprising about two thousand acres, it is said that Dr. Baylor is to receive three thousand dollars a year for the first three years, and five thousand dollars a year for the succeeding seven years. We learn that Mr. Black has purchased the fine estate of Mr. Allen, in Goochland county. It is said that Mr. Black designs making Dr. Baylor's farm, in Caroline, the place of his residence, and intends returning to Scotland at an early day, with the view of bringing over with him a colony of emigrants, embracing in the number the sons of large farmers, who will have something wherewith to purchase and improve. Such an immigration will be most welcome to Virginia. Indeed, some of its most valuable early settlers were Scotchmen, who contributed as much as any other class to the business and prosperity of the State. The Scotch are a remarkably industrious and thrifty people, raised in a stern school of mor
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
ty or not. They are continually crying out for confiscation — less than the whole South will not satisfy them. Yet the Southern people, if the doctrine of Thad. Stevens be true, deserve reward, not punishment, for the valor and constancy with which they defended their native land. Admitting that the South is conquered territory, did any modern nation ever confiscate the lands of another nation after having conquered it? Did even Katherine, of Russia, do it? England, we know, served Scotland in that way, and even executed Wallace for treason. But it was after Edward had made Baliol swear fealty to him by a gross fraud and deception. Napoleon, we believe, did the same thing in Spain. But it was after he had induced old Charles to surrender the crown into his hands. Both these monarchs confiscated, under pretence of treason. Confiscation is, indeed, the peculiar punishment of treason; and if the South has committed no treason — as it has not, upon the Stevens theory — how c<
The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1865., [Electronic resource], Shooting at a dog. (search)
e of some interest with relation to the marriage law was heard recently before Vice Chancellor Sir R. Kindersley, in London. A man and woman residing in England were married according to English law. They never lived together. The lady went to Scotland, and, in consequence of an arrangement between the parties, the husband went to Scotland too, resided there for forty days, and then they were divorced by the Scotch law. The lady married again and had children, and the question now was whether ent between the parties, the husband went to Scotland too, resided there for forty days, and then they were divorced by the Scotch law. The lady married again and had children, and the question now was whether the children, as legitimate, could inherit certain property left to the legitimate children of the lady. The Vice Chancellor held that a foreign court could not dissolve an English marriage, that the divorce was null, the children illegitimate, and the property must go to other parties.
The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1865., [Electronic resource], Attempted suicide. (search)
Rev. Dr. Stiles, lately a chaplain in the Confederate army, preached at the South Church, (Rev. Mr. Carroll,) at New Haven, last Sunday. He was once one of the most popular preachers in New Haven, and his church was always crowded. Several years since Dr. Stiles was pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church in this city.--Cincinnati Gazette. They propose to have a new State capitol at Albany, costing three or four millions of dollars. It will be of white marble, from Vermont quarries. Burley, the escaped rebel raider, is in Scotland, writing his memoirs.
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