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The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], The New Emperor of the New empire. (search)
er first marriage, and a great favorite of the Emperor Napoleon, who, in 1806, adopted him as his son. He was subsequently appointed Viceroy of Italy, and married the Princess of Bavaria. In 1817 he had a son called Maximilian, who entered the service of Russia, and in 1839 married the Grand Duchess Marie Nicolaiwena, daughter of the Emperor Nicholas. By this lady he has had several children, two of whom are sons--one, Prince Nicholas Maximilian, born in 1841, and Eugene Maximilian, born in 1847. Is the Emperor of Mexico the elder of the two? There is none of the Bonaparte blood in their veins; but they are so aided to that family as to be considered a part of it. The choice of such a person would be evidently a stroke of policy. It associates with the French dynasty the grandson of one of the most distinguished monarchs that have occupied the Russian throne; and it would serve to add distinction and power to it. The present French Emperor has adopted the wisdom of his uncle for h
The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Major General John B. Floyd. (search)
in Nicholas county, the first of his Western Virginia campaign, in which the enemy was completely routed. He was born in Montgomery county, (in that part which is now Pulaski county,) in 1803, and was therefore in his 58th year. He graduated at Columbia College, South Carolina, in 1826, and was admitted to the bar in 1828. After a short residence at Helena, Ark., he returned to Virginia and settled in Abingdon, Washington county, where he died. He was elected to the House of Delegates in 1847, and again in 1849, in which year he was elected by the Legislature Governor of Virginia for the term expiring January 1st, 1853. In 55 he was again elected to the Legislature. In '56 he was a Presidential elector, and voted for James Buchanan, by whom he was appointed Secretary of War of the U. S., and which office it will be remembered he resigned in January, '61, upon a disagreement with the President relative to measures touching Fort Sumter. His subsequent career is familiar to every o
The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ames Bowie, and a host of kindred spirits whose blood was freely offered up for their country's cause, and whom fame has crowned with never-failing glory. The Alamo fell, but not until all of her defenders had suffered martyrs' deaths at the hands of cruel and treacherous Mexicans. The only souls left out of the one hundred and thirty-six to tell the tale of its slaughter was Mrs. Dickinson and a negro. Our guns were captured there and taken by the conquerors to the City of Mexico. In 1847, when Gen. Scott entered the City of Mexico, he espied the old gun among the trophies of war in the capital of the Montezuma, and caused it to be removed to the city of New Orleans, where it remained until the beginning of the present war, when it was put into the celebrated Washington battery and carried to Vicksburg and used against the United States, for whom it had done service for three-quarters of a century. On the 4th of July, when Vicksburg, the great stronghold of Mississippi, fell,
The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
armies were contending so near by. "down with Jeff Davis" The Northern papers have jubilant editorials over a recent speech delivered by Mr. Foote, in Congress, in opposition to the Administration. A summary of the speech was telegraphed North from the Richmond papers containing it received at Fortress Monroe. The Philadelphia Inquirer under the title "A bas Jeff. Davis," has the following comments: Advices from the South inform us that H. S. Foote, who was elected Senator in 1847; an active advocate of "Compromise measures" in 1850; chosen Governor of Mississippi, as the Union candidate, after an exciting contest, over Jefferson Davis, in 1851; a member of the Southern Convention at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1859, and where he made strong speeches against disunion, has lately attacked the President of the Southern Confederacy in a severe speech, in which he attributes to Davis military disaster, and accuses him of having almost ruined the country. Now, it is the pecu
The Daily Dispatch: April 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], 50 dollars reward. (search)
The freshet. --A heavy freshet swelled James river Sunday and yesterday. The water continued to rise till ten o'clock yesterday, when having risen six inches higher than the high water mark of the flood of 1847, it began to recode slowly. At six o'clock last evening it had fallen eighteen inches. The islands in James river, the lowest points on Main and Cary streets, and the valleys of Shockoe and Gillie's Creek were all overflowed. The Dock and the river were merged into one stream, and the basement of the Libby prison was overflowed. The damage to goods in cellars in the lower part of the city has been considerable, and some government enterprises, such as the Navy Yard and the Ambulance Works on the Dock, have been seriously interfered with. It is feared the wheat crop on the low lands of James river have been much injured.
The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Yankee vessel Blown up by a Torpedo. (search)
an (Schenck) he would be more at home than in the society of gentlemen. His colleague (Colfax) had placed himself in the position of a public accuser, and in this connection Mr. Voorhees spoke of his colleague (Colfax) having recommended the "Helper Book," incited to mobs and riots and led to invasion and massacre. Yet his colleague (Colfax) with his benevolent countenance, could not endure the remarks of the gentleman from Ohio (Long) Mr. Voorhees then referred to the fact that in the year 1847 Mr. Schenck advocated the withdrawing of our troops from Mexico, while his colleague in the Senate, (Corwin,) acting in the same spirit, said that "were he a Mexican he would welcome our troops with bloody hands to hospitable graves." Were the Mexicans — mongrel, miscegenated people — any better than Southern men? He (Voorhees) made a further response to Mr Schenck, and concluded by saying that he (Voorhees) represented a district as loyal as that of the Speaker of this House (Colfax) He (Vo
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Literary items. (search)
iss his feet and become his slaves; meanwhile they would mind their own business. Of the twenty-five lions which have fallen victims to Gerard's rifle we are told the appalling stories of "El Haib," the lame one, alias Bon-Acherin-Radiel, the murderer of twenty men; the lion of Krou Nega, the lion of Mejez Amar, the lion of Zerazer, the lioness of El Hanout, &c. He was called by the Arabs "The Terrible Frank." The Ducd' Aumale had given him a brace of pistols, and on his return to France, in 1847, he had an interview with the Duchess of Orleans and the youthful Count de Paris, who, unsolicited, left the room for five minutes, and returning said artlessly, "These villain beasts will finish you one day. A good hunter must be a good soldier. You must be preserved to the army. Accept these pistols to preserve you." In 1855, Gerard returned once more to France with the rank of sub-lieutenant, and received the decoration of the Legion of Honor. He had within the last year or two left Fra
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], Statistics of slavery. (search)
lished it in 1818. The slave trade continued in despite of the abolition. The average number of slaves exported from the coast of Africa averaged 85,000 per annum from 1798 to 1805; and from 1835 to 1840 there was a total of 135,810; in 1846 and 1847, it was 84,000 per annum. Between 1840 and 1847, 249,800 were taken to Brazil and 52,027 into the Spanish colonies. Slavery was abolished in Pennsylvania in 1780. In New Jersey, it was provisionally abolished in 1784; all children born of a1847, 249,800 were taken to Brazil and 52,027 into the Spanish colonies. Slavery was abolished in Pennsylvania in 1780. In New Jersey, it was provisionally abolished in 1784; all children born of a slave after 1804 to be made free in 1820. In Massachusetts, it was declared after the Revolution that slavery was virtually abolished by their constitution (1780). In 1784 and 1797, Connecticut provided for a gradual extinction of slavery. In Rhode Island, after 1784, no person could be born a slave. The ordinance of 1787 forbid slavery in the territory northwest of the Ohio.--The constitutions of Vermont and New Hampshire abolished slavery. In New York it was provisionally abolished in 179
The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1865., [Electronic resource], Death of John M. Daniel. (search)
sumed, he had spent very little thought, were written with so much vigor and purity of style that they attracted instant attention, and a general call was made for the name of the author. He was at the time, and for several years, Librarian of the Richmond Library, where he devoted his time to severe study, became a good classical scholar, and laid the foundation of that general and extensive knowledge which is one of the characteristics of his writings. When scarcely of age, about the year 1847, he became joint editor with the late Bennett M. DeWitt, of the Examiner, which was established by the latter about that time. That paper immediately became conspicuous by the extraordinary ability with which it was edited, not less than by the boldness of its views and the freedom which it exercised in criticising the opinions of all classes of politicians. It was not long before Mr. Daniel's name was known not only to the whole State of Virginia, but to the entire press of the country, as
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