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The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], The battles of Port Republic. (search)
army was subsequently reinforced and placed under the command of Sir John Moore, with orders to enter Spain and lend all possible assistance to the patriots whenever an opportunity might offer. Napoleon had gone to Erfurth, to meet the Emperor Alexander, and settle the affairs of the world. In the meantime, while the Spanish armies, apparently overcome by their late exertions, were resting in fancied security, the French were pouring in troops by all the passes of the Pyrenees. By the 1st of November, their armies, seven in number, presented a force of 325,000 veteran troops; the most formidable force, when, their character, their equipments, and the character of their officers is taken into consideration, that up to that day had ever threatened the subjugation of a free people.--The supreme indifference with which the Spanish Juntas and people witnessed these tremendous preparations for their destruction, has no parallel save in the history of the Confederate States during the yea
The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Pacific Railroad Convention. (search)
Pacific Railroad Convention. --The Pacific Railroad Convention, which recently met at Chicago, adjourned on Thursday. It was decided on that day that books for subscription to the capital stock shall be opened on the 1st of November at Portland, Concord, Rutland, Boston, Providence, Hartford, Albany, Buffalo, New York, Trenton, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Wilmington, Baltimore, Washington, Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Wheeling, Indianapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Burlington, Dubuque, St. Louis, Leavenworth, Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake, Carson City, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon, and remain open at least two weeks. A resolution was unanimously adopted that the Board of Commissioners be instructed to petition Congress immediately upon assembling in December next to amend the Pacific Railroad act so that it shall read the capital stock of said company shall consist of a million of shares of one hundred dollars each, which shall be subscribed for and held
The Daily Dispatch: September 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
itt, Anna Lewis, Kate Clinton, Mary Brown, and Agnes Richardson, charged with keeping a house of evil name fame, and reputation, &c., were required to give security in the sum of $300 to answer an indictment. Alonzo, slave of H. W. Murray, was ordered twenty lashes for beating Elizabeth Cosby, a free woman. Julia Ann, for using abusive language to and beating a white child, was ordered 15 lashes. A negro named William was ordered 15 lashes for smoking a cigar in the street and running from the watchmen. Jackson, slave of Chas. C. Ellett, was charged with huckstering in the market, but the offence consisting of the purchase and sale of only one watermelon, the prisoner was discharged. Court of Hustings.--A special session of this Court was held Saturday morning for the examination of John T. Ellis, charged with stealing $99 from Wm. B. Layne. The Court were of opinion that Ellis should be tried before Judge Lyons, and remanded him to jail until November 1st.
The Daily Dispatch: October 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
For Hire. --A very competent and valuable servant, (raised as dining room servant by a gentleman of Richmond, but for the last few years used as a farm hand.) He can be bad at $20 per month, (by the month and not the year,) from the 1st of November. Apply to Lieut. Johns, Commissary, Pearl street, below Cary. oc 22--5t*
The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], Proceedings in the Courts. (search)
a mulatto girl, resident of Manchester, was arraigned for drunkenness, a charge fully proved by the oath of one of Major Griswold's detectives. She was ordered to be whipped, and committed for want of security for her good behavior. Thomas Turpin, a lad dressed in uniform, was arraigned for stealing $180 from Thomas T. Emmett, in the First Market, last Wednesday. The testimony was sufficient to warrant the Mayor in committing him for examination before a called Court of Hustings, November 1st. It appears that Turpin enjoys some notoriety as "a picker-up of unconsidered trifles," as he stands charged on the Mayor's book with picking Thomas J. Stiff's pocket of $19, about one month since, and was on ball to answer that offence when he embarked in the last speculation recorded above. Mary A. and Joseph Thomas, who were summoned to Court at the instigation of Bridget McDonough for an alleged assault, were discharged, the complainant not appearing. Jamison Scott, who requ
The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], Still Later from the North. (search)
Dismissed of Provost detectives. --The order sent by Gen. Winder on Monday ssing the special detectives employed in the office of Maj. G wold, Provost Marshal of Richmond, did not state that the dismissal was for "mafeasance bribery, corruption, and incompetency;" it merely stated that the dismissal was in consequence of a determination on the part of the commencing General to adopt a new system of police on the 1st of November.
The Daily Dispatch: November 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], The recognition question. (search)
Proceedings in the Courts. Mayor's Court, Saturday, Nov. 1st. --Samuel Brown, James McDonald, Obert Smith, and Han Corcoran were arraigned for disturbing the peace by fighting and disorderly conduct at the Columbian Hotel on Friday night. The evidence fore hardly on the two first named, as the originators and principal actors in the disturbance complained of and they were accordingly committed for trail before the Hustings Court in default of bail. Smith and Corcoran were discharged, and ordered to appear as witness in the case. Louisa Lankford a tenant of Mr. Jas. L. Davis, was required to answer the charge of abusing Mr. D's family. Security required. John Dixon and Mary Roberts, colored, complained of by Dr. Hancock, of General Hospital No. 18, near 22d street for keeping a cook shop without a license, and annoying the patients of the hospital by selling them various indigestible articles of cookery. The parties were ordered to be whipped by way of an admonition.
The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], Movements of the enemy in North Carolina. (search)
Condition of our wounded at Corinth — Rosecrane declares the fighting of our troops Unequalled. Mobile, Nov. 1st. --A special dispatch to the Advertiser and Register, dated the 31st, says that Surgeon Board, of Price's Division, who was left with our wounded at Corinth, returned to-day in Rosecrans's ambulance. He left four hundred of our wounded at Iuka, and two hundred distributed in the country. They are well fed and cared for, and have twenty Confederate Surgeons with them. Rosecrans has been very attentive to our wounded. He declares such fighting was never equalled, and such brave men are entitled to every attention. The only thing they require is clothing, of which they are in great need. Three hundred suits will be sent them. Rosecrans, in tears, met our Surgeons after the battle, and expressed regret that such brave men should suffer so severely. His Adjutant declared that had Price's command been supported, or the other troops handled as well, the Confe
The Daily Dispatch: November 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Proceedings in the Courts. (search)
t 18 years in the Penitentiary. Sentence was passed by the Judge in accordance with the above finding. J. B Ferguson was then arraigned for the murder, seven months since, of John Jewett, engineer of the Coalfield Railroad, by shooting him to death with a shot-gun while standing on his engine. Recorder's Court.--Simon, slave of Mrs Matilda F. Denny, was brought before Recorder James K. Caskie, yesterday, at the City Hall, to undergo examination on the charge of having, on the 1st of November, on Byrd street, dangerously wounded Mary Haley and Margaret Keneday, two children, aged respectively nine years, by discharging at them the contents of a loaded gun. The examination was heard before the Recorder because first brought before him in the absence of the Mayor.--The two girls were not present, the wounds received by them precluding any such idea, both being badly injured. The case was continued until Monday. Simon did not look like a vicious d key, and it is said that the
The Daily Dispatch: November 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern News. (search)
e against us. We are not likely to forget it. A fact concerning the Alabama deserves to be stated. The American Consul at Liverpool seems to have made every effort to persuade the British authorities to prevent her from leaving port on a cruise which all men knew was to be piratical.--The Government at last consented to interfere, and the day after the Alabama had called issued an order restraining her from going to sea. Archbishop Hughes Fears a foreign War. Under date of November 1st, Archbishop Hughes has written a letter to Secretary Seward. He reiterates the stern views he has always held of the necessities of the times, and in the course of his letter speaks with a warning voice of the dangers of foreign intervention, cautioning the Government to be prepared for startling emergencies. He says: It is just one year and eight days since it was desired, by a telegraphic communication, that I should visit the city of Washington on public business. I obeyed the
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