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The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
most fertile resources and with all climates, soils and productions, with magnificent forests, with the precious and most of the useful metals in abundance-- Mexico is a powerless and declining State. Declining, indeed, it is; for, though it has extracted from the earth one hundred and fifty milllions of the precious metals, it is poorer at this day than when the mines were discovered, although its exports of produce, other than metals, in 1802, were $9, 186,212, they had fallen off in 1842 to $1,500,000, and none can tell what they are at present, or even whether there be any at all. Mr. Waddy Thompson says in his Recollections of Mexico: The immense estates of which I have spoken, of eighty and a hundred leagues square, with eighty or a hundred thousand cattle, and fifteen or twenty thousand mules and horses, yield very little profit. Perhaps not one acre of ten thousand on these estates is cultivated. Now and then the Government purchases five hundred or a thousand hor
The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 24 (search)
orth all the heads in the Northern United States. The steam-tug W. H. Webb, which was refused a clearance from Havana until she raised the English flag, arrived safely at New Orleans on the 14th. A perfect panic exists at the West. Only ten illinois Banks are now received at all, and as high as 30 per cent, has been paid upon exchange to New York. Massachusetts claims to have given $12,630,000 to the support of the present war. The same State gave for the support of the war of 1842 nothing, and for the Mexican war, ditto. A large number of planters in Southwest Georgia have planted Western or sack corn, and there are fears that it will prove an entire failure. The General Miramon, from Havana, the 13th, reports that the United States Consulate refuses to give clearances to vessels for ports in the seceding States. In New York city and Brooklyn many first class houses are occupied free of rent, and others are had for the taxes. There are four widow la
The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Col. Hill. (search)
Col. Hill. From a sketch by the Charleston Courier of Col. Daniel Harvey Hill, Commander of the 1st Regiment North Carolina Volunteers, who so greatly distinguished himself at the battle of Bethel Church, we learn that that accomplished soldier and gentleman is a native of South Carolina, and a graduate of West Point. He entered the United States Military Academy from South Carolina in 1838, and was appointed a Lieutenant in the 1st Regiment United States Artillery in 1842, and in the 4th Artillery in 1845--was made a 1st Lieutenant in 1847, and commanded his company in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, for which service he was made a Captain by brevet — was with the stormers, and made a brevet Major for gallantry and meritorious conduct in storming Chepultepee. He resigned from the Army in 1849, and was presented with a sword by his native State. Just before the present war began, he filled the office of Superintendent of the North Carolina Military Institute at Charlo
The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of count Cavour--sketch of his life and public career. (search)
his return. Already, in his youth and among foreigners, he began to be regarded as an encyclopaedic man--one who cultivated himself in all possible and valuable directions--one destined to become in all of them an authority for reference. In 1842 Cavour returned to Turin. He was now in his opening prime--thirty-two years of age — gifted with the strongest natural powers of conception, judgment and execution, developed to their utmost by his English training and enriched by the stores of fthe congestion which finally proved fatal, he had so little idea of his peril as to call his ministerial colleagues to his bed and hold with them a conference of several hours upon the matters of the realm. With such a constitution Cavour, in 1842, commenced that great Italian work which ceased its activities eleven days ago — which shall never cease in its fruits. His ruling grand idea was the acclimation of tree institutions on the English model, in an Italian atmosphere. Almost imm
The Daily Dispatch: November 6, 1860., [Electronic resource], Interesting sketches. (search)
0 to 1834; Littleton W. Tazewell, from 1834 to 1836; Wyndham Robertson, Lieut. and acting Governor, from 1836 to 1837; David Campbell, from 1837 to 1840;Thomas W. Gilmer, from 1840 to 1841; John Rutherford, Lieut. and acting Governor, from 1841 to 1842; John M. Gregory, Lieut. and acting Governor, from 1842 to 1843; James McDowell, from 1843 to 1846; William Smith, from 1846 to 1849; John B Floyd, from 1849 to 1852; Joseph Johnson, from 1852 to 1856; Henry A. Wise, from 1856 to 1860; John LetcheLittleton W. Tazewell, from 1834 to 1836; Wyndham Robertson, Lieut. and acting Governor, from 1836 to 1837; David Campbell, from 1837 to 1840;Thomas W. Gilmer, from 1840 to 1841; John Rutherford, Lieut. and acting Governor, from 1841 to 1842; John M. Gregory, Lieut. and acting Governor, from 1842 to 1843; James McDowell, from 1843 to 1846; William Smith, from 1846 to 1849; John B Floyd, from 1849 to 1852; Joseph Johnson, from 1852 to 1856; Henry A. Wise, from 1856 to 1860; John Letcher, 1860.
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1860., [Electronic resource], Postage to the Argentine Confederation, Paraguay and Uruguay, via England. (search)
y with the United States, and was the first step towards a liberal policy. In the ten years since free trade was established, the official value of the exports in 1842 amounted to £100,000,000, and increased to £192,000,000 sterling in 1852; thus, while the increase during ten years of protection was ten millions sterling, it wasllions sterling. In regard to ships, it appeared by reference to official returns, that the entrances and clearances, while they were nine millions of tons in 1842, reached, in 1849, which was the last year of protection to British shipping, to fourteen million tons, showing an increase in the five years of protection of five a sufferer, as he supposed he would be, has also been a considerable gainer; for while the increase of British shipping amounted to three millions of tons between 1842 and 1849, it reached four millions of tons between 1849 and 1857. Another point of great interest and importance upon which Mr. Lindsey urged unity of legisla
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of Bishop Cobbs. (search)
Death of Bishop Cobbs. --The Right Rev. Nicholas H. Cobbs, D. D. Bishop of Alabama, expired at his residence, in Montgomery, on Friday last. The deceased, who was born in Bedford county, Va., in 1795, enjoyed a high reputation as a Christian divine and scholar, and was universally esteemed and beloved — He first entered upon the duties of the priesthood at Richmond, Virginia, in 1825, became Chaplain of the University of Virginia in 1834, and in 1839 was called to the charge of St. Paul's Church, Petersburg, Va. In 1843 he accepted the rectorship of St. Paul's Church, Cincinnati, having in the meanwhile (1842.) been created under circumstances highly honorable to himself, a Doctor of Divinity, by Geneva, Now Hobart College, New York. He was elected to the Episcopate of Alabama in May, 1844, and consecrated to that holy office in October of the same year, at Philadelphia, entering upon its duties immediately after.
The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of a Female dragoon. (search)
France, died last week in the Hospice des Petits-Menages, in Paris, at the age of 87. Her maiden name was Therese Figueur, and the served as a dragoon in the 15th and 9th Regiments from 1798 to 1812. She was known throughout the army by the name of Sanstiene, and was so much esteemed by her officers that when the Committee of Public Safety determined on excluding all women from the army, an exception was made in her favor.--The history of her campaigns was published from her own dictation in 1842. She began her military career at Toulen, when that port was besieged by the English in 1793. She was there put under arrest by Commandant Bonaparte for a delay of 25 minutes in executing an order. Some years after, when her old commander had become First Consul, he sent for the dragoon Sans-Gene to St. Cloud, and afterward gave her a good service pension of 200 trance. Sans-Gene remained in active service until 1812, when she fell into the hands of the priest Merino's guerrillas in Spain,
The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway. (search)
Major-General Lovell. The President has appointed Capt. Mansfield Lovell a Major-General in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to succeed Major-General Briggs in the command of the department comprised in the States of Louisiana and Mississippi, Gen. Lovell will have his headquarters at New Orleans, for which post he leaves Richmond this day.--General Lovell graduated at West Point in the class of 1842, with Generals G. W. Smith, Van-Dorn, Longstreet, Hill, (of Big Bethel fame,) Anderson, (who led the assault lately on Santa Rosa Island,) and with such other distinguished men of our army as Lay and McLaws. In the same class graduated Rosencranz, Pope, Doubleday, Sykes, and S. Williams, of the Northern army. General Lovell served through the whole of the Mexican war, part of the time with General Taylor and part of it with General Scott. He was there distinguished as a most gallant and skillful artillery officer, on the staff of General Quitman, who won fame as
The Daily Dispatch: October 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Trial Progressing. (search)
, while attempting to run the blockade, took place before United States Commissioner Ridgley on Saturday, who sent the case to the United States District Court. The vessel arrived in port on Friday, in charge of a prize crew, under Acting Master George W. Donnell, United States Navy. The schooner is of 113 tone burthen, and is valued at $2,500. Her cargo is value at $6,000, and consists of shoes, salt fish, and $2,000 worth of dry goods. The schooner was built in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1842, for the firm of Foster & Co of Halifax who, it is supposed, still own her. The vessel sailed from Halifax on the 9th of September, and has since been waiting a favorable opportunity to run the blockade, and failed. The captain and crew are at liberty. The vessel was taken to Stewart's wharf, foot of Bond street--Commissioner Ridgely applied to the court on Saturday for authority to move the cargo, the vessel being in a leaky condition. The court stated that the power was with the commissi
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