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The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs at the Southern Capital. (search)
se of Benj. Melton for assaulting Jacob Vardler, was called in this Court yesterday, and defendant not answering, an alias capias was awarded to bring him in to plead. Leonard C. Blackburn was tried for misdemeanor, and judgment rendered for costs. Adam France was found guilty of an assault on his wife, and fined $150. Not being present, a process was issued for his apprehension. Nolle prosequis were entered in the case of M. M. Peters and James W. Gill, presented for illegal voting in May, 1860. Case against Geo. H. Hotman, for petty larceny, was dismissed. Case of Robert Salmon and Wm. Childress, presented for assaulting Joseph R. Rennie and stealing a watermelon from him, was continued, defendant not appearing when called. In the case of Joseph Keppler, judgment in three cases for costs, and acquittal in two--charge, retailing ardent spirits, keeping a tippling house and bowling alley. Ro. Crump, tried for assaulting Jos. C. Dickinson, at Springfield Temperance Hall, fined $
The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Rev. Mr. Wilson's report, (the one adopted,) after citing the causes inducing the secession, gives the following resolutions: 1st. Be it Resolved, by the Baltimore Annual Conference, in Conference Assembled, That we hereby declare that the General Conference of the M. E. Church, held at Buffalo, in May, 1860, by its unconstitutional action, has sundered the ecclesiastical relation which has hitherto bound us together as one Church; that we will not longer submit to the jurisdiction of said General Conference, but hereby declare ourselves separate and independent of it. 2d. Resolved, That nevertheless, if, in accordance with the spirit of the foregoing preamble, three-fourths of the several Annual Conferences, to be held prior to December 4th, 1861, seeing the great wrong and injury done to the Baltimore and other Border Conferences, shall unite in a demand that the most thorough and satisfactory redress shall be given, and shall instruct their delegates so to vote in G
The Daily Dispatch: may 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
tive prerogative by Gov. Letcher. The following prisoners were released on yesterday: Alonzo C. Turner, sent by Lynchburg Circuit Court in 1857, for 18 years, for murder in the 2nd degree; Bartholomew Maloney, sent in 1852 by the Circuit Court of Augusta county for 40 years, as principal and aider and abettor in the commission of a rape. He was convicted in 10 cases, 4 years each; Frank Green, free negro, sent for 5 years by Middlesex County Court, for larceny. His time would have been out to-day. Nathaniel M. Dudley, sent by the Circuit Court of McDowell, for one year, for forgery; James Halcombe, sent by Greenbrier Circuit Court in 1858, for 5 years, for murder in the 2nd degree; Uriah Cherry, sent by Norfolk Circuit Court, in Oct., 1851, for 18 years, for murder in the 2nd degree; Henry D. Croft, sent by the Floyd Co. Circuit Court in 1861, for 3 years, for voluntary manslaughter; Wm. J. Merrill, sent by Albemarle Circuit Court, in May, 1860, for 3 years, for manslaughter.
The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 19 (search)
It was proclaimed in Canada in May, 1855, and, if either party give notice to the other of its wish to terminate the agreement immediately at the end of the ten years, it must still remain in force for twelve months, and it therefore cannot be annulled until May, 1860.
The Daily Dispatch: May 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], Benjamin Franklin Butler. (search)
Benjamin Franklin Butler. Our readers need no incentive beyond Butler's infamous order to the ladies of New Orleans to make them hate the very name of the detestable scamp; but the subjoined article from the Wilmington Journal lays the lash upon the villain with such a vim that we cannot refrain from copying it: We saw him at the Charleston Convention in May, 1860, and of all that assemblage of sharpers, inside and outside of the Convention, there was no countenance that could approach his in all that makes man hate his race. He seemed to be man only because he could talk. His smile was a scowl; his looks greedy and devouring; his eye like a serpent's, without its charm; his nose mounting the air for prey, his forehead low, skulking, and brutal. Instantly we thought of the line-- "A man may smile and smile, and be a villain still." But seeing the creature could not smile our loathing was turned to pity, to think he was so blasted in the making, and his villainy
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