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The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], General Lee's (search)
Gold was quoted in New York, on the 26th, at 144½. Cotton 65 to 67 cents per pound. Commodore Stockton, who was appointed a Major-General last winter, has taken command of the division of the New Jersey State soldiers which is being raised for the defence of Pennsylvania. Gen. Dix has restored civil law and government over Norfolk county and the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, to a certain extent. George W. Jones, late Minister to New Grenada, who was arrested in November, 1861, by the Government, and kept four months in Fort Lafayette, has sued Secretary Seward for $50,000 damages. The case is just entered in the Supreme Court of New York. Each district Marshal of New York has 50 men engaged in enrolling the names of persons subject to the draft, and it is said that up to Saturday, the 20th, 150,000 names were down on the several lists. The inauguration of the bogus Government of Western Virginia took place at Wheeling on Saturday, the 20th. Th
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Chances of blockade running. (search)
The Chances of blockade running. A list of the vessels which have been running the blockade from the port of Nassau and other ports, in the period intervening between November, 1861, and March, 1864, shows that 84 steamers were engaged; of these 37 were captured by the enemy, 12 were totally lost, 11 were lost and the cargoes partially saved, and one foundered at sea. They made 363 trips to, Nassau and 65 to other ports. Among the highest number of runs made were those of the Fannie, who has run 18 times, and the Margaret and Jessie, which performed the same feat, and was captured. Out of 425 runs from Nassau alone (including 100 schooners) only 62--about one in seven--have been unsuccessful. A letter from Nassau on this subject says: You will please observe that most of the boats here enumerated were wholly unfit for the purpose to which they had been hastily applied under the inducements of the large profit, and are very different from those which have been more recent
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