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The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
pected to ascertain where the Virginia troops are in force. Persons inexperienced in military matters, who occasionally reach this point, say that there is not a great force at Richmond, but of course their ideas on that score are not worth much. We quote one more paragraph: Major Anderson's health is very much broken. He intends, as I hear in a high quarter, to visit Kentucky and address the people in behalf of the Union, for which he has a religious devotion. Washington, May 6.-- Gov. Andrew has notified the Secretary of the Navy that Massachusetts has purchased the steamers Massachusetts and South Carolina, recently employed as packets between Boston and Charleston: that they are thoroughly equipped and manned, and are ready for sea and any Government service. Gov. Andrew asks for authority to commission commanders. The Secretary of the Navy or the President has no such authority. They can only be received in the service as auxiliary to the Navy, and must be co
The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs at Pensacola. (search)
One day Later from Europe. St. John's, N. F., May 6.--The Canadian Company's screw steamship North American, from Liverpool 25th, via Londonderry 26th. arrived off Cape Race on Saturday, at one o'clock, where she was boarded by the news yacht. Her advices are mainly anticipated by the City of Baltimore at New York. In the British House of Commons, on the 24th ult., the bill opening the burial grounds of the Church of England to dissenters was rejected by a vote of 236 to 165. The French journals republish the Pope's protest against Victor Emanuel's assuming the title of King of Italy. Prince Napoleon has been appointed President of the Commission of Representatives from France at the great exhibition in London next year. The Paris Bourse on the 24th was weak, rentes closing at 68f. 35 The Italian Chamber of Deputies, on the 24th, adopted a resolution declaring that the National Guard of the South had deserved well of the country during recent events.
The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Great excitement (search)
A tornado. Branchville, S. C., May 6. --There was a violent tornado this afternoon, which crossed the Columbia branch of the South Carolina Railroad, near Stillon's station. Large trees were twisted and blown down and uprooted. The telegraph wires were broken, and the poles, in many cases, blown down. Mrs. O'Cain's house, and several others, were overthrown, and much damage done to property on all the plantations in that vicinity.