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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Southern Confederacy--an Answer to the Charleston Mercury. (search)
muskets, it became necessary to settle its details. In doing this, the Commissioners consulted the Master Armorer, Mr. Salmon Adams, and requested Mr. Burton's opinion of the relative merits of the British and American muskets. After a careful exa Ferry, he made a report to the Commissioners, containing numerous valuable suggestions, which, with the approbation of Mr. Adams, were adopted. The result was, a musket conforming in its interior to the United States musket, and in its exterior toom both. By permission of those in authority, the model musket was made at the Government works at Springfield, by Mr. Adams, who arrived in Richmond with the arm a few days since, and on Tuesday last exhibited it to the Senate and House Commit and would have laid an embargo on its transshipment thither if a position of the kind would have been at all tenable. Mr. Adams, the Master Armorer here, has made himself obnoxious to the Black Republicans by aiding the shipment of arms South by p
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Movements in the army and Navy. (search)
Movements in the army and Navy. --The New York Express gives the following items of army and naval news: All the ships of the home squadron are out of provisions. Only for the energy and enterprise of Capt. Adams, of the Sabine, they would have had to leave Florida altogether.-- Since the vessels arrived at Pensacola, not a line had been received from the Navy Department. The steamers can get no wood and water. A "smuggler from Pensacola" was selling water at four cents a gallon. The officers and crews of the entire fleet are told off, to land at a signal from Lieutenant Slemmer. It is not generally known that the Federal military and naval garrisons at this place have been, in a quiet way, put upon a war footing, and that the troops stationed in them are subject to the regulations, while on duty, customary in a campaign. The effective ordnance of the Brooklyn Navy-Yard has been distributed, as have the means of defence, in the proper places; Governor's Island, Fo
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Stars and Stripes at a Discount in New Orleans. (search)
The Stars and Stripes at a Discount in New Orleans. --The Boston Journal states that a firm in that city received on Saturday, per Adams & Co.'s Express, from New Orleans, a lot of American flags, as a present from a friend, who writes that he has no further use for them in that country. A painting of the new flag of the Confederate States was also received.
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
State armory. --The estimate of funds needed to meet engagements for the State machinery under the contract with Messrs. Joseph R. Anderson & Co., is as follows: 1st of March $20,000;1st of June $60,000; 1st of September $50,000; 1st of December $50,000. The amount of the original contract was $158, 59040; additions ordered by the Master Armorer, Mr. Salmon Adams, by letter of November 21, 1860, $1,174.50; subsequent contract for supplying set of barrel rolling and welding machinery, &c., $14,600--total amount of contract, $172,364.90. Sub-contracts have been made with other parties, and approved by the Commissioners of the State of Virginia, for the supply of machinery, to the extent of about $75,176; and good progress has been made towards the execution of the work undertaken by them. Most of the machines for the machine shops of the armory are ready for erection as soon as the building is ready to receive them — and that is nearly the case. Immediately on the conclusion of t
The Daily Dispatch: may 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Military movements. (search)
he madness that rules the hour "up North," we subjoin two paragraphs from Black Republican papers which concern this latitude. They read as follows: "The Ames' Manufacturing Company at Chicopee, Mass., several months since contracted for the manufacture and delivery of machinery for an armory at Richmond. Some portions of it, said to be of little consequence, have been delivered, but the rest will be withheld, and the resources of the establishment tendered to the Government." "Salmon Adams, the agent for the Virginia secessionists for the purchasing of arms at the North, whose appearance in Springfield, Mass., on Friday caused such indignation and alarm, left town the same evening. Finding that he met with a cool reception, so different from his expectation, he took the evening express train South. At Windsor Locks he was recognized by a Springfield man, and seen to go to the stove in the station, taken package of papers from his pocket, light a match and burn them."