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nce between James M. Mason, the rebel commissioner at London, and Moncure D. Conway, was made public.--The rebels were driven ont of Cumberland, Md., by the National forces under General B. F. Kelley.--the schooners Marengo and Florence, and the fishing-vessels Elizabeth Ann Thomas, Rufus Choate, and Ripple, were captured by the confederate privateer Tacony.--at Acquia Creek, Va., the quartermaster's buildings, left standing by the Union troops on the evacuation of that place, were burned by the rebels.--Mr. Vallandigham, who was banished to the Southern States for a stated period, arrived at Bermuda in the confederate steamer Lady Davis, from Wilmington. It was reported that Mr. Vallandigham was on his way to Canada, and there to await coming events.--Bermuda Royal Gazette, June 23. The case of the seizure of the suspected gunboat Alexandra, at Liverpool, England, was announced in the Court of the Queen's Bench at London, before Chief Baron Pollock.--(See Supplement, Vol. II.)
his acts do not involve any breach of international neutrality, nor of themselves implicate the Government. Perhaps it may not be out of place here to notice the charge of the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer to the jury in the case of the Alexandra, a vessel of one hundred twenty tons, under construction at Liverpool for our government. The case came on for trial on June 22, 1863, in the Court of Exchequer, sitting at nisi prius, before the Lord Chief Baron and a special jury. After it as entitled to the rights of war, and from which the commander of the cruiser receives his commission or authority, but the pirate recognizes no government, and is not recognized by any one. As the attorney general of Great Britain said in the Alexandra case: Although a recognition of the Confederates as an independent power was out of the question, yet it was right they should be admitted by other nations within the circle of lawful belligerents—that is to say, that their forces should no
his retreat down the Shenandoah, 601. R. M. T., member of Confederate peace commission, 521. Report of peace commission to Davis, 522-23. Hunton, General, 428. Hurley, Timothy, 200. Huston, Gen. John B., 397. Huys, Drouyn de I‘, 318. I Imboden, General, 367, 444, 445. Independence, Declaration of, 158. Misstatement of principles, 250-51. Indianola (gunboat), capture, 202-03. Ingraham, Captain, 191-92. International law, duty of neutral nations, 224-28. Case of the Alexandra, 228-29. Action of U. S., 231. Island No.10, bombardment and capture by Federals, 61-62. J Jack, —, 37. Jackson, Governor of Missouri, 400. Jackson, General T. J., 50, 73, 87, 88, 90, 109, 110, 111, 114, 115, 116, 117, 120, 121-22, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129,131, 132, 133, 134, 262, 265, 268-69, 270, 271-73, 274-75, 277, 278, 279, 281,284, 285,286, 294, 296, 301, 302, 303, 306, 309, 310, 345, 449, 469, 488, 489. Extract from report on battle of Shiloh, 51. Activity in the
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 48: Seward.—emancipation.—peace with France.—letters of marque and reprisal.—foreign mediation.—action on certain military appointments.—personal relations with foreigners at Washington.—letters to Bright, Cobden, and the Duchess of Argyll.—English opinion on the Civil War.—Earl Russell and Gladstone.—foreign relations.—1862-1863. (search)
solation as I cast this gloomy horoscope. To the Duchess of Argyll, April 7: He had written the duchess a full letter, March 24, on the progress of the war, and the Confederate cruisers which were being fitted out in England.— Just as I was about to write to you, I am gladdened by your letter of 19th March, which in its tone is so inconsistent with that war which we are now expecting from England. But first let me express the pleasure I had in Tennyson's ode. A Welcome to Alexandra. I have read it aloud again and again, and always with fresh delight. It is exquisite, and the best thing of the kind that I can recall in all literature. In perfect contrast, I put Lord Russell's recent despatches, which I have read with grief unspeakable. . . . On their character, and the inevitable tendency of our relations with England, there is but one opinion in the Cabinet. Not a single member hesitates in conclusion; nor does the President. When I read those papers I was amazed
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.12 (search)
cer left in my command was Lieutenant Tom Perry. A mild-mannered, slow-speaking man was Tom, but he was a soldier, every inch of him. He never made a boast in his life, but in every battle in which the Seventeenth was engaged, there, in front of his company, stood Tom, calm and serene, as if waiting for the dinner-horn to blow. Longstreet's old First Brigade—that which charged through the abattis at Seven Pines, 2,800 strong—mustered only 320 men. The Seventeenth Virginia, the pride of Alexandra, Prince William, Fairfax, Fauquier and Warren counties, which at Blackburn's Ford had 860 men in ranks, now stood in their tracks with 41 muskets and 7 officers. My! my! What a set of ragamuffins they looked! It seemed as if every cornfield in Maryland had been robbed of its scarecrows and propped up against that fence. None had any underclothing. My costume consisted of a ragged pair of trousers, a stained, dirty jacket; an old slouch hat, the brim pinned up with a thorn; a begrimed
pany G; Joseph C. Smith, Sclota county, Company G; John Vaulmer, Company G; Daniel Sullivan, Company G; Private Spalding, Company H; Private Smith, Company H; Private Morcer, Company C; Private Morrison, Company K. Wounded.--David C. Gate, Company G, right hand badly injured; G. F. Lanman, Company G, Pike county, bruises on the left side, and also on the left hand; Private Volner, Company G; Private smith, Company G; Frank Larned, Company G, wounded, not seriously. Affairs about Alexandra. Alexandria June 19. --The train from Falls Church arrived here this evening and reports all quiet there. Filing of cannon in that direction occasioned some alarm, but subsequently it was ascertained that the troops were practicing with their guns. Capt. Medlar, of the Pennsylvania Fiftieth Regiment, who has performed the arduous duties of provost-marshal, and gained the universal esteem of the citizens of Alexandria for his leniency in the treatment of themselves and the pri
imony! Wilt thou love her comfort her honor and keep her in sickness and in health, and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both she I live? " To this the Prince rather bowed than responded, his utterance was so indistinct. To the same question. "Wilt thou, Alexandra Caroline Maria, have this man to thy wedded husband?" the reply was just audible, but nothing more though, as usual, every bar was strained to catch it. But to the words, "I take thee Alexandra, to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth"--the Prince repeated clearly word for word after his Grace, though new, again when it was the turn of the young bride, the could be heard only to answer almost inaudibly, and her checks were suffused with a crimson flush, and she seemed ve
as going to depart from that course, of which there is no of surplusage to have filled the speech with a repetition of the statements made on former occasions, and which are still binding upon her Majesty's Government. [Hear, hear.] The Alexandra case. The Alexandra case has been dismissed.--The London Times devotes a large share of its columns to the discussion of the subject. As it stands now a dead lock has occurred by the dismissal of the appeal by the Court of Error, from the CAlexandra case has been dismissed.--The London Times devotes a large share of its columns to the discussion of the subject. As it stands now a dead lock has occurred by the dismissal of the appeal by the Court of Error, from the Court of Exchequer, which tried the case in the first instance, on the ground of the want of jurisdiction. But a loophole, it is said, has been discovered by crown lawyers, by which the case will be taken to the House of Lords, and when once before that august body it will no doubt be thoroughly ventilated, and we shall learn from the debates thereon the real sentiment of the British Government. It is said that the rule in cases of appeal to the House of Lords is, to subject the matter to the
bing and stripping him a hole was deg at the forks of the road, and he was there buried.--The next day Jeff. Davis sent for his body, and it was dug up and sent on to Richmond. In the letter allusion is also made to the artificial leg and foot of the deceased, leaving no possible doubt that Col. Dahlgren, and he only, was the subject of reference. One hundred guns were fired here this after noon in honor of the passage of the act of emancipation by the State Convention now sitting in Alexandra. The booming of these guns has a significance beyond their reverberating roar and the smell of gunpowder. Privilege of firing them was asked by most of the leading citizens and slaveholders of the town Gen. Wild, Military Governor, granted the request, and with the roar of the cannon there mingled a merry and jubilant peal from the church bells. Gen. Sherman's official report — what he accomplished. Major General W. T. Sherman, in a dispatch dated Vicksburg, Miss, February 27th,
The Alexandra case. --The London correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes the latest news about the Alexandra case: The discussion of the Alexandra case in the House of Lords, or rather before six members of it, has terminated, and their Lordships announce that their decision will be made public soon after Saster. The discussion was wholly uninteresting, as the merits of the case itself were not touched upon. The arguments were on the dryest of all technicalities, and really interested nobody except the lawyers themselves. If the decision be in favor of the Government, then a new trial of the whole case will be ordered; but if otherwise, then the decision of the Court of Exchequer will stand, in favor of the Lairds, although that decision was only attained by the distinct understanding that an appeal was to be had to the higher courts. If this latter be the result, although the Lairds may thus obtain a technical victory, it will only be on the confession, by t
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