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The Daily Dispatch: October 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], Large Sale of negroes. (search)
Twenty Dollars reward. --Ran away from the subscriber, on Tuesday, the 14th October, a Negro Man named Bacchus, of the following description: Gingerbread color, pleasant countenance, about 30 years of age, and 5 ft. 8 inches in height. The above reward will be paid for his apprehension and delivery to me on 8th street, one door from Grace. E. P. Turner, oc 16--5t* Capt. P. A. C. S.
The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], Further from the North. (search)
Twenty Dollars reward. --Ran away from the subscriber, on Tuesday, the 14th October, a Negro Man named Bacchus, of the following description: Gingerbread color, pleasant countenance, about 30 years of age, and 5 ft. 8 inches in height. The above reward will be paid for his apprehension and delivery to me on 8th street, one door from Grace. E. P. Turner, oc 16--5t* Capt. P. A. C. S.
The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], Andy Johnson's family. (search)
Arrests. --The civil police yesterday arrested Peter Allen, for assaulting and beating Charles Madison and his wife, in their own house, and at night a man lying in the 1st market, too much intoxicated to give his name. Before the watchmen saw him, some rogue had relieved the prostrate son of Bacchus of his shoes. On Monday four "insensibly" drunk individuals were conveyed to the cage.
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
army of white men before him, all with violating the rules of decency, he laws of the State by getting drunk on Christmas beverages, annoying sober people, fighting each' other, kicking doors, breaking windows, and crying fire. A party of young men, after imbibing freely, made Broad street hideous with their yells — alarmed the residents by kicking at doors — and crying fire at the top of their voices. After a few potations of the distilled damnation now served to the worshippers of Bacchus, it is not to be wondered at that they forgot all sense of propriety and became turbulent and disorderly. The Mayor held them to bail to keep the peace. A soldier, after seeing the elephant, ran his head through a window, breaking the glass and cutting his face in several places. When he came into Court he was well marked with blood and bruises, the fruits of his charge on the old king's fortifications, which have never yet been carried by storm. He was sent to the Provost. A w
The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Successes in North Carolina--defeat of the enemy at Newbern — capture of prisoners. (search)
e-field fade into insignificance compared with the calm fire-light of the hearth. The roar of a cannon has no such attraction for them as the music of the cricket in the corner, and even the midnight wallings of a disconsolate child are sweet music to the unearthly scream of a Hotchkiss or Parrott. They would not give the contents of one oyster shell for all the shells that the army have opened since the beginning of the war. They would rather go to bed rosy and reeling from a hard hit of Bacchus than lose a drop of their sacred claret under the malign influence of Mars. Their patriotism is very much akin to that of an old English preacher for his native island.--In his last moments, his faithful servant, John, endeavored to console him by saying: "Be comforted, my good master, you are going to a better place." "Ah, John," said the departing worthy, "there's no place like Old England." There's no place, in the estimation of some of our most muscular patriots, like their dear n
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