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The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 26: three months in Europe. (search)
e his unwearied exertions for what he deems the good of humanity; and, believing with the great apostle to the Gentiles, that Now abide faith, hope, charity; these three; but the greatest of these is charity, I consider him practically a better Christian than half those who, professing to be such, believe more and do less. The only other banquet at which Mr. Greeley was a guest in London during his first visit, was the dinner of the Fishmonger's Company. There he heard a harangue from Sir James Brooke, the Rajah of Borneo. From reading, he had formed the opinion that the Rajah was doing a good work for civilization and humanity in Borneo, but this impression was not confirmed by the ornate and fluent speech delivered by him on this occasion. During Mr. Greeley's stay in London, the repeal of the taxes on knowledge was agitated in and out of parliament. Those taxes were a duty on advertisements, and a stamp-duty of one penny per copy on every periodical containing news. A parli
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Incidents of a battle. (search)
Incidents of a battle. --Among the incidents of the fight in Berkeley county, on the 21 inst, the Staunton Spectator mentions the following: James Brooke, of this place, made a very narrow escape. He was at a fence firing away at the enemy, when a cannon ball took off the two top rails. He stooped a little lower, and continued to return the compliment with his Minnie. Little Charley Turner, a boy about fifteen years of age, insisted so strongly on going with the Augusta Guard that his father finally yielded to his importunities, and all wed him to go. The result shown that little Charley went to perform service, for he made one of the enemy bite the dust. A correspondent of the same paper says: Our men were fighting under a heavy fire all the time, and it is wonderfully remarkable that our loss was not much greater, only two killed, and three or four missing. The balls were whisting all around us, and shells bursting over our heads all the time. We had t