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The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Extracts from Northern journals. (search)
nd to the Marshal of the District of Columbia, that any collision between the military and civil authorities may be avoided. I am, General, your ob't serv't, Wm. H. Seward. [from the New York world]Rumored Contemplated Purchase. Secretary Cameron, it is said, on his recent visit to Hartford, had a conversation with Col. Sam. Colt, about buying his whole works in the South Meadow, for the Government, and asked the Col. for his terms for factory, machinery, grounds and all. Col. Colt wished time for consideration, and the story is he has quite recently sent a letter to Mr. Cameron, offering his whole concern for five millions of dollars — every thing to be Included for this sum, except his own private dwellings and grounds contiguous. We give the story as it goes, without vouching for its accuracy. The Western Virginia Convention. Wheeling, Dec. 5 --The Convention to day abolished the system of voting viva voce in the Legislature, substituting that of voting b
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], An interesting letter. (search)
Northwestern Virginia. --In Cameron's new scheme of partitioning Virginia, he has been good enough to annex us to Maryland, and to permit no portion of the State to retain the name of Virginia, but the largest, most populous, and richest portion of it, which lies west of the Blue Ridge. If the Northern Secretary of War, s there by the Unionists is, that if the Yankees retain possession the wealth of the rich would be divided among the poor. It is really a modest expectation of Mr. Cameron that we should give up a country at present paralyzed, it is true, like the Eastern Shore, by the presence of an invading army, but the great majority of whose at twenty-five millions of dollars is a small estimate for the interest of Northerners in the oil, lands, salt, and iron establishments of Western Virginia. If Mr. Cameron or any other man ever expects to wrest such a region from Virginia, he will have to wait till every mother's son in Virginia has bit the dust, and closed his ey
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], An interesting letter. (search)
fire and even much further up into the city, the work of packing up valuables and getting ready to desert their homesteads became general, and it is impossible to give anything like a full account of the results of what will hereafter be known as "the great fire of 1861." The fire begun in Russell & Co.'s sash and blind factory at the foot of Hazel street, and there are reports that it occurred in three places at the same time. Crossing to the other side of Hazel street, it has burned Cameron & Co.'s immense machine shops, and under the impulse acquired at that point, and the stiff breeze from the northeast, without a sufficient supply of water, it has become totally unmanageable and rages without the hope of being able to arrest it, except at certain points. Eleven o'clock.--The out-buildings in the rear of Institute Hall have been set on fire by sparks or flakes of fire. The attention of the firemen have been directed thither, and they are straining every nerve to save M