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The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Proceedings of the Methodist Annual Conference. (search)
and was called to order by Rev. H. B. Cowles, who stated that the Bishop had requested that he would preside at the evening session. The Bishop was in council with the Presiding Elders. Prayer was offered by Dr. Carter. It was resolved to proceed with the unfinished business, the election of delegates to the General Conference, and that a messenger be sent to the Presiding Elders to bring their votes. Three ballots were had without effecting an election, and on the fourth the Rev. Jos. H. Davis was elected eleventh delegate. It was resolved that three alternates be elected now, and upon the first ballot two were chosen, namely, Rev. James A. Dunean and Rev. P. W. Archer. A ballot was then had for the third alternate, which resulted in no election, and another was about to be taken, when it was moved that the candidate receiving the highest number of votes upon the last ballot be declared elected — which motion prevailed; and thereupon Rev. John C. Granberry was de
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 22 (search)
War matters.intelligence from the North. We continue our extracts of Northern news taken from the New York Herald, of the 25th inst., received a day or two ago by the Norfolk Day Book: The New York Herald on President Davis's message. The New York Herald, of the 25th instant, publishes a long editorial severely criticising President Davis's last message to the Confederate Congress. The following extracts will give the general drift of the whole article: We published yesterdayPresident Davis's last message to the Confederate Congress. The following extracts will give the general drift of the whole article: We published yesterday in extenso, by telegraph from Washington, the message of Jefferson Davis to the rebel Congress, now in session at Richmond. Those of our readers who have perused it need not be told that it is a weak and inflated document, and that notwithstanding some "whistling to keep his courage up," the Confederate President betrays evident signs of fear and trembling at the spectres which haunt his guilty soul.--He is weak in the knees, and weak in the back; but it his policy to put on the appearance of