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The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sprigginn (search)
has resigned that post. Who his successor will be is variously conjectured. There is a considerable outside pressure from Richmond circles in behalf of General Robert. E. Lee. Mention is also made of Major General Poln Still other names are prominently brought forward. Both in Great Britain and in this country the post of War Minister has always been regarded as one of those great political offices, requiring to be filled with some reference to public sentiment. We have no idea that President Davis will fill the appointment upon any other theory.--If this be the fact, then it would seem to follow as a matter of course, that if a proper man be found, the selection will be made from some State or great district of country not now represented in the Cabinet. In that event, the public will naturally expect that Tennessee, Arkansas, or at least the region of which Memphis is the centre and emporium, would be the one to furnish the new Cabinet officer. The Atlantic seaboard is now rep
The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Railroad Accidents in Maryland. (search)
The System of unconstitutional, unlawful and despotic arrests and imprisonments now carried on by the Lincoln Government, is an evidence of conscious weakness, and would never be resorted to by a government which had the slightest confidence in its own strength. That nothing of the kind occurs under the Administration of President Davis, is a clear demonstration that the Southern Government is embedded in the popular affections, and that thrice armed in that panoply, it feels secure, both of the justice and the might of its cause.
The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The John Adams Homeward bound. (search)
Springfield Hospital. --Rev. J. B. Solomon requests us to acknowledge the receipt at this hall, for the sick soldiers, two pots of fresh butter--one from Mrs. Nancy E. Davis and one from Mrs. Martha Slaughter.
The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Contraband in a coffin. (search)
t Saturday night in arresting four conspirators belonging to the crew of the privateer Jeff. Davis. We learn that a conspiracy existed among the passengers and a portion of the crew of the privateer to kill the Captain and officers of the Jeff. Davis, and to take the vessel into the port of New York. This conspiracy has been disclosed since the return of Capt. Coxetter and crew to Charleston, and proof of the designs of the conspirators established by the affidavit of one of the crew. It isA preacher Suspected of Disloyalty. The Goldsboro' (N. C.) Tribune, under the head of "Affairs in Beaufort," says: Rev. Mr. Van Antwerp, Episcopal Minister at Beaufort, we are reliably informed, treated the fast day, recommended by President Davis, on the 13th of last June, with contempt, by not opening his church on that occasion. Alike insulting to the State and Confederate authorities and to the general Southern sentiment, was the conduct of this preacher, in reference to thanksgi