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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., Slavery in Kansas. (search)
's power--United States Senators, State Government and Legislature — the continuance or the abolishment of slavery in Kansas--as far, at least, as political power, under the peculiar circumstances, could have affected slavery, was received at the White House with honor, closeted with Buchanan, and appointed a Secret Territorial Mail Agent. Buford's marauders were presented with arms, and paid by the day for sacking Lawrence and desolating the surrounding region; and one of their number, a Mr. Fane, was appointed by the President United States Marshal. Titus was made a Colonel of Militia, and he and his men were promptly paid; while Captain Walker and his Free-State company, organized at the same time and in the same manner, under the same arrangement, have never been remunerated for their services to this day. General Whitfield, bogus delegate, the leader of several gangs of the invaders of Kansas--on whose hands rests the blood of many martyrs, slain by his ruffians — after
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
al.) A down-haul line passing through a block at the jaws of a gaff. Fan′cy-roll′er. （Carding-machine.) One placed immediately in advance of the doffer, and provided usually with straight wire teeth, its function being to loosen up the wool on the main cylinder so that it may be taken up with facility by the doffer. Fan′don. A large copper vessel in which the hot process of amalgamation is conducted, blocks of copper being drawn around like the porphyry blocks in an arrastra. Fane. A weathercock. A vane. Fang. 1. (Mining.) a. A niche cut in the side of an adit or shaft to serve as an air-course. b. An air-pipe of wood in a shaft. An air-main. 2. A projecting tooth or prong in a lock, bolt, or tumbler. 3. (Nautical.) a. The valve of a pump-box. b. The bend of a rope. 4. A long nail. 5. A projecting claw, as that on the reverse of a belt plate, which passes through the belt and is clenched or riveted at the rear. 6. The tang of a tool
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 1: Europe revisited--1877; aet. 58 (search)
irers elsewhere, for I remember having met a disciple of his, O'Connor by name, at a rout given by Mrs. Justin McCarthy. I asked this lady if her husband agreed with Mr. Parnell. She replied with warmth, Of course; we are all Home Rulers here. May 26. To Floral Hall concert, where heard Patti — and many others — a good concert. In the evening to Lord Houghton's, where made acquaintance of Augustus Hare, author of Memorials of a Quiet Life, etc., with Mrs. Proctor, Mrs. Singleton [Violet Fane], Dr. and Mrs. Schliemann, and others, among them Edmund Yates. Lord Houghton was most polite and attentive. Robert Browning was there. Whistler was of the party that evening. His hair was then quite black, and the curious white forelock which he wore combed high like a feather, together with his striking dress, made him one of the most conspicuous figures in the London of that day. Henry Irving came in late: A rather awkward man, whose performance of Hamlet was much talked of at that t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, XXI (search)
nd doubtless nobler form; but the die-away period had its own fascination—the period when even the military bands marched to the plaintive strains of Mrs. Norton's Love Not. In prose literature, as has been said, Bulwer and Disraeli best represented that epoch. The two fashionable novels, par excellence, of a whole generation, were Pelham and Vivian Grey. In the latter, all the heights of foppery and persiflage did but set off what was then regarded as the unsurpassable pathos of Violet Fane's death; and though the consummate dandyism of the companion book had no such relief, yet Bulwer amply made up for it by the rivers of tears that were shed over his Pilgrims of the Rhine. Not a young lover of the period who had acquired a decent sentimental education, but was sure to put a flower between the leaves of that work where the author says: Is there one of us who has not known a being for whom it would seem none too wild a fantasy, to indulge such a dream? Yes, yes, Bulwer! inter
The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Interesting from China. (search)
escription of the scene says: The ceremony took place in the hall of Ceremonies, in Pekin. At three P. M. the procession entered the Austin gate in the following order:--One hundred cavalry (detachments of King's Dragoon Guard, Prebyn's and Fane's Horse,) four hundred infantry, (detachments of the various regiments of foot;) officers and others mounted; the general and staff; Lord Elgin in his green sedan chair, carried by sixteen Chinese coolies in scarlet livery, attended by a detachmenf Pekin, on the 17th. At noon the procession formed at the Liama Temple, and marched in the following order, to the Russian cemetery, half a mile from the city, the band of the Rifles playing a slow march: One troop Dragoon Guards, one troop Fane's Horse, an officer and twenty men of each European corps, (armed;) the Commander-in-Chief, the Earl of Elgin, chief mourners. The corpses on gun-wagons, each drawn by six horses. Mourners — nearly all the officers of the English, and a large nu
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Northern Virginia. (search)
"old Peb. Fane" and old Fass and Feathers." It is related of the famous battle between the two Kukenny cats, that when it was over there was nothing left of them but their tails. It may be doubted whether modern tactics admit of such inveteracy; but if they do, we should think the war raging between those ancient fossils whom we have designated above would have a similar termination. The Northern papers almost to a paper have taken the part of old Fuse and Feathers. They abuse poor old "Pub. Fune." without stint or merely. Yet in no one instance do they undertake to controvert a single statement he has made, or to contest the genuineness of that proof under his own hand which he has brought to bear upon the veracity or short memory of his adversary. They are, indeed, extremely cautious of coming to particulars, and take care to deal only in general abuse. For instance, Buchanan says that he had only four hundred men at his disposal to reinforce the nine forts which