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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., chapter 48 (search)
Mohican. Captain, 0. S. Glisson; Lieutenant, R. K. Duer; Surgeon, Edw. F. Corson; Assistant-Paymaster, James Hoy, Jr.; Acting-Master, Robert B. Ely; Acting-Ensigns, A. D. Campbell and A. T. Holmes; Acting-Master's Mates, J. S. Reynolds, W. F. Veltman, E. N. Snow and George T. Ford; Engineers: Acting-First-Assistant, G. W. Halloway; Acting-Second-Assistants, John Lardner and C. R. Weaver; Acting-Third-Assistants, James Buckley and J. W. Buck; Acting-Boatswain, Geo. C. Abbott; Gunner, James Hutchinson. Steam-Sloop Kearsarge. Captain, John A. Winslow: Lieutenant-Commander, James S. Thornton; Surgeon, John M. Browne; Paymaster, Joseph A. Smith; Engineers: Chief, William H. Cushman; Second-Assistant, Wm. H. Badlam; Third-Assistants, Fredk. L. Miller, Sidney L. Smith and Henry McConnell ; Boatswain, James C. Walton ; Acting-Gunner, Franklin A. Graham. Steamer Sacramento. Captain, Henry Walke; Lieutenant-Commander, H. D. Todd; Lieutenant, G. P. Ryan; Surgeon, J. S. Kitchen; A
xpediency of granting any thing to Miller & Whitney. The Committee to whom this matter was referred, made a report, in which they-- cordially agreed with the governor in his observations, that monopolies are at all times odious, particularly in free governments, and that some remedy ought to be applied to the wound which the Cotton-Gin monopoly has given, and will otherwise continue to give, to the culture and cleaning of that precious and increasing staple. They have examined the Rev. James Hutchinson, who declares that Edward Lyon, at least twelve months before Miller & Whitney's machine was brought into view, had in possession a saw or cotton-gin, in miniature, of the same construction; and it further appears to them, from the information of Doctor Cortes Pedro Dampiere, an old and respectable citizen of Columbia county, that a machine of a construction similar to that of Miller & Whitney, was used in Switzerland at least forty years ago, for the purpose of picking rags to mak
Proceedings in the Courts. Mayor's Court, Monday, Dec. 1. --Patrick Cassiday, a soldier, was brought up on the charge of getting drunk. The Mayor fined him a dollar. Henry, slave of James Hutchinson, arrested for going at large, was committed as a runaway. Henry P. Elston, the young man charged with attempting to garrote and rob Samuel D. Hicks, about 9 o'clock Sunday morning, at his house on Shockoe Slip, was called up and committed to jail until Wednesday for examination. George Harvey, a free negro, found in possession of a loaded pistol was ordered 15 lashes. John Patterson, alias Wharton, found by officer Morris drunk, and acting disorderly on the corner of 9th and Main streets, was required to answer that charge; also, the further one of offering the officer a dollar to let him go. The Mayor was inclined to the opinion, from the amount offered as a bribe, that the defendant was joking. For the drunkenness a fine of $1 was imposed. A case again