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The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Yankee vessel Blown up by a Torpedo. (search)
ghteen months. Wm. D. Ticknor, the senior partner of the well known Boston publishing firm of Ticknor & Field, died at the Continental Hotel, in Philadelphia last Tuesday. Mr. Ticknor meditated a trip to Havana for the benefit of his health, and he had reached that for on his journey. The War Department is about to weed out the unemployed Generals, with a view to reducing the number by thirty or forty, and thereby making room for the promotion of really meritorious officers. Lincoln has commuted to imprisonment in Fort Delaware during the war, John W. Scott and Simon J'Kemp, Baltimoreans, and Pierre C. Dagan, condemned to be hung as rebel spies. The very Latest. The Baltimore Gazettes, of the 14th, was received Saturday. Gold opened at the First Board, New York Exchange, on the 13th, at 175½. The quotation at the Second Board was 177¼, and at 4 o'clock 178½. A telegram from New York says; "Gold closed at one hundred and seventy nine!" The following is a summ
The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Yankee vessel Blown up by a Torpedo. (search)
brave people who would give them so much trouble by resistance as to think any punishment or calamity they might bring upon themselves well merited. Resisting Abe Lincoln and his myrmidous is not so horrible in their estimation; but to resist them were they in power would be quite another and much more serious affair. To fight LLincoln, who boldly tells us to what abject degradation he means to reduce us, is natural; but to resist these States--rights men, with their promise to secure to the Southern States all their "dignity, equality, and rights unimpaired," would be an obduracy so monstrous and aggravating, as really after all to entitle the South to no better fate than that Lincoln had prepared for them. It might not be so; but there is in human nature such facility of change of policy and of principle to suit a change of circumstances, that we need not place much faith in any predominating party at the North--State rights nor any other. If there is in human nature a weakness
The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Norfolk and Portsmouth. (search)
y costume, was afterwards persuaded by Butler to take the oath, said persuasion consisting probably in a threat of Hatteras. Revs Mr. O'Keefe and Plunkett, the Catholic Pastors of Norfolk and Portsmouth, received telegraphic dispatches last Sunday fortnight from Butter, asking 1st, whether they had taken the oath; 2d, whether they said the usual prayer for the President of the United States before vespers.--Mr. O'Keefe replied that he had not taken the oath, as he owed no allegiance to Lincoln, and as to the prayer before vespers, he had never heard of H. Mr. Plunkett, who has not taken the oath, repaired to Fortress Monroe and had an interview with the Beast; which resulted in his being allowed "time to reflect." With these exceptions, all the clergy in the two titles have been forced to take the oath. It is reported that the magnificent mansion of Mrs W E Taylor is to be confiscated, although she has taken the oath, and has influential friends among the Federals. Hatt