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Lincoln's pay. --In order to increase the President's pay without violating the explicit letter of the Constitution, it is announced that a bill will be shortly introduced into Congress for the payment of his salary hereafter, as well as is what is in arrear, in gold, which will in effect increase his pay to $37,500 a year! When the bill is presented the Democratic members will offer an amendment to pay the soldiers in gold.--Hartford (Conn.) Times.
Paroled Yankee prisoners. --Many of our readers will be astonished to learn that there are now in this city four hundred paroled Yankee prisoners, who, for causes known to themselves, have deserted the "stars and stripes," renounced Lincoln's rule, and taken the oath of allegiance to the Confederate Government. Four hundred men, prima facie alien enemies because natives of the land of wooden nutmegs and red onions, turned loose in the very capital of the Southern Confederacy, and that, too, upon the mere pledge of their "words of honor" that they will not take up arms against us, or give information to our enemies. Some of them may be sincere sympathisers of the South; but is it not a short-sighted policy in the Government to take the chance of having a Yankee army thus created in our midst, and by our own consent to aid in thus striking down our cause? Most of these men declare that they fled their country to escape the Lincoln draft. What are they to do here?--Are they to b
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Boy Run over by Mrs. Lincoln's carriage. (search)
A Boy Run over by Mrs. Lincoln's carriage. --A small boy was knocked down on Pennsylvania avenue, in Washington, last week, and run over by Mrs. Lincoln's carriage, breaking his leg and otherwise injuring him. Mrs. Lincoln took the lad into her carriage and carried him to his home. A Boy Run over by Mrs. Lincoln's carriage. --A small boy was knocked down on Pennsylvania avenue, in Washington, last week, and run over by Mrs. Lincoln's carriage, breaking his leg and otherwise injuring him. Mrs. Lincoln took the lad into her carriage and carried him to his home. A Boy Run over by Mrs. Lincoln's carriage. --A small boy was knocked down on Pennsylvania avenue, in Washington, last week, and run over by Mrs. Lincoln's carriage, breaking his leg and otherwise injuring him. Mrs. Lincoln took the lad into her carriage and carried him to his home.
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], How Lincoln's message "Took" in New York. (search)
How Lincoln's message "Took" in New York. --The New York Herald, in a lengthy article on the subject of sensations, remarks: Out of pure love for President Lincoln we tried to make a sensation about his message the other day; but we tried in vain. Before this war we used to print an extra edition of from ten to thirty President Lincoln we tried to make a sensation about his message the other day; but we tried in vain. Before this war we used to print an extra edition of from ten to thirty thousand copies of the Herald containing the President's message, and all these copies were bought up like hot cakes by the eager public. On Wednesday we obtained the first copy of Mr. Lincoln's message by telegraph. We printed it first, and had our extra ready before our sleepy contemporaries knew what they were about. The newsMr. Lincoln's message by telegraph. We printed it first, and had our extra ready before our sleepy contemporaries knew what they were about. The newsboys were notified by the bulletins that the message was in town. Well, we printed four hundred and eighty copies of the message. Of these we sold one hundred and eighty copies to the newsboys. Undoubtedly we should have been "stuck" (as the newsboys classically phrase it) with the remaining three hundred, had not a countryman c