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The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], A fortunate Ruffian. (search)
A fortunate Ruffian. --New York sang songs of joy, a few weeks since, over the conviction of Billy Mulligan, the most notorious and desperate of her ruffians. But Billy, after having been sent to the Penitentiary, has obtained a new trial from the Court of Appeals, and is again out on bail. He was sentenced for "an attempt to discharge a loaded pistol with intent to kill," &c. The Court held that, because the pistol was not cocked at the time he presented it at the officer, the prisoner was wrongfully convicted.
The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], The character of the war before us. (search)
hern army would be sufficient. "Booty and Beauty" is the watch word of many of those who are to be sent out to fight the South, but, of course, nothing better can be expected from communities which have the heartlessness to commend such brutal acts as those recently perpetrated at St. Louis, where helpless, unoffending women and children were shot down, murdered in cold blood by the ruthless soldiery. Among the pet officers of the Northern army are, Billy Wilson, Daniel E. Sickles, Billy Mulligan, E Z. C. Judson, alias Ned Buntline, and others equally prominent and notorious for their deeds of villainy. Wilson is a rowdy of the most disgraceful stamp, the leader of a gang of roughs and thieves. At the time of his appointment as Colonel of a regiment he was under heavy bonds to keep the peace. Daniel E. Sickles, who has been raised to the ranks of a General, and placed in command of a Brigade, is the notorious Sickles who murdered Philip Barton Key, because the guilty associati
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
An Irish discussion. --A contractor who was building a tunnel on a certain Ohio railroad observed, one morning, that the face of a member of his gang had its surface all spotted with bruises and plasters. "Ah! Jimmy," said he, "what have you been doing?" "Not very much, sur," answered Jimmy, "I was just down at Billy Mulligan's last night, sur, an' him an' me we had a bit av a discompose wide shticks."
The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. Cabell. (search)
at the Astor House. In order to insure a full, free and frank inter-change of opinion on the part of the delegates to that body, its deliberations, it is expected, will be held with closed doors. A number of the most influential members of the profession, from distant parts of the State, are already here. The absorption of the Courier and Enquirer by the World, on Monday next, is something more than a mere rumor now. It is a fixed fact. The Daily Times has reduced its size. Billy Mulligan is out again. The judgment against him in case of an assault with a deadly weapon, &c., and sent to Sing Sing. was reversed by the Supreme Court, on the ground that the prisoner could not be convicted of an assault with a deadly weapon, for merely exhibiting a weapon, and threatening. In a certain contingency, to use it. The schooner David Townsend, which arrived here yesterday, reports having been seized at Bayport, Florida, by the Confederates, and run ashore, but the captain ma
The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], The story of Billy Mulligan. (search)
The story of Billy Mulligan. --Billy Mulligan was a broth of a boy in Killarney, and could toss off his poteen and whirl his shillalah aid the best ov the bog. When the war in America broke out, says Billy, says he, "it's a hero and a patriot IBilly Mulligan was a broth of a boy in Killarney, and could toss off his poteen and whirl his shillalah aid the best ov the bog. When the war in America broke out, says Billy, says he, "it's a hero and a patriot I'll be, begorras," and so he borrows from one and anither and starts across the blisses old ocean, and av a fine morning puts himself right afore old King Lincoln, as bowled as a lion. "It's meself," says Billy, "which will crack the crowns of thoseveling to Missouri as fast as steam could take him, and a Colonel's commission in his pocket. "Billy," says the King to Mulligan "don't write, but put it through — put it through." "Begorra," says Billy, "it's meself that won't write, for divil a lend army, and sent every ragamuffin of 'em home with a foot-mark in the rear; but Billy himself, and all his staff, they shut up in a black hole, where he now lies, wid plenty of water, but no whiskey at all; and this is the story of Billy Mulligan.
The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], The story of Billy Mulligan. (search)
of the Farmers' Bank, at Lexington, Mo., the St. Louis Republican is authorized to state, by a gentleman who was a witness of the transaction, that, after the surrender of the Federal troops at Lexington, the money committed to the charge of Col. Mulligan, in the entrenchments, was taken by Gen. Price and Col. Mulligan, conveyed by their orders to the Bank, and there in their presence counted. The whole sum, coin and bank notes, was $960,000, and this sum, except $15,000, in three packages ofCol. Mulligan, conveyed by their orders to the Bank, and there in their presence counted. The whole sum, coin and bank notes, was $960,000, and this sum, except $15,000, in three packages of $5,000 each, was received.--The fifteen thousand dollars in notes, it is conjectured, was stolen by Federal troops about the time of the surrender, and when a less strict guard was kept. This idea is strengthened by a report from Quincy that the soldiers, or some of them, were well supplied with Farmers' Bank notes, and were offering them at a discount. However this may be, the main fact of the deposit of all the funds in bank settles the question of the soundness of that institution, and al
The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Terms of the Dispatch. (search)
tion in vast numbers on Georgetown, Jefferson City, and St. Louis, and they feel confident of their ability to take them. The report of the removal of Gen. Fremont created intense indignation among the Union men and great rejoicing among Secessionists. A gentleman who visited Benton barracks this afternoon reports the greatest excitement among the troops amounting almost to mutiny. Gen. McKinstry has been ordered to the department of Cumberland in Kentucky. Dr. White, of Mulligan's brigade, brings information from Lexington, Mo., up to Monday night. Gen. Price had left Lexington, Mo., and his main body was moving Southward to effect a junction with Gen. McCulloch, and give Gen. Fremont a battle. Gen. Price anticipates an easy victory over Gen. Fremont. The Confederates will then move to St. Louis, where 24,000 Secessionists will rise and welcome the Confederates with arms in their hands. Louisville, Oct. 4. --Special appeals have been, and continue t