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The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Winter Campaigns. (search)
they will make desperate efforts this winter. Clinton close the winter season for his invasion of the South, and the winters of 79-80 and 81, were seasons of great activity throughout this section of country. Let the South remember this, and be prepared for a winter campaign. latest, as we remarked yesterday, the idea of water quarters is obsolete, even in less favored climates than ours. There has been scarcely any such thing since the days of of Marcial who sent for Players from Paris. when he went into them. and made other preparations to pass the season comfortably.-- Frederick knocked that sort of sport in the head. He was almost as sad an innovator as Napoleon himself, and paid no respect to ancient military traditions. A strict disciplination, he by no means resembled Moliere's physician, who thought it better for a man to be killed according to rule than to be cured in collation of it. He did not scorn success obtained in the most irregular manner. He made brea
The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Army of the Potomac (search)
favorite with the men. Next comes the privates, and here I hesitate about a description. In some respects they are very similar; in others as variable as a Camanche Indian and an Italian Prince. Let a person go about the city and gather seventy-five of the young men of society; men he has met at the club, seen riding behind fine stock, met at the opera with white kids on, danced with at levees, dressed in the height of style, traveled with up the Rhine or over the Alps, met in London, Paris, or in some elegant shooting box in the country; men known as merchants, scholars, artists, amateurs, loafers and loungers around town in its Bohemian sense! men of wealth and social position, and collect them in one company, send them off for a month's sport to the Peaks of Otter, and go along himself to watch the fun. After being there long enough to get himself into a high state of excitement, and having adventures enough to make a second volume to Robinson Crusoe, he can imagine precise
The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The cotton question in Europe and Asia. (search)
from our Public Works Department, which Mr. Smollett, a retired civilian, lately described in the House as "the most expensive, the most corrupt, and the most profligate in the world." We do not go so far, but none are more ready than the department itself to admit that, for little works such as every square mile of India now wants, and private enterprise supplies in England, the "P. W. D." is hopelessly useless. Cotton cultivation in Portugal.[from the Annales du commerce Exterieur of Paris, Sept. 15.] It has been proved by repeated experiments that the cultivation of this important article would succeed, not only in the Portuguese settlement on the coast of Africa, but on certain parts of the Peninsula, particularly in the Algarves and Alemtigo. The maritime part of the former province, the lands of Almargem and Trofal in the cantons of Louie and Albuginea, and those of Ludo, in the canton of Faro, are mentioned as the best suited to the cotton plant. Some cotton grown i