Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Porter or search for Porter in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 2 document sections:

The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Latest from New Orleans. (search)
prohibited from bestowing them on their friends by the Federal soldiers, who kept them off at the point of the bayonet, long ropes, &c.--Their cavalry and artillery would dash by, running over and destroying many of the articles brought down, and when any of the soldiers would come forward to receive anything some Federal would drive them back with their sabres, and others were treated with the grossest indignities. The New Orleans papers contain very little local news of interest. Admiral Porter had issued a circular regulating the trade on the Mississippi. According to this steamboats will be convoyed from Cairo to Vicksburg, and from the latter place "a sufficient force will start every Monday to escort them to New Orleans." A fleet of steamers is, therefore, looked for at the latter city every Wednesday. The Era has a long article on the health of the city. From this we infer that there is no yellow fever, which is attributed to quarantine and other sanitary means.
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Opening the Mississippi. (search)
Opening the Mississippi. Admiral Porter has opened the Mississippi by proclamation. Now, we assure the Admiral that proclamations don't open rivers any more than resolutions build railroads. He seems to have a feint glimpse of this recondite fact, for he takes care to let it be known that steamboats will be convoyed from Cairo, and that a train will arrive at New Orleans once a week, a sufficient force starting a day or two ahead to protect them and clear the way. And this is called opening the Mississippi! This is the substitute for that multitude of steamers arriving every hour in the day in New Orleans which made that city the marvel of the earth! Was there ever a more ridiculous facile to a thundering programme?