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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
states that the Confederate blew up the defensive works at New creek. Miscellaneous. Major-General Humphreys has been given command of the Second corps, from which Hancock was exiled for his failure in the great reconnaissance. Roger A. Pryor has been sent to Fort Lafayette. A Washington telegram says: "Roger A. Pryor arrived here this morning, and leaves to night for Fort 1st layette. He attracted much attention as he was escorted down the avenue to the Old Capitol under guard,Roger A. Pryor arrived here this morning, and leaves to night for Fort 1st layette. He attracted much attention as he was escorted down the avenue to the Old Capitol under guard, and was recognized by many of his former acquaintances here. It is probable that he will soon be returned, as it is understood that Captain Burrige, for whose capture he was taken in retaliation, is to be returned." General Pope has gone to City Point on a visit. The Florida was lying off Newport News when she was run into and sunk. Brigadier General Paine has left Washington for the North on special business connected with the distribution of clothing to Confederate prisoners.
The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Seamstress and Chambermaid. (search)
ng from her flag-staff. The capture of R. A. Pryor. Roger A. Pryor, who was captured by a Roger A. Pryor, who was captured by a Yankee trick on the lines, exchanging papers, has been sent to Fort Lafayette. The Washington-Star says of him: Pryor was brought up on the James Brady, and was turned over to Colonel Ingraham On the way up from City Point to this, city Pryor was provided with a state-room on the boat, an his arrival in New York, the Post says: Pryor registered his name on the books of the Mercha in a large and angular hand, as follows: "Roger A. Pryor, Fort Lafayette." It is a curious signaturral Wessels and Lieutenant Shaw follow that of Pryor. At breakfast, before daylight, a consid table with the officers and the prisoner, but Pryor was not known to the guests of the hotel, and road cars in Brooklyn to Fort Hamilton, whence Pryor was transferred to Fort Lafayette. The few pewho were in the streets at that hour looked at Pryor with some curiosity, on account of his rebel u
The Daily Dispatch: February 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
00 boxes tobacco, any Southern State; L. B. Wilson, G. O. Wallace, H. C. Hicks, J. O. P. Burnside, Alonzo Brett, Francis V. Haskins, and P. H. Whitehurst & Co., all small lots of cottons, shingles, etc. By the terms of these permits, one-fourth of the net profit goes to the Treasury, the balance to the person holding the permit. A large amount of testimony has been taken by the House committee as to how these permits were obtained and how these parties are carrying them out. It will probably be published in a few days. Miscellaneous. Lincoln, on Saturday, ordered the release of Roger A. Pryor from Fort Warren on parole, to report to Colonel Forney, at Washington. The Committee of the Whole of the Lower House of the Canadian Parliament, on Friday night, adopted a resolution appropriating three hundred and thirty thousand dollars for the frontier volunteer establishment, and fifty thousand dollars to make reimbursement for the money stolen by the St. Albans raiders.
The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], Proclamation by the President, appointing a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, with thanksgiving. (search)
mand, of holding conquered territory but there are no other ways of healing the wounds left by civil war. Miscellaneous. "Leading Peace Democrats" say that the object of Singleton and Hughes in coming to Richmond is to impress upon the rebel leaders the folly of protracting a hopeless contest, when, by submission to the authority of the United States, they might obtain peace on honorable terms. A Washington telegram says: "Roger A. Pryor arrived here to-day, and, in company with Colonel J. W. Forney, visited the President to-night." Andrew Jackson Donelson publishes a card in the Memphis Argus, defining his position on the questions of the day, and denying the statements of Northern papers regarding his political status. Over seven hundred permits to bring cotton into our lines were granted at Memphis for the week ending the 18th, and one hundred and ninety-one for taking out supplies. Cotton permits cover fifty-one thousand nine hundred and forty-on
The Daily Dispatch: March 1, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Great excitement is said to prevail in Knoxville, Tennessee, owing to a report that the rebel General Longstreet is moving on that place. It is said that the intent of the late movement of national troops from Knoxville is to defeat his plans. Other important dispositions of Union forces, looking to the circumvention of designs on East Tennessee which General Lee is supposed to entertain, are reported to be in process of execution. Miscellaneous. A Washington telegram says: Roger A. Pryor appeared on Pennsylvania avenue to-day, where he was recognized by many of the old residents of Washington. He is the guest of Hon. John W. Forney, Secretary of the Senate. He has been visited by several of his old editorial friends, who express themselves pleased with his conduct and bearing. A special Washington dispatch to the Daily News asserts that the visit of General Singleton and Judge Hughes is of a strictly private nature, and bears no political significance whatever.
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], Proclamation by the President, appointing a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, with thanksgiving. (search)
to be tried for conspiracy against the Government. General Grant, in a private letter to Mr. Washburn, of the House of Representatives, speaks very hopefully of Sherman's movements, and expresses the opinion that a few more days of successful operations will put the rebels in a position from which there will be no escape. Vanderbilt, the New York millionaire, was arrested and taken to the station house last week for fast driving in the street. President Lincoln has ordered Roger A. Pryor to report immediately to General Grant, at City Point, for exchange. Alexander Dumas will be the guest of George Bancroft in New York. General D. C. Buell has written and published a reply to General Sherman's defence of General Grant. In the course of the Senate's debate of Saturday evening on the Louisiana question, "Mr. Carlile, of Virginia, took the floor in opposition to the resolution. In the course of his remarks, Mr. Carlile was asked a question in regard to the l
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The News. Everything remains quiet on the Richmond and Petersburg lines. Some artillery firing, without result, took place in the neighborhood of Hatcher's run on Thursday evening. On this side of the river not a gun has been fired. The rain and mud keep the hostile armies closely within their respective camps. We have no official intelligence from the seat of war in the South, and, for two days, not even a rumor. The Hon. Roger A. Pryor, who has just returned from a Northern prison, was in the city yesterday, and is looking well.
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 19 (search)
nks, as the laws do not recognize them as citizens. Clever executed counterfeit coin of the nickel three-cent denomination are noticed in circulation. It is made of some kind of an alloyed metal, which is much softer and lighter than the genuine coin. In consequence of the refusal of General Woods, commanding in Alabama, to obey a writ of habeas corpus, Judge Busteed has indignantly adjourned the United States Court for the Middle District. The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph has good authority for saying that Provisional Governor Johnson has received instructions from Washington not to vacate the chair of State until further advised. The freight agent of the Louisville and Nashville railroad announces that the restrictions on shipments of freight to Atlanta and the South have been removed. The First National Bank of Danville, Virginia, J. F. Ficklin president, and J. M. Johnston cashier, has gone into operation. Roger A. Pryor is practicing law in New York city.
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1865., [Electronic resource], Southern members of Congress. (search)
Religious Services. --Rev. Dr. Pryor, who is now an Evangelist of East Hanover Presbytery, is preaching in this city, at the Third Presbyterian Church, Church Hill. He began his labors acceptably on yesterday, and will preach again to-night at half-past 7 o'clock. His sermon yesterday morning, on the "Victory of Faith," was an impressive discourse, as was evinced by the attention and interest of the audience.
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], Greeley in a good Humor. (search)
multitude of routed, beaten, discomfited men, whose valor has almost atoned for the sins of rebellion!" "Our gallant grey brothers are even now clamoring around Washington," &c. "So with the Generals of the Rebellion. The greatest of them all is now a teacher of mathematics in a university. Sherman's great antagonists are in the express and railroad business. The once-dreaded Beauregard will sell you a ticket from New Orleans to Jackson; and, if you want to send a couple of hams to a friend in Richmond, Joe Johnston, once commander of great armies, will carry them. The man whose works Grant moved upon at Donelson edits an indifferent newspaper in New Orleans, while the Commander of the Rebel cavalry at Corinth is his local reporter. Marshall practices law in New Orleans; Forrest is running a saw-mill; Dick Taylor is now having a good time in New York; Roger A. Pryor is a daily practitioner at our courts; and so with the rest of this bold, vindictive and ambitious race of men."
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