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The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
on the road might have been saved by posting infantry in position to defend them.--But there was such a tenacity to the defensive system that it was not done. It was deemed more important to endure an interruption of communication than to risk the safety of a town. The place to fight Morgan was at the city gates; besides, who could think of marching infantry under such a sun? When I left Frankfort, cavalry, artillery and infantry were pouring into the city by every train.--Brigadier-General Clay Smith had arrived to take command, and as he is said to be a man of spirit, with daring and dash in his composition, and military capacity, perhaps something may happen.--There are regular and irregular troops in and about Lexington and Frankfort to eat up John and his thieves, and not furnish half rations at that. It will be a blistering shame if he is allowed to escape after having plundered and despoiled the fairest portion of Kentucky. The people are willing to second the enter
The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], Gray Hairs. (search)
Gray Hairs. --Ex-Mayor Smith, of Manchester, N. H., one of the American Commissioners to the World's Fair in London, in one of his letters adverts to some peculiarities of the English people. Old building, he says, are rarely torn down or painted, the people having a veneration for anything old. Hair dye is not used, but gray hair is preferred, and thousands of youngish men powder their hair to make it appear gray. Ladies with gray and white hair take especial pains to display it.
The Daily Dispatch: January 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], An important Measure. (search)
rincipally between the Kentucky members, in which Clay Smith and Brutus J. Clay were violently attacked by Mr.iminations. We give a portion of the debate: Mr. Smith, (Rep.,) of Ky., as a Southern man, identified withas given evidence of the fact that she does. Mr. Smith asked whether Kentucky did not, after the assurancleague himself. Did his colleague deny that? Mr. Smith.--I do deny it. Mr. Mallory said the voice ofhe emancipation proclamation as a usurpation. Mr. Smith explained his position in the late canvass, which Wadsworth, (Opp.) of Ky., referred to a speech of Mr. Smith, to show that the latter was opposed to the radicahe would vote for a war Democrat for Speaker. Mr. Smith replied that there was no war Democrat he could voe war. Mr. Wadsworth arraigned his colleague (Mr. Smith) for his betrayal of the Union party of Kentucky, o the radical measures of the administration. Mr. Smith explained that he went with the election on the pr
The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Yankee vessel Blown up by a Torpedo. (search)
weak speech in defence of Long. Pendleton and Carriagton sought in vain to find some excuse by which his language could be brought within parliamentary rules. Clay Smith, of Kentucky, Amos Myers, Broomall, Grinnell, Spaniding and Winfield, all have ably supported the resolution. Clay Smith, in his strictures upon the DemocrClay Smith, in his strictures upon the Democratic party leaders in their course here, aroused "Sunset" Cox, who in several passages was so roughly handled by Smith that the Speaker could with difficulty restrain the galleries and members from applauding. Broomall made some strong points upon the power and necessity of expelling Long. Myers and Grinnall were unusually Smith that the Speaker could with difficulty restrain the galleries and members from applauding. Broomall made some strong points upon the power and necessity of expelling Long. Myers and Grinnall were unusually eloquent in denouncing Long, his language, his sympathies, and his general conduct. Grinnell taunted Harris, of Maryland, until he could hardly sit still in his seat. He referred to the promptness with which an Abolitionist (J. R. Olddings) resigned when he was coinsured by the House for introducing the resolution upon slaver