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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 22: (search)
een as many as a hundred sail at one time. In a few hours after a change of wind takes place, this immense fleet will all be under way, and such of them as are bound to the equator and the coast of Brazil, the United States, West Indies, and South America, will be found travelling the blazed road of which I have spoken; some taking the forks of the road, at their respective branching-off places, and others keeping the main track to the equator. Hence the exodus the reader has witnessed. Pe of half a world in her lap. All nations were represented, though the Spanish flag predominated. Wearing this flag there were many fine specimens of naval architecture—especially lines of steamships plying between Cadiz, the West Indies, and South America. A number of the merchant-ships of different nations hoisted their flags in honor of the Sumter as she passed; and one Yankee ship— there being three or four of them in the harbor—hoisted hers, as much as to say, You see we are not afraid to<
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 37: (search)
e, would sometimes nearly cover the entire deck and rigging. The ships would be hundreds of miles away from the land, and where could this dust come from? the fact puzzled the philosophers, but having been reported so often, it ceased to attract attention. Still it was a fact, and was laid away carefully in the archives of philosophy for future use. Years passed away, and the great traveller and philosopher, Humboldt, arose to instruct and delight mankind. He travelled extensively in South America; and, among other places, visited the lower valley of the Orinoco. He happened there in the dry season, and gives a graphic account of the wild and weird spectacle of desolation which met his eye in that season of universal drought. all annual vegetation lay dead and desiccated on the immense pampas or plains. The earth was cracked open, gaping, as it were, for rain. The wild cattle were roaming about in herds, bellowing for their accustomed food and water; many of them perishing.
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 41: (search)
to Rio Janeiro, is 17.7 cents per ton, per day; to Australia, 20 cents; to California, 20 cents. The mean of this is a little over 19 cents per ton, per day; but to be within the mark, we will take it at 15 cents, and include all the ports of South America, China, and the East Indies. The Sailing Directions have shortened the passage to California, thirty days; to Australia, twenty days; and to Rio Janeiro, ten days. The mean of this is twenty, but we will take it at fifteen, and also include the above-named ports of South America, China, and the East Indies. We estimate the tonnage of the United States, engaged in trade with these places, at 1,000,000 tons per annum. With these data, we see that there has been effected, a saving for each one of those tons, of 15 cents per day, for a period of fifteen days, which will give an aggregate of $2,250,000 saved per annum. This is on the outward voyage alone, and the tonnage trading with all other parts of the world is also left out of
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 31 (search)
spirit. I am astonished that it should be criticised so harshly. Mr. Swinton states that the only foundation which I have for asserting it is the evidence of Gen. Butterfield before the Committee on the Conduct of the War. He then assumes that Gen. Butterfield had a grievance: that he had been displaced as Chief of Staff to Gen. Meade, and had made up this story to injure the latter. Gen. Butterfield is fully capable of taking care of his own reputation. As, however, he is absent in South America, I will state for the information of nonmilitary readers that the office of Chief of Staff is not a permanent one. Whoever fills it must necessarily hold the most intimate and confidential relations to the commander of the army. Hence, a personal friend is always selected for the position. Gen. Butterfield, who had been chosen for this duty by Gen. Hooker, never for a moment supposed that he would be retained in the same capacity by Gen. Meade, and, therefore, offered his resignation
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 212 (search)
cause unable permanently to grasp the helm of the ship, are willing to destroy it in the hope to command some one of the rafts that may float away from the wreck. The effect is to degrade us to a level with the military bandits of Mexico and South America, who, when beaten at an election, fly to arms, and seek to master by the sword what they have been unable to control by the ballot-box. The atrocious acts enumerated were acts of war, and might all have been treated as such by the late Admut we shall attain to neither national dignity nor national repose. We shall be a mass of jarring, warring, fragmentary States, enfeebled and demoralized, without power at home, or respectability abroad, and, like the republics of Mexico and South America, we will drift away on a shoreless and ensanguined sea of civil commotion, from which, if the teachings of history are to be trusted, we shall be finally rescued by the iron hand of some military wrecker, who will coin the shattered elements
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 291 (search)
gh the history of all time, and you will search in vain to find any portion of the African race, from its first appearance on record until the present day, in the aggregate, so elevated, intelligent, enlightened, civilized, comfortable, and happy, as that portion of this degraded race found as slaves in our country. You will not find it among the barbarian hordes of Africa. You will not find it under the Crescent, in Europe or Asia. You will not find it under the sign of the Cross, of South America. You will not find it in Hayti, Jamaica, or New England. In every country where there is an approach to equality between the races, it is in the degradation of the one, and not the elevation of the other. If then the condition of the African slave would be rendered worse by liberation, why this mad crusade against African slavery? The theory of universal human freedom is the mad offspring of delusion and passion, and not the result of enlightened reason. Liberty is the refinement of
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
nc.Iron.Lead.Nickel.Silver. Ancient Bronze Sword, Ireland83.505.153.08.35 Ancient Bronze Sword, Thames, England89.699.580.33 Ancient Bronze Axehead, Ireland89.339.190.33 Ancient Bronze Wedge, Ireland94.5.90.1 Ancient Bronze Knife, Amaro, South America95.663.960.37 Coin of Hadrian85.671.1410.85.741.73 Coin of Tacitus91.462.31 Coin of Probus90.682.001.39.612.332.29 Coin of Probus94.65.45.80.453.22 Coin of Pompey74.178.47.2916.65 Chinese White Copper (Packfong)40.425.42.631.6 Keirs Metnot readily be classed : acting by grinding, stirring, heat, lixiviation, panning, sluices, centrifugal action, electric action, and by mercurial fumes acting on a falling column of pulverized ore. The patio process has long been in use in South America, and is now employed in Mexico, and now or lately in Nevada. It was invented by Medina in 1557. The materials necessary for the reduction of silver by this process are, magistral, common salt, and mercury. The magistral is made from copper
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
in countries where copper was plentiful and iron scarce, as in South America and Mexico, the former metal was employed, even when imported ced fire. Balsa. （Nautical.) A raft used on the coast of South America, consisting of two inflated seal-skins, which are fastened togen like basket-work, are used in Hindostan, and in some parts of South America rush baskets capable of holding water are made by the natives. rm, to render the blast continuous, is still used in Europe and South America. The Japanese bellows consists of a box a, with a reciprocat Used by the Barbados Indians of Brazil and other aborigines of South America. A similar contrivance is employed by some of the Malays, by w sit on; these are in common use on the coasts of Hindostan and South America, especially for landing goods and passengers through a heavy su （Boat.) A kind of canoe used in the Southern States and in South America. Bung-start′er. （Coopering.) A flogger. A bat to start
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
ayer is darkcolored, black in the finer specimens from the West Indies and South America, and pink in other specimens, which are not so highly prized, as being lessmployed, and was used in some instances by the Turks as late as 1827. In South America balls of copper were formerly used, this metal being there, at that period,ng sails by means of an outrigger. They may be seen on the west coast of South America many miles out at sea, carrying Indians employed in fishing. b. The ince Egypt we see the cattle being branded. This is yet the practice in Texas, South America, and elsewhere. The swans in the Thames are marked by nicks on their billsart of the work, ores being brought there from Cornwall, Devonshire, Spain, South America, Australia, Africa, and the United States, and there they are smelted and rnt wild in Hispaniola, in other West India islands, and on the continent of South America, where the natives used it for dresses and fishing-nets. Magellan, in 15
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
hands, a flat coil of silvered wire is adapted to vibrate over the meshes of the sieve and expel the flour. Flour-sifter. Branching-machine for artificial flowers. Flow′ers, Arti-fi′cial. Ornaments simulating the natural products of the garden; made from wire, gauze, cloth, paper, shavings, wax, shell, feathers, etc. Cutting-punches and scissors are used for shaping; gauffering-presses for stamping into the various graceful shapes and puckers. The feather-flower makers of South America and Mexico had attained great skill in the time of Cortes. Italy led the way in Europe; France followed, and now leads. Fig. 2038 shows a French machine for branching artificial flowers, that is, braiding them or leaves to a stem. The basis of the stems is wire, and two threads of suitable material are laid along this wire to prevent subsequent slipping of the colored thread, which forms the outer covering of the stems. The ends of the short stems of leaves, flowers, buds, and fr
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