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The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
is a dull day, and that you are indebted to its dullness for this communication. I have, incontinently, sat down for the purpose of inditing an epistle to the Dispatch. "But how the subject theme may gang Let time and chanced termine, Perhaps it may turn out a song, Perhaps turn out a sermon. And, as I am somewhat at a loss, suppose I relate a very singular incident, which just at this time is dividing the attention of the neighbors with secession in South Carolina and the war in China. I shall tell the tale as it was told to me, professing to have no knowledge about the dignity of hearsay. It appears that one day last week, a negro man belonging to Dr. Tredway, who lives a few miles above Goochland Court-House, came to his master and told him that he had overheard a conversation between a negro belonging to Mr. George W. Turner, and a woman belonging to Dr. T., whom the negro in question had for a wife, in which the husband revealed a plot between two other negroes
The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1860., [Electronic resource], Succession movement at the South. (search)
The War in China. While Napoleon the Great was a captive in St. Helena, Lord Amherst touched at the island on his return from China, and paid him a visit at Longwood. When the Ambassador had retired, the Emperor entered into a long discourse with O'Meara, upon the failure of his Lordship's mission, and the causes which led tChina, and paid him a visit at Longwood. When the Ambassador had retired, the Emperor entered into a long discourse with O'Meara, upon the failure of his Lordship's mission, and the causes which led to it. In the course of his remarks he said that it would be very impolitic in the British Government to enter into a war with the Chinese. They could easily beat them at first, he said, but they would teach them how to fight, and when they had one learned their numbers, that they would become the most formidable people upon the face of the earth. Part of this prediction seems to becoming true. If the first war undertaken by England against China, about twenty years ago, her operations were confined to Canton and its vicinity. Her men-of-war easily sunk the wretched junks that attempted to oppose their advance, and her troops quite as easily dispersed