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The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ackson, and crossed the river. It was met by some infantry and one brigade of Rosser's cavalry and driven back, General Rosser pursued, driving the enemy beyond Edinburg in confusion, and compelled him to abandon his killed and wounded. R. E. Lee." Edinburg is on this side of Woodstock, about thirty-six miles from WiEdinburg is on this side of Woodstock, about thirty-six miles from Winchester. Mount Jackson is twelve miles from Edinburg, on the Shenandoah river. From Georgia. We are still without official advices from Georgia. Some intelligence, considered good, is said, to have been received at headquarters here on yesterday; but we are unable to form the remotest idea of what it is. It is tEdinburg, on the Shenandoah river. From Georgia. We are still without official advices from Georgia. Some intelligence, considered good, is said, to have been received at headquarters here on yesterday; but we are unable to form the remotest idea of what it is. It is the general opinion, and we have no doubt a correct one, in well-informed circles, that Sherman took possession of Milledgeville on yesterday. Whether he met with resistance, or was permitted to take quiet possession, we have no means of knowing. It will be seen from the extracts from Northern papers, published in another part of
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], A country life. (search)
calls the best gardener of his time, and who established the first effective system of hot-house culture for pines in England, died in 1819, aged eighty-six; and in the same year, William Marshal, a voluminous agricultural writer and active farmer, died at the age of eighty. And I must mention one more, Dr. Andrew Duncan, a Scotch physician, who cultivated his garden with his own hands — inscribing over the entrance gate 'Hine salus'--and who was the founder of the Horticultural Society of Edinburg. This hale old doctor died in 1828, at the extreme age of eighty-four; and to the very last year of his life he never omitted going up to the top of Arthur's Seat every May-day morning to bathe his forehead in the summer's dew. As a country liver, I like to contemplate and to boast of the hoary age of these veterans. The inscription of good old Dr. Duncan was not exaggerated. Every man who digs his own garden, and keeps the weeds down thoroughly, may truthfully place the same writing ove
The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ue of endurance is greatly brightened by a brilliant little exploit, of which our village was the scene on Sunday, the 22d. History will be replete with deeds of greater daring, but justice claims a record of the bravery displayed on this occasion. About four o'clock in the morning, a party of Yankees, numbering seventy-three in all, under command of Major Young (falsely representing himself to be a member of Sheridan's staff), passed around the town, and, avoiding the outer picket at Edinburg, dashed upon the reserve at an unguarded point, capturing sixteen men. Their recent successes rendering them very careless, they turned about and leisurely retraced their steps, but had not proceeded far when about twenty of our men, who were scattered through the country, were quickly called "to horse," and, commanded by their gallant leaders, Captain Granstaff and Lieutenant Moler, of the Twelfth Virginia, pursued the villains, and drove them into their breastworks at Strasburg, recapturi
The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Miscellaneous. The London papers laugh a good deal at Seward's awkward back-down in the Florida case. The Theatre Royal, at Edinburg, was totally destroyed by fire on the 13th ultimo, and a number of persons were killed and injured. It was reported in London that Queen Victoria had made the poet Tennyson a baronet. Work on the Atlantic telegraph was being rapidly pushed forward, and it is expected that the entire cable will be ready by the 1st of next June. Consols closed in London on the 17th ultimo at from eighty nine and five eighths to eighty-nine and seven eighths for money. The Liverpool cotton and breadstuffs markets on the same day were dull, with a declining tendency.--Provisions and produce were steady, without any quotable change.
The Daily Dispatch: February 6, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ll. The Yankees have twenty-eight States, all of which, their papers say, will ratify the amendment, thus giving it the ratification of the necessary two- thirds. Whether the law shall ever be carried into effect as regards these Confederate States remains to be decided by the sword. Official from the Valley. General Lee reports a recent affair in the Valley as reflecting great credit upon the officers and men engaged. About eighty of the enemy surprised our cavalry picket at Edinburg and captured a lieutenant and fourteen men.--Captain Grandstaff and Lieutenant Mohler, with twenty men of the Twelfth Virginia cavalry, pursued and overtook them at Woodstock, attacked and routed the party, recapturing our men and their officer, and taking sixteen of the enemy, with twenty horses. From South Carolina. There was a report current yesterday that Sherman had reached, and was destroying, the Augusta railroad at Midway, ten miles west of Branchville; but no intelligenc
The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], What is an inch of rain? (search)
What is an inch of rain? --The late weekly return of the British Registrar-General gives the following interesting information in respect to rainfall: "Rain fell in London to the amount of 0.43 inches, which is equivalent to forty-three tons of rain per acre. The rainfall during last week varied from thirty tons per acre in Edinburg to two hundred and fifteen tons per acre in Glasgow. An English acre consists of 6,272,640 square inches; and an inch deep of rain on an acre yields 6,272,640 cubic inches of water, which, at 277,274 cubic inches to the gallon, makes 22,622.5 gallons; and, as a gallon of distilled water weighs ten pounds, the rainfall on an acre is 226,225 pounds avoirdupois; but 2,240 pounds are a ton, and consequently an inch deep of rain weighs 100,993 tons, or nearly one hundred and one tons per acre. For every one-hundredth of an inch a ton of water falls per acre. If any agriculturist were to try the experiment of distributing artificially that which n
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