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The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], $25 reward (search)
mith, and Gen. Mansfield Lovel, who were all eminently associated with the expedition be organised against Cuba, under the immortal Quitman, in 1854. The defence and destruction of Granada form the most brilliant episode of the war in Nicaragua, and furnish the most splendid proof on record of the invincible prowess and terrible audacity of the American volunteer in battle, when properly led. For nineteen days did Henningsen, in Granada, with less than 300 men, resist the allied forces of Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica, with the insurgents of Nicaragua, a total force against him of 4,000 well armed men and equipped soldiers. Day after day he led his brave command in desperate and death-dealing sorties upon the enemy, and when forced back by the sheer weight of the brute mass before him, he burned the city step by step as he retired, fighting amid concentric circles of fire, until he received the order from Gen. Walker to abandon the position, which order he obeyed, after planti
The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
e the free blacks to join the standard of his forces, partly white and partly black. By freeing the slaves and arming them we are striking at the strength of the rebellion, and by this policy, vigorously pursued, we may count on the speedy and complete overthrow of treason, both North and South." The New York World's task, up to the present moments, has simply been the light and trivial one of subverting confidence in the durability of the nation. There has been an earthquake in Guatemala, a collision on Fast river, and a fortunate escape of over five hundred people, and a fearful collision on the Camden and Amboy Railroad, by which twenty persons and three care were very much injures. Advices from the lower Mississippi, received at Cairo, state that a Union gunboat had passed into Lake Providence, and dispersed the rebels, who were falling trees to obstruct the opening of the pass into the Yasoo river, in the rear of Vicksburg. The health of the Yankee troops was imp
The Daily Dispatch: September 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], Wanted (search)
of Mexico and the South American Republics. San Francisco, Sept. 10. --Advices from San Luis de Potosi, Mexico, to the 18th of August, furnish us with the following highly important intelligence: President Juarez and his Cabinet have been urged by leading Mexicans and the representatives of the South American Republics to form a continental alliance, embracing the Republics of Chill, Peru, Columbia, the Argentines Confederation, San Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Mexico, for the purpose of resisting European encroachments on any South American Republic. The United States are to be invited to send delegates to cooperate in the movement. Miscellaneous. Senator Sumner delivered an address in New York on the 10th, which fills seventeen columns of the New York Herald, and which a New York letter says "has set our people thinking with something of seriousness of the present squally aspect of our relations with England and France. In
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