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The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], Five hundred dollars reward. (search)
the disappointment produced by the failure of Grant in Virginia, and once more inspire the Federals with expectations of absolute success; but in Europe we can only employ the lessons of this eventful campaign to confirm our convictions of the hopelessness of the war and the necessity of a speedy peace. The Confederate war vessels in France. [From the Paris Sickle, August 23.] It may be remembered that not long ago two war ships, destined for the Confederate service, were ordered at Nantes. The Phare de la Loire now tells us that the San Francisco and the Shanghai are yet in the docks there, and that they are, in a mysterious manner, being armed. A label in large characters is posted above the coupe, ordering no stranger to enter either vessel. It is said that in the interior of these ships, on the one side armed, the machinery books are being studded, on which to hang chains in case of an attack. M. Voruly, we are assured, has been authorized by the Minister of Marine to
The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], France and the Confederacy. (search)
France and the Confederacy. --The Paris correspondent of the New York Times writes: The French Government is subject to hot and cold fits; and at a time when it was amicably disposed to the American Confederate States leave was very readily given for the building at Nantes and Bordeaux, nominally for commercial purposes, but really for war, of two steam corvettes and two rams. Leave is too weak a word — encouragement and instigation would be more correct. When the vessels were nearly completed a cold fit came on, and orders were sent that the vessels should not be delivered over to the Confederates; but, although the ground alleged for detaining the ships was that they were constructed for a belligerent, the corvettes and the ram have been just sold to the Prussian Government though Prussia is a belligerent. This does not look like neutrality, and it looks still less like a friendly weakness on the part of the French Government towards its old ally, Denmark.