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The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Barons for the President and Cabinet. (search)
Naval Affairs.
--U. S. brig Bainbridge arrived at Aspinwall, from New York, on the 28th ult. U. S. frigate Cumberland has arrived at Boston, from Fortress Monroe.
The Marion and Dale, bound South, have sailed from Portsmouth, N. H. The following officers of the U. S. steamship Wyoming, at Panama, have resigned: Commander J. K. Mitchell Lt. S. R. Porter, Midshipmen S. W. Averet, and S. H. Hackett, and Third Assistant Engineer G. D. Lining. Lieut. George S. Shryock, of the Saranac, has also resigned.
The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Yankee Editor Condemns Outrages committed by Lincoln
A Yankee Editor Condemns the Outrages committed by Lincoln troops.
In the editorial correspondence of the New York Times, written from Fortress Monroe, Va., on the 4th of July, by Hon, Henry J. Raymond, its editor, a description of the Fort and the surrounding camps is given.
Speaking of the village which has been abandoned to the Hessians, he says:
It is a very pretty country town, with a fine hotel looking out upon the river, a good military school, three or four churches, &c. On the day after his arrival at the Fortress, Gen. Butler crossed over this bridge with one of the Massachusetts regiments, on a reconnaissance, and this seems to have completed the terror which had previously almost paralyzed the town.
The people burned the bridge and fled.
I procured a boat, and crossed over to the "deserted village." A stout fellow rowed us across, who said his master had gone to York town, and he was not anxious to have him return.
Of the 2,000 or 2,500 inhabitants of th
The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Inhuman treatment of an aged man. (search)
Proceeding of the Federal Congress. Washington, July 17.
--The Baltimore Police Commissioners, confined in Fortress Monroe, have sent a petition to the representative branch of Congress, to interfere in their behalf.
The petition was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
A bill authorizing the Secretary of the Navy (Mr. Wells) to purchase vessels to suppress piracy, and complete the blockade, and appropriating $3,000,000 for such purpose, has been passed.
Resolutions appointing a committee to investigate all the War and Navy contracts have been introduced and passed.
Mr. Van Wyck said that for the past few months there had been a system of plunder in operation which for audacity and wickedness had never been surpassed.
The resolutions were adopted by a vote of 81 eyes to 42 nays.
In the House, the bill to increase the efficiency of the volunteer force was passed.
In the Senate, the Navy bill was passed.
From Washington. Washington, July 17.
--It is reported here that it is the design of the Federal Generals to avoid Manassas.
It is their announced intention, however, to allow no delay in pushing on to Richmond.
Reports received here from Arizona and New Mexico represent the secession feeling strong in those regions.
It is regarded necessary to reinforce Fort Bliss.
It is reported here, in official quarters, that the Southern forces at Aquia Creek, Damfrice, and at several other points, are falling back on Manassas.
It is believed that J. N. Pickett, into American Consul at Vera Cruz, is at Fortress Monroe.
The Third and Fourth Massachusetts Regiments, whose time is up, will leave immediately for Boston.