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2,342 out of $3,321,285) of its taxes — that beautiful region rendered classical by so many incidents and traditions of the early history of Virginia — that cultivated region long the abode of chivalry, gallantry, and world-famed hospitality — that intellectual region which, while yet unknown to the world of letters and of politics, furnished at the Revolution scholars, statesmen, and diplomatists, to dispute superiority with the foremost men of the world — that wealthy region which founded Norfolk, Petersburg, Richmond and Baltimore, and is now helping to build them up rapidly into leading centresof commerce?--Set the white man to tilling the soil in this Netherlands, and he chills, blanches, jaundices and dies. Put the negro in his place, and at the same time that he flourishes, laughs and grows fat at his toil, the whole face of the earth gladdens under his stroke, and teems with fruition. To depopulate Tide-water Virginia of its negroes and their masters, is not to introduce th
Arrived. Steamship Jamestown, Skinner, New York, mdze. and passengers, Ludlam & Watson. Sailed. Schr. R. H. Kemp, Wootten, Baltimore, wheat, W. D. Colquitt & Co. Schr. E. Goldsborough, Todd, Norfolk, mdze., W. D. Colquitt & Co. Schr. Sir Collin, Campbell, (Br.,) Halifax, flour, C. T. Wortham &Co. Schr. Mary Willis, North, Baltimore, light. Schr. M. L. Johnson, Passwater, down the river, light.
barks Glenwood, 35 days from Rio, with coffee; Tallulah, 42 days from Liverpool, with coal; Fanny Crenshaw, from Rio, for Bremen; brig Jason, from Trinidad; ship Rapid, 100 days from Kent's Island; schr. R. H. Pellen, 12 days from Matanzas. Norfolk, March 28.-- Arr'd, ship Russia, from Scotland, with coal. New York, March 26.--Arrived, schr. Ida Libby, (of Richmond, Va.,) Savannah. Baltimore, March 27.-- Cl'd, schr. R. C. Stanard, Richmond. Alexandria, March 27.--Sailed, schio, with coffee; Tallulah, 42 days from Liverpool, with coal; Fanny Crenshaw, from Rio, for Bremen; brig Jason, from Trinidad; ship Rapid, 100 days from Kent's Island; schr. R. H. Pellen, 12 days from Matanzas. Norfolk, March 28.-- Arr'd, ship Russia, from Scotland, with coal. New York, March 26.--Arrived, schr. Ida Libby, (of Richmond, Va.,) Savannah. Baltimore, March 27.-- Cl'd, schr. R. C. Stanard, Richmond. Alexandria, March 27.--Sailed, schr. Samuel B. Grice, Norfolk.
Committed to jail as a Runaway. --Was committed to the jail of the corporation of the city of Norfolk, on the 2d day of January, 1861 Negro Man Wm. Johnson. The said negro man is five feet three inches high, and weighs about 135 pounds; has one scar on right arm above his elbow; light complexion; about thirty years old. Had on when committed to jail, black cloth coat, black pants, glazed cap, and says he was born free, in Baltimore, Mary land. Thos. J. Corprew. Sergeant City Noril as a Runaway. --Was committed to the jail of the corporation of the city of Norfolk, on the 2d day of January, 1861 Negro Man Wm. Johnson. The said negro man is five feet three inches high, and weighs about 135 pounds; has one scar on right arm above his elbow; light complexion; about thirty years old. Had on when committed to jail, black cloth coat, black pants, glazed cap, and says he was born free, in Baltimore, Mary land. Thos. J. Corprew. Sergeant City Norfolk. mh 16--6w
The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs at Fort Sumter--a plan for reinforcements. (search)
Arrested. --Four men — Bennett, Nance, Sykes, and Nee — employed on the schooner Kahukee, charged with stealing $127.50 from Benj Simmons, of North Carolina, have been arrested in Norfolk
New York, March 28. --Cotton advanced --Uplands middling 12 @ 12½. Flour 10@20 higher — Southern $5.50@5.80. Wheat 2 ½ @5 higher. Corn 1 higher — Mixed 66@70½ new Southern White 68@71. Pork firm — Mess $16.75@16.87. Lard quiet at 9@10 Whiskey firm at 17½@18. Sugar firm — Muscovado 4¼@5¾. Coffee firm. Molasses heavy — Orleans 32@34. Spirits Turpentine steady at 35 @37. Rosin dull at $1.25. Rice firm. Stocks dull and lower — N. Y. Centrals 78 ¾; Va. 6's 78½; Mo. 6's 66½. Norfolk,March 28.--Corn -- receipts 100,000 bushels — White 62@64; yellow 63@63½c.; mixed 60 Cotton firm — large sales and active; for good running lots 12½; select 12½; inferior dull at 10½@11½. Naval Stores in limited demand. Tar dull at $1.50@1.60. Staves active — R. O. hhd. 37; W. 66. Flour quiet. Baltimore,March 28.--Flour steady; Ohio $5@5.12. Wheat steady; red $1.27@1.30; white $1.40@1.65. Corn firm — white 53@57; yellow 56@58.--Provisions dull and uncha