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The Daily Dispatch: May 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], Affairs in the Valley. (search)
An Incident of the Connecticut Elections. --It is well known that in the recent election in Connecticut, soldiers who would vote the Abolition ticket were allowed to go home from the army and vote. Some Democrats, who were extremely anxious to see home once more, also pledged themselves to so vote, if they could be allowed to return and see their friends. One, by the name of Randall, having a sick mother at Donalsonville, and wishing to see her once more are she should pass from earth, bagged for a fariough, as a starving child would beg for brand; and at last, when all other means had failed, consented to pledge himself to vote for Buckingham. He came home, saw his dying mother; went to Killingly town meeting; voted for Buckingham, as he had agreed to; and then stood-up in the town-house and related these facts.--Portsmouth (N.H.) Union
The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], Northern News. (search)
9th, of the condition of the iron clads now in course of construction, we learn that the following vessels will be afloat by the 1st of August: Name.Thage.Where Building. 1. Canonious,1,034South Boston. 2. Catawba,1,034Cincinnati. 3. Manhattan,1,034Jersey City. 4. Mahopac,1,034Jersey City. 5. Manayunk,1,034Pittsburgh. 6. Oneota,1,034Cincinnati. 7. Saugus,1,034Wilmington, Del. 8. Tippecanos,1,034Cincinnati. 9. Tecuœseh,1,034Jersey City. 10. Agimentious,1,564Portsmouth, N. H. 11. Monadnock,1,564Boston Navy yard. 12. Towanda,1,564Philadelphia Navy-yd. 13. Miantonomah,1,564New York Navy-yard. The New York State Democratic Central Committee met at Albany on the 28th, and all the members were in attendance. The resolutions readopt the declaration of the last State Convention in regard to the support of the Government to suppress the rebellion. They declare that while peace is desired by every patriot, it must be on a basis of the restoration of the
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], President's reception (search)
It is stated that Gens. Barnes, Getty, and Ledile have been removed from Butler's Department. Lemnel Bowden, the bogus United States Senator from Virginia, died in Washington last week. Gen. Thomas has issued an order assessing $30,000 on rebel sympathizers living within ten miles of the recent murder of three soldiers near Mulberry, Tenn., the money to be divided between the families of the soldiers killed. Admiral Storer, of the United States Navy, died on Saturday at Portsmouth, N. H. Ex-Gov. Thomas H. Hicks has been chosen U. S. Senator from Maryland to fill the seat vacated by the death of the Hon. James A. Pearce. The Democratic and Conservative members of Congress, in caucus last week, resolved "that the President's proclamation of the 8th of December, 1863, is unwise, inexpedient, revolutionary, and unconstitutional, and is therefore disapproved." A great commotion has been excited in the New York Custom House by the arrest and confinement in For
The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ttery to the next, from one covered way to covered way again. Bomb-proofs are everywhere, and so are the soldiers' graves — a cluster here and another just beyond. The brave fellows were buried where they fell. Seizure of arms at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. For some time past efforts have been making by the police of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to discover certain arms which, it was alleged, had been received by individuals in that city with the intention of having them distributed amoPortsmouth, New Hampshire, to discover certain arms which, it was alleged, had been received by individuals in that city with the intention of having them distributed among parties inimical to Lincoln and to his measures for the prosecution of the war. The account of their discovery is given in the Chronicle of the 8th instant, which adds: "The discovery of these concealed weapons will perhaps open the eyes of some to the real intentions of our pretended peace-loving friends. It is stated that eighteen hundred or two thousand Enfields have been distributed about New Hampshire for the use of these precious peace-makers !" The gold market. The Her
The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
vessels, of three thousand two hundred tons, intended to have a speed of sixteen knots per hour and to carry immense batteries.--Boardes, there are in progress of building, twenty first-class wooden screw-steamers, of two thousand two hundred tons each, to have a speed of thirteen knots, to be full-rigged for ocean steamers, and to carry enormous batteries. They are named the Antietam, Arapaho; Guerriere, Hasselo, Illinois, Java, Kepsauqua, Kewavdin, Manitou, Minnetonka, Moshola, Ontario, Piscataqua, Pushmataha, Tahgayuta, Wanatoset, Watauga, Willamette, Contoccook and Mundarain, and will soon be completed.--While these vessels are building, there have been completed the Nipsie, Shawmut, Nyack, Pequot; Maumes, Kansas, Yantie and Raco — all screw vessels of five hundred and ninety-three tons each.--There are now nearly completed the wooden iron-clad coast steamers Tonawada, Miantonomab, Agamenticos and Monadnock, of one thousand five hundred and sixty-four tons. drawing twelve feet of
The Daily Dispatch: November 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
facilitating change. The Kearsarge is on exhibition at Boston. Twenty-five cents a head; proceeds go to "Poor Jack." The Western papers say that John C. Fremont is to be Minister to France and Salmon P. Chase Minister to England. The Louisville Journal says slavery is dead in Kentucky. Bradford was the only town in Vermont which gave McClellan a majority. A monster Christian commission meeting is to be held in Indianapolis on the 29th. The mansion in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, occupied by Daniel Webster during the first years of his practice, is now an oyster saloon. The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts volunteers (negro) would not take a cent less than was given to white troops. They stood firm, and conquered, and the other day were paid off in full at white man's prices. The peace men of Delaware refuse to participate in the services of Thanksgiving Day because Governor Cannon, in his proclamation, instanced among the causes for thankfulness the
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
o another great naval and military expedition. These rumors are of a very specific and circumstantial character; but though it is probable that some of our city journals, with their usual unscrupulousness, will give currency to them tomorrow morning, your correspondent refrains from giving publicity to them here. Gold, you will perceive, has fallen several per cent, and that looks as if some body had heard "good news." Miscellaneous. One hundred sailors were selected at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to be sent to-Baltimore on Saturday in the steamer De Soto. Upon being searched, most of them were found to be dressed in citizen's clothing under their outer dress, and were armed — with the intention, probably, of making their escape upon a convenient opportunity. Many of them are desperate characters. They were sent into the hold of the United States ship Vandalia, and the hatches fastened down. General Grant, on hearing that the citizens of Ohio were preparing a suitab
The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
Five girls employed in the spool-cotton factory at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, have been arrested and fined for stealing cotton. About three thousand pounds of cotton have been stolen from the factory within a short time.
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], Killed by a dog. (search)
Killed by a dog. --The Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Chronicle says that, a few days since, a large bull-dog, confined in a house at the north part of that city, seized an infant child lying in a cradle and tore away one side of its face; and before the brute could be secured, he grasped the child by the throat, and shook it until life was extinct.
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