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The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Interesting from Europe. (search)
ctant to adopt it; but when the time for action arrived, necessity made itself felt, and they have now given the theory all the practical confirmation it needed. There is one other conclusion too, which we may craw from the operations of the American belligerents. The alleged efficiency of gunboats against heavier vessels has been disproved. The Confederates appear to have built upon this theory at first, but their "mosquitoes motiles" have never succeeded.--Neither at Port Royal nor Roanoke did their swarm of gunboats produce the least effect against the large ships of the Federal. Vessels, of this class operating upon rivers in conjunction with land forces have proved of the greatest service; indeed, the Northerners owe most of their successor to them but in narrow seas, and against heavy frigates or sloops, the small craft have been round as useless as a fleet of . No gunboats, as far as we can judge, will do the work of our Warriors, nor will any frigate, however well arme
The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], The great wall of China. (search)
ten years of age, named Robbins, of Va., was run over by a train on and Roanoke railroad, on Tuesday and instantly killed. R. Pyles died at his residence ville, Flas, on the 8th inst.
The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], English opinion of Affairs in America. (search)
e: [From the London Morning Herald, March 14,] Affairs in America have lately taken a turn which we have long-regarded as more than possible. The tide of victory has set in favor of the North. The Federal have effected a lodgment at Roanoke, in North Carolina; they are driving before them the Confederate armies in Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The capture of 15,000 men, together with the strong position on the Cumberland river, is the greatest advantage that they have yet gaited Frenchmen in the long wars of Europe. Let us quote on this point the evidence of Dr. Russell, a man certainly not prejudiced against the Northern cause: "A gentleman who had a good deal of conversation with the Confederate prisoners at Roanoke says they spoke with unanimous bitterness of the North, and that he could not detect a trace of ' Union sentiment,' though they were in captivity. Burnside's expedition has failed to elicit any ' Union sentiment' in North Carolina, which was sa
The Daily Dispatch: May 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Burning cotton. (search)
would carry and to whom to deliver to Mr. James D. Haskins is the Quartermaster at , Mecklenburg, Va., living immediately at the and terminus of the Roanoke Valley Railroad, and would, no doubt attend to this business with pleasure. Wm. wkins is also Quartermaster at Ridgeway, immediately on the Raleigh and Gaston road, where every article collects, could be sent directly to Richmond. There is, Mr. Editor, an immense amount of old and useless from, brass and copier in the country, that would be cheerfully donated by the people, if there was only a known agent to whom they could deliver it. If the Government really stand in head of such things, why not let the people know how they can get to them? If any person demanded pay as no doubt some would instruct the Quartermaster what to pay for each article. You may depend on it that they would get much more than they will get by receiving and mailing up the bells of our churches. Roanoke. Near Clarksville, Va. 5th May, 1862.
The Daily Dispatch: July 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
Southern currency and exchange. --A New York letter, dated July 22, says: A letter received by a Wall street house, per Roanoke, from New Orleans, reports exchange on New York in very moderate supply, and commanding a premium of 15 per cent. The bills of the banks of Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina were at as high a rate of discount in New Orleans as at the North, owing to a want of communication with those States. Alabama notes were quoted at 20, and Georgia and Carolina at a discount of 30 per cent. An this market, notwithstanding we are in communication with New Orleans, the bills of the banks of that city cannot be sold better than a discount of 30 per cent. Some parties are shipping sugar to New York as exchange, it being a material saving as compared with the rate current for exchange.
The Daily Dispatch: August 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], The skirmish near Cox's Mill. (search)
--, barrel cooked provisions, &c. Congregation of Sugar Creek Church, Mecklenburg, N C, bandages, crackers, lint, &c. From--, oil-cloth, ticking, and bed tick. Mrs J L Lyon, Edgecomb, N C, lint, bandages, wool, rags, &c. Mrs Ro J Smith, biscuit. Citizens of Middlesex, through J H Hackney, shirts and drawers, socks, rags, &c. Ladies of Buckingham Institute Soldiers' Aid Society, pickle, butter, soap, peas, snaps, hops, wines, and cordials, &c. Mrs Jos Dyer, Roanoke, shirts and drawers, wines, &c. Mrs S P Martin, Pittsylvania, lot of cotton and linen rags. Mrs W Gorden, Louisa, shirts. J Wilson, Milton, N C, potatoes, sheets, pillow cases, lint and bandages, tea, onions, &c. Ladies of Red Oak Grove, Charlotte, box of sun dries, hams, 2 jars butter, 2 jars lard. Mrs S M Chaffin and Rebecca Marlene, Charlotte, 8 pillows, pants, and rags. From--, 12 shirts, 12 pairs drawers, lint and bandages. From J Wilson, Milton, N C,
The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], The fight at Southwest mountain further particulars. (search)
, about the height of the house, from which is flung to the breeze the tri- color. A little tin sign in front of the house says, "Chancellor De L'Agence, Consulaire de France." The Consul of the Netherlands also floats his "red, white, and red" in a more fashionable portion of the town. In speaking of the railroad connections of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Suffolk, the Inquirer's correspondent says: Suffolk is connected with Norfolk and Portsmouth by the Petersburg railroad and the Roanoke and Seaboard road. The latter is mostly used. Government has been altering the guage of the former to suit our ears. On the latter road Government has just placed a new passenger car, for the convenience of passengers, the travel heretofore being done in freight cars. The new car is rather rough, but far superior to freight cars. It is a fact simile of second class cars on Northern roads. Another Bold speech from Maryland. [From the St. Mary's (Md.) Beacon.] Salus Popuri
The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], Cavalry dash on Front Royal. (search)
than openly hostile.--She has withheld France, and has opened her port, to the Yankees for the purchase of arms and munitions of war, while she knew we could not obtain them. Besides, at this moment, she is alarmed about Canada, which she fears she will lose in the event of a war. The Arabia, which we were told was to bring out the welcome news of recognition, has come, and she brought out, instead, news of the debate in Parliament on the Canada question. We trust there will be no more of these humbugs.--They have cost us enough already. They aided to produce the supine attitude in which the Government indulged last year. Their results were: Hatteras, Roanoke, Port Royal, Donelson, New Orleans, &c. Much, everything, depends upon the prompt action of Congress. We cannot but hope that it will leave at home all the leaven of demagogusism which it contracted under the old Yankee Government, and recognize the change in its circumstances, as well as in the people of the country.
The Daily Dispatch: September 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], By the Governor of Virginia — a proclamation. (search)
neral John B. Floyd, to be employed chiefly in the defence of Western Virginia. In consequence of the large force which had previously volunteered for service, and of the additional number called for by the Conscription Act, the amount asked for was not raised with the rapidity desired. I, therefore, on the 4th inst., issued orders calling for the militia between the ages of 35 and 45 years, from the counties of Washington, Smythe, Grayson. Carroll, Floyd, Pulaski, Wythe, Montgomery, Roanoke, Botetourt, Craig, Alleghany, Greenbrier, Monroe, Gilus, Mercer, Bland, Tazewell McDowell, Wise, Buchanan, Lee, Scott, Russell, Raleigh, Wyoming, Logan, Boone, Wayne, Cabell, Putnam, Kanawha, Mason, Clay, Nicholas, Fayette, Braxton, Webster, Pocahontas, and Randolph. Surely it is not necessary to appeal to the people of these counties to rally to the standard raised by their own State for their own defence. Surely Virginians will prefer a draft made under the Constitution and laws of
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