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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway (search)
re is an intimation to-day, from a high source, that things are not satisfactory in that direction. When Alex. H. Stephens predicted that the first battle would come off at Harper's Ferry, military men rather scouted the idea; yet we are all momentarily expecting advices of a combat in that quarter. We have news to the effect that in a skirmish of advanced posts in Western Virginia, something like an hundred prisoners of the Confederate forces were taken. The Federal troops in Northwestern Virginia have been a good deal more adroit than elsewhere, having acted (knowingly or unknowingly) upon that first principle of warfare — never to expose your troops in line until you have tried their courage in skirmishes.--fry to reduce your enemy by the terror of your arms, by surprises, rather than regular battles; for they are frequently decided by chance. The drift of the speeches of the President and Mr. Seward yesterday, on the occasion of the grand review, was that sufficient ti
The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 19 (search)
Ben. Edwards Grey, of Dallas county, Ala., has tendered as a present to a company of Flying Artillery in that county, a pair of horses valued at $800. It is stared that an antiquary at Padua has found, in the archives of a noble family, many of the missing books of Livy's great historical work. A very destructive hail storm passed over a portion of Washington county, Va., a week or two ago, leaving its effects on a good many farms. Rev. G. W. Carter, of Texas, has attached himself to a regiment in Virginia, and gone off to the war. There were about two thousand hogsheads of molasses on board the Hannah Balch, lately recaptured by a North Carolina Cruiser. The citizens of Louisburg, N. C., have prepared a large quantity of stores, to be forwarded to the hospital at Yorktown. Col. John A. Campbell is succeeding well in raising a new regiment in Southwestern Virginia.
The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Northern Congress.--the Pan-Handle traitors Assume to represent Virginia! (search)
Pan-Handle traitors Assume to represent Virginia! In the Washington House of Representatives, on the 4th inst., after the election of Galusha A. Grow to the Speakership, the following individuals were sworn in as Representatives of the State of Virginia: John S. Carlile, C. H. Upton, R. V. Whaley, G. Pendleton and W. G. Brown. We copy from the proceedings as they afterwards transpired: Mr. Cox, of Ohio, objected to Mr. Charles H. Upton being recognized as a member of this body. He won admitted that he had voted in Ohio, as alleged, and that he had, until lately, published a paper in Ohio; but he had not been in that State, except on an occasional visit, for five months, and for many years he had been a resident of the State of Virginia.--He was glad, however, that when the country was reeling with anarchy, the gentleman should be so desirous of vindicating the decency and dignity of the House. Mr. Burnett, of Kentucky, also protested against the admission of those cl