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The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
t. May's company, fell from the cars in Calhoun, Ga., last Sunday, and was so badly injured that amputation of one of his legs became necessary. A white woman named Strickney attempted to drown her three children a few days ago, at Washington, N. C., but was prevented; whereupon she stabbed herself three times, but not fatally. A special dispatch to the New York Herald says "the schooner John Roach was seized on James River and converted late a war vessel by the secessionists." In Barbone county, Ala., on the 27th ult., Mr. Lorenzo Faulk, an estimable citizen, accidentally shot himself, and died instantly. Fifteen hundred free colored men in New Orleans have offered their services to fight for the South. The residence of Col. E. Byne, in Waynesboro', Ga., was destroyed by fire on the 29th ult. The Young Guards, from Covington, Ga., reached Portsmouth on Monday. Samuel Ball accidentally shot and killed himself in Hyde county, N. C., on the 17th ult.
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Unpleasant Predicament. --Mr. O. C. Bartling, proprietor of the Ocean House, at Portsmouth, Va., was arrested by order of Mayor Mayo, Thursday evening, on the strength of a telegraphic communication received from Commodore French Forrest, of the Virginia Navy, which stated that Mr. Bartling was leaving Portsmouth under suspicPortsmouth under suspicious circumstances. He came up via the Norfolk Road to Petersburg, and to Richmond by the Southern route, and was placed in the cage, whence he was brought yesterday morning.--Bartling said he was going to Baltimore to bring on his family; communication between Norfolk and that place being shut off by the blockade, he had to comewould he governed solely by the proof adduced. Till such proof was forthcoming, he would have to detain Mr. Bartling, however disagreeable it might be to him. The proof had not arrived when we left the Court-room. P. S.--We learn that during the day the Mayor heard from Portsmouth, and discharged Mr. Bartling from custody.
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Tennessee. (search)
A patriotic family. --Capt. R. K. Hudgins, late of the U. S. revenue service, and Lieut. Wm. E. Hudgins, of the same service, immediately on the withdrawal of their native State from the Federal Union, resigned their commissions and tendered their services to Gov. Letcher. Both father and son have this day been assigned to duty in the batteries now being erected on York river. Capt. H. has two other sons--one a Sergeant in the Old Dominion Guards, on duty at Portsmouth, and the other with Com. Rousson, at New Orleans.
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], A gallant example. (search)
From Portsmouth.[special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Portsmouth, Va., May 2d, 1861. We are now blockaded, as are the mouths of the James river, the York, the Rappahannock and the Potomac — so I am told. Yesterday morning the Baltimore boat — the steamer Adelaide -- was stopped by the minions of the Chimpanzee at Washington, and pressed into the service of the so-called Illinois baboon. The mail came up, however, in the afternoon, in the little steamer Coffee. Spies are said to be about. A man in petticoats, it is said, has been roaming about our city. If he is caught he will be stripped and turned over to the secular arm. The Young Guard, a company of 87 young and fine looking men, from Newton county, Ga., reached here at one o'clock last night, and were temporarily quartered in the courthouse. Sixteen thousand more from the same State are said to be on their way to old Virginia. Five companies came yesterday morning from the adjoining counties of Nan