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The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fatal accident. (search)
Fortifications against ships.
The Baltimore American gives from high military authority, a detailed history of actions between ships and fortifications, which incontestably establishes the general rule that guns ashore are superior to guns afloat, and that naval expeditions are utterly impotent against a well fortified coast.
In 1795 a British expedition was fitted out, at an expense of eight millions of dollars, against Quiberon, a port of the French coast.
The bay of Quiberon is pronounced by Brenton, in his British Naval History, "the finest on the coast of France, or perhaps in the world, for landing an army." Moreover, the inhabitants of the country were in open insurrection, and eager to co-operate with the invaders.
Ten thousand soldiers were landed and arms furnished to as many more royalist troops, but the combined forces failed in their attack upon the fortifications, and General Hocks, from his entrenchments, with seven thousand men, held in check a body of eigh
Reminiscence of an Indian Massacre.
--In going from Lewiston to Niagara Falls, N. Y., the road runs within a few feet of the river bank, where a deep and gloomy chasm is rent or worn out of the rocks.
The small stream which crosses the road and falls into the chasm is called the Bloody Run.
A correspondent of the Lockport Courier says this name was derived from the following circumstance:
In 1795 a detachment of 100 British Regulars, who were conveying provisions in wagons from Fort Niagara to Fort Schlosser, were here surprised by a party of Indians in ambuscade.
Many of the soldiers were killed at the first discharge, and the others thrown into hopeless confusion, the Indians fell like tigers upon the drivers, tomahawked them in their seats, and threw them over the precipice.
The wagons, with their contents, were backed off into the abyss, and men and cattle fell, with the loading, in one dismembered and mutilated mass below.
Some threw themselves from the bank a
The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1860., [Electronic resource], Highly important opinion. (search)
Death of Bishop Cobbs.
--The Right Rev. Nicholas H. Cobbs, D. D. Bishop of Alabama, expired at his residence, in Montgomery, on Friday last.
The deceased, who was born in Bedford county, Va., in 1795, enjoyed a high reputation as a Christian divine and scholar, and was universally esteemed and beloved — He first entered upon the duties of the priesthood at Richmond, Virginia, in 1825, became Chaplain of the University of Virginia in 1834, and in 1839 was called to the charge of St. Paul's Church, Petersburg, Va. In 1843 he accepted the rectorship of St. Paul's Church, Cincinnati, having in the meanwhile (1842.) been created under circumstances highly honorable to himself, a Doctor of Divinity, by Geneva, Now Hobart College, New York.
He was elected to the Episcopate of Alabama in May, 1844, and consecrated to that holy office in October of the same year, at Philadelphia, entering upon its duties immediately after.
The Polish Patriot, Czarteryaki.
The death of Adam Czartoryski, a distinguished Polish patriot, at Paris, has been announced.
The following brief sketch of his biography is found in a work entitled "Men of Our Time:"
"Prince Adam Czartoryski, a distinguished Polish nobleman, was born January 14, 1770. He took an active part in the affairs of his country as early as the period of Kosciusko's attempt to liberate her from Russian domination.
After the partition of Poland in 1795, he and his brother were sent to St. Petersburg by command of Catharine II., as hostages.
Here Alexander was so charmed with the noble and manly character of the young Pole that he became his intimate friend, and upon his accession to the throne, appointed him Minister of Foreign Affairs, in which post Czartoryski conducted himself with so much prudence that the envy that was at first excited soon gave way. In 1805 he subscribed, in the name of Russia, the treaty with Great Britain.
He then demanded
The Daily Dispatch: September 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Destructive fire. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], The distinction between aliens and citizens. (search)