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The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
iation. In a few years the assignats fell to one hundred for one, and before they were finally disposed of, the sum of 16,000 francs ($3,200) in that currency was paid for a single breakfast. The reason why depreciation cannot be stopped by legal tender laws is obvious enough. It is always caused by redundancy, and such laws do not reach the root of the evil. The notes of the Bank of England were made a legal tender everywhere in the realm, except at the counter of the bank itself, in 1835. But why? Because they are perfectly convertible, and always command pound for pound and shilling for shilling upon presentation. Nobody thought of making them a legal tender during the long interval from 1797 to 1817, when the bank suspended specie payment, although the depreciation was never greater than is implied by the fact that forty-six guineas in gold bought fifty-six guineas in Bank of England notes. It is strange that after so much and such hardly bought experience, people will
The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Affairs across the Mississippi. (search)
n, thirty-nine hours old. The Mobile Advertiser publishes the following intelligence furnished by him: The enemy were at Matagorda, moving along the coast in a column about 6,000 strong, accompanied by their naval force. Their immediate destination was Velasco, which they were expected to reach about the 8th, but it was doubtful whether they would succeed as Magruder's force was ample to meet them. The General himself was in the saddle, and the Texans, mindful of the days and deeds of 1835 and '36, were turning out to a man. Velasco is at the mouth of the Brazos, in close proximity to the Southern extremity of Galveston Island, and the object of the Yankee movement is to flank Galveston. About the time that Mr. Branch left Alexandria the Federals fell back from New Iberta. Mouton's division was at Alexandria; destination uncertain, but supposed to be Monroe. Walker was at Atchafalava. Kirby Smith left Shreveport with Price, who was moving on Little Rock with a
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], A country life. (search)
ulated such stock of vitality by his out-door life as to bridge him well over into the present century: he died in 1820, aged seventy-nine. Parson Trusler, notwithstanding his apothecary-schooling, lived to be eighty. In 1826 died Joseph Cradock of the 'Village Memoirs,' and a devoted horticulturist, aged eighty-five. Three years after, (1820,) Sir Uvedale Prite bade final adieu to his delightful seat of Foxley, at the age of eighty-three. Sir John Sinclair lived fairly into our own time, (1835,) and was eighty-one at his death. William Speechley, whom Johnson calls the best gardener of his time, and who established the first effective system of hot-house culture for pines in England, died in 1819, aged eighty-six; and in the same year, William Marshal, a voluminous agricultural writer and active farmer, died at the age of eighty. And I must mention one more, Dr. Andrew Duncan, a Scotch physician, who cultivated his garden with his own hands — inscribing over the entrance gate 'Hi
The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], Runaway.--one thousand Dollars Reward. (search)
ited the warmest applause from an immense audience. This oration was initiatory to the series of his public addresses, a series running through the last forty years of his eventful life. "The articles in the North American Review attracted universal attention, and the voters of his district (Middlesex), in the autumn of 1824, elected him to the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, where he held a seat for ten years, being re-elected at the expiration of each term. In 1835 he was chosen Governor of Massachusetts, and was re-elected for four successive years. In 1841 he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James, and on his return home, in 1846, he was elected President of Harvard College, a post which he held until 1849, when he tendered his resignation. "On the death of Daniel Webster, Mr. Everett was made Secretary of State of the United States, and in 1853 he was elected United States Senator by the Legislature of Massachusetts, i
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], Statistics of slavery. (search)
n act in Great Britain in 1807 also made the slave trade unlawful. Denmark made a similar prohibition as to her colonies, to take effect after 1804. The Congress of Vienna, in 1815, pronounced for the abolition of the trade. France abolished it in 1807. Spain, to take effect after 1820. Portugal abolished it in 1818. The slave trade continued in despite of the abolition. The average number of slaves exported from the coast of Africa averaged 85,000 per annum from 1798 to 1805; and from 1835 to 1840 there was a total of 135,810; in 1846 and 1847, it was 84,000 per annum. Between 1840 and 1847, 249,800 were taken to Brazil and 52,027 into the Spanish colonies. Slavery was abolished in Pennsylvania in 1780. In New Jersey, it was provisionally abolished in 1784; all children born of a slave after 1804 to be made free in 1820. In Massachusetts, it was declared after the Revolution that slavery was virtually abolished by their constitution (1780). In 1784 and 1797, Connecticut
The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], Death of a musical composer. (search)
per, in an obituary notice of the deceased, says: "Mr. Fry was a son of the late William Fry, formerly editor of the National Gazette, of this city, where he was born in August, 1815, so that he was in the fiftieth year of his age. He was educated here and at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmettsburg, Maryland. His musical talent showed itself at an early age, and he studied under Mr. Leopold Meignen. Some overtures of his composition were performed by the Philharmonic Society as early as 1835. He also wrote, about that period, two operas, "The Bridal of Dunure" and "Aurelia," which were never represented. He employed his pen also in literature, and was one of the editors of the National Gazette from 1839 until the paper was discontinued. When the Wood Opera Troupe came here, Mr. Fry, in conjunction with his brother, J. Reese Fry, had the opera of "Norma" brought out in English, and its success is among the traditional glories of the opera in Philadelphia. An original English o
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