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The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], Letter from President Davis to the Georgia Senators. (search)
it supposed that Virginia would enter into a convention with a delegation from what our enemies choose to term the "State" of "West Virginia," and thus recognize an insolent and violent dismemberment of her territory? Or would the United States consent that "West Virginia" should be deprived of her pretensions to equal rights, after having formally admitted her as a State, and allowed her to vote at a Presidential election? Who would send a delegation from Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri? The enemy claim to hold the governments of those States, while we assert them to be members of the Confederacy. Would delegates be received from both sides? If so, there would soon be a disruption of the convention. If delegates are received from neither side, then a number of the States most vitally interested in the result would remain unrepresented; and what value could be attached to the mere recommendations of a body of negotiators under such circumstances?--Various other consider
the South. He was arrested three days after his arrival, tried, and sentenced to six months imprisonment in Fort Lafayette, and at the end of that time to be sent across the lines. The sentence was modified by General Dix so far as respects sending him South. He is now at Fort Lafayette, and we suppose will, at a proper time, be sent back to England, and not into the rebel States, where he wants to go. Miscellaneous. Governor Fletcher issued a proclamation on the 14th declaring Missouri free State. In St. Louis there was an illumination. The New York papers have nothing new about Blair's peace mission. They copy a great deal on the subject from the Richmond papers. General Sheridan has started on a tour of inspection of the departments under his command. These embrace the Departments of Washington, West Virginia, and the Middle Department. The Confederates are still in possession of Uniontown, Kentucky, and fire upon passing steamers. The Chicago pri
enate Military Committee. While an amendment of Mr. Vest's to the first section of the Senate bill was still under discussion, on motion, by Mr. Johnson, of Missouri, the Senate bill was dropped and House bill considered by sections. When it had been gone through with, Senate bill was again taken up and considered by sectiond the following as the Special Committee on the Exchange of Prisoners: Messrs. Marshall, of Kentucky; Perkins, of Louisiana; Gilmer, of North Carolina; Clark, of Missouri, and Funsten, of Virginia. Mr. Branch, of Texas, introduced a series of patriotic resolutions, adopted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, concerning uction, and he wanted to see what could be done. He also stated that he had written a letter to the Speaker of the House, resigning his seat. Mr. Snead, of Missouri, offered the following resolution: "Whereas, Henry S. Foote, a member of this House from the State of Tennessee, having absented himself from it without le
ails that Secretary Seward will make the decease of Mr. Everett the occasion for an eulogy upon his exalted character and public services. A movement is on foot among prominent Philadelphians, of both political parties, to give a handsome dinner to those Democratic Congressmen who shall vote in favor of the proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery. So far, the list of such members embraces the names of George H. Yeaman, of Kentucky; Austin A. King and James S. Rollins, of Missouri; Moses F. Odell and John A. Griswold, of New York; Myer Strouse, Josiah Bailey and Archibald McAllister, of Pennsylvania; and Ezra Wheeler, of Wisconsin. General Sherman has written a letter, denying the report that he was opposed to changing the status of slavery in the South, and saying that he is in favor of putting all the able bodied negroes obtainable in the army. Mayor Gunther, of New York, having refused to sign warrants for the pay of the street scrapers, they threatened
Statistics of slavery. According the United States Census for 1850, the number of slaves then in the United States was 3, 204,013, distributed as follows: Alabama, 342,844; Arkansas, 47,100; District of Columbia, 3,687; Delaware, 2,290; Florida, 39,310; Georgia, 381, 682; Kentucky, 210,981; Louisiana, 244,809; Maryland, 90,368; Mississippi, 309,878; Missouri, 87,482; New Jersey, 236; North Carolina, 288,548; South Carolina, 384,984; Tennessee, 239,459; Texas, 58,161; Virginia, 472,528; Territories, 26. In 1776, the slaves were as follows: Massachusetts, 3,500; Rhode Island, 4,373; Connecticut, 6,000; New Hampshire, 629; New York, 15,000; New Jersey, 7,600; Pennsylvania, 10,000; Delaware, 9,000; Maryland, 80,000; Virginia, 165,000; North Carolina, 75,000; South Carolina, 110,000, and Georgia, 16,000. Total in 1776,502,132. The first introduction of African slaves was in 1620, by a Dutch vessel which brought twenty from Africa to Virginia. In his work upon the slave trade,
y of adding my mite in testimonial of so good and great a man. Yours, truly, U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. Miscellaneous. A number of the radical Republican Congressmen at Washington (including such prominent men as George W. Julian, of Indiana; W. D. Kelley, of Philadelphia, and Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana,) favor negro suffrage in the seceded States, while not advocating it in the loyal portion of the country. Senator B. Gratz Brown, and Representative Henry T. Blow, of Missouri, favor universal suffrage throughout both North and South. Archbishop McClosky, of New York, is at once to open subscriptions for the completion of the new Roman Catholic Cathedral in that city, which is designed to be the most costly and most beautiful church in the United States, exceeding even the magnificent Philadelphia Cathedral. The California papers publish "marriages," "births," "divorces" and "deaths" in regular order. This is systematizing the thing. The Taunton G
for what objects; and the number of officers and privates who have been killed or have died of disease, and the number rendered unfit for service in the field by reason of wounds or sickness. The Senate refused to pass House joint resolution to extend to the employees of the Medical Director's office and the Transportation office the benefits of the act of 30th January, 1864, increasing the compensation of the employees in the civil and executive offices in Richmond. Mr. Vest, of Missouri's, entered a motion to reconsider the vote. Senate bill, with House amendments, to amend the law providing for an invalid corps was passed. [The bill extends the benefits of the invalid corps to all officers and men who may have resigned in ignorance of the passage of the law; and authorizes the President to re-appoint officers to the grade from which they resigned to enable them to be put on the retired list, such officers to have medical certificates of continued disability.] Th
dar. On motion, by Mr. Semmes, the Senate resolved into secret session. House of Representatives. The House was opened with prayer at 11 o'clock by Rev. Dr. Burrows. The House then took up and passed the joint resolution offered by Mr. Branch, of Texas, authorizing the President to appoint commissioners to investigate the proceedings of the Cotton Bureau and the conduct of the military authorities in connection with the cotton in the Trans- Mississippi. Mr. Clark, of Missouri, from the Committee on Elections, submitted the following report on the case of Mr. Foote: "The committee to whom was referred the resolution in reference to the conduct of the Hon. Henry S. Foote, a member of this House from the State of Tennessee, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report and recommend the adoption of the following preamble and resolution: "That, some weeks since, the said Henry S. Foote absented himself from this House without leave; that
The Daily Dispatch: January 26, 1865., [Electronic resource], An Interesting Incident of the battle of Franklin. (search)
An Interesting Incident of the battle of Franklin. --A letter, by a participant in this sanguinary fight, says that the gallant Missouri brigade, led by General Cockerell, and attached to General French's division, entered the fight six hundred strong, and brought out only two hundred and sixty-one, having lost four hundred and nineteen men, killed, wounded and missing. In speaking of the charge made by this brigade it says: "In a very few minutes General Cockerell returned, riding his wearied horse, and severely wounded in three places.--The horse of Colonel Gates, of his brigade, which had so often followed General Cockerell's over many a weary mile, turned, and, by instinct, followed him from the field also, the rider, shot through both arms, being unable to guide his horse. I shall never forget the steady, calm gaze of this old hero of many a battle-field as he sat his horse erect as a statue, his paralyzed arms hanging to his side. I assisted him from his horse, and he wa
ives in Congress power to appoint to office, which power was, by the Constitution, vested in the Executive. On motion, by Mr. Brown, of Mississippi, the bill was considered, the question being on its passage over the President's veto. After a long debate, in which Mr. Hill, of Georgia, alone sustained the objections of the President, the Senate passed the bill over the veto by the following vote: Yeas.--Messrs. Baker, Brown, Burnett, Garland, Graham, Haynes, Henry, Johnson of Missouri, Maxwell, Oldham, Semmes, Sparrow, Walker, Watson and Wigfall--15. Nays.--Messrs. Hill, Hunter and Vest--3. Mr. Sparrow introduced a bill to authorize the appointment of a commissary-general, with the rank of a brigadier-general. On motion, by Mr. Maxwell, the Senate resolved into secret session. House of representatives. The House met at 11 A. M. and was opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Broaddus, of the Baptist Church. The Senate substitute for the House cons