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The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Southern Cabinet (search)
The Southern Cabinet
--A Washington dispatch to the New York Herald says that according to news from Montgomery, President Davis was arranging his Cabinet, and it was understood that the following will probably be the cast:
Secretary of State, Herschell V. Johnson, Ga.; Secretary of War, P. O. Hider, La; Secretary of the Navy, S. R. Mallory, Fla.; Secretary of the Interior, W. Porcher Miles, South Carolina; Post-Office Department, J. H. Hemphill, Texas; Attorney General, John A. Elmore, Ala.
Should Benjamin be made Attorney General, instead of Elmore, John Forsyth will go into the War Department. Messrs. Toombs and Slidell will probably be sent as Ambassadors to England and France respectively.
The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Southern Cabinet (search)
The great Armada.
We have not yet had the pleasure of reading the second part of Motley's History of the Dutch Republic. It is spoken of in the English Reviews, however, as a work of great ability, indicating a vast amount of labor and research.
Mr. Motley has availed himself of the liberal policy of the Governments of Spain, France, Austria, and England, with the most commendable industry.
From the secret archives of Simancas, the piles of musty manuscripts in the public offices of London, and the State papers at Paris, Vienna and Venice, he has extracted materials never used in history before.
The period of which he treats in his present volume, is one of the most interesting in history.
It is that of the Great Armada, which was sent to invade England, and which was destroyed in the Channel and the North Sea, by Drake, Frobisher, Raleigh, the English fire-ships, the winds, the waves, the cliffs of England, and the iron-bound coast of Norway.
The researches of Mr. Motley pl