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The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Police; Caleb Crone, 2d Lieutenant, and Jas. B. Pleasants, 3d Lieutenant. James W. Davis was elected 8th Day Police Officer, vice Wm. B. Page, dec'd. The election was gone into at the suggestion of the Mayor, and was rendered necessary by the death of Gervas S. Trueheart and Wm. B. Page, to whose memory, as officers and gentlemen, the Mayor paid a deserved tribute of respect. The Council, on motion of Mr. Glazebrook, adopted a resolution for paying one month's salary to the widow of Jas. H. Davis, dec'd, late of the City Watch. The report of the Committee on Light which was returned, says that there has been a large increase of profits, and considerable diminution of expenses in operating the work, and that but few complaints have been made: Receipts, &c.,last year$124,551.62 Expenses, &c$84,424.74 Balance$40,126.88 Receipts, &c., this year$130,310.41 Expenses$81,155.48 Balance$49,154.93 Balance last year$40,126.88 Excess over last year$9,028.05 The wor
The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
aking up all over your State, and I cannot see what your Convention can be waiting for, unless it is to kill time. A gentleman said to me a few days ago, "those Virginians love to speak very much; pity what they loved to act as well. " Are you a ware that Gov. Brown, of Georgia. Hon Wm. L Yancey, Hon. Mr. Benjamin, Hon Mr. Wigfall, and most of the leading men in the secession movement, every where, are Carolinian? A rumor reached this city, a few days ago, in the effect that President Davis had vetoed the bill for suppressing the African slave trade. That report needs confirmation, and your Convention need not be at all alarmed upon that subject. The weather to day was clear and fine, but as my present writing a regular March wind is blowing, and there is every appearance of a storm. Our new Brigadier General, Beauregard, is here, and before long I will take his likeness. I indicated yesterday that I would give you a portraiture of "Father O'Neil," the repr