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The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Movements in the army and Navy. (search)
Movements in the army and Navy. --The New York Express gives the following items of army and naval news: All the ships of the home squadron are out of provisions. Only for the energy and enterprise of Capt. Adams, of the Sabine, they would have had to leave Florida altogether.-- Since the vessels arrived at Pensacola, not a line had been received from the Navy Department. The steamers can get no wood and water. A "smuggler from Pensacola" was selling water at four cents a gallon. The officers and crews of the entire fleet are told off, to land at a signal from Lieutenant Slemmer. It is not generally known that the Federal military and naval garrisons at this place have been, in a quiet way, put upon a war footing, and that the troops stationed in them are subject to the regulations, while on duty, customary in a campaign. The effective ordnance of the Brooklyn Navy-Yard has been distributed, as have the means of defence, in the proper places; Governor's Island, Fo
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Stars and Stripes at a Discount in New Orleans. (search)
The Stars and Stripes at a Discount in New Orleans. --The Boston Journal states that a firm in that city received on Saturday, per Adams & Co.'s Express, from New Orleans, a lot of American flags, as a present from a friend, who writes that he has no further use for them in that country. A painting of the new flag of the Confederate States was also received.
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
State armory. --The estimate of funds needed to meet engagements for the State machinery under the contract with Messrs. Joseph R. Anderson & Co., is as follows: 1st of March $20,000;1st of June $60,000; 1st of September $50,000; 1st of December $50,000. The amount of the original contract was $158, 59040; additions ordered by the Master Armorer, Mr. Salmon Adams, by letter of November 21, 1860, $1,174.50; subsequent contract for supplying set of barrel rolling and welding machinery, &c., $14,600--total amount of contract, $172,364.90. Sub-contracts have been made with other parties, and approved by the Commissioners of the State of Virginia, for the supply of machinery, to the extent of about $75,176; and good progress has been made towards the execution of the work undertaken by them. Most of the machines for the machine shops of the armory are ready for erection as soon as the building is ready to receive them — and that is nearly the case. Immediately on the conclusion of t