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The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], France and the Confederacy. (search)
arades. These steps have been taken in fierce earnest and for bloody purpose. Would the "roughs" of the cities and vagabond rabble of the rural districts of the North have been recruited for an idle life in the barracks of Washington and Annapolis? Is that the sort of men who are usually enlisted for the inert, idle, listless and vicious ease of a stationary camp? We wot not. The best volunteers can only be held in subordination while employed in active and rapid operations. Such volunteers as have been recruited in New York must be kept constantly in the field and on the march. For that very purpose, and with that very intent, have they been recruited. That is the meaning of the formidable massing of them at Washington, Annapolis, Perryville, Harrisburg, the Relay House, and other convenient places within ready reach of Virginia. We are to be invaded. --We are to be attacked by land and sea. All our waters are to be infested with war craft, filled with soldiers, intenti
The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
Latest News by mail. The papers received last evening brought very little news from Washington, though the following items possess some interest : General Scott forwarded dispatches to General Butler, Saturday, at Annapolis, placing the Massachusetts Sixth Regiment and other troops at his command, and giving him three days to take possession of the Relay House at the Junction of the Baltimore and Ohio, and Baltimore and Washington railways nine miles from Baltimore and thirty from Waassachusetts) went up early this (Sunday) morning. This movement is made to co-operate with the Pennsylvania troops now advancing upon Baltimore on the other side. The Government have taken possession of the railway between Washington and Annapolis, relaid the rails, increased the number of engines and cars, and put the road in efficient condition. Mails and passengers are carried regularly, and connections are complete through to Philadelphia, New York and Boston. There are 350 mar
The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Hanging "Traitors." (search)
artment, and had been set to work filling bombs, but instead of charging them with powder, he put sand in them. Several men have been arrested for tearing up the track of the railroad, and they will be summarily dealt with." A letter from Annapolis, April 28th, says: "And now to give you an example of the punishment traitors receive, we can see from where I am writing, about two miles from shore, on the yard-arm of the United States brig Caledonia, two men hanging--one for smugglingg provisions and powder to the rebels at Charleston; the other for piloting the Seventh Regiment on the Chesapeake bar — with the intention that the Baltimorean might get possession of Annapolis before the Seventh could land. He was not quite sharp enough for the boys. They suspected his intentions, put him in irons, and conveyed him on board the brig, and now he is hanging for his crime." The New York Day Book asks: "Do the Administration hang men charged with treason without trial?"