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The Daily Dispatch: may 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Washington Items. (search)
14th, 1861. Being a member of the "Meadsville Grays," a rifle company from Halifax county, and that company having been overlooked by your correspondence, I take the liberty of calling your attention to the fact that that company is still in existence, and in camp at Ashland. Mr. Richard Logan is our Captain. He graduated several years ago at Lexington, and is, perhaps, equal in point of military skill to any officer here. Our First lieutenant is Mr. Samuel Kent; he is a second Winfield Scott in stature, but a much better man in character. The company numbers about sixty-five men, all of whom are eager to begin the conflict which will decide the fact that we mean to be free, or consign us to soldiers' graves. Our rifles, which were furnished by the voluntary contributions of the citizens of Halifax, are the best that I have seen. The rifle of itself is a formidable weapon, (the ball will take effect a mile,) but it is rendered still more so by the sword bayonet with which
The Daily Dispatch: may 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
lacing obstructions on the railroad track, cutting the telegraph wires, house burning, &c., Judge Lynch did not preside; but those arrested were permitted to remain boarders at the "County Hotel" for a while. Andy Johnson and a Mr. Nelson were there, but remained in "close quarters." A Reverend gentleman addressed a few remarks to the assemblage, after which the vote was taken to ascertain whether it was the wish of the audience to hear Johnson and Nelson speak, which resulted in an almost unanimous refusal, only three or four in favor of hearing them. Politics are virtually dead. The wheat crop, not withstanding so much wet weather during the winter and spring, looks fine, oats ditto. Farmers are generally done planting corn. Many of them, both old and young, spend a large portion of their time in drilling. The South is invincible, and ere a certain Scott executes his reputed designs, he will have to eat many a "hasty plate of soup," or become very gaunt. Southerner.
The Daily Dispatch: may 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Relay House. (search)
The New York Sun cannot credit Lord John Russell's "stupid admission" concerning letters of marque. W. H. Heiss, long connected with the Southern line of telegraph as superintendent, has resigned. J. Ross Snowden has been appointed Prothonotary of the Supreme Court in Philadelphia, vice Robert Tyler, resigned. The New York Express "don't like to have that British fleet on our sea-coast at this time, at all!" The foreign vessels, Volant and Tyrus, in Hampton Roads, consigned to Norfolk, have sailed for New York. The ship North Carolina, from Havre for Norfolk, is detained off Fortress Monroe. They are making percussion caps in Macon, Georgia. J. M. Allen, an enterprising merchant of Columbia, S. C., died on the 14th inst. It is stated that the Great Eastern will certainly sail for Liverpool on the 25th inst. Gen. Scott's family are in Elizabethtown, N. J. Hon. Henry May has consented to become a candidate for Congress in Maryland.