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The Daily Dispatch: may 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
From Montgomery.[Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Montgomery, Friday, May 17. Congress, it is believed, will adjourn on to-morrow — if not, certainly on some day of next week, to convene, when required by the public interests, in Richmond. Heretofore, the supervision of all matters connected with patents has been confided to the Department of Justice, presided over by the able and amiable Benjamin, but the great number of application, although confined under the law to citizens of this Confederacy, has shown to Congress the necessity for the prompt organization of a Bureau of Patents. And on yesterday, in public session, Mr. Brooke, chairman of the committee on the subject, reported a bill to establish a Patent Office, and to provide for the "granting and Issuance of patents for new and useful discoveries, improvements and designs" The bill contains a great number of sections, occupying 38 or 39 pages of Government foolscap printing.--A number of its features are v
The Daily Dispatch: may 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Minnie Bullet. (search)
Prizes in the South. The following information shows that the "ball has opened" in the Southern waters: Mobile,May 16.--The New Orleans barque Ocean Eagle, with lime, from Rockland, Maine, was captured this morning by the privateer Calhoun. Mobile,May 17.--The steam privateer Ivy captured as a prize, this morning, the ship Marshall, of Providence, R. I. The capture took place just outside the bar. Another prize was also captured to-day — name unknown. The Charleston Mercury, of Saturday last, says: A gentleman who arrived here, yesterday, from Wilmington, North Carolina, informs us that a large ship — name unknown — got aground on the Frying Pan Shoal, on Wednesday last. Her boat came into Smithville, N. C., for assistance, when a tug-boat went to her aid. She was assisted off by the tug, her captain representing that she was bound on a whaling voyage; but from the very large amount of provisions on board, the suspicions of the North Carolinians became <