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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
o proceed to the other side and set fire to them, which they speedily accomplished, bringing back several trophies dropped in hasty retreat by the murdering party, among which was a splendid Minnie musket, loaded, but not capped. The houses fired were the Wager, Galt and Railroad Hotels, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad depot, the Winchester Railroad depot, Welch's store, the telegraph office, and the dwelling- houses of Mrs Wager, Mrs. Darin, Mrs. Ellen Chambers, George Chambers, and Wm. J. Stevens, none of which were occupied. The destruction of the block now gives our pickets and battery men a view of the Shenandoah road from Charlestown, and will enable our men to protect the village in daylight from any clandestine occupancy by the eneemy's forces, as well as give them a warm reception if they should attempt to advance in force by their favorite and hitherto protected route. The conflagration was magnificent, the volume of smoke and flame almost concealing the surrounding
The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Kentucky. (search)
credit of the Government, and that paper, in the form of notes and bonds, must be issued to an amount equal to our expenditures, deducting be amount of current revenue not absorbed is paying interest and ordinary expenses of Government." Mr. Stevens, the chief financial oracle of the House, spoke in more detail, and substantially as follows: "This bill is a measure of necessity, not choice. It provides a means in the two forms of paper authorized, of six hundred and fifty millions of dol and twenty millions annually to the account of taxation. The bill now just passed imposes a tax of one hundred and fifty millions, and makes every man who has a debt due him or property to sell to receive payment in Government notes, which Stevens thinks must go down to sixty cents in the dollar. It remains to be seen what effect these measures will have upon the pocket nerve of the Yankees. We now see why their leaders are so anxious for early victories. They want to exhilarate and ti