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The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], Disappeared (search)
Disappeared --All symptoms of the late freshet in James river have disappeared. Shockoe creek has assumed its usual quiet and subdued appearance, and the fish-traps in the falls promise to yield an unusual abundance of their scaly treasure.
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], $100 reward. (search)
Defences of James river. The Examiner again calls attention to this important subject, which is one that cannot be too often pressed upon the attention of our military and civil authorities. No reliance can be placed upon gunboats to resist an attempt to ascend the river, for the enemy out number our gunboats ten to one. The most they can do is to assist such other defences as can be prepared for the purpose, of which the most reliable is the obstruction of the channel of the stream. The Examiner justly observes that sinking the bulk's of vessels is not an effectual obstruction, but that the most reliable are those formed of rat is stretched across the channel of navigation. "The best rifle," it adds, "--are made of trees placed with their roots and their tops down, matted together by chains or ropes, and made to stretch from bank to bank, and from the bottom of the water to many lost above the surface. They should be made with great labor and much care and pains.