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The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], [Second week.] (search)
ible to tell, he was given nothing to eat but meat and bread. When the captain of the Howard was with us, there was a Herald on board containing some falsehoods of this kind, and they were shown to him with the remark that all prisoners had received the same treatment given him. He replied, these stories were invented by the press reporters, and often without seeing the person whose statement they give. His own case was an example. When taken by the "Florida," he was returning from the West Indies with a cargo of fruit, Captain Morris purchased some pineapples, limes, oranges, &c., and paid him in gold more than he would have received in greenbacks in New York. He told the reporter Captain Morris had got some pineapples from him, and the next morning the paper appeared with a card, signed by him, in which it was stated the fruit had been stolen, along with many other things on board, after the bond had been executed. To correct this falsehood, the captain inserted a card the next
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], The cruise of the "Tallahassee." (search)
ible to tell, he was given nothing to eat but meat and bread. When the captain of the Howard was with us, there was a Herald on board containing some falsehoods of this kind, and they were shown to him with the remark that all prisoners had received the same treatment given him. He replied, these stories were invented by the press reporters, and often without seeing the person whose statement they give. His own case was an example. When taken by the "Florida," he was returning from the West Indies with a cargo of fruit, Captain Morris purchased some pineapples, limes, oranges, &c., and paid him in gold more than he would have received in greenbacks in New York. He told the reporter Captain Morris had got some pineapples from him, and the next morning the paper appeared with a card, signed by him, in which it was stated the fruit had been stolen, along with many other things on board, after the bond had been executed. To correct this falsehood, the captain inserted a card the next
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Why is a like a cat? Because he belongs to the race. The Question of Southern Cotton in England. Mr. George McHenry has addressed the following letter to the editor of the London Times: "Sir, a few months ago I drew your attention to the fact that the Board of Trade tables did not credit the Confederate States with any of the cotton received in England from them through the ports of the West Indies and Mexico. I find now that the Commissioners of Customs have made the same error, and in their report for 1863, just published, they base an argument upon the mistake, and assert that the blockade was more effective in 1863 than in 1862. It is due to the South that this matter should be corrected. Though the Government returns record but 57,093 in 1860, against 120,763 in 1862, the actual importations of American cotton in the United Kingdom were against 300,000, or nearly double. Nor is this all.--Quite an extensive commerce was carried on last year betw