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The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Oil in Ohio. (search)
a certain period (twelve months, we believe), and to complete it in six years, and upon their depositing in one of the banks the sum of $500,000, or $1,000,000, we forget which. To obtain a transfer of the interest of the State, legislative intervention was necessary. Accordingly, a petition was presented to that body, and a charter, based upon the charter of the James River and Kanawha Company, with certain modifications, was granted to the French Company only three weeks before the State of Virginia seceded. In it was a provise that the work should be commenced within a certain period, and completed within six years, provided such commencement and completion were not rendered impossible by the occurrence of war. War did occur, not by any act of the French Company, but in consequence of the act of Virginia herself, that State having seceded from the Union three weeks after the passage of the charter, as we have already said. No sooner had peace been re-established than the Fr
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], The cotton question. (search)
direct to Norfolk. Acquainted, as he is, with the character of his countrymen generally, and personally with so many of them that are of the description to make good citizens, we may feel assured that he will give us the best that can be induced to emigrate. Richmond, Va., 7th December, 1865. Dear Sir, --Referring to the conversation which I had with you the other evening on the subject of immigration, I now lay before you in writing the substance of my remarks: The State of Virginia at present calls loudly for labor and capital, and the only means to obtain that element is by immigration. The question how to attract immigration at present is the subject which I wish to bring before you. Several of the Northern and Western States have employed commissioners and State immigration agents to aid them in that enterprise, and some of them propose to supply the Southern States from the surplus they obtain, thereby imposing a tariff on the emigrant who comes South. It i