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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Submarine cables. (search)
. Pierre to Cape Cod, Mass.1828 Cape Cod, Mass., to New York1325 Other branch lines2422 ————— Total2511,836 African Direct Telegraph Co82,938 Black Sea Telegraph Co1337 Brazilian Submarine Telegraph Co.: Carcavellos, near Lisbon (Portugal), to Madeira, to St. Vincent (Cape Verde Island), to Pernambuco (Brazil)67,375 Central and South American Telegraph Co157,500 Compagnie Allemande des Cables Telegraphiques11,114 Compania Telegrafico-Telefonica del Plata128 Compania Telegrafico del Rio de la Plata.128 Cuba Submarine Telegraph Co41,049 Direct Spanish Telegraph Co4710 Direct West India Cable Co.: Bermuda-Turk's Island and Turk's Island-Jamaica21,280 Eastern and South African Telegraph Co138,907 Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Co2717,359 Eastern Telegraph Co.: Anglo-Spanish Portuguese System135,374 System West of Malta185,713 Italo-Greek System2253 Austro-Greek System1503 Greek System12699 Cables operated by private companies— Continued.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Weyler y Nicolau, Valeriano 1840- (search)
, serve as a habitation or hiding-place for the enemy. Fourth. All passes issued prior to this date are hereby cancelled. His first important military movement was that against General Maceo, in the western part of the province of Pinar del Rio. No attention was paid to Gomez, who was in the province of Havana. Ten engagements were fought against Maceo's forces within fifteen days, with no appreciable advantage to the Spaniards. Maceo, gifted in this general warfare, experienced no dnuous stream of wounded Spanish soldiers found their way back to Havana. Then came the coup resulting in the death of Maceo by the troops under Major Cirujada's command, and Weyler returned to Havana. He announced with complacency that Pinar del Rio was free from rebels. His second campaign was against Gomez. In the mean time the Spanish press had succeeded in arousing a feeling of dissatisfaction with the captain-general, but Señor Canovas was not brought into sympathy with this feeling.
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 45: (search)
having met with heavy weather, and sprung a leak, was putting back to Rio Janeiro for repairs. At the request of her master I sent my surgeon on board to visit a seaman who had been badly injured by a fall. As we were within a few days' sail of Rio, I prevailed upon the master of this ship to receive my prisoners on board, to be landed. There were thirty-one of them, and among the rest, a woman from the Conrad, who claimed to be a passenger. The time had now arrived for me to stretch ovege of such length, as that to the Cape of Good Hope, in such a dilemma, and I put back for Rio Janeiro, to obtain a fresh supply; unless I could capture it by the way. We were now in latitude 28° 01′, and longitude 28° 29′, or about 825 miles from Rio; some little distance to travel to a baker's shop. We were saved this journey, however, as the reader will presently see, by a Yankee ship which came very considerately to our relief. For the next few days, the weather was boisterous and unple<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
tationary relatively to the slowly moving carriage to which they are attached. The size is flour-paste mixed with other ingredients, and the operation on the rope is called snugging, slicking, or finishing. It smooths down the sleczy and fuzzy fibers of the twisted rope. Size-box. Si′zel. （Coining.) Strips of metal from which planchets have been removed. Scissel. Siz′er. 1. A machine of perforated plates to sort articles of varying sizes, as the coffee-sizers of Ceylon and Rio. 2. A gage, as the bullet-sizer, which has holes to determine the sizes of bullets. See also shell-gage. Size-stick. The shoemaker's measuring-stick to determine the length of feet. Siz′ing. A glue or paste used in manufactures. See size. Siz′ing-ap′pa-ra′tus. （Mining.) Machinery for sorting ore into grades according to size, for treatment by the appropriate means. Hand-sicves, swing-sieves, and shaking and cylindrical riddles are the usual means employe
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
ormation to govern your further movements. You can then visit any of the islands of the West Indies, or any part of the Gulf, at which you think you would be most likely to overtake the Alabama, or procure information of her. When you are perfectly satisfied that the Alabama has left the Gulf or the West Indies, and gone to some other locality, you will proceed along the coast of Brazil to Fernando de Noronha, and Rio de Janeiro, making inquiry at such places as you may deem advisable. From Rio continue your course to the Cape of Good Hope, thence back to St. Helena, Cape de Verde, the Canaries, Madeira, Lisbon, Western Islands, and New York. If at any point word is obtained of the Alabama or any other rebel craft, you will pursue her without regard to these instructions. This judicious plan was defeated by Wilkes. On the 28th of February, the Vanderbilt, after looking in at Martinique and Guadaloupe, fell in with the Wachusett off St. Thomas. Wilkes thereupon left the Wachus
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Incidents of the skirmish at Totopotomoy Creek, Hanover county, Virginia, May 30, 1864. (search)
ant and asked what that meant. Said he, I don't understand it; he is not one of our company. In another moment, however, it was all plain. A Yank was seen advancing to meet the Johnny, as they called our boys, also carrying a white flag, and they were on a trade. I understood afterwards, that during the lull in the firing one of the enemy's pickets had called across to his vis-a-vis. Hello, Johnny! Got any good tobacco? Yes; good as you ever chawed! How'll you swap for some first-class Rio? All right. Well, meet meat the creek, and don't you fellows shoot till I get back, and we won't either. So the swap was made, whether with the consent of any officer, I never knew, but I dreaded the consequences of letting the Federal soldier get that near to our line, lest he should spy out its thinness. The whole thing may have been concocted on that side with that very end in view, for soon after the men had returned to their posts, there was an unusual stir among them over in the pin
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 5 (search)
o make a reconnoissance of his position. C company of the Rifles (now Third cavalry) was a part of his escort, I being attached to it. We had been halted in the timber, just out of sight of the enemy, some twenty minutes, when we heard the rattle of musketry, and a few minutes later the order came to fall back to the right and left of the road to let the hearers of Captain Johnston pass by. He had received two severe wounds while making a daring reconnoissance, and was borne back to Plan Del Rio and placed in the most airy house in the village, where I also was borne five days later, being severely wounded. Stevens Mason, captain of the Rifles was taken there also, and a few days after Lieutenant Darby (John Phoenix) was brought in and laid on a cot by my side. A disciplinarian. The rooms were separated by partitions of reeds, which admitted the passage of air and sound. And we could converse from one room to another. Darby's coarse humor was irrepressible. Nothing could
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 24 (search)
onor to his country. A calculation of the amount saved to the commerce of the United States by shortening the voyages fifteen days by the use of these charts will show the following startling results: The average freight from the United States to Rio is 17.7 cents per ton per day; to Australia 20 cents. The mean of this is a little over 19 cents per ton per day, but to be within the mark we will take it at 15 cents, and include all the ports of South America, China and the East Indies. We est Packington, of the British Admiralty, said: The practical results of the researches of this great American philosopher of the seas have been to lessen the expenses of the voyage (by shortening the passage) of every 1000-ton vessel from England to Rio, India, or China, by no less a sum than ,250, while on a voyage of every ship of this tonnage to California or Australia and back the saving effected was £ 1,200 or £ 1,500. When the San Francisco with hundreds of United States troops on board fo
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.8 (search)
Baltimore to do so. Few returned, as nearly all were on their way South; and although it was Sunday the ladies amused themselves by making Confederate flags out of the Yankee flags I had captured. Finding there was no chance of capturing the Pawnee, and deeming it unsafe to remain where I was in a steamer without guns, I resolved to go up to Fredericksburg, and immediately ran out into the Chesapeake bay. I saw a fine brig; ran alongside of her; she proved to be the brig Monticello, from Rio, loaded with coffee, and bound for Baltimore. I merely captured her, taking the crew on board the Saint Nicholas, and leaving the captain and his wife on board, as I did not wish to terrify the lady, or render her uncomfortable I put Lieutenant Robert (D.) Minor on board, with orders to take the brig to Fredericksburg. The coffee, a full cargo, was a great treat to our boys in gray, who were already beginning to endure some of the many privations that made them in later days, truly an army
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Stuart's cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign. (search)
nnot always be seen from the deck in the darkness, often with my heart in my throat would I be shouting to the persons below to luff the ship or brace the yards more in to save the men. How often I think when I heard of the hard times professional men have on shore, preachers of all others getting the most of the pitying, how men go through life never experiencing that agony that comes to one when they feel that the lives of many men are hanging upon his weak judgment. Hic opus est. From Rio we went to Bombay, a voyage of eighty days, during which we never sighted land. My recollection of India are a confused jumble—the smell everywhere of burning sandal wood, it was before the days of the common use of matches, of Hindoo temples, of endless balls, dinners and picnics given us by the governor general, navy men, army men in red coats, and native princes, veritable princes some, merchant princes others. The country places of these natives, with the trees in the spacious ground
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