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The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
State armory. --The estimate of funds needed to meet engagements for the State machinery under the contract with Messrs. Joseph R. Anderson & Co., is as follows: 1st of March $20,000;1st of June $60,000; 1st of September $50,000; 1st of December $50,000. The amount of the original contract was $158, 59040; additions ordered by the Master Armorer, Mr. Salmon Adams, by letter of November 21, 1860, $1,174.50; subsequent contract for supplying set of barrel rolling and welding machinery, &c., $14,600--total amount of contract, $172,364.90. Sub-contracts have been made with other parties, and approved by the Commissioners of the State of Virginia, for the supply of machinery, to the extent of about $75,176; and good progress has been made towards the execution of the work undertaken by them. Most of the machines for the machine shops of the armory are ready for erection as soon as the building is ready to receive them — and that is nearly the case. Immediately on the conclusion of
The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1860., [Electronic resource], Thanksgiving. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.Senator Douglas in Lynchburg. Lynchburg, Va., Dec. 1. Senator Douglas and lady remained in this city during the day yesterday, and left on the Orange and Alexandria train in the evening, en route for Washington, stopping in Charlottesville until this morning. They were called on at the Norvell House by many of our citizens; and on leaving, expressed themselves highly delighted with their visit to the "City of the Hills." Mrs. D. is possessed of rare beauty, to which is added, a commanding figure and superior intellectual appearance, which, taken together, make her one of the finest looking women of the day. She is said to be upwards of 30 years old, but would not be judged, from appearance, to be more than 23 or 24. She is rather taller than the "little giant," and may be properly styled the "taller"if not the "better half." The blind negro boy, Tom, is giving a series of concerts in this city, and he may well be called the wond
The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1860., [Electronic resource], Fanny Ellsler. (search)
ound buyers for nearly all that they were willing to sell. Stocks rallied a little this morning from the extreme depression of yesterday afternoon, and as open stock is less freely offered, prices showed a slight improvement. New York, Dec. 1.--Flour is heavy — sales of 950 bbls. at $470@4.80 for State, $5.40 for Southern. Wheat is steady — sales of 25,000 bushels Milwaukee Club $1 12 ½@1.14 Corn steady — sales of 55,000 bushels at 60 cents for mixed. Pork is heavy. Lard is heavy. Whiskey is dull — sales at 19 Baltimore, Dec. 1--Flour quiet — Superfine $5 Grain unchanged. Nothing done in other articles All the markets are dull and nominal. M Bile, Nov. 30.--Sales of Cotton to-day 3,000 bales at 9½œ9¾ ; sales for the week 16,250 bales; receipts 19,3 bales, against 35,000 bales for the same week last year; decrease in receipts at this port 57,47 bales; ports for the week 19,250 bales, stock in port 139,815 bales. Exchange on New York par to ½ dis
The Daily Dispatch: December 06, 1860., [Electronic resource], Death of an Army officer. (search)
Baltimore, Dec. 4.--Arrived, schr. William and John, Richmond; cleared, schrs. Lucy Penn, Tappahannock; J. M. Tarr, Fredericksburg; Jno. Allen, Richmond. Portland, Dec. 1.--Cleared, schr. E. L. Hammond, Richmond; arrived, schr. Flying Cloud, from Vindnaven, for Norfolk. Philadelphia, Dec. 3.--Cleared, schr. S. D. Bellows, Norfolk, Dec. 4. --Cleared steamer Virginia Richmond. New York, Dec. 4.--Cleared, steamer Jamestown, Richmond. Arrived, schr. Wythe, Tuttle, Richmond.
The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
Mrs. Betsey Hartwell, of Westminster, Mass., a lady over 81 years old, has seated over 400 chairs within a year past. The amount of lumber surveyed at Bangor, Mo., the present year to Dec. 1, was 200, 391, 526, exceeding same time last year by 24,000,000. Bishop Spalding, of Kentucky, has issued a circular warning Catholics against mixed marriages.
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
fficers, and they were unanimously re-elected: Reuben T. Seal, 1st officer; Edwin H. Chalkley, 2d; Benj. M. Morris, 3d; Wm. N. Kelly, 4th; Augustus D. Quarles, 5th; Jno. R. Blankinship, 6th; Walter T. Bibb, 7th; and Wm. B. Page, 8th. For Lieutenants of the Night Watch: Gervas S. Truehart, 1st; Lewis M. Carter, 2d; Caleb Crone, 3d. On motion, Washington Gill was re-elected City Engineer. Luther R. Reins was elected Keeper of the Powder Magazine. Robert H. Higgins was re-elected Overseer of the City Hands. Wm. J. Epps was re-elected Messenger of the Council. Messrs. Wm. H. Richardson, A. Y. Stokes and Wm. Palmer were re-elected Committee on the Old Church Square. The Coroner's report from the 1st of June to the 1st of December was presented. The Coroner examined eighteen bodies during that period. His bill for services rendered, over and above the sum collected by him, was $75. After other unimportant business, the Council adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1860., [Electronic resource], The colliery explosion in Wales. (search)
The colliery explosion in Wales. --One Hundred and Seventy Lives Lost.--On Saturday, December 1st, a mine explosion happened at the Black Vein Pit, Risca, about six miles from Newport, Wales, and the property of the Risca Coal Company. The colliery has been in work some years in the production of steam coal; and as gas is in such pits, more or less generated, the usual preventive measures were adopted. The pit was examined, according to custom, on Saturday morning, after which between five and six o'clock, some two hundred men descended. About 9 o'clock a terrific explosion occurred, which was heard far above the surface, and upon inspection, it was found that at some distance from the bottom of the pit the gas had fired. The London News says: "Instead of 120 persons having fallen victims, the probability is, that at least fifty more are dead, and that the fearful roll will swell to at least 170 names. During yesterday and the last two nights (says the News) the searc
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1860., [Electronic resource], Succession movement at the South. (search)
t giving such bond with security himself, said policeman or other person shall take him into custody and deliver him to the jailor of the city, who shall keep him as other prisoners until he shall be sent back to the place from whence he came. 4. It shall be the duty of the police of the city to arrest all persons having no ostensible means of support, who shall have come to the city since the passage of this ordinance, and all other persons who have come from other States since the 1st of December, whose presence they may deem, from his conduct or language, dangerous to the peace and safety of the city, and to take them forthwith before the Mayor; and if the Mayor shall be satisfied from the evidence that they are such persons as herein described, he shall commit them to jail until they can be sent back from whence they came, if their former residence can be ascertained, and, if not, then to some place out of the State. 5. If the Mayor can ascertain by what railroad, steamboat
The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
--thousands of political prisoners were murdered in their cells — Paris was knee-deep in blood — the Girondists and the Jacobins both claimed the merit of that glorious exploit — and while they were ready, each, to assert their claims by flying at the throats of the others, they united in establishing a tribunal to try and punish the Royalists for instigating those very murders, for which they claimed so much credit. This was the first Revolutionary tribunal, which was dissolved on the 1st of December --the two parties being engaged at that time in a desperate struggle, and both, it is presumed, being quite willing to suppress that formidable institution, as long as the result was doubtful. In January, 1793, however, Louis XVI. was condemned and beheaded, the Girondists having been compelled, under the influence of fear, to vote for his death. The Jacobins followed up their advantage, and on the 10th of March, under terror of a general massacre, obtained the re-establishment of the<
The Daily Dispatch: February 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Condition of Virginia Banks. (search)
f exchange payable out of the State1,150,009.74 1st December.--Foreign bills of exchange payable out of the Stills of exchange payable in the State238,484.85 1st December.--Domestic bills of exchange payable in the Statedebts45,437.34 1st November.--Specie384,501.12 1st December.--Specie349,534.27 1st January.--Specie416,120.42,578.00 1st November--Circulation1,379,994.00 1st December--Circulation1,454,006.00 1st January--Circulatid337,087.05 1st November--Deposits1,590,922.16 1st December--Deposits1,421,722.22 1st January--Deposits1,93.51 1st November--Loans to Directors115,792.91 1st December--Loans to Directors116,214.93 1st January--Loaner.--Aggregate debt due by the Bank3,302,758.48 1st December.--Aggregate debt due by the Bank3,217,225.40 1ste outstanding debts due to the Bank5,937,510.52 1st December.--Aggregate outstanding debts due to the Bank5,87of debt due to the Bank5,984,421.91 Oct. 1.Nov. 1.Dec. 1. Inland and foreign Bills of Exchange$1,484,793.05$
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