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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rodney, Cesar Augustus 1772-1824 (search)
Rodney, Cesar Augustus 1772-1824 Legislator; born in Dover, Del., Jan. 4, 1772; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1789; admitted to the bar in 1793: elected to Congress from Delaware in 1803; became Attorney-General of the United States in 1807. He served in the War of 1812; was appointed by President Monroe to report upon the status of the Spanish-American republics in 1817; reelected to Congress in 1820, and to the United States Senate in 1822; appointed minister to the Argentine Republic in 1823. He published a Report upon the present State of the United provinces of South America (1819). He died in Buenos Ayres, South America, June 10. 1824.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spain. (search)
other. It made stipulations concerning commerce and neutral rights, and a board of commissioners was provided for to liquidate losses on the part of the Americans in consequence of illegal captures by Spanish cruisers, such losses to be paid by the Spanish crown. The rising of the people of the Spanish-American provinces to secure their political independence of Spain began soon after the royal family of Portugal abandoned Europe and took refuge in Brazil in 1807. The rising began in Buenos Ayres, Venezuela, and Chile. In 1810 Mexico revolted, but did not secure its independence until 1821. The other states followed at various intervals, Bolivia, in 1824, being the last. The people of the United States naturally sympathized with these movements. When the diplomatic appropriation bill came up in Congress, March 24, 1818, Henry Clay moved to insert an appropriation for a minister to the new South American republic of La Plata. Early in the session of 1819 he proposed the acknow
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Strain, Isaac G. 1821-1857 (search)
Strain, Isaac G. 1821-1857 Naval officer; born in Roxbury, Pa., March 4, 1821. While yet a midshipman (1845), he led a small party to explore the interior of Brazil, and in 1848 explored the peninsula of California. In 1849 he crossed South America from Valparaiso to Buenos Ayres, and wrote an account of the journey, entitled The Cordillera and Pampa, Mountain and plain: sketches of a journey in Chile and the Argentine provinces. In 1850 he was assigned to the Mexican boundary commission, and afterwards (1854) led a famous expedition across the Isthmus of Darien, for an account of which see Harper's magazine, 1856-57. In 1856, in the steamer Arctic, Lieutenant Strain ascertained by soundings the practicability of laying an ocean telegraphic cable between America and Europe. He died in Aspinwall, Colombia, May 14, 1857.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), California (search)
, having settled the vicinity in 1807-10......Sept. 30, 1812 Gov. Jose Joaquin de Arrillaga dies at Soledad mission; Capt. Jose Arquello succeeds......July 24, 1814 Rumors of revolutions in South America; proclamation from Gov. Pablo Vincente de Sola, and preparations for defence......June 23, 1816 Mission of San Rafael founded......Dec. 14, 1817 French Capt. Hippolyte Bouchard ( the pirate Buchar ) appears with two vessels of thirty-eight and twenty-six guns under the flag of Buenos Ayres; his real purpose is unknown, but, after summoning Monterey and other places on the coast to surrender, and pillaging the towns, he sails away......December, 1818 From 1767 up to 1821, California being under Spanish rule, ten governors were appointed by that power. Prom 1822 until 1845, being under Mexican domination, her governors (twelve) were appointed from Mexico. California becomes a province of Mexico under the regency of Don Augustin Iturbide, 1821, and Governor Sola is el
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Delaware, (search)
riage and tavern licenses for a school fund......1796 James A. Bayard, of Delaware, appointed minister plenipotentiary to France......Feb. 19, 1801 Du Pont powder-mills near Wilmington established by Eleuthere Irenee Du Pont de Nemours......1802 Caesar Rodney, of Delaware, appointed Attorney-General of United States......Jan. 20, 1807 James A. Bayard, one of the negotiators of the treaty of Ghent, signed......Dec. 24, 1814 Caesar Rodney appointed minister plenipotentiary to Buenos Ayres......Jan. 27, 1823 Act passed establishing free schools......1829 Chesapeake and Delaware Canal completed at cost of $2,250,000......1829 Locomotive introduced on New Castle Railroad......1831 Louis McLane, of Delaware, appointed United States Secretary of the Treasury......Aug. 8, 1831 State constitution revised by a convention of thirty delegates at Dover......Nov. 8, 1831 Wilmington made a city......1832 New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad, 16 1/2 miles long, comple
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 29: (search)
she belongs [the nation to which the Santissima Trinidad belonged, was the de facto nation of Buenos Ayres] is complete proof of her national character. A bill of sale is not necessary to be producedrnment. If we add to this, the corroborative testimony of our own, and the British Consul at Buenos Ayres, as well as that of private citizens, to the notoriety of her claim of a public character, anch the United States recognized the right of the revolted Spanish colonies, such as Columbia, Buenos Ayres, and Mexico, who were then in consimilli casu with the Confederate States, to build and equippened in at the Swedish Island of St. Bartholomew, in the West Indies, during the war between Buenos Ayres and Spain. We were on our way from New York to one of the South American ports, to land Genef popular applause from the b'hoys at home, and standing in no fear of consequences so far as Buenos Ayres was concerned, as she was so weak that the Great Republic might kick her with impunity. We
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 42: (search)
l ship to a halt, and remove her doubts, if she had had any. She was the John A. Parks, of Hallowell, Maine. The cargo of the Parks consisted of white pine lumber which she had taken on board at New York, and she was bound to Montevideo, or Buenos Ayres, as the consignee might elect. There was an affidavit found among her papers, made by one Snyder, before a Mr. Edwards Pierrepont, who appears to have been acting as British Consul, claiming that the cargo was shipped on account of a London hdone. First, the Charles Hill, of Boston, shortens sail, and runs up the old flag, and then the Nora, of the same pious city, follows her example. They were both laden with salt, and both from Liverpool. The Hill was bound to Montevideo, or Buenos Ayres, and there was no attempt to cover her cargo. The Nora was bound to Calcutta, under a charter-party with one W. N. de Mattos. In the bill of lading, the cargo was consigned to order, and on the back of the instrument was the following indors
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 44: (search)
ed eight hours. The prize proved to be the bark Amazonian of Boston, from New York, with an assorted cargo, for Montevideo. There was an attempt to cover two of the consignments of this ship, in favor of French citizens, but the hash being evidently Yankee, the certificates were disregarded. The prisoners, and such plunder as we desired, being brought on board the Alabama, the ship was consigned to the flames. The following letter from a merchant in New York, to his correspondent in Buenos Ayres, was found among a very large commercial and literary mail—the literature being from the college of the Republican Propaganda—on board the Amazonian. When you ship in American vessels, it would be well to have the British Consul's certificate of English property attached to bill of lading and invoice, as in the event of falling in with the numerous privateers, it would save both cargo and vessel in all probability. An American ship recently fallen in with, was released by the Alabama, on
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 45: (search)
s to which Yankee commerce was being put. Many more ships disappeared from under the flaunting lie by sale, than by capture, their owners not being able to employ them. The day after we overhauled these ships, we boarded a Bremen bark, from Buenos Ayres, for New York, with hides and tallow, on Yankee account. The correspondents of the New York merchants were taking the advice of the latter, and shipping in neutral bottoms to avoid paying the premium on the war risk. On the 20th of June, we observed in latitude 25° 48′, and found the weather so cool, as to compel us to put on our thick coats. On that day we made another capture. It was the Conrad, of Philadelphia, from Buenos Ayres, for New York, with part of a cargo of wool. There were certificates found on board claiming the property as British, but as there were abundant circumstances in the res geste, pointing to American ownership, I disregarded the certificates, and condemned both ship and cargo as good prize. The Conr
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
ety-valve. The lard and other grease tanks used for workingup poor carcasses and the offal of slaughter-houses belong to this class of apparatus. Thousands of carcasses of cattle and sheep too poor for the market are thus worked up yearly in the United States, and the lard-tank is a regular feature in the hog-slaughtering centers, Chicago, Cincinnati, etc., where the entrails and other offal yielding grease are thus treated on a large scale. The tanks have also been introduced into Buenos Ayres and probably into Texas, where beeves are slaughtered for their hides and tallow. The carcasses, after removing a few choice parts, are dumped into the tanks, when steam is applied, resolving them into fat, water holding soluble matters in solution, and mud, the latter containing the earthy and some other particles. Of this class is Wilson's tank for rendering lard and tallow, patented in 1844. The tank is preferably a vertical cylinder, and is calculated for high-pressure steam. It
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