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The Daily Dispatch: April 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], An Englishman's impressions of Mr. And Mrs. Lincoln. (search)
nd was in the cast iron grip of Abraham Lincoln. As to his grip — talk to me of packing cotton bales or screwing ocean steamers off the stocks by hydraulic pressure; amuse me with tales of the big bear of Arkansas' hardest hugs; feed me with stories of the boaconstrictor's crushing all the bones of a goat in a single convolution; tell me about Professor Harrison, the strong man who crushes pewter pots between his fingers and the Russian Count Orieff, who crumbles up silver salvers just as Mr. Cobden said he would crumple up Russia — like a sheet of paper. Narrate to me all these fables, but they are nought in comparison; they are Zephyr breaths, fairy footsteps, butterfly persiflage, when named in company with Abraham Lincoln's grip. He doesn't smile when he takes your hand; he does not ring it like a bell, nor wave it like a flag. He merely takes it, and quietly and silently squeezes it into dough. Great results are said to follow the "putting down his foot" by the President
The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
, like that between the Monitor and Merrimac, is going to create in Europe a second revolution in naval warfare. An English report says Captain Semmes is to have the Rappahannock, which is undergoing repairs at Calais. The British news of interest centres chiefly in the debate on the vote of consure, which was still going on in the House of Commons when the America left. The chiefs of the Opposition, Mr. Disraell, Lord Robert Cecil, and others, had spoken, as had also Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Kinglake, and several more on the Ministerial side. A similar vote was to be proposed in the House of Lords. Some further conversation had taken place in the House of Lords in reference to the fight between the Kearsarge and Alabama. A breakfast was given to the officers of the first-named vessel, in London, on the 4th of July. We have full details by this mall of the fall of Alsen and the falling back of the Danes; also, of the imminence of a naval conflict between the Au
The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Latest Foreign news. (search)
onsiderable decline is likely to take place, although the end of the war is considered to be far off. The ship Great Western has finally quitted Liverpool for New York, taking with her a large number of the alleged Federal recruits and the agents who engaged them. The law officers of the Crown did not see sufficient ground for legal proceeding. The case of the Rappahannock has been fixed for the 5th of December, before the Queen's Bench. The Times "city article" replies to Mr. Cobden's remarks on the American finances, and justifies its own predictions. David Roberts, the artist, is dead. The Paris Constitutionnel has published a paragraph warning against pirates and corsairs. It is supposed to have reference to the alleged letter of marque stated to have been granted by Juarez. The Opinione Nationale attacks the Constitutionnel for the warning, and taunts it with having upheld the Alabama, Florida, etc. It charges the Constitutionnel with changing its
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