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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), La Salle, Robert Cavelter, Sieur de 1643- (search)
r-trade, and Fort Frontenac was made the centre of that traffic, in which he now largely engaged and sought the monopoly. Conceiving a grand scheme of explorations and trade westward, perhaps to China, he went to France in 1678 and obtained permission to execute it. He was allowed to engage in explorations, build forts, and have the monopoly of the trade in buffaloskins, during five years, but was forbidden to trade with tribes accustomed to take furs to Montreal. Henri de Tonti, a veteran Italian, joined him, and, with thirty mechanics and mariners, they sailed from Rochelle in the summer of 1678, and reached Fort Frontenac early in the autumn. De Tonti was sent farther west to establish a trading-post at the mouth of the Niagara River. He proceeded, also, to build a vessel above the great falls for traffic on Lake Erie, and named it the Griffin. In August, 1679, La Salle sailed with De Tonti through the chain of lakes to Green Bay, in the northwestern portion of Lake Michigan.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lovejoy, Elijah parish 1802- (search)
answering it. Lovejoy did not resist in the sense they mean. He did not throw himself back on the natural right of self-defence. He did not cry anarchy, and let slip the dogs of civil war, careless of the horrors which would follow. Sir, as T understand this affair, it was not an individual protecting his property; it was not one body of armed men resisting another, and making the streets of a peaceful city run blood with their contentions. It did not bring back the scenes in some old Italian cities, where family met family, and faction met faction, and mutually trampled the laws under foot. No! the men in that house were regularly enrolled, under the sanction of the mayor. There being no militia in Alton, about seventy men were enrolled with the approbation of the mayor. These relieved each other every other night. About thirty men were in arms on the night of the 6th, when the press was landed. The next evening it was not thought necessary to summon more than half that nu
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Speaker of Congress, the (search)
n the part of the House, it is not probable that any radical changes will be made therein in the near future. Such changes, if made at all, would naturally occur under conditions similar to those which caused the election of coalition speakers in 1795 and 1839, or of plurality speakers in 1849 and 1855. Any change would doubtless result in the adoption of strictly American methods, such as those in vogue in the Senate, where committees have always been elected. By the French, German, and Italian methods, committees are elected by ballot through the medium of sections into which their legislative bodies are divided, but Congress would scarcely import these foreign methods. Great as are the powers of the speaker of the House of Representatives, and potent for good or evil as are the committees appointed by him, it is pessimistic to attribute to either or to both a measure of power detrimental to the future weal of the nation. In continual contact with the people, and observant of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ex-Secretary of War, born 1829, dies at Washington, D. C.......Oct. 13, 1890 Chief of Police David C. Hennessy, of New Orleans, waylaid before his own home by Italian Mafia, to whose band he had traced a number of crimes, and killed, receiving six wounds......Oct. 15, 1890 Religious excitement among the Indians of the Northwrison, New Orleans, on charge of the murder of Chief Hennessy, six of whom had just been acquitted by jury trial, are massacred......March 14, 1891 Baron Fava, Italian minister at Washington, protests against the New Orleans lynching......March 15, 1891 Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, born 1807, dies at Washington, D. C.......March 21, 1891 Italian minister Fava recalled......March 31, 1891 Gen. Albert Pike, born 1809, dies at Washington, D. C.......April 2, 1891 Senator George F. Edmunds resigns, to take effect Nov. 1......April 6, 1891 Phineas T. Barnum, born 1810, dies at Bridgeport, Conn.......April 7, 1891 Patent centennial opened in Washi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colorado, (search)
rnment called to assist in settling city hall troubles......June, 1894 Adjutant-General Tarsney assaulted and maltreated at Colorado Springs......June 23, 1894 Great fire destroying Cripple Creek......April, 1896 Strike of Leadville miners inaugurated......June 19, 1896 Strike of coal-miners at Walsenburg, resulting in international complications......December, 1896 Leadville strike settled and militia returned......Feb. 22, 1897 Governor Adams furnishes United States government with regiment of volunteers for service in the Philippines......May 9, 1898 Colorado and Northwestern Railway completed......October, 1898 Italian riots at Lake City......March, 1899 Return of 1st Colorado Volunteers from Philippines......September, 1900 State capitol completed......December, 1900 James B. Orman inaugurated governor......Jan. 8, 1901 Serious strike of foreign miners at Telluride, July 2 (amicably adjusted by Governor Orman, July 6)......1901 Connecticut
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Idaho (search)
W. J. Bryan, of Nebraska, and declare for free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1, thus starting free-silver movement......June 5, 1895 Legislature appropriates $25,000 for monument to Elijah P. Lovejoy at Alton......June 17, 1895 Special session of legislature, passing law creating State board of arbitration and other laws......June 25–Aug. 2, 1895 Death of John Dean Caton, justice of Illinois Supreme Court, 1842 to 1864......July 30, 1895 Riot at Spring Valley between Italian and negro miners, with fatal results......Aug. 14, 1895 First earthquake on record in Chicago......Oct. 31, 1895 Death of Eugene Field, poet, lecturer, and journalist......Nov. 4, 1895 Republican State Convention at Springfield nominates John R. Tanner for governor, and instructs national convention delegates for William McKinley for President......April 29-30, 1896 Illinois State Convention at Peoria renominates John P. Altgeld for governor, and declares for free silver at 16
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
ution, by granting a recharter to the Louisiana State Lottery Company for twenty-five years for $1,000,000 per annum......June 25, 1890 State legislature settles the lottery question conditionally by accepting $1,250,000 per year for the lottery privilege......July 1, 1890 Governor Nicholls vetoes the lottery bill......July 7, 1890 Anti-lottery league meets in New Orleans, 500 delegates......Aug. 7, 1890 Chief of Police David C. Hennessy, of New Orleans, is waylaid and killed by Italian Mafia, to whose band he had traced a number of crimes, night of......Oct. 15, 1890 Killing in the parish prison at New Orleans of eleven Italians......March 14, 1891 Officers of the Louisiana lottery indieted by the grand jury in Sioux Falls, N. D., under United States laws......Oct. 23, 1891 John A. Morris, in a letter, withdraws his proposition for the renewal of the charter of the Louisiana lottery......Feb. 4, 1892 Convention of United Confederate Veterans meets at New Orlea
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
tract awarded to J. B. McDonald......Jan. 16, 1900 Contract for building the rapid transit tunnel in New York signed......Feb. 24, 1900 Governor Roosevelt signs the bill for the preservation of the Palisades......March 21, 1900 Ground broken at City Hall, New York, by Mayor Van Wyck, with silver spade, for the rapid transit tunnel, in the presence of 20,000 people......March 24, 1900 Governor Roosevelt orders several detachments of the national guard to Croton to quell a riot of Italian laborers on the aqueduct......April 14, 1900 Governor Roosevelt appoints the New York tenement commission......April 16, 1900 The remains of 110 prison-ship martyrs, recently found in the navy-yard, interred with military honors in the vault under Fort Greene......June 16, 1900 Governor Roosevelt nominated for Vice-President by Republican National Convention which renominated President McKinley......June 21, 1900 Hoboken wharfs, opposite New York City, destroyed, with three No
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Verrazzano, Giovanni da 1508- (search)
e been identified. He continued along the Maine coast and as far as Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, which fishermen from Brittany had found twenty years before (the name of Cape Breton is a trace of them), thence returning to France. He reached Dieppe early in July, and it is from Dieppe, July 8, 1524, that his letter to the King is dated. It is the earliest description known to exist of the shores of the United States. There are two copies of Verrazzano's letter, both of them, however, Italian translations, the original letter not being in existence. One was printed by Ramusio in 1556, and this was translated into English by Hakluyt for his Divers voyages, which appeared in 1582. The other was found many years later in the Strozzi Library at Florence, and was first published in 1841 by the New York Historical Society, with a translation by Dr. J. G. Cogswell. This is the translation given here. The cosmographical appendix contained in the second version, and considered by Dr.
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 31: (search)
them how the Southern States, being sovereign and independent, had dissolved the league which had bound them to the Northern States, and how they were threatened with subjugation by their late confederates, who were the stronger. They would be fighting, I told them, the battles of the oppressed against the oppressor, and this consideration alone should be enough to nerve the arm of every generous sailor. Coming nearer home, for it could not be supposed that English, Dutch, Irish, French, Italian, and Spanish sailors could understand much about the rights or wrongs of nations, I explained to them the individual advantages which they might expect to reap from an enlistment with me. The cruise would be one of excitement and adventure. We had a fine ship under us; one that they might fall in love with, as they would with their sweethearts about Wapping. We should visit many parts of the world, where they would have liberty given them on proper occasions; and we should, no doubt, des
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