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The Daily Dispatch: may 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], From the Rio Grande (search)
into settled melancholy since the death of her mother, and that it is feared she will not recover her mind. The number of hogsheads of tobacco inspected in Petersburg, Va., for April, amounted to 3,671, a falling off of 601 hhds. Field's building, next to Willard's Hote, in Washington, was totally destroyed by fire on Wednesday night. Shad are selling in Alexandria at $8 per hundred, and herring at $5,50a$6,50 per thousand. In honor of the President, the encampment near Lynchburg has been named "Camp Davis." The buoys in Pamlico Sound on the Swash, and about the inlets of Ocracoke and Hatteras, have been removed. Charles Henry Foster was notified to quit Murfreesboro', N. C., the other day, in consequence of his abolition proclivities. A storm in New York last Monday night tore down most of the Union flags. Another cargo of ice has arrived at Savannah from Nova Scotia. Mrs. Lincoln is going to New York to indulge in the luxury of a little s
The Daily Dispatch: may 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], $25 reward. (search)
one of them can whip ten Yankees, and if any person wishes to argue that point with them he is advised before doing so to make his will. From conversations heard by a gentleman just arrived and whose statement is reliable, we learn that in Lynchburg and vicinity there was an army concentrated of fifty thousand men. This was a week ago. The Pony Express, with San Francisco dates to the 27th ult., passed Fort Kearney on Tuesday afternoon. The news of the attack on, and evacuation of, Fonsequence of the receipt of communications from President Davis. We learn from the Charleston papers that the gallant Palmetto Guard, CaptCuthbert, left that city on Thursday night for Richmond. L. P. Walker, Secretary of War, has accepted Major Flournoy's regiment of Arkansas troops for service in Virginia, and they are to go to Lynchburg. Messrs. C. H. Schwecke and Daniel Bulkley, citizens of Charleston, were drowned last Tuesday, near that city, while on a fishing excursion.
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Portsmouth (search)
quite a gathering of ladies, who were enjoying the gay scene and diffusing increased interest by their presence and The young man, Wrenn, from Norfolk, who was pierced by a bayonet, and whose misfortune mentioned yesterday, ? am happy to say is better to-day, and hopes are entertained of his recovery. He is attended by Dr. Tunstadiol Norfolk, a skillful and popular physician of that city. Eleven hundred soldiers from Alabama reached Norfolk yesterday I am told they came through Lynchburg. They are like the Georgians fine looking men. Yesterday evening H. Matthews, a worthy and peaceable citizen of the place, was shot in the head by Stephen Pace, who was subsequently arrested, The wound is not regarded dangerous. The affair will be examined into by the authorities. John L. Porter, formerly the Naval Constructor at Pensacola, but who relieved Mr. Peck the former incumbent here, has received telegram to repair to Montgomery. Mr. Porter a native of this city, and
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arrival of more troops. (search)
Arrival of more troops. --The Western trains yesterday brought in about eleven hundred troops from Mississippi--the whole composing the Eleventh Regiment of that State--under command of Col. Moore. The following companies compose the Regiment--Lamar Rifles, Capt. Green; University Grays, Capt. Lowrey; Van Dorn Reserves, Capt. Reynolds; Prairie Guards, Capt. Hairston; Prairie Rifles Capt. Williams; Coahoma Invincibles, Capt. Delany; Chickasaw Guards, Captain Tucker; Carroll Rifles, Capt. Williamson; Noxubee Rifles, Capt. Weir; Nishobee Riflemen, Capt. Franklin, and the Spartan Band, Capt. Mallard. They are all magnificent looking soldiers, and are well armed and equipped, several of the companies being armed with Colt's six-shooter Rifle and the Maynard Rifle. When passing through the streets they marched to the tune "Carry me Down to Lynchburg Town," and seemed to be highly elated that they had arrived on old Virginia's soil;--Lynchburg Repub., 11th.
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Patriotic act. (search)
Patriotic act. --A donation in behalf of the Southern cause, of a large lot of provisions, was made by the two companies of the First Louisiana Regiment, who passed through Lynchburg Thursday morning. The gentleman in whose hands the provisions were placed, made sale of them, and the proceeds, a handsome amount, applied as directed.
The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The best Joke of the season. (search)
charge of opening Government dispatches, has been released. Lieut. J. Hogan Brown died on board the receiving ship Princeton, at Philadelphia, last Friday night. Of the midshipmen who go into the Naval School at Newport, R. I., there are only eight from the seceded States. The cotton mills in Webster, Mass., have been stopped. Large numbers of persons have thus been thrown out of employment. All the bridges on the Northern Central Railroad between Harrisonburg and Baltimore have been rebuilt. There has recently been a great freshet in the rivers in the State of Maine. Most of the merchant vessels now leaving Boston go out fully armed. John Henderson, a well-known grocer in Philadelphia, died suddenly on Wednesday. By order of the Council, the restaurants of Lynchburg close at 10 P. M. Mr. Wrenn, of Norfolk, who was accidentally wounded by a bayonet, is recovering. Gen. Beauregard arrived at Charleston from Montgomery on Friday last.
The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], War Movements. (search)
l the Southwestern States will concur in the propriety of perpetuating the policy of river blockade, which has been inaugurated just at the right time for us.--The States above us cannot reasonably complain that the navigation of the Mississippi river is not free to them, when they have been the first to interrupt it; and they must expect that the example they have set us will be followed by the South renewing the blockade as soon as it shall be suspended by them. The same paper says: The steamer H. D. Mears arrived yesterday afternoon from Vicksburg, having on board tour military companies from Arkansas, as follows: Etonia Guards, Capt. Martin, from Pulaski county, numbering 70 men; Crockett Guards, Capt. Crockett, Arkansas county, numbering 116 men; DeWitt Guards, Capt. Quartermans, Arkansas county, numbering 70 men; Monticello Guards, Capt. Jackson, Drew county, numbering 103 men. These companies make a handsome and imposing appearance, and are en route for Lynchburg.
The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Uprising of the South. (search)
f God, we will defend it to the last, against the invading hordes of Abolitionists which now threaten us with destruction.--When I left Virginia, I was informed of their gathering on our borders. Our own brave sons were up in arms, going forth to meet them. As I came along, I met the South Carolina Regiment going forth to shed their blood, if need be, in our defence. I also saw the gallant Georgia soldiers which have rallied to the defence of Portsmouth and Norfolk. As I passed through Lynchburg, I saw two splendid Regiments of Alabama soldiers on their way to the point of our country's danger; and still, as I came on, I met the brave soldiers from Mississippi coming to our rescue. I also noticed that a most cordial and hearty greeting and welcome was everywhere extended to all those soldiers who have so patriotically, and with such alacrity, stepped forth to defend our country in this her hour of danger. The men met them with shouts and cheers. The women and children, from the
The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arrival of arms from Belgium. (search)
Arrival of Middle Tennessee troops. --The First Battalion of the Second Regiment of Tennessee volunteers, about five hundred strong, reached Lynchburg early Sunday morning last.
The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Later from Europe (search)
Lieutenant William Clagett, of the Loudoun Artillery, accidentally shot himself in the arm on Wednesday last, in Leesburg, Va. The notorious Ned Buntline is in Washington, "dressed in a red shirt." The Irish citizens of Lynchburg are about forming a volunteer company.
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