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The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
t the French are a very polite people indeed, and that when he was in Mexico, Marshal Bazaine was so kind as to place a steamboat at his disposal, assuring him that a sea voyage would conduce to his health, and telling him might go where he pleased, so that he did not return to Mexico. The old gentleman, however, does not reciprocate the courtesy with which Marshal Baxaine "speeds the parting guest," and intimates pretty distinctly that he may yet have an opportunity to return from his Elba. It is certainly among the possibilities of the future that his expectation may be realized. The Mexicans are almost as fickle a race as the French, and Santa Anna has yet stamina enough in him to serve a favorable opportunity of putting himself at their head, and once more restoring the independence of their country. Whether Mexico would be a gainer by the experiment is a different question. Even if successful, it would only be exchanging a mild and beneficent despotism for a government
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], Drunk and disorderly. (search)
Alleged Fraudulent financial operations — arrest made. --Yesterday, a man named John Burns, who is well known in Batavia as highly respectable, presented a draft, purporting to be drawn by the Canton Banking Company, of Canton, on the First National Bank of New York, and signed by Anson Chappell, for one thousand dollars at the First National Bank in Batavia, and got it cashed. This he did at the request of Thomas Chappell, a farmer, residing in Elba, Genessee county, and to him Burns gave the funds he had obtained on the draft. The officers of the bank then telegraphed to the First National Bank of New York to know if the Canton Banking Company had funds there and received "no" for an answer. Chappell immediately proceeded to the Farmers' Bank of Attica, in Batavia, and there tried to get a similar draft cashed, but did not succeed, as some other parties, with like paper, had preceded him, and the officers of the bank were suspicious that all was not right. From there Chappe
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