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The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], The killing of Maj. Gen. Van Dorn. (search)
was justifiable. Dr. Peters, who killed him, was formerly State Senator from Hardman county, in this State, and is a gentleman of wealth, position and influence, whose family connections rank with the first in Tennessee. He is said to have approached Gen. Van Dorn in the street, and presenting a pistol shot him in the head. A correspondent of the Rebel, writing from Huntsville previous to the tragedy, says: "I fear that the officers of Van Dorn's army, from the lowest to the highest, are worshiping too often at the alters of Venus and Bachus, and have forgotten Mars altogether. --This is a very unfortunate feature in this war. "To think that the men upon whom the country have to depend in this serious crisis, for its very existence, are daily loosing the confidence of and the respect of their subordinates and the people generally, by a conduct which might be called licentious even in times of peace, when men might have some leisure hours to spend in revelry."
The Daily Dispatch: July 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from New Orleans. (search)
A number of Dickensque characters have already appeared.--There is a ruffian, of the Bill Sykes species, and a wretched girl, who remind one of Nancy; a queer old city clerk, with a family of grown up head strong daughters; a fashionable family; Silas Wegg, a wooden legged proprietor of an apple stall, (Dickens says: "It gave you the face aches to look at his apples, the stomach-ache to look at his oranges, and the teeth aches to look at his ,") Miss Patterson, an antique the Virginia, and Mr Venus, a time old keeper of a curiosity. shop Dickes has on entrusted his style with new made words, and his phraseology in general has become so grotesque that he is getting as difficult to read as Thomas Carlyte. One cannot help sighing for the freshness and simplicity of his Nicholas and Oliver. Thackery's fragment, "Dennis Duval," is also being punished in the Cornhill. Through its pages ran the same beauty and tenderness of thought and graphic description of olden time character, familia
The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], A Chinese dinner. (search)
different kind of sauce. The second course was a ragout of snails. At Macao these are white, but at Mingpo they are green, viscous and slippery, by no means easy to pick up with small sticks. Their taste resembles that of the green fat of turtle. The snails were followed by a dish of the flesh covering the skull of sturgeons, which is very costly, as several heads are required to make even a small dish- Next, a dish of sharks' fine, mixed with of pork, and a crab salad; after these, a stew of plume and other fruit, the acidity of which is considered a corrective for the viscous fat of the fish; than mushrooms, pulse, and ducts' tongues, which last are considered the no plus vitra of Chinese cookery; deers' tendons — a royal dish, which the Emperor himself sends as a present to his favorites — and Venus' ears, a kind of unctuous shell-fish; lastly, boiled rice, served in small cups, with acanthi's seeds, preserved in spirits, and other condiments.--Last of all, tea was served
The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ticlam, ornamented with fringes to the hands, and was bound round the loins by a sash loosely knotted — a fashion which distinguished the elegant and effeminate youth of the period. But Scylla was not deceived by this show of frivolity, and he was wont to recommend that people should have an eye on that young man with the flowing sash. He had a taste for pictures, statues and gems; and he always wore on his finger in memory of his origin, a ring on which was engraved the figure of an armed Venus. To sum up, there were found in Cæsar, physically and morally, two natures which are rarely combined in the same person. He joined aristocratic fastidiousness of person to the vigorous temperament of the soldier; the graces of mind to the profundity of thought; the love of luxury and of the arts to a passion for military life in all its simplicity and rudeness. In a word, he joined the elegance of manner which seduces to the energy of character which commands. Such was Cæsar at the a
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