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The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], How Lincoln is running the machine in Arkansas. (search)
How Lincoln is running the machine in Arkansas. --The following letter from Lincoln, to a Unionist in Arkansas, is very characteristic: Washington, Feb., 16 To William Fishback: When I fixed a plan for an election in Arkansas I did it in ignorance that your convention was at the same work. Since I learned the latter fact I have been constantly trying to yield my plan to them. I have sent two letters to Gen. Steels and three or four dispatches to you and others, saying that he, (Gen. Steele,) must be master, but that it will probably be best for him to keep the convention on its own plan. Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement on anything, and Gen. Steele, commending the military and being on the ground, is the best man to be that master. Even now citizens are telegraphing me to postpone the election to a later day than either affixed by the convention or me. This discord must be silenced. A. Lincoln.
The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], Lord Campbell on the American war. (search)
Lord Campbell on the American war. An immense meeting of the friends of the South was held in Manchester, England, early in February. Among other speakers on the occasion was Lord Campbell. Here are his remarks: My Lord, Ladies and Gentlemen: As it has happened to me two or three times in Parliament to refer to the topic now before you, it is not with a little satisfaction I observe in the numbers who have met to-night and in the spirit they evince same augury for the ultimate adoption and the final triumph of these opinions I have endeavored to support. Mr. Spence, under whose orders and instructions I have the honor to address you, has judiciously explained to me that to-night it was not necessary to indulge in argumentative harangues, because the greater part of us were of one opinion. After the long and assiduous discussions which this topic has received in the press, in Parliament, and in public meetings, it is no wonder that nearly all men should agree on certain p
The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], The negroes at the Olustee battle (search)
Sent on. --Wilson, slave of Mrs. Centre, and Phil, slave of Mrs. Chamberlayne, were yesterday morning examined before Justices Lee and Nettles at the Henrico County Court house, on the charge of burglariously entering the store-room of Mr. James Lyons last February and stealing several thousand dollars' worth of sugar and other property. It was in evidence that the negroes were seen to come out of Mr. Lyons's front gate on the night of the robbery with bags filled with something, and deposit them in a wagon driven by a white man. The negroes were sent on to the County Court for trial.
The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
Attempt to bribe the Confederate naval officers. C. A. Cuthbert was examined before Confederate Commissioner A. H. Sands on yesterday on the charge of attempting to bribe three officers of the Confederate Navy. It seems that last February Cuthbert, who is a Canadian, came to this country from, Nassau, N. P., for the purpose of selling the Confederate Government two vessels, which be represented as suitable for cruisers.--Leaving the vessels at Nassau, he brought plans and specifications descriptive of them. He asked £90,000 sterling each for the vessels. The Secretary of the Navy appointed a board of five naval officers, among whom were Major Wm. Williamson and Commanders J. M. Brooke and J. K. Mitchell, to examine the plans and specifications and report whether or not the Government should buy the vessels at the price fixed. The board reported that the price was excessive, and that the vessels should not be purchased, and thereupon Cuthbert left the city on his way back to N
The Daily Dispatch: April 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], One hundred dollars reward. (search)
Dickens on Thackeray — a Graceful and touching tribute. The following tribute to the memory of William Makepeace Thackeray, by Charles Dickens, opens the February number of the Cornhill Magazine: It has been desired by some of the personal friends of the great English writer who established this magazine, that its brief record of his having been stricken from among men should be written by the old comrade and brother in arms who pens these lines, and of whom he often wrote himself, and always with the warmest generosity. I saw him first nearly twenty-eight years ago, when he proposed to become the illustrator of my earliest book. I saw him last shortly before Christmas, at the Athenæum Club, when he told me that he had been in bed three days--that, after three attacks he was troubled with cold shivering "which quite took the power of work out of him"--and that he had it in his mind to try a new remedy which he laughingly described. He was very cheerful, and looked ver
The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Yankee vessel Blown up by a Torpedo. (search)
Street fight.--a detective Shoots himself. --East Saturday evening at two o'clock a rencontre took place on Main street, near the Old Market, between Government detective Robert B. Craddock and James M. Ford, a printer, in which the detective was not only severely handled, but managed to shoot himself with his own pistol. To understand the affair it will be unnecessary to explain some of the antecedent circumstances. Some time in February Mr. Ford assisted a foreigner named Brandt to get his passport to the United States, and saw him start. Some days afterwards he received the following letter from Brandt: On the Potomac, Feb. 13th, 1864. To Mr. James M. Ford, Richmond, Fa.My Dear Sir --After passing the Rappahannock this morning, the party I went with (Mr. H. Wenskowsky) and myself, were asked for our papers by the same detective, who, you recollect, took me up to Gen. Winder at the time I got my passport. He gave his name as Robert B Craddock. He could fin
The Daily Dispatch: April 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Five hundred Dollars reward. (search)
Five hundred Dollars reward. --Ran away from Chambers) Hospital, in December last a negro fellow named aged about 22 years, 5 feet or 9 inches high, black, and quite likely. Also, from one of the batteries on the Westham road, in February last, a negro fellow named Coleman, aged 26 or 27 years, very dark complexion, five feet, 10 or 11 inches high, and He was heard from previous to the 1st of March in King William county. I will give the above reward for the arrest and return to me of the above named negroes, or $250 for either of them. James H Grant, Richmond, Va. ap 19--6t
The Daily Dispatch: April 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Two hundred Dollars reward. (search)
Two hundred Dollars reward. --Ran away from the subscriber on the night of Wednesday, the mst, my man Joe, 35 or 40 years old, about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, of dark brown or black color, face somewhat speckled, and of slow speech, had on a suit of gray, , an overcoat, a blue blanket usually worn over the shoulders, and a low black silk hat. He was purchased on the of February last of A Y Headley, near Heath county, Va., where he has a wife and children. I will pay the above reward if he is delivered to me at Richmond. E. B. Cook, No. 70 Main street ap 15--
The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Retirement of the enemy from the Blackwater region. (search)
Five hundred dollars reward. --Ran away from Chimborazo Hospital, in December last, a negro fellow named Isham, aged about 22 years, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, black, Also, from one of the batteries on the Western road, in February last, a negro fellow named Coloman, aged 26 or 27 years, very dark complexion, five fact, 10 or 11 inches high, and likely. He was heard from previous to the 1st of March in King William county. I will give the above reward for the arrest and return to me of the above named negroes, or $250 for either of them. James H Grant. Richmond, Va., ap 19--6t
The Daily Dispatch: April 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], From the Trans Mississippi. (search)
Five hundred Dollars reward. --Ran away from Chimborazo Hospital, in December last, a negro fellow named Isham, aged about 29 years, 4 feet 8 or 9 inches high, black, and quite likely. Also, from one of the batteries on the Westhern read, in February last, a negro fellow named aged 26 or 27 years, very dark complexion, five feet, 10 or 11 inches high; and likely. He was heard from previous to the 1st of March in King William county. I will give the above reward for the arrest and return to me of the above named negress, or $250 for either of them. James H Grant, Richmond, Va. ap 19--6t
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