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The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], The President's Return. (search)
Wanted — immediately --Ten Drummer Boys, to be attached to Col. August's Regiment, stationed at King's Mill, on James River, applications to be made at the store of Mr. Pratt, Drum Major corner 2d and Broad streets. Liberal wages will be paid. By order of Col. August. Alb. Lybrock. Commanding Marton Rifles. jy 24--6t
The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
er of dispatches between traitors at home and traitors abroad can have no very nice sense of honor or self respect, and as Sir James must have passed through the Northern States to get to Richmond, he has doubtless given the Jeff. Davis cabal the benefit of his observations, and earned in addition to his knightly title that of spy, so that he may be known hereafter as Sir James Ferguson, Spy, M. P. We wish him joy of his new honors.--New York Herald. Miscellaneous. This morning privates Pratt and Woodbury, two of the fifty-seven prisoners released from Richmond, arrived in this city, and passed to their regiment, the Second Vermont. Three new laboratories on the site of the one blown up are nearly completed, at the Washington Navy-Yard, and foundations for a fourth have been laid. The President has appointed John de la Montagnie, of New York, United States Consul at Nantes, in France. No official returns are obtainable, but the impression is that the People's t
The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
renched and too strong at Big Sewell, five miles further on, to be attacked, and Rosencranz fell back, as an invitation to the enemy to come out and have a fair fight. There was no expectation of an attempt by the enemy to force his position. The weather in the Gauley region is terribly bad; rain falls almost incessantly. General Rosencranz's troops are well clothed, having plenty of overcoats and blankets. The fight at Chapmansville was a sharp and bloody affair. Five of Pratt's Zouaves were killed. Important correspondence between General Buckner and the Hon. J. R. Underwood. The subjoined correspondence, says the Louisville (Bowling Green) Courier, of the 14th, which we have been permitted to publish, will be read with interest. We regard General Buckner's reply to Mr. Underwood as one of the very best documents the campaign has yet brought forth. It shows that, so far from being the intolerant man the tory sheets in Kentucky wickedly represent him, G
The Daily Dispatch: October 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Charleston Sequestration case. (search)
sovereign. All through South Carolina, from the Santee to the Pee Dee, there was but one sovereign. Sovereigns could do wrong. It was of the essence of sovereignty to do wrong, otherwise law would be above that power.--Such things as this writ had been tried before. The Star Chamber subpœna, the general warrant, but these have all found resistance. Mr. Petigru, in the course of his argument, illustrated his positions by reference to the course of English history, the lives of Chief Justice Pratt, John Wilkes, and Lord Camden. The District Attorney had referred to the authority of Lord Hale. Lord Hale's book was prepared from an uncorrected posthumous work. Grant, however, the text was pure. Lord Hale it was who held the famous assizes and burnt three old women. For this he had no more authority than that debts were confiscable. He had scripture for his belief in witchcraft. It was not true that aliens had no rights. They had the rights of humanity. War no longer was t
The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Boy Mortara. (search)
m the shelling of a rebel camp by our batteries. The enemy did not reply to our shots with any large guns. At headquarters the affair is not spoken of as any great significance — The result of our firing has not yet been fully ascertained, beyond the fact that the enemy retreated from their position. Their number is represented to have been small. Privates Tuttle, Clemens, Molher, and Reymond, of the 3d Regiment Wisconsin Vols., were killed, and Private Ross, Co. C, 3d Wisconsin, Corporal Pratt, Co. A, 28th Pennsylvania Regiment, were taken prisoners by the rebels. [The foregoing confirms accounts received in this city that the enemy crossed over into Virginia subsequent to the battle of Leesburg, and afterwards made a hasty retreat.-- Eds. Dis.] The Federal loss at ball's Bluff. The Baltimore South, of the 25th, learns that the loss of 620 on the Federal side at Ball's Bluff, reported in the Northern papers of Friday last, was based only upon partial returns. Up
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Perils of Peace. (search)
en sunk. [second Dispatch.]official report of the casualties in Colonel Marks's regiment at the Belmont, Mo., battle. Memphis Nov. 12. P. M. --The official report of the casualties in Col. Marks's regiment is as follows: Killed.--Major Butler, Sergeant Kelly, Lieut. Alexander, Privates Bard, Loudy, Vinson, Cannon, Sprine, Horn, Williams Edgar, and Conway. Wounded.--Lieutenants Miller and Dennison, privates Murphy, Stanton, Dunn, Barnes, Moody, Hapiman, McChell, Barn, Pratt, Myers, Hoorn, Hussy, Sergeant Weaver, J. Weaver, Stubble, Neff, Smith, Heavman, Sergeant McKnight, Stalto, Hoingens, Sheffield, Bostick, Crowley, Delany, Ettinger, Maker, Herringer, Filliand, Donnelly, McMullen, Carrioll, Winneyer, Walsh, Muse, Brown, Magard, Blaton, Burke, and Stuart. In the Artillery, Corporal Wall and private Madellon were killed; and privates Bassalt and Wasson were wounded. At the battery, privates McCune and Clare were killed; and privates Oral, Steiner, And
The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Departure of troops. (search)
nection with that spirit of our people with has proclaimed in triumphant tones upon every battle field--"We can and will be free" By command of Maj. Gen. Polk. E. D. Blake, Captain C S. A, From the Potomac — Exchange of Frots. From the Fredericksburg Recover, of the 15th, we gather the following: On Wednesday evening--as we learn from one of its omicers, who was with them — the 30th Virginia regiment, in returning from Mathias to their old quarters, and whilst crossing from Pratt's to Marlboro Pomt, was upon by a tag lying off in the river some fifteen times, but with the usual gratifying result of "nobody hurt" on our side. Smith's permanent battery, on Pratts Point fired one shot at the tug, but it failed to reach. Capt. Cook, however, who is almost as ubiquitous and as skillful as Walker, come up and gave them the benefit of some seven or eight or his pills; whether they did execution we cannot say positively, but on the firing of the last gun from his battery,
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Photographs. (search)
Commissioners and their dispatches do not come under the primary definition of contraband, which requires that "the destination of the goods should be to a hostile port. As no European power is at war with the United States, and the Trent was bound for a European harbor, this definition certainly exempts the mail steamer from liability to arrest and search.--But there will be found in books on international law chapters on "Quasi-contraband — dispatches and passengers." Under this head Pratt remarks, in his valuable work on contraband, that assistance may be rendered to an enemy by a neutral in many other ways than by the conveyance of stores or munitions of war to a hostile port, "particularly by the communication of information and orders from the belligerent Government to its officers abroad, of the conveyance of military passengers." The conveyance of dispatches is especially prohibited to neutrals, as "these are capable of producing the most important consequences in the op
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Potomac Fisheries. (search)
The Potomac Fisheries. --The Fredericksburg Herald, of the 3d inst., has the following well timed and appropriate remarks on the propriety of using every effort that can be to occupy and cultivate our fishing shores the Potomac: We are gratified to learn that Mr. Wm. L Pratt commenced fighting the seine yesterday at the fishery on Potomac which empties into the Potomac river. The point of fishing is well secured from the attacks of the Lincoln river craft, being under the protection of the guns of Smith's battery. There was no fall fishing at all, either in the Potomac or Rappahannock, in consequence of the fact that the army numbers in us ranks the men mostly engaged in this pursuit. There are other points on the Potomac which we hope to see occupied shortly. We have an unfailing meat-house at our very doors, which has been too long neglected. Let the Rappahannock river also be occupied with fisheries. It will pay well, and why they have not been heretofore o
The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the Potomac. (search)
re was one with full bust and gracefully falling skirt, looking like a petrified giantess; then another, reminding one of the sea-horse; yonder a third, called the elephant, and yet others, like little ebonies, (the smoke having discolored them,) and one which tradition says is a monument to an Indian lost centuries ago in its subterranean labyrinths. After spending nearly two hours most pleasurably in the cave, we returned, in the highest degree gratified. The deposit here has been pronounced by Professor Pratt, of Oglethorpe University, and by Professor Emmons, to be the richest in nitre of any they had examined; and to be inexhaustible. There are numerous passages which have never been followed to their termini; they are believed, and some of them known, to extend to other chambers, containing immense piles of the dirt. An analysis has demonstrated that it contains from twenty-five to thirty-three per cent. of nitre — each bushel yielding from fifteen to eighteen pounds.
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