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The Daily Dispatch: April 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
ng the authority of a master over him.--Money cannot induce him to do it, neither can good will or flattery. Set him free, and get any work out of him if you can. If we be not mistaken, Alexander II. will find this job the worst he ever undertook. He will find his revenues falling off, agriculture neglected, manufactures brought to a dead halt, and his whole Empire threatened with ruin. If revolution should come at the back of all this, he will have nobody to blame but himself. The Russian serfs are white men, of the same blood with their masters. We do not therefore pretend to say that they ought to be treated as African slaves; that is, never to be emancipated at all. Far from it. We think they should be gradually absorbed into the class of free white men. Many of them are allowed to exercise their own talents by their masters. They are merchants, lawyers, divines, and everything else that a man can be in Russia. A nobleman sometimes owns a wealthy merchant in Moscow or
The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Letters for the soldiers. (search)
eturned citizen of Richmond, I beg leave, through your columns, to suggest to my fellow-citizens here a mode in which, by raising a small fund, or by small contributions in kind, much may be done to promote the comfort and efficiency of our volunteer defenders. The State can furnish only the equipments of primary necessity, in which are not included by regulation many small articles that are almost indispensable, such as tin-cups, sheath-knives, materials for sewing — with which every Russian soldier is furnished by his government — brushes, spare buttons, shoe-strings, tape, &c. Each man will have to keep his own clothes in order. One of the best securities for health, in case the soldier will be content to adopt a precaution everywhere counselled by the highest surgical authority, is the wearing of a flannel belt next the skin from the waist to the hips, so tied as to lap well in front. A soldier's greatest liability to disease is from exposure to wet, and to changes of
The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Philadelphia. (search)
are as follows, for the war below Mason and Dixon's line." North261,100 South281,000 "Wavering (border States and Territories,) 86,000. Let imaginative men think of the result of a war with these figures before them. We will discuss the bearing of the navy and the regular army in the fight in a day or so. But they are secondary matters now." There is another fact which may be added to the above. Napoleon, the greatest military genius of modern times, leading, on his Russian operations, the most immense and well appointed army that modern Europe ever saw, committed the fatal mistake of choosing the wrong season of the year for the beginning of his campaign. A greater man than Napoleon in body, but a mere mite compared with Napoleon in genius, Winfield Scott, whose military movements have been all blunders from the very commencement of the present difficulties, has begun the invasion of the South in the spring. In one month from this time the blazing Virginia
The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fortress Monroe. (search)
vered from the Bourbon. Continued Austrian movements are reported on the Po, near Ferrara. An attack was considered possible, commencing with the invasion of the Duchy of Modena, which would not be an infraction of the Villafranca treaty. Warsaw advices say that matters are daily growing worse, and it is feared that the exasperation of the people will lead to fresh disturbances if rigorous measures should not intimidate them. Troops were bivouacked in the public square. The Russian force in Poland will be raised to 100,000 men. Spanish official papers say that the Government will accept the annexation of St. Domingo as soon as confirmed by the vote of the people, if no foreign power protests. The Hungarian Chamber of Deputies has been definitely constituted and held. Turkish vessels blockading the Albanian coast had captured a brig under the Ionian flag, loaded with munitions of war. Omar Pascha has been appointed Generalissimo of the army. Au
The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
y of men in a merchant steamer to run the gauntlet of land batteries, was a reflection upon his military experience and skill which few who know Gen. Scott could for one moment admit. A single well-directed shot would disable such a fragile fabric as the Star of the West, and even stout vessels-of-war, as proved by the Crimean contest, are no match for land batteries, properly handled. One of the finest steam-frigates in the British Navy, carrying 36 guns, was knocked to pieces by a small Russian battery of four guns, having materials for heating shot. Of course, every one supposed that instead of going to Charleston, the sagacious military chieftain of the United States had permitted such a report to get abroad to conceal the real destination of the vessel, which might, in point of fact, be Pensacola, Key West, or Tortugas. Nevertheless, it turns out that the "Star of the West" was really sent to Charleston, and, having received a couple of shots got out of harm's way as speedily
The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Shocking suicide. (search)
Burying a fort. --Quite an original method of taking a fort is described in the last number of Blackwood's Mag ne. In 1692, a large Russian army besieged the Turkish fort at Azof, which was situated on a plain, strongly fortified and had a small but well disciplined garrison. No common approaches could be made to it, and the Turkish cannon swept the plain with iron hall. In this case, the engineering skill of the Russians was baffled, but Gen. Patrick Gordon, the right hand man of Peter the Great, and the only one for whose death, it is said, he ever shed a tear, being determined to take to take the place at any cost, proposed to bury it with dirt by gradual approaches. He had a large army; the soil of the plain was light and deep, and he set twelve thousand men to work with spades, throwing up a high circumvallation of earth, and advancing nearer and nearer every day to the place, by throwing up the huge earth wall before them in advance. The men were kept in ranges, workin
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
The Polish Patriot, Czarteryaki. The death of Adam Czartoryski, a distinguished Polish patriot, at Paris, has been announced. The following brief sketch of his biography is found in a work entitled "Men of Our Time:" "Prince Adam Czartoryski, a distinguished Polish nobleman, was born January 14, 1770. He took an active part in the affairs of his country as early as the period of Kosciusko's attempt to liberate her from Russian domination. After the partition of Poland in 1795, he and his brother were sent to St. Petersburg by command of Catharine II., as hostages. Here Alexander was so charmed with the noble and manly character of the young Pole that he became his intimate friend, and upon his accession to the throne, appointed him Minister of Foreign Affairs, in which post Czartoryski conducted himself with so much prudence that the envy that was at first excited soon gave way. In 1805 he subscribed, in the name of Russia, the treaty with Great Britain. He then demande
The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward (search)
there is anything that England justly prides herself on it is her Navy, and never was it more powerful and efficient than in the beginning of the Russian contest — Such a fleet as Sir Charles Napier took to the Baltic, to say nothing of the squadron in the Black Sea, the world had never before seen. We doubt whether the combined navies of the world could have held the ocean an hour in the presence of such an enemy. But the English Navy did literally nothing in the Crimean war.--The small Russian navy kept very prudently under the protection of its fortresses, and those the fleets dared not attack. Sir Chas. Napier invited the Russian Admiral to come out, and the Commandant of Cronstadt invited Sir Charles to come in invitations which neither was in a hurry to accept.--Whenever a ship ventured to attack even a small land battery, it was invariably worsted. These results prompted Louis Napoleon to try the experiment of sheathing gunboats with iron, which was accomplished in time t
The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
m the country go to the city and return, after having their sides elbowed sore and their hats crushed, with pitiful tales of large crowds. Muggins goes into the post office for a letter and comes out with a hole in his coat and his miraculous necktie under one ear: he complains of a crowd. But none of these have been to Hubball's Hotel. When Count Cavour came up to Paris to the Peace Congress, and Victor Emanuel was there with the pretty Princess Chloraide, and Count de Morny and several Russian gentlemen with "ski's" to the end of their names, there comes a crowd for you. But it didn't compare with Hubball's Hotel go-night. Every nook and cranny is filled with heavy sleepers. The passages are covered with blankers, on which are stretched slumbering soldiers. The benches outside even are occupied, and, cold as it is, one contented fellow has stretched himself upon the balcony. Every few moments applicants for lodging come in, and, picking their way into the office, talk hard at
The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern and European news. (search)
ntimates that the law of neutrals at sea will be reconsidered. The Paris Moniteur officially expresses the "satisfaction" felt in France in consequence of the act, while we find that the news produced an advance of one per cent. on the Bourse. The Journal de St. Petersburg, the organ of the Russian Empire, congratulates Mr. Seward on his "upright" and "intelligent" policy in the case, and states that the affair will form a starting point for a general revision of the law of neutrals. The Russian journalist demands that England should be requested to give a solemn guarantee that she will in future respect neutrals and neutral rights. The Europa has not brought out any troops or war material, and it was said that England would not forward any more to Canada by the Cunard mail steamer. The movement of troops for North America had not abated, however, but it was very likely it soon would, as the London papers were beginning to count up the cost of the display; and the London Time
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