THE MACON (GA.) TELEGRAPH (Tuesday)
complained of the war's slowness, saying: "The invading
spirit and energy are not in them (the troops); at least we have seen no
manifestation of it since Bull Run; and if we do not discover some in a
few weeks, we shall consider the war a farce, too, and get the Grand Jury
of Bibb County to present it as a nuisance, detaining honest men from their
business on a false pretense."
THE N.Y. TIMES (Wednesday)
commenting on Gov. Edwin Morgan's message to the Legislature: "Brevity
is not the most conspicuous merit of the message...The winter brings with
it an avalanche of such documents..."
THE ATLANTA (GA.) INTELLIGENCER (Friday)
"A statistician says that if all our old maids should
marry, the manufactures of single bedsteads would be utterly ruined"
THE RICHMOND (VA.) DISPATCH (Friday)
"There was not a single addition to the population of the city jail
yesterday... We are not entirely sure that it is an evidence of the onward
march of moral reform..."
THE NASHVILLE BANNER
complains that the Confederate General Ben McCulloch remains in Richmond,
Va. when he ought to be with his men in the West.
CINCINNATI, OHIO
It has been learned here that Mrs. William Tecumseh Sherman, wife of the
Union General, wrote Pres Lincoln on Friday begging him to intervene in
her husband's behalf and show some sign of confidence. Gen. Sherman, now
at St. Louis, recently was the object of attacks charging him insane; he
himself has doubted his ability to command. His wife suggests Mr. Lincoln
transfer Sherman to the East.
HARTFORD, CONN
Col. Samuel Colt, arms maker to the world, died Friday of what was described
as "an acute attack upon the brain"
NEW ORLEANS, La
Mail service between the Confederacy and Europe has been established via
New Orleans and Tampico, Mexico.
ATLANTA (Ga.) INTELLIGENCER
"Persons who have a great deal to say about shedding the last drop
of blood are amazingly particular about the first"
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
"The Federals and Confederates have been firing back and forth at
each other again at Ft. Pickens (Fla.). If they keep on ... somebody might
get killed."
CHICAGO TIMES
commenting on Ohio Sen. Ben Wade: "His assurance is boundless. There
is no place in the government ... that he would not undertake to fill.
And there is none ... that he is fit to fill."
RICHMOND, Va.
Editors here are speculating on the probable passage of a Confederate act
restricting liberty of the press.
FT. WISE, Colorado Territory
Union Army Capt. Elmore Otis and the daughter of Maj. A. G. Boone (and
the granddaughter of Daniel Boone), were married here.
CUMBERLAND ISLAND, Ga.
For the first time, Gen. Robert E. Lee this week saw the grave of his famous
father, Henry ("Lighthorse Harry") Lee of Revolutionary War fame.
The general, who has been inspecting the defenses on the Georgia and Florida
coasts, stopped here to see the grave in the cemetery at the old home of
Gen Nathaniel Greene.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
A board of Union officers met Friday to watch the test of Mr. J. F. Knott's
bullet-proof vest. It stopped pistol balls fired at 14 paces.
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
"The human race, like an auctioneer's goods, is always going, going,
gone."
RICHMOND DISPATCH
"Drunkenness is growing in the community despite the very high price
now asked for all kinds of stimulating goods"
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
"The Congressional Directory, at the head of its alphabetical list
of senators and representatives, says in a bracket: 'The asterisk denotes
those whose wives accompany them.' This has given rise to the new slang
word in Washington society: 'How is your asterisk?' is now the common
inquiry put to congressmen."
NEW YORK HERALD
commenting on the death of former Pres. John Tyler says: "To the usual
comparative obscurity which awaits the ex-presidents of this republic ....
Mr. Tyler added the darker gloom of treason and closed his life in the
capital of the rebels, surrounded by armed traitors and making the last
weary days of his long life infamous..."
COLUMBIA, S.C.
The South Carolina Convention has approved a bill to give bounties to private
citizens who destroy Union shipping.
RICHMOND, Va.
A court here has ordered that all of Richmond's free Negros who fail to
pay their taxes before the January meeting of the court will be sold into
slavery.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The Union government on Monday received from the King of Siam two elephant
tusks (eight feet long each), a sword inlaid with gold and pearls and other
articles of minor value, with a brief address.
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
Union "Gen. Stone has expressed a wish to be relieved of his command.
The country will be relieved when he is."
PETERSBURG (Va) EXPRESS
Referring to Confederate General F. Zollicoffer's defeat at Mill Springs,
Ky., the Confederate paper says : "We believe it will be ultimately
for our own good although we may not be exactly able to see how."
THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
Responding to the Petersburg Express: "We can appreciate the predicament
of the Express. We tried to think Bull Run was, all things considered,
a good thing for our (the Union) side, but somehow we couldn't quite see
it."
NORFOLK, VA.
The Day Book calls on the ladies to contribute old woolen skirts and dresses
to the Confederacy for war purposes.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
Prices have risen sharply in a year for some items: Whiskey, 26 cents a
gallon in January, 1861, is almost $1; salt, formerly 40 cents a bushel,
is at $4; coffee, formerly 17 cents a pound is at 80.
NASHVILLE, TENN.
A fundraising movement is underway to erect a monument over the remains
of Confederate Gen. Felix Zollicoffer, killed in the battle of Mill Springs.
THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
Noting the the battle of Mill Springs is called by various names-- Mill
Creek, Cliff Creek, Fishing Creek, and Logan's Cross Roads--- proposes
Thursday that "so far as all the rebels are concerned, they compromise
the matter by call it the "Big Lick".
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Commenting on Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson's Friday night lecture in Brooklyn
on American civilization, editorializes: "The Southern institution(of
Slavery) to him is the Southern destitution."
DALLAS HERALD
In an attempt to raise Confederate Calvary units, Col. T.C. Hawpe published
a warning Wednesday, "Who will defend Texas? Flock .... to our country's
standard and we will make our enemies bite the dust!"
HONOLULU, HAWAII
Mr. J.A. Parker, Union consul at Honolulu, give Washington advice that
there is a move by Great Britain to take possession of the Sandwich Islands
(Hawaii).
COWES, ENGLAND
The Union ship Tuscarora and the Confederate vessel Nashville, both of
which have been in port together, have departed--the Tuscarora on Thursday,
40 hours after the Nashville.
ATLANTA INTELLIGENCER
"While we talk of King Cotton, we should remember Prince Tobacco.
The Liverpool (England) Commercial Advertiser says that the revenue to
the British government from American tobacco last year was $25,000,000."
WASHINGTON
The Senate received a Michigan Legislature petition asking that slavery
be swept from the land; a bill to build 20 ironclads for $10,000,000 was
passed; the West Point Military Academy appropriations bill was passed;
an amendment reducing mileage expenses for congressmen by 50 per cent was
adopted.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Union General Charles P. Stone has been arrested here for confinement in
Ft. Lafayette, in New York Harbor. Formal charges against Stone have not
been levied, but he is accused, in Committee, of misbehavior in the battle
of Balls Bluff in October. Accused of corresponding with the enemy before
and after the battle and of "treacherous designs to expose his forces
to capture and destruction..."
FRANCE
A French paper says the Southern envoy to England pledged free trade with
the South for 50 years and the abolition of the slave trade for Britain's
recognition of the Confederacy...
THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
"The intensely interesting play, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin was brought out
at Webb's Theatre,' Calling it an entire success," the paper urges
readers "don't fail to see the play."
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST, AUGUSTA, Ga.
Noted the space set aside at the forthcoming London exhibition for Confederate
products. The paper sees this as a partial recognition of the South as
a "nation".
THE RICHMOND DISPATCH
Noting the Union attempts to keep whisky out of the camps, says: "If
they succeed, it will no doubt increase the efficiency of their army."
NEW YORK
A private of the 13th Connecticut, while furloughing at home Monday night,
had his right forefinger cutoff by his wife -- the alleged reason being
she opposed his return to the war.
THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN
urges replacements of war secretary Benjamin, Mallory and Post-master-General
Reagan.
RICHMOND , Va
A committee was formed here Wednesday to consider the voluntary destruction
of the south's tobacco and cotton crops where necessary to keep them from
Union hands.
FORTRESS MONROE, Va.
Union General J.B. Wool and Confederate General Howell Cobb met here for
the first discussion of prisoner exchange. But their talks have been fruitless.
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TERRITORY
Messrs. Bringham Young and H.C. Kimball were elected, unanimously, as governor
and lieutenant governor, respectively, at the territorial convention here
Monday. Statehood is sought.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga
Gov. Joseph Brown has issued a proclamation ordering each whiskey distiller
in the state to desist from manufacturing ardent spirits after Saturday.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
It is reported Mr. Andrew Johnson having resigned is senatorial seat to
be named the Union's provisional governor of Tennessee, was appointed a
brigadier general and left Friday for Nashville to establish a government.
MACON, Ga
Intelligence received here indicates that little or no cotton will be planted
this year in various parts of the state.
BALTIMORE, Md.
Union Pvt. J.H. Kurns was hanged at Ft. McHenry on Friday in the presence
of a division for the murder of Lt. J.D. Whitson.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Mrs. John C. Fremont, wife of the Union General, is very ill here.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
As Union leaders debated Pres. Lincoln's plan for voluntary gradual abolition
of slavery - with compensation from Congress - the Chief Executive himself
sought to gain congressional support for it. He said Congress' adoption
of a plan of compensation would greatly shorten the war.
ALEXANDRIA, Va.
The Union provost marshal here closed all drinking houses and stores selling
liquor.
THE REPUBLICAN, LYNCHBURG, Va.
"Speculation has ruined Nashville," "It's people ... have
been hunting money instead of preparing for defense."
THE MACON MESSENGER (Ga.)
"The speculators and bloodsuckers - the sappers and miners of our
cause - are not confined to Nashville. Can anyone tell us how soldiers
can support their families with $11 per month, and bacon 40c per pound,
flour $6 per hundred and groceries and dry goods in proportion?"
THE ATLANTA INTELLIGENCER
"We already feel like ruin will befall Atlanta, if the evil spirit
of speculation does not receive a wholesome check ... in our thriving city."
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Due to collusion between contractors and army inspectors, the Union government
has purchased $2,000,000 in condemned uniforms, the clothing inspection
board reported in a study of frauds.
THE NASHVILLE TIMES
The Nashville Times has suspended publication rather than be a pro-Union
paper.
ARIZONA TERRITORY
The Confederate governor, John Baylor, ordered a captain at Tuscan to persuade
the Apache Indians to come in to make peace and then "kill all the
grown Indians and take the children prisoners and sell them to defray the
expense of killing the Indians..."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
claims there are 40,000 delinquent and neglected children here, 10,000
of whom practice crime, and another 10,000 whom beg.
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
The Union government pays $30,000 daily for the support of loyal Indians....
FORT WAYNE , IN
Newspaper displays a standing announcement calling for McClellan for President
in 1864. But some Republican politicians besieged Lincoln with a request
that McClellan be removed of command.
RICHMOND DISPATCH
Endorses a suggestion that one company in each Confederate regiment be
armed with hand grenades.
WASHINGTON D.C.
The Senate rejected Pres. Lincoln's nomination of Daniel E. Sickles as
a brigader. (Sickles years ago shot P. B. Key, son of composer Frances
Scott Key, pleaded temporary insanity --- for the first time in legal history,
and was acquitted. He took his wife back; she later committed suicide.)
WASHINGTON D.C.
Mr. John T Ford has opened a "splendid" theatre here, the Antheneum,
on 10th Street. The premises formerly occupied by the First Baptist Church.
THE TUSCUMBIA CONSTITUTION, AL
Has suspended publication since its staff has enlisted.
NEW YORK
For violating the government's ban on publishing military information,
the following papers have been suppressed and their editors ordered to
jail: The Boston Journal, the N.Y. Journal of Commerce and the N.Y. Sunday
Mercury.
THE SANDERSVILLE CENTRAL GEORGIAN
The Editor is angry at the Congress for raising its member's salary to
$2,750 a year, plus 20 cents a mile for travel to and from Richmond. A
Congressmen is paid more for one day "than the poor soldier on the
tented field receives in two months".
WHEELING, Va.
Residents of western Virginia area voted by an overwhelming majority on
Wednesday to ratify the constitution drafted last November for a new state
to be called "West Virginia."
NEW YORK TRIBUNE
Editor Horace Greeley declines to run for the governership.
RICHMOND DISPATCH
Congress spends much time debating Pres. Davis' call to draft all men between
18 and 35. "We are told it abrogates 'states rights.' If the Yankees
overrun us, they will leave us no rights at all ..."
WASHINGTON D.C.
Congress determined to suspend work on the Capitol exterior except to finish
the dome; The Senate received a bill providing for a territorial government
in Arizona, passed a bill giving 12 months extra pay to widows and children
of seamen lost aboard the vessels Cumberland and Congress (destroyed by
the ironclad Virginia last month.)
COLUMBUS, Ga
The Columbus Iron Works is now capable of casting six and finishing four
cannons each week.
MARION EXPRESS, N.C.
Reports the invention of a "24-shooter", small enough to fit
in a vest pocket.
Richmond, Va.
The Confederate Congress voted its thanks to all "the officers of
the victory of Tennessee" Tuesday... The Congress is expected to pass
a bill calling for a draft of men from 18 to 35. (The Union army believing
its 700,000 man army is huge enough has closed its recruiting offices.)
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
Union military commander Andrew Johnson has suspended the mayor, aldermen
and councilmen here for refusing to take the oath of Union allegiance.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.
Confederate Maj. G.W. Morgan is in western North Carolina to recruit Cherokee
Indians.
PROVIDENCE, R.I.
Hundred gun salutes to the Union soldiers were fired here and in Boston.
Richmond Dispatch, Va.
The "remarkable ... capacity" of raw Southern recruits at Shiloh,
means "the North has everything to fear and the South everything to
hope."
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.
About a hundred horn-tooting residents demonstrated at the home of Mr Pierce
Butler Thursday night after the latter secured a warrant for the arrest
of former Union Secretary of War Simon Cameron, now minister to Russia.
Mr. Butler was imprisoned for a month last year when Cameron accused him
of accepting a Confederate commission. Butler charges trespass, assault
and battery, and false imprisonment.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C.
More than 150 Negros here have volunteered as a Union force to help repel
Confederates in the area.
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
After a 700 foot petition, signed by 15,000 women in 11 free and one slave
state, was presented to the House of Representatives to support abolition.
"700 feet of ladies ought to be entitled to some consideration."
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.
The train thief James J. Andrews and his 19 Union men have been rounded
up and placed in jail here. All but one, who was beaten, were delivered
safely, despite the threats of many citizens to hang them. Andrews first
claimed to be a confederate soldier, but was found to be a member of the
gang who stole the engine "General" at Big Shanty, Ga., and ran
it to Ringgold.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
This city of 30,000 -- first Confederate capital to fall to the Union --
has a new newspaper, the Daily Union.
NEW YORK TIMES
The city of Washington, D.C. is being cleared of the "bogus army officers
who have infested the hotels, Counterfeit colonels, majors and line officers
by the score have been arrested."
RICHMOND DISPATCH, Va.
Concedes Friday that "the Yankees are gathering fast around us and
that we are getting into ... a very tight place"
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
Indians have lately stolen stock and nearly every station of the overland
mail between Fts. Laramie and Bridger, disrupting the mail service.
NATCHEZ COURIER, Miss
"If we do not obtain white paper between this time and Monday, we
shall ... be compelled to issue the daily on colored." It noted while
a supply of white paper is en route between Notchez and Knoxville, Tenn.
RICHMOND, Va.
Mr. Timothy Webster, an agent for Union detective Allen Pinkerton, was
hanged Monday by Confederate officials.
BOSTON, Mass.
A vessel with 1,000 tons of ice - first of the Union ships to leave for
the newly captured New Orleans - has embarked.
HARRISBURG, Pa.
Mr. Simon Cameron, Minister to Russia (former War Secretary) was feted
here Saturday night prior to his departure to Europe.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The Senate received petitions this week asking for a reduction in the proposed
tax on tobacco; received a bill to provide that the school tax collected
from District of Columbia Negros be used to educate Negro children; received
a bill to collect taxes in "insurrectionary districts"; referred
a committee bill to limit the number of major generals to the number of
20.
PEORIA, Ill.
Mrs. Belle Reynolds, whose husband is a lieutenant in the Union 17th Illinois,
has been appointed a major by Illinois Gov. Richard Yates. His appointment
followed her heroic nursing of the wounded at the battle of Shiloh.
SYRACUSE, NY
Liquor dealers here plan to issue a weekly newspaper to further their interests.
TROY, NY
Fire here Saturday destroyed almost 700 buildings, resultings in property
loss of almost $3,000,000. There is much suffering of the destitute residents.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
Citizens of this city have expressed their contempt for their new military
commander, Union Major General Benjamin Butler, by giving him the nickname
"Picayune." A Picayune is a coin of small value.
PORT ROYAL, S.C.
Fifty-three Negro teachers, who arrived in this federal held area March
8, have set up eight schools to educate former slaves. The schools are
operated in cotton barns, tents, and old sheds.
RICHMOND DISPATCH, Va.
Thursday recommended that the statue of George Washington- in the state
house here - be moved elsewhere (or buried) for fear fire might destroy
the rickety old building.
RICHMOND, Va.
Near panic seized this city as citizens learned of Norfolk's evacuation
and the advance of federal gunboats on the James River. Pres. Davis
has sent his wife and family to Raleigh, N.C., but he remains in the capital.
Several cabinet members have left, believing the city cannot be saved
from capture.
BOSTON, Mass.
Shakespearean actor John Wilkes Booth opened an engagement here Monday
and is appearing at the Boston Museum.
LONDON, England
A Confederate ship, The Alabama, was launched Thursday despite Union attempts
to keep her from being built. Capt. J. D. Bulloch arranged for her construction.
NEW YORK
Harpers Weekly has been advertising a bullet proof vest. It's $5 for privates
and $7 for officers.
CAPE GIRARDEAU EAGLE, Mo.
The Cape Girardeau Eagle, a suppressed Southern paper, is reappearing each
Saturday as a Union sheet, published by the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry.
RICHMOND, Va.
Mr. William Langford was arrested here for "beating his wife in an
unauthorized manner." And what is an authorized manner?
THE VICKSBURG WHIG, Miss.
Takes the current bombardment of the place gallantly by saying Wednesday:
"As a matter of course, we may expect another bombardment this evening.
They generally commence about 5 o'clock, Admission free, but stand from
under."
BEDFORD, L.I., N.Y.
The Philadelphia baseball team played its first game here Thursday, losing
to a team chosen from several Brooklyn clubs, 27-10. By far the greatest
assemblage to see a baseball game this season was present.
RICHMOND, Va.
Despite the military threat to the city, "Romeo and Juliet" will
play at the Varieties Theatre tomorrow night.
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER, Ohio
Asserts that James Heenan, the American boxing champion, reportedly receives
100 pounds (about $500) a week for exhibitions in England, "which
is exactly the amount of the pay of the President."
ATLANTA, Ga.
James J. Andrews went to the gallows Saturday afternoon, paying with his
life for having stolen a railroad locomotive near Marietta, Georgia. The
theft of the locomotive was a legitimate military mission, Andrews contended,
but was convicted of treason and spying. He was in his 34th year and nine
days hence , he was to have married Miss Elizabeth Layton of Flemingsburg,
Ky.
NEW YORK TIMES.
William H. Hawkins, Negro steward of the ship Lammergayer, was hanged Thursday
for murdering the ship's captain on the high seas. "He has gone from
the gallows to a world where there is neither bond nor free, black nor
white. May his fate deter others from crime."
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER.
"We advise everybody to go somewhere or stay home on the glorious
Fourth of July. Be sure to observe the day by feeling patriotic, by rational
enjoyment and by keeping what reason and common sense each may chance to
possess by not too excessive imbibing."
RICHMOND. Va.
The Confederate postage service will charge these rates beginning July
1: 10 cents for each letter not weighing more than half an ounce, conveyed
any distance within the Confederacy, and 10 cents for each additional half
ounce.
RICHMOND. Va.
With much fighting going on outside of Richmond, one of the women who had
ridden out to hear the fighting Thursday night, said " No ball could
be as exciting as our ride this evening..." That same night, the tops
of Richmond buildings were crowded with people watching the conflict. The
hills were covered with residents, grouped as in a huge amphitheater.
WASHINGTON D.C.
The Senate this week received a bill for the admission of Western Virginia
as a Union State. The House referred this same bill to the Committee on
Territories.
BERKELEY PLANTATION, Va.
Union Brig.-Gen. Dan Butterfield, from Utica, New York, thinks the Union's
"lights out" or "taps" bugle call is too formal and
has written a new one. He summoned bugler O.W. Norton, showed him the notes,
and asked him to play them. When he was satisfied with the arrangement,
he directed Norton to play it for "taps" hereafter. Other brigades
and some Confederate are adopting it.
THE RICHMOND DISPATCH
"the rise which Gen. Lee has suddenly taken in the public confidence
is without a precedent." ..."was considered damaged by the result
of his campaign over the mountains (last year)."..."his current
campaign is that of a master."
ATLANTA INTELLIGENCER, Ga.
Demands retalliation on Gen. Benjamin Butler, U.S. commander at New Orleans,
for the hanging of William Mumford, who tore down a U.S. flag. The paper
urges that a captured Union general be hanged to even the score if Butler
is not delivered to the Confederate authorities.
NEW YORK. NY
Some 200,000 grain shovelers of the city have determined to strike to prevent
further use of machinery which, it is feared, will replace two-thirds of
their number at elevators here. Grain dealers answer that they can't do
without the machines, seven of which already have been installed. The Times
opines that the men are within their rights, but are fighting a lost cause.
The machines will win out, but in the long run this will mean more jobs
of different type.
AUGUSTA, Ga.
Gov. J. E. Brown has declared, in a letter to Mr. T. H. Moore of this city,
that he will not prohibit the people of Georgia making their peaches into
brandy. But he recommended that the fruit be dried for the use of the army.
HARTFORD, CT
The Post notes that "Commadore Vanderbilt is a good sort of man to
have around," and adds: "He is reputed to be worth about $20,000,000.
He has taken $1,250,000 of government bonds since the rebellion broke out
and presented (to the government) the steamship Vanderbilt, worth about
$800,000. Such a man must take comfort in handling money..."
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif,
The Court of California decided that the poll tax on every Chinese in the
state is $2.50 per month.
RICHMOND, Va.
As Congress completed work on an amended conscription law this week, a
state court on Georgia declared the entire act null and void. Presumably
the court's opinion will not be considered valid, inasmuch as a state court
has no authority to pass on national laws. The amended law will allow Pres.
Davis to suspend conscription in areas where he can not enforce it -- such
as areas now occupied by Union forces.
WAHINGTON, D.C.
President Lincoln, pressed on by his own desires, political necessity and
abolitionist demands, on Monday issued an "Emancipation Proclamation"
which declares that all slaves are "forever free" after Jan 1,
1863. Referring to it before a large, honoring croud which serenaded him
Wednesday, the President said: "What I did, I did after very full
deliberation and under a very heavy and solemn sense of responsibility.
I can only trust in God and I have made no mistake."
RICHMOND DAILY WHIG., Va.
Marriages in Richmond have increased 90 per cent over what they were in
peaceful years. "people are evidently preparing for a long war, and
taking wise precautions against any serious decrease in population."
INDEPENDENCE, Mo.
The elephant Romeo, a "star" of Mabie's Circus and Menagerie,
broke through the bridge here Thursday and fell 20 feet onto some rocks.
The pachyderm was seriously injured and may die. The bridge reportedly
was a "poor, rotten structure." The elephant reportedly is valued
at $30,000.
SAG HARBOR, N.Y.
Gen. C. T. James, inventor of the James projectile, died yesterday morning
of wounds he received when one of his projectiles exploded in a trial.
Among those attending the demonstration were Russian and French artillery
officers and a number of citizens. Four persons were severely wounded.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The whiskey ration in the Union Navy having been abolished, all the whiskey
remaining( probably 3,000 barrels) is to be sold at auction.
WAHINGTON, D.C.
Judge Merrick, of the U.S. Court of the District of Columbia, has refused
to pay a tax of $7.09 assessed on his income for the last quarter. His
reason: He claims that the U.S. Constitution prohibits the passage of any
law diminishing the salary of his office.
NEW YORK, NY
The Associated Press here has received the first telegraphic dispatch from
San Francisco. The distance by wire is 3,500 miles, and the circuit is
believed to be the longest ever worked in the history of telegraphing.
BUFFALO, NY
The great billiards match between Michael Foley of Cleveland and Dudley
Kavanagh of New York was won by the later by 204 points.
LYNCHBURG, Va.
The highest figure yet obtained for tobacco was paid to Col. Lewis C. Arther
for two shipping hogsheads. He received $29 a hundred pounds.
HOLY SPRINGS, Miss.
A citizen has been arrested here for selling to Confederate soldiers at
$40 a gallon of whiskey which cost him 90 cents a gallon. He has sold $1,750
worth when arrested.
NEW YORK, NY
Among the mechanical novelties recently brought out are a sewing machine
that works two needles at one time and a button hole stitcher. The double
needle machine will be usefull in working on boot tops and other goods
requiring parallel seams.
FT. STANTON, New Mexico Territory
Col. Kit Carson, the famous Western scout, has been moving five companies
of New Mexico Volunteers to this installation on the Pecos River. The volunteers
are to strengthen the fort and make it an outpost and defense against Indians.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Officers who served under the late Union Maj-General Phillip Kearny Saturday
adopted a gold medal in his honor. It is to be awarded to officers who
had served with Kearny. Kearny was killed at Chantilly, Va., on Sept 1,
after the Second Bull Run campaign. The gold medal is to be a small Maltese
cross in a circle bearing a Latin inscription with the word Kearny in the
center.
RICHMOND, VA
Hoops skirts, made in the North, are rapidly vanishing from the Confederacy
scene. Straight skirts are in vogue here now, but many a soldier cannot
get used to them. One wrote that he dislikes "the slim lamp-post appearances
of the fashionable dresses."
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
People who intend to be married, or those who want or ought to be, had
better hurry the matter. The reason: a new law requiring a 10-cent tax
stamp on all marriage certificates soon will go into effect.
PORT HUDSON, La
The Condederates are moving immense quantities of stores across the Mississippi
River at this point 25 miles above Baton Rouge. Cattle from Texas and salt
from works on the Red River are passing through here en route to markets
east of the Mississippi. The supply is vital to the welfare of the Confederacy,
and steps are being taken to fortify the town.
WASHINGTON STAR, WASHINGTON, D.C.
The rumor that President Lincoln was shot Tuesday night while riding in
a coach was squashed Wednesday. But a theatre which Lincoln has attended
, the Washington Athenaeum (known also as Ford's Theatre), was destroyed
by fire the same day (Tuesday), The theatre, on 10th St., was opened by
owner John T. Ford in March, 1862.
N.C. STANDARD, NORTH CAROLINA
This secession newspaper said Friday, "North Carolina acquiesced in
the first conscription bill as a necessity...but North Carolina has never
acquiesced in the principle of conscription and never will. She regards
it as unconstitutional, despotic, and dangerous to liberty..."
ALBANY, N.Y.
The inauguration of Gov. Horatio Seymour took place Thursday in the state
Capitol here as a large and distinguished assemblage watched. New York's
former governor, E.D. Morgan, who commanded the Department of New York
as a general, has resigned to enter the federal Senate.
RICHMOND, Va.
General R.S. Ewell, who lost part of his leg at Manassas in August, opened
the recently-joined flaps of his stump when he fell here trying to test
the limb.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.
Mrs. Mary Ann Rythers has applied for a divorce because her husband is
a Confederate army officer.
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