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Gigantic Bedbugs
The Albany Knickerbocker thus describes the bedbugs to be met with on the Hudson river: "The bedbugs during the summer season, which navigate the Hudson in some of our steamboats,…
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August 6, 1861 – From the Guards
We received a letter yesterday, from Lieut. JORDAN, under date of July 31st. The 5th Regiment was still at Burlington. They were to receive their arms the next day, and…
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Disputed Invention of Adhesive Stamp
A claim is put forward for one James Chalmers of Arbroath, Scotland, who submitted specimens of adhesive postage stamps to a committee of the House of Commons in 1834. Rowland…
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The Affair at Pocotaligo
Charleston, Oct. 23. The enemy advanced yesterday morning in two columns, against Coosawhatchie, and the other against Pocotaligo. He was repulsed from Pocotaligo by our forces. At Coosawhatchie he succeeded in gaining…
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August 5, 1861 – The Retreat at Bull Run
Capt. Weston. This gentleman, captain of the Peterborough company, writes in regard to the retreat at Bull’s Run : "Could we but have had an officer to ride along the…
Posted inDaily News Local Histories
Street Rowdyism
Mr. Editor:—Will you inform me through your columns, whether that part of the city bounded by Hudson, Varick, Charlton and King streets have been by any act of the city…
Posted inMaritime & Naval History US Civil War
August 4, 1861 – Four Prizes Captured!
Norfolk, July 31.—The privateer Gordon, of Charleston, on Sunday last captured and carried into Hatteras Inlet, the brig McGilley [William McGilvery], of Bangor, Maine, with a cargo of Molasses. Also,…
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August 3, 1861 – Arrest of a Rebel Bearer of Dispatches in New York
We take the following from the New YorkWorld:— Edward R. Ruggles, a young man, 17 years of age, is at present detained at police headquarters by order of Secretary Seward,…
Crew Saved, Steamer Will Be a Total Loss
St. Johns, N. F., Aug. 1.—Having lost her position In a dense fog the freight steamer Cyril, from Miramichi, bound for England, ran ashore today at Portuguese Cove, west of…
Collier Nero is Ashore on Block Island
Struck Dangerous Portion of Coast Early This Morning in Fog
Hole Stove in Her Forward Compartment and Portion of Her Crew Taken Off by Life Savers, While Word is Sent to New London for Assistance, and It Is Expected That She Will Be Gotten Off Before Dark This Evening, Though Her Bow Is Filled With Water.
While proceeding up the coast this morning, bound from Newport News to the Bradford coaling station, the United States auxiliary collier Nero, in command of Captain Shurteff, grounded on the rocky coast of Block Island and stove a hole in her forward compartment, which immediately filled with water.
The ships pilot, it is believed, mistook the distance of the fog signal on South eastern light and ran his ship too close to the shore.