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Lenormant’s Finds

M. LENORMANT, who has for for years been rummaging, excavating and searching in the various hiding places of Greece and Syria, has succeeded in finding and securing very many beautiful…
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Our Warning

We have constantly warned our secession friends, that if they arrayed Maryland against the General Government, the war with all its fearful consequences would be transferred from the South to…
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April 24, 1861 – Attack upon the Pennsylvania and Massachusetts troops at Baltimore

Massachusetts Militia Passing Through Baltimore (Baltimore Riot of 1861) engraving of F.F. Walker (1861)

The Secessionists of Baltimore having torn up the railroad track leading from the Northern Depots to the Southern Depots, the military were obliged to march through the City. On the arrival of two Regiments, one from Massachusetts and the other from Philadelphia, on the 19th instant, an attack was made upon them by a mob, with stones, brick-bats & other missiles. This drew a fire from the soldiers, discharging their pieces into the crowd, killing live or six, and wounding many others – among them several innocent spectators. Three of the Massachusetts men were killed and eight wounded. The Philadelphia Regiment was unarmed, and but few of them had left the cars when the riot commenced – some of them, however, seem to have been roughly handled. The train was ordered back, and the Regiment returning to Philadelphia early on Sunday morning.

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April 23, 1861 – Pawnee Honors Mount Vernon

USS Pawnee

A letter written on board the United States sloop-of-war Pawnee, recently dispatched on foreign service, records this touching incident:

“In passing down the Potomac river, and arriving opposite Mount Vernon, a beautiful and graceful tribute was paid to the sacred remains that lie entombed in that hallowed spot. All hands were called, officers in swords and epaulets, sailors in their neat uniform, the fine guard of the Pawnee drawn up, with belt and musket ; at a given signal the large American ensign fell at half-mast, the ship’s bell tolled out its muffled tones, the melancholy drums rolled their funeral salute, while the presented arms and uncovered heads of officers and men paid a sad tribute of respect to him who was “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen;” and so the Pawnee passed on silent and mourning, for he by whose grave she glided was the Father of his Country—a country scarcely a lifetime old ; yet the children of the second generation are ready to tear it to pieces, and with its ruins hide forever from the eye of men that grave and all the deeds which make it so famous in the world.

Posted inMaritime & Naval History Ship Histories

Largest Ship In The World Sinks

RMS Titanic

This country and all Europe are at this writing shrouded in sorrow over the sinking of the Titanic, which took to a watery grave hundreds of her passengers last Sunday night. The boat was bound for New York on her maiden voyage and had as passengers many people prominent both in this and foreign countries. The most notable passengers for whom much anxiety is felt in Vermont and New England are Charles M. Hays, Mrs. Hays and their daughter. Mr. Hays is the president of the Grand Trunk Railway and a man deeply interested in the development of the Central Vermont Railway.

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April 22, 1861 – Explosion of a Stereotyped Phrase

The Louisville (Ky.) Democrat, under the head of “Our Sister States of the South,” says:

This is a common style of speech just now, and quite ad captandum. We should like to see some of the sisterly affection reciprocated. They deserted us in spite of our petitions. We did not feel the hatred and distrust of the Union that inspired them. Our judgment was, that our rights could be better secured in the Union. We had some interest in the Union beyond the loyalty which every good citizen should feel for established forms and habits – of political action, and which should not be disregarded for light and transient causes. We had “sister” States of the North our next neighbors; tens of thousands of them of our own blood. They were our personal and political friends. We had an interest in their friendship, for domestic peace on both sides ; we judged, and judged correctly, that this breaking up of the Government would lead to war, and that our soil, here on the border, would again be the dark and bloody land. We had always stood by them in the Union, in defense of a common interest, and had a right to expect some regard for our interest and our position. Has any regard whatever been shown?