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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1862
Page
2
A pro emancipation speech denounces pressures to compromise with slaveholders. It argues that any peace without full abolition would cement a Southern oligarchy and despotism, endangering national liberty, social equality, and the Constitution. It calls for immediate emancipation to demonstrate universal rights.
The Richmond Examiner cites dwindling hope for European intervention and a belief that England and France will not limit the war. Foreign capitalists have bought Confederate bonds at 86 percent, while Washington reports favorable Virginia conditions and no illness risk for Mr. Corwin.
The Rhode Island perspective praises Burnside's appointment to a high military position, arguing the reasons are purely military not political. The piece lauds his noble character and faithfulness to duty, expressing confidence he will uphold his responsibilities wherever placed.
A New York Herald reporter notes the government delayed a planned immediate expedition to seize Vicksburg and open the Mississippi but Porter is organizing a new fleet on the Father of Waters. The squadron will grow with eleven new private ships at Cincinnati and Ohio river yards, many ironclad and turreted. Some vessels near service, others still crude, to be used all winter.
The Montgomery seized a fine side wheel steamer, originally named the Arizona and renamed Carolina, caught about 50 miles off Mobile after a seven hour chase. Commanded by Captain Forbes, the vessel hailed from Havana and was laden with arms and munitions. Crew threw overboard some cargo but largely failed to escape with it.
Boston Journal correspondent reports an iron steamer ran the blockade into Charleston on the 18th ult. The U S gunboat Flambeau fired 22 shots, but the armor shrugged them off. The ram is being plated, with two more prepared. Nashville lies near Stone Token mouth awaiting a chance to sortie.
The Sun Mutual Insurance Co of New York declares a 16 percent scrip dividend and pays 6 percent interest on outstanding scrip with net profits of 266120 for the year ending bist ult. Redeeming 1856 and all 1857 scrip in January leaves over a million in accumulated profits. Also reports seventeen Confederate and English prize captures by the U S naval barque Eatless under Lieut Edward Conroy. A fire losses the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum for boys in Brooklyn with 248 children. 222 saved. Wisconsin draft begins amid trouble in Milwaukee and Aiken county lists seized as rioters flee.
A Gibraltar letter dated Oct 18 reports the Sumter commander was murdered aboard by second officer Hester of South Carolina. The murderer was arrested and imprisoned. In New York politics Republicans hold majorities in the Senate and likely in the House, with a Republican U S Senator replacing Mr King when his term ends in March.
The death of Archibald, a respected Trinity Church clergyman in New York, is reported with his funeral held Monday afternoon. Meanwhile Truman Smith and the British consul are mentioned in the mixed court under the treaty with England, and Lowell authority notes cotton machinery at the Hamilton corporation may soon run over three hundred looms.
A partial record from Bristol notes charitable support for Union soldiers. It lists cash receipts, shipments to Portsmouth Grove Adepital and Providence Relief Association, and numerous donated items such as shirts, towels, bedding, clothing, laundry goods, utensils, and medical supplies, with quantities and recipients.
On Thursday evening Father Kemp and his seventeen member company presented a concert at Town Unit. They wore period costumes from Elizabethan times and sang old songs to evoke Washington and Pilgrim Fathers. The instrumental work was excellent and Mise Nichols provided a charming vocal performance. TheCaptain marching through the town was capital. The audience filled the venue and the writer hopes for another visit.
The December number of Godeys Lady Book is praised for engravings patterns music and literature with forty two years of publishing and a large US readership. Also announces Thanksgiving Day Thursday 27th and a governor issued proclamation in today’s column.
The New York Post reports that Mr. Lincoln told a friend last week that future success should test merit in generals and that failure should immediately lead to removal. The steamer Vanderbilt departed New York Monday night in pursuit of the pirate Alabama.
Last Monday evening year3 a catastrophe struck Hecker's new bakery on Rutger Street New York. A wall collapsed burying workers. one babe died and Mr Seabrook was buried in the ruins. Laborers headed to Fort Clinch Florida by Old Colony and Fall River line for government service.
Washington correspondent for the New York Herald reports from the Surgeon General's office that about fifty five thousand soldiers are sick or wounded in hospitals while thirty five thousand are sick in camps.
An important arrest of a counterfeiter was made in New York Tuesday. The suspect produced counterfeit plates for several banks and included Liberty Bank Providence and Pocasset Bank in the seizure, along with others from New England.
Agnatusk Bessy Steangsr Wilmer and Smith's Liverpool Times reports that the steamship Pearl, recently sold to the Confederates, departed the Clyde on the 17th for its destination. It notes that other Clyde steamers may be sold as well.
The Rev. T Starr King writes from San Francisco that the city is advancing a third round of $100 000 in aid to the Sanitary Commission at Washington He believes California will raise $400 000 for this object through state action and public support.
Samples of cotton grown in southern Illinois were shown in New York on Wednesday. The staple was irregular in length and weak. It is said the product will be about twenty five thousand bales.
A Parrott rifled gun weighing over 16 000 pounds arrived in Charleston on board the Empire State Tuesday morning hailing from New York and is likely intended for a gunboat at the Navy Yard. The report also notes governmental moves on Alabama relations with England and a new permanent arsenal near Indianapolis.
The speaker argues about grain imports from America for human food and the impact of a potential end to blockades. He compares U S principles to British wartime policy, contemplates Franklin era ideas, and urges exempting peaceful ports from blockade to ease global hardship.
Washington NYT reports Lincoln has sent his letter to Gen McClellan to Gen Burnside for guidance. The document, read to several parties, is expected to be made public and will be viewed as elevating Lincoln’s standing among thoughtful observers.
A letter from Palermo reports a secret wall chamber in the palace of the late Marquis de Vasta containing a vast hoard. The cache includes ancient plate, candlesticks, 60,000 ducats in Bourbon-era gold, and caldrons with a coin bearing Charles II’s emblem. The collection was amassed by an ancestor who held high court posts under Charles V.
The governor issues a proclamation concerning the Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The document bears the endorsement of Jolly R. B. Barrcett as secretary of state and is dated in the colonial period.
Gen. Anderson takes command of troops and fortifications around Covington and Newport Kentucky. Senator Hunter caused a stir in the rebel Senate by accidentally swearing in a clerk to support the U S Constitution. Capt Elisha Sowle of New Bedford died at the Hoop Railroad harbor helm on Monday. A hospital soldier who lost an arm laments, recalling his grandfather who lost a leg in the Revolution.
The Leviston Me Journal notes immense demand for woolen goods. Old mills run day and night and many new woolen mills are built. A new mill has been erected in Nortty Berwick on the site of the old one burned a year ago and will begin operations immediately. Higher wool prices push farmers to keep larger flocks, making sheep raising very profitable.
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