Arrival of the Africa and Charleston siege telegrams
The Africa arrives from New York with 123 passengers and 150000 dollars in specie. Telegraphic updates from Richmond detail Charleston bombardments, the evacuation of Morris Island, and Beauregard's defenses as Union forces assault Fort Sumter and nearby batteries. Reports describe Monitors, ironsides, and shelling, with casualties and prisoner counts, ending with broader war updates from the Army of the Potomac and Rosencranz in the West.
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Liverpool
Saturpax
Royal Mail
Africa
Stone
Boston
Halifax
Queenstown
Therivs
Richmond
Charleston
Cumming
Sullivan's Island
Moultrieville
Sulivan’s Island
Fort Moultrie
The
Richmond Inquirer
Fort Sumter
Sumter
Morris Island
Battery Gregg
Cumning’s Point
James Island
Arago
New York
Weehawken
Ironsides
Monitors
Ionsites
Sullivan Island
Cumming’s Point
Cosmopolitan
Moultrie
Charleston Bar
Charleston Mercury
Washington
Culpepper
Meade
Lee
Bragg
Beauregard
Court House
Pleasanton
Rosencranz
Richmond Examiner
Mortis Tala
Wagner
Vauban
Comorn
Sebastopol
Estes Straves
New York Herald
S . Rappahann
Pleasatton
Earl Russell speaks at Blairgowrie dinner on liberty and foreign policy
Earl Russell, staying at Meikleour House in Perthshire, is toasted by Blairgowrie tenantry. He defends civil and religious liberty, laments Poland and Mexico interventions, and urges peace between Britain and the United States while upholding neutrality and law in foreign affairs.
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Brandy Station
Wilpatrick
Buford
Kelly's Ford
Gregg
Sulphur Springs
Pleasanton
Duford
Culpepper
Jones
Muddy Run
Custer
Kilpatrick
Dutit
Cedar Mountain
Rapidan
Canter
Benjamin Hutchings
United States Cavalry
15Th
Virginia Cavalry
Palperper
Ilinois
Chattanooga
Rosencranz
Purcell
Cincinnati
Memphis
Tennessee
Mobile
Springhill
South-West
Richmond Inquirer
Earl Russell
Meikleour House
Perthshire
Blairgowrie
Earl
Harl Russell
Earl of Airlie
George Ramsay
Canning
Atlantic
Meiklour
Meikleaur
Count Flahault
Lord Palmerston
Italy
Austria
France
Aberdeen
England
Poland
Russia
Europe
Vienna
Prussia
Mexico
United States of America
San Juan
America
Spain
Brazil
Confederate States
Charles 7
James
New England
George II
Sumner
New York
Czar
Russias
Louis XIV
Paris
American
United States Navy
Law of Nations
Lancashire
Federala
Liverpool
Tam
House of Lords
Lord Stowell
Sir William Grant
Supreme Court of the
United States
Mr. Swinner
Press of America
Federal Republic of America
Jen Ua
Courts of Justice
Shakespeare
Bilton
de Tocqueville
Gettysburg
Viewpoints on justice and policy amid Civil War divide
A cloaked debate contrasts federal and confederate sympathies with a call for justice in a free nation. The speakers praise restraint while noting strong public support for existing leadership and reforms. Earl Russell praises Palmerston while acknowledging domestic unity, likening policy to resting and being thankful rather than forcing new paths.
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United States
Earl Russell
Lord Palmerston
Lord Derby
North British Railway meeting outlining traffic gains and anti amalgamation stance
The half year meeting at Princes Street Edinburgh chaired by Mr Hodgson MP heard of traffic rising to at least 34,000 in gross receipts and a higher dividend despite rapid capital expansion. He warned against attempts to amalgamate Edinburgh and Glasgow with Caledonian and Scottish Central, pledging North British opposition and public-body support to keep the East Coast route unified. He urged shareholders to resist threats of consolidation and to safeguard Edinburgh and Glasgow’s place in the system.
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North British
Princes-street
Edinburgh
Hodgson
M.P
Caledonian
Western Railways
Western
Glasgow
Scotland
Scottish Central
Glasser
North British Company
Edinbugh and Glasgow Railway
Atinburgh
Salkeld
The
Catenouiv
Edinburg
Edinlwall
Renu Fe
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General Coopér
G. T. Beauregard
Teattery Wagner
Battery Wagner
Fort Johnson
Foo ‘Ub Bay
Keit
Bryan
Keitt
Elliott
Fort de F
New York Press
Louisville
Wood
Pepram
M‘cook
Thomas
Monaxy Mguy
Rome
Johnston
Morria Taland
Haskell
Atlanta
Appea
Jackson
Vicksburg
Deer Creek
Jamey Clark
Thomas Hillford
Johnson
Hewett
Simms
Vaughan
Lakers Creek
Osterhaus
Dellis
Grant
South
Havannah
Juarez
Trafic
Forey
Martinique
Manuel Paine
Doblado
Comonfort
St. Domingo
Rivera
Puerto Plata
Coburg Zeitung
Gontort
Russell
Electric and International Telegraph
Railway Intelligence
Pesta
Herat
Teheran
Sher Ali Khan
Dost Mahomed
Affghanistan
Sultan Murad Mirza
Khorasan
Persia
Hosrrvar
Erne
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