The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-14
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1ugBrIo Tns BLOCKADE.
Ths Honston Telegraph. OF the lst, contain.
this welcome announcement:
arrived In Texas port within tue pas,
week, under British colors. brin ring As tons
OF cannon powder, q large amount of rif1s
powder, 700 600 army caps, 5000 cannon OF i.
mers, aud considerable amount Of coffee.
dry goods, baEgiug, rope, &c. We ackncw
ledge our indebtedaess to the purser for
New York 7ri6xse, Of December II.
REcRvIfs II 1RAxoB 1oB fHB uEIrxD srArss
The Chicago 7siSsse has the following: /
Paris letters state that in spi to OF All de-
NAL, II 10 well known that a large number
ofrecruits are ievying In Franc for the Uni.
ted Sta les. the old asribadi oGicers an
voiun teers are sl' being orEanixed for a spec.
dy departure, and are only waiting for lha
orders Of their chief TO embark. This chief,
Tending the barrieades of the Republic IN
Paris, fought the battles II the Empire in
the Crimes, then took service with }ari bal
II, and 10 now In that of Victor Ema ueI.
has given In his resignation, and was hourly
expected in Paris.
"BULL RUE" AND "DIxIl',Ix cAxApA.
Asshowing the current Of popular feeling
in Canada, we give tina following from Ia te
number of the Toronto Leader:
An oficer Of the Federal army has bean
paradirg e the streets OF Toronto in full DIR ess
these TWO or three days He is in bran new,
bright and ahininG Yankee uniform and
some indignation has been excited by the
impertinent display. It 10: remembered that
q British officer on duty In his own town
wears plain undress garb, and that In an
other country , ne would appear as an ordi'
should behave with equal propriefy. Per-
haps however, the suggestion presupposes
too much. Our visitor may not have another
coat. While paradiog King street yes,er-
two 'children of larger growth " cried cut
loudly, "Bull Rum" but instead of b,us hing
for his country, he seemed to acquire = more
magnificent strut by the OF tice ne attracted.
uncompiimentary rs il was.
On Friday evening last a scene occurred in
one OF our favorite saloons which shows the
current OF popular opinion in this city. A
valiant warrior, clothed in the blue and
brass Of the United States servire, entered
and seated himself at one Of the Is bles A
Southerher in the room-a gentlema an from
Louisiana unable to get home betrayed con-
siderable excitement, and presently called
mp the air, which, in this neighborhood, is
understood to be particularly offensive to
the North, and the voices OF all in the crowded
saloon Joined in q loud and stirring chorus.
something being said about Ball Run, he
soon beat hasty retreat, amid the ter
Of all present.
THR OHPICERs OF TIE NASHVILLE.
The London Illustrated Ners, of the 3oth No
vember last, contains a spirited wood cut OF
the capture and burning Of the Harvey Birch
by the Confederate steamer Nashville, and
thus speaks Of the officers CT the latter yes.
sell:
Cantain Pegram is an old officer of the
United States Navy, and bore q conspicuou
part in the Mexican war, in the Paraguay
waged by the English and French in ChinA.
Eor his distinguished Services, his naive
State, lrRAia, voted him, by the un nanjmous
voice of the General Assembly of the Legis.
iatnre, splendid sword, and Sir John Stir
ling, in his dispatches to the Admiralty.
makes the following ment ntion of him:
cit is impossible to speak too highly of the
American co operating party engas ed. Thew
were with the Rather, emulating each other,
in the thickest of the attack but my warm
est thanks in particular, are due to Lieute.
nant Pegram, the American senior officer
his encouragement Of the men, and cooiness
under heavy fire, and determined bravery
when surrounded by perseveriDg and re.
vengefuI foe, were conspicuous to all
First Lieutenant Fauntleroy was Abide.
Camp to General Johnston at the battle OF
Manassas Second Lieutenant Bennett served
there in the naval battery, while ne Young.
ster on board. named cary, received his an.
pointment as Midshipman in the Confederate e
Navy as a reward for distinguished gallantry
in the same action.
A FRBNcH OFFICER IN THR SERVICE OF rBr
SOUTH.
The Mobile Advertisr, of Wednesday, the
LIST inst, says:
BY a recent arrival at a Confederate DOR
from Havana, Lieut.. p Ehneau, late of th,
French army, came passenger, and is at pre.
sent in this city. Lieut.. Enneau has lately
been resident OF Ualifornia, where he de-
voted himself 20 organizing and drilling 8
corps OF carbiners, whose testimonials OF
their high appret iation of his service he bears
But preferring the reality to the image O,
war, and still more, preferring the side on
which the sympathies of his compatriots arr
enlisted, and where 50 much Of the blood OF
his race is to be found. as ready to ffow a,
that of the gallant Dreux- preferring this
side to that which has thrown disgrace DOR
the name OF ZOuave, and almost upon that O.
soldier, he has come to offer his sword to ths
cause Of the Con federacy.
RUN The BLOCKADE.
The Mobile ReSistsr AID Adooca.s says:
We had the pleasure Of visit yesterda,
from DIR. Hugh Martin, of Delaware, late u
> Consul at Matanzss, but who resigned tha
post In April last when that 9overnm de
elat ed war upon the South and its in st;tn