Search Results

Consul at Antwerp, reporting that the master of the American ship "Richard Robinson" left George Edwards

McKean, Chief Justice of Utah Territory, Salt Lake City.

Hotel, New York City. Sir: In answer to your letter of the 30th ult.

Schley and yourself were employed to conduct the defence in the interest of the United States.

Schley, to whom the interests of the Government in the matter were confided by my predecessor, Mr.

to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th instant, in relation to the steamer "Quaker City

(copy enc.) case of "Quaker City." see Ins. Book B. p.170.

If they were in violation of any law of the United States, the U. S.

If you were to send the money which these people ask, the probability is that you would receive by express

Such has been the experience of some individuals who were so unwise as to test the matter.

Your letter informed me that the prospects of a certain Senator, as a public man, were blasted by a proposition

—Your clients were purchasers at the Marshal's sale.

pursuance of estimates for the general Judicial expenses of the Government; and such payments as these were

Hence I am obliged to exercise the greatest circumspection in expenditure, in order to avoid exceeding

Jones, Postmaster, New York City. Sir: Mrs. Clara L.

The proper papers were prepared, and Davis was arrested.

City) On the 27th day of February, 1869, Attorney General Evarts addressed a letter of instructions to

On the 18th of May, 1869, Davis was arrested in the City of New York, upon a bench warrant from the United

Edwards Pierrepont, No. 16 Wall street, New York City.

Perry, Esq. were retained by the War Department to conduct these suits, on the part of the United States

It is very unfortunate that the funds were not at hand for defraying the expenses of the term at Tyler

did not take his office in time to make a requisition for, and receive, the funds—and therefore none were

Hinman, Atlantic City Wyoming Terr.

Moreover the estimates upon which the appropriations for the Department for the current year were made

Potts, Governor, &c, Virginia City, Montana T.

McKean, Chief Justice, &c, Salt Lake City, Utah Terr.

Garden City Planing Mill Co. Chicago, Ill.

If it were an illegal exaction, as you suppose, your remedy is to sue him for the amount.

instant, enclosing sundry papers relative to the seizure by certain parties of a piece of land in Denver City

S. to certain land in Denver City The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes

Nellie had two children, Lewis and Eva Morrell, from a previous marriage, and she and Benton Wilson were

Wilson named his first child "Walter Whitman Wilson," after the poet; their other children were Austin

one used in Brady's Washington studio; the "Lincoln chair" was given to Brady by the President in 1860

It had been Lincoln's chair in the House of Representatives before new chairs were installed in 1857,

Nor would enter upon such a life again, after it, were a thousand years of mortal existence promised

that the libel was filed upon an affidavit of the Spanish Consul at Charleston, before any directions were

that the reason the Marshal was obliged to put the crew and passengers on shore, was because they were

relating to this reservation, but that there is such a suit pending in the Court of Claims in this city

opinions upon some of the questions—but not in such a formal and official manner that I understood they were

have only mentioned the foregoing from an uncertainty whether the President and the Secretary of War were

Boisé City, Idaho T.

At your request, these papers were sent to the U. S.

Marshal at New York City to you, and a letter of H. W.

Esq. who was employed as special counsel in the case, and asked him his opinion, whether the charges were

Phelps on the bill that three gentlemen were employed to do this printing by Judge Person, one of the

telegraphed to him that there ought to be a Commissioner of the United States Court resident in that city

I was not aware, and the Solicitor was not aware, that there was any Commissioner in that city, and we

add that the reason for telegraphing instead of writing was, that the Solicitor understood that you were

then in Nashville, and were about to leave the city.

You will please accept my thanks for the manner in which those services were rendered.

the matter of certain suspended land entries, by Hiram Hayes, at the Bayfield, Wis. district, which were

These services were rendered under the sanction of the War Department, given in a letter trans. bill

in regard to an opinion of the Attorney General in reference to the bounty payable to soldiers who were

made to the State Department, or the Treasury Department, by one of which the firm of Person & French were

But as the firm were employed as counsel, I should suppose that any bill for their services must be collected

any such request should be granted by the Commissioner—although there might be cases in which, if I were

the absence of the Attorney or his Assistant, pursuant to these rules,—and perhaps, if the parties were

If the picture were here, or in any northern city, I have no doubt that I could get a copy that would

Phelps & Company were referred from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Attorney General by the late

That you were an officer of the United States Government, at the time you filed the information; 2d.

the record of the Court which you handed me, in which it does not appear distinctly what the proofs were

, or what points were contested and argued at the hearing on your petition to be declared informer; and

It is true, perhaps, that the fact that you were an officer of the United States at the time you filed

Attorney in behalf of the United States presents no facts or grounds against your claim that were not

As I have already stated, my inquiries addressed to you were made at the request of the Secretary of

whom the contents of your letter would have been communicated—but at present he is absent from this city

Madison may have some responsibility for the death of Boley, but are inclined to the opinion that there were

Box 5952, New York City.

Attorneys in Vermont and New York were that they should cause the leaders of the Fenian attack on Canada

to be arrested, prosecuted and punished; but to allow the poor dupes whom they had swindled and were

Harrison, Esq. of Deer Lodge City, Montana Terr. of the 27th ult. enclosing his account for services

remanded to the general docket for further proceedings, either at or after the hearing thereof, but two were

He is the American Consul for this place so you see there's no knowing how it may turn out, I am having

But more than all your poems, more than all you ever can write, are to me; yet they were very much to

It is the account of the death of those persons who were overtaken by the snow storm in the mountains

is the only known surviving photograph taken by Fredricks, though Traubel’s comments suggest there were

New York City Feb 8 th 1870 "Walt Whitman" O! Beloved Soul, so great! so beautiful!

A kiss from the lips of one born beneath a tropical sun a daughter of the Crescent City.

Whitman The poems of Walt Whitman have been much praised and wondered at in this country since they were

sometimes in that of Hiawatha , sometimes absolutely prosaic, but always original and audaciously American

In the most outward city pageant the open-eyed poet sees what the mere world-eyed mass never sees.

hive-bees, The North—the sweltering South—Assyria—the Hebrews—the Ancient of ancients, Vast, desolated cities—the