FIVE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE; The War Preparations in Great Britain; A WAR THOUGHT TO BE INEVITABLE (12/23/1861)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 12/23/1861

[Homer_J_Simpson]

WASHINGTON, Sunday, Dec. 22.

The Government to-day received intelligence brought by the last steamer from Europe, from Gen. SCOTT, stating that he intended to take passage in the next steamer for the United States. The General does not state the object of his return, but he undoubtedly brings information to our Government of important movements abroad. It must be a serious matter, or Gen. SCOTT would not return so speedily, for it is well known that he had made arrangements to be absent a long time.

A gentleman occupying a high position in Paris writing to a friend in this city, says that the impression was very general in the best informed circles in France and England, that a rupture between England and the United States is inevitable.

Drafts for the fourth installment of ten per cent, on the third fifty million loan were drawn yesterday.

Mush interest is excited by the circulation of a pamphlet explanatory of Secretary CHASE's system of finance, the arrangement and details being to show that by its adoption not only would the strength of the Union be increased, but the country rendered entirely independent of foreign capital.

The Missouri Republican announces authoritatively that Senator POLK has joined the rebels at Memphis' and that JOHNSON, the other Missouri Senator, has been with the rebels in Western Virginia since last July. Why the delay in expelling them from the Senate, and allowing loyal men to fill their places?

Of ever forty overcasts thrown away by the retreating rebels at Drainsville, only two were of woolen.

A colored servant of Col. JACKSON, who commanded one of the regiments at Drainesville, while in charge of the Colonel's horse, scouted on the outskirts of the field, captured two rebels and brought them into camp.

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Five Days Later from Europe: The War Preparations in Great Britain – 2
News from Washington: The Unexpected Return of Gen. Scott – 2-3
Editorial: The Foreign News-How to Interpret It – 3-4
Editorial: The Stone Fleet at Charleston – 4
Thurlow Weed on European Misconceptions – 4
Editorial: The Rebel Craving for Maryland– 4
Editorial: The Weather in its War Aspects – 4-5
Materials for Heroes – 5
Arrivals in the City – 5

[Vigilanteman]

England and the City of New York both liked getting cheap cotton from the south. While neither was particularly fond of slavery, each was willing to overlook it for economic reasons.

The worst race riots in the history of the United States were called draft riots and took place in NYC just after the battle of Gettysburg. Any black folks unlucky enough to find themselves at that time in the streets were beaten or lynched.

It took a substantial portion of the victorious Union Army to be diverted to NYC to finally quell those riots.

[PapaBear3625]

A lot of people were uninterested in being conscripted to fight and die for the sake of “fighting slavery”.