Wojciech Horacy Kossak (31 December 1856 – 29 July 1942) was a Polish painter and member of the celebrated Kossak family of artists and writers. He was the son of painter Juliusz Kossak, and twin brother of freedom fighter Tadeusz Kossak, and the father of two highly talented literary daughters, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska and Magdalena Samozwaniec and of a painter son, Jerzy Kossak.
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Date: 31 December 1857
By the arrival at this port last evening of the United States mail steamship Arago, we receive four days' later intelligence from Europe. The Financial news from abroad offers nothing worthy of special comment. Affairs were much the same as at last advices. There had been further failures in Great Britain: in the North of Europe the crises continues with very little change.
Date: 01 January 1858
The R. M. steamship Niagara, from Liverpool on the 19th ult, with three days' later news from Europe, and now fully due at Halifax, had not been heard from at a late hour last night. A heavy westerly gale was blowing off the coast, and the weather was otherwise unfavorable.
Date: 01 January 1858
The ship Hibernia, of London from Quebec, for Belfast, was water-logged and abandoned Dec. 6. Crow landed here by the Hermann. By Telegraph to Elwood Walter, Esq. NORFOLK, Wednesday, Dec. 30. The clipper ship Grey Eagle, of Philadelphia, from City Point for Rio, put in here dismasted.
Date: 31 December 1857
In the midst of the fillibuster excitement we have another element turning up to plague the Administration and ? its embarrassments. "Extremes meet,"--and Nicaragua at one end and Kansas at the other, rush upon us with startling events at the same instant. The intelligence that the Constitution of Kansas has been ? with the Pro-Slavery clause is a bomb-shell which the Administration did not anticipate.
Date: 31 December 1857
Johnson County, Kansas, gives 2,000 majority for Slavery. Thirteen hundred votes were cast at Oxford. Wyandotte gives 14 majority against Slavery. Governor DENVER had given up the Territorial arms to the militia, Various rumors were in circulation relative to affairs at Fort Scott, but none of them are of an authoritative character.
Date: 31 December 1857
Fourth attempt to launch the Great Eastern
Date: 01 January 1858
I have but little news to send you from Hang Kong by this mail. It seems probable, however, that within a month from now the inactivity which the British naval forces have preserved in China since last December will give place to active hostilities. Admiral SEVEOUR maintains a strict blockade of the Canton River, and a great fleet of vessels-of-war is lying in this,...
Date: 01 January 1858
By the steamship Tennessee, Capt. FORBES, arrived this morning from Vera Cruz the 21st inst., we have most important news from the Mexican Republic. The new Constitution has been over-turned and done away with forever; the Federal Councils have been broken up and dispersed; COMONFORT declared sole and absolute Dictator,
Date: 01 January 1858
Comm Council refuses to pay his Law Expenses