28 Jan 1864
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1864
Page
3
A harsh polemic denounces copperheads and traitors with urging repentance and humility. The speaker calls for concealment, conscience, and retreat as rebellion wanes and freedom’s tide advances, depicting enemies as venomous reptiles.
The article extols the Smithsonian Institution in Washington founded about fifty years ago by James Smithson. It notes its Norman freestone architecture, grounds, and role as a depository for the National Museum. It details the Museum Halls, a 1400 pound meteorite called the Av Isa and the Gallery of Art with a library of 25 000 volumes and portraits of North American Indians.
Soldier Wa. B. Rovuru describes the 75th Ohio on Folly Island near the south beach, reporting healthy conditions, no deaths in five months, fatigue duties on nearby islands, and ongoing efforts to restore full ranks. He praises the Athens Messenger’s visits to weary soldiers and notes several men reenlisting.
The article describes a lecture space in Washington with acoustic design and casual seating. Free lectures occur about twice weekly in winter, featuring Rev. Dr. Lord of New York City presenting on the Roman Empire. His program covers the empire's rise, Roman character, fall, civilization, Christianity, and the Papal Church, praised by a large audience.
The piece describes the Battle Cry of Freedom as a potent military anthem used in Grant and Blair’s campaigns. It notes how thousands joined the chorus as armies advanced, its spontaneous creation, and a vivid Vicksburg moment where troops sang amid heavy losses, rallying under the flag and the Union.
After months of hardship and battle, Union troops raised the Stars and Stripes over the rebel stronghold. General McPherson and staff stood on the Court House cupola and began the same song, signaling Union resolve under General Grant.
Special dispatch from January 1864 reports Jefferson Davis and Richmond circle through the confederacy via Jefferson Davis body servant Dennison. The servant describes Davis pressing to abandon Virginia as a defensive line, Lee opposing retreat, and talks of food shortages, pardoned prisoners, and prep for possible retreat. He recounts Davis’s health decline, household tensions, and harsh views on Yankee advances near Richmond and Charleston.
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes in the Boston Watchman and Register praising Abraham Lincoln. She notes his plain working man background, practical honesty, and self reliance shaping wartime leadership. The piece highlights public reaction from Europe’s courts to American politics and Lincoln’s direct style.
Recent African explorers debunk the flat desert myth noting central Sahara terraces 900 to 1,200 feet high and ravines with granite hills. The land holds fossil shells and vast salt beds. oases emerge where artesian wells bring water. Arabs sank wells to reach a subterranean sea rumored across eras.
In Moore's Rural New Yorker the piece notes piano playing and embroidery as common domestic arts yet stresses bread making and turkey roasting as essential for a good temper in marriage. It laments housework as low status though many country homes retain grandmotherly homeliness and reveals uneven appeal for women to pursue domestic labor.
The passage argues that intelligent American girls face social exclusion if employed in wealthy homes and that low wages prevent skills like teaching or dressmaking from attracting capable workers. It warns this leads to a flood of inadequately trained house help and poor kitchen management, stressing the need to elevate housework status and wages.
A fragment from the Hancock Jeffersonian recounts Nasby presenting a provocative abolitionist plan to prove the strong should rule the weak. The experiment ends in failure as a scheme to lift 600 men collapses amid farcical, chaotic scenes led by Podhammer and Mrs. Sniffles.
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