Salient World News and Finance From The Week
A wide miscellany notes gold at 129 on the 10th, 552,244 Indiana schoolchildren, $20,000,000 in new paper currency by Maximilian, and Chilean loan of $6,000,000 from Baring Brothers. Reports cover a St Louis baptism of a murderer, ship incumbents Quinebaug and Idaho near launch, Montana state convention plans, cattle imports rules, French legislative response on Mexico, Missouri legislative delays, Texas secession proposals, and a series of international incidents surrounding the Fenian movement, Spain, and South American union ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Maximilian
Friends of Semmes
Baring Brothers
London
George Starr
St. Louis
Quinebaug
Idaho
Meagher
Montana
Virginia City
McCulloch
Canada
French Corps Legislatif
Mexico
Missouri
Texas
Red
Trinity Rivers
Samuel Covert
Roosa
Lebanon
Ohio
Baker
Washington
Cobb
Peterson
Ars
Treasury
Lincoln
White House
United States
Liverpool
John Minor Botts
Fort Leavenworth
Pacific Railroad
Fort Riley
Lawrence
Omsha
Nakes
Chicago
Rufus Lord
New York
Pennsylvania
Raleigh
N. C
Wirt
Ecuador
Chile
Peru
Spain
Panama
Grand
McKenna
Rogers
United States Express
Johnson
City Post Office
Postsnaeter-General
Mexicam
Mazatlan
Political matters sweep Congress and states
The report covers Gen. Joe Johnston testifying before the Reconstruction Committee in Washington, the California registry law passing both houses, a concurrent revolution supporting Congress, Thaddeus Stevens poised to vote for Tennessee delegation admission, and Virginia and Kentucky political moves. Also notes Gen. Meade denying a governor candidacy and Seward’s stance on Johnson policy and Southern delegation admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Johnston
Washington
Committee On Reconstruction
California
Congress
Thad. Stevens
Tennessee
Virginia
Cowper
South
Union
Republic
Meade
Pennsylvania
Seward
Johnson
Kentucky
Southern News reflects postwar tensions and oddities
A varied Southern story set notes testifying about oaths to the Confederacy, trials and punishments in Alabama, political pardons in Virginia and North Carolina, and incidents from Richmond to New Orleans. Reports include Longstreet’s insurance role, Kinney Jr. death, and a cavalry-era clash aboard a steamer in Louisville where soldiers caused a disturbance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
New York
Gen. Palmer
Kentucky
James Harvey Wells
William Weary
Samuel A. Berry
Albany
N. Y
Kinney, Jr
New Orleans
Kinney
Maj. Corwyn
Sheridan
Archbishop Purcell
Catholic Telegraph
Columbia
8. C
Wade Hampton
Petersburg
Louisville
St. Louisa
Political unrest and Fenian activity reported abroad
Reports from New York describe Senatorial headquarters swelling with money and arms. A Potomac army veterans deputation met President Roberts, offered service with quick employment. European dispatches note Fenian stir with mass arrests, Dublin leaders, and Irish military raids. English troops bolster Ireland as Stephens signals readiness with 825 men. A New York rumor about the steamship City of London circulates as a canard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones's Wood
New York
O'Mahony
Ireland
Boston
Stephens
Canada
Montreal
Navy Island
Suspension Bridge
Gladstone
England
United States
Cullen
Dublin
Army of the Potomac
Roberts
le Ideal
London
Fremont Urges Congress to Endorse Mexican Loan
General Fremont and Robert Dale Owes press Congress to support a new Mexican loan of fifty million dollars while Treasury notes total fourteen million in five dollar bills and the overall issue reaches one hundred ten million. The Treasury secretary suspends cattle importation except for Europe, triggering wide reaction in Fall River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fremont
Robert Dale
Congress
Treasury Department
Secretary of the Treasury
Drealér
Europe
Fall River
Disappearance of Nathan Buffinton and war stock fallout
The report notes the sudden disappearance of Nathan Buffinton in Massachusetts and unpaid debts totaling 90 000 dollars. It recounts 800 American vessels sailing under the English flag to evade rebel privateers, and provides Philadelphia Ledger petroleum exports by year from 1862 to 1865. It cites Texas Convention debt nullification measures and a Treasury note redemption incident, plus rising fire risk and vigilance committees such as one in Saginaw to deter arson amid market decline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. H W. Green
Connecticut Fire Insurance Company
Hartford
Conn
Fort Garry
Wester
Meigs
National Cemetery
Alexandris
Harper's Ferry
Shenandoah Valley
Ordnance Department
Springfield
Mass
Thomas
Reconstruction Committee
Swayne
Grierson
Howard
Clara Burton
Texas
Legislative Department
Finance Committee
Treasury Department
Treasury
Indy
Saginaw
Series of fires, deaths, and accidents across the US and Japan
Reports several tragic events: Edward Ryan commits suicide in Nashville Indiana. a Beaver Dam Wisconsin fire destroys $25,000 in goods. Hank Wilson is slain in LaMoille Minnesota by tavern keeper Hammond. A huge January Yeddo fire in Japan wipes out 30,000 homes and 30 deaths. Other items include suicides, a Stillwater Minnesota sled accident, a Kansas churchhouse fire killing three children, injuries from a horse incident in Washington, a New York cotton fire, a Red River steamer cotton loss with one dead US soldier, Michigan fatalities, Titusville block fire, a Stewart County Georgia plantation killing, a Davenport Iowa fight, a deadly Lockwood explosion near Memphis, a costly Olean fire, Madison Wisconsin barn blaze, railway accidents, and a strange court case in Bedford Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Ryan
la Salle, Jr
Nashville
Front Street
Beaver Dam
Wisconsin
Hank Wilson
Durbank
Lamoille
Mion
Hammond
Yeddo
Japan
John Jennens
Manchester
New Hampshire
Malcolm
Stillwater
Minn
Doniphan County
Kansas
Hitchcock
Rapaway
Washington
New York
Mary Hein
Shreveport
New Orleans
Red River
U. S
Hill
Pittsfield
Washtenaw County
Michigan
Titusville
Moore
Stewart County
Georgia
Davenport
Iowa
Lockwood
Memphis
Olean
Fred Bell
Turners’ Hall
Madison
Wis
Sinoia Central Railroad
Carbondale
Makanda
James Place
Bedford
Ind
Benjamin Newland
J. Madison Evans
Sedley
Springfield
Taylor Headley
Ill
Chicago and St. Louis
Seymour
James
William English
Gen. W. Morgan
Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad
Painter Falls From Scaffold In Cincinnati Then Continues Work
A painter sixty feet up in Cincinnati felt his rope give way on the scaffold but managed to grab and steady himself, reaching the ground safely and resuming work. The report also details a string of separate incidents including Cal. Bowers killed on the Hudson line, mill thefts in Middleport, river drownings, a family loss on the Ohio, a self-inflicted shooting in Chicago, and various accidents and crimes across several states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Cal. Bowers
Grant
Garrison
Hudson River
Gen
West Port
Major Hill
Middleport
N. Y
Hei
Ohio River
Cairo
Southerner
Atlantic
Wm. Thompson
Wm. Jackson
Chicago
Titusville
Indiana
Des Moines
Croton
Bonaparte
Rochester
Political debate on constitutional amendments and civil rights
The article describes a congressional session where a constitutional amendment on racial voting rights is rejected, amendments around apportionment and taxation discussed, and the session postponed. It notes a House inquiry into the 28th Illinois infantry still in Brownsville Texas and a civil rights bill recommitted, with trade policy changes on British North American Provinces and a Stevens amendment increasing bituminous coal tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Wilson
United States
Pomeroy
House
Reconstruction Committee
Tennessee
United States of America
Messrs
Rogers
Grider
Messie
Washburne
Boutwell
North Carolina
Illinois Central Railroad
U. S
New York
West Indies
Missouri
Saulsbury
Delaware
Congress
Berkely
Jefferson Counties
Virginia
West Virginia
Committee On Reconstruction
South
Sciick
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Europe
Sumner
Doolittle
Louisiana
Texas
Florida
Berkeley
Jefferson
Committee
Kelley
Pennsylvania
Bonnefant
Maryland
Montgomery Blair
Rerrerdy Johnson
Sth
Finance
Lincoln
Mesars
Morrill
Yates
Clara Barton
Committee On the Judiciary
U-3
Supreme
Rock Island
Yeas
Doolitle
28Th
Olinois Infantry
Brownsville
Judiciary Committee
Stevens
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Bloomington
Whlmington
Marseilles
Iows Senate
Jeff. Davis
Lowa House
General Assembly
Peilroads
One Prickett
Mitchell
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Gazette
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
James Stephens
Napoleon
Political Matters
Southern News
Lee
Richmond
Jeff Davis
Mobile
Ala
G. B. Lamar
Savannah
Alabama
Brownlow
Grenada
Miss
Nashville Times
W. Duncan
Andersonville
Interebel
Longstreet
Great Southern and Western Life and Accident Insurance Company
Dick Taylor
Lake Pontchartrain
Mr. Lorin Blodgett
Marcellon
Columbia County
Gen. Lytle
Lewis Robinson
John Reese
Reese
Aira
Nannie Byers
Hillman
Paddy
Litchfield
Montgomery County
Methda
Fiake
Motalig
Gwalls
Congressional Deings
Jemnesean
Masonville
Appieton A
Corn—Perton, Fair
Rio
Java
Orb
N.Y
Cors
Necoon
RSA
Evenann
Garden City
Crosby's Opera House
Chicago, Inc
Ste
Greenbacks
Wheeler & Wilson
Ling
Penn
Anger
Erie
Rome
Crosby
Patie
George Hoa
Bach
Eran
Avery
Dallar
Agenys
Bates
Garden City Gift Enterprise
PH Boattt
Clark Ms
Chienge, A
Mberal Dentin
Eee
Sanat
Seleeaarsse Et
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