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Newspaper
Aurora Commercial
Location
Aurora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1865
Page
1
A rustic sleighing night tale turns comic with a toll stop and a kiss amid cold air. The New York Tribune letter describes Japan’s rural life in tranquil, noiseless detail, contrasting peasant patience with Western bustle and noting quiet farm scenes across Tokaido and fields.
The Chattanooga Gazette reports the government plans soon to vacate a large Lookout Mountain building that has served as a hospital and that parties are preparing to convert it into a hotel.
A lengthy Civil War era dispatch from Stevenson's Station Virginia describes troop movements from Indianapolis to Harper's Ferry and Charleston, crossing rail lines and mountains. The narrative covers the 146th Indiana Vols, their enlistment March to April, the death of the President, health, and hospital losses. It also recounts a side excursion to Seroda India with observations on a remarkable local female community, their customs, and a matron’s hospitality. A closing note quotes The New York Times on advertising during market downturns.
An account of a Seminole myth explaining racial origins and superiority. Great Spirit creates three groups with different skin colors after washing, then presents three packages. The black man selects first and receives tools of labor, copper-toned man gets hunting and warfare gear, and the white man receives pens ink and paper, seen as the mind’s engines and foundation of white superiority.
Nelson Mitchell of Charleston, a lawyer and anti slavery advocate, defended black prisoners from the 64th Massachusetts. He argued in a military court that jailed men were free, earning a frail respect from South Carolina jurors before dying in poverty. His nightly vigil with his wife and children beneath an American flag marked his steadfast humanity amid wartime hardship and social coldness.
The New York Commercial Advertiser notes Col Eli S Parker Aid-de-Campion and secretary to Gen Grant visits New York at the Astor House. Parker, pure Iroquois and head chief of the Six Nations, speaks of the war, the surrender of Lee, and displays Red Jacket’s 1792 medal engraved by Rittenhouse. He has held civil engineering posts in New York and federal service, with prior Galena and Dubuque work on post offices hospitals and customs houses.
Government notice explains under the 1865 act that letters mailed without postage are sent to the Dead Letter Office and treated as unpaid. Stamps on letters are lost and mail often fails to reach recipients. The Chicago Journal comments on state authorities adopting Confederate uniforms for convicts and officers as a remark.
Gesrxat Haren issues a decree directing former enslaved people be informed of their freedom after swearing allegiance. Landowners must write contracts with freedmen for current year work, pay in kind, with half-crop as fair compensation and subsistence until harvest. Noncompliance risks crop forfeiture and potential relocation of freedmen to inland colonies.
rumor says Canadian authorities seek Harrison H. Dodd who left city last fall in haste. Locals hope the requisition succeeds as Dodd has many friends here who would welcome him back. A prior exit used a rope. If granted, he may depart on a longer journey by ass conveyance to cut. Nervous elderly man paid two blacksmiths to move, then asked where they would live. reply: Tom Smith moves to my shop and I move to his.
A scrambled column cites politics, social norms, and curiosities: portraits once hung in Connecticut’s Capitol, a New York police dismissal over gender attire, Paris hair jokes, a grant funded soldier home, a negro notary appoin tment in New York, Mormon demographics in Iowa, child Sunday play, and a cryptic question about silkworms vs buckwheat cakes.
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