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Newspaper
Beaver Argus
Location
Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1863
Page
2
A theological exhortation cites gratitude to God, urging public worship and adherence to divine mercy. It warns that defiance of God and national policy invites divine wrath, while true devotion and private virtue promise blessing and national stability. CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
The governor outlines 1862 revenue in excess of 1861 by 1.03 million dollars and higher interest costs, details public debt and sinking fund, and urges legislative action on banking, taxes, and public works. He praises Pennsylvania’s volunteer mobilization, describes the 300,000 militia draft, and defends state support for troops while urging reforms to labor wages and a constitutional change to grant suffrage to troops on active duty.
Community appeal urges payment to avoid higher post January rates. Advertising prices rise after January 1863 due to paper costs. Notices include administrator and executor rates and a teachers meeting for a Institute. Also reports resignation of Captain John Card from the Oth Pa and death notices in nearby papers.
The document lists jurors assigned to various townships and boroughs for the adjourned court session on January Toth. Names include Daniel Reisenger Soeohnston Beaty James Scott Hanover War Carothers David Little Todd Simon Cottom Wm C Dunni George Engle Frampton Testa Nelson Fulton Kellys Clow Frazier Marshall Hook Johnston Kounl Shallenberger Wilson Sampada M'Daniel MLean Poe Vance and others across Brockway Rochester New Brighton Sewickly Chippewa Greene Marion and surrounding townships.
Our forces advanced against the enemy who were erecting works on the lake causing evacuation of the place and leaving fortification implements. We now occupy the country along the lake border while the enemy returns to transports down the Yazoo. Rebels plant batteries at Cypress Bend hindering interto for now.
Mr. Isaac N. Cook, paymaster, is arrested for a defalcation totaling about a quarter of a million dollars. The attorney connected with the case is said to have lost money by gambling. Simultaneous arrests occur of multiple gamblers in Cincinnati, Chicago, Louisville, and other cities, with roughly $70,000 of the funds unaccounted for.
A friend of Lieut Joseph Reed commanding Co Eyrth Pa Reserves sends a corrected roster of killed wounded and missing from his company in Beaver County. Names include Henry Gull John Edgar D Partington Geo Lehmer Henry Pheffer Wir Swager Alex Dawson Clark MConnell Edward Neville P Wilson James Wirok Casper Gull James Gaughey Samuel Hamilton and others with locations in Rochester Beaver New Brighton Brighton and Ohio townships.
Harrisburg letter reports on legislative actions with Geo Lawrference as Speaker in Senate and John Cessna as Speaker in House. It covers financial balances, war loan assets, ordinary receipts for 1862, and a notice that the U.S. Collector will be in Davenport for the district court week.
The Beav er County Agriculture Society Board of Management calls a meeting at the Court House on Monday the 19th inst at Leo Glocks, pé mi, to discuss business of importance to the Society. All members are urged to attend.
The article discusses genealogical notes on the Lawrence family linked to the Speaker of the Senate, and introduces Cegsna of Bedford County as the new Speaker of the House. It also reports a warning after a tragic lamp fire in Easton and early Civil War era dispatches from New Orleans noting 12,000 rebels at Fort Hudson.
An 1863 Washington dispatch describes the 168th Pennsylvania and Virginia drafted regiments marching to Fortress Monroe. Reports say discipline broke near the boats, with cavalry and militia clashing as soldiers resisted boarding, while guards and officers struggled to maintain order and escort government stores to the steamer.
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