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Newspaper
Beaver Dam Argus
Location
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1861
Page
2
Fragments discuss scales used for practical tests with Fairbanks scales praised for accuracy while some condemned. Includes notes from Governor Orrice Sept 7 1864 stating non-candidacy for office and emphasis on unity and preservation of the Union.
Fragmentary text references Washington police systems and disloyalty concerns. Mentions governors, agents in Missouri and Maryland, troop movements, and potential large numbers of troops. Overall coherence is low and likely a garbled historical wire service extract.
The massachusetts contingent under Gov Andrew departs Washington on the third of the month. About fifty men twenty five barges wagons one hundred eight horses five Liepiual wagons and six aid arrived. The Emigration figures show total arrivals to New York up to Aug twenty first 22,869 a drop of fifteen thousand from last year. A convention was called to order Tuesday chaired by J P McGregor with P Hi Gresbeck secretary. An address was adopted urging a convention at Madison September twenty fourth at ten in the morning to finalize a Brute ticket.
A整理ed list shows Grand Jurors from Ashippun Oak Grove Trenton Lomira and other towns and Petit Jurors including Westford Chester Prenton and Fox Lake with dozens of names and towns, reflecting the county circuit records. The document also includes notes on officials and a brief wartime style recap of ceremonies and local governance.
An Albion Maine based organization named ApMep Resistance to the Waa Tax gathered in Freedom for a muster last Saturday. Several hundred men paraded, with one company displaying uniforms and muskets as they organized to resist government tax collection.
Report of a Northern Central line derailment near Cockneville with Ira Harris cavalry casualties four killed and several wounded three mortally injured. Engineer arrested after withdrawing his locomotive amid fire from soldiers. Other notes include Hannibal and St Joe railroad progress toward Platte River bridge and river crossing recovery efforts. Reports from Washington Syracuse and Baltimore cover skirmishes, conventions, and political discourse around war policies and party harmony with named figures such as Col Kilpatrick General Pope and Thomas G Alford among others. Provisional comments on Richmond Whig satire about Hatteras forts and a sewing machine advertisement concludes the dispatch.
The Republican State Central Committee calls a State Convention in Madison on September 14 to elect delegates. districts to be formed in Doty County with three towns and one ward each. Delegates urged to oppose partisan nominations and back a union ticket honoring the Constitution laws and wartime enforcement.
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