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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 06, 1862

Page

2

Fireproof safes and war news mix in weekly pages

Redding & Co. report week ending Feb 15 with foreign papers and the note that Wixper’s fireproof safes saved $14,000 in treasury notes from a great city fire. Burnside’s Victory March appears. Bates, Goldthwait & Co. offer English carpetings. Harvard election talk, Sumter in Gibraltar, Tuscarora’s coal dispute, Beauregard ill at Murfreesboro.

Redding & Co Wixper Treasury Ditson & Co Burnside

City of London to Rival City of New York Steamer

Liverpool and Inman Line plan the City of London, to be ready by Christmas, rivaling the City of New York. The City of Manchester undertakes a speed boost after 96 Atlantic passages and new boilers in Glasgow. Discussions in Parliament cover neutrality breaches and blockade enforcement, with Lord Palmerston noting suspensions over San Juan and Irish distress. Reports flag forthcoming naval and industrial shifts, including army estimates and public works, amid global news from Athens to Vienna.

Liverpool New York Nassau Confederate States Layard O’donoughue C. Fortescue British Columbia House of Lords Earl de Grey Lord Clyde Brighton House of Commons Scully North America Ireland Lord Palmerston Haliburton San Juan Maguire Robert Peel Palmerston Rome Italy Fish James Hudson Turin India Canada Sir Charles Wood Queen Victoria Albert Memorial Fund Moheget — & Co Cyrus W.e d Atlantic Telegraph London Merthier Tidril

Congressional action in Senate and House rounds up expenses

Senate discussed bankrupt law mail to Panama and naval pay bills. Committees reported on Western Department claims and equitable settlements for contractors. House advanced cadet numbers and Hanover Stadt dues, tabled bakeries removal, passed pensions discont, hospital chaplains, and post office funding. Adjourned after session items and amendments.

Maron Merchants of New York Panama Sherman Davis Home Guard Kentucky Sumner Capitol War Department Interior Department Morrill Committee of Conference Commission On Claims Western Department Dixon Secretary of the Navy Senate House Duell Kingdom of Hanover N. Y Secretary of War Blair Congress Philadelphia

Fort Pulaski Surrounded By Union Forces

Letters from Port Royal report Fort Pulaski entirely surrounded by Union troops and cut off from Savannah. New batteries are being erected while Savannah remains well fortified by rebels. Large rebel troops continue arriving and desertions rise as news of recent Union victories discourages the rebel service.

New York Port Royal Fort Pulaski Savannah

Yancey at Havana in Disguise Negotiations Reported

In New York Marco 5 reports steamer Columbia arrived from Havana. Yancey, in disguise, sailed on the rebel schooner Wide Awake toward the South. The Labuan captain, aboard a rebel ship, went to the English Consul in Havana and departed with the Columbia. Prize schooner Virginia Adams captured off Matanzas.

New York Marco Columbia Havana Almonte Vera Cruz Yancey South Labuan Harriet Lane Matanzas Virginia Adams Portsmouth Prim Doblado Soledad Orizaba Tehuacan Cordova

Skirmish at Keittsville and Price’s burning raids

From Missouri dispatches report Capt Montgomery’s Wright’s battalion surprised at Keittsville Barry county by about 850 rebels claiming Texan Ranger ties. Two Union soldiers slain one wounded while a rebel died. Rebels fled with 70 horses. two wagons of sutler stores burned at Harbine farm. Price’s forces burned Fayetteville arsenals mills and 100000 pounds of flour. residents flee amid Union sentiment rising among survivors. Price and allied leaders retreat toward the Boston Mountains as McCulloch and McIntosh move nearby.

Springfield Montgomery Wright Kiettsville Barry County McBride Harbine Price van Dorn McCulloch McIntosh Pike Boston Ben. McCulloch

Merritt sentenced for killing a secesh traitor in fall

New York March 5 Samuel H Merritt convicted of killing a secesh traitor last fall was sentenced to two years confinement in prison It is said the sentence aims to speed up pardon Gen Fremont evidence publication reportedly unauthorized Gen Hunter currently in Washington Illinois Constitutional Convention Springfield March 5 discussed an article barring negro and mulatto emigration and granting suffrage limits while the General Assembly must enact laws to implement the article The report passed 45 to 13 Latest from Columbus Curcaco March 5 Cairo dispatch says a regular line of steamers will start soon between Cairo and Columbus A tugboat now handles mail runs daily nothing else notable from below

London Madame Carisoglus Bucharest Washington Cameron van Wyck Prince of Wales Vienna Hartford Rodier Montreal Beau Jeff. Davis Miles South Carolina Conrad Louisiana Foote Tennessee Gaston Les Roxbury Col. Lee Ev Fosapta Poe Risch Ball’s Bluff Revere Schmitt Capt Dreher Putnam and Tremlett Lieut. Holmes Lieut Riedel Col Lee Hooper 15Th Regiment 15Th Boston Wightman Col. Corcoran Col. C Corinth National Bank of Vienna Fes France Athens Copenhagen Austria Prussia Supreme Council Tounton Seine Rome Paris Senate Baroche Napoleon M. Rierde Goyon Italy la Rochefocauld M. Billault Wasuhington EmruHpay Freemason’s Tavern Ohio Mr Adams United States America Queen Victoria Mr Morse Cyrus Field England Montanbeu Journal de Iberia New York Samuel H. Merritt Fremont Hunter Springfield Int General Assembly Curcaco The Tribune Cairo Columbus

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