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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1862
Page
2
A Democratic speaker argues against provoking the Southern Confederacy to ensure future union and reconstruction. The dialogue features a Confederate window visit, shifting terms to imply reconciliation and rebirth, noting military discipline and a peculiar reformist medicine mention.
The piece argues that Union feeling exists in much of the South though suppressed by rebellion and secession, with some urging soldiers to resist while others favor restoring Federal authority. In South Carolina the sentiment may be stronger yet the piece cautions about public avowal and political risk.
A Civil War column reflects on Yorktown and Corinth as likely decisive clashes and notes Governor Harvey of Wisconsin died by drowning while aiding wounded at Pittsburg Landing. Harvey, forty two, had been active in hospital relief efforts and perished near Savannah Tennessee after slipping from a boat.
Bishop McFarland of Providence departed the city on Tuesday evening for Rome to participate in the canonization of the Japanese martyr scheduled for next month.
Town meeting elected a full slate of officers including Moderator D Bennett and Town Clerk Peter Gladding. The assembly set a town tax plan for 1862 totaling 16 650 for council asylum poor state and school needs and approved street lamp hours and night soil cart usage with adjournment sine die.
This item reports the death of Jeremiah Luther, age about 21, the eldest son of Jeremiah and Martha Luther, a member of Company I, 2nd Regiment, in the Civil War. He suffered a shattered forearm and fatal abdominal wound at Yorktown while attached to Topographical Engineers. Governor Sprague attended the camp and consoled the family. Luther’s death casts gloom over the town and his remains will be brought home for burial.
During the current week the Society of the State Street M Z Church purchased a cone and half story cottage on Constitution Street, formerly occupied by Capt. Francis L. Diman. The move fills a long standing need for a parsonage, with credit due to the Industrial Society women for their support and the parsonage becoming a fixed town institution.
The members of Co. G Second Rhode Island Regiment in town sent home 851 for their families. School Lands were leased at auction for building lots, with good attendance and satisfactory results. Jeremiah Luther Sr. receives notes of high character and patriotism from Chaplain Jameson and engineers after his son’s death near Yorktown.
Ossian BE Dover performed to a well filled Hall in Bristol last week earning hearty applause from citizens. The Chicago Tribune warns that spring grain crops in Northern and Central Illinois face risk due to prolonged rain saturating fields and delaying plowing and planting as about 50,000 farmers leave to fight for the Union.
A private letter dated April 9 reports two or three iron clad steamers expected at Roanoke Inlet from Norfolk. On April 7 gunboats Virginia with 600 men moved to Elizabeth City to capture rebel soldiers, with eighty captured after some fled. Major Allen of the 4th Rhode Island commanded Provost duties and earned citizen support. A Providence letter notes shell accidents at Fort Pulaski and Jacksonville evacuation deemed necessary amid rebel reinforcements.
Eyewitness account praises Generals Foster and Barnside for calm leadership during battle. The narrator recalls marching through mud and woods, facing shells and horsemen, aided by Foster who rode ahead with thirty R. I. Battery volunteers.
A letter from Capt. Gregory of the U S brig Bohio describes a Gulf blockade tactic. On August 8 the fast schooner Henry Travers tried to flee but the Bohio used a smoke screen and fired steam to deter pursuit. The prize, carrying coffee and soap from Nassau, was captured for a value of fifty thousand dollars.
The issue previews a Harriet Prescott story and presents a table of contents featuring fiction poetry and essays including Man under Sealed Orders My Garden Lyrics of the Street The South Breaker Methods of Study in Natural History Spirits The Titmouse Saltpetre as a Source of Power Weather in War Lines written under a Portrait of Ther Theodore Winthrop Hindrance The Statesmanship of Richelieu Under the Snow Slavery in its Principles Development and Expedients The Volunteer Speech of Honorable Preserved Doe in Secret Canons Reviews and Literary Notices.
Massachusetts legislators debated a bill to grant further aid for the Hoosac Tunnel. The Senate defeated the bill by one vote, adopting a substitute to appoint commissioners to report on economical methods, costs, potential value and income. The Governor could take possession of the railroad under mortgage and operate completed portions, with the company having a ten year redemption right.
Gopry's Lady's Book for May praised as highly creditable. The engraving May Flowers is superb and the volume offers plates music patterns drawing lessons recipes and a large amount of reading matter.
New York meeting seeks aid for families driven from Jacksonville as troops left. Three men stayed behind to save property, rumored killed. Fugitives' losses were heavy. meanwhile Mr Andrews's body was found near Coventry on election day suggesting murder over a small sum of money.
Report states Thomas Campbell of Co H 3d Penn Island Regiment was killed by a solid shot during siege at Fort Putasxr. He died within an hour after being struck. The piece notes the New York concert saloons have been closed by law, describing them as nuisances long decried by public opinion.
Fragmented text describes observers noting a Christian or allied group and two week to ten day timeline before fighting resumes. Mentions troops on both sides poorly organized and fed, artillery readiness, and need for fresh carriages and equipment. Concludes campaign can be ready in a couple of weeks.
Reports from the era describe heavy losses in an Illinois regiment at Pittsburg with 69 killed and 291 wounded out of 600. A Providence store owned by Alexander Duncan suffered minor fire damage while Davis Yackett & Co. faced water damage. The steamer Oriziba carried 140 passengers and large sums in specie from San Francisco to New York and England. A Connecticut anecdote contrasts wooden nutmegs with iron projectiles after Fort Pulaski.
George Bancroft Dean, son of Ebénézer Dean of this city, died of brain fever on the 3d inst at Carolina City North Carolina. He enlisted at Fall River Rhode Island in the Fourth Rhode Island Regiment in Burnside's expedition. He was 17 years old. Savannah Republic editor Sixits, Carr Sixits, is reported as a Pulaski prisoner.
General Burnside’s forces landed near Rodman and moved to Elizabeth City where a strong force was entrenched. The rebels opened fire but were routed after a brief engagement. about 60 enemy casualties reported. Our troops suffered 12 killed and 48 wounded with two hours of occupation.
April reports from Washington discuss branch post office charges, naval appropriations for iron clad steam vessels, and Admiral Dupont's remarks on the Fort Pulaski operation. Updates from April 21 to 23 note Treasury coal shipment limits, presidential movements to Acquia Creek and Fredericksburg, a prison death at old Capitol, and Genoa Butler Cameron arrest context.
The Hartford flood hits 28 feet 8 inches on April 21, two feet short of the 1854 high mark. In Ogdensburg a small boat capsized while editor Hopkine and law student Geo Church attempted a row to the dam. Church drowned. Hopkins found by the lighthouse and expected to recover.
The Journal of Commerce reports Mr. Sheffield of Rhodereland speaking in the House against the habit of pitting Western against Eastern states. He condemns mixing national welfare with party politics and praises principled counsel in Congress.
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