Slavery's End in Mississippi and Texas Emigration Talk
The article discusses postwar Mississippi with freedpeople awaiting new labor arrangements under military law. It notes violence, reduced cotton, and Freedmen's Bureau guards against outrages. Texas faces ill feeling, home manufacture revival, and emigration to Brazil or Mexico amid unresolved loyalties and citizenship questions. The New England Agricultural Society hosts its second Concord exhibition with eight thousand dollars in premiums and rail access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Gen
Thomas
Freedmen's Bureau
Trey
Texas
Brazil
New Orleans
Mexico
Confederate States
United States
South
New England Agricultural Society
Concord
N. H
Stillman Humphrey
New England
Crime and Riots Linked to Army Discharges and Money Motive
A historical analysis cites epidemic crime waves tied to mass army demobilization and camp followers. It blames desolution after conflict, bummers, deserters, and bounty jumpers for mob violence in New York and nearby towns. The piece argues greed as core fuel for burglaries and murders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Justieere
Rebel faction in North Carolina resists reconcilation with Union
The New York Hexato reports prominent rebels pardoned by Governor Holden oppose restoring North Carolina as a free state. William A. Graham now refuses to permit negro suffrage and leads a party claiming strength to defeat Holden. J P Buse says he would return freedmen to slavery if able. Unionists organize against the rebels as opposition to an early convention grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
New York
Hexato
North Carolics
Holden
Wm. A. Graham
U.S
J.P. Buse
Raleigh
Unionite
One Way to Settle It in Louisiana Labor Relations
Southern papers discuss labor relations with a practical move in Louisiana. Demobilization of negro labor leads white farmers to take field work and produce prime crops. This action, proponents argue, teaches landowners labor value, builds respect, and proves independent workers need not wait on others to act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
Emigration from America to Britain Funds Movement
The article notes that Irish and English settlers sent £13,178,929 from America to Britain in sixteen years, averaging over four million dollars annually to aid friends to move to the U S. The London News calls this the rest British Emigration Fund and argues spontaneous influx outpaces any artificial promotion. Even during the war millions funded friends’ relocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Ireland
England
London News
Great Britain
Welcome for Yankee schoolmasters in the South
The Lafayette paper greets a Bay State educator arriving to establish a school for African citizens. It mocks the mission as a lesson in basic conduct, suggesting the plan teaches them to end theft and pickpocketing, reflecting hostile attitudes toward racial uplift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette
N.C
South
Bay State
Auction sales ship Nantucket houses move to Norwich
A Norwich Bulletin item describes Nantucket houses built at 3000 to 5000 dollars being sold at auction for 500 to 2000 dollars. Buyers load them on schooners to Norwich or New London, where they are reerected and sold at a handsome advance over the purchase price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwich Bullletin Anga
Nantucket
Messin
Norwich
New London
Emigration Plan Aims to Move 300 Women West
Washington Territory and Massachusetts negotiate to supply the Pacific coast with female emigrants. The Massachusetts governor has gathered 300 women for a government steamer sail from New York on August 20. Promised wages paid in gold and potential marriage within three months await the migrants upon arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Territory
Massachusetts
Pacifico Coast
Washington
New York
Northern colonisation agency aids Southern emigration plans
A colonisation bureau is being established in northern cities to assist Southern emigrants. It will provide accurate region specific information on climate land prices food and labor opportunities plus removal and settlement expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seidourd
Rhode Island Regiment Arrives in Providence Aboard Oceanus
Gy Company A of the Third Rhode Island Heavy Artillery reaches Providence Tuesday morning aboard the Oceanus from Newak. The unit includes eighty three men led by Captain William G. Hamoar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhode Island Heavy Artillery
Providence
Oceanus
Newak
William G. Hamoar
Child Found Alive Near Portsmouth Grove Names Andrew Bush Johnson
Rev. G. W. Chevers reported finding a male child about four weeks old on the west road near the lane to Portsmouth Grove. The infant was alive, placed in the care of the overseer of the poor, and named Andrew Bush Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Chevers
Portsmonth
Portsmouth Grove
Andrew Bush Johnson
Canadians Favor Annexation Growing Among People
The New York Healths Toronto correspondence reports increasing Canadian sentiment toward annexation to the United States. It warns that if Ontario’s provincial parliament fails to act to bolster business next session, a strong annexation movement could erupt with considerable fury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y
Camp meeting at Willimantic opens August 28
The GF Thé camp meeting in Willimantic Connecticut starts on August 28 and concludes on September 2 with religious services and community activities scheduled throughout the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willimantic
Conn
Fatal Railroad Accident Near Millville Claims Brakeman
Samuel Young a brakeman on the Providence and Worcester Railroad was killed when his head struck a bridge while on a freight car near Millville. A resident of East Bridgewater Massachusetts he leaves a widow and two children. Masons recovered and cared for his body and had it brought to the city Saturday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Young
Providence and Worcester
Millville
East Bridgewater
Mass
Masonic Fraternity
Dooly County Reconstruction Resolutions Voiced in Mass Meeting
In Dooly County Georgia a mass meeting adopted resolutions declaring acquiescence in reconstruction. The speakers recount four years of struggle for rights and state they will submit to the U S Constitution and laws, with vows to suppress vagrancy and crime, especially among Black residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dooly County
United States
Prophecy of August Heat Lifts From German Doctor
An elderly German physician in northern New Hampshire predicts August will bring five hot days the 7th mild heat the 12th a burning spell the 14th very hot the 19th troublesome flies and the 25th scorching heat He recommends suspending heavy work and drinking little cold water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Stampshire
Kentucky and Ohio in the slavery and escape debate
The excerpt argues Kentucky should amend to abolish slavery to keep Black people from fleeing to Ohio where they are free. It notes roughly sixty thousand enslaved Kentuckians left on military passes since May and that Ohio, though free, resists their arrival. A second note mentions a spontaneous water spout near Cheshire Massachusetts witnessed along the railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Ohio
Cheshire
Mass
Charleston
Savannah
Madd
Arnold
Spangler
O'Laughlin
Hilton Head
A Rich Marriage Ceremony in Illinois by a Jovial Justice
A story from Missouri Republic describes an Illinois marriage by four newly appointed Justices of the Peace. The clergyman notes he had no books or forms yet performed a humorous, improvised ceremony with playful questions and a fifty cent fee, ending with “Go in peace, sin no more.”
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Illinois
St. Louis
Justice of the Peace
Congregational Church
Pope
Aving
Sle
Georgiansa
Georgiana
Humphray
Humphrey
Repericay
Swindle Case Baffles New Orleans and Midwest Officials
A major fraud report from New Orleans reaches St Louis involving forged drafts of Jobo J Ras. About $100000 was stolen from a national bank, $60000 spent on wrestlers Maudie Stephens and Joseph E Pierce. The suspect fled with the remaining funds. John Purdue of Indianapolis reports last year’s income at $107000. Purdue, once Ohioan and former Plain Township teacher, was warned out of the township as poverty raised concern.
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New Orleans
St Luiz
Jobo J Ras
St Louis
New Orleana
Wresters
Maudie Stephens
Joseph E Pierce
John Purdue
Indianapolis
Purdue
Ohio
Plain Township
Noted Victim of Miss Lilly Cooper and Swindler in Springfield
A tarnished tale shows Lilly Cooper in boyish disguise aboard a sleeping car in St Louis robbing a rich passenger. arrested in Chicago with her sex exposed. A Mississippi refugee swindles in Springfield by opening a broker's office, marrying a rich daughter, fleeing with debts and a wife in New York. later caught in St Paul. A war roll of honor to be published lists over 3,000 breveted officers. Bloody Hand of the Seneca Nation dies near one hundred. Rio Grande frontier news concerns Gen Steele and Mexican border forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lilly Cooper
Sightaen
St Louie
Chicago
Mississippi
Springfield
Ohio
St Paul
New York
Prohibition Drive Cuts Vergennes Liquor Trade
Vergennes Vermont reports seven months of Prohibition enforcement reducing liquor traffic by seven thousand dollars. About fifty barrels seized and several hundred dollars in fines levied. In a jail incident prisoners overpowered the turnkey, stripped him, distributed clothes, and locked him in a cell. eight were involved, two later captured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vergennes
Balletin
Unrest for Female Operatives and War News Abroad
There is a great scarcity of female operatives in New England with wages high. five thousand are wanted at Lowell, Lawrence, and Manchester. Reports cover pension rulings, pardons, commutations, marriages, and deaths. military topics include Samuel Benton’s commutation, deserters’ pensions, and Grant’s warning on France.
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New England
Canadas
Lowell
Lawrence
Manchester
Grant
Springfield
Maximilian
United States
France
Death of Hon. Byron Diman in Bristol Rhode Island
Local notices report the death of Hon. Byron Diman at his Hope Street residence after a brief illness. Born August 1795, he led a long career in business and state politics, serving as Lieutenant Governor and Governor, with deep community and church involvement. Funeral held at his Bristol home with services by Rev Dr Shepard and Rev Dr Thayer, burial at Juniper Hill Cemetery. The piece also notes a church resignation and the sale of the yacht Kelpie to Mr Taylor of the Brooklyn Yacht Club.
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Byron Diman
Hope Street
Gov. Diman
Jeremiah Diman
Thames Street
Mason W. Pierce
Bishop Griswold
James O’wolf
West India
Bristol
Hhe
Law and Order
Gen . Garrison
Niman
Mt Hope Bank
Bank of Bristol
Catholic Congregational Society
Hin
Henry Wight
Congregational Church
Syter
George Byron Diman
J. Lewis Diman
Brown University
Henry Wight Diman
United States
Oporto
Portugal
Clara Anna
A. Sidoey O'Wolf
Thomas B. Wood
Jeremiah DL. Liscomb
Shepard
Thayer
Newport
Juniper Hill Cemetery
State Street A. E
Talbot
State Street Methodist Episcopal Church of
M. J. Talbot
State Street
J. N. Burgess
Town Council and Court of Probate Monthly Meeting
The regular monthly meeting of the Town Council and Court of Probate is set for Monday afternoon at two o'clock in the Council Chamber.
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Bheniz
Horning
The
Bristol Phenix
Webster
Lili
Southern Affairs
Frederick Smyth
Boston and Maine Railroad Coun Ny
Boston
White Mountain
Dunkirk Journal
Bloody Hand
Seneca Nation of Indians
Cattaraugus Reservation
Rio Grandeia
Steele
Stewart
Fifth Avenue
Spain
Samuel J. Benton
Massachusetts Volunteers
S. C
Massachusetts State
Cuomossesioner of Pensions
George F. Robinson
Seward
Roxinda Aurora Clark
Springeld
Sherman
Michael J. Million
Stamford
Hiram Morrill
Barnstead
Commissioner of Pensions
A T Stewart
Mary Dwyer
Lyman Mills
Holyoke
Mase
Fall River
Union Commission
South Carolina
Georgia
Chas, Reynolds
New Bedford
Navy Department
May Fair
London
New Jersey
James Barber
N.S Chandler
New York World
Lansingburg
Wingate Hayes, Esq
Rhode Island
Stonewall
Jackson
Pomfret
McDermot
Local Affairs
EF Messie
Herresbo & Stone
Mr. Taylor
Brooklyn Yacht Club
Bristol Neck
Nathan Warren, Jr
Eeg
Jef. Davie
Gov. Sprague
Warren
Bia
Providencs
Providence Press
Young Men's Christian Association
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