OFFICIAL VOTE AND FAIR PREMIUMS TABLE
A fragment lists best sow and litter awards for Des Moines County, followed by Domestic Productions prizes in cakes, preserves, wines, soaps, and farm goods. It includes totals, a closing note on premiums, and a brief moral about Ammi and Democratic party commentary from the era. The piece then shifts to reports of Civil War events, including a Bedford County veteran’s murder, a soldier’s rescue tale during a steamer disaster, and broader war-era commentary on discipline, battles, and a statistical congress discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeler
Bedford County
Shelbyville
Col. Gillem
Middle Tennessee
Gillem
Gillmen
Europe
Chancellorsville
Chickamaunga
Confederacy
Waterloo
Wellington
Marengo
Manassas
Jackson
Develo
Richmond
Statistical Congress
International Statistical Congress
Berlin
Prussia
Samuel B. Ruggles
United States
France
England
Wales
America
Rome
American
Springfield Republican
Washingtons Dark Story of Slavery and a Manumitted Son
Old Washington residents recall a Florida planter’s son educated in the North who returns to the capital and marries a Pennsylvania bureau chief’s daughter. When the father dies or disappears, the son is seized as a slave, despite a will of manumission. The incident shocks society and ends with the son sold south as punishment for revenge. Monroe fails to rescue him, and the case becomes a grim memory of slave justice in the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amum
Deacon Porter
Ammi
Potter’s Field
Democratic Party
Jackson
Jefferson
Whic
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Fernando Wood
Vallandigham
George Lunt
James Brooks
Cyrus Mason
Professor Morse
N. Y
Washington
District of Columbia
Florida
Louisiana
Harvard
Yale
North
War Department
Bureau
St. John’s Church
Monroe
Napoleon
Rosecrans and Grant clash over chain of command in Civil War
Secretary Stanton and General Grant arrive by special train to discuss the Cumberland situation. Rumors spread that Grant may supersede Rosecrans, but the conflict stems from Hooker and Rosecrans disputing authority. The piece urges restraint to avoid hindering Rosecrans’s leadership and notes related arrests in Chicago and Rochester connected to the Rock Island Bridge case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
Rosecrans
Hooker
Chattanooga
Gen. Rosecrans
Washington
General Rosecrans
Department
Army of the Cumberland
Ann the Cumberland
Stone River
Oun
Cin. Gazette
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Ety
Uka, Ying Bat
Reac Arried
Ber
Yunty
Orm
Des Moines County
John Hunt
Wm. Blakeway
Committee
M. Bishop
Wm. Mitchell
Geo. Williams
L. Teedrick
I. K.garman
W.h.smith
D. K. Garman
W. H. Roth
Zvor
Va Joh
Bate
Saan
Vali
Frank Postlewait
John Latta
C. M. Garman
W.F. Johnson
John Patterson
J.irwin
Wef Johnson
D C Riley
Ino
Patterson
Jack
Jaggar
F Johnson
Ino Patterson
Jno Patterson
EA Leyton
Sas
Chas. Leonard
Buck Hickson & Jester
Jno Clayton
Lambs Hinckson & Jéster
Geo Edgar
Grace
Johnson
Lambs
JA Stewart
DC McCullough
Hinckson & Jester
Ag’s
Jno. Berg & Co
Geo Perry
J. D. Smith
JP Kriechbaum
Wentworth
J W Barlow
Pitt
Tallman & Howell
Leonard
J Boyle
F Lilly
Edson
C. W. Hunt
W. W. Delashmutt
M. M. Garman
C._ Walter
Eliza Westenhaver
C. Walter
Jane Boyle
Eliza Thomas
G. Snyder
J. Disque
Putman, Olmsted & Co
M. J. Delashmoe
Martha Mossman
C. A. Dunham
C.A. Dunham
E. Paine
Lizzie Pritchett
George Robertson
Geo. Harvey
Emma Sunderland
M.S. Foote
Janet O'Brian
Sarah
O'Brian
L. Hall
C. Schwerein
D. Leonard
D. Leonar
Schwerein
M Chalfant
Laura Garman
J Q Pierson
A D Carson
JS Marshall
Alex Freeman
Putnam
Seymour
Arthur Ketchen
Mathie
Mathies
Peasly
Aiken
Abbey
Hewell
M Osborn
Florence
Titcomb
George
Gro
H. Lane
Fred. Carev
54Th Massachusetts Colored Regiment
Fort Wagner
Douglass
J. McCune Lipith
Rochester
Campbell
R. Campbell, Jr
W. S. Smith
Robert Campbell
Mcm Ken’s
Eile
Syena
Cooley
Conta
Mrs. Cooley
Hardy Wilson
London
Rose
Colonel Hicks
Shiloh
Moreland
State Department
Wm. M. Stone
Ler Shor
James M. Tuttle
Enoch Eastman
J. F. Duncombe Ee
J. F. Dillon
Tee Wee Wee Ewer
Charles Mason Ee
James Brace
Hes
Lbh
J. McMakin
Justus Clark
Chesbes
A. M. Hillhouse
M, Heisey
Treas. & Recorder
Wm. Remey
D. J. Sa Pe
County
Judg
Harpies
W. B. Jones
Ee Handler
Leo
Eilen
A. McMichael
Weider
Ween
E. Wei Ariner
Renee Enaee
R. Williams
Joash Hedges
Marion Hall
Ee “Acainst
Des Moines Co
Burlington
McMakin
A Anderson
Schmizer Sr
Welbourne
Geo Otto
Uc “cc
Stallion
Maj Tamblin
C McArthur
M Tucker
Leyton
Nicol
K Garman
Jos Ogle
W Somerville
Garman
E Owen
AJ Smith
Nus
John J
G. W. Hunter
J. Tiles
Vantuyl
M. Garman
J.T. Easter
Irwin
J. W. Bissell
Missouri Engineers
Island No. 10
Chicago
Rock Island Bria
John F. Tracy
Chicago & Rock Island Railroad
U. S
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