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Newspaper
Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1865
Page
1
The notice lists mail subscription prices per six months eight months and one month with advances and a weekly carrier rate. It also states retail price per copy for transient customers. The text reflects period pricing and distribution details for the Daily Gazette.
One copy one year eighty two issues EO in clubs five to ten copies ninety two fifty ten copies and up wards two hundred. An extra copy sent to the better up of each tinle of twenty or over. Advertisements EF Werxtr Gasetre fifteen cents per square each insertion. Distraren advertisements in Dairy Gaserre one hundred dollars per square each insertion. All advertisements of wants for sale for rent lost found marriages death society meetings church notices etc per line ten cents. i advertisements received for less than twenty five cents cut wants waxe a love.
Special correspondence from Washington outlines Henry Wilson’s rise from shoe shop owner to U S senator, noting frugal living, debts paid, and pensioners’ needs in Massachusetts. It also defends Mrs Douglas against gossip, defends Pendleton Cox clash, and previews Ohio senatorial contest with Schenck and Sherman. It highlights McPherson’s Civil War history, and Colorado? content mirrors contested political atmosphere and reform debates in Kentucky legislature.
The Cincinnati Gazette correspondence from Frankfort, February 2, reports in the Senate long committee reports and a new emancipation bill. It lets enslaved people over sixteen contract for freedom and pay their masters, apprentices under sixteen, and restricts future sales in some cases. A House and Senate resolution to investigate Lucien Anderson was tabled. Also notes legislative moves on corporate charters and state finances.
Albert D Richardson and Junius H Browne testify before the War Committee about Salisbury prison in 1864. They describe hunger cold and brutal guard actions, with overcrowded hospitals, high mortality, looting, and deliberate neglect amid a mass of Confederate cruelty and murder.
Henry Cunningham was held to bail for $800 on a robbery charge after being examined before Judge Warren near the Hamilton and Dayton Railroad depot. James Wilson escaped the county jail during a break from his cell, a career burglar likely at large. A fatal omnibus accident in Clermont County left one man dead and additional injuries, while a cavalry soldier and a driver survived. The January meteorological report notes the lowest average temperature since 1857, with near seventeen inches of snow and a largely uniform month.
Testimony from Col Skinner A T Maguire Br James Hinkle and Capt Fillipate recount arrests near Walsh Walsh son and a camp in November 1864. Authorities describe weapons cartridges powder and revolvers found in a house barn and a Chicago area arsenal with a large quantity of arms believed tied to Confederate support and a planned campaign.
A letters and court excerpts debate an 1864 enlistment of Thomas K Jones as a substitute, comparing it with Thomas Jones and questioning the legitimacy of the substitution. The Sanitary Commission notes list weekly receipts, shipments, and donations, detailing items like gloves, crackers, socks, and envelopes, and report on committee expenditures and hospital meals.
The report lists cash contributions from Utica and vicinity including Olivet Union prayer meeting donors with sums such as 145 for Windsor pres ich and 125 for RC Woodnes Madison, totaling 572 20. It also details contributions in stores across many towns and boxes, with 38 boxes and 63 boxes and 11 kegs noted along with 12 000 envelopes and other supplies shipped to soldiers.
General Term Judge Fox rules on E A Thompson versus J W Law son. Lease from 1854 to Newhall covers fourteen years with a purchase privilege and various assignments tied to Maria Leeda. Court finds notes secured against Scrogap may not justify criminal prosecution and dismisses petition while denying deed set aside or value enhancement by decree.
A gang of rebel guerrillas believed led by Quantrel of Kansas burned rails and a freight car at Lair's Station four miles south of Covington on Wednesday night. The official census figures will be published soon, and a Relief Union Fair charity drive is urged for soldiers' families. Train times on the Kentucky Central Railroad change next Monday, reducing travel time between Covington and Lexington by about one hour with new schedules for morning and afternoon trains.
The quotas of the counties in the district have been assigned under the fastest plan for troops. Voters are urged to participate, as each county must meet its quota and ensure a united effort for the upcoming mobilization.
Dispatches recount Sherman’s advancing forces toward Charleston with Union successes from Savannah to Beaufort. The Cahawba confirms prisoners and supplies. rebels retreat and fortifications crumble as Sherman nears Charleston. Savannah reports aid to Unionists, large cotton exports, and public thanks for relief gifts while gunboat Kinching burns after grounding.
A rebel dispatch from Wilmington dated January 28 notes about 400 bales of cotton burned on the customs house wharf and two carloads four miles from town on the Wel road. Unclear whether the blaze was accidental or part of a broader rebel plan to ruin the local staple. The dispatch mentions peace envoys, rumors from Richmond, and French ministerial demands. Smithville letters claim Fort Caswell was blown up with guns spiked. Rebels reportedly planted torpedoes near several forts. Union forces seized large tobacco and other property at Smithville. A Petersburg dispatch reports heavy firing on James River. The rebel House passed a bill addressing the enslavement of Negroes in armies. Lee’s nomination for General-in-Chief was reportedly to be sent to the Senate by Jeff Davis, with Johnson’s reappointment still unsettled.
Two days after leaving Europe the Africa arrives with late news from Liverpool and Queenstown. The dispatch notes rumors denied by Globe about British troops to Canada. Market updates show cotton and breadstuffs dull, wheat firmer, provisions steady.
Cuiango February 2 Illiniois Senate vote 18 to 6 House 48 to 28 ratified abolition of slavery. Five Democratic Senators supported the measure. Detroit February 2 Michigan legislature also ratified the abolition amendment.
An Annapolis dispatch reports rebel Peace Commissioners aboard a steamer from City Point, awaiting contact from Washington. New York notes the Washington mission lacks government ultimatum, and the President has not learned the rebels plan, leaving theirWashington visit uncertain.
A fire in the Ninth Ward destroyed the patent leather factory of J. Mc and the rolling mill of Reese Graff And, and the oil refinery of Weissenberger Fisher Co. in Pittsburg. Loss about 50000, mostly insured. In Curacao the tobacco warehouse of Van Etta Friedman Co. burned, with building loss around 80000 and insurance covering it.
Eastport correspondence notes Union forces near Corin on the 20th, about four hundred rebels stationed there evacuated after burning the railroad depot and Tishmingo House. Between 30 and 40 were captured.
The steamer Warrior reaches port from Fort Fisher area. Boats move up the Ose Fear river toward the exterior area, likely intending bombardment. Territorial tensions and potential attacks loom as military actions unfold.
A damaged fragment from a War event dispatch reports Geo L. Stevens writing to a newspaper editor about Galumeonia Maximilian and coded references to Lower Mexican entities. The transmission contains unreadable segments and misread names, leaving core facts unclear.
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