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Newspaper
Dubuque Democratic Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1865
Page
1
A jumble of dispatches from Washington and New York reports talk of political shifts and legal moves. Gen Butler may practice law in New York, and President Adams ties to Gen Scones in the South. scattered notes cover Napoleon, taxation, and state conventions with little clear structure.
The article notes Linn county and Cedar Rapids efforts to raise funds for a county monument honoring deceased soldiers. It lists local papers and figures, mentions the Cedar County fair near Tipton in September, and records county governance finance alongside refugee and veteran advocacy. It also covers regimental statuses, university term, and soldiers convention resolutions opposing negro subjugation.
A fragment from a Des Moines convention report outlines plans to force a state control committee decision. Speakers advocate calling another convention to pass a ticket and urge action to organize a new political slate. The text reflects party tensions and a push for a unified approach.
A Dubuque correspondence from Aug 26 notes Clement the itinerant insurance agent and vendor, urges relocation to Stanton or J. N. Cooley, and highlights Dyersville’s economic boom. It lists sales by Lembeck & Trick, Cummings & Collins, Holacher Dros, N. G. Williams, and others, with breweries, a new livery stable, and rising property values. The writer praises agricultural machinery, mill sales, and town prosperity.
A Pennsylvania abolition convention debate accuses anti-suffrage and party factions of hollow soldier loyalty. It cites broken pledges to nominate soldiers, arguing the party’s admiration ends when army votes and contracts no longer benefit them. The motion to nominate soldiers failed 17 to 11.
The steamer Golden City arrived from Panawa with Nowa aboard and Honolulu to the 23rd of July. Two cargoes of coolies arrived for plantation labor. A private letter notes the Japanese government granted half an acre of canal tidewater land for a coal depot for the projected Californian and China steamship company.
War updates from Tennessee and Washington report no immediate end to the conflict as generals remain overseas. An inquest on an Oil Creek railroad collision blames negligence by the engineer and conductor, raising safety concerns about track and car accommodations. Confederate figures and Mexican theater notes accompany updates from Vera Cruz and Willard’s.
The narrative reports that naval forces dispatched from San Francisco were sent toward the Shenandoah pirate in the Pacific and that a Times correspondent notes suffrage questions in South Carolina may embarrass politicians. It mentions Davis and Wind er, a Saratoga visit by Secretary Stanton, and the death of Dr. Franklin Lathill, with mixed foreign news on cholera in Constantinople and cattle disease in England.
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