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Newspaper
Dubuque Democratic Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1864
Page
2
The Dubuque Herald reprints a Chicago Tribune piece criticizing a Supreme Court ruling and Judge Taney. It accuses the author of bigotry and hypocrisy and questions the authority of the proclamation guiding wartime policy.
The speaker muses aloud on whether future presidents will come and who governs this choice. He urges political responsibility to the party in power and questions who can stop such ambitions, though he admits uncertainty about the path ahead.
In Lee County Franklin Township a 14 year old boy Jacob Weil vanished while threshing. His horse was found with torn gear and the boy’s bones and clothing recovered, suggesting a fatal fall or dragging by the wild horse. The boy’s father resides in Franklin Township.
An 1863 letter from Captain Loudlert in Port Louis reports an American brig Howard seized at Madagascar with cargo including flour butter cheese lard clocks hams lumber and more. It notes Confederate secretaries aboard seeking a register and urges a stronger war measure to protect commerce waning on the seas.
A Boston correspondent describes a winter entertainment where a woman of genius hosts six Wednesday evening gatherings in her parlor. Guests include Cambridge professors and poets who hail her work as poetry and religion, with acclaim that she has the finest mind of any American woman.
In a remark attributed to Abraham Lincoln, a Chicago committee asks him to proclaim emancipation, and the reply uses a fable about a master and a slave to suggest that proclaiming freedom must reflect true equality rather than empty labels.
New London inventor C. L. Cabell showcased his Fog Trumpet in England at Dungotess lighthouse and fooled foreign devices. The British Board of Commerce bought the contrivance and plans to mount one at Cape Race.
From the Waukegan Ilazette details a cold blooded murder of Mrs. Briden by a tenant, William Bell, on the morning of the 22nd. Bell and Briden had recent money disputes and suspicions centered on missing funds. Briden’s daughter Almeda learned of the murder on the way to school. Bell was arrested after the coroner's jury found death from blows and throat cutting. he awaits grand jury action in February.
A speaker recalls Geo. D. Prentice being carried to his office drunk and rails against whisky. He urges drinkers to quit, laments the damage to intellect and soul, pleads with friends to resist temptation, and warns not to tempt others to drink.
In Brondway the Mone flouse scene hosted a noted bout between John Morrissey and Andy Sheehan after a dispute tied to a Turnbridge prize fight. They exchanged blows until Capt. Warlow of the first precinct police intervened to separate them, stirring chatter in sporting circles.
From the New York Express Dec 25 a raid on a house in Cortyacted street revealed munitions of war hidden as potatoes and packed revolvers. Deputies Brown and officials seized barrels, prisoners were held for government orders, and seized correspondence was sent to the Secretary of War. The Circassian bark was seized at Pier Nov 18 as part of broader contraband firearms activity and passport system enforcement.
A husband leaves a beautiful woman in a fashionable German spa under the protection of married friends. A Neapolitan nobleman and a Russian are drawn into accusations of spying. A forged blue card triggers public suspicion, a duel ensues, and the plot collapses as the Russian is cleared. The Neapolitan flees.
The Great Britain railways on January 1 possessed 6 400 locomotives 15 366 passenger carriages 5 637 other carriages 187 000 wagons including merchandise cattle and mineral and about 5 000 other carriages totalling 219 522 vehicles whose linked length would span the country.
A fragmented civic note lists groups in favor of vigorous war prosecution. Abolitionists contractors shoddy manufacturers loyal league women and clergy are named with pointed labels. The rhetoric targets dissenters and highlights factional tensions within wartime society.
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