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Newspaper
Dubuque Democratic Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1865
Page
1
Reports from Dubuque and Richmond describe Virginia politics and Reconstruction debates with emigration trends from Indiana and Europe. Emigrant trains bound for Colorado and the Yellow Stone region appear alongside church buyouts and constitutional questions on retroactive oaths and military authority, as public figures critique policy and legal precedent.
The text portrays Stantonian cars reacting to Gen Shoeman and defending a worthy soul from oblivion amid cowardly malice. It notes their attack on Gen Sherman, framing the controversy as a clash between notoriety and infamy.
Crath demands correction of evidence about a Montreal February conversation with Merritt. The note asserts Merritt’s claim that Clay spoke with him there is false, outlining Clay’s travels through December February and to Port Fisher’s fall. It warns against judging the evidence before its full print appearance.
The mystery surrounding payer remains unsolved as Payne endures the trial with fortitude. A Christian woman offers a prayer handkerchief, he receives it with quiet dignity. He endures days without food or water, his strength marked by gentleness and a lion like resolve. Washington Teller.
A large black bear from the Agricultural Museum of the State Normal School broke loose on Tuesday. Student Oldfield was attacked and mangled before help arrived, but is now recovering and out of danger. The bear was kept as a specimen in the zoological department and later led back to quarters by a tame grizzly into Professor Welch's ice house where it hibernates.
A historical note recounts Major General Butler seizing a silver service from a New Orleans clergyman, gifting it to a New York Republican editor with compliments. The inscription claims the First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans presented it to Dr Palmur, a later engraved dedication by Butler. The piece rests with the editor as a gesture toward his “gole robber” view.
A sweeping dispatch from June 16 reports a destructive fire in Jackson Michigan, troop movements, and rebel actions around Bull Run. It notes casualties and exchanges, detachments returning home, and the reshaping of Union commands. It also covers proposed appointments in the Treasury and Navy, along with Virginia and Texas postwar conditions and calls for military districts to regulate politics.
New York dispatches summarize a Rio de Janeiro speech opening the National Congress. The Emperor notes Brazil’s dispute with the United States over the Florida seizure and with Great Britain, but suggests mediation may settle the latter. He announces the end of the war with Uruguay and hints at a pause with Paraguay, while confirming Maximilian’s recognition as Mexico’s emperor. The Emperor reports a favorable view of Brazil’s political, national, and financial state. Also in brief, reports on Colorado land activity, emigration schemes from Scotland, and Reverdy Johnson’s argument in the conspiracy case touching jurisdiction.
New York reports a proclamation abolishing all trade restrictions except contraband goods west of the Mississippi and removing the 25 percent drawback on cotton purchases. Dispatches note economic distress with overstocked markets and weak harvests. Reports from New Orleans and Brownville describe military movements, Confederate property distribution, and officials enforcing emancipation. News covers Gen. Brown, Mejia, Cortinas and Mexican relations, plus a torch fire at a West Wing jail and drought in Jamaica.
The dispatches report Governor Fenton on military muster duties and term extensions, denial of Bull Run monument destruction, ex-solicitor Chandler taking duties as Assistant Treasurer, and Ohio political shifts. Also notes President clemency pleas for Mrs Perrine, gold market drift, a Nashville ware-house fire loss, Governor Holden calling Union meetings, and Cabinet unity.
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