City Crops Up Cleansing Plan To Halt Cholera Threat
A Freeport editorial urges immediate nationwide public health action focusing on city street cleaning and thorough household sanitation to prevent a cholera outbreak. It urges aggressive work by officials and citizens alike, noting ships quarantined off Halifax with cholera cases and stressing vigilance to protect health this summer and beyond.
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Death of Daniel S Dickenson a New York statesman
Daniel S Dickenson died in New York City on Thursday evening. Born in 1800 in Goshen Connecticut he rose from a Central New York mechanic to lawyer senator lieutenant governor and US senator. He switched from Democratic to Republican over the Lecompton issue and supported the war effort becoming district attorney for the Southern District of New York until his death.
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Congress Debates Civil Rights Bill and Rail Plan
The Senate passed the loan bill 82 to 7 and adjourned while the House advanced measures including a civil rights bill 122 to 41, a nation railroad system proposal, and grants for ships, canals, and military costs. Lincoln tribute noted. Senate later recessed with no further action.
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Government and war news from the era
Gov Morton returns to Indiana in frail health. Court street accident in Cincinnati injures a woman. Grant pays a speed‑limit fine after a warrant served. In federal court Underwood holds presidential proclamation did not restore habeas corpus. Rock River survey funding approved in Winnebago counties. Senate censures Doolittle passes assembly. Tea making from bran in Newin. Mrs Jefferson Davis rumor denied. she travels to New York en route to Canada. Bennett’s youth tale, cholera cases on the steamer England, and war department orders on Freedmen. Prospective parole for Jefferson Davis, Clay, and others debated by Congress. Reconstruction plans advance. Texas constitution restricts education for blacks. five‑year residency required for legislature. Indiana case on excluding negroes from contracts before the Circuit Court. US Supreme Court voids Indiana Military Commission, freeing civilians. Tour by Steadman and bureau officers. Douglass criticizes Johnson. Fort Monroe rumors on Davis. Dickenson dies in New York. New York wedding funds and Pacific Mail stock noted. Senator William Stewart’s rise from Ohio to Nevada. Methodist Episcopal Church South adopts simpler name and thanks Johnson. Grant’s fast‑driving arrest resolved. Waterloo veteran erased from Wiesbaden monument. Bulwer laments fiction career. Rumors of violence near the Capitol. Gee trial at Salisbury continues.
Proclamation of Peace Cited To Justify Retrenchment
The piece argues President Johnson’s peace proclamation has concrete value. It notes war privileges faded after peace, with reduced needs for horses, quarters, and servants. It claims New York estimates show Treasury savings of about $2.60 to $3 daily per person, underscoring the proclamation’s significance and urging careful fiscal restraint.
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Fanny Fern Portraits a Feisty Broadway Matron
A Springfield Republican note surveys Fanny Fern, noting her defiant age defying persona, stormy temperament, elegant costume, and strong maternal warmth. It compares her to brother N P Willis and Ruth Hall, praises her power and independence, and portrays her as a loving wife and mother beneath a volcanic exterior.
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