Investigating Committee weighs Louisiana unrest and White League
New Orleans January report outlines testimony on White League activity, voter intimidation, and forced discharges of Black workers in St Martin and Red River parishes. Witnesses cite armed bands, political pressure, and guarded elections amid Kellogg government tensions.
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New Iberia
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Riddle
Bayou
White League
League
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J. A. Gage
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Braw’s Bridge
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DeBlanc
Congressional Committee
R. H. Marr
Hodnet
Harris
Colfax
James Mariniti
Many Distinguished Men Die in January of 1875
The Cincinnati Gazette notes a surge of deaths in January with ex Chief Justice Hardin ex Governor Bramlette of Kentucky Eber B Ward and other notable figures including Emile Periere the French banker the deposed Elector of Hesse Cassel and the young Emperor of China Charles Sprague the Boston poet Charles Kingsley Maunsell B Field and Dr Leahy Archbishop of Cashel. Francis Deak was also reported near death and may pass before month end.
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Boston
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Dr Leahy
Cashel
Ireland
Francis Deak
Cincinnatti Gazette
Magnetic Variation and a Standard Meridian Plan
A Lancaster letter argues that surveyors’ lines diverge due to magnetic variation and old fences. It calls for a state established true meridian with fixed monuments near Freeport and annual compass checks to align lines and settle disputed corners.
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America
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Maine
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William Peters
Lancaster
The Control of the Next House in the Albany Journal
The Albany Evening Journal notes that about eighty five members of the forthcoming Forty fourth Congress were in the rebel army or served under the rebel government. It argues this places control of the House in hands aligned with the rebellion while the Senate likely has only a few such members.
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