Thanksgiving Proclaimed By State and Nation
Thanksgiving Day is set for Thursday, November 29, by President Andrew Johnson and Governor Richard Oglesby. The message celebrates national unity after political strife, praises Providence, notes cholera near-freeport, and urges merchants to close, workers to feast, and care for widows and orphans.
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Andrew Johnson
United States
Richard Oglesby
Illinois
Freeport
Pressent
Board of Plenty
The East and the West in Civil War Unity
The article argues the South misread regional loyalties in secession. It says the West united with the North at war’s outbreak, resisting rebellion with notable enthusiasm and effort. It notes the Mississippi corridor kept the West aligned with the Union despite Southern strategy.
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Nature
West
Southwest
Mississippi
Alleghany Mountains
Pennsylvania Mountains
West and East in the tariff debate across the nation
The article argues Western loyalty to the Union and Republicanism outpaces Eastern radicalism. It profiles the West voting solidly with the North, defying Southern hopes for a rupture, and notes factories spreading across the West uniting it with the East in industrial growth. Cleveland Herald.
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Congress
Ohio
Michigan
Chicago
St. Louis
Cleveland Herald
Illinois Election Official Returns Show Union Majority
Official returns from Illinois state offices and congressmen show union gains totaling 55,987 with 24,312 for the union, as published from Calhoun County results. The figures come from the Secretary of State office in Springfield, noting Calhoun county’s vote for Congress at Large and Governor for 1864.
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Cathoui
Springfield
Calhoun County
Lake Tunnel Completion Marks Engineering Feat
Chicago Tribune reports that the Lake Tunnel is finished with excavations complete to within two feet of clay. A flag on the courthouse signals the event as officials plan a Tuesday ceremony with Mayor Rice and former Mayor Sherman descending from opposite ends.
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Great Lake
Messrs. Chesborough and Clark
Board of Public Works
Rice
Sherman
Chicago Tribune
President Johnson on suffrage by states and limits
The Washington article asserts Andrew Johnson favors state sovereignty in granting suffrage and outlines his stance on colored men's rights in Tennessee and district conditions. It claims Johnson urged qualified suffrage for three classes, supported by aides, and contrasts presidential views with Congress on constitutional authority and state control.
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Congress
Andrew Johnson
Tennessee
Gov. Sharkey
Mississippi
Charles Sumner
Henry Wilson
Massachusetts
Johnson
Impeachment Talk and Republican Duty Outlined
The Johnson impeachment debate unfolds with leaders signaling possible action. Republicans argue that if careful investigation shows high crimes, Congress must try the President. A general bill proposes process rules for trial and accountability.
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Johnson
Congress
Impeachment Funding Debate Reveals Presidential Trial Path
Fragmentary OCR hints at impeachment funding issues tied to presidential trial actions. The text mentions expressing functions of the President and uncertainty about congressional course, suggesting procedural battles over how the trial would proceed.
Appropriations compiled from acts passed at the late session
The list items various appropriations including Pensions 17 140 000, Sundry civil expenses 4 904 514 46, Naval service 18 904 647 50, Post Office 1 947 956, Military pecuniary 801 457, Fortifications 1 540 000, Public works 3 698, Army expenses 38 004 241 83, Legislative Executive Judicial papers 25 480 450 89, Consular and diplomatic 1 405, Indian Department 3 778 535 46, Sundry civil expenses 7 074 126 76, Deficiencies 5 155 576, Miscellaneous 12 705 635 60.
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Naval Service
Indian Department
Will codicil names Hattie Carson for furniture trust
Flora Burdell native of New York with no heirs names Miss Hattie Carson to receive all household furniture and pay debts to Nellie Otis totaling 24,000 and then 12,000 to her mother. James McCrackin appointed executor to collect and remit funds.
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Flora
Burdell
New York
William" Caulfield
Yorkville
Hattie Carson
Custom-house Street
Misa
Nelly Otison
Nellie Otis
James McCrackin
Notable Society Snapshots From Transatlantic Notes
Personal items describe ex King Francis of Naples dismissing his suite and renouncing royal pretensions, J M Curry now a Baptist preacher at Howard College, and a Kentucky youth seven feet eleven inches tall. Other items note Catholic bishop’s mission to England, Napier cousin buying a Tennessee speculation, and Duke de Morny’s widow set to wed Dr Campbell. Also: Professor Youmans returns to New York. Chelsea considers Robert Morris for Mayor. Senator Howe travels between Kenosha and Washington. spring wedding fever and jewelry trade surge. Dr Bernard Beust in New Albany, war service, and a token dispute over graves in a Maryland rebel’s yard.
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Timothy O. Howe
Wisconsin
Kenosha
Senator Howe
Madison
Washington
New York Evening Post
Broadway
Maiden Lane
Bernard Beust
Baron von Beust
New Albany
Indiana
Antietam
Maryland
McClellan
Dr. Beast
Turner Defects From Freedom Party To Copperheads
The piece recounts Hon. Thomas J. Turner once a leading figure in the Freedom and Equal Rights party, how he abandoned the party for Copperhead alignment with A. J. and ran for Congress, then lost decisively to J. B. Washburne. It notes Turner’s county loss of 794 votes and Washburne’s 14,657 margin, ending with a rueful modern obituary tone from the Chicago Tribune.
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Thoms J. Turner
Great
Party of Freedom and Equal Rights
Party of Freedom
Andy
A. J
Congress
Copperheads
Johnson
Thomas J. Turner
J. B. Washburne
Turner
Stephenson
Washburne
Stiles
Tom
Yorick
Chicago Tribune
Democratic Record of John Morrissey Court History
A condensed statement outlines Morrissey’s legal troubles in multiple counties. Indicted for assault and battery twice in Rensselaer County with one conviction and 60 day sentence, twice for burglary with one 60 day sentence. Albany County saw three indictments for assault with intent to kill and nine total months in the penitentiary. In New York City three indictments for assault with intent to kill. Despite this, he won by a 2,700 vote margin and reportedly spent 75,000 in the canvass.
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Democratic
John Morrissey
Rensselaer County
Nee
Albany County
Albany Penitentiary
New York City
John
B’hoys
Origin of the Foolscap Paper Size
A historical note explains that during Charles I's reign English paper bore royal arms. Parliament under Cromwell ordered removal of the arms and substitution with foolscap. After the Restoration the royal arms returned, but the journal size persisted as foolscap.
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Parliament Journal
The Wills of the Lost Mrs Cunning ham Burdell
The second district court opens sucession of two celebrated keepers of fashionable dagnies Jennie King and Bianca Robbins, said to have been lost on the Evening Star. Dr Follin deposited $7000 cash to the succession. Flora Burdell’s succession opened by James McCrackin who petitions for registry and execution of her nuncupative will by public act.
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Dagnies
Jennie King
Bianca Robbins
Evening Star
Follin
Flora Burdell
James McCrackin
Illinois candidates multiply for General Assembly posts
The Champaign Union names Hon C. R. Griggs representative elect from the Fortieth District as a candidate for Speaker. The Kankakee Gazette proposes Captain Francis Seguin of Bourbonnais for the House door keeper post. Seguin led Company D of the Seventy-sixth Illinois Volunteers and has three sons in military service, one who endured Andersonville.
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Illinois
Illinois General Assembly
Champaign
C. R. Griggs
Fortieth
Gin
Kankakee
Andersonville
Chicago Agents Exertion to Secure Trade noted at Cedar Rapids
A Galena Gazette item cites a Chicago businessman who stayed overnight in Cedar Rapids Iowa and found nine Chicago agents at a hotel representing as many houses all pushing separate interests, illustrating intense efforts to secure trade.
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Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Galena Gazette
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