Trial of Siekdes begins in Washington City amid excitement
The Slekhu Sriah trial of Siekdes opens in Washington City with Judge Crawford presiding at 101.4 4 M. The court fills as Brady and Graham of New York are presented. The prisoner pleads not guilty to charges connected with the murder of Philip Barton Key on February 27. Jury selection proceeds with scrutiny of eligibility and access to the prisoner. The piece also reports war rumors across Europe and a separate Albany incident with a boating accident.
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Siekdes
Washington City
Crawford
Messrs
Brady and
Graham
N.Y
Magruder
Sickles
Petit Jurors
Ould
Carlisle
Phillip Barton Key
Washington
Stanton
Virginia
Alabama
England
Mr. Stanton
Dudge
Eed
Persia
Auageroo
Austra
M. Hubner
Hovey
France
Sardinia
Austria
Savoy
Nicu
Russia
Prussi
Franco
Francis Joseph
United States
Europe
Lyons City
Isbell
Cantul Company
Iowa
Cotton
de Blatthews
Rocete
Digo Isbell
Lane
Courtright & Co
Connecticut political shift and Supreme Court critique
The notice reports a party victory in Connecticut with Governor, Congressmen, and a majority of the Legislature carried by supporters. It condemns the Supreme Court in Dred Scott and Wisconsin habeas corpus rulings as tyrannical, arguing federal overreach and state sovereignty, then critiques local officials and Cantul Company management as the paper goes to press.
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Connecticut
Supreme Court of the
Supreme Court
Jefferson Himsel
Thelarm
Scott
Wisconsin
Supreme Court of the United States
United State
United States Court
New York Fedicune
United States
Congress
Lt Ds
England
Dred Scott
Union
Friends of Freedom
Stephen A. Dowell
Frederic Douglas
Squadter Sovereignty
Stephen A Douglas
Frank
Lyons lines and county reform stir 1838 debates
The piece rails at local leaders who delayed road work and bonds corruptions. It notes Judge Isbell’s warnings to Lyons, consolidation with LK & NOK RK, accusations of bond issuance, and hypocrisy by reformers. It surveys county commissioners, town elections, and political fraud claims across Iowa.
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Ldegeuterat
Isbell
Lyons
LK & Nok RK
Advocate
Local notices from Cedar Rapids report on postmaster terms and town papers
A Cedar Rapids correspondent praises Homer Bishop as postmaster of six years and urges keeping steady officials. The Valley Times is lauded as a Republican weekly serving Cedar Rapids. The Export steamboat, renamed Black Meawk, is described with new ownership and specs. City election details outline local vs party interests and a Sprague victory.
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Homer Bishop
Cedar Rapida
Valley Times
J. J. Snoukter
W. D. Watrous
W. W. Smith
J. J. Snouffer
Stanley
W. W. Watrous
Jefferson Street
D. N. Sprague
Equal Rights Party
Rival political chatter and frontier dispatches mix in week notes
A Spirit of Times writer describes a Buffalo hunt outfit for New Orleans, while editorials weigh Republican strength in Pennsylvania, Southern secession questions, slavery debates in New Mexico, and economic worries from floods to railroad iron shipments.
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Spirit of Times
New Orleans
Arkansas
Pittsburg
Cameron
Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
Jackson Misetasippian
Moral contrasts in fashionable society and the Sickles case
A critique of fashionable social customs cited with references to the Sickles case. It laments wives attending theatres and balls without husbands and calls for a return to strict Puritan morality to prevent domestic strife and divorce linked to lax social norms. It faulted Mr. Sickles for permitting his wife wide social latitude and noted the resultant downfall and public sympathy shift.
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Ian Moral
Mr. Sickles
Hir
Key
Sickles
Proclamation for a State Day of Fasting in 1859 Iowa
The document urges a statewide fast on Friday April 22 1859 observing fasting humiliation and prayer to seek Providence for distress. Governor Ralph P Lowe signs with the Great Seal at Des Moines March 23 1859 in a formal proclamation.
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Jacob
Lowa
Des‘tuoines
A. J
United States
Ralpit P. Lowe
Lian Serius
Sale
Sirtur
Town
County of Lion
Humphrey Mount
Charles PF
Agathe Spretha
Jovy Uren
Ane
Linn
Brate
Cedae Rapids
Wald
L. H. Mahon
Linn Qo
Towa
Henery Oiven
Sintuh
Lown
Darkturay
Toore
John Dedeick
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Linn CO. Register
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Benton
Memphis
Tennessee
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Loucey
Mir. Choma
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Fourth Street
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Winneschick County
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Fowa
Joseph Scott
George W. Beldin
Tome
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Nange
Springville
Georgy W. Belin
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Olstowk
John A. Ide
Lhi Mabon
Ling
John A. Vo Nepayy
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