Southern market outlook reshapes northern railroad plans
Amid postwar debate about southern outlets and Mississippi river navigation, northern lines race to expand freight capacity. Davenport Gazette reports Northern Line Packet Company plans to build barges and light draught steamers to move grain from Montrose to Keokuk, with elevators and rail connections to shuttle cargo across rapids, boosting competition against existing routes.
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Mississippi
Debels
Atlantic Cies
Northwest
Ilinois
Iowa
Wiseconsin
Minnesota
Davenport Gazette
Northern Line Packet Company
Montrose
Keokuls
Gerrit Smith Denied as Repudiation Advocate in Statesman Copy
The Des Moines Statesman traduces Gerrit Smith by claiming he favors repudiating the national debt. Smith rebutts, citing a Chicago speech reported by the New York Tribune on November 26, asserting he condemns repudiation as fraud and crime and warns it would undermine faith in treaties and the ballot for Black citizens.
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Epiron
Des Moines Statesman
Gerrit Smith
the Statesman
Lloys Ae
Public Dispute Over Iowa Democratic Factionalism
A lengthy exchange between Stilson Hatchins and Dennis A. Mahony targets Claggett Merritt and allies in Iowa politics. The pamphlet accuses Byington Babbitt Hutchins and supporters of disloyalty to the party, while defending Breckinridge era loyalties and denouncing alleged slanders about Lane's staff.
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Rinister
Stilson Hatchins
Shy D. A. Mahony
Dubuque
Claggett, Merritt
Towa
LeGrand Byington
L. W. Babbitt
Stilson Hutchins
Babbitt
Stilson
Douglas
Artemus
Dafer
Johnson
Claggett
Finch
Elwood
Tuttle
Fisher Rand Ourself
Democratic Party
Des Moines
Polk
Iowa
Dennia A. Mahony
Mr. Mahony
Conneil Blatts
Breckinridge
Mutching
Charleston
Bab
National
Soldiers
Fisher
4Th Congressional District
Hutchins
Lane
Radicalin
Dennis A. Mahony
TL. W. Babbitt
Linn County Board of Supervisors 1866 Organization
The Linn County Board of Supervisors meets in Marion for 1866. Perry Oxley presides as chairman with new and old members sworn in. Standing committees are named for public buildings roads schools finance paupers and relief funds. The board approves official bonds and adjourns to nine oclock next day.
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Ibu
Board of Supervisors
Said
Court House
Marion
Perry Oxley
Bertram To
Neely Parsons
Bowlder
Edward Crow
Buffalo
Hosea White
Brown
Adam Perry
College
W. B. Reynolds
Fairfax
W. J. Whiteing
Fayette
Terry Kepler
Franklin
John P. Fay
Jackson
J. W. Handley
Linn
R. D. Stephens
L. D. Jordan
Maine
Daniel Albaugh
Monroe
Uate Nendryx
Otter Creek
Ferdinand Kershner
Putnam
H. G. Angle
Rapids
JL Fairchild
Spring Grove
Stephens
Henry Kepler
Tl. G. Angle
Angle
Oxley
N. W. Owen
Committee On
Lomore
A. J. McKiean
Nise Wenock Aa. Ae
N. Kepler
Stephens, Albaugh
Parsons
White and
Jordan
White
seSaputyinere Stephens
Fay, Fairchild and Kershner
Reynolds, Crow and Perry
White, Hendryx and Handly
A. J. Mckean
Johnston Elliott
David McAfre
Angle and
Ritchard T. Wilson
Hiel Iale
John M. Greer
Government use of sourean raincaps disclosed
After the war end in April, the government held 220 locomotives 4 000 cars and 70 000 tons of iron for military use. Locomotives sold down to 32 with about 1 000 cars remaining some sold at auction for cash others on credit to Southern Railroads. All remaining assets to be disposed of before January 1 1860.
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Southern
Political War Echoes in Language of Pleasure and Doom
The excerpt expresses a desire for parties to derive pleasure from the clash while expecting them to face political ruin and damnation. It frames conflict as both entertaining and morally consequential within a broader public sphere.
Anecdote Exposes Slavery Ties as Tenn. Case Caps Union Meeting
A Tennessee correspondent recounts a Giles County slaveholder Joseph Abernathy and two former slaves exposing broken wage contracts. The scene at Gen Fisk's office in Tennessee underscores lingering slave tensions. A Staunton Va Methodist Conference split over black preaching leads to the rise of Black Methodist and White-and-Black Baptist churches.
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New York
Independence
Tennessee
Joseph Abernathy
Giles County
Fenn
Methodist Church South
Abernathy
Gen. Fisk
Wal
Joseph
Paul Abernathy
Petersburg
Virginia
Simpson
Lawson
Staunton
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Linn Country
JD. Palmer
O. A. Gray
Palmer
Sera
Attorneys At Law
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Chancery
Tina
Tee Ganty Court
National Bank
First National Bank of
Manton
R. D. Sternins
Winslow
S. N. Goodhue
Citisens
Alarion
Mentier & Welch
S.N. Goodhue
D. WH. McDaneld
Keepa
Sain Street
Noth Ride Pank
Manion
10VA
D. H. McDoneld
Baily
Aly D
Great Britain
United Hates
Moses
Cortland
Ristine & Plummer
J. W
Mason & Mamila
Mabon & Hamlin
Boston
Mason Brothers
RUSS
Gor Maio
Atp
Lowa
Cash Store
East Side Public Square
Turks Island
Buyar
Mmunitio Ny
Hazan
Hite
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Stowes
Nlva
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Nice
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Dow
Leghorn
Derby
Mher Wan
Bultey Peste Buia
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Q. W. Whlson
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