Appointment to Senate Seat and Civil War Updates
Gov. Yates names O. H. Browning of Quincy to fill the Douglas Senate seat. Generals Mansfield and McDowell command 41,000 troops around Washington with 23,000 more in the surrounding heights. Capt. Miller of the Fifteenth Ohio heights twenty miles to St George, seizes prisoners and secession flags. Iowa Republicans convene July 31 to nominate state officers and set delegate ratio. Linn County buys a pauper farm to cut costs, saving thousands yearly. Major Thomas J. McKean of Linn County named paymaster, hailed as the right man for the post.
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Gov. Yates
O. H. Browning
Quincy
United States Senate
Douglas
South Carolina
Russell
London
Fulton
Mansfield
Alexandria
McDowell
Ohio
Virginia
Kanawha
Huttonville
Porterfield
Miller
Iowa
Des Moines
Supreme Durt
Abraham Lincoln
United States
Mason McKean
Thomas J. McKean
Linn County
West Point
Iowa City
Spott
Ile
Lecompton Crisis and Local War-Time Letters
The Linn County Register reprints editorials on Judge Douglas and the Lecompton struggle, critiques the Chicago Tribune and Governor Yates, and discusses loyalty during the Civil War. It also includes correspondence on freeing a Missouri man’s family and notes local newspaper spats between the Valley Times, Davenport press, and Cedar Rapids Times.
Fight at Phillippi described by eye witness from Wheeling
Special dispatch recounts the Phillippi rout with Indiana column near the rebel camp at Sa.m. The assault disrupted sleeping rebels, 1 400 pistols and 800 arms found, 1 940 rebels total with 15 killed. Citizens fled, farms robbed, a $25 000 bank loan demanded, and Confederate sympathies fading as patriot support grows.
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New York Tribune
Waswincroy
Wheeling
Phillippi
Indiana
Sa.m
Afteen
Fairmount
A Dead Statesman and a Nation's Call for Aid
An obituary mourns Stephen A. Douglas urging Illinois and the nation to raise funds to secure his widow and children. A plan names trustees and a receiver to oversee subscriptions for a home and education, while detailing his long service to state and country and the debts left to his family. The report mixes poetry on childhood with political appeals and mentions a French fleet, German volunteers, and Lincoln’s charitable act.
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United Stats
Illinois
Stephen A. Dovowas
Ilinois
Douglas
Homless
William A. Richardson
William B. Ogden
John T. Stuart
Zabee Casey
David Davis
Thomas Dummond
John D. Caton
Cottage Grove
Mlinois
Stepny A. Dovc
Supreme Court of
Ottawa
Thomas Dramond
United States Court For
Northern District of Ilinois
Richard Yates
J. ¥. Scammon
W. A. Richardson
D. A. Gage
W. B. Odgen
Sam’l S. Marshal
Robert Smith
O. B. Ficklin
Jas. H. Woodworth
Jesse K. Dubois
Thos
H. Campbell
Lewis D. Erwin
D. D. Caton
RK. E. Goodell
Sam's
American clash at Great Bethel and Little Bethel noted
Report of a nighttime march from Fortress Monroe toward Great Bethel with Zouaves Albany and Vermont Massachusetts regiments in action. Friendly fire incident at Little Bethel injures and kills. Col. Bendix and Col. Townsend involved. Lt Grebbel killed. about 26 killed and 100 wounded.
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Moxnor
Baltimore
Con. Butler
Great Bethel
Hampton
Yorktown
Monroe
Newport News
Carver
Col. Townsend
Albany
Townsend
Butler
Albany Boys
Col. Allen
Col. Carr
Little Bethel
Pierce
Troy Regiment
Liut. Grebbel
Geo. Wilson
Troy
Fortress Monroe
Lieut
Developments From Seized Telegrams Stir Public Alarm
The seized dispatches suggest a wide web of treachery across official and social circles. Congress members from free states and New York officials allegedly aided rebels, while some Peace Congress figures urged continued fire to hinder the North. Reports reached northern papers via telegraph offices, with letters and dubious counsel attributed to various factions.
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Congress
Free States
New York City
Federal
Nothern Papera
Peace Congress
Regue
Chicago
Parrot of the Flag at Syracuse Ditch Church Rally
During a General Assembly meeting at Syracuse New School Presbyterians a flag was raised on the Ditch church in James Street. Rev T L Cuyler spoke praising the Dutch heritage and an American Union rooted in liberty while contrasting it with states rights and slavery. The crowd hailed the banner as a symbol of unity and patriotism with calls to extend the flag to other Southern cities.
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Paris
Newark Daily Advertiser
Frankfort
Germany
United States
U. S
America
Garibaldi
New York
Liverpool
Madrid
Wm. Preston
Kentucky
Spain
Preston
General Assembly
The
New School Presbyterians
Syracuse
Ditch
James Street
T. L. Cuyler
Republic of Holland
Netherlands
Zuyder Zee
Imperial
Rhine
Dutehmiah
Springfield
N. J
Dr. Watts
Jefferson Davis
Syracusa
Richmond
Charleston
Montgomery
Dr. Palmer
New Orleans
Truth Stranzer and the Fiction Challenge at the Coffee House
A picaresque tale opens with Truth is stranger than fiction. Jonathan bets he can tell a story that outdoes any truth. He recounts a scorching desert river scene with a crippled boat and a chorus of aural misfits, ending with a comic departure. The piece weaves in a Chicago Tribune note on gold shipments to Chicago, then Civil War era dispatches about Havelocks.
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St. Louis
Jonathan
Sean
Christopher Columbus
Sahary
TF S
Columbia
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James P. Brown
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Mr. Stewart
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Lowa City
Davenport
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Ijoy
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Lincoln
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Jay Lotta
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