Why the South Should Be Rescued From Misrule
A period essay argues the Republican stance harms the South with taxation and disorder. It contends Southern cotton drives national markets, praises slave labor history, contrasts Northern progress, and links Southern prosperity to renewed national balance of trade and revenue. It claims the South can rival the North with climate, soil, and industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Georgia
United States
Republican Ring and Rebel War Claims Scrutiny
Washington dispatch cites Henry H. Smith findings on rebel war claims. Republicans accuse a Washington Ring of profiting from claims. Democrats say many claims were inflated or fictitious and opposed by the Fortieth and Forty fourth Congresses narrowing totals and reversing prior allocations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y. Sun
Washington Dispatch
Henry H. Smith
Committee On War Claims
Forty-third Congress
War Department
Washington Ring
E. V. Rice
Belknap
Fortythird
Committee of the House of the Forty-third Congresa
Republican
Committee
Democratic House
Congress
Washington
Hayes
South Republicans Plot Alleged by Members of Forty third Congress
Fragmentary OCR notes claim southern Republican members are intrigued by a plot and say the substantiating official record from the Forty third Congress confirms the allegation.
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Mands
South
Forty-third Congress
Jobbery in Gravestones Exposed in War Department Scandal
A congressional and House Military Affairs Committee report exposes the 1860s headstone contract scandal. Secretary Belknap allegedly Division of awards to favored bidders, with Brige s of Keokuk as principal contractor and Bridges profiting through manipulation. The probe finds violation of law, deceitful bidding, and abuse of official power harming taxpayers and bidders.
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Congress
Committee On Military Affairs of
House
Bridges
Belknap’s
Briggs
Keokuk
Belknap
Secretary of War
Samuel G. Bridges
Iowa
Bathing in the Morava River by a war correspondent
The London Telegraph correspondent recalls the Morava as a clear winding frontier stream near Alexinatz Supovitz and Niech. He describes swimming when Ahmed Eyoub’s army was across the river and notes that military activity prevented bathing in later quarters due to numerous Servian rifles.
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Morava
London Telegraph
Alexinatz
Niech
Supovitz
Ahmed Eyoub
Resauei
Servia
Potatoes and Hop Yeast Method and Florence Opera House Costs
A recipe describes making yeast from potatoes hops water and flour with sugar salt ginger and warm rising then cooling and storing. The other item notes Florence plans a new opera house costing a million dollars with five years to build and another to fresco.
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Florence
Radical Extravagance and Misappropriation Under Grant
Article accuses Ulysses S. Grant's administration of widespread internal revenue mismanagement. It presents tables comparing Johnson and Grant eras, alleging large deficits due to officer remissions. It highlights a Missouri whiskey district remitting about half of assessments, claiming systemic abuse for party purposes.
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Grant
N. Y. World
Johnson
Asyoessmenis
Ceeseee Essersee
Hirst
Missouri
Tilden Calls Let Bygones Be Bygones On Southern Claims
Governor Tilden argues for forgetting Civil War issues and enforcing the Fourteenth Amendment in good faith. He says past disputes must not be reopened and champions peace, reconciliation, and national unity to restore prosperity. He urges letting bygones be bygones as the path forward.
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N. Y
Tilden
Government expenses in war and ten year postwar period
The author discusses net ordinary government expenses during war and compares them with a ten year postwar span. Excluding interest on the public debt of one billion dollars and debt repayments, the text notes higher wartime costs and seeks a fair comparison of ordinary expenditures.
Government expenses compared over eras and presidencies
The text compares historical government spending from 1789 through 1861 with later periods. It cites totals for the Louisiana purchase era to 1861 as 1.58 billion dollars, Johnson and Grant administrations adding to about 2.03 billion in ten years, and with debt service pushing total to around 4.01 billion, highlighting escalating costs.
The Tribune Rebuked Letter on Horace Greeley
A New York correspondent defends Horace Greeley’s memory and rebukes the Tribune for alleged bias. The writer decries Today's Southern Camp portrayal as a warlike distortion and accuses the paper of reviving sectional tensions and bloody shirt politics. Dated October 14, 1876.
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The
New York Tribune
Horace Greeley
Tribune
Lir
Tibune
South Carolina
Spencer
New Yorks
Climbing Mount Rainier Record From Hazard Stevens Encounter
Hazard Stevens recounts a perilous ascent of Mount Rainier, detailing rock and ice routes, falling stones, crevasses and emerald ice walls as Van Trump and he push toward the dome of Takhoma amid exhausting ascent and changing snow conditions.
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Hazard Stevens
Mount Rainier
van Trump
Takhoma
Cerical Clergy and the Rectory Menagerie
Rev Dr Hallock acted as curate for Rev E J Everard in Gloucestershire. He kept a large menagerie at the rectory from Oct 1875 to Apr 1876, injuring carpets and rooms with dogs cats a squirrel a monkey and other animals. The rector sued for damages, claiming responsibility for the animal mess and damages caused by the pets.
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Hallock
E. J. Everard
Gloucestershire
England
Plaintiff Wins Damages Over Pest-House Rectory
The plaintiff said his rectory was a perfect pest house and could not be inhabited until renovated. He estimated damages at 50 to 60 pounds and secured a formal verdict in his favor, the amount to be decided by referees.
Scourge of Civilization Appears in United States
From the London Telegraph a critique notes American independence jubilee while warning that aging signs appear in the republic. The piece derides excesses of celebration and laments a new social menace described as the ubiquitous transient tramp on Federal soil.
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London Telegraph
United States
Philadelphia
Belshazzar
Syre Chaldaic
Fairount Park
Herves
Alexander
Columbia
America
Bay of Fundy
Gulf of Mexico
New York
Hell Gate
Pocahontas
Virginia
Bess
Republic
Humboldt
de Tocqueville
Fathers of the Republic
Washington
Jefferson
Adama
The Oyster and Its Bountiful Legion of Oysters
Appleton's Journal notes the astonishing fecundity of oysters. It cites Frank Buckland claiming a single oyster can contain countless embryos and that millions of marketable oysters could grow from molluscan protoplasm, predicting no famine as supply rises and prices fall benefiting the poor.
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America
Europe
Frank Buckland
Buckland
Appleton
Vintage in France Raises Worries Over Phylloxera
In Paris a wave of unease grips vintners as endless rains hinder harvests and phylloxera spreads, described by Mons. Dufaure as that “accursed insect.” A wine merchant warns against vineyard investments, noting vines on southern hills ruined and plains must supply the era’s poorer wines.
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France
Paris
Mons. Dufaure
Council of Ministers
Justice
Nothi
Widow Receives Flower Bouquet From Persistent Suitor
A widow, long widowed, received a beautiful bouquet from a man who had lingered near her, his earnest, dry manner and gentle flattery noted as he watched her pass his store with the flowers. He declared, I am blessed to see you with them, and many small signs of affection followed.
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Raleigh
Tom
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