Carpetbaggers in the Senate and a Decline in Virtue
J P Slater reports from New Harmony Indiana dated December 26 1868 on Mack the Cincinnati Enquirer correspondent reviewing Washington dispatches about carpetbaggers in the Senate. The piece mocks Arkansas and Alabama senators and Sumner while lamenting the loss of former leaders like Clay Webster Benton and Douglas, replaced by inept figures, and calls the Senate degenerate compared with ten or twenty years prior.
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Henry Clay
Calhoun
Webster
Benton
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Wilson
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Union
United States
Chandler
Sprague
Imperialism in Congress and Grant’s influence debated
A Senate debate on restoring the Indian Bureau to the War Department features Mr. Wilson arguing for reference to military affairs and Gen Grant’s wishes, while Mr. Morrill presses independence from executive dictates. The piece criticizes Congress for lacking respect to the presidency and predicts political maneuvering before March. It endorses Grant's transfer plan for Indian management to unite purse and sword, arguing it will curb military and agent conflicts. It cites Lowell Courier reflections on McClellan, Grant, and the Peninsula campaign, and notes C H McCormick’s donation to an Illinois seminary amid a dispute over motives. The notice ends with an advertisement urging readers to Advertise in the Reazrzr.
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Public School Examinations Highlight Harmony Class Progress
The New Harmony Register reports the Primary and Intermediate departments totaling about ninety scholars, with fifty four in the Primary and strong showing in reading arithmetic and geography. Senior studies in mathematics grammar United States history orthography reading and geography were praised, while funds and desk design were noted as concerns. The article also promotes Peters Musical Monthly and urges subscriptions, detailing price changes and publication benefits.
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Soiny
Joan B. Davis
United States
A. H. Freraceor
Peters’ Musical Monthly
United States Musical Review
Peters
J. L. Peters
P. O
New York City
Ausical Review
Register
Political Punches and Contests Hit National Stage
A New York Times editorial backs funding for President Jean Bonn in impeachment costs, arguing justice is overdue though Congress is unlikely to cooperate. Western states report population vote gains surpassing half a million in four years. The Cincinnati Commercial cites contested election rulings causing party shifts, noting several Democrats ousted on weaker grounds than the Julian case. Indiana’s Lieut. Gov. Compackx seeks a U.S. Senate seat, while Indiana law bars serving as governor and lieutenant governor in the same term.
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Voorhees
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Morgan
Ohio
Julian
Widow's Choice Sets Western Village Ablaze with News
In a Western village a widow wins a physician suitor after courtship. She has several children, including a crippled son named George, who is asked to discuss a forthcoming marriage. The wedding to Dr Jones is looming, and the boy questions whether the doctor knows of the plan.
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Dr. Jones
Dead Man's Gulch Tale of Gold and a Dissolute Sermon
In California a miner dies while digging and is given a square funeral. A preacher leads a long prayer as miners antique around the grave, then discoveries of gold lure them away. The tale names the site Dead Man's Gulch and hints the crowd of six hundred never returns to the service.
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Hell
Heaven
Rittenberg
No. 87
Main Street
Evansville
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Dentists, Lawyers and a Blundered Prayer in a City Tale
A Cincinnati dentist meets a fashionable beauty and jokes about pulling her tooth earlier. A Western lawyer attends a religious meeting and, in reciting the Lord's Prayer, awkwardly adds "with coats" after "daily bread" due to habit, creating a comic moment.
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