Times Change Reflects Old Cabinet Tales and Harried Navy
Washington correspondent recalls a Buchanan era tale of Harriet Lane’s trial trip aboard the Harriet Lane. The story shows shifting times as government funds and officials mingle with entertainment, private horses, and a lavish State Department cottage. A stolen horse from Jeff Davis’s plantation underscores the era’s excesses and misdirections of expense.
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Washington
New Orleans Times
Jeremiah 8. Black
James Buchanan
Buchanan
Harriet Lane
Cobb
Miss Lane
Treasury
Ornee
State Department
Jeff. Davis
Mississippi
Quote on honesty and deception from a game philosopher
The speaker contrasts the passionate and hasty Io with the cold hypocrite to warn against deception. A bull dog is portrayed as straightforward, while the sneaky cur attacking from behind is condemned. The lines emphasize trust in overt force over sly manipulation.
Senator Sherman Gains in Public Life, Note on Morton
A Cleveland Plain Dealer correspondent writes that Senator Sherman has developed much since entering public life. The critique hints he lacks a certain nameless quality, while suggesting Morton may possess it.
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Sherman
Morton
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Humbuggery Exposed in Reform Claims and Caricatures
The Cleveland Plain Dealer cites the New York Times and Harper’s Weekly in a critique of reform rhetoric around Tammany Hall and Grant. It argues the Times opposed Trumbull’s anti corruption resolution while praising reform when convenient, and accuses Nast and Harper’s Weekly of hypocrisy for targeting Democratic fraud but ignoring Republican misdeeds.
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New York Times
Grant
Times
Trumbull
Mes
Horace Greeley
Tammany
Tweed
Nast
Thomas Nast
Harper's Weekly
Harper’s Weekly
New York
Tweed & Co
Democratic Party
Trumbull and Schurz
Zimes
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Grant criticism from Indiana Republican leader
Julian presents George W. Jextran's warning that the Republican party must reform Civil Service and embrace the One Term principle. He condemns Gen. Grant for seeking a second term, appointing loyalists and thieves, accepting gifts, and urges a fearless platform shift to regain respect among honest Republicans.
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Julian
Grant
Indiana
George W. Jextran
Gen. Grant
Tom Murphy
New York
Casey
New Orleans
Republican Party
Gen
President at opera despite ear for music
The president attended the opera with friends and his daughter Nelly. A heckler shouted horse-talk and he started toward the noise until his daughter reminded him Parepa Rosa would sing. He replied it would not annoy him. The note comes from the Fash. Cor. N. O. Times.
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Horace Greeley
Nelly
Parepa Rosa
Vaccination and Re vaccination in Smallpox Era
A lengthy discussion on vaccination and revaccination cites historical mortality tables from London and European data to argue for universal revaccination. It covers figures from 10-year periods through 1850, practical notes from Prussian and Austrian armies, and quotes from medical authorities urging ongoing vaccination to curb smallpox spread and eventual eradication. It also includes assorted notices and political dispatches.
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New Harmony Register
London
Westphalia
Watson
Wirtemburg
Woop
Fiinr
The Administration Portrayed And Democratic Convention Call
A Democratic State Convention will meet in New Haven on February 6 to nominate state officers appoint a State Committee and possibly delegates to the next National Democratic Convention. The Connecticut convention action draws interest as The Cincinnati Gazette stains Senator Danian as Radical and corrupt.
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Congress
Washington
New Haven
Connecticut
Greeley's warning against postal telegraph scheme
Horace Greeley urges the President to reject the plan to purchase existing telegraph lines and run a postal telegraph system. He warns of a revolting odor from the scheme, claiming thirty million dollars would be wasted on property costing less than ten million and would never return. He argues private extension is possible only if the cost is borne by nonusers and insists the Post Office must pay its way before Congress votes.
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Congress
City vs County Papers Spark Rural Reading Debate
An Ohio exchange notes Senator John Sherman plans a country grocery and quips that any can be a Congressman. A Pennsylvania girl fatally mishandled her papa's revolver. The piece riffs on city papers ignoring local schools courts and progress, urging readers to value county papers.
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saAn
Ohio Exchange
John Sherman
V. Y. Herald
Bas
Pennsylvania
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New Hampshire
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Iowa
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Wilson
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Galveston Arsenal
New York Sun Rays
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Jefferson Davis
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Posey County
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William Nelson
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Pork Packers
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George W. Engler
Nations and Groceries
Mount Vernon, Ind
George A. Barrett
Geo. M. Barrett
Saale
Stewartsville
Manny
M. Gelorgh M. Barrett
Adm'r
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Attys
Soming
Penn
IRA
ALL & Mumford's
Thrall & Mumford
Cincinnati
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J. R. Hugo
John R. Hugo
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