04 Dec 1869
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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1869
Page
1
Poem by William Colles Bryant reflecting on memory love and faith across distance. It contemplates the grain of life, seeds of thought in speech, and the comfort of seeing a loved one in prayer as night brings rest and spiritual closeness.
A collage of jokes and aphorisms on language, habits, and social quirks. It blends puns about tea and coffee with observations on marriage, money, and human folly. Names and places are sparse amid a stream of playful trivia and old-time humor.
The article argues against a rapid move to redeem greenbacks in coin, warning such abrupt contraction could harm the treasury and trigger a panic. It favorably notes gradual contraction and cautions that forcing a fixed redemption date risks distrust and economic distress.
The piece likens tariff quarrels to a distressed girl fearing marriage and birth, blasting the chatter of reform advocates as irrelevant. It argues protectionist revenue needs require stricter duties and mocks free trade theories, noting statements by Perry, Bickerhoff, and Thurman. It concludes by challenging Ohio’s logic of protecting against its own sister states.
A speaker denounces a Senate hopeful as shallow and demagogic, arguing it is a sop to ignorance and prejudice unbecoming a statesman. The remark likens the candidate to Senator Casserly of California, asserting the accusation undermines trust in a potential U.S. senator.
The author argues for gradual contraction and prudent action toward resumption of specie payments. He stresses letting gold premium fall to three to five percent before redemption, avoiding speculative policy, and aligning government finance with real productive capacity to ease future burdens and restore solvency.
The piece argues the Suez Canal favors French commerce over Britain and notes the U.S. government has ordered surveys for a canal across the Darien Isthmus. It highlights the shorter distance but greater natural obstacles, asserting the commercial gains would exceed those already achieved at Suez.
The tally shows Governor Fairchild leading Wisconsin by 8 181 votes and Minnesota Governor candidate Austin with about 2 500. Clafling leads over Aflams in Massachusetts by 28 871, while New York adopts an amendatory judiciary clause by about 5 000 majority. The reform extends judges terms to fourteen years and sets full-term elections.
In 1824 a convention vote in Pike County assessed whether Illinois would be free or slave. About one hundred votes were cast, likely all legal votes, with all but three opposing the convention and supporting freedom.
Democratic papers in this State push minority representation. question raised about their stance during the last election canvass and what they would do if they held the party majority. The note critiques consistency on suffrage law changes and party power.
The seizure of thirty Spanish gunboats at New York over Peru's complaint is likely to end in their release. The government may reflect Peru's representations and signal sympathy toward Spain. No public law principle seems to authorize detention, while rumors speak of a large Spanish fleet about to arrive in New York.
The letter cites Cuban privateers likely to seize gunboats without armament or escort. It criticizes Delaware for maintaining public flogging as punishment, describing Newcastle penalties as barbarous and bloodied. The piece argues flogging fails to reform and dishonors the state.
A passage describes a story from Atlantic Monthly about Abraham Lincoln. It tells how Cuban ex slaves, newly freed, wore Lincoln’s photographs and believed he would rise to enfranchise them. The piece urges extending American ideals to oppressed peoples in the Orient and the world.
A London merchant visiting New York received a $4,500 draft at the Bank of Commerce on Nassau and Cedar. While counting, a well-dressed man distracted him with a dropped stamp, and the left side money vanished. The thief fled. detectives have little hope of capture.
A Healdsburg correspondent reports astounding timber sizes in Humboldt and Mendocino redwood forests. Descriptions include a 67 foot circumference tree over 200 feet tall, trunks that could yield 180000 feet of lumber, and a hollow "Stable" tree large enough for a man and horses. The notes praise the coast timber as superior quality.
An eyewitness describes a seven by five mile, 300 to 400 foot locust flight over a Western Presidency district. Crops were eaten clean as Indian villagers prepare for recurring invasions every seven years, beating tom toms while pipes and other sounds fail to calm the swarm.
The Stevens floating battery, long debated in Congress since 1841, was to be a landmark in naval architecture. Prolonged funding and the death of Commodore Stevens halted work, leaving a 420 foot hull with iron plating, 18,600 horses of steam power, ten boilers, eight engines, and heavy ordnance.
An old Virginia man once built a plank road and a steam mill near the Mississippi swamps. A sinking pond and emptied well revealed the river’s vast unseen influence as floods rose thirteen feet in weeks. The Mississippi, the continental drain, shapes shores, levees, and plantations far inland.
Chinese suspension bridges persist in rugged regions with iron chains and plank floors. In Yunnan a two thousand year old span credited to Chu-kon-liang topples a river, while in Kweichow the Ming era Pei River bridge uses multiple chairs and chained supports to keep the deck firm.
The article discusses the dangers of Red Sea navigation due to coral reefs and shoals and notes several steamship losses between Suez and Aden. It argues for beaconing and buoying the Red Sea at England and France expense to save hundreds of lives and make the route safer for vast sea traffic.
The Philadelphia Ledger reports a blood transfusion at Pennsylvania Hospital under Dr. T. G. Morton after facial artery ligation failed to stop bleeding from a wound on a young city man's upper lip. Two medical students supplied five and a half ounces of blood each from their arms, infusing into the patient. within minutes his pulse rallied and bleeding ceased. By ten days the patient walked the yard and regained strength.
A column discusses Livingstone's claimed Nile source and compares world distances, then debates legal disabilities of women with anecdotes from the Philadelphia Fair and a naval tale about the Constitution and Admiral Chads, noting ongoing gender and military questions.
Dr Livingstone mapped a chain of lakes and rivers south of Lake Tanganyika and toward latitude 10 to 12 degrees, arguing these waters may be the Nile sources. He planned to travel to Ujiji for information and provisioning, while Kirks notes Livingstone’s arrival may confirm whether southern waters feed the Albert Nyanza. If so, he would settle the Nile’s true sources, supporting Ptolemy’s placement.
The speaker Olive Logan responds to questions about wearing wealth in body parts. She claims to wear fifteen hundred dollars in hair, twenty thousand in teeth, and masses in tongue eyes and ears, adding she would not sell even at these figures.
At the Cleveland convention, Henry Ward Beecher was elected president of the Woman's National Suffrage Association after a Beecher endorsement letter was read. The body approved a constitution leaning toward annual elections and balanced representation. Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, Myra Broadwell, and Frank R. Sanborn were named to key posts as the convention adjourned sine die amid a large gathering.
The court’s grand jury returned indictments against doctors McRae and Stratford, alleged abortionists, in a Chicago case. A Pennsylvania man, Charles Johnson, lured a Rolla woman to a mock marriage then deserted and robbed her of over $100 and a gold watch. In Cincinnati Horace Phillips shot R H Leonard after being spurned by Mary Cummings. the shot hit in the groin but was not life threatening. Phillips was drunk and arrested.
A collage of short items notes incomes in St Louis street railways, a Tom Thumb trip to Japan, a North Carolina strawberry crop, a Boston piano factory using elephant tusks, doubled Louisville population, peppermint from an interior New York county, and California Chinese Sunday schools. It mentions the Great Eastern cable project, Lincoln’s piano, and various regional developments, fires, prices, and local curiosities.
The report lists multiple Missouri items: Hon John B Henderson ill in Louisiana. Michael McDaniel robbed of 400 dollars at Joseph jail. Reynolds Bro store burglary near Renick totaling 800 dollars. Wm C Kelly opens brown hematite bed near Rolla. Lincoln Institute Greenwood dedication raises near 10000 dollars. Jacob Dockstrader buys 160 acres near Shelbina at nine dollars an acre. Mrs Walker detained for improper clothing but released. Vaughn of Sikes Ton shoots Shumate after a handsaw attack. rising burglaries in Kansas City with journals considering noting safe houses. Kirksville station rail tickets for October total 1073 dollars, surpassing prior monthly record.
The Army and Navy Journal refutes a New York paper’s tale of quarrel between General Sherman and Secretary of War Belknap. It states Sherman wished to write Belknap’s annual report, which Belknap rejected in favor of his own statement, and claims Belknap repudiated an important claim. Relations between the general and the secretary are described as pleasant and harmonious.
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