Secret societies under fire at Chicago convention in 1869
A Chicago gathering debated resisting secret societies like Masonry. Speakers claimed hidden culpability in crime and protected members, yet critics argued even if tied to crime, these orders provide benefits such as employment aid and comfort. The piece notes ongoing justice gaps in the South with assassinations, military involvement, and political tension amid Ku Klux activity.
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Chicago
Masonry
Thatcher
Thes
United States
Stobinson
Jacksonville
Murray MacConnel
Pomeroy
Robinson
Whch
Odd Fellowship
Sons of Temperance
Good Samplars
Southern crime debate sparks claims of terror
Northern and Southern papers debate crime levels and a supposed reign of terror in the South. The piece cites past murders tied to politics and Ku Klux activity in Arkansas Texas Tennessee Georgia and Mississippi, noting alleged profligacy of Ashburn and Adkins and questioning the Times’ charges.
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South
United States
Lner
Memphis
New Orleans
Camnila Messieres
Arkana
Texas
Tennessee
Georgia
Mississippi
Ashburn
Ayer
Adkins
New York Times
Tennessee canvass shows Republican split over enfranchisement
A Nashville area analysis notes Republican rifts over voting rights and reconstruction, with Stokes favoring disenfranchisement, Senter pushing enfranchisement, and Brownlow appearing to back Senter. The piece discusses party fracture, a possible compromise candidate, and the broader South’s political fragility.
Railroad excitement in Missouri and Nebraska line
Messrs Adams and King report north western Missouri counties ready to back the Quincy and Nebraska Railroad. Nebraska City and Brownville show strong interest, with rivalry for the terminus fueling liberal subscriptions. A link to Union Pacific near Fort Kearney is anticipated. Kirksville convention expected large turnout and surveying to start soon, with possible construction by year end.
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Messrs. Adams and King
Missouri
Quincy and Nebraska Railroad
Nebraska City
Brownville
Nebraska
Missouri River
Union, Pacific
Fort Kearney
North
Kirksville
Hon &c
Missouri City
Chillicothe
Trenton
Lacclede
Millan
Bethany
Quincy
Quincy Whig
Brrgast
Harrison County
Milan
Laclede
Hannibal & St. Joseph
Browning
Linneus
Linn County
Messrs
Adams
King
Brownsville
Nemeha County
Union Pacific
Johnson
Gage
Jones
Atchison County
Nodaway
Gentry
Chicago
St. Louis
Gen M M Bane Named Special Agent of Customs
Dis patches announce Gen M M Bane of this city has been appointed Special Agent of Customs in the Treasury Department. The duties and jurisdiction are not specified. The news vindicates him from prior charges related to the Internal Revenue Assessor office and honors his wartime service. Reed, the new appointee, is expected to assume duties soon.
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M. M. Bane
Customs
Treasury Department
Gen. Bane
Internal Revenue
Northwest Railroad Prospects Stir Monticello Area
The Quincy and Nebraska railroad project gains zeal along the route including LaGrange Monticello Edina and Kirksville as Monticello and vicinity raise seven thousand dollars from thirty subscribers with none under 100 and no subscription above 500. Local leaders foresee further subscriptions once routing is fixed in LaGrange Monticello Edina and Kirksville. LaGrange council calls an election on Saturday the 19th to authorize a 20000 stock subscription if the railroad lies within city limits.
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Quincy and Nebraska
LaGrange American
Monticello
LaGrange
Edina
Kirksville
Missouri River
Jeffries
McMahon secrecy over Paraguay mission alleged by Washington correspondent
Tyr Washington of the Philadelphia Press claims Gen. McMahon the U S minister to Paraguay has repeatedly tried to contact the government but his dispatches were intercepted by Brazilian and Argentine authorities controlling the La Plata river below Asuncion. The State Department considers the matter while Brazilian and Argentine ministers drum up concern over his safety and hint Lopez may have captured him.
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Tyr Washington
Philadelphia Press
McMahon
Paraguay
la Plata
Asuncion
Ger
Lopez
State Department
Brazil
MaMahon
Life and Times of Governor Ninian Edwards Volume
Springfield journal reports Hon Ninian Edwards plans a press volume covering Illinois history from 1789 to 1833. It will include correspondence with Patrick Henry Monroe Calhoun Adams and others and notes John Todd’s 1789 appointment as Military and Civil Commandant of the County of Illinois in Virginia.
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Illinois
Springfield
Ill
Ninian Edwards
Patrick Henry
Monroe
Calhoun
Adams
Wirt
John Todd
Virginia
Presidential Visit to Boston Reflects Grand Reception
Boston dispatch outlines preparations for President Grant with a city government committee meeting him at the depot and guiding him to the St James Hotel. Mayor Shurtleff and Gov Claflin will make official calls, Latin and English high school pupils will salute, and Grant will tour the Legislature before reviewing troops and attending the Peace Jubilee with Lt Gen Sherman.
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Boston
Grant
Gen. Grant
St.James
Shurtleff
Claflin
Commonwealth
St. James
State House
B.F. Butler
Sherman
Motley
Washington
Senate
Colliseum
Anvil
Gilmore
Madame Parepa Rosa
H. A. Rice
Admiral Farragut
Commodore Rogers
Union Navy Association
America
Atlanta
Supreme Court of Georgia
Brown
McCoy
Warner
New Orleans
Metropolitan Police Board
Donn
Republicans Demonstration in Spain Sparks Panic and Deaths
A Cordova dispatch dated June 11 reports a large Republican meeting opposing a return to monarchy. Deputies from southern provinces attended as revolutionary speeches were given. The crowd, about 50 000, cheered for America and Grant while a guard intervention caused a panic injuring many and triggering barricades with risk of further clashes.
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Cordova
Spain
United States
America
Boston
Coliseum
Alderman White
Old-fashioned Buncombe on Youth and Labor
At a New York Fruit Growers Club meeting a speaker from the Rural New Yorker urges young men to stay home and work. He derides long-distance ventures to Virginia North Carolina Kansas or Colorado as vanity and laziness. He says New Jersey or New York soils will reward industrious, economical labor and crowns thrift over costly finery for women.
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D. B. Bruen
Fruit-Growers’ Club
New York City
New Yorker
Virginia
North Carolina
Kansas
Colorado
New Jersey
New York
Constitutional Amendment Ratified by Emphatic Vote
FLonIpA ratified the pending amendment after decisive votes in both Houses. Reports from Rio Janeiro last month fail to clarify the mystery of Gen. McMahon's disappearance. The effort to seat the Duke De Montpensier on the Spanish throne has been revived in the Cortes.
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Flonipa
Rio Janeiro
Gen. McMahon
Duke de Montpensier
Washington
Florida
Assembly
Senate
Jacksonville
Paris Votes Show Sharp Decline for Government
The latest elections in Paris reveal Louis Napoleon era influence fading as 66,117 government votes fall far short of 229,758 opposition ballots among 295,575 total. The result signals a major shift in political power and party support in the capital.
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Louis Napoleon
Paris
Czar Alexander Congratulates Grant on Presidency
Czar Alexander has sent a telegram to Russian Minister Bodisco praising General Grant on his accession and expressing hope for continued friendship and prosperity between Russia and the United States.
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Czar Alexander
Bodisco
Gen. Grant
United States
Growth Report of Sons of Temperance in Washington Session
Reports before the National Grand Division in Washington show the Order now has 1968 divisions and 9673 members with 40781 lady visitors. Receipts last year totaled 186265 and cash or investments amount to 223693.
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National Grand Division of Sons of Temperance
Washington
State
Carthage and Burlington Railroad to reach Dallas by July 3
The Burlington Hawkeye reports that the Carthage and Burlington Railroad will be completed and ready for trains as far as Dallas by July 3. Dallas sits on Hancock county's north line about midway between Burlington and Carthage. Henry Cluny Dean is discussed as a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, seen as a strong representative of democracy. An Irish Republicans meeting in the Fourth District will convene at J H McGindley’s office next Saturday the 19th to appoint delegates for Chicago’s National Convention on July 4.
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Tennessee
Gen. Stokes
Gov. Senter
Brownlow
Press and Times
Nashville
Stokes
Senter
Chicago
Knoxville Wag
Maynard
Ir. Meynard
South
Republican Party
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Carthage
Burlington
Dallas
Hancock County
Henry Cluny Dean
Iowa
Chicago Post
Odlor
Fourth Congressional District
J. H. McGindley
Gettysburg
The
National Cemetery
Senator Morton
Bayard Taylor
Henry Ward Beecher
Cuba
New York
Bahamas
Vermont
Rutland
Peter B. Washburner
George Whindle
John A. Page
Coole
ST. Louis
T. Valentine McKinney
McCoole
Allen
Ev. M’kinney
St. Louris
Charley Gallagher
Tom Allen
Cayuga Lake
McGuire
Donnelly
Canada
Cincinnati
Wim,Stamler
National Soldiers
Dayton
Jacksonville
Cuicago
Ill
Wahle
Germany
Indiana State Sunday Schools
Richmond
Rock IsuAmnp
10Th
U.S. Infantry
Muscatine
Paine
Detroit
Appointments to Iliinois State Hospital Trustees Term Changes
Governor Palmer appointed Isaac Scarritt of Alton for the long term Gen John Tillson of Quincy for the second term and Geo R Bibb of Jacksonville for the short term to fill vacancies left by resigning Board of Trustees of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane.
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Ilinois State Hospital
Palmer
Isaac Scarritt,Esq
Alton
John Tillson
Quincy
Geo. R. Bibb
Jacksonville
Postmaster General Cresswell Urges Postal Reform in South
Postmaster General Creswell writes to a Southern postmaster stressing the department will reform the region by enforcing absolute inviobility of private correspondence by post office employees.
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Creswell
South
Burnside Expedition Society Annual Meeting Notice
Circular announces the annual meeting of The Society of the Burnside Expedition and of the Ninth Army Corps at Rocky Point near Providence Rhode Island on July 7. Officers and enlisted men who served in the Burnside expedition to North Carolina or in the Ninth Army Corps and were honorably discharged or remained in service are entitled to membership. Half fare railroad and steamboat passage arranged.
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Society of the Burnside Expedition
Ninth Army Corps
Rocky Point
Providence
R. I
Army and Navy
North Carolina
United States
POSTMASTER GENERAL SAYS PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE MUST BE SACRED
Washington June 13. A letter from the Post Master General G B Armstrong is published warning officers and clerks that violations of postal laws will be punished to the full extent. He orders dismissal of a clerk suspected of complicity and insists on absolute sanctity of seals and private correspondence.
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Washington
Georgia
G. B. Armstrong
Knights Templar
Philadelphia
Detroit
U. S. Infantry
Pittsburg
St. Johns
N. B
Montgomery
New Orleans
Omaha
Memphis
Nashville
M’mahon
General M. M. Bane Restored to Special Agent Post
The Springfield Journal reports that charges against General M. M. Bane for the Quincy District were proven unfounded after a thorough inquiry. He could have returned to duty, but his successor was appointed and confirmed. Bane is named Special Agent for the new Twelfth District with HQ at Sault Ste. Marie and operations along the Canada border. Also noted are Cabinet members in Washington, Boutwell selling presses, and status updates on War Department duties and Macon postmaster suspension rumors.
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Mr. Bane
Springfield Journal
M. M. Bane
Quincy
Twelfth District
Canada Border
Sault Ste. Marie
Repubien
Bane
Boutwell
Clark
Creswell
Fish and Hoar
Washington
Col
O. A. Mack
War Department
Rawlings
H. M. Turner
Macon
Meeting on the Quincy and Nebraska railroad at Trenton
A Grundy county assembly at the Trenton courthouse on June 10 discussed building the Quincy and Nebraska City line. Dr. Isaac Coles chaired. secretaries were A H Burkeholder and J J Jewett. Speakers urged east west rail link as vital for growth, pledges of investment surfaced, and plans to attend Kirksville convention were laid.
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Gremey
J. J. Jewett
Quincy
T. O. Towles
Lewis County
Hannibal &St. Joseph Railroad
T. T. Taylor
Edina Sentinel
Knoxcom Iy
Knox County
W. V. Denslow
Chilicothe
Fort Des Moines
Quincy & Nebraska City
Kirksville
R. A. DeBolt
J. Norris
G. W. Moberly
A.H. Burkeholder
Trenton
Jewett
Quincy Whig
Hannibal and Joseph
North Missouri Road
Denslow
N. A. Winters
Lindley
Edinburg
T Isaac CoLes
J. A. H. Burkeholder
Beroanr
Hamnizox County
Harrison County
Court House
Bethany
J. A. Brewer
W. C. Heaston
J. Srewett
D. J. Heaston
Quincy and Nebraska
Geo. Adams
Fort Kearney
Nebraska
Indies
Asia
LaGrange
Major Rice clears Brindisi consul claim and writes from Quincy
Quincy Illinois June 7 1869 Major Rice of Quincy corrects a newspaper report that he was appointed Consul to Brindisi Italy. He had not applied for any civil post and believes another person with similar initials was named. He explains his lack of knowledge about Brindisi and his own lack of interest in the appointment.
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J. Ms. Rice
Brindisi
Illinois State Journal
Major Rice
Quincy
Ill
Italy
Telegraph
J. Mason Rice
Australia
M. Rice
Fire in Cincinnati Displaces Eight to Ten Families
A Saturday blaze in Cincinnati destroyed or damaged homes, leaving eight to ten families homeless. No deaths reported. Firefighters battled the flames and investigated the cause. Public safety officials urged caution and offered assistance to affected residents.
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Cincinnati
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