02 Oct 1869
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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1869
Page
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A fragmented OCR entry references a public signage notice titled Jeckly Whig and Pub Sligan with garbled text and numeric figures 8500 and 100. The readable content is minimal, indicating a historical notice or sign related to a public entity without clear dates or locations.
A fragmented verse heavy with imagery of spring and growth contrasts with a school diary voice. It mingles reflections on poetry fulfillment, nature’s cycles, and a student’s daily trials in subjects, spelling, arithmetic, and French, hinting at a northern journey or memory of South Africa and Harper’s magazine.
A multisection collection of witticisms and epigrams touching on virtue, folly, marriage, fortune, and human folly. Jests on doctors, ministers, Irish and Dutch folks, and a wary editor. The tone mimics a late 19th century humorous column with pithy one liners and moral quips.
The article argues General Prim, Spain's leading figure, seeks guidance from Louis Napoleon about Cuba, signaling Spain cannot quell the insurrection unaided. It notes a potential but insincere willingness to discuss Cuban independence with the United States, while warning Spanish pride would reject surrender or negotiations. It concludes the U.S. should state desires without enforcing them, avoiding entanglement in Cuban affairs.
At a Nashville bar meeting following John Bell’s death, Andy Johnson lauded Bell as a man of talent and patriotism while noting past differences and shared views on recent trouble. The speech contrasted Bell’s patriotism with his rebel stance and drew parallels to other Confederate leaders.
A Will county convention endorses a People’s ticket that pledges support on the single issue of allowing county officers to serve only one term. The text argues against rotation in office, calling it demagogic folly and urging voters to reward incumbents who serve well, while criticizing the idea as political heresy and unwise. It also contrasts republican theory with frequent elections and urges readers in Will county and Chicago to reconsider.
Lorine, chief of Harvard crew, discusses the race with Boston reporters. He praises Harvard faith in their stroke but cites Oxford superiority in uniformity of weight and limb length, training disparities, and unfamiliar river currents as key disadvantages that affected Harvard’s performance.
An Oxford crew gains lead from eddies while Harvard supporters argue fatigue. separately, Tennessee Democrats contemplate repudiating bonded debt as a political issue. Tennessee’s debt exceeds 35 million dollars with annual interest around 2.4 million, and potential revenue estimates leave a large annual shortfall.
A singular public statement links Britain's neutrality to the Lincoln blockade. It claims English Cabinet hostility to the U S government and suggests the Queen's proclamation dated May 18 1861 followed Lincoln's blockade copy arriving May 14 1861. The piece argues neutrality was planned before U S actions and that Lincoln's policy did not trigger it.
A correspondence shows Governor Hoffman did not forward a copy of the Fifteenth Amendment resolution until officially called by the State Department. He notes the Legislature acted by concurrent resolution not submitted to the Executive, contrasting past practice where proposed amendments required formal bills.
General Rosecrans replies to claims of seizing General Hayes by the collar and cutting shoulder straps, stating no such incident occurred. He endorses Hayes’s military conduct under his command and expresses respect for Hayes as an officer and gentleman. Columbus, Ohio. September 11, 1869.
An item notes that Parson Brownlow recently sold his stake in the Knoxville Whig and implies he may have been part of the sale last summer. It questions whether Republicans nationwide will trust Tennessee politicians, including Brownlow, and suggests skepticism about his trustworthiness.
Lepra Robaim and other French exiles reject the amnesty proposal preferring free speaking rights they fear France would not permit. Some suspect the amnesty is a plot to restrict personal liberty, while others like Ledra Rollin doubt its sincerity.
The state table on property assessments shows Cook County leading with 1869 values at 94,445,243. Population weight seems to influence less. Fulton with 36,900 people reports 5,613,193 in assessments, while Henry with 64,338 people has 8,586,853. Wealth distribution appears unequal, suggesting effort for the Equalization Board. Total population stands at 2,141,510 with the state assessment at 481,143,230 pending two counties.
The Democratic party faces an internal clash as efforts to depose Belmont from the National Democratic Committee chair fail to quell discord. The Citizen attacks Belmont as foreign born and critics his care for the country’s credit, while The Democratic Party's rivals in New York and California push for his removal, arguing the copperhead cause and internal rivalries reflect broader tensions.
The article discusses near term religious tensions between Roman Catholic and Episcopal factions in New York, noting potential union debates and the impact of Father Hyacinthe's departure from Rome. It also cites Forney predicting Pendleton’s Ohio defeat and Pennsylvania results, framing Democratic struggles against a vigorous Republican canvass and poor party records.
Judge Dent, ex California justice of the peace and Conservative gubernatorial candidate, opened his Mississippi campaign in Corinth on the 18th. He addressed about 150 Black listeners, urging harmony with the South and claiming Northern whites helped free the colored race, while arguing emancipation and suffrage came from war and reconstruction needs. Dent portrays Southern Democrats as true abolitionists and warns Northern Democrats to note the shift in Southern sentiment.
Gov Senter suspends state patronage of Republican newspapers in Tennessee while Gov Walker names a former rebel officer as private secretary. Parson Brownlow sells his paper to a firm described as malignants. Judge Dent argues in Mississippi that Republicans did not abolish slavery, reflecting the stance of National Conservative Republicans aligned with the Chicago and New York Tribune party South.
In Washington a strong probability is urged that Judge Advocate Holt will be named Secretary of War. Before Rawlins was appointed, General Grant reportedly considered offering the post to Holt and indicated such intention. Holt is understood to desire the office and is being urged by friends.
The Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church is in session at Lincoln in Logan county. A Peter Cartwright jubilee will be held on the 24th to commemorate the sixty fifth year of his ministry and the fiftieth anniversary as presiding elder.
Receipts from all sources totaled over 15000 at the Iowa State Fair, while total expenses including premiums will not exceed 8000, leaving a handsome balance. The late exhibition is described as the most successful ever held in the state.
The Chicago Republican reports a renewed push to raise whisky duties from fifty cents to two dollars per gallon is opposed by Ways and Means Committee members, Internal Revenue Service officials, and Secretary Boutwell. They say current revenue exceeds former levels and favor maintaining or lowering the rate. A traveling correspondent adds a long letter from Lookout Mountain describing scenery, travel from Memphis to Chattanooga, and atmospheric notes.
A Dickens quotation extols that nothing beautiful dies and is forgotten. It claims an infant’s memory lives in loved ones and influences the living, even as its body turns to ashes. The passage reflects on how charity mercy and purified affection grow from dusty graves through the deeds of the departed.
A letter-writer describes the rock et as a Princeton substitution for the tiger cheer. He notes this rocket act is a thoroughly Princeton institution with fzz boom a. The piece suggests vocal pyrotechnics originated in the army and praises hundreds of students for perfecting the effect in playful displays.
Daniel E. Saunders, a teller at the North National Bank in Boston, began a fall by attempting to cover a $2,000 indiscretion with Weston, the humbug pedestrian. Weston failed to come to time, but Saunders faced his own ruin in the cover up.
A humorous dispatch from Mir Nasby at Perpan's Tavern shows him plotting to appeal to Democracy in Maine, Ohio, and Pennsylvania while jostling costs and threats of eviction. Pepper arrives with a bill for board, Nasby muses on Asa Packer, and Pennsylvania Democrats who hold him as a financial boon.
A compact, period style reflection on the hand as a wondrous, purposeful organ. It notes twenty nine bones and the thumb’s pivotal role in strength and dexterity, describing the hand as instinctive yet refined through effort and use.
Anna Dickinson visits a Mormon home in Salt Lake City and observes a polygamous arrangement. She speaks with two English wives, noting their limited English, shared living, and the emotional strain on the second wife who longs for a single, traditional marriage. The scene contrasts provincial Salt Lake life with Miss Dickinson’s expectations and reveals unspoken tensions.
Last May at Arlington the Quintette club of Washington sang a requiem of great plaintiveness as graves were decorated. General Rawlins, moved to emotion, told General Sherman that if he died he would like this requiem sung at his grave. The dirge was later performed at Rawlins’s grave on his deathbed, leaving a strong impression of joining comrades in the eternal camping ground.
The term Turkey reflects a misperception of origin, as the bird came via Spain or directly from North America, not Europe or Asia. The name may echo xenophobic labeling or the bird’s conspicuous male plumage. introduction to England dates from 1524, tied to Turkey merchants.
Extract presents John Randolph’s maxims on avoiding disputes with neighbors, keeping receipts, copying expenses, and guarding finances. It stresses careful accounting, prudent spending, and the dangers of overextension, likening neglect to a voyage without reckoning. The note notes seven years of acquaintance as a threshold for intimate relations.
A letter to a Quincy newspaper discusses Missouri railroad plans from Quincy to Brownville and impacts on Chillicothe. It estimates multiple projected lines, notes depot location woes, and contrasts regional trade, coal, water power, and limestone resources. It mentions local politics, real estate costs, and a bishop and Masons gathering.
Mark Twain visited Niagara Falls and commented on the scenery noting the falls appeared insignificant beside his impressions of summer resort life. He criticized information sources at the falls and recounted a Niagara trip including Canada and a hotel party with English officers, toasts, and soda water. he humorously described the morning after as a balloon-like hangover without proper clothes or an umbrella.
Miscellaneous items touch on the New Hampshire Gazette’s 1756 founding, Maine politics, the Northwestern railroad estate, a Chicago lecture, a Missouri telegraph rumor, fatal building collapse in Wisconsin, a rattlesnake death in Iowa, a ship fire loss in Davenport, British prince behavior with reporters, Welsh miners’ funeral remarks, San Francisco opposition to capital removal, pardons at Oregon State Penitentiary, St Paul railroad grading, Squawk Lake forest underwater phenomena, refrigerator cars for meat transport in Detroit, and 44 nonconductive meat cars planned at $2000 each with hair felt insulation totaling 1600 pounds.
Old Dicky a wealthy illiterate host and Oriential Club member in London examines a large map of India drawn with exotic animals. He exclaims in amazement that a Bengal tiger on the map is ninety miles long, judging its size by the map’s scale and the claim shocks him.
Fragmentary report describes the Bank of France vaults said to hold immense treasure and protected by an iron stairway, three- key system, and a chemical apparatus capable of releasing poison quickly. The piece warns of grave risk and potential peril during any attempted breach.
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