Senate and House Debate 17th to 23rd on Bills and Treaties
Congressional action spans Senate and House with references to Mexican Convention, Central Pacific extension, bankruptcy uniformity, Osage land treaty condemnations, railroad legislation, and political disability relief. Debates cover Minnesota university lands, Mississippi and South improvement bills, and executive approvals with adjournments and votes on pensions and tax measures.
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Senate
Mexas
Teessters
Genera Sheridast
District of Missouri
Central Pacific
Atchiron
Auvelal Coll
Dante
House
Gonlerenge
Committee On Elections
McKee
Kentucky
Jefferson Davie
Committee On Commerce
North Carolina
Minnesota
Washington
Mobily
South
Supreme Court of the United States
Maine
United States
Michigan
Indian Commission
Committee of Conference
Huston
Alabama
Geo. W. Jones
Tennessee
Cingse
Kansas
Sen
Missouri
Tase
Hogan
Pile
Washington News Roundup Nominates Evarts and More
The President nominated William M. Evarts for Attorney General. General Grant hosted a private reception for Minister Burlingame in Washington. President Johnson sent a message to Congress on Arkansas statehood. John H. Surratt was discharged on the murder indictment, with the conspiracy case postponed. Treasury curbs and currency figures noted, whisky tax set at sixty cents a gallon, tobacco tax at thirty-two cents per pound. A grand military review for Chinese Ambassadors occurred in Washington with most officials present except Grant's party at West Point.
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Washington News
Senate
Wm. M. Evarts
Grant
Burlingame
Washington
Johnson
Congress
Arkansas
John II
Surratt
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
National Bank
McCulloch
Justice Chase
Schofield
Tancock
Staf
West Point
Explosions in Bowery Kill Five in United States
A steam fire engine explosion in the Bowery New York on the night of the 18th killed five people and injured about forty. Reports from Burlington Vermont note arms seized from Fenian activity. Walking match in Boston involves Topley and Weston. lead changes and controversy over winner. Seventeen year locusts spread on Long Island and near Jamaica. Central Pacific rock slide kills Chinese near Summit tunnel. Baseball results include Atlantics Brooklyn beating Cream City Milwaukee. Morning Star and Cortland collision sinks both ships with 40 passengers and 80 crew missing. Captain Garrett and Professor LeGendre aboard Little Western capsize off Chicago. two drown. Dispatches from Europe cover politics, wars, and proclamations.
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Bowery
New York City
Burlington
United States
St. Albans
New York
Topley
Weston
Mystic Park
Boston
White Post
Jamaica
Ptachensue
Farmingdale
Boston Dispatch
Goodwin
Summit Tunnel
Central Pacific
Atlantic Base Ball Club
Brooklyn
N. Y
Texcelsiors
Chicago
Heber C. Kimball
Brigham Young
Mormon Church
Salt Lake City
Morning Star
Cortland
Tevede
Iron Company
Tron Ridge
Wisconsin
Athletics
Philadelphia
Excelsiors
Atlantics
Cream City Club
Milwaukee
Detroit
Kansas Pacific
Monument Station
Cleveland & Toledo
Toledo
Sangerbund
Little Western
Lake Michigan
Garrett
Chisholm
Chicago Times
Professor LeGendre
Europe
Cleveland
Clevelnd
Miscellany items cover crimes, science and society
A wide array of brief notes from 19th century press items. Reports include a Nevada tax case ruling against state travelers, police orders for Fourth of July gun control, a large dining room claim in Greenbrier County, and a New York judge upholding a boardinghouse keepers rights. Also noted are locusts on Put-in-Bay, temperance gains in New Haven, a Nassau bank interest, and various curiosities from the Albany Journey and Syracuse Journal about coins, phrenology, and a moon voyage tale.
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Alaska Soda
Boston
Theodorus
Plymouth
White Mountains
New York City
United States Supreme Court
Nevada
Pittsburgh
White Sulphur Spring
Greenbrier County
W. Va
New Orleans
Massachusetts
New York
Bay
Sanduskyegister
New Haven
Hatchers
Aml
Lowell
Mass
Charles Knox
City of
Broadway
Fulton Street
New York Association For the Prevention of Gambling
Syracuse
N. Y
Mrr
E. J. Foster
George II
Christopher 1
Brewerton
Oneida
Fort Brewerton
Oswego
Mohawk Valley
Albany
Hut
Mechanics’ and Farmers’ Bank
Seon
Florida Legislature Elects T W Osborne U S Senator
In Florida on the 18th T W Osborne was chosen United States Senator for four years by a 51 to 18 vote. Separate dispatches report Abijah Gilbert radical elected Senator for six years from March 1869 by 58 to 51 in Tallahassee on the 19th and a Jackson Mississippi dispatch notes a confrontation in the governor’s office with General Biddle seizing possession from Governor Humphreys after force was threatened and Humphreys resisting.
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Milan IV
Servia
Cox
Austria
Senate
Madagascar
Ramona
Kanavola II
H House of Commons
Governor General
Canada
George Francis Train
Liverpool Exchange
London
House of Lords
House of Commons
Victoria
England
Spain
United States
Peru
Chile
New York
Hayti
St. Domingo
Jamaica
West India Islands
Port Au Prince
Inuii
Faubert
Nessay
Athens
Florida
T. W. Osborne
New Orleans
Buchanan
Tallahassee
Wla
Abijah Gilbert
Jackson
Miss
Diddle
Humphreys
Biddle
Iluphreys
Grant and the Jews in Copperhead agitation
An Indiana correspondence excerpt shows Copperheads urging Jewish voters in Western states to oppose Gen. Grant. Two circulars, one signed by Isaacs in St Louis and another unsigned in Chicago, spread prejudiced claims about Grant’s views on Jews. Jewish leaders dismiss the appeals as insulting and vow to denounce mass demonstrations. Meanwhile Missouri’s Southwest Branch of the Pacific Road is transferred to the Southwest Pacific Railroad Company with a $1.5 million deposit and $0.5 million raised. construction to proceed with energy.
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Moon
Ben. Tranklin
Wlates
Copperheads
Grant
Indiana
New York Times
Western States
St. Louis
Isaacs
Chicago
United States
Gen. Grant
Pacife Road
Missouri
Southwest Pacific Railroad Company
Notable Anecdotes From Various Figures And Events
A survey of remarks and happenings includes Dumas authoring a Life of Christ, twenty thousand copies of Foul Play sold in a day, Lady Franklin passing in Tadia last winter, and Probasco of Cincinnati named the richest man in Ohio. It notes the Pennsylvania State Library with thirty thousand volumes, Ameses of Massachusetts earning 275122, and Michelet selling his History of France rights for 34000 in gold. Also mentions Stewart denying a pocketing rumor, death of William Hancock, Lotta the actress supporting her family, Ira Davenport’s will leaving 50000 to Davenport Orphan Asylum, Dayton Morgan sculpting a bust of Fred Douglas, and Kit Carson pension plans for heirs and homesteads in New Mexico.
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Stong Kong
Paris
Napoleon
France
Empire
Ajax
London
Calcraft
Barrett
Ife
Writers Church
England
John Bulls
Surry Club
Dumas
Christ
Lady Franklin
Tadia
Probasco
Cincinnnati
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Blartisburg
United
Massachusetts
Ameses
Michelet
Tfistory
Stewart
William Hancock
John Hancock
Dudley
Mays
Lotta
Ira Davenport
Steuben County
N.Y
Davenport
New Mexico
Reopening Shelby College and Notes on Education
Religious and educational items span Kirby Smith reopening Shelby College in Kentucky next October, Yale seniors contest prizes, and a Boston English High School praised by Rev James Fraser. The New York Jewish Temple Emanuel is planned, with a $1 million budget and rising church listings include 524 congregations. Ends with exhortations about patience, sacrifice, and resurrection.
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Kirby Smith
Shelby College
Kentucky
New York City
England
Wesleyan College
Maine
New York
Temple
Emanuel
James Fraser
Boston
Yale
Reformed Church of
Peapack
New Jersey
Jacob J. Tiger
Canada
Public Schools of
New Directory of
Baptist
Reformed
Friends
Methodist
Presbyterian
United Presbyterian
Reformed Presbyterian
Episcopal
Unitarian
Universalist
Questioning Greenbacks and election liquor myths in Western New York
The text parries on monetary policy with Greenbacks and taxation, then recalls a law restricting liquor sales to Indians on election day in Western New York. It includes a humorous magistrate exchange about “too much question,” followed by a lengthy July issue description from a Boston literary periodical and notes on the Toosac Tunnel’s progress and projected cost.
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New York
Friends of the Law and Order
Smith
Tadian
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St. Michael's Night
Agnes Harrison
EB. P. Whipple
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Elizabeth Elias
William Henry
Central Park
Aly
Heaper
Tickson & Penns
Toosac
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