President urges specie payments and free banking reform
The President calls for a return to specie payments and urges Congress to authorize free banking with full protection to bill holders. He criticizes Congress for not backing civil service reform, complains about the Louisiana Reconstruction policy, and seeks tariff readjustment to raise revenue while reducing taxed items.
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Cuba
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Ifo
Louisiana
Guime
Tle
Republicans Face Question On Negro Suffrage Failure
Republican debate centers on the outcome of enfranchisement for freedmen in the District of Columbia and its fiscal fallout. Critics warn that district governance under universal male suffrage led to debt and bankruptcy, prompting talks of government by appointed agencies and potential political upheaval next session. The discussion extends to the South, questioning the wisdom of extending suffrage where emancipation is uneven.
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Congress
Washington
Baltimore
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Mississippi
Lousiana
Vicksburg Attacked by Negroes and Local Strikes
A New Orleans Bulletin dispatch from Vicksburg reports seven hundred black attackers on three roads, driven off with twenty five killed and wounded and forty prisoners. Whites suffered one death and two injuries as efforts to reinstate Crosby’s sheriff failed. Across the region fires burn dwellings and gin houses. In Pittsburgh puddlers’ strike closes furnaces and mills, about forty thousand workers lose wages and distribution of one million dollars weekly halts.
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Vicksburg
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Pittsburgh
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Evary
Tribune
New York
Manteho
Compromise Rejected in Iron Industry Conference
At Pittenprem a final conference between iron manufacturers and puddlers failed to agree to a $4 per ton boiling price. Rails will suspend Monday except for a few mills paying $6 per ton until contracts end. Large iron stock held by firms may cover demand briefly, but continued rock cuts threaten employment for about forty thousand workers and harm the state iron and coal sectors.
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Puddiers
Democrats Strive Amid Radical Rule in 1874 Debate
In Washington and Philadelphia observers discuss the Forty-third Congress ending in March and the anticipated shift to Democratic control in the Forty-fourth. The Radical negro party allegedly dominates the Senate and courts, while Democrats are urged to unite for reform only after achieving full legislative power and the presidency. In a Bay area letter, residents describe life at Point Resurrection with plans to weather the season and note President’s lecture amid lingering political jests about Ben Butler and local politics.
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Radical Negro Party
Executive Department
Federal Supreme Court
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Congress
Democratic Party
Washington
United States
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Drar Ledger
Point Resignation
Salt River
Ben Butler
Olmstead
Pennsylvania
Third Term Debate Ends In Rousing Crowds
A speech by the President amid thunderous applause defends two term limits and mocks Democrats for seeking a third. He argues liberty allows voters to choose, cites Roberts and a South Carolina convention, then exits borne aloft by supporters amid cheers.
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Freemont
California
Opposition to W A Wallace for U S Senator in New York Sun
The New York Sun attacks William A Wallace as central to Rings and jobbers in Pennsylvania and a key figure behind a nine million steal. It links him to the fight over railroad bonds and state works, and cites his alleged role in destroying public works deals while praising Buckalow as an honest opponent. The piece also notes other political notes from Beecher, oil developments near Carleton, Tennessee politics, and a Colorado New Mexico admission bill.
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Andrew Johnson
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New Mexico
Political Notices and Courtroom Anecdotes In Frayed Columns
A dense dispatch notes Minnesota’s William H Xing as House Christmas figure and Samuel Lee, his ex coachman, from South Carolina. It cites judge Spencer on stores as non public places and self defense against drunkenness. The column also covers Tilton Beecher postponement, Wood’s critique of Congress, a Kansas City dog-killing case, stolen ore in Sierra County, and mob violence toward Chinamen with a racist quip preserved.
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Theodore Tilton
Henry Ward Beecher
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Hostette 1875 Almanac to Be Published in Multiple Languages
An 1875 United States Almanac from Hostetter & Smith of Pittsburgh will be released January first in English and several European languages. It blends medical treatise on disease causes and cures with practical information for merchants, mechanics, farmers, and professionals, promising sanitary insights, household recipes, humor, and illustrated pages. The publishers offer copies by mail worldwide on receipt of a two cent stamp.
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Hostetter & Smith
Pittsburgh
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