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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1862
Page
2
The Warren Mail reports foreign news favoring the Union including Trent affair fallout and Fort Donelson, plus Harrisburg patriotism, Pennsylvania resolutions, Washington’s Birthday celebrations, and Camp Curtin parades. It notes oil and railroad bills, a Warren bank probe, and local letters from Warren County cavalrymen with camp life details.
Congress declined to appropriate funds to support the Executive Committee arrangements for the World's Fair including chartering a vessel to ship American products to London. Commissioners cannot proceed and the body adjourned. Exhibitors must rely on their own resources.
Chicago Tribune correspondent reports oaths of allegiance being filed at three hundred per day on the North Missouri railroad. Among signees are noted secessionists, some who carried arms to defend Camp Jackson in May last.
Ethan Spike reports his juror experience filled with racial slurs and chaos in a Portland Transcript sketch. He relays miscast opinions and a clash with a clerk over sitting on a Black defendant, ending with his removal. The piece mirrors 19th century tensions on race, law, and free institutions.
The piece argues slavery as the war’s cause, urging constitutional handling of slave status as local, with views on slave property across states. It contends emancipation follows military advance, warns rebels, and references Continental Monthly.
Notice is given that under the act to amend the sale of unseated lands for taxes, the following tracts in Warren County will be exposed to public sale for arrears of taxes at the Court House on the second Monday of June next.
The column compiles tax assessments, acreage, and owner names across multiple townships including Conewango, Sugar Grove, and Sheffield. It lists tracts, tract numbers, acres, tax amounts, and owners such as Huidekoper, Ludlow & Co, Mattison, and E. Northrop, with a closing note from Treasurer George H. Ames dated March 1, 1862.
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