11 Nov 1865
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1865
Page
1
The timetable sets new travel and mail routes effective Monday May 18 1863. It lists Lightning Express, D Mails, Way, Emigrant, and Way Freight adjustments with certain exceptions noted.
A contemplative verse celebrating love and duty. It speaks to those who understand the poet, praising the heaven above, the pursuit of justice, and the future good one can achieve. It frames devotion as strength in resisting wrong and aiding in progress.
The article lauds General Palmer of Louisville for supporting enslaved people’ rights and passing travel passes. It contrasts Palmer with controversial slaveholding judges, cites President Johnson and General Thomas backing Palmer, and likens Palmer’s stance to Rousseau saving Kentucky from rebellion.
The great five mile race at Albany Track drew a record crowd as John Grinnell and Deerfoot faced off for 8500 aside. Deerfoot started favored while Grinnell weighed 136 pounds and battled wounds from army service. They opened neck and neck, with Grinnell leading after the first half mile.
The article profiles James Gordon Bennett and Henry J. Raymond, contrasting Bennett’s notoriety with Raymond’s workmanlike ethic. It notes Erastus Brooks’ limited success in building a leading paper, Horace Greeley’s aging yet vigorous image, and Thurlow Weed’s stature. It highlights Bennett’s secrecy and wealth, claiming his establishment around two million, and sketches Bennett’s awkward beginnings and later stout, powerful status.
On the Bellona voyage Captain Dixon reports Franz Meyer and his wife Anna, a 23 year old man and a 10 year old wife, separated in the disaster of the ship William Nelson. The wife, pregnant, sustained her infant on a spar for two days, later rescued with her baby and husband. Havre officials took the infant, and New York ladies offer aid for the family to seek a Western home. Dr Blewitt can verify the facts.
Harris completed a 100 hour endurance feat on stage, drawing a crowd of several hundred in New Orleans. He paused at 11:08 PM city time, received cheers, and slept well afterward, having endured beyond the allotted hour by three minutes due to clock variance.
The excerpt defines the cynic as seeing all human acts as openly or secretly bad. It portrays the cynic as a vigilant, dark-minded observer who rejects virtue and generosity as mere appearances and assumes selfish motive in all deeds. It notes the chilling effect on feelings and universal criticism of beauty and virtue.
A critique contrasts perceived piety with real character, noting how public virtue masks selfish motives. Quotation from J. W. Beecher warns youths that flippant cynicism erodes respect for the wise and venerable, while scriptural references underscore the danger of outward righteousness.
A Tribune excerpt quotes Rev. M. Stubbs condemning newspapers as nuisances and mocking public schooling. It links such views to aristocratic slaveholding norms, suggesting the elite feared literacy would empower the masses and threaten bondage. The piece cites Henry A Wise and John Cade as similar voices.
The Erie Dispatch details Dan Rice’s Soldier’s Monument at Girard as a twenty five foot white marble Corinthian column draped with stars and stripes, surmounted by a laurel wreath and American Eagle, set on a multi-base pedestal with cannon reliefs, encircled by an iron fence in a central park location.
A Dutch observer mocks a Paradise Lost panorama poster with the line A Rebellion in heaven and exclaims in broken English. A mother scolds her son for carelessness about arithmetic while a witticism on delicate introductions to a lady follows. The piece closes with a practical adage on self-talk and speaking of others without slander.
General Bragg has taken the oath of allegiance in New Orleans and will apply for a presidential pardon. This marks a formal pledge amid postwar reconciliation efforts and outlines his next legal step toward restoration.
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