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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1862
Page
2
The Warren Mail lauds large government loans as evidence of public confidence and asks readers to compare Northern prosperity with Southern ruin. It calls for stronger patrols on officers who shirk duty, condemns skulkers, and notes Missouri petitions Lincoln to extend emancipation. It also mentions Lincoln's forthcoming annual message and political shifts.
The Harrisburg Telegraph reports the government will redeem all postage stamps in circulation with postage currency and treasury notes once enough currency is available to curb stamp speculation. The per diem issue capacity rises to ninety thousand dollars and weekly distribution tops one hundred eighty thousand dollars across New York, Connecticut, Vermont and eastern New Jersey, with New York City receiving over seventy five thousand dollars. The note also mentions orders for shinplaster trash to fade as postal currency becomes abundant. The rest of the text refers to Confederate troops in Florida and Georgia, election results in New York, and remarks by Geo. Francis Train, with Gov. Vance and Gov. Stanley of North Carolina discussing a possible meeting amid rebel tensions.
Military authorities arrested two officers who claimed staff affiliation with Gen. McClellan but did not belong. If all absent without leave offenders were arrested, it would be the war’s largest roundup. Also notes Ericsson’s engine noise and mentions Gen Banks acquiring McClellan’s Augur. Election dates listed for several states in 1863.
A column contrasts the dismemberment talk by Austria Russia and Prussia with a New Monthly Magazine essay on British America boundaries. It then recounts Wellington during the Pyrenees campaign changing plans, riding to a regiment, rallying cheers, and delaying Soult’s attack to secure a costly victory.
A writer explains the vast scales of a million and a billion using a penman counting dots for fourteen days and a bank teller pace. It calculates counts per hour day and year, and imagines Adam counting from creation, needing tens of thousands of years to reach a billion.
A Leavenworth correspondent describes a fight by a Lane era negro regiment from Butler County Missouri. Detachments under Col Seaman and Col Williams engage bushwhackers near Toothman's yard on the Osage Island. Casualties include eight killed and ten wounded. Captain Crew killed, Lt Gardner wounded. The report praises the troops as tigerlike and vows to clear the county of guerrillas with mounted force.
Yale professor cites rules of war limiting protection to noncombatants and prohibits pillage while noting military stores may be taken at fair value. A General Order from November 16, 1862, enforces Sabbath observance in the Army and Navy, stressing rest, Christian duties, and discipline. Also reports on arrow wound practices and a Barr county sheep with wool balls in its stomach.
Union Army negotiates surrender terms with Fredericksburg in 1862. Sumner demands city capitulation by 5 PM under threat of shelling after sixteen hours for noncombatant evacuation. Mayor Slaughter replies that delays and Confederate assurances prevent immediate surrender and commits to council review.
Reports from Fortress Monroe note four hundred prisoners arriving from City Point and substantial tobacco losses at Fredericksburg. Lee refuses to negotiate and orders civilians out as Union cavalry reconnoiters Chickahominy. London dispatches discuss mediation by England and Russia, with Parliamentary notices and press commentary on prospects for peace.
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