14 Oct 1865
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1865
Page
1
The poem laments time death and care as spring's burial pageant gives way to autumn gloom. It contemplates faded leaves, fading joys, and memories of brighter days while awaiting a new season. The speaker questions the vitality of life and the passing of cheerful hours.
A Christian teacher argues that hell is a moral, not bodily, punishment and that Christ introduced the doctrine. He urges seekers to first submit to Christ, then pursue deeper faith, arguing practical virtue and inner conversion unlock understanding, not endless doctrinal questioning.
The speaker urges the reader to pursue higher spiritual ity through Christian growth. He argues that true hunger for deeper things should lead to greater Christianity, and that growth in grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ will satisfy a person after some experience.
Washington correspondent Count Johannes depicts Southern visitors in the White House ransacking decorum. Attendees glare, sit on furniture, smoke pipes, utter profanity, and blaspheme as they demand pardon, with one man claiming sameness to Andrew Johnson.
A about sixty year old Ohio woman waiting near the Old Capitol attacked Wirz, the Andersonville keeper, with an umbrella as he left the courtroom. She called him a butcher and struck at him, then grabbed a brick and urged a guard to let her reach him. She was restrained and Wirz was moved to his quarters. Her sons served in the army. one was killed, one murdered at Andersonville, another driven insane, and a fourth returned home after the war.
The piece jokes about ballad writers overusing mother in songs and raises the idea of giving the father more attention. It mocks sentimental verses and suggests variety in parental subjects with humor and sharp wit.
Joseph Segar of Virginia told a Richmond audience that emancipation has made farmers more money. He cited his county and the Eastern Shore where hired colored labor doubled or tripled profits compared with slave labor, based on his experience and observation.
A collection of editorial snippets contrasts mob worship of leaders in India with political flip flops in the United States. It cites Louisville Journal and Chicago Journal remarks on Democrats praising Union soldiers to gain votes, then condemning them, and notes a military joke about a private named Patrick O Flynn with a comically long shirt measurement.
A telegram to the President from General Weitzel in Texas reports Duke Gwinn and Ex-Gov Clark have crossed the Rio Grande and surrendered to Union troops seeking pardon for their sins.
A Portland merchant, visiting Montreal last Wednesday, told the Press of that city he saw John H. Surratt there on that day, confirming the meeting in the Canadian city.
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