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Newspaper
Weekly Times
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1859
Page
5
The piece meditates on June as the peak of summer joy with blooming fields birdsong and childhood frolics. It compares life to the yearly cycle with beauty pain and renewal, invoking Herbert and Christian hope. It treats immortality as companionship with God through faith and endurance.
An 19th century style meditation on spring's arrival as nature awakens. The piece links spring to gratitude and enduring beauty, noting forests, prairies, flowers, birds, streams, and the ocean’s roar as language guiding the heart to an eternal, hopeful home beyond winter.
Richmond correspondence portrays John Marshall as revered for bonhomie and kindness. Anecdotes highlight his simple, sunny nature, calm authority, and gentle conduct toward all ages. A judge’s approachable demeanour contrasts with fearsome dignity in early life memories.
A 19th century reminiscence recalls John Marshall dressed in a linen roundabout and straw hat charming a courtroom crowd. A rival lawyer with a powdered wig underestimates him, then concedes Marshall’s skill after an early case. Marshall quietly aids a distressed army comrade with a $3,000 check, rejected until security is provided.
A correspondent describes a slave girl born in North Carolina sold for large sums, taken to England for exhibition, and later custody battles in England. The letter, sent to the Evening Post editors, questions the newspaper notice about a double headed girl in Georgia and discusses legal maneuvers and custody offers across nations.
The narrative from Washington dated June 7 1859 describes Giuseppe Garibaldi commanding 5000 improvised troops across the Ticino toward Varese and Como. It notes his earlier South American campaigns and later defense of Rome, highlighting his daring, fame, and role in Italian independence. It also reports a separate Post Office fraud probe in New York.
Judge McDigas states the Dred Scott decision lacks binding authority beyond jurisdiction. He cites the 19 Howard 549 ruling and rebuts its claim that slaves may be taken into territories as property, refusing to treat it as precedent.
A traveler reports farmers across central Illinois hold thousands of bushels of wheat and corn from past crops unsold. Macoupin County alone has 2000 bushels of wheat from two years ago. Road conditions over six months kept much grain from reaching markets in Sangamon and surrounding areas.
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