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Newspaper
Whitewater Register
Location
Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1862
Page
1
The verse portrays enslaved fisherfolk laboring beneath overseers as tides rise and fall. The narrator recalls winds, nets, and the sea while highlighting pain, hunger, and the fight for freedom. The speaker links hard labor to the ache of bones, the mangled cadence of work songs, and longing for emancipation.
A farmer recounts a surprising incident in which a rat climbed a cow during milking and fed on the cow’s teat, then fled when surprised, suggesting bold theft by the audacious rodent and prompting doubt about similar feats in local lore.
New Orleans correspondent reports that St Paul’s Church was ordered closed by Gen Butler after Rector Dr Goodrich allegedly omitted the President prayer from services. The scene included an audience upset by the change and rumors of Goodrich leaving town. Services of the Protestant Episcopal Church were announced to resume next Sunday.
The new gunboat Indianola at Cincinnati nears completion resembling the Monitor and an improvement on it. The hull uses three foot thick iron plating on wooden sides with heavy bolts. Its two Dahlgren guns weigh over fifteen thousand pounds and can fire 182 pound balls two miles. Engine power is 500 horsepower and crew berths are comfortable. The vessel draws eight feet of water and will be ready in about two weeks with two larger gunboats under construction nearby costing about half a million dollars.
An American traveler recalls guiding a wolf hunt in Russia with a Russian driver, using a decoy pig and a trap set by Timofey Evanoffage. They corner wolves at a timber house, flood the trap, and finish the pack with coordinated rifle fire and melee in a dramatic winter hunt.
The Commercial Bulletin recounts a London to Paris theft plot where elder Perkins and a money sergeant carry a large sum from the Bank of England. In Paris, conspirators concealed under Perkins’s bed attempt a precise robbery, but the officers, led by Perkins, reveal the ruse as the gens d’armes close in.
The account surveys the wall near La Win Pass and Lowan Eu noting its mixed construction of brick and granite blocks with stone towers and crenelated parapets. It describes tower dimensions, wall height and breadth, and works showing a European style gun cast in Wan Lee’s reign.
A New Orleans letter reports a Royal Navy vessel the Rinaldo anchored near the city playing the rebel air Ban Hey Blue Flag for spectators and officers. The piece notes officers mockingly target Lincoln Butler and Slidell Mason, and hints at British arrogance and forbearance by the U S government. The writer hopes the United States will assert power to compel Britain to change.
A spoof travel piece visits Quebec, describing historic sites and oddities. It lampoons hotels and local habits, remarks on rocks and mud town geography, jokes about rum, conveyances, and prices, and ends with a farewell urging readers to depart for the United States aboard the first train or boat.
A New England woman lacking friends confronted a brutal hospital chief surgeon in Washington. She pressed officials, gained support from Secretary Stanton and the Surgeon General, and secured the brutal surgeon’s dismissal after exposing mistreatment of her ill son.
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