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June 6, 1863 – Editorial Excess

The whiskey in Chattanooga must be dreadful stuff, judging by its effect on the fancy of the editor of the Rebel. He says:

The North has at length reached this point of internal combustion. The entire entrails of its body politic are diseased through and through. The great veins and arteries which once poured such electric life and such a flow of pure blood into the national cerebellum are dried up and decayed. Festering sores and fatal boils have broken out in every part. The scarlet hues of inflammation are relieved only by the disgusting gashes and seams of mortification; whilst over all the great broad, brawny, stalwart skeleton and frame-work of law and constitution, that upheld the whole, is falling in broken fragments, and slipping off in bits of rotten bone. The end is certain, though it may be slow. We shall live to see the day when all that remains of the more thriving, aspiring, and wealthy half of the Union will be a few old bones whitening on the great waste common of nationality.

Posted inDaily News Local Histories Natural World

New England Shivers On A Cold And Frosty Morn In the Early Part of June

Boston. June 4.—(AP)—Winter lingering in the lap of summer brought frosts and low temperatures to various parts of New England today. Killing frosts nipped tender garden crops, causing losses to gardeners and farmers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

While frosts were reported in central and western Massachusetts, the mercury sank dangerously near the freezing point in Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire. Ground temperatures as low as eight degrees below the freezing point were recorded in the cranberry bog region of southeastern Massachusetts.

Posted inColonization & Indigenous Relations

Forcing the Khyber Pass

Illustration of British infantry in close fighting with Afghan cavalry.

This defile, one of the most formidable and impenetrable in Asia, as a line of military defence, extends from Jumrood upwards in the direction of Jellalabad, without interval, for the space of twenty-eight miles, throughout twenty-two of which it has hitherto been reckoned impassable for an army, when the inhabitants had determined to oppose them. From Jumrood, where the pass opens on the Peshawar side, to Ali Musjid, the dell is deep and uninterrupted; and the celebrated fort, just named, which stands on an isolated hill, in the narrow, near the middle of the defile, completely commands it. Here it is so sickly that the troops we have endeavoured to keep in the fort have from time to time been nearly all swept away. For about seven miles beyond All Musjid, the ascent is somewhat uniform till it arrives near Lundee Khana, where for a couple of miles it stretches out to the face of a frightful precipice, like the galleries by which the Simplon is traversed.

Posted inUS Civil War

June 4, 1863 – Georgia And The Confederate Bonds

From the Rome (Ga.) Southerner.

The refusal of the Legislature to indorse Georgia’s share of the bonds will travel with the speed of electricity to the North, and from thence it will be carried on the wings of the wind throughout the civilized world. Will not our enemies consider this action of the Legislature the greatest victory for LINCOLN of the war? Can any more loans be negotiated in England and France, when these two great Powers are informed that Georgia is distrustful of the Confederate credit?

Posted inAviation Daily News Travelers' Tales

Commander of Norge Now At Nome

Nobile Reaches Northern City with Five Members of Crew, Dirigible.

NOME. Alaska, June 2. — The motorship Hazel has arrived here with Commander Nobile and five other Italian members of the crew of the dirigible Norge which recently completed a flight across the Arctic regions. Other members of the crew will be brought to Nome on the Silver Wave.

Commander Nobile said he was glad to reach here as it was lonesome at Teller. He said the framework of the Norge was packed and ready for shipment south.

Posted inUS Civil War

June 2, 1863 – A Female Soldier and Her Experiences

Cupid in the Leading-Strings of Mars—Some days ago a young woman arrived in Chicago from Louisville, Ky., whose history is thus recorded in the Post of that city:

“She gave her name as Annie Lillybridge of Detroit, and stated that her parents reside in Hamilton, Canada. Last spring she was employed in a dry goods store in Detroit, where she became acquainted with a Lieut. W—— of one of the Michigan regiments, and an intimacy immediately sprang up between them. They corresponded for some time, and became much attached to each other. Some time during last summer Lieut. W—— was appointed to a position in the 21st Michigan infantry, then rendezvouing in lonia county. The thought of parting from the gay lieutenant nearly drove her mad, and she resolved to share his dangers and be near him. No sooner had she resolved upon this course than she proceeded to the act. Purchasing male attire she visited lonia, enlisted in Capt. Kavanagh’s company, 21st regiment. While in camp she managed to keep her secret from all. Not even the object of her attachment, who met her every day, was aware of her presence so near him.