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From Cairo
CAIRO, March 21. — Affairs at Greenwood are improving. The Chillicothe was not injured so badly as reported, the extent of her damages being some battering of her casements. The…
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San Francisco’s Rapid Crowds
A leisurely person with an observant eye and a mind given over to rumination may station himself on any one of San Francisco’s prominent thoroughfares and be led into some…
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March 27, 1861 – Reconstruction! How it is to be Accomplished
From all the evidence now before us, we are satisfied that the Black Republicans are looking forward to a reconstruction of the Union, and that the failure of Lincoln to…
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Suffragette Causes Trouble for Roosevelt
Colonel Unable to Answer When Woman Asks Opinion of Equal Suffrage Fight New York, March 25. — In one of six meetings, which Col. Roosevelt addressed on the east side…
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March 26, 1861 – Interesting from Charleston
Gen. Beauregard's Demands Respecting Fort Sumter—Demands Respecting Fort Sumter—Distress in the City. The Charleston (S. C.) correspondent of the New York Tribune writes on the 19th instant: The long expected…
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Aweful Steam-Boat Explosion!
Accounts were received in New York, says the Observer, on Tuesday, from Baltimore, of an explosion on board the steam-boat Helen McGregor, one of the largest boats on the Mississippi.…
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March 25, 1861 – A New Railroad
A new railroad is in contemplation for connecting the Deep Run andSpringfield Coal Pits, located in the upper part of Henrico county, with the York River Railroad. A bill has…
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March 24, 1861 – Last of the Southern Cadets
Cadets Moreno and Semmes, the former from Florida, and the latter from Alabama, have both resigned their appointments, and will leave West Point immediately for Montgomery. The latter young gentleman…
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Want Soap Factory
“Over four carloads of soap have been shipped into this city since January 1, while enough soap making material has been sent out of the city in that time to…
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Rival Stage Lines
It is stated that several very responsible gentlemen of Albemarle have formed a copartnership for the purpose of establishing lines of stages to run from the Central Rail road to…