Grant County herald

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South Carolina Senate, in which

body they are a controlling power,

seem specially desirous of vindicat

ing themselves from the charges of

nationality preferred against them in

advance.

The New HaytienMinisteii—Gen.

Alexander Tate, the new Haytien

Minister, has arrived and was pre

sented to the Pt eaident Monday.—

Gen. Tate was formerly commander

of President Geffard’s body guard,

and Judge Advocate General of the.

Haytien army, and has passed some

time in the United States. Greatly

interested in the progress of the war

against slavery, he at one lime offer

ed his services to President Lincoln

to aid the organization of colored

troops, but that policy had not been

fully ripened. Under Salnave, Gen.

Tate has occupied the position of

Secretary of Affairs and Finances,

beside having commanded troops,

and being severely wounded in the

present struggle there. He is stated

to be a man of fine appearan ?e, high

ly educated being a graduate of an

English college and of a French mil

itary school, and in appearance is

scarcely darker than are most West

Indian creoles of European descent.

J4FA singular epidemic, known

as “famine fever.” is now raging in

London, England, and spreading rap

idly, in spite of all efforts on the

part of the sanitary officers to check

its progress. A curious feature of

the disease is that, though it undoubt

edly owes its first origin to privation

and filth, yet once established, it be

comes communicable to the cleanly

and well-fed as well as the squalid

and debilitated. Famine fever is en

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Grant County herald. (1869). Lancaster, Wis., 1869-11-30. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85033133/1869-11-30/ed-1/?sp=2

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Grant County herald, 1869-11-30.