John Brough, detail

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Very truly yours, John Brough
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Proceedings of a Meeting of Citizens of Ohio held in Memory of Governor John Brough at Washington, D.C., August 30, 1865 (Washington, DC: Philp and Solomons, 1865), frontispiece.

John Brough

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Very truly yours, John Brough
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Proceedings of a Meeting of Citizens of Ohio held in Memory of Governor John Brough at Washington, D.C., August 30, 1865 (Washington, DC: Philp and Solomons, 1865), frontispiece.

In New Zealand, the young Samuel Butler suggests the Darwinian rise of machines over man

The twenty-eight year old Samuel Butler, writing under the pseudonym "Cellarius," published in the Canterbury, New Zealand newspaper The Press, a long essay entitled "Darwin Amongst the Machines."  Butler's piece, which suggested that machines were evolving, too, "gaining ground on us every day," to the point where they would enslave man, was later included in his 1872 dystopia Erewhon as the chapter "Book of the Machines."  Darwin was offended. (By John Osborne)
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Samuel Butler, 1898

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Samuel Butler in 1898 From a painting by Emery Walker
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Samuel Butler, Henry F. Jones, Francis Hackett, The Notebooks of Samuel Butler ... (New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1917), frontispiece.

In London, the Arts Club is officially founded at its inaugural General Meeting

An elite Arts Club was the idea of wealthy amateur artist Arthur J. Lewis and was discussed at a preliminary meeting in March 1863, with Thomas Hughes in the chair.  The new men's club had its home at 17, Hanover Street in London's Mayfair and its initial membership included, among others, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Frederic Leighton, George Du Maurier, and Edmund Yates.  James Whistler, Rudyard Kipling, and other leading artists and writers soon joined. The club exists today at its second home in Dover Street. (By John Osborne)
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The Arts Club, Hanover Square, London, circa 1875

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Drawing Room at Hanover Square
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G.A.F. Rogers, The Arts Club and Its Members (London: Truslove and Hanson, Ltd., 1920), 7.

New York City's editors meet to condemn infringements of the free press

The editors of fifteen New York publications, ranging from the Tribune and the Sun to the Jewish Messenger, Scientific American and New Yorker Magazine, met in the city to protest recent military restrictions on the Press.  With Horace Greeley in the chair, the meeting recognized that treason was a danger to the Union but that the kind of draconian actions recently taken with the Chicago Tribune were unconstitutional and should be restricted to areas directly under miltary threat, not on the home front.  (By John Osborne)
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The Illinois State Legislature strongly protests the military shutdown of the Chicago Times

The Illinois State House of  Representatives, meeting in a special session on other matters, passed a strongly worded resolution condemning the closing of the Chicago Times under military orders two days before.  After a spirited debate, the resolution, calling the action "an invasion of the sovereignty of the State of Illinois," passed by a vote of 47 to 18.  General Burnside's order was rescinded the next day on instructions from the White House. (By John Osborne)
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The U.S. Government counts only eighteen veterans remaining from the Revolutionary War

The War Department reported that, as of June 30, 1863, only eighteen veterans of the Revolutionary War remained on its rolls. Of these, only ten had applied for stipends for the coming year.  Revolutionary War widows numbered 1, 573.  (By John Osborne) 
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The Dutch Reformed Church holds its annual meeting in Newburgh, New York

The 57th General Synod of the Reformed Proestant Dutch Church assembled at Newburgh, New York, with the Reverend Dr. T.W. Chambers in the chair.  The denomination had 446 ministers in 1863 and represented almost fifty-three thousand members in the United States.  The gathering passed a strong resolution in support of maintaining the Union before adjourning.  (By John Osborne) 
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