Voyage of Despair and Emigrant Frauds in 1846
In a Cork to Liverpool dispatch from October 1846, the writer recalls a perilous Atlantic voyage aboard the Me roxa to New York. A six day storm wrecked the ship, but land was finally sighted near Cork. He details two steerage deaths at sea, including an infant, and exposes fraud by ship agents who lure Irish emigrants with false promises, seizing their money and placing them on doomed vessels.
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Conx
Ireland
Matthew
Cork
America
Botron
Liverpool
Meroxa
New York
Zue Providence
Old Ireland
Corksonnafer
Qeean
Metoha
England
London
Father Mayhew
Temperance
Tacva
Father Maythew
Baltimore
Jind
el Dorado
Philip Howe
Philo. U. S. Gazette
Simon
Paris
Napoleon
Rome
Passy
Seullit
Betty
Quai d’Orsay
Jast
Horrors of Ireland to America voyage and Cork beggars
The narrator describes shipboard misery during refit in Ireland with captains' cruelty and crowded holds. In Cork the beggar plague thrives, with begging, curses, and threats as famine grinds Ireland toward emigration and possible Atlantic passage to America.
Washington the Corporal and the Pugilistic General Tale
The piece recounts anecdotes from the American Revolution and postwar era. Washington, in uniform, helps a timber lift and declares himself ready to assist again if needed, while a brigadier general defeats aggressive teamsters. It also covers a derisive wartime scene, a humorous medical cure mishap, and assorted curio notes.
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2D Brigade
Pennsylvania
Janes Morrison
Isaac Yount
Menal Jen Township
Adams County
Gettysburg
George Ickes
Abbottstown
Henry Slagle
Hanover
York County
3D Regiment
Harvey Hammond
Lewisberry
Elias Gardner
Petersburg
Henry Sidle
Dillsburg
N. B
Samuel E. Hall
Morrison
Scott
2. Brigade 5Th Div
P. M. Frotow Sotntens & Worrs
W. Itamiersly
WN. B
Jahablrdass
P.M
Maantson
Henry Jartzell
Blo & Ao IA
Hays Tavern
Main Street
Charles A. Barnitz
Terk
GM. & A. Hay
York
Sixth Street
Philadelphia
Schuylkill Bank
Rising Sun Village
S. Maupay
Ents
The
Presbyterian Church
A. R. Steresgon
J. BE. M'Pherson
Sheriffs Sales
Court of Camnon Pleas
Huntington Township
Wm. Sadler
Philip Miller
Robert Nickel
Franklin Township
Henry Comfort
Jacob Lady
Henry Weaver
George Orner
John Kimes
John R. Reed
Solomon Albert
Hampton
Reading Township
Carlisle
Henry Albert
Samuel Overholtzer
Dee'd
John Tudor
James Morrison, Jr
B. Schriver
Geihveburg
Auyrer
B.S
Penna
N. Jersey
Delaware
S. Augustus Mitchell
Messrs
Thomas
Pittsburg
Lancaster
Central Railroad
Jacob Kuun
Buck & Moore
Market Street
Ave
United States
Gesrimgen
Posty
Hende
Adams Sentinel
Dublin
Hugsellanes
Washington
Monterey
United States Army
V. 0
Delta
Portland
Ravel
Stentor
Sheriffi
Japan
Rose
Norfolk Beacon
M’donald
Sweden
Darkie
Westmoreland Pa
James Malone
New Orleans
Santa Anna
Saltillo
Prentice
Ady. Polk
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