Loco foco tone in New York labor critique and honors
The article denounces locofoco hostility to American labor and capital, contrasts with British colonial-era limits on production, and visits the city’s public stores to lament imports while noting missed employment for workers. It also reports on iron business suspensions, and civic military honors for Worth, Duncan, and Gates in New York.
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N.Y. Express
Locoface
Locofoco
England
New York
France
Germany
the Journal of Commerce
Worth
Duncan
Gates
Unlucky Gun and Tragic Deaths in Virginia
A gun tied to a hunting incident in Rappahannock county claims lives across multiple events. Benjamin P. Miller’s boy died during a shot while a shot bird was fired. Curran’s gun killed nine or ten year old daughter of George W. Compton. California statehood and slavery policy, Calhoun’s stance, and broader European despotism notes follow, including Austria’s executions and Count Bauhysni’s banishment.
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Woodstock
Johnson
Fletcher
Pletcher
Curran
Flinthill
Rappahannock County
George W. Compton
Compton
Gettysburg church call accepted for Rev Renewr Fouasros
The Rev Renewr Fouasros has accepted the call from the Presbyterian Congregation of Gettysburg and will likely begin his duties in January. Congress will assemble Monday, with House organization debates influenced by a near balance and the Free Soilers. Several editors recently married, and Thanksgiving observance is noted. Stores in Gettysburg to close on Thanksgiving Day. Sabbath Convention in York postponed to December 9.
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Ralph Wormley
Virginia
Royal Navy
Renewr
Fouasros
Gettysburg
Ily
House of Representatives
York
Bank of Gettysburg Directors and Hanover Railroad Officers Named
Election results list Bank of Gettysburg directors for the following year: George Swope William Douglass Geo W Clellan William Mdherry Henry Shriver William Gardner Jacob Young Lewis M Motter Henry Wirt Jacob Reese William D Himes George Metzger Henry Myers. Hanover Branch Railroad officers chosen: President Jacob Wirt Directors Jacob Young F E Metzger Philip Kohter H W Bennett Samuel Diller Jacob Wort. Fire origin at Trostle's Mill misreported. buckwheat flour dust ignited lamp and bolting apparatus burned. rebuilding planned. A boy Suawannoor near Littlestown died when wagon wheel struck a tree. corn-sheller fell on him. Johnson a colored worker for York, killed by gun discharge on a gunning trip. Rev J L Scroex of Reading to lead Chambersburg Lutheran Church by December. In Wheeling district, Col Raymond leads in Whig gain with 1234 to Democratic 1000. Our Great Men notes five senators Webster Benton Clay Calhoun Cass meeting in Washington. unlikely to repeat soon.
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Hanover Branch Railroad
Hanover Branch Railroad Company
Jacob Wirt
Jacob Young
F. E. Metzger
Philip Kohter
H.W. Bannett
Samuel Diller
Jacob Wort
New York Whigs sweep state offices and split legislature
The article reports Whigs winning Comptroller Secretary of State Treasurer and State Engineer in New York while Democrats take judge of appeals attorney general canal commissioner and prison inspector. Legislature remains split Democrats 1565 to Whigs with a noted joint vote balance.
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New York
North Branch Canal bids flood the project line
The North Branch Canal works near Tunkhansock attracted vast interest with upwards of three hundred bids from leading state contractors. Engineers will take several days to record and total the bids before contracts are allotted and work begins with vigor to completion.
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North Branch Canal
Tunkhansock
Keystone
The Tarif Question in New Jersey tariff convention
A New Jersey tariff convention adopts a resolution criticizing the 1846 tariff as injurious to state manufacturing and farming in the absence of European famine. The piece notes partisan misrepresentation and asks who is correct. Also included are brief maritime and political notes from Alabama to Jamaica, with minor naval and electoral items.
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New Jersey
The Susquehanna Bank Notes Worth 200000 Rumor
The Montrose Register reports that notes of the failed Susquehanna Bank in circulation total about 200000. Most are held in the West. Recovered assets so far do not exceed three fourths of that sum. Mr St John the late cashier has fled Montrose.
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Susquehanna Bank
Montrose Register
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Batt
Montrose
The Turkish Converts and Irish-Polish Emigres
From Widdin comes word that only six Hungarian exiles have abjured Christianity so far though admitted to Islamism by the Turks. Poles seeking Islamism cite Austrian court-martial persecution, and are warned that mere creed without inner conviction is no passport to paradise. Also notes heavy emigration westward this season, a tragic suicide at Bridgeport Bridge by Miss Mary Hughes of Ritchietown, age 17, and a social fashion shift with women adopting masculine dress elements including collars, cravats, and dickies with rubies.
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Lloyd
Widdin
Muhammedan
Garden of Paradise
Mary Hughes
Ritchietown
Wheeling
Bridgeport
Rogue Woman Impersonates Renowned Author in Cincinnati
A woman of striking charm posed as the famous author Mrs. Ellis in Cincinnati. She collected about 500 dollars for subscriptions to a supposed Philadelphia periodical. Suspected, she fled by steamer to New Orleans, leaving her dupes to wait for their money.
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Cincinnati
Ellis
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Arrival of Maj. Gen. Scott and Calamities Across Cities
Washington papers report Maj. Gen. Scott's arrival in the city and a grand reception in Richmond, where he declined a public dinner. A devastating fire in Providence, R. I., destroys Mrs. Anna Jenkins's mansion, with her and her daughter perishing. A tall steeple rises at St Pauls Church in Cincinnati, and Benjamin Barker is sentenced in Pittsburgh for street preaching. Reports cover Col. Duncan's artillery feats, New Orleans serenades, German refugees in New York, California wives shortage, Nantucket letters on California prospects, a suit for damages in St. Louis over Barnum’s son, and Bremen emigration trends.
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Richmond
Ming
Petersburg
Anna Jenkins
Providence
R. L
Society of Friends
Europe
Barnum
St. Louis
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