Alton Observer Weekly Rates and Address Note
The Alton Observer published each Thursday lists subscription at three dollars per year with a fifty cent discount for six month prepayment. Rates for single square advertising are one dollar, with fifty cents for each additional update. Editor is Eeuan P. Lovesey and notices must include mailing address details.
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List of names and places appeared in the record
A long list of individuals and locales appears, including Louis, Joshua Tucker, Naina, David H. Bishop, Paris, J T Miller, and many others. The names span towns such as White Water Farmington Columbus Bloomington Dupage Galena and more, with several religious titles and professions noted among the entries.
A Call to Truth and Action on Morality and Slavery
The writer argues there is a universal rule for judging truth by siding with the virtuous, cites Jesus and anti slavery causes, and condemns mob pressure against abolition editors. He urges principled church governance and questions the authority of judicatories over church and temporal matters.
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Debate on slavery sin and northern guilt in Alton Observer
The piece contrasts arguments about slavery with claims that the north bears no moral guilt. It discusses public responses, calls for prayer, church governance, and ministerial qualifications, contrasting a cautious divine with William Tyndale's conscience and bold reform, all within a broad editorial frame.
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Alton
Lovejoy
North
Elliot
Jefferson
Requests for a learned pastor with broad study
A correspondent writes that villagers seek a pastor with extensive and varied learning. The candidate should require eight or nine years of study and possess the ability to produce new and old from his treasury. The writer promises more similar facts for future column use.
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Journal of Commerce
Bank of England
London
Wiggin
Wild
Wilson
United States
New Orleans
New York
England
Bank of the United States
Union
Treasury
France
Paris
Great Britain
Salutary Influence of the Sandwhich Island Mission
A Boston Courier extract from a New Bedford whaleman praises the Sandwhich Island mission for eight years of work on Rarootonga. He notes a new church with central pulpit, capacity for sixteen hundred children, sixteen hundred daily students, and improved relations with shipwrecked sailors. He says warlike tribes now sing hymns, trade peacefully, and welcome outsiders under Christian tutelage. The letter urges missions to continue island by island.
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Boston Courier
New Bedford
Sandwich Island
Rarootonga
Charles Daggett
Busi
Colt
Busiett
Zion
Earth
Pacific
Snake story aboard Washington ends with daring rescue
Philadelphia papers recount a voyage from Calcutta aboard the ship Washington. A massive anaconda, nine large eggs beneath her, remained unfed for 130 days. A customs officer leaned to inspect the eggs. the serpent lunged, veering toward him. The captain swung an axe, saving the man though the creature bit and flayed the officer’s ear and jaw.
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Calcutta
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