Empress Helena Finds the True Cross and Holy City Tour
The narrator describes discovering the true cross with Empress Helena and touring sacred sites in Jerusalem. They visit a grotto chamber, the Mosque of Omar on the Temple site, and the Garden of Gethsemane at sunset, reflecting on Christ’s agony and the Last Supper remaining near the pathway back to the Holy City.
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Christ
Helena
Mosque of
Omar
Solomon
Gethsemane
Holy City
Emancipation in the West Indies Shows Steady Improvement
The West India experiment is deemed conclusively settled. A letter from Antigua reports emancipated people showing orderly, industrious conduct after four months of freedom. Schools flourish at Gracehill Cedar Hall St Johns and nearby, with about 200 daily at St Johns and expanding church attendance. The piece also notes broader debates on education and colonization in the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Brethren’s Missionary Intelligencer
Br. B. Harvey
St. Johns
Antigua
Gracehill
Cedar Hall
Gracebay
Newfield
Slavery and moral principle in early abolitionist critique
Brother Tracy of the Boston Recorder argues slaveholders rarely abstain from sin. He says many are not genuinely persuaded slavery is wrong and continue due to convenience or profitability, comparing to Northern practices. The piece challenges overestimating slaveholders' moral resolve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brother Tracy
Boston Recorder
Revival Notes and Prominent Views from Ashborough
The Southern Citizen editor Benjamin Swann presents political and social commentary from Ashborough North Carolina. He defends congressional powers over slavery in the District of Columbia, notes anti slavery debates in Massachusetts, and comments on local religious revival progress and regional migration and industry. He also cites Alton Illinois prospects and local humor and manners reflecting frontier growth. The piece blends political, religious and community observations with tone of early republic journalism.
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Southern Citizen
Ashborough
N.C
Benjamin Swann
Congress
District of Columbia
Texas
Mexico
Bank charter advances Missouri state economy
The Missouri Republican notes the successful passage of the state bank incorporation act approved February 1 and outlines stock subscriptions, projected state participation, and anticipated early operations. It reports on agency expulsions, market hopes, and regional financial moves alongside foreign dispatches.
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Missouri Republican
State Bank OF
Joan Smrrn
St. Louis
Pres
Hvan O' Nei
Samours S. Raysury
Enwarp
Warsu
Epwarp
Donynxs
Willliam L. Susterre
Joux O
Individu
French setbacks in Constantine expedition provoke sharp press critiques
London papers through Dec 20 and Liverpool through 21 report French defeat, disorganization, and difficulties in expanding Algeria after the Constantine expedition. Moniteur notes fortification repairs at Guelma and aims to weaken Achmet, while Duke de Nemours arrives in Mahon with quarantine length undetermined. Additional dispatches from Attica corroborate prior details.
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Europe
South America
Barstow
London
Liverpool
France
Paris
Constantine
Guelma
Bonn
Achmet
Touton
Duke de Nemours
Sphinx
Mahon
Attica
Quarrel Ends in Murder as Dr Sullivan is Killed
A Dec 28 letter reports a fatal duel like scene in Columbus Geo where Doctor Sullivan drew a pistol and Col. Felix Lewis stabbed him to death with a Bowie knife. Also notes on the Exploring Expedition selections, Santa Anna’s reception, a Saganaw treaty, and other items.
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Columbus
Geo
Felix Lewis
Sullivan
Dr. S
Lewis
Charles Pickering
Reynall Coates
Titian Peale
Professor W. Johnson
Philadelphia
Asa Gray
New York
Dr. Dana
New Hampshire
Joseph P. Couthney
John Witt Randall
Boston
Mr. Drayton
E. Darley
Agate
Natural History Corps
Horatio Hale
Sarah J. Hale
Santa Anna
United Mexican States
Detroit
United States
Molasses Given to Cure Whooping Cough Report
A mother recalls a man feeding spoiled molasses laced with linseed oil to his children to treat whooping cough. The eldest recovered quickly, the second lingered, and an infant could take only little, with varying outcomes among the brood.
General acquitted by Frederick military court
The text notes that Gen. Scott has been fully and emphatically acquitted by the military court at Frederick. It also contains a miscellany of opinions and notes on lectures by Mr. Finney, river navigation near Pittsburg, and a curious fact about Martin Luther’s only surviving descendant being Roman Catholic, plus editorial notices about correspondence and a humorous piece on names from Upper Alton.
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Mr. Borror
Alton
Upper
Turner
Mason
Slater
Carter
Fleischman
Hallowell
Chapman
Draper
Taylor
Glover
Clark
Hyde
Tolman
Fox
Brindle
Campbell
Hogg
Eaton
Martin
Jay
Robbins
Finch
Carroll
Farwell
Lynn
Valle
Tom
Riley
Fayerweather
Townsend
Rhodes
Tall Forrest
Church
Chappell
Owell
Daley
Black House
Pickett
Childers
Bond
Freeman
Haven
Wright Sharp
Moore
Hart
Constantine
Bona
T'rezel
National
Toulon
Marshal Clausel
Algiers
Duke of Mostemarte
Seine
Paris
Inglange
the Moselle
Kenigsmacher
Touton
Areiers
Guelma
Achmet
Consantine
Guadalajara
Oguiludo
Alaix
Jarraque
Lopez
Gomez
Divisin Ee
Narvaez
Scott
Frederick
Martin Luruer
Jamaica Baptists show growth amid trials new presses and missions
Minutes of the Jamaica Baptist Association report formation in 1836 and 1816 mission origins. They note four stations, 16 missionaries, 13 318 communicants, 29 000 in worship, 4 630 baptized last year with 2 382 net increase. Deaths include Rev. Coultart. Medhurst returns to Britain. new York Review journal planned. Also items on Virginia governor election, Arkansas gun law, Pensacola lot sale, and various market and church notes.
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Jamaica
Jamaica Baptist Association
London Missionary Herald
Coultart
L'Inson
Mr. Coultart
Kingston
W. H.medhurst
London
Batavia
Rotterdam
Medhurst
New York Review
C.S. Henry
Bristol College
Henry
Greenfield
West Hartford
Colton
Divin Cawonety
Ofirginia
James C. Atron
Georgia
Towns
New-York
Hoffa
Iowa
Mobile
Fairfield
New York
Philadelh
Iphia
Arkansas
Union
Marshal Clause
Algiers
Christian Advocate and Journal
Dent Fisk
West London Journal
Pensacola
Florida
Boston
Philadelphia
Charleston
New Orleans
Cuba
House of Representatives
Pennsylvania
Peterstreetown
Union County
Dedham
Mass
Nathaniel Cogswell
Atkinson
N. H
Judith
United States
Vermont
Vermont Telegraph
Bowdoin College
Scott
New England Sunday School Union
Married on Jones's Prairie in Peoria county
On Jones's Prairie Peoria county February 1 by Reverend Jeremiah Porter Mr John Manovize of New York to Miss Mary M Heaven of the former place were united in marriage by the officiant.
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Jones’s Prairie
Peoria Country
Jeremiah Porter
Jony MaNorvize
New-York
M. Heaven
Cincinnati Market Report From Jas 31
Market notes show n is declining with extensive sales since the last report at $7.50. Pork is in demand at 36.50 per hundred for slaughtered, barrel pork priced at 16 for prime and 18 for mess. Lawn is offered at 10 cents, few buyers. Groceries show sugar up to 8 1 2 cents per pound and coffee 14 1 2 cents. Wheat 1 25, corn 31 cents, oats 31 1 2 cents, beans 1 26.
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Currick
Turks Island
Cincinnati
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Vermont Chronicle
Presbyterian
Porter
Common Schools
Penobscot
Maine
United States Senate
Clay
American Colonization Society
Calhoun
Walker
Strange
King
Grif Brother Cummings
Missouri
The
Springfield Journal
State Bank
Massachusetts
Johnson
Andover
Anti-Slavery Society
Park
Dresser
Hampshire Gazette
Ae Hawley
Samuel Worcester
Salem
Alton Observer
Badinage
van Buren
Senate
Kine
Quinnam
D. Whiteman
S. Curtis
S. W. Perkins
Congregational Brethren
New York City
Secretary of the Treasury
Michigan
Saganaw Bay
Upper Lakes
Free Press
Forever
Register of the Land Office
Wonberra saGacky
Union Street
Mr. Finney
Pittsburg
Upper Alton
Bai Sv
Nerry & Weller
EO. L. Ward
K. R. Marecco Do &E. &Ce
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