Fragmented 1836 benevolent accounts and foreign reports
The article itemizes annual benevolent income, gratuitous issues, and legacies with substantial figures, notes foreign temperance activity, missionary board matters, and a Cumberland Assembly report. It mentions a London and Ireland travelogue, Indian emergencies, and a recent postmaster reshuffle amid European financial distress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cacome
Pac
Foreign Temperance Society
Messrs
Kirk
United States
Belfast
Ireland
Assembly of the Cumberland Presean Clarch
Princeton
Cumberland
Cumberland Pylertin
James Smith
Rietor
Names and places from Emancipator April record on slavery petition
The Emancipator issue of April twenty lists 111000 petitioners in the District of Columbia seeking abolition and records 41 new Anti-Slavery Societies. Names include Benjamin Douglas Crystal Lake Illinois Simpson Bernard Josephine McLean Alfred Sowerby Steel's Mills Randolph Illinois John G Speer Decatur Macon Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Douglas
Crystal Lake
McHleary Co
Illinois
Simpson Y. Bernard
Josephine
McLean Co
John G. Speer
Decatur
Macon Co
Ill
Alfred G. Sowerby
Steel's Mills
Randolph Co
Ilinois
District of Columbia
Foreign Intelligence and Civil Unrest Abroad Report
The week brings news from Spain of key fortresses at Hernani Irun and Fontarabia falling to Queen's troops while insurrectionary movements echo in Catalonia. Dispatches note Barcelona's fear and desertion, with 25,000 mobilized to watch Montblanc, and Mexican, Jewish, and Jerusalem tidings follow, alongside climate and economic notes from Maine.
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St. Sbastian
Genana
Hernani
Irun
Fontarabia
Aragon
Barcelona
Valencia
G Thompson
Appleby
Eng
Louis Napoleon
Strasbourg
Spain
Don Carlos
Catalonia
Bancetona
Plice d
Alarasans
Montgony
Rambla
Xandero
Tarreno
Perpignan
Censa
Tarragona
Montblanc
Biron de Meer
Various 19th Century Notices From Philadelphia Inquirer
In a collage of brief items the Philadelphia Inquirer reports Welch minters arriving in the city en route to mining districts, a Charleston banking president’s letter to Mr. Biddle urging credit and currency reforms, counterfeiting arrests discharged after long arguments, and Daniel Webster buying property in Rock Island City. Other notes include New York mayors from Wilton, Delaware County, N.Y., damages in drug cases, Virginia railroad plans, potential removal of Potawattamie Indians, New York synod sessions, a lightning injury in New Jersey, snow in Rome, Amherst College bequest corrections, British ship Scott captured with enslaved people, and a Wisconsin colonization effort. The Atlantic region and industry items cover coal beds in South Wales, Connecticut debt prison reform, and express mail revenue for the government.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Hamilton
Charleston
Mercury
Biddle
Rushville
Indiana Monitor
Hor
Daniel Webster
Rock Island
Chicago
New York
National Intelligencer
Pennsylvania
Aaron Clark
William B. Ogden
Wilton
Delaware County
N.Y
Delevan
Mmthy Water
Portsmouth
Wilmington
N. C
Whence
S. C
Logansport
Indiana
Mississippi
General Synod of the
Reformed Dateli Church
Abrahtay
Nichols County
N. J
Rome
William Reed
Amherst College
Scott
Gous
Crage
Bonny River
London
Wisconsin
New Jerusalem
Atlantia
Mold
Chester
England
Buckland
South Wales
Connecticut
Washington Globe
Express Mail
Earthquake in Syria Reflections by Rev John F Laudau
In a letter written from Jerusalem on January 1 1837 Rev John F Laudau recalls a severe earthquake across the Holy Land. He describes how walls trembled in Jerusalem subduing with only minor local damage while reports from Nablus Nazareth Tiberias and Safed warn of heavy casualties and destroyed buildings amid exaggerated initial counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abaham
Cne
Isaiah
Jerusalem
Syria
John F. Laundau
Holy Land
Olivet
Mount Zion
Nablous
Nazareth
Tiberias
Safet
Slavery Critique in a New England Sermon Sparked Debate
The discourse faults northern complacency on slavery and exposes the economic backlash of abolitionist tensions. It argues slavery fuels prosperity in the South while northern merchants and manufacturers suffer from disrupted trade and moral failing. The piece condemns silenced debate and calls for brotherhood across social divisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven Intelligencer
Leonard Bacon
State of the Times
Saul
Europe
America
Washing silk with soap and air drying technique
A late English periodical offers a silk washing method: soap a piece of NannéI on a clean board, rub, rinse with a wet sponge, repeat on the other side, dry with a clean cloth, hang to air dry, and iron on a cool box when nearly dry. It claims brightness and softness improve garments like a slate-colored dress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Gould
Lorian
Greenfield
String Prairie
Illinois River
Temperance Society
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Cial
2D Baptist Church
Sun
Lea Tracy
Iiter
Singapore
John
Gutzlall
Rev. E. Avorest
Canton
James B. Moore
Robbit Island
Pearl River
Isaac Smith
Rabbit Island
Wal
Tap Bay
Jesup
Tampa Bay
Sivon
Phair
Ciantisrey
Jacksonville
Patras
Jacksonvitan
Grant River
Grant
Platte
Iowa News
Troouble
Ee Sun
U.S
Pet of
Craneh
Kendall
Buffalo
Front Streets
Messrs. Barton & Co
E. M. Parsons
L. W. Silbery & Co
Farley & Haulton
George A. Avery & Co
J. Graves
Messrs. Miller
Rochester Democrat
Ben Sherrod
Baton Rouge
V. Or. Aim
Sarah M
Angelina Ee. Grimke
Moral Reform Society
John Quincey Adams
Quincy
Dorchester
Washington Street
Brookline
Samuel Philbrick
Weymouth
Lynn
Salen
Newburyport
Liberator
Edmund Clark
New Milford
Litchfield
Conn
Marblehead
First Church and Society
Am. Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
The
American Tract: Society
Boston
American Education Society
Theological Seminary
Andover
Marblehead Academy
Massachusetts General Hospital
Insane Hospital
Charlestown
Second Congregational Church and Society
Dartmouth College
Newburyport Herald
Abiel Holmes
Cambridge
New England
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Bradford
Pearl Street
N. F. Cor
Jostan Brapy
Platte River
Net
Neill
Brady
St. Charles
John N. Ely
Ripley, Schuyler Co
Wilson Jewell
Randolph, Green Co
N. FE
Bristow
Muddy Lane
McDonough Co
Wan. L. Toole
Black Hawk
Louisa
Ter
Independence
Nye
Liverpool
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Collins
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Bustamente
Congress of Mexico
Texas
California
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Aw Atuixo
Coxsackie
Standard
Courier and Journal
Natchez
Ohio
Maine
Journal
Dugald Stewart
Cicero
Henry
Myrties
van Dieman’s Land
Christian Witness
Witness
Story
Salem Gazette
Alton
Coknge
TRO Weekly
Rko Tu Gkeswax
Aus
Gia
Egulboa
Astor
Orleans
Sonene Wuwiy
Liv
Parks Island
Kenawha
H. McGill
Joan WE
Finlwardsville
T. M. Davis
Altor
Ilk
Godfrey, Gilman & Co
J. H. Lea
Cashier, &Co
St. Louis
J. B. Danforth & Co
Hamilton Smith, Esq
Louiisville
Bellamy Storer
Fisq
H. Starr
Esq
Heine, Esq
Laurier & Avis
C.J. Barry
Justin Shapley
Samuel Avis
Kenawha Salt Agency
Snyder & CO
Kenawha Salt Company
W. L. Messinger
Ce Riley
Corres Pras Alton
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