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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1844
Page
3
A period list of names is followed by a committee suggestion urging all who can appear with horses or carriages to attend. The note is dated Steubenville August 29 1844.
A collection of letters from 1844 discusses Democratic mass meetings in Ohio and Western Virginia with invitations to Geo. M. Dallas and other leaders. It includes Dallas declining public canvass participation and Auguste Davezac praising Democratic momentum in Tennessee with reports of mass gatherings at Camp Hickory near Nashville. The notes reference Isaac Cooper and other committee members.
The Richmond Jeffersonian notes conflicting claims on Indiana legislature party lines. It cites I M Smith as a Whig by Sentinel and Journal, but Smith denies, predicting a Polk Dallas county vote. Smith’s 422 to Hammond’s 129. If counted Democrat, Democratic edge grows by 203. Vigo’s two members listed as Whigs, elected by Democrats against regular nominees, hinting at a near one party split. Greeley criticized Cinci papers for false returns. Whig pockets described as lighter.
A Missouri paper reports on Democratic tension as independents and the clique ticket split the vote. Locofoco Bentonians likely gain in the Southwest with Green Benton and others elected, while Whigs largely abstain or back different factions. The piece notes Benton’s continued influence over the state party and questions the independence of the ticket.
A late Eagle column notes a faux claim about James Fowler of Westfield abandoning Poll and Dallas, with a New Haven editor disputing the town existence and a missing Fowler. It also reports election shifts where Democrats gain in six states by over seventy thousand votes since 1940, implying Polk’s likely victory by over two hundred thousand, and lists seventeen Congress members recalled after presidential nominations in Louisiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Alabama.
The report covers tariff effects on trade with Mexico and Europe, noting premiums on Mexican dollars and half-dollars abroad, a large favorable balance to worry about, and profitable shipments. It cites Pittsburgh and New Orleans market snapshots with grain, flour, beef, pork, and butter prices and trends, plus currency and import dynamics.
An OCR fragment shows various commodity prices in old money format. Items include apples per bushel beef per pound butter cheese coco per bushel cloverseed per bushel chickens each cabbage per head coffee per pound eggs per dozen fresh pork per pound flour per barrel flaxseed per bushel honey per barrel hams per dozen lard per pound with scattered numeric values like 30, 33, 300, 10, 12, 8, 1-2, 5-6, 31-2, a3, 50, 75a, 87, 12a, 15, a, 6, 1-2, lo.
A dense catalog of coin types and prices including American Eagles Halves and Quarters French Napoleons Guineas Spanish Doubloons Ten Thalers Ducats and various Spanish Quarter Dollars Sixteenths and English Crowns. Mentions full weights proportions and denominations with assorted values and weights.
Fragmentary almanac text lists dates and numbers with a note on the rising and setting of the sun for Monday each week in August. The legible content includes sequence-like digits and phrases without clear events or names.
Public notice announces a Democratic meeting of Island Creek and Cross Creek towns to be held in Winterville on September 7 at Do'elegh P M. Several speakers will be in attendance to address the gathering. August 29.
The Indiana Sentinel lists official returns for 71 counties showing Whig majorities in 1840, and Democratic gains in 1843 and 1844. It projects a Democratic majority in the State House and a split Senate with a Democratic edge, amid contested seats and anticipated party shifts before the Legislature convenes.
The Democrats have carried the state by about twelve thousand, a surge from 1840 when the margin was under two thousand. The Illinois tally lists Democrats 26 Whigs 13 and 7A for Congressmen.
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