Autobiography of the Credit System Inventor in Ragamuffinville
A satirical autobiographical piece from the U. S. Magazine & Democratic Review presents the rise and fall of a fictitious financier who advocates a credit based currency. It chronicles his marriage into wealth, schemes to create a bank that loans “money out of nothing,” log-rolling in the legislature, land speculation, and the eventual collapse amid the specie circulars and governmental countermeasures. The narrator proclaims himself inventor of the system, ridicules opposition, and ends with retirement gains and public honors.
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Ferret Snapp Newchapft
Ucles
Ragammffinville
Misrse
Democratiat
Gener
Ore
Ragamuffinville
Ragamufinville
Sam
North Pacific
Specie
Loco Foco
Fanny Wright
Robert Dale
Jack Cade
Big Paws
Loco Focos
Thad
United States
England
P.S
Federal Common Council of
Smithsonian Bequest Explained as Civilized Gift to Washington
London letter discusses Rush securing the Smithsonian Bequest from the Court of Chancery amounting to over a hundred thousand pounds. Congress to implement the trust for an institution in Washington to spread knowledge without sect or party. The testator, a natural son of the Duke of Northumberland, gifts a global moral project with enduring promise.
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Washington
United States
Duke of Northumberland
England
Various coastal and domestic misfortunes across the era
A survey of scattered 19th century items reports steamers arriving at Monroe Michigan, military actions on Lake Erie, a rattlesnake sent to Victoria, rumors of a Canada expedition paid by Wool, a Lexington hailstorm, and trade treaties. Prison escapes, militia mobilization, obituaries, fires, rail road actions, and local crimes fill the periodical page with brief notes and anecdotes.
Ingenious writer crafts tale on Abel and Cain clash
A Manhattan Adv item notes a novelist finishing a romance about the death of Abel. The piece imagines Abel a banker and Cain killing him over specie payments, with a quip about Abel wielding a cane and Old Nick himself.
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Cain
Nick
Manhattan
Adv
Bad News for Brandy Drinkers Letter from Cognac
A letter dated Cognac May 7 reports two severe frosts that have greatly damaged vines. The writer says even if temperatures rise, only a small middling crop is expected and no brandy will be available at any price for the present.
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