The American Union Newspaper Notice and Rates
The notice announces the American Union published every Wednesday morning on Market street, notes the office location near the F. and M. Bank, and lists subscription rates of two dollars per year or three dollars after renewal. It states no discontinuation until arrears are paid and advises post paid letters to editors to receive attention.
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American Union
Market Street
South Side
F. & M. Bank
Lines to a Ring A Romance of Love and Loss
A poem of affection and devotion unfolds from a gem worn by Julia to a vow by the author. He recalls a latching moment by Ohio’s waters, wedding dreams, and a betrothed lost to death. The speaker laments the tomb’s green sod and yearns to remember the vow in quiet churchyard repose.
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Ohio
Dian
There’s Nothing True but Heaven Poem Echoes Illusion
The verse laments earthly illusion and transient joys, claiming only Heaven remains true. It paints life as a storm driven by waves and shifting fancies, with love hope and beauty destined for the tomb. The speaker seeks the steady light of Heaven amid fading hues and troubled paths.
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Moore
Glory
Fancy
Reason
Ray
Washington statue progress report from Cooperstown Freeman Journal
The Cooperstown Freeman's Journal notes Greenough's Washington statue for the Capitol rotunda has begun in marble after delays due to cholera quarantines and road conditions. The piece details the sculpting process from clay model to plaster mould to final marble work, with emphasis on the surface and the artist's finishing touches.
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Washlington
Cooperstown
Fennimore Cooper
Adleyi
Paris
Ney at Borodino and Moscow retreat heroic marshal of France
From Murray's Family Library, the narrative honors Marshal Ney for his fearless actions at Borodino and during the retreat from Moscow. It details his rear-guard stand with few troops, crossing the Dnieper on ice, and joining Napoleon to save the remnant of the grand army, praising his valour and defiance.
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Marshial Ney
Borodina
Moskva
France
Moscow
Napoleon
Ney
Krasnoi
Miloradovitch
Losmine
Dneiper
Berezina
Murray
The Latest Instance of Absence of Mind
A New Era humorous note recalls a young lady who crossed the Park to drop a love letter into a post box. She climbed into the box by mistake and did not notice until the clerk held her up to the light and asked if she were single.
Don’t be discouraged by life’s rough path and misfortune
Do not be discouraged when life seems rough and plans fail. The text urges cheerful endurance, steady progress, and self discipline. It compares fortune to April skies, warns against trusting deceptive people, and counsels conscience, industry, frugality, honesty, and neighborly kindness as paths to happiness despite slower prosperity.
Swimming education urged for girls and boys
The Norfolk Beacon argues females should be taught to swim with examples like Ben Sherrod Washington Puls ki and Missis Cozzen to prove lifesaving value. The piece endorses swimming as essential in youth education for health, spine safety, and public wellbeing amid rivers and lakes.
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Norfolk
Ben Sherrod
Washington
Pulaski
Missis Cozzen
Balt
U. States
Gossipy Western Tall Tales Attributed To Knickerbocker
A column mocks eastern readers for gullibility as it relays a Knickerbocker Magazine spoof about exaggerated Great West lore. It cites tall tales of bread on trees and pigs marching to farmyards and even deer in Illinois fed salt to cook them into steaks, all attributed to John Smith and John Thompson.
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Illinois
John Smith
Ilinois
John Thompson
Ohio
Knickerbocker
Anecdotes of Dr Rush on Preaching and Diligence
The account recalls Dr Rush recounting a dinner with Robert Morris who dismissed a sermon as too smooth. Rush asks what preaching Morris likes, and Morris says one that drives a man to fear the devil. Rush notes Morris’s methodical study, comparing him to Wesley, and shows a pocket notebook of weekly observations and patient facts used in his writings.
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Robert Morris
Morris
England
Mr. Morris
Wesley
Childhood beauty in Bach elor's Death Bed prose
Excerpt from the Southern Literary Messenger reflects on childhood joy and innocence. It likens childhood to a heavenly garden, contrasting earthly toil with a seraphic world where laughter calms the soul and humility follows the pure, radiant youths.
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Babylon
Kingdom of Heaven
The Improvement or Woman Crisis Speech
A reflective treatise advocates pursuing sincere, relentless effort for others’ happiness as the path to lasting joy and virtue. It argues moral nobility, religious sublimity, and truth reliance arise from selfless action, transforming errors to nobility, regrets to virtue, and triumph to humility.
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Bulwer
Natural Curiosity or The Paper You Read
A sharp note urging readers to subscribe to a calm but unwavering democratic paper and then complain when it does not attack the administration. The writer jokes about the cost of bricks at five dollars per thousand, referencing Manhattan.
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Manhattan
Dreadful Sup stition in Madras Farm Slaughter News
A Leeds meeting of the London Missionary Society relays a dreadful superstition in Madras area where farmers fatten and kill boys for flesh to fertilize soil. Twenty five boys found fattening under priests, fifteen more located. rescued by British soldiers and placed under collector. Missionaries to raise them in Christian faith. Liverpool paper.
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R. Knill
London Missionary Society
Leeds
Madras
India
Liverpool
Medea Steam Frigate Delights Montreal Viewers
The H M Steam Frigate Medea lies in the St Lawrence drawing wide attention from Montreal residents. Report notes its enormous two eighty-four pounders and unusually clean engine room. Officers courteously guide visitors aboard, making a strong impression on onlookers.
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St. Lawrence
Montreal
Great Western
Lardner
Medea
Atlantic
Syrus
Montreal Herald
The Peril of Lying in Society and Youth
Lying gives offenders a plausible apology and shelter from punishment. It tempts risk without fear of impunity and, when frequent, blurs guilt. It corrupts youth’s simplicity, harms genius, and counteracts efforts to develop talent and virtue.
Button unearthed at Fort Schuyler marks Washington loyalist link
A lad dug up near Fort Schuyler a brass button the size of a half dollar. Inscribed GW with Long live the President, it is encircled by a 13 link chain, each link bearing a state initial, likely an old Washington era decorative badge prized by collectors.
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Old Fort Schuyler
Washington
G. W
Address to the People of the United States 1838
At a July 6 1838 meeting of Republican members of Congress at the Capitol the address was adopted for publication. The document outlines party principles, defends strict constitutional construction, rails against a US Bank, and argues state banks should remain under local control rather than centralized power. It stresses distrust of centralized credit and emphasizes fidelity to the Constitution and states’ rights.
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Senate
House of Representatives
Capitol
John M. Niles
Connecticut
Charles E. Haynes
Georgia
Grover M. Ker
Pennsylvania
H. L.turney
Tennessee
United States
Hiram Gray
New York
Congress
Chai
Grover M. Keim
Herkins Leet
United States Bank
Congress of the
America
Republican Party
Ion
Bank
District of Columbia
First Bank of the
Bank of the United States
Fashion Folly Warns Against Vanity in Dress
Sir Matthew Hale warns that the vanity of youths in fine clothes and new fashions shows childish folly and leads to waste. He urges simplicity and decency in apparel, avoiding curiosity and costly attire as signs of a weak head.
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Sir Matthew Hale
Mischievous Boys Fire Powder Magazine in Pittsfield
A group of youths from East Coast towns set fire to Pittsfield Massachusetts powder magazine causing a loud explosion like an earthquake. The incident shattered windows, damaged a medical museum wax figures and other property. Estimated damage about 5000 dollars. No fatalities reported.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Medical Museum, &c
Remedy for hot weather drinking problems
The Baltimore American notes a remedy for those who drink too much cold water in hot weather. Fifteen drops of Spiritus Salis in a glass of any spirituous liquor may provide relief. Spiritus salis can be bought at apothecaries.
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Baltimore American
Rail lines expand across German lands with swift locomotives
Reports from European papers reveal the Vienna to Wagram line nearly complete with 6000 workers on the Wagram Lamdenbourgh segment and 10000 more toward Braun. Rails largely sourced from England power cars traveling about 40 miles per hour. The Dresden to Oberon route to be finished in two months. one locomotive from Birmingham. The Emperor reportedly pleased by rapid transit.
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Germany
Vienna
Wagram
Lamdenbourgh
Braun
England
Dresden
Oberon
Birmingham
Napoleon
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M’caussen
L. Harper
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Julia
DR. Rush
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