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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1838
Page
3
The Means and Hooxer Steam Mill on Market and Water streets caught fire on a Saturday, suspected from sparks from the furnace chimney. Firemen and citizens contained the blaze with water works aiding the effort. praise to the responders for swift vigilance.
The published proceedings mock the opposition with phrases claiming they follow Washington Franklin and Jefferson to save the country. They accuse Treasury note plans of deception and criticize the Speaker for casting vote against a note bill. The group vows to defeat current incumbents to prevent bank profits and shift emoluments to financiers.
The piece critiques a political convention, denouncing it as a Federalist trick to sway democracy. It cites 2037 attendees, 1106 delegates from Franklin and four counties, and 460 from others, claiming a misrepresented Ohio electorate of 202,000 voters supporting a 200,000-strong mass. The text accuses Ewing, Morris, and Allen of decisive influence and condemns bank-backed coercion.
Treasury Department reports that the total authorized notes have been issued. Of the ten million dollars, about six million has been returned to the Treasury for duties lands and payments of debts to the United States.
Levi Woodbury, the Secretary of the Treasury, states that the Treasury notes issued up to the present under the act of May 21, 1838, amount to 800,308 dollars and 26 cents. The remaining topic mentions leaving and a $4,000,000 figure.
A new press attached to a paper machine in Utica N Y by Mr Thom prints a 216 page book on a continuous 70 foot sheet in three minutes. An exchange says it could revolutionize printing lowering costs for standard works and school books. It envisions miles long sheets and widespread orders routing around the old volume system.
The Manhattan Advertiser editor, praised as witty, received a handsome ten dollar picture titled Bank of Cleveland from a subscriber. The note thanks the donor with humor about paying in advance, claiming such patrons live long and die rich, and invites others to imitate the gesture as nearly a life insurance.
Bank of England returns for February six to May first show liabilities and assets with Circulation 19 084 000 Securities 422 768 000 Deposites 11 006 000 Bullion 10 002 000. The oldest inhabitant of Philadelphia Mr William Butler died Saturday 26th aged 108 years.
Baltimore items report Nathan Crowley found guilty of manslaughter after indictment for Bacon murder with seven years in penitentiary. The column notes large canal toll increases, mentions Shinplaster Vance, Prince de Joinville's Pittsburgh visit, New Orleans bank figures, hoax about John Wood the Captive, and rewards for Pennsylvania Hall destruction.
Three steamers ply Pittsburgh to Franklin and Warren with stops along the line. The Angora flue collapsed near Warsaw but with no injuries. In Kensington near Philadelphia, commissioners election produced a decisive Democratic victory. Town of Monrovia near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was destroyed by fire on the 17th last, including church academy bank post office and exchange. A separate Albany fire on the 25th burned many buildings with Mr Gould losing about 45000 dollars.
Notices include Farmers Bank notes for par at James Dougherty store on Third Street, a fatal fight at Bexar between Major Tinsley and E Navans, and 20,000 bushels of four arriving in New Orleans. Editorials deplore the Bank of the United States loans to Congress, praise Mr Allen of Ohio, and discuss the Specie Circular and a Senate resolution on revenue payment forms amid ongoing commerce resuscitation.
A meditation on political instinct and self-preservation in mobs and parties. Justice Sharkey in Mississippi awards $1500 damages for mob action in 1835. The Steubenville Herald calls for retrenchment and reform urging action against banks while attacking federal bankers.
Market roundup from Wheeling notes flour at 5 62 to 5 75 per barrel, flaxseed 75 per bushel, grain prices Wheat 105 and Oats 40, hog round bacon 74, hams 9. Other listed items include coffee feathers linseed oil sugar salt and butter with various unspecified amounts.
Market report from New Orleans on May 18 notes Sucar-Prime at 54 to 64, inferior 4 to 5, White Ha vyanna 13, brown 8 to 54. Morasses-On the Levy 28 to 30, on plantation 22, Friour 8 50 to 9 00, all in demand.
Markets report bacon ham and hog round prices with figures for coffee Havana Rio and flour Superfine per barrel Wheat oats sugar New Orleans Havana Havana and whiskey per gallon listed with cent ranges and notes.
On the 7th instant the Rev Mr Taggart united Dr B Tappan of this place with Miss Olila Stanton of Cadiz in a wedding ceremony.
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