Independent Treasury Explained It Not A Destructive Measure
A compact summary from the Old Dominion outlines what the Independent Treasury is and is not. It argues the plan reduces surplus, separates money from political power, and keeps public funds for the people's needs. It denies drawbacks like harming banks, causing panics, or creating a metallic currency, presenting it as a constitutional reform urged by Jackson and Van Buren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Dominion
Treasury
United States Bank of Pennsylvania
Jackson
van Buren
Loco focoism and agrarian aims in New York era prose
Reflects a political defense of agrarian principles and republican rights. The speaker embraces the label loco foco as a badge for advancing life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, opposing aristocracy and monetary domination, and advocating broad electoral and economic reforms amid denouncements from Whigs and others.
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New York
Coto
Election Table for Twenty Sixth Congress Results
An itemized election table shows results for the Twenty Sixth Congress by popular vote and judge certificates. It records the votes cast, the official certificates, and the authorities involved in determining representative selections. The document reflects period official procedures and the outcome for multiple districts.
Mr Stevenson Helps Save Young Man From Death
A Buffalo lad, Reyn aldo alias David Deal, joined Patriots for Canada, was captured by British Lancers and sentenced to death. Letters to Mr Stevenson prompted Queen Victoria to grant a free pardon, the youth returning home. The event highlights Stevenson and the Queens clemency in a British authority case.
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Stevenson
Mr. Stevenson
England
Reynaldo
David Deal
Shippensburg
Pennsylvania
Buffalo
New York
Canada
Young Deal
Grerce Arthur
Cookman
MclLean
Sewall
Queen Victoria
Democracy and the Democratic Principle in Virginia Speech
An extract from a Virginia House of Delegates speech by Mr. Smith of Culpeper contrasts Democratic and Federal parties. It extols democracy as humane benevolence, love, and alleviation of suffering, aligning its principles with Christian charity and urging universal brotherly love. The piece emphasizes renovation, equal humanity, and the shared aim of happiness for all.
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Virginia House of Delegates
Smith
Culpepper
Old Dominion
The Whig Adversaries and a Drowsy Audience
The speaker decries aristocratic tendencies within the party and questions democratic principle amid laboring tensions. A preacher’s tale of a sermon poorly heard leads to a vow to repeat it, illustrating perseverance and political rhetoric in a laboring, period voice.
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Mr. Speaker
Hare
Massive chalk fall at Cliff England endangers seventy eight
A chalk mass several thousand tons detached from Shakspear Cliff on the South Eastern Dover line in England. The fall would have brushed 78 men, who escaped due to warning particles. The incident provides a geologist’s find as the debris exposes a large fossil skeleton. A second section comments on qualities dividing the sexes with praise for women’s virtues.
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South-Eastern and Dover
England
Ground sold in Cincinnati at 8940 per foot
A Kentucky traveler described New Orleans heat with a vivid image as buttons melted off his coat in spoonfuls while noting a large ground sale in Cincinnati at 8940 per foot.
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Cincinntti
New Orleans
Directors of the Jefferson County Poor House Report
The Board reports eighteen paupers in the Poor House with an average twenty over the last year and five deaths during the war. County spending on the poor amounts to 128,173 dollars with 1,675 dollars in receipts. farm sales 1,264.98 dollars. Dr. William Leslie remains physician at 800 dollars and David Morris is appointed Superintendent at 200 dollars per year. Steubenville, June 11, 1830.
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Americas Aston
Market Street
South Side
P.M. Hank
Ds Bovare
Poor House
Jefferson County
Win. Leslie
David Morris
Alexander Conn
William Leslie
John Winters
Steubenville
Sotice
Thomas Carrel
Steubenville Township
William McDonald
Adam J. Leslie
William Evans
James Dickson
Cornhill
Boston
Wm. Evans
Lowell
H. Goodhue
Con St
J .Turnbull
Robert Monroe
Schuylkill
Wm Evans
Philadelphia
North St
Pittsburgh
St. Clair St
Jas. Turnbull
Pr. Win. Evans
Poplar Lane
Coates St
GC Martin
St Clair Et
Jas
Turnbull, Steubenville
Jefferson Co
General Groceries and Provisions at W. Owesney Store
Steubenville June 11 1839 W Owesney announces a first rate supply of groceries and provisions at the store opposite Black Bear House on 4th street. He lists coffees tea sugar molasses candles raisins brooms soap lemon syrup muscat wine nuts ground nuts and a large selection of queensware glassware and tools plus cod fish whale oil and dyes all to be sold at cash lowest rates.
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Givoceries & Provisions
Black Bear House
4Th Street
Havannah
N. O
W. Owesney
Steubenville
Regular Baptists Set July Sabbath Meeting at Baptist House
The Regular Baptists plan a meeting at the Baptist meeting house on Church Street on the first Sabbath of July. Divine service begins at 10 o'clock A M on June 10, 1839, with GLENN'S Saponaceous Compound and shaving cakes for sale at T and G Johnsons Drug Store in Steubenville. June 11, 1839. Bens. Tappan.
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Baptist Meeting House
Church St
Glenn
T. & G. Johnson
Steubenville
Bens
Moffat’s Life Pills and Phenix Bitters advertised cure
An 1839 Steubenville notice promotes Moffat’s Life Pills and Phenix Bitters as a radical cure for Fever and Ague. It emphasizes early treatment, claims widespread success among western emigrants, and lists agents including T. & G. Johnson in Steubenville with sale details and international directions available at 375 Broadway, New York.
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Broadway
William McF
New York
United States
Moffat
Byron
Jobn Moffat
T. &G. Jobnewe
Tentle
Jane
el Dorado
W. B. Moffar
Canadas
John Moffat
T.& G. Johnson
Steubenvile
Final accounts filed for settlement in Jefferson County Ohio
Notice is given that at the May Term 1839 of the Court of Common Pleas of Jefferson County Ohio final accounts were regularly filed for settlement. The accounts concern Robert Ware and others including David Finley Catharine Storer Joba Shoemaker Joshua Bashurst George Watson John Crow Asabee Edgington Joseph M Millan and James Lyons guardianship related to Rienhints.
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Court of Common Pleas
Jefferson County
State of Ohio
Robert Ware
Dec'd
David Finley
Catharine Storer
Joba Shoemaker
Joshua Bashurst
George Watson
John Crow
Asabee Edgington
Joseph M’millan
James Lyons
Joba McElroy
Thoscoust
The
Guardian of Rienhints
Wm. Evans
R. Joshua Swain
Cape May
County
N. J
James Turnbulus
Steubenvile
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John S. Dike
Messrs
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J.G
M. L. Morais
L. Harper. Steubenville
R. M. Hennig
Columbia
Loridge's Balm
Eleanor Chambers
Aeu Ua
Altes
S. Patterson
Steut
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A.J
Marietta
Washington County
Valentine Priest
Cross Creek
Malaga
Baltimore
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RS. Good
Mount
Lancaster County
James Turnbull
Market St
North Eighth Street
Filbert Street
St Clair St
Hannah
Jos. Browne
6Th Street
Williamsburg
Joseph Browne
Hannah Browne
P. Pinkney
North St. Pittsburgh
St. Clair Street
James ‘Turnbull
IFE & Health
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Phila
Tefferson Co
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Germantown
TB Wittases
St Clairet
James Turnbull Steubenville
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