Notable Losses in Erie Steamboat Disaster and Aftermath
Survivors recount gruesome scenes as the Alabama resupplied the wounded near Erie. Names and residences of injured and dead are listed, including McLaughlin the fireman and James Chancellor who died within hours. The crew change noted with Captain Squier detained. owner Whelps aboard.
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Alabama
Erie
Nathan Derring
South Bloomfield
Burnet
N. Y
Jeremiah Conner
McLaughlin
Henry Brown
Wim. Lives
Richard Retalie
Whitby
Canada
Luther Kinney
Washington
New York
Archibald Linsey
Michigan
J. F. Lation
Cincinnati
D. G. Ramsey
Patrick Howley
D. E. Terry
Norwalk
Win
Terry
Bridget Walsh
Buffalo
Jacob Downing
Albany
Michael Hagerty
Charles Potter
Greaser
Linnis Warren
James Murphy
Thomas Purser
Mr. Shooks
Squier
Cleveland
Mr. Whelps
Athens Advertiser Rate Card and Policy Notice
The weekly Athens paper outlines subscription costs and payment terms. It states advance payment required for 41,500 and $2.00 nonpayment notices, and no discontinuance until arrears are settled. Ads priced per inch with liberal yearly deductions, and deadlines for insertion noted. Campaigns names incur $1.00 per name, advance payment required.
Tis Better Not to Know by Samuel Lover
poem fragment in which speaker pleads for ignorance about a beloved’s fidelity. The speaker acknowledges possible rival loves and prefers not to know truth that would cause grief, hoping continued affection will suffice. The piece ends with the belief that ignorance protects happiness and tears are avoided.
Stand Back I Have Shuttered My Garden to All
Poem by Charles McKay pleading for private space and sanctified grounds away from politics and vanity. The speaker guards his garden as a refuge for friendship, love, and nature, rejecting public quarrels and social ostentation. He longs for spring, roses, birds, pruning, and simple calm within his own bounds.
The Grave as Comfort and Moral Beacon in Sorrow
Ohio Cultivator excerpt reflects on grief and memory after death, praising the grave as a sanctifier of love and a place for moral reckoning. It contrasts sensual attachment with spiritual affection, urging survivors to reassess duties to the living and endure sorrow without forgetting past kindness. The piece also includes Aunt Patience on bad husbands, defending women’s rights and recounting family respect and modest virtue.
Genuine Article Men Oppose Idle Young Men Says Mrs Swisshelim
A fragment urges women to note men who loaf at home while mothers milk cows. It brandingly calls such men contemptible and bad, contrasting with those who make up the genuine article Mrs Swisshelim could not find.
The Allure of Farming Across Professions and Ages
The essay argues farming appeals to many, from merchants to physicians and lawyers, as a tranquil escape from urban bustle. It praises farming for independence, honest labor, and a moral reward, noting diverse figures who pursue agriculture as a natural or rational end.
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Wen
Cincinnatus
Mariner
Neptune
Belisarius
Stars as poetry of heaven and night fever notes
The article muses on stars as the poetry of heaven, citing ancient figures from Adam to the Psalmist, and recalls how stars remained unchanged through ages. It quotes Byron and moralizes on celestial permanence contrasted with earthly mutability, then shifts to a discussion of poisonous plants, night epidemics, and various notes on history and politics.
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Byron
Heaven
Adam
Eve
Bowers of
Eden
Noah
Miltiades
Marathon
Greece
Israel
Booby epithets and Rome perils in a scattered excerpt
The fragment features a farmer candidate mocked as a booby, echoes of Sir Francis Bacon on belief and atheism, Rome persecutions with prisons and exile of ladies, remarks on newspapers as books’ ushers, and a shopgirl silk hose jest ending in a knee length joke. The tone is dated and miscellany.
Booby Speeches and Languages in Common Schools
A 1839 State Education Convention speech by a Whig candidate condemns introducing foreign languages into public schooling. Prof Stowe’s idea is opposed, arguing lessons should focus on reading, writing, arithmetic, English grammar, geography, and practical subjects for the common man, to avoid privileging the wealthy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covention
Johnston
London
Paris
Miliner
Columbia
Cincinnati
Prof Stowe
Patriotism over foreign influences in American education
A long argument favoring an American character for common school education over foreign influence. It argues that national loyalty and bonds formed in youth can reduce ethnic prejudice, promote unity, and strengthen support for free schools and the state. It also cautions voters about banking policy and upcoming state decisions impacting constitutional conventions.
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France
Spain
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Russia
Europe
Middle States
New England
West India
Highland News
St. Peren’s
Anthony Wayne
Dan Able
Kle
Wayne
Fom Snelling
St. Peter's
Traverse de Sioux
Messia, Hopkins and Higgings
Minnesota
Mankota
Blue Earth
Peter's
Capt. Able
Wayne Blue Earth
Athens
Messenges
N. H. van Vorhes, & CO. Office
Court St
O As
Samuel Lover
Charles McKay
Washington Irving
Swisshelm
Patience
Billy Brown
Johnny Smith
Thomas Cannon
Mary
West Indies
Providence
Sennacherib
Hanburgh
Sierra Stone
Weatminal
Lovis Purnierr
Pamiry
Louis Phillippe
Duchess of Orleans
Duke de Nemours
Prince de Joinville
Duke de Amuale
Mr. Hubbard
Logan Gazette
Springfeld
Gov. Johnston
Judge Johnston
Johnson
Springfield
Horace Greely
Rome
Boston Daily Advertiser
Black Holea
Tostof
W.C. Byrant
Cowper
Bio
New Mexico
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Locofoco
Dallas
Texas
Milan
America
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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