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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1851
Page
1
A fragment from Park Benjamin’s poetry contemplates night’s breeze, stars, and mother’s memory, interwoven with sentimental lines about love, faith, and mortality. Included are moral reflections and a late 19th century digest from Godey’s Lady’s Book, plus a Crime Statistics report for Ohio 1850 noting 2,008 prosecutions, 1,273 convictions, and related costs.
A literary fragment recalling the sea as an endless space and a chorus of generations fading into a timeless cavern. The speaker invokes Mrs. Osgood and laments lost love, reflecting on stars as symbols of memory and the heart’s ease at a beloved’s grave.
A passenger recalls a six year old German boy kneeling in prayer beside his father on a North River steamer. The scene contrasts fearful adults with the child’s devout moment, hinting at maternal influence and the universal reach of faith. The author vows gratitude if the pair is encountered again.
The Earl of Carlisle in a Leeds lecture praises Ohio as the best place to settle, citing civilization progress and agriculture. Legislature candidates listed include a Senator in Congress, State Auditor, State Librarian, Penitentiary Director, and judges. Giddings backs Wood on fugitive bill. Boston traders report eight thousand superficial feet of goods sent to the world’s fair.
The Springfield Gaz argues Senator Benton would best define himself by pushing a government led scheme for a huge land belt from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi. It mocks Whitney and favors a formal engineer corps to supervise and build the venture, noting 78 million acres and a flour delivery claim to San Francisco.
In New York at 1st street a newly completed masoned building collapsed after workers returned from dinner. Four bodies have been recovered and six injured. estimates suggest fifteen to twenty may be dead. Mortar appeared sand rich. builder named Spencer implicated.
A Washington letter to the Statesman mocks a rumored Democrat abolitionist bargain as dangerous. The column also reports severe cold causing multiple deaths across Canada and the United States, noting frozen victims near Kingston Canada West and in Keene Nova Scotia as well as two Irish women frozen near Eagle Bridge in Washington county.
Col. Samuel Medary in Newark recounts that Andrew Jackson warned him, three days before vetoing the U. S. Bank bill, of a coming shock. He also references the “Rochester knockers” and notes hardship ends when a king lies down, yet must rise again.
In the Athens county area on January 10 1851 petitions and remonstrances were presented in the House including Johnathan Spencer Alfred Lovell and 13 others from Troy township seeking toll bridge authorization over the Big Hocking at Kookingport. Reconsideration of Troy Hotel Company incorporation failed and was referred to Mayo. Senate discussed Cincinnati and Zanesville Railroad Company matters before recess. Afternoon focused on committees and a medical college inquiry resolution.
The debate over the road bill centered on serving the town of Washington versus company interests. Beeson argued for Washington as a point, but the motion failed. Several amendments also failed, and the bill was ordered to read a third time tomorrow as the Senate moved into committee of the whole to consider the Free Banking Bill.
The Ohio House and Senate met with limited business. The Senate discussed printers petitions reprinting in state facilities and debated Lawrence’s bill, while a plan to strike 50,000 from the Free Banking Law’s minimum capital prevailed. A Cincinnati correspondence notes convention progress on a new state constitution and biennial sessions.
In Charleston South Carolina the New England Society hosted an anniversary with guests such as Judge Gilchrist and W J Grayson, while Rev Samuel Gilman urged unity. Harriet K Hunt faced medical schooling hurdles then won admission on terms, provoking student protest. Washington’s Jamy Cray notes Henry City’s reception, and essays compare iron and coal regions to corn and hog counties in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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