Terms of Advertising in the Advertisements Column
The notice details advertising rates and policies. Three insertions cost $1.00 with back insertion potential. Liberal deductions apply to personal advertising yearly. Ads must indicate number of insertions or continue until forbidden. Candidate names cost $1.00 and must be prepaid. Ads due by Wednesday morning for next issue.
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Mr. Holmes
Committee of Apportionment
House of Representatives
General Assembly
Ips
Scene on the Ohio in June from Graham's Magazine
A lyrical poem by G D Prentice titled Scene on the Ohio centers on a tranquil evening scene. The speaker praises nature, moonlight, and the sense of prayer in the landscape, then speaks of Mary as the heart’s companion, imagining devotion and paradise as he envisions her presence in nature’s imagery. The verse blends religious reverence with romantic longing.
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Mary
Strange New York Mystery of Foreman Pelsue in 1796
A New York tale from Maiden Lane recounts a corpse found in a dockside shop, jurors including John Mowatt and his foreman John Pelsue near the body. Pelsue fainted at the sight, vanished soon after, and later a widow named Mrs Randall revealed herself as Pelsue, the late husband’s killer, leading to a dramatic personal reunion and a claim of long concealment. The narrative unfolds with testimonies and moral reflections on mercy and humanity.
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New York
Maiden ‘Lane
John Mowatt
John Pelsue
Pelsue
Mowatt
John
Jearn
Randall
Philadelphia
John Conner
Anturn
Awburn
North Fork
Houges
Reourie
Fidelity and true friendship in adversity and crafts
The piece extols fidelity as tested by hardship and benevolence. It contrasts genuine friendship with hypocrisy, then shifts to a description of pin and needle making, noting rapid production by skilled workers. It closes with a summary of G W Teving's visit to San Marino, praising its liberty, governance, and moral economy.
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The
American Quarterly Review
G. W. Teving
San Marino
Italy
Adria
Bopopart
Meritomer Biscoran Cavaca
Methodist Episcopal Church
Church South
Taylor
B. Wheat
Baltimore Sun
Language, Pilate legend, and moral reflection across Europe
The piece discusses German language originality and self sufficiency, a Vienna Pilate legend near a Roman tower, Swiss Pilate tales by a Alpine lake, and atmospheric local lore. It ends with homilies on cheerfulness and kindness, urging daily moral cultivation and compassion in sorrow and death.
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Vienna
Pontius Pilate
Tour de Manseonseul
Jesus Christ
Pilate
Rhone
California News Seaside Mining Reports and Gold Placentas
The installment reviews California gold discoveries and shipments. It details consignees in New York, Panama bound consignments from San Francisco, and the steamer Chesapeake’s prolonged voyage. Reports on emigration, social arrivals, and robberies shade into mining district updates including Tuolumne and Stanislaus placers, Sonora and Columbia City finds, and large gold masses.
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California
Crescent City
Isthmus
New York
John C. Thompson
Adams & Co
Coffin, Bradley & Co
Buckley & Neal
Grinnel, Minturn & Co
Chesapeake
Panama
Cape St. Lucas
Falmouth
San Francisco
Mazatlan
Irons
Reuben Withers
Reynolds
Duke of Wertemburgh
Prince Albert
Europe
Times
Smith
Coyote Creek
Sonora
Mexico
Yankee Land
John Bull Country
France
Sacramento
Stockton
Tuolumne
Tuoplumne
Gulcries
Express Office
Mahan
Svenislaus
Stan
Sonoma
Stanislaus
Calaveras
San Antonio
Yuba City
Feather River
Mr. Rex
Buttes
Sacramento Valley
Oregon
Old Zack and Taylor News Stir Public Support
A lengthy political column praises General Taylor as steadfast and unyielding amid foes and fears, recounting Monterey Buena Vista and his rise to presidency. It argues Western and Northern congressmen should back his administration, opposing New Mexico and California slave expansion. It also outlines a detailed state apportionment plan and references President Polk’s Texas New Mexico boundary message.
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Zack
Taylor
Monterey
Buena Vista
Santa Anna
United States
Scott
Congress
New Mexico
California
Asarane State
Cass
West
State Journal
Texas
Santa Fe
Neighbors
Mexico
San Francisco
Sandwich Islands
Dayton
New Jersey
Senate
Washington
Rio Grande
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Athens
N. H. van Vorhes, & CO
Court St
Graham’s Magazine
Ohio
G. D. Prentice
Laurie Todd
Fidelity
Republic On
Earth
Kanda Ens
California News
Sierra Nevada
San Francisco Journal of Commerce
Middle Fork
Macksville
el Dorado Canon
Los Angeles
Reil
N. C. Picayune
Maraposa
H. B Williams
America
Asia
Africa
Baltimore American
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