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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1850
Page
1
Athens Messenger announces subscription rates 1.50 per year in advance 2.00 after four weeks and warns against discontinuance without notice. It outlines advertising charges for one square thirteen lines three free insertions and per insertion rates a liberal yearly rate for advertisers and deadlines for Wednesday morning copy. It also notes penalties for unpaid arrears and for listing candidates.
A long poem by Mrs. Amelia B. Welby laments a lost love and haunted memories at sites near an old elm grave. The piece weaves sorrow with vows of vengeance, then shifts to a prose interlude recounting charity to a poor widow Polly and a boyhood memory of hunger and moral duty.
A house cleaner’s attempt to delay payment highlights a dispute over Polly’s daily wage. The narrator recalls a penniless moment and a plan to change money, fearing the worker’s money would be delayed until tomorrow, revealing a troubling sense of injustice.
The old State House stood empty as members took a train ride after a riotous gathering. City officials doubled police, feasted guests, and sent luckless figures like the Governor and Cheesebury on a rail, while others wandered, were arrested, or released with laughter at the spectacle.
A letter from Morgan County urges selecting able, non demagogic delegates for the State Convention, naming several Belmont Jefferson and Muskingum figures. California seeks admission with 107,000 inhabitants, 76,096 American emigrants, and a moderate peaceful tone. Also notes the Orline St John disaster with heavy loss, and political alignments around Union preservation and Nashville discussions.
Washington correspondent recites a curious tale from Jan 12 about John C Calhoun haunted by a dream of danger to the Union. In a breakfast scene Calhoun describes a vision of George Washington in revolutionary dress, touching his right hand and warning that a plan for dissolution must be signed, lest bones of Isaac Hayne be used to seal rebellion. The account blends superstition with political fear amid debate on Union or dissolution.
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