01 Nov 1850
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1850
Page
1
Office notices outline annual prepaid rates for advance paper delivery at 1.50, arrears at 2.00 with four weeks to pay, and continued service until settled. Ads of one square thirteen lines cost 1.00 for three insertions plus 0.25 per extra insertion, with yearly ads discounted. Candidates’ names cost 1.00, prepaid. ads due by Wednesday to appear next issue. casual advertisers must prepay.
A composite verse piece by Thomas Wheeler extols industrious writers and poets who shape truth and national unity. It links toil with liberty, praising the pen as a force for goodwill and peaceful progress across the thirteen states while invoking patriotism and sacred loyalty to liberty and the sovereign people.
A fragmentary verse about a girl named Bill with bright hair and fair eyes. The speaker recalls a vow and failed plea, noting her teasing smile and dismissive reaction. The text reads as a playful, rural lyric with repeated rhymes and light romantic sentiment.
Hans guards his secret stash of old coins from his wife Rose while plotting to become Burgermeister of Rapps. He privately counts and calculates when his money will amount to his own, hoping to keep it hidden from Rose as part of a long‑running, doomed plan.
A rambling tale follows Hans losing money through a breeches pocket collapse and a capful of cash. His wife with practical cunning replaces loss by steering him into a thriving, harmonious business, aided by a fibbing but loyal assistant role for a while, until family ties and ambition reshape their fortunes and Hans becomes a respected Bergermeister.
The poem presents Autumn personified, sorrowful and solitary. It contrasts summer’s songs with autumn’s hush, depicting dwindling life, shifting light, and a mourner’s vigil on a mossy stone. Nature’s bounty fades as winter nears, leaving the world dreary and hushed.
A lengthy account recalls October executions by Austrian court martial including Ernest Kiss and others, with dramatic details of their demise and last messages. Nearby, a New York Journal of Commerce piece describes a race between the steamboat Oregon on the Hudson and a train of the Hudson River Railroad, highlighting steam power versus rail progress and a sample passenger view. An Act amending fugitives from justice outlines commissioner appointments and enforcement duties across states and territories to reclaim fugitive labor.
The Chillicothe Gazette notes Congress, in the last three weeks, did real work but adjourned without passing key measures. It highlights bills to modify the tariff, improve rivers and harbors by the General Government, and cut postage rates with newspaper transmission within counties or up to thirty miles. A week more might have settled these items. The paper urges the next session to address this unfinished business.
Discussion urges a December start for new measures including a possible grant of public lands for a Cincinnati to St. Louis railway with business backing. Notes on Taylor administration appointments and removals, plus a Southern press report about a postmaster halting delivery of incendiary publications to National Era subscribers.
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