Planter's Heel voyage through flood strewn plains to Tallahassee
Editorial letter recounts a flooded 15 mile river crossing from Quincy to Tallahassee on March 11 1859. The writer describes Dutch the boatman, a weary voyage in rain and mud, crossing the Okaloknee river, and notes piney woods, red clay soil, and local farms. Also comments on post office bill politics and Southern Georgia land prospects along the Main Trunk Railroad.
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TaLanasses
Fla
Land of Flowers
Quincy
Providence
Quincy House
Okoloknee River
Dyan
Tallahassee
Georgia
Errror
Everglades
Chattahoochee
Okeefenokee
Middle Georgia
Europe
Atlanta
South Georgia
Blythe Island
Sam
Brooks and Lowndes
Hawkinsville
Florida Line
Early prospects for crops and regional notes
Report notes six to eight inch high crops in places with early plowing and favorable frost. Western Texas fields show uneven planting and soil work, while eastern counties anticipate abundant, early yields. Also covered are deaths, political dispatches, anti free negro legislation in Arkansas, a Chinese Jewish colony, a New York church collapse, and various economic and civic items.
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Texas
Stand as an Anvil and the Baltimore Disaster
Poem excerpt ends with an account of a maritime collision near Charleston where the steamer Baltimore sinks after hitting the Patapsco. Reports mention the infant rescued with a life preserver, and sensational papers run images misattributing portraits of public figures including Mrs Sickles Mr Sickles Mr Butterworth and Mr Key.
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New Orleans
Mr. Peniston
Sensation
N. York Sunday
Illustrated
Piccolomini
Sickles
Jenny Lind
Butterworth
Market and maritime notices from Charleston to New York
Charleston market remains quiet and firm with 300 sales. Lord Lyons aboard the British frigate Curacao arrives in New York. The brig Samuel Francis from New Orleans loses deck in a gale. death by own action reported in New York. Savannah cotton sales total 720 bales with gains. Charleston 600 bales unchanged. New York cotton 2,000 bales firm. Flour and wheat advance. corn firm. spirits of turpentine and rosin firm. rice steady.
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Beale
Ohio
China
Kai-fung-fao
England
New York
First Catholic Church
Washington
Philadelphia North American
Georgia
Toombs
Chicago
Ill
M. Chevalier
United States
Connecticut
Charleston
Columbia
Savannah
Augusta
Atlanta
Macon
Columbus
Montgomery
Selma
Mobile
New Orleans
J. Darby
Auburn
Ala
Haviland, Chichester & CO
N. B
Darby
W. H. Salisbury & CO
Samuel Francis
Norfotx
Brown
Cuarneston
Southern
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Cock Robin
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Union
House of Representatives
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Toomis
Brony Patterson
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Boston
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Mississippi
Lousiana
Edinburg Review
British Museum
Imperial Library of
Paris
Gonzales Inquirer
Col
Joseph Bond
Albany
Lucius Brown
Jerry Beall
George Walker
Sellers
Col. Bond
Mecon State Press
Miramon
Vera Cruz
The
Picayune
Vidaurri
Mexico
Oaxaca
Tehuantepec
Arkansas Free Necro Bri
Little Rock Gazette
Arkansas
Boston Herald
Bishop Doane
Baltimore
Havana
Patapsco
Cromwell Line
Old Dominion
W. H.salisbury & CO
Broad St
Broad Street
Rhodes
South
Agricultural Societies of
South Carolina
Virginia
Maryland Institute
Clar Preston
J. A. Ansley & CO
Dan'l H. Wilcox
N. O
Dan’l H. Wilcox
Horano
Birrers
Pieter de Wirtz
Holland Town
Sheboygan County
Wisconsin
J. Quintus
Sheboygan
Sap
J. D. H. Carwine
A. M
Universalist
Kentucky
Jackson and
Greene Streets
Ae i Clerk Council
Sam’s H. Crump
Marle T
Barnwell Sentinel
E. A. Bronson
A. P. Bignon
M. Newby & CO
Bai QO Doz
Marseilles
J. M. Newby & CO
Daily State Register
DreGersts
Dean Ers
New York Journal
Banner
Firyette, Mo
Drargrs
CosTarR’s
Broadway N.Y. P
Anilhony D. Hill
Spears & Hight
Philadelphia
Georgia Railroad
Hamburg
Interior
J. W. Tarver
H. F. Russell
John V. Tarver
Thomson
Thomsons
W. 8
C. H. Thomson
Broadway
Eblsts
Archer's Stables
Dr. O’mills
BUTT
Morris & C
ACON
P. Stovall & CO
Mcintos!i
Reynolds
General Commission
M. W. Woodruff
Chalmers Gallery of Fine Arts
HonesDale Co
Penn
Sern W. Fowte
Betsey Perri
A. Strong
Honesdale
Seru W. Fowrn & Co
Washington-street
Heston
Wood
Boston Waverly Magazine
Professor Wood
Canada
Hein Aavertisenens
Mar Javing
Fumale
Ge Augusta
Sophmo Pius
Archiicogee
Bilis
J. Lin
J.T. Lin
Andrew Young
Th “ Wedty R. J. Bowe & Co, Wholesale Commission Merchants
R. J. Bowe & CO
Baldwin
Rockland
Lincolnville
Rosendale Cement
Kh. J. Bowe & CO
Mari
Prs
R. J. Bowe & C
W.H Salisbury
Jones & Co
W. H. Salisbury
W H SalisBury & Hydrant
W.H. Salisbury & Cos
DeKalb Range
Telegraph
Lord Lyons
Curocoa
Louis Bene
John G. Clark
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