Company declines to profit from donation during crisis
W H Watson president of the company advised the fund not be opened and the directors supported the decision with three cheers. The act honors the donor and the company for refusing to take money that might create excitement at a tense time. The Baltimore Sun notes the transaction as honorable to all involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Watson
Elgis
Energys 3
Mason
Orcuit
Baltimore Sun
Rum shops and a deadly tale from Sabbath School
A reader recalls a Sunday afternoon encounter with a girl carrying a rum jug on the street and reflects on the liquor trade driving family violence, urging moral action to curb the evil. The page also reports a remarkable facial reconstruction by Dr Blackman and outlines the Atlantic Basin project at South Brooklyn with new docks, stone stores, and a protected harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Freeman
Atlantic Basin
Brooklyn
Governor’s Island
Fulton Ferry
Governors’s Island
City Census Records Faithful Spread in New York
The report lists 47 foreign consuls, 32 banks with 27,480,600 capital, 71 insurance firms including 18 marine and 47 fire insurers with combined 20,597,034, six life and trust firms totaling 8,000,000, 193 churches with denominations including African Baptist Congregational Dutch Reformed Friends Jewish Lutheran Methodist Episcopal and more, 201 ministers, 10 church connected schools, 39 moral societies, 46 periodicals, 63 newspapers and 98 packet lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Capital
Baptist
Congregational
Dutch Reformed
Friends
Jewish
Lutheran
Methodist Episcopal
Associate Methodist Protestant
Presbyterian
Reformed Presbyterian
Associate Reformed Presbyterian
Associate Presbyterian
Protestant Episcopal
Roman Catholic
Unitarian
Universalists
Welch
Miscellaneous
Tribune
Nauvoo City Boom Details Mormon Stronghold
The Nauvoo settlement grows rapidly with about one thousand houses and prominent structures. The Nauvoo House hotel fronts two streets. Joseph Smith resided there. The Nauvoo temple will be 130 by 100 feet with a basement baptistery. The Nauvoo Legion numbers 2000 to 3000, and a university with multiple professors exists. Population nears seven thousand inside the city, plus English and nearby fraternity members. The city includes a mayor, four wards, and local officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nauvoo House
Joe Smith
Nauvoo Temple
Nauvoo
England
Desperate Texan Stand Near Pinto Trace
Intelligence from Texas recounts Col. Hays with fourteen men defeating about seventy five Camanche and Waco Indians near Pinto Trace. Mexicans aided the Indians. Horseback combat grew into a hand to hand fifteen minute battle with repeated Indian charges and Texian defense using rifles and pistols. Chief mortally wounded, twenty three Indians slain and many wounded. remnant scattered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Pinto Trace
Bexar
Gonzales
Austin
Col
Hays
Battle casualties among Col. Hays' men in ambush
The account notes several fatalities and injuries after an attack on Col. Hays' unit. Peter Fox was shot through the head and killed instantly. R. A. Gillespie and Samuel Walker were wounded with lances and listed as dangerously wounded. A Mr. W. is believed mortally wounded. He was among the Mier prisoners who escaped at Tacubaya last year near Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newburgh
Blackman
Purdy
Bloomingdale
Sullivan County
Col. Hays
Peter Fox
R. A. Gillespie
Samuel Walker
Mier
Tacubaya
Mexico
Miscellaneous items reveal trade updates and varied notes
The notice lists Yankee steamship ice supply from New England to Liverpool and London hotels, the Delano engagement for Custard line steamers, and growth in trade. It reports piracy expulsions in Persia, Spain’s seven ministries, and Pennsylvania tolls at $597,706.69 with yearly increases. It also covers a fatal rifle accident in Pittsford, gambling losses in Pittsburg, aging apple trees, and various industrial notes.
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Liverpool
London
New England
Delano
Boston
New York
Delatic
Persia
Spain
Pennsylvania
Silas R. How
Detroit
Pittsford
E. Poultney
Silas
Pittsburg
Cumberland
St. Louis
Peak’s Island
Portland Harbor
Plymouth County
Massachusetts
Alexandria
Red River
Joshua Willis
Troup County
Willis
Columbus Enquirer
U.S
Fort Leavenworth
Platte
Arkansas Intelligencer
Government of the
United States
City of
Bank of Commerce
Bank of America, Merchants and American Exchange
Albany
U. S. Treasury
Philadelphia Mercury
Washington
Treasury Department
Nauvoo
Richards
Berkshire County
Harvard University
King of Saxony
Knole Park
Lord Amherst
Augusta Market Cotton and Goods Report
The market held firm with prices 4.75 to 7.75 cents and limited new cotton offerings. Two bales arrived on the 30th from J Harris Burke and James Gardner Columbia plantations. Bagging demand rises as growers build supply, while groceries show no improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Harris
Burke
James Gardner
Columbia County
Payment list of several merchants to 1845 1864
A historical ledger style record lists payments to various individuals and firms through dates in 1844 and 1845. Names include the Washingtonian Augusta Crump Jinkins Dodge & Co Mrs J Danforth D L Mims Macon Williford Social Circle Graves Anderson Gibson and W. Gibson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washingtonian
Augusta
G. H. Crump
John Jinkins
Dodge & Co
J. Danforth
D. L. Mims
Macon
W. S. Williford
G. W. Graves
Anderson C. H
S. C
W. Gibson
A Logical View of the Tests Timonies to Christianity
E Starnes presents a work prepared for the Franklin Literary Society of this city. The pamphlet, titled A Logical View of the Tests Timonies to Christianity, is now published and for sale at this office. Price 37 1/2 cents. August 3, 1844.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Starnes
Franklin Literary Society
Exchange table shows coin price shifts on speculative basis
The snippet notes specie prices with a 4 to 3 and 25 to 12 percent breakdown. It mentions a broken 12 percent discrepancy and unsettled exchange values, reflecting a volatile market tone without full context.
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Mormon City
France
Egypt
WM. .Halnes, Jr
S. W. Bush
Beebo
Broad Street
Old Bridge Bank
W. Rush
Dunham & Bleakley
Apensy
Haviland, Risley, & Co
OOK
Macintosh Street
Washingtonian Printing Office
WM. Haines, Jr
Garvin & Haines
WM. Haines
Broadstreet
Dr. M. Antony
Pees Istry
Wm.h. Pritchard
UBDY
North Carolina
Cuba
Porto Rico
Java
Tallow
Georgia
Fiorr
Canal
Baltimore
Gunpower
Dupont
FFF
Buon Fee
Russia
Asses
N. Orleans
Avana
Tanners of
Oats
Malaga
Uscatel
New Orleans
Havana
St. Croix
Snor
Toracco
N. Carolina
Virginia
Hyson Souchong
Ens
Accusta Nores
Mechanics’ Bank
Brunswick Bank
Bank of
Augusta Insurance & Banking Co
Georgia’ Rail Road
State of Georgia
Savanna Nores
Socia
Tee
State Bank , Marine and Fire Insurance Bank Planters
Ee. Oeer Central Rail Road Bank
State Bank
State Bank Commercial Bank
Maconseeade
Milledgeville Bank
Georgia Rail Road Bank
Ruckersville Bank
Marine & Fire Insurance Bank
St. Mary’s Bank
Central Bank
Exchange Bank of Britnewichie
Insurance Bank of Columbus
Phenix Bank
Columbus
Roke
Bank of Bankinsille
Abe
Milledgeville
Sacna
Monroe
Rail Road Bank
City Council of
Bank of Darien and Bradchess
Chattahoochie R. R
Banking
Western Bank of Georgia S
Ban of Columbus
Teees Planters & Mechanics Bank Cétunbuga Bank of
Ocmulgee
Curesks
New York Light
Joston
Eure
Lexington
Richmond
Savanpiah
Charles Rleston
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