Opening of Congress in the 1855 session in Washington
Despatches detail crowded Capitol galleries and failed Speaker ballots as Richardson, Campbell, Banks and Fuller vie for the chair. Kansas conflicts unfold with militia calls, while rail project finance and Prohibition cases stir Ohio Mississippi lines and liquor law debates.
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Marshal
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Humphrey Marshall
Scattering
Marshall
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Supreme Court
Indianapolis
Sureme
Friends of Prohibition
Death of Greek Patriarch of Alexandria Procession
The Greek Patriarch of Alexandria died on the Istult. His body seated on a throne with a jewelled mitre was conveyed to the Latin church in a solemn procession. Consuls attended in full dress and Egyptian soldiers led with music and drums. Crowds gathered to kiss the hands and parts of the attire.
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Corious Funstar Cenemoni
Alexandria
Fort Leavenworth snapshot shows rising town amid prices
A St Louis Intelligencer correspondent reports Fort Leavenworth with broad merchandise supplies and flour import prices around five dollars per sack, wages from two to three dollars daily, and white pine and green plank costs. The town grows rapidly, has many attorneys and saloons, leans pro slavery though voting for a Free State mayor, and features Free State conventions and debate over McRea trial.
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Ree
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Ness
W.r. Squire & CO
Postage prepayment by stamps urged nationwide
Postmasters are directed to supply postage stamps for prepaid letters where writers did not affix stamps. The rule, stemming from a March 1853 act, takes effect January 1, 1850 and aims to ease stamp availability for users. Also notes gold shipments from Europe aiding bread purchases and reports Memphis fire destroying steamers Collier and Mayflower.
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Washington Union
Gotp
Europe
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Liverpool
New York
Manchester
Rothschild
Constantinople
Native Iron Found in Liperia Prompts Colonization Hopes
The article notes native malleable iron in Liperia Liberis as a potential resource for Africa’s colonization efforts. Its value hinges on quantity, melting ease, and transport costs, with European and American standards cited for purity. A Washington market anecdote describes a chicken swallowing a gold dollar, prompting the retail buyer to select the largest chicken to seek a golden egg.
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West India
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Frankfort
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Liperia
Europe
America
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Washington, D.C
Emigration From Virginia To Kansas Frontier
The Frontier News reports Dr Summers of Virginia travels to Kansas with several gentlemen to locate a settlement for about one thousand emigrants from Eastern Virginia this season. Sixty Richmond families, thirty from Staunton, fifty from Rappahannock, and others from nearby areas plan to move. Large emigration from Western Virginia expected next spring. Lecompton land sales rise as about three hundred buildings are planned within a year.
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Frontier News
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Rappahannock
Lecompton
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