Portage City press convention notes and oddities
A letter from Ripon, April 1853, describes a visit to Portage City for an Editors Convention at Pettibone’s Hall with figures like M. M. Pomeroy and Harrison Reed. The account covers hospitality at Mr Pratt’s, a formal printers’ gathering forming a Wisconsin Editors and Publishers Association, and a tragic note about J. Bird found shot nearby. It closes with a royal dog anecdote about Queen Victoria receiving a Pennsylvanian doe named Prince.
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MW. M. Pomeroy
Peitibone
Pratt
Portage City
Portage
Portage Hill
Popendyrhys Park
Potter
Price
Perry
Pettibone
The
Presa
M. M. Pomeroy
Dary Carpenter
Patriots
Wisconsin
Harrison Reed
Hoyt
Pratie Farmery
Rubbe
Tournal
Horteon
Pumper
Victoria
Pennsylvania
Prince
Tebins
Biuy
Baraboo Republic Isubdavery Thorelay at Barsono Balk Cowie
The Baraboo Republic is advertised as the official county paper with broad circulation. It promotes town and county news, general miscellany, and subscription rates with various payment options and ad invitations for readers to join a cooperative club.
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Baraboo
Isubdavery Thorelay
Bar Sono Balk
COWIE
Statn Jornal
North- Wretor
General Mcalligence
Priney Current
Lealavortting
Feoke
Foshyk
Balet Family
Acquittal of Bunyan Stuns Paris Amid Global News
English jury clears Bunyan, alleged accomplice of Orsini, sparking Parisian sensation as India rebellion latest. Kansas clashes between Free State men and U S Dragoon guards. Nor cannaval progress and canal news mix with politics. Legislative sessions, KanConstitution debate, and Lecompton ties update. Market dullness flags New York Produce and local prices. Iron mail steamers bill advances in Congress.
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Bunyan
Orsini
Louis Navonzox
Paris
India
Kansas
U. S
Free State
Senate
St. Clair Flats
Lemonworth
Sentinel of
UW. 8
Utah
Welland Canal
New York
Oswego
Cuarrs Iy
Free Democrat
State Agricultural Society
Janesville
Congress
P. M. General
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Liverpool
Old Buck Resurrected and Political Roars
A fragment from Daily Wisconsin rails at Lecompton politics and Buchanan era figures. It mocks Mr Brenaxay and Mr English for bribery and dishonor while praising King’s English and evangelical preacher Taropory Mangerenya. The piece laments changes in newspaper frequency and asks for six weekly copies.
Question of Loyalty and Temperance Debates Rise
The Appleton Chequent attacks a newly formed State Temperance Society for allowing medicinal liquor use, while The Crescent defends liberal Total Abstinence. The piece also notes editor clashes between the Berlin Courant and Fox Lake Gazette, plus commentary on Lecompton politics and rumors of a mythical Iowa lake.
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Appleton Chequent
The
Crescent
State Temperance Society
Iby
Lecompton
P.O
Senator Kingston Described by Chalk Marks in Madison Argus
A Madison Argus writer under Chalk Marks portrays Senator Kingston of the 5th district as tall, dark complexioned, with iron nerves and a hunter by trade who supposedly jumps logs in the woods and sometimes aligns with the Rapabhay party. Pencil Marks counters misrepresentations about Kingston and defends Senator Rixastow as an honest, upright, and loyal politician with possible prejudices.
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Senator Kingston
Madison
Senate
Kingston
Rixastow
Various scattered 19th century notes on world events
A mosaic of brief items notes copper shipments to Augusta Ga pricing. a powder mill in Platteville. Odile Sand convent news. Yuma territory proposal. Benton's 30 Years View sales. snow in New Hampshire. Dedham May tree plans. Thirlowweer editor return. silver coin circulation. Mississippi levee salt threat. Pennsylvania legislature acts. Sprivefield paper on thieves. Mediterranean excursion abandonment. Bremen shipment. Leopold Lathrop death. Fort Snelling politics. Iowa gold mine rumors. first steam press in London. Beechers church observations. US publishing growth. lifeboats and lighthouses. Leavenworth census. Chicago hats to England. Buffalo artiller y seam. Kansas Freemen canvass. Wisconsin paper revival. artesian well depth. chess match invitation decline. Brighton oratory. Dupont coal wells.
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Ontonsgon
Mygusta
Platteville
Grant Co
George Sand
Mount Carroll Republican
Carroll Co
Yuma
Utah
Benton
New Hampshire
Dedhans
Mass
Albany
New York
Mississippi
New Orleans
Pennsylvania
Sprivefield
Lforse Thieves
Gerecte
Mediterranean
Bremen
Madison
Leopold Lathrop
Lathrop
The
State University
Fort Snelling
Secretary of War
London
Dee
Dalf Green
Lecompton
Henry Ward Beecher
United States
Atlantic
Leavenworth City
Chicago
England
Wright
Gould
Buffalo
Walker
Kansas
Buchman
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Post Offices and Postmasters Discrepancies
Statistics from Wisconsin show 748 post offices with total revenues of 96 773 03 and postmaster receipts of 373 710 for July 1856 to June 30 1857. Notable discrepancies in towns like Portage City and Sheboygan raise questions about why postmaster pay and returns diverge across the state.
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Wisconsin
Itha
Portage City
Sheboygan
Portnze
Superior
Menasha
Beaver Dam
la Crosse
Democrat
Destructive Wisconsin River Flood Damages City Bridges
A major rise on the Wisconsin River swept through the canal area at Wisconsin and DeWitt streets, undermining bridges and washing away the railroad bridge. Shanties along the riverbank disappeared and portions of the First Ward were submerged. Water spilled through the canal bank into the Fox River, likely causing further damage. The railroad maintains service with trains run to and from the canal, and officials hope the railroad will erect a permanent drawbridge.
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Wisconsin
DeWitt Sts
First Ward
Craig
Rey
The Mormons and the Echo Canyon Threats
Freder ick Loba reports from Salt Lake City on Mormon strength and plans. He estimates 32,000 valley population with 7,500 potential fighters and 4,500 capable soldiers, most without serviceable firearms, and dismisses fortified Echo Canyon as mere ditches and rocks. He argues Brigham Young relies on bluster to deter the U.S. He also recounts a mass escape from frontier wagons and white children saved from Utah snow, per Ravares.
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Frederick Loba
Leavenworth
Salt Lake City
D&c
Toba
Echo Canon
Vom Af Gon
Jobnstoi
Brigiean Young
United States
Brigham Ftuds
Frederick Boba
Reparss
Mwe
Passage of the Kansas Bill in Congress
The Kansas bill passed the House by a narrow majority in a grueling, protracted contest. It adopts the Confer ence Committee plan offering Kansans admission as a slave state under the Lecompton Constitution with three million dollars in land and money, or none until population reaches 100,000. Critics denounce the measure as hypocrisy by Buchanan’s administration and Northern Doughfaces, while the outcome and Kansas reaction remain uncertain.
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Portage Badger
Lecompton
Kansas
St A
House
Senate
Dix Tarcar
Kane
Washington
Congress
House of Representatives
Conference Committee
Kansan
James Buchanan
Kansas Admission Test Faces Slave State Rule
The article argues that Kansas cannot join the Union now unless as a slave state, a test applied by the Democratic party. It notes this as a new but natural standard for the party in its current condition and urges remembrance of the point.
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Scaveny
Wauthyr
Kansas
Dan
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