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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 25, 1854

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Boots Shoes and Brogans Auction Notices

Multiple consignments of boots, shoes, and brogans listed with sale dates from January to March at office and store locations Include cash advances on consignments and a private sale with a broad assortment of skins and related goods Premiums offered with liberal cash advances on goods for public or private sale

United States Marshals United States of America Massachusetts Boston District Court of the United States Edward F Hall Kilby Street Watson Freeman U. S B-W Capen

Boots Shoes and Brogans Sale Notices

A chaotic notice lists multiple Wednesday sale dates in January February and March for boots shoes and brogans. It mentions office location Townsend Mallard Cowing and after sale times. The ad highlights large case counts 1000 1600 and a general assortment plus leather and skins and cash advances on consignments.

Townsend, Mallard & Cowing HAN Cases Townsend, Mallard & Cowiing New York Baltimore

Boots Shoes and Brogans Private Sale Adverts Mix

Multiple 19th century advertisements detail private sale events for boots shoes and brogans. Listings include managerial agents Ty & L Kimball & Robinson and Tyler & Wild, store addresses in Hanover Street and Pear Street, large stock counts such as 500 cages and 200 patent leather sides, and mentions of liberal cash advances on consignments and on leather goods. Also includes stock listings for railroads and companies.

Subi New York Philadelphia TY & L Capen Boston

Marine Journal Port of Boston Arrivals and Clearances

Port of Boston list of arrivals including brig Gilmore Eldridge from Baltimore and schooners Schary from St John NB Sch Saxe Gotha from Prince Edward Island and Melville from Philadelphia along with several other vessels. Cleared ships include John M Wood Eutaw York Calcutta and a series of brigs and steamers with destinations to Cape Haytien Cardenas Matanzas New Orleans and Boston among others. Continuous entries show vessel names masters and ports with Coastwise and steamship movements in a dense maritime ledger.

M&sc Gilmore Eldridge Baltimore Schary Groton Smith St John Saxe Gotha Webster Prince Edward Island Melville McGregor Philadelphia Roanoke Collins Ellsworth Rantoul Herrick Cherryfield Flyaway Hildreth Albany Portland Citizen Brown New York Belfast Almira Ann Davis Calais John M Wood Choate Calcutta Charles G Thayer Homer Sprague Fearless Adams Jacmel Wim Field & Co Coastirise John W Schenck City of Baker Soule & Co Sea Duck Briard New Orleans J H Rivers Celestina Chas Siders & Co Caroline Cook Jacksonville Figlio Trieste Edgar P Stringer Thompson Antwerp Fillmore Nelson London Sarah Frye Glasgow Alliance Tinkham Charleston Barks Magda Valparaiso Victory Merton St Thomas Lyra Bemis Havana Saranac Bigley Pario Young Guayama Cuidad Bolivar Cronstadt Prescott Boston Gah Townsend Hutchison Gambia Sierra Leone Bermuda Crimea Knoxville Savannah Jas Adger Robt Peel Gifford Kathadin Eustis Hemisphere Harris Key West Tahiti Bucknam Eastport J Nickerson Nickerson Icis Plover M’kenazie Racged Island Dailey Newburyport ZA Paine Saddler Clara Jane Gray Calaisais Crowell Providence Tonawondo Liverpool Isaac R Davis Hand Brandywine Cormack Rio Grande Emily Banning Wilmington Del West Indies May Queen Thomas Allibone Malvern Georgiana Reynolds Denmark Hamblin Caribbean Sea Keene Inagua Palermo Peterson China Hannah Grant Howard S P Lord Edward Everett Loveland Detman Bremen Cygnet Cornwallis Sonora Huffington San Blas James Donnell Lank J P Johnson Brooks Pilgrim Robinson John Currier Batman Broark Pugdona Arkle Isabel Hawena Clinton Emily Hilliard Partridge St Jago Savannah Ellen McGarry Esex Munro Kate Brigham Dunham Poeahontas Buckley Brunswick Jackson Ville Timothy Crosby Harding Braganza Bryant Sarah Bernice Sawyer Emeline Farnham Schs Lane Harlow Ldth Samuel Welsh Burnet OW Parshiey Gibbs Clara Ellen Blanchard Surinam Koloa Rumbull Martha Anna Petrea Osborn Golden Cloud Conant Cardenas Cuba Evans Rio Janeiro Mobile Kitty Cordes Hanna Alice White Eliza Jane Corpus Christi Jas Guthrie Europe Ldg Adelaide Bell Virginia & Estellina Wm H Chandler Sebots Grampus R Russell H A Stephenson Harriet Lewis Tioga St Jago Galveston Godfrey Parker

Ships and missing vessel reports from the Atlantic trade

A long shipping column lists arrivals and departures at New Orleans Rochelle and Nantasket with brig Arvede, bark Mary Smith, and numerous schooners and brigs proceeding to and from Boston New York and Philadelphia. Missing Wessex Sir Moses Brown sailed Philadelphia Nov 30 and seen off Fire Island March 3 believed lost in a SE gale. owner native of South Dennis.

Wessex Moses Brown Dennis Watson F Baker Philadelphia Boston Fire Island Capt Baker South Dennis Almeida New York Apalachicola Matanilla Reef Townsend Para Northampton Bath Antwerp Orinoco River Baltimore Tuscan Allen Port Medway Peak Ledge Cape Sable Charleston Nassa Sunny Side Bahama Banks Riding Rocks Orange Key Calvin Adams Europe Adrian Savannah Hunter Leghorn Bermuda Norfolk Loretto Inagua New Orleans Macara Reef Neuvitas Sutton Gustavus Percival Salinas Sh S H Townsend Marine Arsenal Sich Sch Planter Richmond Marblehead

Maritime Ship Lists From Various Ports and Voyages

A long extract lists numerous vessels including barks shins brigs and ships with origins such as Antwerp London Boston Liverpool Newport Providence and Havana. It records arrivals departures cargoes routes and destinations with notes on incidents and sightings across Baltimore Norfolk Charleston Savannah and Galveston among others.

Boston Market Commercial summarize December 23 pricing

Commercial report from Boston Market notes flour firm with prices steady and small Western and fancy sales around 9 1/2 to 10 dollars per barrel. Grain markets show corn at 1 10 to 1 06 store price, mixed 1 04 to 1 06, white 0 95, oats 60–62 cents, rye at 1 45. Pig iron dull with Gartsherrie at 30 dollars per ton. Molasses Cuba prices ranged 4 74 to 23 cents per gallon. Spices sold mainly in lots with Cassia 27 cents, nutmegs 95 9Se, cloves 14 cents, pepper 11 cents.

Cuba Cassia Ilbany Michigan Dored Upper Lake Central Road Hiskey Philadelphia Baltimore Liverpool New York Boston Mobile Corpus Christ

Shipping cargo and vessels in various hubs

From Merchants' Exchange Books a list shows Fayal with S R Soper loading boxes of oranges, Susan Hall with boxes of oranges and lemons. Bird Island with guano. Aux Caves with Trenton logwood, coffee. Cardenas with Edwin molasses and molas. Savannah with Edward Kidder cotton and rice, Joshua Sears cotton. Prince Edward Island with Saxe Gotha and Elizabeth potatoes. St John New Brunswick with Mary E Smith clapboards lumber shingles.

Mary Ward Kennebunk Nowell New Orleans Ophelia Nason Arvede Ratout Rochelle Mary Smith Fiz Bird Island Carlo Mauran Satford Brilliat Bailey New York Wyandotte Burns Cienfuegos Vineyard Santiago Plymouth Hadley Jacmel Spitfire, Mead, Gonaives Trenton Duxbury Merritt Aux Cayes Edwin Yates Cardenas R Soper Provincetown Nickerson Fayal Susan Hall Killoorn Pee Vulture Perkins Boston Walter Irvin Watkis Wedge Hilton St Kitts Elizabeth Graham Prince Edward Island Langford Dyer Lancaster St Marys Edward Kidder Tyler Savannah Susan Rogers Richmond Helen Long Wabash Neal Tangier J S Higgins Kempt Tangier. Sch JS Oosiete Arctic Burroughs Mary S Hurd Hurd Fredericksburg Isaac Rich Horton Philadelphia Geo J Jones Crowell David Smith Elvira Thompson Mary Anna Gibbs H Atwood Atwood Cape May Bragg Bridgeport Lizzie Load Childe Harold Brbrig Constitution Nantasket Roads Geneva Henry Hall Joshua Sears Cotton Fisher & Co Saxe Gotha Sr. John N.B Mary E Smith J Jenkins

Trade list from Fy Horatio Harris and Co sales notes

A fragmented vendor list notes walnuts lemons raisins Smyrna figs and molasses with varying quantities prices per unit and cash terms. Items include 29 bags walnuts 14 33 percent, 18 0 loose lemons 1 124 cash, 9S boxes Smyrna figs 600 drums, 370 bbis molasses and syrup at 24c for new 20c for old per gallon. By John Tyler.

Horatio Harris & Co John Tyler

Boston Boot and Shoe Market and Shipping Summary

Boston market reports strong New England demand with active week and steady prices for boots shoes and brogans. Exports to California and New York show volumes, while New York dry goods and wool markets soften ahead of January. Freight rates vary by route with cautious activity in grain and tobacco trades and a generally depressed overall shipping scene.

Boston California Australia Pacific New England New York Custom House Coc Ig Dee Ee Canada S&s Buenos Ayres, &c

Wall Street closes Christmas Eve with buoyant outlook

The New York Post reports a cheerful Wall Street on the eve of Christmas with banks showing a large weekly gain and stock markets buoyant. State stocks rose, Erie dull, Hudson River advanced, and Cumberland coal up modestly. Freight earnings for Central and New York and Erie railroads rose twenty five percent. canal receipts fell thirteen. bond markets and money demand remained active with steady exchange conditions in Cincinnati and amended notes at par in New York. A Indiana free banks convention in Indianapolis announced their strong positions and urged public confidence while addressing legislative action.

New York Post Wall Street Huds Central Erie Hudson River Railroad Reading Cumberland Coal Central New York and Erie Railroad Cincinnati Indiana Indianapolis RM Rateeusten Cuit Tek Sbvsekdeeetewe

The Heroes of the Birkenhead Poem

A poem recounts the Birkenhead disaster with a regiment on board. Troops stand firm as women and children are saved while the ship sinks in minutes. Gallant soldiers face death shoulder to shoulder under a drum call and a lurid glare as waves engulf the wreck.

Birkenhead Africa New Haven

New Publications from Major Publishers This Month

J P Jewett & Co issue The Wifes Victory and other Novelettes by Mrs Southworth as a collection of entertaining stories in elegant form from Philadelphia. Crosby Nichols Co release Fanny Gray a pretty moral picture book for little girls. Ticknor Fields publish Christmas and New Years Book by Grace Greenwood, titled Merrie England with travellers tales and historical sketches plus fine engravings.

J.P. Jewett & Co Southworth T. B. Peterson Philadelphia Crosby, Nichols & Co Fanny Gray Ticknor & Fields Grace Greenwood Merrie England

Court adjourns as minor cases heard and public row ends

U S District Court stands adjourned to Monday morning while municipal and police court sessions conclude. In a police court case Susan Moran, described as wretched, was sentenced to two months in the house of industry as a common drunkard. Her husband serves time in the house of correction for the same offence. A child goes to the alms house at Tewksbury. Kilbride arraigned for striking his wife, admitting drunkenness and a heated dispute over a mourning shawl. An officer testified Kilbride threatened further violence. Also, Mosce J Paul, from Lowell, was arrested with stolen bear skin and cat skin robes from Foss's stable.

Rogers Susan Moran House of Industry House of Correction Tewksbury Ann Street Moran Daniel Kilbride Kilbride Mosce J. Paul Lowell Jéane Pratt, Jr Foss Sudbury State Reform School Boston Light Infantry Essex Street W.W. Clapp W. H. Judson Adj Stone A. J. Wright Pulaski Guards Messrs Chase Brothers Miliary Boston City Guard Washington and Winter Streets Boston Theatre Richard Mr Bennett America Milliners Boston Museum New York Warren National Theatre Macbeth Mrs Farren Lady Macbeth Madeline Ditson Maine California Liverpool European Cuba Revere House Philander Ames Commonwealth Mr Ames West Roxbury City Hotel Roxbury Dedham Ephraim Littlefield Parkman Union Coffee Mills Charleston Street Haymarket Square Newspaper Exchange School Street Chester Harding George F. Bemis Christian Register Yankee Blade True Flag J. Otis Williams Old State House Walter Channing Tremont Street George E. Emerson Cornhill Richardson Providence Truxillo Nanta Para Dr Whitmore Whitmore Iurra Herndon Ortes Lonto Ijurra India Peru Brazil Caballo Cincha Hackett Cerro de Pasco Ucayali Nesbit Laguna Amazon Rio Negro Henalinga Lieut Carrey Brother United States Washington Huallaga Turks Island Moyambamba Prof. Agassiz Ecuador Amazon Trading and Navigation Company Ireneo de Souza Nauta Baiaé Pro Dion Tocantins Am. Co Soutarny Cross

Overland Mail Charter Effort and National Notices

Leading St. Louis citizens meet to seek Missouri charter for an overland mail and transport line to California. The discussion covers railroad ties, grain trade figures, New York and Chicago markets, legal cases, religious disputes, labor unrest, and various domestic and foreign affairs of the era.

Overland Stage Line St. Louis Missouri Overland Mail and Transportation Company California Chicago New York Milwaukee Europe St. Petersburg Galatz Ibraila Buffalo Grand Jury New York City Clark Superior Court Woolsey Mobile Alabama Congress

Resolutions in North Carolina House Support Slavery Policy

Subjoined resolutions in the North Carolina House declare federal acts on slavery in territories correct, urge southern unity, condemn northern interference, defend slaveholding rights, praise constitutional compromises, threaten action if fugitive slave laws are weakened, and authorize the governor to convene the assembly if needed.

House of Commons of North Carolina Nebraska Kansas North South United States General Assembly

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