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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 31, 1846

Page

2

Railroads and finance sweep New Hampshire legislature

The piece surveys railroad plans and controversies from Manchester to Boston and mentions a Bath to Augusta route cost, Danvers line debates, Worcester schemes, and the Wareham to Sandwich projects. It notes tax inequalities, stock market steadiness in rail, copper, and elastic securities, and London exchange dynamics as well as a Washington tariff fair plan and broker unrest.

Manchester Boston Cp. Bell N.H Haywood Kennebec Portland Bath Augusta Brunswick Danvers, Lyon and Malden Danvers Salem Salem and Andover Wareham Middleboro Sandwich Duxbury Road Plympton Plymouth Woonsocket Committee No 2 Pettee Hackanam Willimanset Northampton Springfield Greenfield Senate Framingham Winchendon Badwinaville Worcester North Worcester U.S. Scrip Lowell Eastern Newburyport Old Colony Duxbury Cheshire Rutland Central Winnipissiogee Lake Somersworth France Coney’s South Concord N. H London New York Sterling Exchange England Paris Washington

Restoration and Reform Ticket urged in Rhode Island text

A Rhode Island statement urges Democrats to back the restoration and reform ticket to restore Dorr to civil rights and Rhode Island to orderly government. It warns that abstaining strengthens the law and order party and invites universal Democratic support for the ticket.

Rhode Island Dorr Law and Order Algerine Party Tlaw and Order Bourbons Thomas W. Dorr Reeall Democratic and Suffrage Charles Jackson Law Lorder Restoration and Reform Ticket

Massachusetts Senate and House actions on railroads and canals

Massachusetts legislature reports bills to incorporate the Newburyport and Boston Steamboat Co and the Chelsea Branch Railroad Co, and to extend wharves in Boston. Resolutions discuss harbor surveys, tax refunds for Millbury Bank, and a bridge project on the Cape Cod Branch Railroad. Debates cover tariff support, oaths for railroad commissioners, and planning for Boston water supply. Addenda include Texas packet notes and local legislative adjournments.

Senate Thomas B. Newhall Eastern Railroad Lynn Newburyport and Boston Steamboat Co New Bedford Conant Manufacturing Co George Parkman Robert G Eliza W. Shaw Ward Jackson Boston Millbury Bank Willard Phillips John G. Rogers Samuel B. Wolcott Chelsea Branch Railroad Co Chelsea Boston and Maine Maiden Adj S. D. Robbins House Wim Kenrick Pilgrim Congregational Society Cape Cod Mears Werfes Harwich Ryder Dartmouth Byington Stockbridge Bryant Barre Clarke Sherburne Gridley Amherst Holmes Fall River Whitney Stow Sargent Cambridge Doane Cohasset Art Hopkins Northampton Congress Massachusetts Stevens Andover Steven Baker Joseph Foster David Wilder E. H. B. Ruggles J. M. Forbes J. M. Forbes. Orders Adapted—On Motion of Mr Crowninshield Committee On the Judiciary Platner Lee Western Middle District Wilson Natick Messrs Brown Braintree Parsons Sandisfield

Pickpocket's Sleight of Hand At Salem Depot

On Saturday a deft professor of sleight of hand lifted a gold watch from Sheriff Sprague at the Salem railroad depot while five prisoners were in his charge. A nearby stranger was seized. accomplices vanished. The pickpocket, named John Collins of Boston, was examined, jailed in Leverett Street, and in default of $500 bail, awaits the next common pleas court.

Sprague Salem John Collins Boston Hanover Street Collins Leverett Street Court of Common Pleas Common Pleas Aaron J. Phillips Washington Street Earl W. Johnson Commercial Street Gardner Chilson Bulfinch Street Solomon B. Morse Copp’s Hill Joseph Gass M. L. Gates George Redding Howard Street Ephraim Willey Atwill Richardson F. & N. Jones Caleb Eddy Fleet Street John Clark Louisburg Square Charles Thompson John Masterson Amos Stevens Jonathan Ellis Pine Street Elisha Howes Broadway Dorchester I Streets K. P Saunders Kneeland Beach Street Prescott Dickinson Isaac Bradford Suffolk Warren A. Hersey Pearl Street William Carey Second Street I Macomber Sea Street T. P. Briggs Mount Vernon St D. Glidden William Jepson Jesse Farmer Kingston Beach Streets Boylston Street Webber & Son Northampton Street Robert J. Byram Suffolk Street Wall Street Committee On Public Lands John Brown Fleet and Ann Streets Lincoln Street

Ship and court notes from the era in brief

The report covers congressional activity on March 28 with a widow’s land claim rejected, relief bill for Col Grayson’s heirs denied, and House committee focus. Maritime items note river levels near Wheeling, a Pittsburgh waterfall, and a Dominican fleet return voyage. A Baltimore tailor is accused of poisoning his wife, and U S frigate Raritan arrives at Pensacola with a convoy bound for Vera Cruz. Also mentioned is a seduction case with a monetary demand and scandalous details.

Congress Senate House Mary Ann Brummer U.S Raritan Pensacola Rio Janeiro River la Platte Rousseau Columbia Saratoga Plymouth Bainbridge Vera Cruz Conner United States United States of America Boston PeLee Spracue District Court of the Medora Court House Isaac QO. Barnes

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Wreck and ship news from Nassau Harbor notices

Bark Chatham arriving from Palermo and Gibraltar reports debris from a large wreck and pine planks likely two months afloat. Brig Monument from Portland to Havana was lost near Nassau around March 12 with crew saved. Ship Loudon heading to New Orleans arrived at Nassau leaky before the 16th.

Chatham New York Palermo Gibraltar Monument Vining Portland Havana Nassau Loudon New Orleans Nasssau Coriolanus Haile N York Platina Woodward St Cloud Rowland Philadelphia Nautilus Fessenden Boston Lewis Bearse Just Ar Uness Latham Sierra Leone Jane Velasco Tew Rio Pongos Bounty Wallace Wilmington Carpenter Gaylord Charleston City of St Doningo Janet York Kingston Taranto Arnold Maracaibo Harp. 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