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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 01, 1854

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BOOTS SHOES AND BROGANS AUCTION ADVERTISED SALE

A long listing advertises multiple public and private sales of boots shoes and brogans with dates May 10 June 2 July 5 and July 22 across various offices. It offers cash advances on consignments and notes a general stock including New York sole leather calfskins and other leather goods. TY. C WEBBL AUCTIONER promotes catalogues and samples with private sale options and auction pricing.

New York Philadelphia Capen Boston Wales Tucker Pearl Street Ac N. B—W. Tr Moorclock Ucases Baltimore K.& KR Miho Rockland Dundee

Auction notices mix in Massachusetts villa and mill estate sale

Volume XLIYV includes notices of a public auction of real estate and machinery in Holderness New Hampshire, a Boston area West Roxbury estate sale, Newtonville estate sale, Malden land with mortgage release, and East Boston planing mill with wharf potential. Also items for sale in Charlestown and private carriage inventory.

James Briggs John Andrews Noah Cate Holderness Grafton Briggs and Andrews Johnson, Sewall & Co Boston Joseph Ela

Local Stocks and Real Estate Advertisements Listed

A long column lists stock and bond offerings from various railroad and manufacturing concerns including Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad Concord Railroad Lawrence Machine Shop Hadley Pails Boston and Lowell Railroad Pasumosto River Railroad Western Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Bank of Commerce Amoskeag Manufacturing Company Merrimack Manufacturing Company Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad Vermont and Canada Railroad Salisbury Manufacturing Boston Water Power Pepperill Manufacturing Boston and Worcester Railroad Bay State Mills Eagle Bank Mercantile Marine Insurance Co Michigan Central Bonds 8 percent 1838 and other securities. Also advertisements for grain flour carpetings blankets and dry goods from Silas Peirce Co SpEare Burke Co Wm B Reynolds Co Parker Wilder Co and others with contact details and street addresses on Federal Street and Pearl Street.

Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad Concord Railrroad Lawrence Machine Shop Hadley Pails Boston and Lowell Railroad Pasumosto River Railroad Western Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Bank of Commerce Amoskeag Manot Merrimack Manut Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad Vermont and Canada Railroad Salisbury Manufacturing Co Boston Water Power Co Pepperti Ogdensburg Railroad Rutland Vermont Central Railroad

Commercial. Freight Rates and Charters Across Global Ports

The New York market notes dull British and Liverpool freights with varied rates. Corn, rosin, lard, and cotton values cited. ship Arct ic salting today. London loads include rosin, bacon, beet, pork. Glasgow and Havre show limited activity. Hamburg, Bremen, Rotterdam tied to tobacco, logwood and rice. San Francisco dull with Kate Hooper chartered for coal and measured goods. Multiple charters listed for Havana Cowes, Buenos Aires, Guadaloupe, Africa coast, St Jago, Matagorda, Lavaca, Jacksonville to New York, and Lisbon sessions.

New York Great Britain Liverpool Arctic London Glasgow Havre Hamburg Bremen Rotterdam San Francisco Kate Hooper Havana Cowes Mediterranean Buenos Ayres Montevideo Africa South Side Cuba St Jago Guadaloupe Norfolk St Kitts Matagorda Lavaca Jacksonville Lisbon

Market report from Matanzas on sugar and molasses pricing

The Matanzas market shows no change in sugar quotations with cucuruches at 44, browns 32 6, yellows 6 7, whites 7 98, muscovadees 45, refining kinds up 3 rs. Molasses holds firm near 2 rs, about 500 hhds offered, mostly from imported brands. Various board prices follow for lumber, nails, lard, rice, beef jerks, and freight costs with exchange at 2 ct discount New York and London 1/2 prem.

Philadelphia Pennsylvania Lehigh N.E London Liverpool West India California New York Providence Boston Cincinnati Ln Bales Farrasses Beha Matanzas Europe Fuold Imoporsons U. States Bayiey & Crave

Harvard master arraigned for manslaughter and cruel punishment

U. S. District Court sessions include Harvard master J Levi J Hotchkiss arraigned on manslaughter and cruel punishment counts for the death of crewman W H Pritchard. Proceedings continue Monday with jury. Other court items list slave-trade charges against brig Glamorgan crew and damages suit Gen F v Southwick v Boston with a $12 verdict.

U. S. District Court Sprague J. Levi J. Hotchkiss Harvard W. H. Pritchard Pritchard H. L. Hallett Stunt U.S R. H. Canatorgdeendant U.S. Commissioner's Court Charles Kehrman Glamorgan John McCormick Mate Januario Antonioo Carmo Jacinto Joze John Randall

Ode to the Crystal Palace Prize Ode

A poem by William Ross Wallace praising peace through labor and invention. It celebrates the Crystal Palace inauguration in New York on May 4 1854 and imagines nations uniting, art and nature elevating humankind, and genius shining in a new era.

Crystal Palace New York William Ross Wallace

New American Novel and Other New Publications Noted

Publications from Phillips, Sampson feature Paul Creyton's Martin Merrivale issued in 17 numbers with Boston setting and vivid characters. Spen cer's The Violet, the Child of the City, a New York life tale, aims to aid orphans and home missions. Gould & Lincoln issue Swe die's Lamp to the Path, Crosby Nichols publishes Christian Examiner for May with noted scholars. C N & Co release Unitarianism pamphlet by W S Andrews opposing Calvinist Unitarianism. Fetridge & Co reprint Blackwood with The Quiet Heart. Mason Brothers publish Havergal's Old Hundred Psalm Tune history with Bishop Wainwright prefatory note.

Boston Martin Merrivale W. V. Spencer Bunce & Brother New York Robert F. Greeley Gould & Lincoln Swe Lie Sweedie Edinburg Crosby, Nichols & Co Messrs G. F. Ellis Frothingham, Hale W.S. Andrews Fetridge & Co Scott & Co Blackwood

Lunatics and sermons stir 19th century debate

A collection of pithy notices and humorous quips on regulation lunacy and public discourse. Reports touch on a quarantine ideal and a pulpit inquiry into a sermon, ending with satirical lines about manners, philanthropy, hemp export, and a notice to quit for Mr Charles Kean at the Princess's.

Nicholas Frome Russia Charles Kean

London Opera and Theatres Roundup of Spring 1859

Mr Smith performs at Drury Lane with smaller concerts while Italian and German opera drop in later May. Henry Russell and Mrs Wal lace receive praise in London. Love the ventriloquist and Tamberlik praised for voice. The Atheneum critiques Cushman Queen Catherine. Keeleys entertain Adelphi audiences.

Mr Smith Drury Lane Henry Russell The Strand Atheneum Haymarket Plandis Buckstone Leicester Square Adelphi Constantinople Lord Bateman Sophia Princess’s Finust Maguerite Molmes Doche Page

Senate approves bills and contemplates supreme court opinion

Amid a busy session the senate orders payroll updates and seeks a supreme court opinion on the Harvard and Amherst college separation. Bills passed to incorporate Nantucket Cordage Co and to enlarge the state house while tax status and funding were debated. The assembly adjourned after prorogation plans were announced.

Senate Fuller House Faulkner Warren Supreme Court Harvard Amherst Colleges Nantucket Cordage Co Kellogg State House Perkins Healy Kimball Committee On General Court Female Education Society Charlesriver Warren Bridges Boston and New York Central Railroad Aspinwall Loud Wilbur Murdock Alvord Messrs Parker Holland and Prince Washburn Boston Judiciary Committee Hoosac Mountains Suffolk County Maiden Medford Gas Light Co Female Medical Education Society Colburn Dedham Adams Marblehead Carlton Leyden Benchley Worcester Longley Belchertown Williams Cooley City of Boston and New York Central Railroad Co Charles River Warren Bridge Geo. W. Livermore Messrs Denton Brown Tolland Secretary of the Commonwealth

Webster Monument Plan Rejected, People Now Speak

The Commonwealth notes opposition to the Webster monument scheme but the Bee argues the people remain ready to honor Webster. It accuses legislators of cowardice or motive and predicts a reckoning day as the public asserts its memory against traitors who defeated the project.

Kellogg Davis Wright Alvord Kimball Senate Commonwealth Lacse Sheriff Warren Webster Jackson Herald N. Y

Prosecution eloquence and a Rochester fraud case

The article lauds Mr Carpenter for his masterly closing in the Ward trial for Butler’s murder and notes Tom Marshall’s theatrical defense. It then reports a Rochester alert about Mrs Templeton pursuing Rev G N Adams, a New Hampshire impostor, who defrauded her and a Norwalk widow, detailing his past counterfeiting, travel, and final whereabouts in Castleton Vermont.

Carpenter Ward Butler Darling Rochester Granite M. E. Church Villaiy Concord Champaign Henniker Emma G. Fempleton Norwalk Bridge New York G. N. Adams Slenniker Stephen Burroughs John Chautuque County Smith Chautauque County New Hampshire Castleton Adams Templeton

President confirms several diplomatic and territorial posts

The President's appointments include Allison W. Babbitt of Iowa as secretary for Utah Territory, Joseph B. Austin as consul at Ciudad Bolivar, Jenkins Ross of Pennsylvania as consul at Palermo replacing Kretschmar, George W. Brandreth of New York as consul at Plymouth, and Ram Juanes Y Patrello a US citizen to serve at Merida and Sisal in Mexico.

Senate Allison W. Babbitt Iowa Territory Utah Joseph B. Austin Ciudad Bolivar Venezuela Jenkins Ross Pennsylvania Ditto Palermo Sicily Julius C. Kretschmar George W. Brandreth New York Plymouth England Ram Juanes Y. Patrello United States Merida Sisal Mexico

Fire destroys St. Pauls church in Baltimore

Firefighters found St. Pauls church consumed by flames on Saturday morning. The building was a total loss estimated at fifty thousand dollars with no insurance. Authorities suspect incendiaries. the church had cost over one hundred thousand dollars originally. News from Louisville reports Nathaniel Wolf insulted Butler scholars, provoking a citizen backlash that egged his home. a court house meeting was convened to condemn Wolf.

Allen Street Michael Tombs McLean Street Thomas Dennie William F. Whitney Suffolk Emmons Raymond Dover Street Pier Ottermans Kidderminster Brussells Bond Wells Darius Stafford Boston George Latimer Thos. Thompson John Jennings Ann Street Staite House of Correction Kendall Pearson Iarriet Stevens Hause of Correction Dennis Devine Cambridge Street Levi Cooper Russell J. John Lina Black Blaneystreet Baltimore St. Paul’s Church Louisville Nathaniel Wolf Matt Ward Butler Court House Wolf

Attacks on President and Cabinet Spurs Press Debate

A Mobile Register excerpt criticizes the New York Herald for aggressive vitriol against the President and his aides. It cites alleged manipulation of Congress, calls for public rebuke of the paper, and defends national institutions against what it terms unpatriotic calumny.

New York Tribune The New York Herald United States Caliban Bennett Congress Herald Tribune Truth Mobile Register Pantaloon Richmond Enquirer Washington Breckenridge Pierce N. Y. Herald Houses

Austrians Enter Servia Following Russia Violation

The border region between Turkey and Austria holds strong interest as Austrians enter Servia after Russia breaches its neutrality. Servians seek independence not submission to Austria Russia or the Porte. Serbians have long fought for religious freedom and national liberty amid oppressors and shifting powers.

Arabia Servia Russia Turkey Austria Porte

Clarinden States Protocol Keeps Austria in War Position

Earl Clarinden in the House of Lords asserts Austria will remain in the war, noting a protocol signed to meet Prussia’s wishes. He denies Prussia’s shift to Russia and says the London Times reports may differ, with some details still pending in Britain.

Earl Clarinden House of Lords Austria Prussia Russia Berlin Raseie London Times Aftr

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