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Boston Post
Boston Press and Post
Boston Statesman
Boston
Commonwealth
Auction Sales by Edward Riddle Boston Horse and Carriage Mart
Edward Riddle announces regular Saturday auctions at Boston Horse and Carriage Mart fronting Union Street and Haymarket Square. The sale includes an elegant black horse and buggy, Black Hawk mares, a rockaway, express wagon, chaise, carryall, wagons, harnesses, robes, and an omnibus. Items are viewable at various stables and Williams and Seaver’s stables, with details on weights speeds and harness quality.
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Edward Riddle
Boston Horse and Carriage Mart
Union Street
Haymarket Square
Haymarket
Baker
Williams
Sudbury Street
Black Hawk
Slade & Whiten
Wimship
Charles Street
Tarbox
Assience
Seaver
Fulton Street
Whid
Elm Street
New York
Worcester
Nion Street
Virginia
Geo Ward
Schoe Street
Bazar
Prince
Brown
Dor- Chester
Bazaar
Willis
Devonshire Street
Cray
Joan B. Baker
Nims
Chardon Street
Gipsy
Maene
Peirce & Wheelock
Fourth Street
Boston
Rockaway
Chevey
Dedham Street
Batchelder & Balch
Beach Street
Dorchester
Shepard
Slade & Whiton
Tilbury
Shoes and Brogans at Office Sale
On Wonusin ev 15 at o'clock 1000 cases boots shoes and brogans offered. On Wedesday md at WW o'clock 1000 Cason boots shoes and broganes. On Wednesday Dec 18 at Wo'clock SY Cases boots shoes and Drogas. On Wednesday Dec at 10 o'clock cash advanced on consignments.
Roots Shoes and Brogans Auction Listing
On Wednesday November 29 at 1 o'clock a sale of boots shoes and brogans includes fifty cases and a private sale of land with a general assortment of boots shoes and brogans also New York and Baltimore leather Kip Wax and grain leather with bindings and road wear. Liberal cash advances made.
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New York
Nee, &c
Loring & Phillips
James Tucker, JR. & CO
Orrick
Pear. Street
Wales Tucker
Oprice
N. B
W. Tf
Capen
Townsend
Mallard Et
Pat Bree
Allard
Ohio
Philadelphia
Noston
Sale of forfeited stock by National Mining Co Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh, sale of forfeited stock of the National Mining Co due to non payment of assessments. Auction by P. M. Davis on November 10 to highest bidder unless redeemed by payment of all charges. Information lists certificates and names of holders including Grout, Cutter Brodhead & Clapp, Kershaw, Wilkins, Henderson, Little Jr., Chapman, Stevens, Avery, with James M. Cooper as secretary treasurer.
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National Mining Company
P. M. Davis
Pittsburgh
Certif
Jame
Jno
R. Grout
Brodhead& Clapp
G.C. Kershaw
J.W. Clark & Co
Wilkins & Co
M. J Henderson
Little, Jr
G. Chapman
WH. Stevens
Elisha S. Avery
Board of Directors
James M. Cooper
Sec. and
Treas
National Mining Co
District and state convention slate for congressional and senatorial nominees
The document lists district by district candidates for lieutenant governor representatives in Congress and for senators in Suffolk Norfolk Middlesex Essex and other counties. It provides district names and candidate names with towns or counties, and notes conventions to nominate candidates for Congress and for Senators in Worcester Horticultural Hall on Tuesday Oct 31 at 2 pm and 10 am respectively.
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Worcester
Horticultural Hall
Valuable Private Library Auction At Boston Office
A large private library from the late Francis Sales includes French Spanish and Italian works with many English titles. Catalogues and three days to inspect before the sale. Also dry goods rare English books plated ware wines and a circulating library offer in Boston with multiple sales dates.
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Francis Sales
Harvard University
Boileau
Outenelle
Mably
Moliere
Montesquieu
Belais
Racine
Academie Francaise
Dictionaire
Bescerelle
Jais de Gaux
Gramanaire Nationale
Girault Duvivier
Grammaire Des Grammaires
Barthelemy
Cousin
la Harpe
Cours de Literature
Noveau
Dictionaire, Historique and Supplement
Sismondi
Histoire Des
Francis
Voltaire
Theatre Complet
Raynal
Rollin
Noel and Carpentier
Philologie Francaise
Academia Espanola
Connelly & Higgins
London
Seoane
Appleton’s
Trapany
Rosilly
Nor Dic
Buuterwek
Hist de la Literature Espanola
Obras
Callaron de la Barca
Comedias Escogidas
Cervantes
Don Quijote
Ercilla Y Zuniga
la Aramancana
Garciiso de la Vega
Obras—Iriarte
Fabulos Literarias
Juan and
Ulloa
Relacion Historica del Viage A la America Meridional
Mariana
Hist General de Espana
Martinez de la Rosa
Bona Isabel de Solis
Mendibil
Solvela Biblioteca Selecta
Moratin
Obras Dramaticas
Ochoa
Tesoro del Teatro Espanol
Ariosto
Orlando Furnso
Camoens
la Lusiade
Dante Alighieri
la Divine
Comevie Manzoni
Promessi Sposi
American Quarterly Review
Christian Examiner
do—North American Review
Rees’ Cyclopedia
Russia
Lumley
Boston
Pompeii
Herculaneum
Werex eNpInG Tavrspay Oct 26 1554
A compact note records an event labeled Werex eNpInG Tavrspay dated October 26, 1554. The fragmentary entry hints at a local or courtly observance but provides few specifics on participants or location.
Autumn Leaves In Mourning And Faith
A poem reflects on autumn leaves falling as a metaphor for human sorrow and aging. It contrasts decay with residual beauty and concludes with faith offering solace. The verse notes withered joys, cold winds, and a final peace for those who heed the lesson of falling leaves.
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Pen
New Books and Notices From the Old Manor House
Fetridge & Co. announce Our Folks at Home a children's book by Edward Toliver, with moral tales to foster useful aims. W. V. Spencer offers Robert Bruce the Hero King, a spirited romance. J. S. Adams plans a December fireside miscellany. A Kentucky widow of independence and a daring 15-year-old girl are noted amid a string of varied items. Also reports on Parisian linen extravagance, a mummy tooth find, land sales, a libel arrest, a Missouri chief justice resignation, and curious local anecdotes.
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Fetridge & Co
Appletons
Edward Toliver
C. G. Henderson & Co
Philadelphia
W. V. Spencer
Stringer & Townsend
Robert Bruce
Wallace
Scotland
J. S. Adams
Chelsea
J. Buffum
Cornhill
Items of the Battle of Alma Across the Heights and Outposts
The report recounts scenes from the Alma battle including Russian prisoners and officers captured under odd circumstances. It notes Menschikoff’s near-miss, a corporal of the 23d bayoneting three enemies, and various captures, plus postbattle fatigue and ill treatment aboard transport ships. It ends with a Virginia iron ore note and Montgomery county advantages.
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Boston
Prince Menschikoff
Napoleon
Thomas
Frince Menschikoff
Trotter
Coldstream Guards
Russia
Monk
Tth
23D
Menschikof
Kalantai
Belock
Belbok
Alma
Constantinople
Dahomey
Scutari
Colombo
Crimea
Tae
Lecturers at Mercantile Library Openly Abolitionist Choice
A reader questions why winter courses at the Mercantile Library Association in New England feature nearly all ultra freesoilers or abolitionists. He asks if this reflects design by management to educate youths in one ideological class, limiting exposure to opposing ideas and experiences from varied minds.
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Harrison
Mississippi
Eastern Clarion
Messrs
Mercantile Library Association
New England
A Calumny in Blackwood Refuted on the Choctaw Remnant
A Texas Gazette rebuttal quotes Blackwood and defends the Choctaw remnant in Mississippi, arguing a sober, informed people with government, presses, schools, and tranquility, contrasting it with toward perceived barbarism and urban disorder in Mobile suburbs. The piece counters foreign reviews portraying them as beastlike and primitive.
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Blackwood
Mobile
Mississippi
Texas Gazette
Fashionable New York Divorce Case Sparks Scandal
A Fifth Avenue millionaire seeks divorce from his younger wife after allegations of infidelity. A French count, hired to teach the children, was reportedly found with the madame in a compromising act and escaped through a back window, fleeing to parts unknown.
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New York
Baltimore American
Fifth Avenue
Democratic District Convention for District Six in Salem
The Salem town hall hosted the Democratic District Six convention on Tuesday the 24th with Thomas Ingalls presiding. Jonathan Nayson chosen chairman pro tem, later elected president. Nathaniel J. Lord nominated for congress, Loring and others named to committees. Lord spoke on unity and democratic principles, resolutions endorsed Pierce era policies, and publication of proceedings approved.
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Salem
Thomas Ingalls
Marblehead
Dr Loring
Jonathan Nayson
Amesbury
Wm. P. Dolliver
Gloucester
Messrs
Charles Peabody, Jr
Newburyport
F. W. M. Tewksbury
H. Gregory
Messrs Gott
Rockport
Hill
Mullet
Ingalls
Vennard
Lynn
James Hanscom
Wm. Fears
J. P. Jones
Georgetown
George B. Loring
John Hilton
Addison Gott
Gregory
Chas. Peabody, Jr
Frederick Willcomb
Ipswich
Nathaniel Blanchard
Swampscot
Chas
Peabody, Jr
Nathaniel J. Lorp
Messrs Peabody
Derby
Lord
Geo. B. Loring
Massachusetts
Baltimore
United States
Gen
Pierce
Nebraska
Kansas
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Congress
Union
Lowell
Nathaniel J. Lord
Democratic Party
Muller
Boston Post
District No. 6
Berkshire convention endorses Baltimore platform and nominees
At Pitts field on the 24th the democratic convention presided by H. H. Childs unanimously adopted resolutions reaffirming adherence to the Baltimore platform of 1852 and supporting gubernatorial nominees Henry W. Bishop and Caves Stetson. It urged town committees to mobilize voters and endorsed Waiting Griswoup for the 11th congressional district. Henry H. Cook gave an eloquent address.
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Pittsfield
H. H. Childs
P. Allen, Jr
Berkshire
Baltimore
Lowell
Henry W. Bishop
Lenox
Caves Stetson
Braintree
11Th
Waiting Griswoup
Greenfield
Henry H. Cook
Resolutions of the Second District Democratic Convention
Delegates at the second district convention adopted a series of resolutions affirming support for Baltimore 1852 principles, equal privileges for all citizens, freedom of religious opinion, nonintervention in domestic state legislation, and confidence in candidate Charles R. Vieberry of Taunton, with a pledge to work for his election.
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Committee On
Lawton
Fall River
Massachusetts
Baltimore
States
Territories
Cuarces R. Viexerry
Taunton
Congress
Paris Foy reports fashion and society at large in 1854
Paris correspondence notes the city’s autumn bustle as fashionables retreat to salons, opera, and clubs. A rumor mill swirls around a wealthy Italian count and Mme de Cerny, while civic pride grows in Melbourne with a grand procession led by Sir Charles Hotham. Local business and gold fields show brisk activity, yet trade and weather mix with mixed fortunes as new roads, wharves, and buildings rise.
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Caré Foy
Paris
Faubourg St. Germain
Chantilly
Champs Elysées
Pariz
Louis
Eugenie
Sebastopol
Dumas
Mme de Cerny
Madame de Cerny
Tuilleries
Italy
Europe
Germany
M. Guinot
Otaries Hotha
Collins Street
Pandidge
Melbourne
Tyler
Prince’s Bridge
Victoria
Hobson
Charles Hotham
San Francisco
Corporation
John Quincy Adams
Chilli
Alexander
Southampton
Morton
Cincinnati
United States
Norma
Overland Mail
England
Americus
Boston Post
Latrobe Departs Melbourne in 1854 Governorship Voiced
Melbourne in 1854 marks a shift as Sir Charles Hotham arrives to replace Governor Charles Latrobe. The Argus notes Latrobe’s limited public works impact while urging land unlocking, road building, wharves, and docks to spur Victoria’s development. The piece contrasts Latrobe’s tenure with calls for action and progress in the colony.
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Melbourne
Charles Joseph Latrobe
Esquire
Charles Hotham
K.C. B
John Foster
Charles the
King John
Argus
Latrobe
Victoria
Apathy and danger in the Union over disunion proposals
The Boston Post warns that public indifference to disunion doctrines endangers the Union. It argues that repeal of the fugitive slave law, repeal of the Kansas Nebraska act, and resisting new slave states threaten constitutional principles and could destroy the Union if carried out. The piece urges all true Unionists to oppose these abolitionist propositions.
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Congress
Wilmot
Sgnell
Washington
Missouri Compromise Repeal Debate Reflections
The Baltimore Patriot argues that federal power can impose unequal conditions on new states and condemns freesoil demagoguery. It cites slaveholding interests opposing expansion to Kansas, notes emigrants’ likely split, and favors majority will, urging unity against northern agitation.
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Missouri
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New York
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Patriot
Advertiser
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Masachusetts
Viimont
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Boston Atheneum
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Science Mallroed
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Nathan Appleton
William Appleton
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Edward Brooks
Peter C. Brooks
Gorham Brooks
John Bryant
Joseph Coolidge
Edward Everett
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David Sears
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Francis Skinner & Co
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Meary Codman
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