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Newspaper
Bristol Gazette
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1833
Page
1
WeeklySaturday publication by B J Munro advertises subscription rates two dollars per year or twenty dollars annual prepaid. Notices require postage to proprietor. Advertising charged by the month and weekly insertions, with penalties for missed payments and notices. Sender must address correspondence to the proprietor.
A historical Arctic voyage recounts Captain Ross and crew returning after a perilous expedition. Severe winters, scarce provisions, and near starvation mark the journey, with only three deaths and chief praise for Ross and his nephew volunteers who served without pay. The party’s survival and discovery of a true magnetic pole position are noted alongside a later court report about a seduction case in New York.
A temperance meeting speaker Charles Dudor Cath car cites hundreds of murders and suicides in the United States, contrasting with England's quiet, and condemning penitentiary graduates as seedbeds of crime. The piece then tells of Marian, an elegant New England heiress entangled with Charles Belmont, her merchant father, and Edward Williams as a demanded suitor. Marian resists marriage to Williams, pledged to Belmont, but Belmont leaves for New York and England after a romantic conflict, and Marian learns of his shipwreck and presumed death, driving her into deep despair.
The piece argues against rehabilitating convicts and instead proposes degrees or titles for inmates to reflect progress in crime. It cites New York Police Court cases showing reoffenders returning from reformatories and calls for harsher penalties including life sentences for murder rape and arson, with abolition of pardons for penitentiary offenses.
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