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Newspaper
Bristol Gazette
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1833
Page
2
In a Washington dispatch from December 4 1833 Major Downing recounts wartime debates with General and staff over Bank struggles and political newspapers. He frames a mock battle using documents as arms while highlighting tensions with opponents like Clay and the press. A humorous episode with a tailor over a button punctuates a larger satire of political strategy.
On Thursday around 2 o clock the Dimon Jones house near Bristol was entered by a burglar. A colored man named Alfred Williams, recent from New York, was found aboard the sloop First Attempt and arrested on strong suspicions. He was examined and ordered to bond for 200 pounds but remanded to jail for trial at the next Common Pleas session. Several insults to females were reported that same evening.
News from Washington and Providence hardcover reports include a Senate adjournment and House resolutions on treasury duties and revolutionary pensions. Providence details describe the Miner and Brown executions, public reaction, and Miner’s letter to Hon. Joseph L. Tillinghast, with related notices on disease, theft, fires, and local incidents.
The Rhode Island election committee is examining materials as of today. A select committee led by Mr Mangum on Senate rights has met, with an expected early report favoring Mr Robbins. If approved by the Senate, Robbins would hold his seat for six more years and chair the Library Committee during that period.
The Delaware 71 arrived at Gibraltar on October 20 from Cherbourg and sailed again bound for Ma Hon. The brief wartime shipping record notes return movement from Cherbourg through Gibraltar with routing toward a named destination.
The Waldyon left Tampico on the 20th to sail for New Orleans carrying 650000. The Thad deus arrived at New Orleans on the 3d inst with 255000. A large amount is daily expected from Vera Cruz.
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