Pennsylvania Seamen's Friend Society Anniversary Observed
The Pennsylvania Seamen's Friend Society and the Ladies' Society for Seamen marked the anniversary at Pound Hall with Rev. Dr. Bethune presiding. The reports highlighted home accommodations for seamen, Bible and tract distributions, and ongoing finances while noting German and other language Bible shares and aid to sick and distressed mariners.
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North American
U.S
Pennsylvania Seamen’s Friend Society
Pennsylvania Seamen's Frendh Society
Pound Hall
Bethune
Oder
Doantman
Norvi Spaniu
Fhe. Tropler
California
Ladies’ Society For Seamen
Ladies’ Society
Douglaes
Seamen's Friend Society
A. de. Bethume
Commodore Stockton
Port‑land Grog Shop Incident Ends in Destruction
Taevore and Mrs Swett attacked the grog shop of Mr Cole in Portland hurling a pitcher at the bar keeper and smashing decanters show case and a front window. The wife warned the proprietor of vengeance over liquor sold to her husband who is steady except when influenced by drink.
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Taevore
Vessels and fares for California travel noted in marine column
Huston Journal reports several vessels bound for California and their passengers. The Edwin, sailing March 1 with 97 aboard, arrived and disembarked passengers before heading to Baltimore. Capitol passengers complain of fare. Captain Proctor offers revised prices. Favorite, a 30-ton brig from New Bedford, reports a safe voyage. A Glasgow firm ships clothing to California. Panama is crowded. four to five thousand awaiting passage to San Francisco. many exhausted finances.
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Huston Journal
California
Vengers
Edwin
Chagres
Baltimore
Capitol
Salon
Proctor
Tod Landsman
Aca
Deeal
Neptune
New Bedford
Glasgow
Londinn
Worcester
Simeon Mayo
Sydney Downes
New York
Panama
Isthmus
San Francisco
Anama
Westfield
Barre
Robbery at Tremont House Stolen Notes in Trunk
An English gentleman, a passenger from Liverpool on the Steamer Niegara, staying at Tremont House, reported his trunk opened with false keys on Saturday evening. One hundred fifty sovereigns were stolen. another nearby trunk was opened but yielded nothing.
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Rosseny
Canironsia Avvextunena among St Louis adventurers
In St Louis crowds of gold seekers travel to the west. A republican traveler relates meeting an old couple in a rickety wagon with a weak team and ill fed horse. The aged pair hope to join the gold diggings and speak of future pleasures.
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Canironsia
St. Louis
Eos
Fragmentary note on hopeful prospectors and land travel
The excerpt describes people planning for distant wealth from gold, enduring privations and hardship, aiming to return rich after years of travel. They had paid their farm in view and sought land by land route, clinging to imagined riches despite age and doubt.
Town Meeting in Bristol adjourned for two oclock session
The adjourned Town Meeting opens at two this afternoon to finish the annual meeting business. Freemen are urged to attend for possible money appropriations. The article notes many Panama to San Francisco travelers lack funds and vessels, reports on the gold regions vary, and a School Committee report appears on page one.
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Chagres
Panama
San Francisco
Sheba
Providence Annual Conference Appointments Listed
Acknowledgment to a valued friend for the appointment list from the Providence Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church held in Provincetown. The record names clergy and locations including Warren, Fall River, New Bedford, Newport, Portsmouth, Nantucket, Sandwich, Wareham, and others with future meeting to be held in Providence.
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Providence
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Provincetown
Mara
Chesnut St
Curver
Power St
C. Atwater
3D Church
David Patieo Jr. Warren
St. W
Jonathan Cady
Fair Haven
Samuel C. Brown
Bristol
Richard Livesey
Tallotoa
Paul Townsend
Newport
Boheman
Portsmouth
Nathan Paine
Somerset
C. Hammond
South Somerset
E.D. Hinckley
East Greenwich
J. M. Worcester
Phenix
Tease Bonney
Nantucket
Centre St
Wm. Livesey
Fair St
Charles Noble
Eigartown
I. Upham
Sandwich
J. D. Butler
South Sandwich
Wareham
H. W. Houghton
Monument
A. A. Swinterton
Provincetown Centre
E. B. Bradford
Wesley Chapel
A. D. Wheeler
Holme's
M. J. Talbot Jr
Quincy
J. B. Gould
New London
J. M. Carpenter
Norwich
John Lovejoy
Thompson
Sidney Dean
European war threats loom across continents in editorial
The Journaliste views rising war sentiment in Europe as a danger. It warns Russia may move on Constantinople, Hungary faces renewed battles, and Italy risks bloodshed as Rome clashes with Naples. The likelihood of a general war grows with potential Congress of Frankfurt shifting the German crown from Austria to Prussia.
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Europe
New Bedford Mercury
Russia
Turkey
England
Constantinople
Meglind
France
Austria
Sardina
Denmark
Schleswig Holstein
Prussia
Italy
Republic of Rome
Naples
Tuscany
Rome
Remoreeles
Oil Imports Estimated to Fill Whale Ports Short Term
The Nan jtuaket Enquirer estimates in the next two to three months imports of oil to whaling ports will reach 50 000 barrels of sperm and 160 000 barrels of whale oil. After this period supplies shrink, balancing the large quantity noted and leaving the yearly total just enough to meet demand.
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Nanjtuaket Enquirer
State Debt Advertisement Noted in Committer Column
Readers seeking details on the old State Debt are directed to the Committer advertisement found in a separate column for full information.
Descriptions of Harsh Provisions Aboard Capitol Ship
A Boston bound traveler from the Capitol describes dire fare on the voyage to San Francisco. Passengers lacked knives and forks, used wooden spoons, and dove into porridge with beans. Meals included Lobscouse and Dandy Funk, with crude ingredients and occasional hair and a cook's tooth in a plate.
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Boston
Capitol
San Francisco
Arrival of the Crescent City Steamship in New York
The Crescent City sailed from Chagres and Havana and arrived in New York on April 2 after a 4 day 9 hour Atlantic crossing. It carried 250 passengers from Chagres and 20 from Havana and left Havana March 25. Also noted are currency values for American eagles and doubloons and the Eudora from Valparaiso arriving at Panama.
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Crescent City
Stoddard
New York
Chagres
Havana
Sin P. M
Panama
Eudora
Valparaiso
Immigration figures at Boston weekly arrival count
The total number of alien passengers arriving in Boston for the week ending Ethinet is 1042. Of these, 764 paid head money, 247 had been here before, and 21 were bonded.
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Boston
Couple Mourned by Lockland wedding and California voyage
A couple married in Lockland Ohio set off two hours after their ceremony on a two year trip to California. A Gloucester sportsman recently delivered seven young foxes and four were placed with a household kitten cared for by an old cat. Immigrant arrivals to New York through April 1 1849 reached 20436.
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Lockland
Ohio
California
Gloucester
New York
Memorial notice honors Dona Ferrando for wartime mercy
A letter remembers Donna Augustina Ferrando of Tlailiscuyan Mexico who aided American prisoners during the war near Vera Cruz. It recounts her heroic act saving a lieutenant from execution and notes Commodore Penny ordered protection for her family’s property and freedom from search along the Alvarado river.
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Downa Avovetina Fennanno
Tluliscoyan
Mexico
United States
Vera Cruz
Orizaba
Tlaliscuyan
Ha ‘Hie
Com. Penny
Indy
Alvarado
Fremonts Expedition Through Mountain Passes End in Heavy Loss
The St Louis papers report Col Fremont and his party nearly overwhelmed by snow in a mountain pass. Bill Williams and two others sought aid, but failure to return prompted Fremont to march toward Taos. One ally died from exposure and hunger, survivors ate part of him, and Fremont later reached Santa Fe for aid before heading to California.
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Fremont
St. Louis
Bill Williams
Col. Fremont
Taos
Williame
Santa Fe
California
Cook
Liew. Beall
U.S. Navy
Beauties of Roman Catholicism Arreat to Massacre
A fragment from Paria papers dated latent date cites an appeal to massacre in the Convent of Spello. The text accuses Liberals Jacobins Carbonari and Republicans of aiming to destroy religion and ministers and urges mass extermination of perceived enemies including their children. It calls to prepare for a national cry of reaction and to bury those seen as profaners.
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Paria
Spello
Gaeta
Carbonari
The Duncrows of the Ixquiserius Inquisition Visit
By order of the present Roman Government the Inquisition style prison visit freed prisoners. A wretched bishop of Kgypt condemned under Pope Leo XII was found in a gloomy dungeon nearly losing the use of his leg. Two nuns were moved to a charitable institution.
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Kgypt
Leo XII
California Gold Fever Reported in Baltimore Letters
The Baltimore Patriot notes James S. Wethered's voyage from San Francisco on the Lexington taking seventy days to Valparaiso. He describes a 350 mile inland trek, large crowds on the Isthmus, and belief California needs government while gold yields and prices are debated. Downes reports from Worcester on miners’ earnings and costs as December dates reach New York.
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Baltimore Patriot
Calhousia
James
Wethered
California
San Francisco
U.S
Lexington
Valparaiso
Isthmus
Mayland
South America
Univen
Rhone
Americano
Ollers
Paorri
Downes
Worcester
New York ‘Tribune
San Franciseco
California Emigrant Routes Obstructed by Objections
The Courier reports route levers in St Louis and nearby towns resist moving to California via St Louis Independence Santa Fe. Many emigrants crowd St Louis as accommodations fill, awaiting forage for horses. safer to delay one to two months. Hartford steamer from New York to California reported distress at Bermuda and likely condemned. Eleven Bremen ships planned to sail for California before March 16.
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California
Courier
Rixbury
St. Lewis
Independence
Santa Fe
St. Louis
Hartford
New York
Bermuda
Back Again The Gold Diggers Return From California
The piece lampoons gentlemen who rushed to California in pursuit of wealth but now regret their trip. They reached Palamas midway and glimpsed El Dorado then chose to come back to Gotham. Some claim they are cured of the fever and may seek honest work in a Christian country among Christian men.
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California
Palams
el Dorado
Gotham
Wessel
Steamboats Sail From Cin City for California Emigration
Three steamboats left our city yesterday mostly carrying emigrants to California. About seventy five persons departed including travelers from Virginia Pennsylvania Kentucky and Ohio. The Independent Dispatch company embarked on the John Hancock and plans include crossing the plains with mules to speed the journey.
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Cin
Gaz
Munday
Pan Cativonsia
California
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Ohio
Our City
Independent Dispatch Company
Plaine
Panania Route Report Delays for California Adventurers
A Panania letter published in the New Orleans Delta says Pacific mail steamers will not sell through tickets from Panania, dealings shifted to New York, leaving travelers disappointed. Wealthy residents seek ships via Central America, with charter plans forming to head through Chagres or Corpus Christi as more join, potentially reaching about one hundred travelers.
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California
Panania
New Orleans
Isthmuc
Pacific Mail
New York
United States
Lickets
Ferraolt
South
Central America
jChagres
Era Crus
Corpus Christi
Cholera spreads and Cuban debt talks loom in Europe dispatchs
A Madrid correspondent discusses Spain's stance on Cuba and possible resource use to ease debt, noting high hopes tied to Cuba while creditors loom. Reports from Paria describe cholera outbreaks in hospitals and the army, with deaths in Bergen and New Orleans, and warnings of spreading across the Rio Grande regions.
Twelve Deaths From Cholera Reported In Mobile Week
A Macon Messenger letter notes twelve cholera deaths in Mobile during the week. It traces a Texas bound party from Monroe county Georgia and New Orleans. One sickened on day two and died within hours followed by rapid spread. eighteen died, seven in one grave, with some deaths within three hours of onset.
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Mobile
Monroe County
Texas
New Orleans
Macon Massenger
Cote
Louisiana
Europa Brings Taylor Address to London Readers
The London correspondent notes the royal mail steamer Europa arrived from New York but mail was not delivered in London the next day. The January address of President Taylor was published by British journals with praise, The Times calling it brief and forceful, while pro protection journals quoted portions in caps and summary form.
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London
Philadelphia
Gazene
Europa
Liverpool
New York
Taylors
Taylor
Loss of 1000 lives report from Hannibal voyage
A Chronicle despatch from New London dated April 6 1840 notes letters from the Hannibal and tender Sarah Laying near Falkland Islands report 3650 barrels of guano spoiled and a large number of wrecks along St George's Bay with about 1000 men nearby and no harbor except under Powa Island shore protection for one or two ships.
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Rusonen
Chronicle Office
New London
Hannibal
Sarah Laying
St. George's Hay
Falkland Island
Hivina
Aboand
Brawn
Powa
Distress Shipwreck Report from the Coquette
The Coquette reports encountering the wreck of the Thomas Rosse l of Cape May on March 31 at latitude 36 41. The crew inside tried to escape by cutting a hole with axes but five men perished before air could be released.
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Liss
Lire
Battiaone
Coquette
Iday
Wensel
Thomas Rossel
Cape May
Pirates Seize Schooner Rosa Sequida Off Valparaiso
The Rosa Sequida left Valparaiso Nov 25 bound for San Francisco with cargo valued at $40,000 and passengers. Pirates took control at Gallipagos Islands leaving captain and passengers ashore in dire need, while crew remained aboard and eventually fled. Pirate activity also reported in the West Indies with a sloop seized near Demerara and crew abandoned on a desert island before arrest and detention in Harbors.
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Youk
Iie
Halifax
West Indies
Demerara
Weamen
Orinoco
Laguayra
Harbadors
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Bristol Phenix
Affairs IN Europe
Mr. Barer
Donna Augustina Ferrando
Major Whipple
M. Dimond
Cubs
Madrid
Persour
Cuba
Senor Pidal
Spain
Jonathan
Hospital de la Charite
Bergen
Norway
Eny
Mipevar
St. Loum
Veane State
Brownsville
Rio Grande
Matanoras
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