Sailors Rights and Navy Reform Debate in 1852
The piece reports on Hon. R. F. Swekton’s eloquent defense of sailors as American citizens and calls to abolish flogging in the navy. It notes opposition to liquor rations, urges merit-based discipline, and discusses a Senate bill to restrict punishments and promote good conduct rather than corporal penalties.
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R. F. Swekton
Seilor
Africa
West India Islands
California
Mesa
Rio San Gabriel
Senate of the Republic
Mr. Stockton
Congress
Vailors
Commodore Stockton
Jack
Storkton
Senate
House
Peries Mae Se Sao
Maine
Messrs. Finch
Robinson
Messrs F. Brown
Garritt
Cranston
Buffum
Bosworth
Davis
Currey
C. C. Potter
Allen
Aves
Messrs. Adams
H. Anthony
Barstow
Blodget
Brown
Brownell
Chase
Comstock
Cottrell
Dana
Fiske
Gavitt
Goodwin
A. Harris
KE. Harris
Hazard
Hunter
Kenyon
A. C. Mathewson
E. Mathewson
Pearce
Phetteplace
W. H. Potter
Purinton
Taft
Turner
Wardwell
Weaver
Wetherell
Williams
Wright
John W. Richmond
Boston
Wm. Hull
M. Wigin
Isaiah T
Godeys Lavy's Book for February Showcases Engravings
The article notes February issue Gopeys Lavy's Book for February with thirty engravings including five full page plates such as The Forest Maid and The Intercepted Letter. It praises new coloring style and calls the contents rich and racy from leading writers, with Godey’s effort to make the book highly popular.
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Gopey
Lavy
Godey
New York Weather And Society News In Feb 1852
The letter covers icy streets and snow in New York, Wall Street money ease, and a Lake Superior copper sale snippet. It critiques Mrs Forrests theatre debut and a military guard order, then notes Austro Russian influence on Kossuth, a Boston revival, and religious conversions in Hanover Street and Dedham. It ends with local fishing notes from Newport Mercury.
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New York
Wall Street
Lake Superior
Lyel
Jackson
Brougham’s Theatre
Forrest
Kossuth
Lie
Washington
Madess Jagiello Tochman
Gov. K
Boston
Hanover Sreet
B. Stows
Dedham
Fossil finds and rock formations reveal ancient Earth changes
The article describes natural processes transforming oceans and land through decay and sedimentation, volcanoes, and earthquakes. It notes coral reefs, fossil shells, and ancient strata with fossils like trilobites, shark teeth, and bird tracks, plus igneous rocks and metamorphic changes from dykes and contact with stratified rocks.
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Bay of Bengal
Ganges
Rhove
Mediterranean
New York Harbor
Pacific Ocean
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Alers
Norway
Greenland
Augusta
Maine
Thomasten
Passamaquoddy Bay
Quarta
Court of Justices reports Scots mischief and civil docket
Farmay January 30. Justices Munro Gladding Van Doorn preside. William H Bosworth acquitted of assault on Mary Crowley with snowballs. R R Dunbar’s complaint withdrawn. February 4. James Martin charged by Letitia Daly with obtaining carnal knowledge by promise of marriage. Both natives of the Emerald Isle. After closed hearings and many witnesses, an amicable arrangement led to dismissal. Several civil docket cases disposed without trial.
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Court OF Justices
Farmay
Munro
Emerald Isle
Thankful passengers praise Capt Lawless for ship’s safe voyage
A card of thanks from sixty two passengers aboard the steam ship Louisiana recounts Capt James Lawless’s cool brave leadership during a Gulf of Mexico gale from New Orleans. They attribute the vessel’s preservation and the lives of several passengers to his seamanlike bearing and calm under extreme peril.
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Galveston
Texas
James Lawless
Louisiana
New Orleans
Cape Lawless
Gulf of Mexico
Cape
Lawless
Kossuth Invited to Visit Rhode Island Discussed
The Rhode Island General Assembly read and referred the Kossuth invitation to the joint committee. Gov Kossuth replied to the assembly via letter saying he cannot yet schedule the visit, awaiting his return from the West. The Maine Liquor Law debate continued with votes showing the bill defeated after extensive discussion.
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Louis Kossuth
Kossuth
Penanent
Eb Sayin Eente
Sayles
Gov
Gov. Kossuth
General Assembly
Gov. Allen
Pierssoner
Rhode Island
Providence
West
Philip Allen
Rhode
Providence Plantations
L. Kossuth
Hungary
Pittsburgh
Maine
Thos. J. Sprague
Potter
Sheffield
Dixon
Prometheus affair moves toward settlement and old Navy flogging debated
Washington reports the Prometheus dispute near settlement as Admiral Seymour recalls Lieutenant Reed. Webster pressures Japan to cede a coal depot island for steamship routes while targeting Japan as unfriendly. Senate debates restoring flogging in the Navy, House likely rejects it.
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Washineton
George, Seymour
West India Station
Lieut. Reed
England
Henry Bulwer
United States
Crampton
Webster
State Department
Japan
China
Mr. Webster
Senate
House
Jail Break at Broxe Jail Stirs Main Street News
At about 5 o clock yesterday morning Thomas McCoy Patrick McSouly and George G Long escaped from the County Jail by deceiving a keeper and using a rooftop passage. McCoy faces burglary charges while Long and McSouly are listed on minor offenses. Rewards are offered for capture and return. McSouly and Long were later arrested near Taunton and McCoy in Northbridge Massachusetts. Temperance petitions total about one hundred fifty thousand signatures in the Legislature. Kossuth’s Cleveland reception drew large crowds and a $1100 aid gift along the route from Pittsburgh to Cleveland.
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Broxe
Thomas McCoy
Patrick McSouly
George G. Long
McCoy
Kossuta
Kossuth
Cleveland
Weddell House
Pittsburg
Kossuth reports funds and muskets for Hungary drive
From Pittsburg on February 1 Kossuth writes a committee that he has secured 30000 for Hungary and contracted for 40000 muskets at two dollars each He criticizes large expenditures for parades and bonfires saying with that money his mission could have ended sooner.
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Maresia
Ain” Tro
Hungary
Pittsburg
Kossuth
Importation of Liquors into the United States
The document lists annual import values for the United States including wines about 2 million dollars brandy 3 million beer 176 thousand tobacco and cigars 1.75 million tea 85 million coffee 12 thousand and fruits such as raisins figs almonds about 1 million. Overall imports amount to roughly 7.0 million tons valued around 337 million dollars.
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United States
Anniversary Session of Alabama M E Conference in Mobile
The 20th anniversary session convened in Mobile with Bishop Andrew presiding. Rev W H Millburn faced questioning with complaints including attendance at a Strikers Ball, disrespectful conduct toward John Wesley and early Methodists, alleged unorthodox preaching, and a dispute over church authority. The final vote supported the affirmative on a key race related question by a large majority.
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M. E. Conference
Alabama
Mobile
Andrew
W. H. Millburn
John Wesley
Earl Methodists
Boston Times
Peru Revolution Report Details Chamber Leadership Claim
From Peru reports a revolution in Ibiyo was discovered and President facensed in the Chamber of Deputies Gen. San Roman as leader.
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Peru
New York
Ibiyo
Chamber of Deputies
San Roman
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Bristol
Proaat
Phenix
Pumsovy
Newport Mercury
Actio
Accounta
Albany Reg
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