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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1861
Page
2
A fragment discusses Stephen’s praise of the new Constitution, claims about perfecting the 1789 framework, and critiques Calhoun and Stephens for equating equality with slavery. It argues that American rights imply fundamental equality, condemning such views as fallacies destined to collapse amid future political storms.
The piece argues for continued support of Lincoln and his Cabinet, condemning new party factions and hostile press that allegedly push the nation toward civil conflict. It warns that loyal editors’ treasonous rhetoric threatens the Republic and calls for unity to restore harmony and preserve the Union.
The week featured cold disagreeable conditions with rain hail and snow. A northeast wind drove a severe winter storm on Tuesday and a snow storm on Thursday followed by rain and gusty winds into Friday.
The document lists candidates for state offices and representatives. James H. Greene and John R. Bartlettes are named for roles including Governor and Secretary of State, with Sullivan Ballou and Samuel A. Parker noted for Attorney General and General Treasurer, and Christopher Robinson and William D. Trayton named for congressional districts.
Readable fragments from Rhode Island Society data show farm value 40 400, farming utensils 37 35, live stock 60 580, sheep 868, dogs 212, milk sold 41 698 barrels 20c, poultry and eggs 4 856, cows not on farms 56, horses not on farms 72, salt hay 145, parrots 66 585, onions 84 064, fish seined 18 001 barrels, each 20 cents, shell fish 1 800, capital in real and personal estate 467 500, annual product 2 212 956, cotton mills 2, acres 103 10, improved land 6 444, population 5 271, valuation 3 273 800.
A town revival by the Methodists has drawn large crowds with daily meetings for weeks. Eleven or twelve people, including four young men ages 18 to 22, prayed at the altar on Wednesday. Pastor Rev. Elo is praised for his excelling preaching and devoted leadership.
The last week’s lectura by Hon. G S Hitranp showed strong thought with entertaining simple Ilangongs. It stressed choosing the right books and following a thorough reading system to gain instruction. Next week March 27 Rev E W Coupin D D of New York is expected for the course finale.
Cornelius Sullivan, about 45, of Providence, died when the wheel of a gravel train car rolled over him as it passed the depot. An inquest found death an accident with no blame assigned to anyone. His body was sent to Providence for burial.
The Bar of Providence met on the 19th to honor Walter W. Updike who died suddenly in Port Jervis. William E Potter presided with Joseph I. Parsons as secretary. Members praised Updike for sound judgment, generosity, modesty, and unwavering kindness over a twenty year career, with a copy to be sent to his family.
The governors of Massachusetts and Vermont appoint Thuraddy the fourth day of April to be observed as a day of fasting, fertilization, and prayer.
The article discusses calls from New York papers and Democratic voices on appointing officials and the risk of civil conflict if South Carolina and the South were to secede. It notes opinions on abandonment of forts, restoring harmony without sacrificing honor, and reports on the Aura captain Findesy and lingering Southern support as Alabama troops move through Mobile and Houston.
Reports from Louisville and Baron Rovas on March 20 detail the Arkansas Convention rejecting a sopassion ordinance by 39 to 35 votes. The Louisiana troops and peace authorities shift noted. The Legislature plans sine die adjournment Thursday.
A Baltimore American excerpt includes a Confederate-leaning letter from a young Baltimorean at Castle Pinckney criticizing conditions and urging recruits, alongside Missouri convention debate on federal relations and secession policy. The Missouri convention votes down an amendment seeking peaceful adjustment and noncooperation with coercion.
The Providence Journal argues against secession leaders and state conventions ratifying the constitution without a popular vote. It claims the government is provisional with wide powers, and the people have not had a chance to approve or condemn. Some Georgia papers have warned, urging a plebiscite to avoid growing discontent.
A devotional prayer requests divine guidance for the nation and its rulers, urging wisdom and prudence in perplexing times. It seeks harmony, the strengthening of the Union, and an end to dissension, prejudice, and strife, calling for unity in faith and charity through Jesus Christ.
Official East India squadron dispatches report a vessel sent to Ningpo to locate pirates who captured two American ships on that coast. The Pacific mail via the North Star lacks information on the missing sloop Levant. Remittances from seceded states for customs ended February near 900 dollars, with Louisiana exception. Archbold resigns as Navy Engineer-in-Chief.
Tucson dispatch says the road reopened with overland coaches resuming service. Eleven men burned by Apaches and four buried, six Indians hanged on the spot after pleading to be shot. Seventy dragoons in pursuit as passengers at Apache Pass proceed forward.
A Missouri publication likens Jefferson Davis to John Brown and calls for his execution. It claims Davis acts as a provisional president, seizing mints, arsenals, yards, ships, forts, and leading rebel armies against the United States. The piece ends with a vow that gallows should reach him.
A verdict for defendants in Gov Pickens vs North Atlantic Steamship Co over baggage loss. New York ships seized at Savannah released after Newark arms surrender. R W Saunders named Postmaster at Memphis Tennessee amid local opposition. James Watson Webb declines Turkey mission.
The New Orleans Bee predicts Arkansas trade will shift to Memphis under the tariff while Louisiana loses merchants. The Macon Citizen notes Southern business resistance to new tariff acts, fines on invoices, and duties on European fabrics, yet argues patriots must endure to fund defense and await direct trade relief.
A morning blaze on Eustis Street near the Canal Block in New York destroyed a tenement housing sixteen families. Firefighters faced heavy smoke and snow as flames spread from a shed to the main building. John Smith and his wife and daughter perished. Smith was severely burned leaping from a second story window. An elderly couple, John Kelley and his wife, also died of smoke inhalation, while others were rescued or taken su separately to hospital. The Boston Journal reports the incident and investigators' initial assessment.
The storm raged for days with heavy snow drifts blocking roads and delaying trains. In the city and country, travel was impeded as trains required extra engines and steamboat lines faced added difficulty. The Prov. Journal notes the conditions and ongoing impact.
Friends in Providence mourn the sudden death of Walter W. Updike Esq. who left for a business trip in northern Pennsylvania on the 7th and never returned home. He was a respected lawyer known for generosity and wide kindness, and the cause of death remains undisclosed.
Alfred Smith, real estate agent, reports fair rental prospects for the coming season with many cottages already leased. February bookings were light but current demand exceeds last year, drawing new tenants from southern states. No worries of a sharp drop in summer visitor numbers are seen by qualified observers in Newport News.
News from Palmer’s News Room reports the barque Harvest Queen of 815 tons, Captain James Wheeler, from Buenos Ayres to Boston with wool, Ashore at the south end of the fourth cliff as flood tide rises. Captain Wheeler and a passenger reach shore. six crew drown attempting to land in a second boat. The R. B. Forbes steamer is sent to aid.
On Friday between eight and nine o'clock James L. Bliss a Rhode Island tailor living at Main and Pleasant Streets was knocked down near the Daggett house on the village outskirts and robbed of about $40. He was struck with a probable slung shot and lay senseless for about twelve hours before his son found him. Dr Morton treated Bliss whose recovery remained doubtful.
An American traveler, Ogden Yorke, while returning to the United States, was attacked by five highway robbers near the hacienda San Antonio, twelve miles from Perote. Yorke fought back, killing one robber with his pistol but was overpowered and killed, with other passengers brutalized before the bandits fled after stripping them of valuables. Yorke’s body was sent to Perote.
A Harvard College student, Faulkner son of Col. Samuel Faulkner of South Acton, died after being struck by a locomotive at Porters Station Wear Cambridge on Saturday. The train Vermont, running at twenty miles per hour, did not ring its bell. he died about an hour later.
The badly decomposed body of James McLaughlin of Haydenville Mass was found in the waters below Damon's mill Northampton on Monday last. He once lived in this city and Globe Village and worked at Oliver Chace's Thread Mill dye house. He was known for intemperate habits and had been seen drinking with two men who were later arrested on suspicion but discharged for lack of evidence. He left a wife and large family in this city.
Vendor Saumese, an optician at 113 A doors below Orrance Street in Providence, announces a wide stock of optical and mathematical instruments for wholesale and retail. He highlights spectacles, eye glasses, lenses, microscopes, compasses, and surveying tools, with a focus on quality and proper fitting by an experienced optician.
The President named Charles Francis Adams of Massachusetts as minister to England and George P. Marsh minister to Sardinia. James Watson Webb of New York was named minister to Turkey, while William L. Dayton of New Jersey was named minister to France and confirmed. Benjamin M. Trumbull became Receiver of Public Money and Patrick J. Detin of Indiana was named chief of the Agricultural Bureau at the Patent Office.
The Cincinnati Gazette reports a disastrous poisoning in Rockford Illinois where a father and eleven children died after eating pork mixed with a deadly substance thought to be blue vitriol. Aware of a fatal day of death, the family was buried shortly after the tragedy.
The annual report of the Sunpar Sehoon Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church records 13 447 schools 148 632 officers and teachers 808 988 scholars 2 422 849 volumes in libraries 15 730 Bible children 99 816 infant scholars and 127 682 dollars spent with 12 007 dollars collected for the Sunday School Union 288 827 Sunday School Advocates 19 5 7 conversions yet notes election year distractions.
The Providence Post notes Bache Iscanpax Amerixay S23) Bik ton, editor of the Warren Tsph, has been named to a first class position at the General Land Office earning 1200 per year. Also a jeweler theft at Sao Pease shop on High Street: a man tested watches then fled with two watches valued at 100 and 30, in a car waiting outside. police have not captured him.
A New York Court of Sessions trial discusses a defendant's wine described as peat water turned into a sparkling drink using gas from vitriol and marble dust and labeled champagne. The testimony mentions a corral tent and witness accounts of the producer’s methods.
A fragment from a 19th century issue discusses the schooner Gothria seized at Galveston by a Committee of Safety, frontier clashes with Apache tribes, a Western New York peach crop report, and varied naval and military observations.
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