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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1851
Page
2
The district convenes in Newport on Tuesday to discuss the year’s measures and party power. Mr Carr is named to be a leading figure as Whigs favor reforms including tax relief and repeal of the gillty tax law.
The remains of Captain Odiah Dalbor arrived from New Orleans on the Sobytooraing Int and were interred Monday with Masonic honors. A large crowd of relatives and friends gathered to sympathize with the bereaved family.
Report from a local inquiry noting two or three self described mediums alleged to produce mysterious rappings. Several visitors witnessed performances but none believes the sounds come from supernatural causes. A Providence medium warned the rap sounds may be produced by the performer.
A Rhode Island publication recounts a February dress delivered before the Rhode Jotund Historical Society by Hon. Karma R. Porren of North Kingston. The piece offers a sketch of face and circumstances from the Revolution era and an education remark.
Advertisers note Empire City and Bay Lime steamers will run to New York at half the usual fare for those attending anniversaries. Tickets for passage to and from New York can be bought and used on the Canonions steamer for $3.
The split between the Northern and Southern Methodist Churches over slavery prompts a U S Court hearing in New York on the 13th inst. Counsel for the complainant South include Daniel Lord and Daniel Webster. Defense lawyers are BK Fancher Geo Wood and Rufus Choate.
The Bay State under Captain Brown returned to harbor on Tuesday and resumes trips to New York after a thorough refitting and repainting. The crew is described as gentlemanly and attentive, with passengers looked after well. Weather this week was cold, wet and windy, delaying gardening work and planting.
An 19th century pamphlet sample argues electrical theory explains rapping phenomena in spiritualist séances. It cites feet under dresses producing taps and doors knocking at distance, walls conducting, and a bell moving beneath a table as evidence.
A controversial clash surrounds Sir Henry Bulwer as critics in New York call for his recall after an Irish reference in a St George Society speech. Protests include an indignation meeting, with threats of Lynch Law and a US recall demand, amid broader tensions and upcoming maritime and civic events.
A leading article in the New York Courier and Enquirer laments rapid material progress yet worsening social order. It notes crime rising sharply and cites prison admissions: 18,049 in 1849 and 21,299 in 1850, a year increase of 3,257.
The New York observer notes the King of Prussia sent a magnificent gold ingot medal to Professor Moree in acknowledgment of his advances in the electro magnetic telegraph. The medal bears a head of Frederick William the 10th and emblems of reunion jurisprudence medicine and the arts.
President Millard Fillmore warns citizens against any military expeditions from the United States to hostile foreign territories. The decree declares such acts high misdemeanors with penalties up to $3,000 and three years in prison, and calls upon officers to arrest and prosecute offenders to defend national law and peace.
Six men including John O'Sullivan Wm T Rogers Jr Capt Lewis and Major Lowe Schlesinger were arrested in New York on charges of conspiring to fit out a military expedition against Cuba in defiance of the Neutrality Act. They were locked up with bond set at 3000 each, while Pedro Sanchez and others faced detention. the Cleopatra was placed under marines protection at North Moore Street.
Major Scheslinger is bailed with Charles O Connor as surety for 3000 dollars. Captain Lewis and an officer seek bail. The Cleopatra is seized by the Marshal and armed marines guard the vessel at North Moore street. A Grand Jury will hear the case next week while reports on the Cuban expedition spread from South Amboy and Sandy Hook.
A hurried flight of alleged Cuban expedition organizers to New York preceded departures aboard the steamer Job Potter. U S authorities pursued and dispatched notices, while the remaining party faced strict surveillance as officials close in on a second Cuban venture.
A Royal English captain lured a sixteen year old girl to America by pretended marriage then deserted her in New York. Captain Stone and clerk Walker raised funds and aided her return to Providence, while Henry Burr pursued legal action to compel payment and settlement.
The Secretary of the Treasury appoints Commodore Shobrick and Commander Dupupt along with generals and engineers including J. G. Patten and J. Kearney to form a board. They will meet in Washington to organize and survey all lighthouses from Eastport to Cape Florida and along the Gulf to the Rio Grande.
An elderly man identified as Philip Keyser was struck by a passenger train on the Boston and Providence line at Roxbury on Monday afternoon. The train halted, the body was taken aboard, and he died shortly after reaching the depot. He wandered onto the track as two trains approached and could not escape in time.
An 1830s New York Express account reports the whaling ship Pocahontas of Tisbury attacked by a sperm whale off Rio de Janeiro on February 14. Two boats pursued the whale. one menaced the whale for about twenty minutes with wounds and confusion. The whale then struck the boat and the crew, rescued by the other boat, while the ship sustained damage and began leaking. The article notes this as a rare second attack on a vessel by a whale, following the Essex incident in the Pacific.
Captain Watkins led the U.S. Mail Steamship Panama in a clash with pirates near the Columbine. He boarded the pirate vessel, captured a foe, and drove the pirates into a creek, earning praise from comrades and his family in Noghady for his conduct aboard the Panama between Panama and San Francisco.
The Lamp and its five foot high iron lantern, built by Benjamin Hemmenway of Broad Street, is completed and ready to be placed aboard when the boat arrives. The device holds three gallons of oil, features bent French plate glass, four panes per side, and air vents at corners for ventilation.
The Deputy Marshall returns to Boston with Sims who was held in the Savannah brig Acorn. Sims’ owner, Mr. Potter, refuses to consider freeing him, delaying his return north. It is believed Sims had no desire to travel this way again.
A Charleston letter from D C alleges the British government via hidden channels pressured South Carolina leaders to pursue secession to disrupt the Confederacy and favor English interests by harming Southern trade.
Booth, a fugitive slave barber in Lowell, and Henry Jenkins, also a fugitive in Worcester, were purchased from Southern owners by liberal citizens in the two cities. One brought $700, the other $800 in subscriptions.
In a New York Supreme Court session, a divorce complaint by Mrs. Forrest was amended to name Robert Belmano as her next friend. The injunction restrains Edwin Forrest and associates from interfering with Catharine N Forrest and from disposing of lands in New York, a portion dissolved with the rest denied.
Log driving in Penobscot brooks and small streams has been slow this spring. Lumbermen await warm rains to provide a freshet to move logs into the main river as snow has melted gradually, hindering progress.
The ice railroad reported income over three million dollars on a Friday last week. The State had loaned 116 bonds totaling three million dollars at the road’s start. An act freed the line from three million liens if a single track from the Mohawk River to Lake Erie and engines were completed by mid May. An affidavit filed with the Comptroller led to the release as provided by the act.
Captain R F Loper of Philadelphia built for his own use a clipper propelled craft to be rigged as a pilot boat. Hulls measure 82 feet keel 16 feet beam and 1 foot depth. Claimed to be the first of its kind built in the country.
The Montgomery Journal announces the completion of the Montgomery and West Point Railroad the first such work completed in the state. It spans ninety miles connecting with the East and feeding Mobile with groceries and cotton from numerous Georgia and Alabama counties, boosting the city’s trade more than any other cause.
Washington correspondent reports the Attorney General and Secretary of the Interior found all charges against Commissioner Ewbank frivolous and untrue after full investigation. A written statement confirming the dismissal was given to Mr. Ewbank.
While in Pinsburg Jenny Lind faced rude abuse from mischievous boys who threw stones at her dressing room window and carriage on her return from a Friday concert. She refused to perform Saturday night amid the uproar causing disappointment among hundreds of music lovers.
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