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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1856
Page
2
The piece attacks the Fillmore Buchanan split and Buchanan’s Kansas policy, arguing that supporting Buchanan endorses Kansas oppressions and that enfranchised Freemen must resist. It notes Geary’s efforts and criticizes Democrat orators Fenner Brown and Clement Webster while urging vigilance to defend civil liberty and constitutional rights.
A Fremont Mass meeting and a Grand Olambake and Chowder are planned at Stone Bridge Tiverton on Thursday the 16th of this month. The event begins at 10 A M with eminent speakers invited. If weather turns stormy the meeting will be postponed. Tickets for the bake and chowder are 30 cents each.
The Providence Conference Seminary at East Greenwich is praised as first in New England. Principal Querent is a Middletown College graduate, noted as scholarly and capable. Teachers are described as excellent and attentive, with orderly regulations pleasing to parents and guardians. Tuition is said to be lower than similar institutions, encouraging local patronage.
The News reports the arrival of the first number of a new periodical edited by A R Cooke Esq. It is described as a special purpose publication tied to the War ren a Talégraph and likely produced as a sustained venture. The item notes Fill ressmore and Donelson connections and claims unique status as the sole active news paper in the area.
A balloon ascent in Providence on Thursday saw only one rider due to gas shortage. The craft rose at ten, drifted over the bay, crossed the Westside, and descended in Barrington near the meeting house. The aeronaut was cared for by Edward Aborn of South Seekonk. The peak altitude reached was about one mile with mild temperatures.
The weather has been truly delightful this month and the late crops are growing well, promising a large yield. Local farmers report favorable conditions and strong stands as harvest nears.
The article argues that Fre mont will win a handsome electoral majority and overthrow the current administration. It notes many Democrats abandon the party over slavery policy and urges Fremont supporters to work hard, predicting Union victory in three weeks and a peaceful transition to his administration.
Oct 7 proceedings record Michael O Brien accused of drunken disturbance assault and threatening to kill his wife. Witnesses dispute his innocence. judge sentences him to 20 days in jail and bonds of 200 dollars to keep the peace for three months.
Telegraph reports from Connecticut towns show Republican gains in contested contests with Democrats and Americans united. The Hartford Press notes results suggest Fremont and Freedom will triumph in November, with party division often influencing local boards and overall shifts favorable to the Republican cause.
The event celebrated Printing’s advent in New Hampshire at Portsmouth on Monday. Citizens including military, firemen, and civic societies paraded through decorated streets while A. P. Peabody editor of the North American Review gave an address and a spicy poem by B. RB Shillaber followed. Dinner speeches were eloquent and interesting.
Halifax reports the Niagara arrived Oct 8 after a Liverpool voyage. The North American and Bricsson reached Quebec and Quebec and Philadelphia steamers carried news of Spain’s provisional constitution and resignations. Consols fell as Italian and Neapolitan affairs stirred, while Britain and France prepare a large expedition against Naples with ships from Casar to Napoléon. Lord Hardinge is dead. Dallas dined with the Heat’s Agricultural Society with no speech.
From Matamoras a Herald correspondent reports Vidaurri demanding Comonfort's removal as president's substitute and pushing Juan Alvarez as temporary president. He denies authority, threatens force, has clashed with Comanches, and contemplates aid from filibusters. Monterey fans uproar as 5000 under arms amid potential civil war. Saltillo seized. Matamoras town under sickness and dull trade. Canales heads to Camargo. Comonfort lenders seek a $500,000 loan in Tampico.
A letter from Guayama Puerto Rico reports cholera still prevalent with yellow fever and smallpox in its wake. Mayaguez suffered heavily with many leading planters dead and crews losing up to a hundred laborers. Police area reported disease free while Gunyamarade faced dull trade and a severe breath of illness.
Botts and Pryor with friends planned a duel near Blair's farm across the district line but were arrested prior to fighting. They were brought before Justice Goddard in Washington and released on parole to return to Richmond that evening.
A Geary letter to the Republican dated the 26th ult says United States troops will be posted at trouble spots to guard the legitimate exercise of suffrage and vows punishment for interference. Whitfield is named as the pro slavery candidate for Congress. A Democrat letter dated the 24th notes Free State prisoners were examined by Judge Cato and committed for trial at the April term.
On the 25th alt Mr. Thomas of Mor Till was riding into Belfast Maine in his carriage with Mrs Sullivan of Boston when the horse was frightened and sheared. She was thrown out and instantly killed striking her head and dislocating the neck. Mrs Sullivan, a widow aged about 60, died of the injuries.
The New Orleans Daily Bee denounces Buchanan leaders as disunionists and warns Louisianans against being dragged into secession. It argues that Whigs Americans and Democrats remain firmly attached to the Union and predicts a stampede from disunion Democrats if dissolution is pursued after a Democratic defeat.
Mr N P Willis writes he is sincerely interested in a political candidate Fremont praising him as rare and fit for the crisis to be next President. He commends Fremont as lofty minded incorruptible and sagacious confident he will lead to a mountain of a majority.
Four riots break out in Baltimore on October 5 linked to electoral politics. Reported assaults target Democrats accused of importing New York roughs to disrupt polls next Wednesday. Empire Club and Marsh Market tavern in upheaval. firearms used to disperse crowds. one man shot and several injured.
Steamer Arago from Havre arrived at 8 this morning bringing London dates to the 24th and 270 passengers. Among them were the late American Minister at Brussels J P Sullivan, Consul at Bayonne Jerome Bonaparte, Gabriel Ravel, and Chas Bondes-Quien, manager of the French Opéra at New Orleans. Reports note Turkish sailors tearing down a Russian flag and a later clash in Melilla with heavy casualties on both sides. Advices from St Vincent and Madeira cite cholera impacts and shifting island populations.
A man was found hidden in a carefully sealed cage on the steamship Roanoke during unloading from Richmond. He nearly suffocated before escaping, revealing himself as a fugitive slave. The vessel was sent off the dock and the fugitive was placed aboard a Richmond packet bound for Land Hook.
Miss D. L. Dix, noted for work on the care of the insane, is among Baltic passengers just arrived in New York. She has traveled through Great Britain and much of Europe, studying asylum conditions and promoting humane management for the afflicted.
A death by drowning occurred in Richmond on the 20th alt involving William Greenleaf aged six. In Rockport a woman named Jane Littlefield died after her clothes ignited from a burning can explosion. In Brunswick a gun accident fatally wounded a wife the bullet passed through her body. she died the following day.
A Howard County farmer grows spring wheat called the Canada Club. One farmer produced 1,000 bushels on 80 acres at 40 bushels per acre. Another yielded 405 bushels over nine acres at 45 bushels per acre.
The Border Ruffian Press reports Kansans leaving the territory in ragged groups and scowling toward home or hidden wilderness. Steamboat decks carry sickly, impoverished travelers. civil war in Kansas haunts hopeful families and ends many dreams.
A New York letter claims leaders will drop Buchanan and Donnelson and run Fillmore and Breckenridge. It asserts Fremont will carry the state and Pennsylvania, with prominent Fillmore men like Daniel Lord Seth Grosvenor Anson Phelps among converts as hosts align with Fremont.
The Parmitees of Counsell remain barred from legal defense in Kansas as U S judges require an oath to the Constitution the Fugitive Slave Law the organic act and laws of a rival legislature. No just man will take such an oath leaving Free Soil prisoners without qualified local lawyers except propagandists from Missouri and other slaveholding regions. Governor Geary’s peace policy is said to offer no relief.
A severe flood on the Ausable River in Essex County New York on July 30 reached record heights surpassing the 1830 flood. Bridges dams saw mills houses and workshops along the river were destroyed or damaged. Nine bodies were recovered with more expected to be found.
The vessel arrives after a forty day voyage with twenty stormy days and good health on board. The ship, part of Mediterranean stores, was not to call at Alexandria due to a Pasha order prohibiting camel exports. Camels will be bought elsewhere and shipped from Smyrna. Expected home mid February.
The New York Mirror notes two American order councils in New York voted to back Fremont. In Otsego County New York five hundred eighty nine Fillmore supporters sign an address urging Fremont in the Buchanan Fremont contest. They condemn Fillmore as pro-slavery and aligned with the South and the Kansas Nebraska act.
Police say two men identified as Chas. Howard and Chas. Whitman were arrested yesterday for passing counterfeit five dollar notes at the Hamilton Bank in Scituate Rhode Island. The Buston Bee reports the incident.
The Oxygenated Bitters have been fairly tested in severe cases of dyspepsia among our citizens and proved to be the best remedy yet discovered for this troublesome disease.
An inebriated man was run over by a train near Greensboro South Carolina but survived as the cow catcher cleared him without injury. The conductor and engineer were astonished, believing him killed.
Captain Jayne of Warren counters McMasters claim that Col. Fremont is Catholic. Jayne asserts Fremont belongs to the Protestant Episcopal church and has denied Catholic affiliation. He notes repeated denials and labels the accusation false.
The Washington Union lauds Col. Fremont noting his enterprise sagacity and energy. It says his self balanced character will sustain him in the distinguished post he now occupies and expresses optimism about his civil role for the country.
The Panchita bark was seized off Sandy Hook by Captain Faunce of the revenue cutter Washington on suspicion of slaving. As the Washington neared the ship the supercargo threw papers overboard but they were recovered and proved the voyage legal. The vessel was brought to New York and anchored off the navy yard.
The President toured the frigate Wabash with the Mayor and officials. A Portsmouth elite party at Commodore Newton's last night preceded the ship’s 5 p.m. departure. Fort Constitution fired a salute as the Wabash weighed anchor, while yards were manned and crowds cheered.
A crowd of 400 to 500 Democrats at Luther's Corner Seekonk witnessed a sap accident when a swivel gun fired during a flag raising. Allen Grant stood beneath the flag and was struck above the right eye, fracturing the skull and causing severe brain injury. The incident occurred Wednesday evening and is believed fatal. Proo. Post.
New York inventor J. A. Pease has patented an Indian Rubber Over Shoe with a ribbed inner surface to create air circulation between boot and rubber. This design allows perspiration to escape, reducing unhealthiness and increasing wearer comfort.
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