Free State victory claims in Kansas amid pro slavery opposition
The article argues that Kansas shows overwhelming Free State sentiment despite Democratic obstruction. It warns that pro slavery forces will contest votes, reject Kansas admission, and seek to maintain slavery influence in government and institutions. It notes court actions and local civic events including a Normal School opening and a bank stock sale.
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Kansas
Democratic
Anzas
Free State Party
Democratic Party
Ower
Congress
Parrott
Rone
Kan- Hint
Party of Freedom
Burnine's Airass Breech-loading Rifles Contract
The Providence Post reports Gov Floyd acting for the War Department contracted with Gen A Burnside of this state for breech-loading rifles to use unexpended funds from the last Congress. About $70,000 is available, and manufacture will begin. Burnside will visit Europe to pursue further contracts for his patented invention.
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Burnine
Airass
Providence Post
A. Burnside
Gov. Floyd
Board of Army Officers
Gen. Burnside
Europe
Apples from Dr Dornagh’s Illinois Farm Impress New England
Specimens of several very fine large apples from Dr Dornagh’s farm in Columbia Adams County Illinois are described as superior to any seen in New England. The Dr maintains a large orchard that bore well this season. Also noted is a schedule change for the Fall River and New York line steamers, now departing New York at 4 PM instead of 5 PM.
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Dr. Dornagh
Columbia, Adams Co
Illinois
New England
Fall River
New York
Out of Employment due to Business Suspension
The New York Express reports about 25 000 people thrown out of work as business suspensions affect multiple trade departments.
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The
New York Express
Providence bank statement signals strength amid mixed shifts
The Providence Journal notes a weekly bank report showing higher gains in jenna and speure areas but declines in circulation deposits and bills due to other banks. It argues banks remain in excellent condition though public bills to the total assets ratio remain a concern in debtor cities.
Kansas Election News Signals Shifting Legislature Balance
The Missouri Democrat reports Free State gains in Kansas during the election. It notes House majorities likely for Free State and pro slavery seats in the Senate. forecasts vary by districts and districts yet to hear results. Pro Free State outlook presents hopeful control of at least one legislative chamber.
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Kansas
Missouri Democrat
Ferrer
Leavenworth Times
Leavensworth
Free State
Counci
Harney
Kickapoo
Walker
Leavenworth
Marcus J. Parrott
Free State Party
Ioan
Senate
Central America Relief Fund Disbursement Details
The Executive Committee of the Central America Relief Fund approves donations to passengers and crew of the brig Matine and to widows of sailors and attaches. Payments include $100 to two Lady passengers and to an Indy passenger, $600 to the captain, $100 to the first officer, $80 to the second officer, $70 to the first cook, $30 to the second cook, $20 to four seamen, a gold watch for the captain, no silver medals for officers, $100 to the second engineer, and $50 to the two cooks and six firemen. Widow allowances range from $125 to $150 or $73 based on children. Funds go to the Seamen's Savings Bank with withdrawals up to $25.
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Central America
Renee Foxn
Seamen’s Savings Bank
Gale Capsizes Vessel Off Harbor With All Hands Lost
Oct 20 report says a terrible gale and snow prevail. A vessel capsized off the harbor with an unnamed ship and all aboard perishing. Other lake vessels struggle to ride out the storm.
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UN Ten
Kingsbury Appointed Rhode Island School Commissioner
The Providence Journal reports Governor appoints John Kingsbury LL D to the School Commissioner post to succeed Rev. Robert Allyn. Kingsbury lauded as a devoted, long serving educator with ties to the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction and the American Institute of Instruction. He taught in a country school, the Young Ladies High School, and has influenced generations of students and their families. The state plans to keep him in service beyond retirement to continue advancing education.
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Providence Journal
John Kingsbury
School i
Robert Allyn
Mr. Kingsbury
Journal
Kingsbury
Baptist Meeting House
Triode Island Institute of Instruction
American Institute of Instruction
Young Ladies High School
Heb
Terrible Central Railroad Wreck near Benver Meadow Brook
Syracuse reports a Central Rail Road wreck caused by an 80 foot embankment washout near Benver Meadow Brook six miles west. A mail tram and four passenger cars fell twenty feet. about 60 passengers aboard. One drowned, Miss Brown of Toronto. Mr Bronson of New Britain died from injuries. Many were injured, some seriously. The mail car burned. one bag saved. Rescue efforts saved others as trains collapsed into the creek amid wreckage and splintered mahogany.
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Syracuse
Central Railroad
Benver Meadow Brook
Ciy
Mike Brown
Toronto
Bronson
New Britain
Brown
Porgato
Mr. Brown
Toronto Globe
New Brinayn
Directors of Massachusetts Corporation vote to stop again
The Lowell Courier reports the Massachusetts Corporation directors have voted to halt operations again. It is unclear when it will begin or end, with only a small cotton stock on hand and no further purchases planned at present.
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Lowell Courier
Massachusetts Corporation
Tragic Death of Eight Year Old Jared Swift
A Worcester area boy named Jared Swift, son of Jireh Swift, disappeared after returning from school for his grandfather's funeral. The child was found drowned in a nearby pond after a search, ending a troubling story of a young life lost.
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Casuatty
Jireh Swift
Worcester
Jared Swift
New Bedford Standard
Wheat and corn receipts surge at Buffalo market
True Graw Conina notes Saturday night arrivals in Buffalo totaling 368154 bushels of wheat 95801 bushels of corn and 68000 bushels of eats for a season high 53945 bushels in a single line of figures. He reports over 500000 bushels of wheat moving between Chicago and Buffalo with growing receipts at Buffalo New York Express.
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Buffalo
Chicago
N. Y. Express
Two Sacramento Brothers Earn Big Peach Orchard Revenue
Two brothers with a peach orchard near Sacramento California reportedly earned between $60,000 and $70,000 this year from peach sales.
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Smith
Sacramento
California
Europa Arrives at Halifax with Large Specie Cargo
The Royal Mail steamship Europa from Liverpool docked at Halifax at 11:20 PM with £63,160 in specie on board. The paper notes rate hikes at the Bank of England and financial tremors in Paris and Vienna, alongside reports on the Indian Mutiny and related European concerns.
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Europe
Europa
Haliifax
Royal Mail
Liverpool
Persia
New York
Quebec
Borussia
Hamburg
Bank of England
Paris
Bank of France
Rhot
Spain
Gen. de Mirasol
Cuba
Vienna
The
Times
Trieste
Lloyd
Stock Exchange
Northern Licat on a Coral Reet
The Northern Light, en route home, ran aground on a coral reef near Old Providence in the Caribbean Sea, 139 21 N and about 100 miles east of the Mosquito coast. The vessel remained stranded for eight or nine hours but was eventually freed amid calm seas, with passengers tense after learning of the Central America disaster.
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Central America
Old Providence
Carribean Sea
Lom
Mosquito Coast
Desperate Affray in Boston Ends in Stabbings and Death
Boston on October 18 1857 reports a fierce altercation over admitting a nuisance on High street. John Donovan was stabbed by Henry L Sutton who then killed John Hilton alias the Limerick Boy before Sutton was captured. George J Sutton Sylvester L Bacon and shipmaster were arrested. a policeman was shot during a burglary arrest and died several hours later.
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Boston
Murners
Henry L. Sutton
New York
California
John Donovan
High Street
Donovan
Sutton
Liverpool Wharf
Donnovan
John Hilton
Hilton
Dirk
Jacob Todd
George J. Sutton
Sylvester L. Bacon
Galota
Ezekial Hodgdon
East Bostét
Survivor recounts voyage on Central America and Arctic
Mr. Grant, a survivor of the Central America, reports he floated on plank and a boat for eight days without food or water before rescue. He says he was also aboard the Arctic when it sank and survived by floating on a hatch for fifty two hours before being picked up.
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Grant
Central America
Arctic
Snow and gale wrecks claim crew in Oswego harbor
A terrible gale accompanied by snow at Oswego Tuesday caused a vessel to capsize with all hands lost. Snow fell briefly in New York while Bangor and other Maine towns reported snow covered ground.
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Oswego
New York
Bangor
Maine
Walker filibusters delayed by finances to November
Private reports say two Walker expeditions set to sail from New Orleans and Galveston are postponed to early November due to financial pressure. They plan to land at a Costa Rican port and march to San Jose, aiming to seize the country. 1800 to 2000 men compose the force as U.S. and Britain align against filibuster activity.
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Washingtam
Washington
New Orleans
Galveston
Costa Rica
Atlantic
San Jose
New York Commercial Advertiser
United States
Walker
Nicaragua
England
W. P. Landon
Burr
Territory of
Utah
Placerville
California
Salt Lake City
Toshan
Landon
Monkst
Peter
Surveyor General
Brigham Young
T Ney
Mr. Landon
Placer ‘Ville
Carson Valley
Zion
Bankers Tussen and Dausen Close Doors in St Louis
In St Louis on October 19 bankers Tussen and Dausen shut their doors. Weekly statements show coin at half and State Bank circulation and deposits down about 70 percent with a larger drop in gold. The steamer Tropic sunk near Waverly on Thursday with initial reports of ten lives lost. Full details awaited.
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St. Louis
Messrs
Carriage and horses tied to Mr Garner’s fall from fortune
The Broadway sighting of a splendid carriage with a “for snug” ticket on its back is tied to Mr Garner who recently failed for millions. He moved from a grand Avenue residence to a small two story house in the Seventh Ward, the Goop Examete notes.
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Broadway
Garner
the Avenue
Seventh Ward
W. Y. Mirror
Money Market Quiet. Little, Brown & Co Rumors Declared False
The Boston money market remains quiet with banks handling most business. Rates are two percent per month on street quotes, with collateral allowing reductions. Rumors of Little, Brown & Co. failure circulate but are unfounded as the company’s business prospects remain strong.
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Boston
Little, Brown & Co
Inquest into Death of Duncan McDougall in New York
An inquest in New York investigated the death of Duncan McDougall a 34 year old Scotland native admitted to hospital on the 11th after swallowing two artificial teeth with a plate. He was consuming soup when the accident occurred the teeth and plate migrated to the stomach and lodged at the cardiac orifice causing ulceration through into the pericardium.
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Holden
New York
Duncan McDougall
Scotland
Local Attempted Arsenic Robbery in Detroit
Two men valued at several thousand dollars attempted cyanide like poisoning in Detroit and bought arsenic at a drugstore. They asked a shilling for the amount but were beaten down to ten cents by the assailant.
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The
Detroit Tribune
Speculation on Banks and Buchanan's View Faces 19th Century Politics
A Washington correspondent relays Buchanan’s stance on banks and currency, arguing he condemns banks as moral and financial evils. The piece notes a potential Democratic tilt against banks amid party power and gold scarcity, while historians predict a rise of a National Bank, tariffs, and bankrupt law as fresh issues.
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Washington
New York
Buchanan
United States Senate
Democratic Party
Guthrie
Weskroy
Congress
Kansas
Shipwreck survivors said to be massacred on Formosa island
Dispatches from Com. Armstrong to the Navy Department report an English merchant’s tale of Formosa aborigines holding wrecked sailors. He says 130 whites were killed on the island coast in 1830, another vessel with 18 foreigners was wrecked in 1812, and all but two were drowned or ransomed to Canton.
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Washington
New York Herald
Navy Department
Com
Armstrong
San Jacinto
Shanghae
Chins
Formosa
Canton
Street Assassination in New York City
At 10 o'clock Saturday evening engineer John Swenson of West 27th Street walked with his wolf along Tenth Avenue near Slat Street when three youths attacked. One stabbed him to the heart with a dirt knife. the assailants, aged about eighteen or nineteen, escaped unapprehended.
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New York
John Swenson
West 27Th Street
Tenth Avenue
Woman Hurt Badly in New York Central Crash
Among the injured is Mrs. Lizzie Franklin of Warren. She sustained a fractured arm and severe spinal injuries and is reported in a dangerous condition following the New York Central Railroad accident.
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New York Central Railroad
Lizzie Franklin
Warren
Warren, R
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