California Admitted and Boundary Bills Passed
Bristol Post Reports Congress approves California admission and Texas and New Mexico boundary settlements. In Washington and New York celebrations include gun salutes and public cheers. Resolutions praise the bills and honor key statesmen such as Clay Webster Cass and Dickerson.
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House
Senate
California
Texas
New Mexico
Arine
Washington
New York
Baery House
Ananima Oaly
Conprem
Hon- Clay
Daniel Webster
Lewis Cass
Daniel 5
Ickineon
House of Reptatives
Thirtewo
Congress adjournment in prompt, to restore calm to people
Each House of Congress approved a plan to adjourn on the thirtieth, promising a season of calm. The session has stretched to nearly ten months, with much debate and delays. Members should have completed business in a third of the time, since prolonged discussion delayed decisive actions.
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House of Congress
Supreme Court session closes for county term
The September term session in this town concluded with judges Green Haile and Brayton presiding. Cross actions between Nathaniel Coggeshall and William Carr were discontinued with no costs. An adjacent trespass case Asa Peck et al v Walworth Heath et al was heard with a jury viewing the premises and trial proceeding to last evening.
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Supreme Court
Barrington
J. R. Ballock
Samuel Ames
Alfred Bosworth
J. M. Binke
Potato Rat Disease Strikes Shia Town Crops
The town faces a severe outbreak of the Potato Rat disease described as the worst yet. Farmers fear heavy crop losses after weeks with scarce disease sightings and prior digging yields. the issue is widespread across New England though varying in intensity by region.
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New England
Record of Corn Fodder Yield on One Acre Farm
Mr Charles Potter of Presence Island reports a remarkable season producing twenty eight tons and eighty pounds of corn fodder from one acre planted with Southern corn in drills three feet apart. This note reflects historical farming methods and unusually high yields for a small plot.
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Vieuo
Charles Potter
Presence Island
Exposition of each chapter in a Bible year reading plan
Publisher notes from Bamve Hveston in New York announces the Ixivstaaree Donestic Binge by Rev. logram Corbett M A To be issued in numbers at 26 cents each with questions for family study and daily readings. The first engravings by A H Ritchie are praised and other embellishments listed. Agent A St. Stephen, 116 Hope Street, offers the book.
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Bamve Hveston
New York
Logram Corbett
Patep
Gonit
Lavr
A. H. Ritchie
Eaper
Kortane
Mountain Alte
A. St. Stephope
Hope Street
Concerts and Excursions Highlight Septembers News
The piece notes the House passage of the fugitive slave bill and Senate rejection of Seward's abolition bill. It reports Jenny Lind’s first concert with tickets selling at $2.95 to $6 and 1400 sold, predicting up to $80,000 in receipts with Lind donating profits to charities. It also covers a Rocky Point excursion by 300 Sabbath School members aboard the steamer Argo, with clambake, services, and praise for Capt Winslow and clerk.
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Wasuixeron
House
Senate
Mr. Seward
Jeany
Methodist Sabbath School
Rocky Point
Argo
Winslow
Wright
Excaance Corner House Buostox Hotel Ad
This extensive establishment has long enjoyed a high reputation as a first class house with central Boston location near banks post office and wholesale trade. It offers excellent accommodations and one dollar daily board. Those who try it once are sure to return.
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Excaance
Buostox
Poet Office
Boston
Eure
Coal railroad damage limits Pottsville shipments
The Pottsville Mineral Journal reports damage on the Lehigh at and near Mavich Chonk may limit coal shipments this season. Beaver Meadow Railroad is beyond repair this season, while repairs proceed on the Philadelphia and Reading line. Valley Railroad less damaged, Canal harm overestimated. canals expected to resume service in about a week.
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Pottsville Mineral Journal
Lehigh
Mavich Chonk
Beaver Meadow
Philadelphia and
Reading
Valley Railroad
Apparition Disturbs Passengers Aboard Commodore Steamship
A ghostly figure appeared on the deck of the Commodore during its voyage from Stonington to New York causing fright among forward passengers. Meanwhile Benjamin Lindsey King editor of the New Bedford Mercury suffered a serious accident, being thrown from a carriage and breaking his right arm with other injuries.
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Somvamnetisa
Stonington
New York
Indy
Benjamin Lindsey King
The
New Bedford Mercury
Panama in 1850 described by a Bristol correspondent
Correspondent from Bristol Phenix describes Old Panama eight miles north, rebuilt after Morgan's 1670 seizure. Notes stone houses two to three stories, tile roofs, ground-floor stores, upper livings, hammocks, four dimes nightly charge for a hammock and sheet, and street cooking with limited comforts.
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Bristol Phenix
Panama
Bayart
Morgan
Raine
St. Phillip's
Eastin Bay view and harbor scene described by voyager
The passage details a bay area with twelve churches, a native population seen as indolent, and a picturesque eastern shoreline. It notes thirty seven ships and four steamers at anchor, including a British steamer from Valparaiso and routes via Panama and San Francisco. Tides reach twenty two feet and evenings are bright with moonlight as temperatures reach the upper eighties.
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Uvion
Ramperia
Algo
Taboge
Valparaiso
Panama
San Francisco
Eudora
New Orleans
Carlsod Coggfartable
Jon Dias
Boundary Bill Passage Eases Nation as California Admission Moves
Washington dispatch reports Senate and House factions rejoicing after the Boundary and New Mexico bills passed, easing tensions over California admission. Utah’s status lingers as debates over slavery and Proviso provisions provoke sharp exchanges between Seddon and Toombs, while Southern Democrats express mixed relief and resolve.
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Senate
Hoone
New Mexico
Clay
Cass
California
Holmes
South Carolina
South
Seddon
Theo
Wilmot
North
Sedidon
Toombs
Calhoun
Welborn
Cobb
Houve
Oliess
Whig Meeting Passes Resolutions in Louisiana Parishes
A Donaldsonville meeting condemns Congressional agitators for sowing hostility between North and South and brands Senator Soule as false to his state and union. Assumption Parish echoes with similar resolutions, praising Senator Downs for his liberal stance in Congress.
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Donaldsonville
Ascension
White
Soule
Union
Assumption
Downs
Mississippi Governor Threatens Action Over Texas Territory
Governor Quirman declares conditional war against the United States over Texas claims to territory beyond the Rio Grande. He says Texas action would be despotic and urges Mississippi to join Texas, convene the legislature, and consider measures to aid in maintaining frontier rights.
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Texas
Turmoil in South Carolina After Territorial Bills Passage
Telegraph from Charleston reports residents outraged by territorial bills tread on Union flag protests erupt across districts. Public demonstrations organized, meetings called as tension rises in the state.
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Tae
Philadelphia
Hulletin
Washington
Charleston
Eny
Fuot
South Carolina
Saitone Home donation offered for Sailors' Home in New Bedford
Mrs Sarah Ky Arnold offers to donate the Water Street mansion once home to William Rotch and Bethel Court land to the New Bedford Port Society. She proposes a substantial basement Sailors' Home structure and Darling removal, contingent on subscriptions totaling $3000 to furnish and operate. The gift, about $8000, funds are to be raised by a committee.
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Saitone
New Berorono
New Bedford Mercury
Sarah Ky
Arnold
New Bedford
Dullaye
Capture and sentence in maritime case near Havana
Havana correspondent reports on the Susan Loud incident where Captain Benson and one mate were sentenced to eight years hard labor at Ceuta after a shipboard affair linked to an invasion plot. The other mate's fate remains unclear while Government and Auditor of War rulings trigger potential Madrid review and U.S. interference.
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Havana
Journal of Commerce
Rae
Lopez
Benson
Cevin
Madrid
United States
Gale and disease sweep Cuban countryside in August storm
Havana circular from Burnham & Co. reports a strong gale on the night of the thirty fourth of August damaging corn fields plantain trees and seriously injuring coffee plants sugarcane. The storm may severely affect the growing crop unless months of favorable weather aid recovery. Cholera cases were few in the city but deadly in the countryside.
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Havana
Burnham & Co
St. Jago de Cubs
Drifted man survives after finger loss on Lake Michigan
Detroit dispatch reports the steamer J. J. Morton rescued a man from a drifting vessel on Lake Michigan. The man, left adrift a week earlier after the vessel capsized, had eaten his fingers due to starvation but remains alive.
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Harriv
Detroit
Michigan
J. J. Morton
Apar
Lake Michigan
Sickness on the Panama Steamer Attacks Passengers
Captain Beard reports a deadly cholera like outbreak aboard the steamship Panama from San Francisco to Panama. Thirteen attacked in one day with only one survivor by morning. the ship reached Panama with many dead or missing names. After landing, panic drove most passengers to leave, and few details could be recovered. Captain B returned in good health.
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Beard
California
Masor
Boston
Panama
San Francisco
Custom House
Chagres
Record rainfall storms flood risk across towns
A heavy rain storm drenched the area with torrents and strong northeast winds. May record rainfall totals surpass earlier years with five inches at some spots and seven and a half inches at North Andover raising flood fears along Medford to Lowell roads. A Brooklyn correspondent notes 7.5 inches in 24 hours and compares 35 3-4 inches in five months to prior Aprils, signaling potential freshets and damage.
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West Cambridge
North Andover
Medford
Lowell
Brooklyn
Attleboro Fire Suspect Confesses Under Arrest
The Taunton Gazette reports David Leonard confessed to firing several barns in Attleboro while drunk. Leonard and Cunningham of Pawtucket were arrested after the incident, tying both men to the blaze near Conningham’s property.
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Taubton
David Leonard
Attleboro
Conningham
Pawtucket
Cunningham
Leonard
Peaches Arrive In Bulk As Prices Fall
The New York Express notes 63 000 baskets arriving Friday and 51 000 on Saturday with at least 800 000 sold in New York this season. Prices are cheap and traders are urged to ship peaches to Boston where they fetch about 1 50 per basket. At Hightstown kilns dry 60 bushels per day.
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New York
Boston
Hightstown
N. Y
Custom House decision affects New Orleans imports from New York
The port collector at New Orleans rules that merchandise sent by the American boat flag and transferred at sea is foreven goods and not eligible for the Coaster trade privileges under the act of May 87, 1848. This decision impacts transshipment practices and trade classifications.
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Decison
New Orleans
New York
Hoxena
Byston Daily Advertiser
Dearer
Train Disaster Kills Three and Wrecks Cars
A passenger train crash at speed 26 mph caused a second car brake failure leading to a catastrophic wreck. Three people, including Col. S. G. Mountford of New York, were killed. others were badly injured, with vivid scenes of mangled bodies and frenzied cries described by witnesses.
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Teanrue
Washington Summit
SBP
Bek &E
Col
S.G. Mountford
New York City
Mina Roeasle O Yy Dughiter
Delavan House
Mr. Whittemore
Leicester
Mass
James Hagerman
Amassa Richardson
North Adams
Mra
Dwight
Stockbridge
Mountford
Ihs
Pollock recovers crew from sinking brig Consuelo near Pritapetousa
The barque Pollock, returning to this port from Liverpool, encountered the brig Consuelo of Richmond Maine, from Pictou to New Port R. I., in a sinking condition after springing a leak during a gale. Pollock rescued eight aboard the Consuelo and brought them to port, then took the captain and crew aboard.
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Pollock
Liverpool
Consuelo
Richmond
Pictou
Newport
S. S.E
Sloop Mary Gray Rescues Man From Worcester Steamer
In a mid sound rescue, the sloop Mary Gray led by Captain Church brought aboard Mr Loom of Norwich after he fell from the Worcester steamship about an hour earlier. Loom recovered quickly, wore a dry suit, and telegraphed his father from New London that morning.
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Hallop
Mary Gray
Church
Uncasville
New York
Coures
Loom
Norwich
Worcester
Loome
New London Chronicle
Cholera Surge Reported in Harper's Ferry and Virginia
A despatch dated the 6th says twenty new cholera cases occurred on Saturday with eight deaths. The outbreak has spread to Lagrange in Oldham County Virginia with about 76 cases and 25 deaths in the early days of the month, causing widespread alarm.
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Harper's Ferry
Lagrange
Oldham County
Virginia
Spain
Edwin Forrest Arrested on Wife’s Complaint in New York
Edwin Forrest was arrested yesterday on complaint of his wife and held to bail of $10,000. It is said she feared an assault from Jim.
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New York
Edwin Forrest
Jim
Firemen Riot Ignites City District and Injures Several
Philadelphia reports an overnight riot after a fire at Jno Newlauser’s wheelwright shop at South and Willow. The blaze, likely arson to provoke retaliation, damaged the shop and tools with losses around $1000 and $300 insurance. Firemen faced brickbats and pistol fire. Andrew Little was seriously wounded, and Dean and Alien were injured protecting a woman. Linton and McDougals of the mountaineers were arrested.
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Philadelphia Bulletin of
Loth
Jno
Newla
Willow Streets
Luss
Willow and
Loubard
Andrew Little
George Linton
John McDougs
Mountaineers
John Dean
Josédph Alien
Dean W
Commencement attendance at Brows University noted
Fifty three students have entered at this commencement and others are expected. Provisions indicate Whitty-ning in all en rod.
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Brows University
Public warned of altered one dollar notes in circulation
The public is cautioned again about Merchants' Exchange Bank New York notes altered to tens. Detecting the forgeries relies on recognizing the odd genitive forms and distinctive engravings.
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Merchants’ Exchange
Bank
New York
Naval officer ordered to command U S ship Piret
Fragmented text states Naval Lieut Peter J Deror and Newport officer assigned to command U S schooner Piret in an unclear, ominous note about murder and coercion involving a young woman in harsh conditions.
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Naval
Peter J. Deroér
Newport
U. S. Schowner Piret
Hime Equadron Gwmns
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