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Newspaper
Cambridge Reveille
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1850
Page
1
A lyric poem by George D. Prentice appears in Graham's Magazine for April. The speaker describes the evening scene with sunset, dew, and stars, yearning for Mary’s presence. The refrain Sweet Mary tis the hour of love repeats as imagery of love, life, and longing fills the night.
A playful chorus presents hearts as rental properties at ages eighteen twenty eight and thirty eight. It contrasts a pristine girlish heart with a fading older one, ending with the narrator moving on while the sign is taken down. The piece uses satire to reflect changing desire and aging.
A toast in Boston declares allegiance to the Union while denouncing disunionists. It condemns traitors who threaten the political framework and invokes a poetic curse against the offender, promising lifelong ignominy and public shame.
The Cincinnati Gazette reports L Caldwell published in the Lafayette Courier Feb 26 a tally of hogs slaughtered in the West last season. Ohio 23755 Kentucky 198000 Indiana 428575 Illinois 268100 Mississippi River 252900 Missouri River 75000 Cumberland River 100000 Other 25000 Grand total 1871830.
A boy recalls the romance of Sarah D and Joseph S- set beside a stream and a hilltop bench. The tale follows their forbidden devotion, Sarah’s frail health, and a final dawn of death and divine memory as love endures beyond earth. Immense longing, a pledged afterlife meeting, and a quiet, holy farewell mark the narrative.
A letter from the New York Mirror, dated Boston, reports jurors kept in the Grand Jury room under guard with meals and letters allowed. Juror pay totals about 175 dollars per day for nine days plus board and officer per diems, estimating two thousand dollars for the jury alone and noting many witnesses and officers incur immense costs for the commonwealth. The Webster case includes a two hour interview between his wife and him in the jail.
A London letter to the Philadelphia North American details a diabolical Austrian plan to kill Lajos Kossuth and other Hungarian prisoners. Count Stuymer allegedly organized the scheme with Croat assassins aided by a French financier. the plot was exposed in Constantinople, prompting arrests and wartime diplomatic alarm.
A steamer’s reports from Europe describe Mount Vesuvius eruption scenes of brilliant lava jets and a new crater. Observers note a five day display with nine miles of lava advance, towns affected, and rail lines running overnight to view the spectacle.
News from San Jose reports the February 9 Whig gathering in the Senate Chamber where D. F. Douglas was named President, James S. Graham and Madison Wathall as Vice Presidents, and El lison Dickey, G. O. McMullin, and A. W. Lucket as Secretaries. A committee drafted resolutions promoting Whig doctrines, urging federal support for California harbor improvements, light houses, and internal roads, protecting mining lands for Americans, and safeguarding settler rights and preemption laws.
In two or three counties there is talk of Kentucky delegates to the Nashville convention. The Lewisville Journal warns any man who goes in the name of Kentucky not to return to Kentucky if Tennessee rejects him.
An essay extols gratitude over envy, noting that true independence comes only after friends abandon you. It argues three things cannot be too short: visits, pie crust, and communications for the papers, emphasizing practical matters over imagined woes.
A correspondent details a perilous move to San Francisco in 1850. He notes a booming town with 50 000 people, wooden structures, and widespread gambling. He describes high rents, cheap provisions, and a miners rush with potential earnings, while warning of deadly street gambling and rough living.
The editor of the Southern Democrat complains of a Whig remark about a fire in the rear. He notes that only prior instance of feeling bad about a shot in the rear was in 1845 when a neighbor’s melon patch was discussed in Louisville.
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