Knowledge of County Expenditures as Public Right
A call for annual public statements of county revenue and expenditures to inform citizens. The piece argues a plain itemized report by proper officers, published locally, would improve government fidelity and public trust, urging universal adoption during retrenchment debates. It also notes advertising growth and hints at political tensions surrounding Know Nothing activity and policing.
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Couild
Pla
API
Loaitenite Democrat
Eester
Dupreaders
Know Nothings
Louisville
Srey
Snp Garland
Pola
The Cause of Happiness and the Mind’s Regulation
A reflective essay argues happiness is rare despite sensory pleasure. It states humans cause their own unhappiness, not by external fate, but through a lack of discipline. Senses tempt with nature’s pleasures yet only a well regulated mind yields true contentment, avoiding self destructive excess.
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Tem Onon
Three Thousand Clergymen and Anti Romish Politics
A nationalist broadside condemns a New England clergy alliance aiming to fund political action against the Church of Rome and wield secular power. It traces fears of Rome’s political influence, reports Baltic arrivals, Russo Turkish war moves, and a Maine Law incident of a scalding nose in a domestic dispute alongside regional crop prices and rail comments.
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New England
Church of Rome
Rome
Wheat yield estimate in treaty era measure
Gow Yieun-Cot Z Bo Ghiarn notes that the Republic has threshed wheat from treaty times as measured by the drill. The yield is 39 bushels to the acre, with 40 as a potential if not for a slight affectation of the scour.
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Gow Yieun
Cot Z Bo Ghiarn
Republiem
Political Edges Forming at Syracuse Convention
From the New York Herald report the upcoming Syracuse convention on the 29th aims to unite the Democracy in New York and secure their triumph next fall. The Denton Journal notes eccentricities at Pratt's Branch Camp Meeting including locals admiring oversized walking canes, while Prof Eisenwalp departs for Philadelphia after three years as a Dover music teacher.
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Uston Ov Raz Democracy
New York
New York Herald
Syracuse
Pernocracy
Denton Journal
Eiscawatv
Philadelphia
Dover
Smyrna
Eisonwalp
F. A. Jorpay
Eisenwatp
Kent County Agricultural Society Meets in Dover 1855
Kent County Agricultural Society gathered at the Court House in Dover at 10 AM with President Warnes presiding. They discussed leasing a two-acre lot from the Catholic Church of Wilmington for five years, forming premiums for an October exhibition, and ordered immediate publication of the premium list. The minutes from the last meeting were read and adopted, and the society adjourned to the second Tuesday in October.
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Kent County Agricultural Society
Dover
Agricultural Society of
Kent County
Court House
Warnes
Mantove Hiyes
Wilmington
Geo. P. Fisher
Messrs. P. Miller
M. Hayes
G. P. Fisher
H. Cowgill
Early 19th Century Debates on Henry Clay and Religion
Fragmentary text discusses Henry Clay and the Whigs in a rhetoric about unity with northern anti-British sentiment, referencing a 1818 Congress speech and religious commonality. Includes assorted trade data: imports and exports for months in the mid-19th century, with figures for foreign and domestic commerce and specie, plus comparisons to prior years.
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Henry Clay
Irberts
Seth Amora
Mar
Riot at Louisville in August election turn violent
Terrible riot erupts in Louisville as clashes between American and Irish groups explode near Main Street and the German brewery. Gunfire, arson, and property destruction surge through the Eighth ward with multiple deaths, numerous injuries, and a large mob demanding peace and policing.
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Louisvile
Borge
Ators
Trttinens
Amencétté
Epee
Eighth Ward
Main Street
Rhodes
Chappell and
Market
Graham
Robson
Eleventh
Quinn
Times Office
Mr. Prentice
Trisha
Bullock
Court House
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Bae Celtic
Foumen
Liverpool
Kara
Erzeroum
Yenikeni
Kors
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Malakoff
Bale
Austria
Europe
Russia
Maine
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Ton
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Middletown
Red Lion
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Chetr
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Baltitimore, Md
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Milford
Reporter
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Kitt’s Hammock
Trape
Poly
Trish
Tunes
Louisvi Lis
Edward Williams
Joseph Selvage
John Latta
Latta
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Williams
Shelby
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Jefferson Street
Irshman
Barbee
Fifth Ward
Main
Chapel Streets
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Msual Proclamaton
Bishop Spaulding Publsshed
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P. Meing
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Catharine Street
Second
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Thomas Naulty
Samuel Holt
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