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Newspaper
Delphi Dollar Journal
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1855
Page
2
The Delphi Journal notes Governor Messaar’s message has arrived but is too long for today. It hints the Bank and School laws should be amended and criticizes the governor and the last Legislature for blunders. A synopsis may appear next week.
The Indiana Legislature organized on Thursday electing Sulan Turman as Principal Secretary of the Senate and Chas N Shook as assistant Secretary with Charles G Warner as Doorkeeper. In the House David Kilgore of Delaware was chosen Speaker Levering of Tippecanoe Principal Clerk Coburn of Marion assistant Clerk and Hubbard of Henry Door Keeper. The Message was delivered to both Houses on Friday at two o clock.
The House and Senate party tallies show 26 Democrats to 24 Republicans in the Senate and 58 Republicans to 42 Democrats in the House. Republicans hold a 14 seat majority on joint ballot.
News from abroad reports the steamers Atlantic and Asia approaching with a week late update. Sevastopol affairs remain unchanged. Prussia has dispatched a special Envoy to England. The Foreign Enlistment bill sparks heated Parliament debates. Austria warns if peace fails she will call up 16 per thousand men, totaling about one million, as soon as possible.
The note reports a destructive fire at Lafayettette involving an oil mill and three warehouses. A Mr Rose is said to have been burned in a warehouse and presumed killed, with the building set ablaze. Confirmed details promised next week.
A Temperance memorial circulating in numerous counties urges the Legislature to pass a Prohibitory Law based on the principles of Seany, Seizure, Confiscation and Destruction to end traffic in intoxicating liquors. The petition asks the Senate and House of Representatives to enact measures that would seize and destroy all liquors kept for illegal sale.
The Peru Sentinel reports the Recorder's office was burglarized on Saturday night last, resulting in the loss of $300 in specie. The Farm and Shop, an agricultural paper from Indianapolis, has been discontinued.
The St. Paul Daily Times reports the upcoming wire suspension bridge at St Anthony as the first Mississippi crossing. Eight cables with about 1 000 wire strands span the stream, enabling crossing at an estimated cost of 60 000 dollars and hailed as a great achievement for a territory under a decade old.
The Memphis Whig reports that Earl Holland and two Chapins linked to the Martha Washington fire were brought from Helena to Cincinnati on the Julia Dean and all were acquitted. Capt. Cummings and wife and another Chapin may travel today, with prosecutor Sidney C. Burton recently passing through on the Midas.
The Daily State Journal notes swift House organization by fusion supporters and an endurance fight in the Senate where old line members push to delay the United States Senate election. It suggests efforts to provoke jealousy and possibly disregard the law to stave off the vote, with broader remarks on religious emigration and naval power comparisons.
City cartmen in New York have convened to seek repeal of the longstanding residency requirement on Manhattan Island. About 10,000 men are affected by the law in the metropolis.
The piece notes upwards of sixty clergymen elected to Massachusetts Legislature and reports New York's population around 700 000 with rapid growth. It mentions counterfeit notes circulating and Senator Pettit visiting for endorsements, plus village results from the House election listing Kilgore as Speaker and other clerks and officials.
Nebraska papers admit Capt. N B Giddings administration election. Territory residents faced opposition from Missouri voters as Kansas did, with citizens not easily swayed.
Friday morning Mr Cravens of Jefferson county offered a resolution to oust the 81 Wells and Hunt into censuring the President for swearing in Mr Matthis of Harrison and directing that he Bebo ost and the seat given to Peter Glenn. Both resolutions were voted down ages 19 nays 25. House a United States Senator resolution was laid on the table. A resolution admitting reporters within the bar passed after objection. The clerkkeeper was directed to act as Sergeant at Arms. The Senate, by invitation, offered an appropriate prayer. Much time was spent on resolutions concerning assistant clerks and doorkeepers. Committees on Temperance and township business were ordered to be raised.
The English House of Commons passes the enlistment bill for 40 000 foreigners amid heated debate. Premier figures and opposition clash over neutrality while Milner Gibson warns against mercenary forces and Russia’s use of privateers. Amid war news, finance shifts and Vienna ratifications frame the broader crisis.
The British Japanese treaty is described as favorable. Sir James Sterling sought France like terms, but the Japan minister refused. A special French mission will be dispatched. Gen Harney is among the passengers by the Asia.
Description from the San Joaquin Republican details a massive gold specimen weighing 161 pounds with an estimated value around 38 920 dollars based on a 1725 per ounce price. The find from Calaveras County involved a four American and one Swiss company, secured in a strong box and to be sent to New York by Adams & Co.
A London Times correspondent describes brutal winter conditions in northern Russia. Open sleigh travel exposes troops to extreme cold. only fire can resist it. Sheep skins and layered accoutrements are urged, as woolen gear proves insufficient, with boots and toes at risk when feet frost.
In Waterloo Illinois Mrs Sepp wife of the town baker was found murdered at night with a knife wound and multiple stabs. She cried my father leading villagers to suspect Philip Best an elderly neighbor. Best and John Roller were arrested after tracks led from Sepp’s yard to Best’s house.
A list states banks branded as “thrown out” by bankers and trading at about 25 percent discount while balance of stock banks sell at par. Institutions named include Atlantic Bank Jackson Bank of South Bend Fort Wayne Albion Covington Connersville America Morocco Bridgeport Albany New Albany T Wadsworth Michigan City North America Newport Auburn Drovers Bank Rome Elkhart Co Bank Goshen Great Western Bank Terre Haute Merchants Bank Springfield Merchants Bank Lafayette Northern Ind Bank Logansport Orange Bank Poseyville Plymouth State Stock Bank Logansport Peru Steuben Co Bank Angola Trader's Bank Terre Haute Upper Wabash Bank Upper Wabash Wayne Bank Logansport Wayne Bank Richmond Farmers Bank Jasper Northwestern Bank Bloomfield Starke Co Bank Knox.
The piece notes Sir Robert Peel's rambling speech in Parliament and accuses a young officer in the Alma battle of cowardice in Inkermann. It recounts failures at Sevastopol, Raglan, and Menschikoff, and mentions Kossuth writing for the London Sunday Times and Prince Albert gaining weight as an English patriarch.
The Kokomo Tribune reports a Sunday night intrusion at a new grog shop where an auger bored through a wall spilling gin and cherry bounce. The owner found a flooded room the next morning and began cleaning, lamenting profits lost while noting the line about there being many a slip between cup and lip. An unrelated line about Soviet shell costs is included.
The New York Tribune estimates widespread job losses across Newark trades. Iron workers half discharged, printers and stereotype workers largely out of work, bookbinders mostly idle, builders with little work, masons down to about 1,000 employed from 7,000, wages cut from two dollars to one fifty, two thirds of batters, half of tailors idle, and six thousand sewing women facing unemployment.
A tiny relic in the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury office describes the General Post Office Ledger No 1 kept in Benjamin Franklin’s hand as Postmaster General. It records ninety four post offices and shows the postal year ending October 5 1776.
In Plymouth Banner report an unprovoked murder occurred at John Johnson's residence as Isaac Ash struck Robert Johnson with a gun barrel twice on the head. The head was fractured and the victim died about eleven hours later. Ash fled and has not been captured. The deceased had many friends and leaves a widow and children.
The Tribune's Russian correspondent reports a fifty million ruble loan to the Russian Government has been secured by the Streightz house in St Petersburgh, placing the czarist treasury in admirable order.
A private letter from Mr Behan U S Consul at Mt Sinai recounts severe cholera outbreaks. City population dropped to under 50 000 with at least 20 000 deaths between August 22 and September 10.
An apple shown at the Agricultural Fair in Salem Oregon Territory weighed 83 ounces, highlighting the event's curious produce display and local horticultural interest.
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