Erie Weakens City Hall Power and Harbor Plans
A rural Erie editorial urges a strong city council to overhaul leadership, tax nonresident properties, and push a deep harbor and water works. It praises a plain spoken judge, notes murder verdicts, and calls for postal reform while listing local civic concerns and upcoming projects.
Legislative Jottings From the State Capitol
The weekly notes survey ongoing petitions for Free Banking and corporate banking, with state-wide interest in securities, gauges, and county issues. Discussions touch proposed rail gauge fixes, plank road acts, new counties, and a push for sworn tax returns and county tax administration reforms.
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Cantonwealth Rail and Waterways Receipts Report 1850
Financial totals note net receipts for 1850 surpassing 184 by 36204.61 with expenditures 998146. The cantonwealth rail and river passage at Clark's Ferry is cited against Susquehanna traffic. Prince John Van Buren attended a ball at Tammany Hall amid mixed reception with notable female attendees.
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Gas from new cheap lamp method proposed by Blaney
George Cadwallader Blaney of Fort Washita Arkansas claims a cheap and brilliant gas lamp made by a new scientific principle. The process allegedly costs less than one cent per thousand feet and will outpace all existing gas methods. A second valuable byproduct is produced with no wood coal water or vegetable matter required.
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Plank Road Meeting in Edinboro endorses project aims
A January 27 gathering in Edinboro formed a committee to draft resolutions on building the Erie and Elinboro Plank Road. The group praised the project as vital for trade and connectivity, urged contractor Galbraith’s perseverance, and called for published proceedings in the Erie Gazette and Observer.
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Erie County
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Erie Gazette and Observer
Fragmented Notes on Shipments and Society From Allentown
A mosaic of satirical snippets, local anecdotes, and brief notices from Allentown and beyond. The column laments editorials starving for copy, mocks sensational ads, and riffs on political figures, printers, and public life with a stream of quirky quotes, with scattered references to London, New York, and Philadelphia as context.
California News From The New York Tribune
Californias politics and gold mining dominate the dispatches from the isthmus and San Francisco. News covers the Panama Railroad progress, a major fire near Montgomery Street, new gold mines and leads, and the unsettled Senate race with Fremont faltering and rivals named. Strong mentions of Arista in Mexico and a California railroad banking on Vallejo as government seat.
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