26 Mar 1850
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Newspaper
Huntingdon Journal
Location
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1850
Page
1
A poetic meditation on death and afterlife. The speaker describes Death as a peaceful shore where no passions or woes intrude, envisioning endless blue tranquility, golden veined clouds, and an eternal sunset. They long to depart this weary life and find rest.
H. H. Sibley provides a detailed description of Minnesota Territory, its borders with Wisconsin Iowa and British possessions, size comparable to New York Virginia and Pennsylvania, and rich resources. The piece covers climate, rivers, forests, minerals, agriculture, pine lumber, and potential for population growth, along with notes on Native tribes, defense potential with Pembina settlers, and the hopeful future path to statehood.
The piece recalls the Genesis story of Adam and Eve, praising the first marriage blessed by God before the Fall. It contrasts pure, innocent union with humanity’s fall into sin, noting that while paradise was lost, marriage remains a symbol of sacred love blooming amid a fallen world.
In Paris Observatoire gardens M Patin the aeroboic plans a vast balloon or balloon fleet to carry up to three thousand people at once. He rejects old guidance methods and claims birds’ wing motion as the model. If successful it could upend war duties sanitary cords and prohibitions.
A curbed sermon urges self-reliance and bold beginnings to overcome inertia. It contrasts modern practicality with a busy, hardworking populace and warns against remaining idle. It cites Washington on Union dissension and praises a refined New coinage, ending with a reflection on the dependence of the rich on the poor.
Fifty years after their deaths two great figures, Washington and Napoleon, are contrasted as leaders. The piece lauds Washington for restraint, virtue, and deliverance of a nation, while Napoleon is depicted as brilliant yet doomed by ambition. It praises Washington’s legacy as timeless and venerable, with no need for monuments to honor him.
James Lover writes from California describing Sacramento as a booming camp of six thousand, tents and canopies, widespread exposure and rain, and food prices from flour at $20 per cwt to onions at $1 per lb. He details rough travel, mining methods, occasional fortunes, and his choice to wait for spring before pursuing tinning work, asking for letters home.
A man crossing New York in a cab discovers a five dollar bill he needs to change. At a nearby shop, a cigar vendor and several others pass a counterfeit Daytown Lumber and Mining company promissory note as genuine. The cabman is duped into exchanging the note for real currency, losing only a small amount. A bystander suspects the Yankee traveler and warns him to be vigilant in the village.
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