Ohio Railroad Company Directors Outline Charter Benefits
The Ohio Railroad Company outlines its chartered status, anticipated route, and anticipated public and stockholder benefits. Directors expect costs to fall short of engineer estimates, with dividends seen as safe and productive, while highlighting state support and donations valued at about half a million dollars. The synopsis notes survey progress from the Pennsylvania line to Persyburg with 177 miles along a nearly level path and estimated total expense for double and single tracks around 1.975 million.
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Ohio Rail Road Company
Ohio Railroad
Ohio
Ohio Railroad Company
Utica and Schenectady
Super
WN. Allen
Painesville Telegraph
Pennsylvania Line
Manhatten
Perrysburg
Whig Convention Called for Huron County Norwalk Meeting
August 23 1837 Whig Central Corresponding Committee of Huron county invites Whigs of Huron to meet in Conven ton at the Court House in Norwalk on Friday September 1 at 1 PM to nominate and transact business for the October election. Emphasis on full representation and remembrance of 1830 defeat and 1836 triumph. Signed James Williams John Suller E Sheldon S Pennnewell S Worcester August 8 1837.
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Huron County
Conventon
Court House
Norwalk
Ion
James Williams
John Suller
E. Sheldon
S. Pennewell
S. T. Worcester
Whig Central Corresponding Committee
Whigs Rally as Elections Near in Ohio Districts
The Whig party shows renewed zeal and unity across Franklin Pickaway and Clark Champaign districts. Gen J L Green in Franklin Pickaway is nominated for Senate, with Gen G confident to win by five hundred to a thousand. Andrew McElgain is slated by Venocracy to be defeated, while John H James is again nominated for Senate in Clark Champaign. The paper urges full turnout and united effort at the convention to secure victory.
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Franklin and
Pickaway
J.L. Green
S Senate
Franklin
Clark and Champaigne
John H. James
Senate
Charles Anthony
Clark
Anthony
Huron
Bank Talk and a Humble Monster in One Page Fold
The text satirically links credit to national strength and banks to national life, imagining a national bank as essential to govern and regulate exchange. It hints at political change with phrases about Benton, the Regency, and empire, contrasting hard money fears with a broader critique of monetary policy and power.
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Ian Thie
Ead
Benton
Cue
Yorick
Political letter urges unpartisan banking reform in Huron county
A Norwalk appeal to the Whigs calls for September meeting to nominate a representative free of bank interests. It laments rising banking power and suspended specie payments, urges a general banking law with personal liability, and warns against party-driven choices undermining liberty and constitutional order. JEPFERSONIAN
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Huron Reflector
Messrs
Prestoxs
Norwalk
Huron County
New York
Union
Ohio
Cain
Jepfersonian
Ode and political critique in old Democratic era press
Fragment from the Political Register featuring a verse defending Van Kinderhook and denouncing Whig federal aristocracy. The piece laments Democratic debates, mocks the Experiment editors, and hints at monetary concerns while requesting information on a blind boy from Holmes County.
Wilberforce Colonization thanks Ohio Michigan donors 1837
An 1837 Wilberforce Colony notice commends citizens of Ohio and Michigan for a timely cargo of pork flour corn meal and salt sent by agent Mr Lewis. The letters express gratitude, outline aims to build a learning institution on the manual labor plan, and note support from Norwalk and local clergy.
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Wilberforce Colony
Wilberforce Colonization and High School Company
Upper Canada
Ohio
Michigan
Lews
Canada
Merbewis
Norwalk
Oluo
J. E. Chaplin
A Newton
Lewis
Indua
Elections in North Carolina and nearby states shape district loyalties
The National Intelligencer reports Whig Stanley elected over Van Buren rival in a three-county North Carolina district by about 700 votes, a sharp shift from 246 presidential margin. Mississippi shows Van Buren wins around seven thousand, Indiana notes Amos Lane upset by Dunn, while Kentucky hints Southgate wins. analysis questions broad political realignment. The piece criticizes U S government payments to Menomonee Indians in goods, warns against treaty violations, and argues banks’ influence on state legislatures harms liberty.
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North Carolina
Congress
National Intelligencer
Stanley
van Buren
Pettigrew
Mississippi
Nashville Union
N.C
O. S. Journal
Kentucky
Cincinnati
Southgate
Newport
Covington
Phelps
Indiana
Amos Lane
Dunn
Cincinnati Gazette
Van Buren’s acts over professions in New Jersey conflict
The Van Buren governor convened the New Jersey Legislature after suspending specie payments and urged a law to legalize the suspension. The bill passed the Assembly but was defeated by a Whig Senate. A separate note reports a lake Michigan shipwreck: the steamboat Bunker Hill crew reports the brig North Carolina capsized near Mackinaw with many on board lost. the Bunker Hill later towed the wreck a few miles, fifteen lives suspected lost.
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New York
Virginia
Mississippi
Alabama
Connecticut
Michigan
van Buren Party
van Buren
New Jersey
van Buren House of Representatives
Bank
Clece
Herald and Gazette
Chicago
Bunker Hill
North Carolina
Michigan City
Mackinaw
Lake Michigan
N. Carolina
P. S
Cleve. Herald Ug. T
Counterferrers Arrested in County Police Probe
On Saturday evening three men were arrested on suspicion of passing spurious bills totaling about 6,000. John S. Martain, Geo. L. Davis, and Benj. F. Shephard faced police screening. Davis claimed militia service and a Livonia New York family, while Shephard said he lived in Hamilton Washington area until two weeks prior. All were committed for trial at General Sessions on the 28th, after questioning by Justice Barton.
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John S. Martain
Geo. L. Davis
Benj. F. Shephard
Peru
Ilinois
Davis
New Orleans
Natchez
Shepard
Livonia
Livingston Co
N. Y
Hamilton
D. C
Barton
Holden
Pat
Mexico Gossip Warns of Texas Descent Plan
From El Censor Vera Cruz files June 20 to 30 a deep dissatisfaction with the Mexican government is evident. General Filasola is harshly censured for aiding the squadron, while Bustamante’s policy aims at recovering Texas. The balance seeks no war with the United States, yet aims to launch a descent on Texas. Pensacola Gazelle notes Lake Erie is 270 miles long and 60 miles wide with a 120 foot depth and a surface near 565 feet above tide at Albany.
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Mexico
el Censor
Vera Cruz
Filasola
Castro
Burrough
Pacific
Texas
Bustamente
Republic
United States
Pensacola Gazelle
Lake Erie
Albany
Clayton Ascension Captures Louisville Sky
From the Louisville Journal Augnet reports Mr Clayton ascended from Woodland Garden in a balloon. He describes a 45 minute stay in the atmosphere, landing on Churchill Farm three and a half miles south of Louisville. He plans a dawn voyage next day with hopes of favorable winds and continued aerial progress. The piece lauds the display as a record in U.S. ballooning and notes public fascination and praise. It also mentions political debates in Ohio about party lines and a New York scene at the Eighth Ward room with Irish locals.
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Louisville Journal
Clayton
Woodland Garden
Celile
Mr. Prentice
Churchill
Louisville
Kentucky
R. Clayton
Church
United States
Captain Cooke
Christopher Columbus
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