05 Dec 1846
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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1846
Page
1
The notice outlines pricing for yearly advance subscriptions and ad space. One-year prepaid is 200 dollars, within the year 250, after expiration 300. A 10 line square advert runs for 3 weeks at 100 dollars, with 20 dollars for each subsequent insertion and yearly advertisers receive a liberal discount.
A list of individuals tied to various Iowa locations including Jackson Township Gass County Boone Township Hawk s Mills Rochester Pleasant Grove Fulton County Lockport Lewie burg Winemac Kokomo Perryeburgh and Miami County The names include Waterouse How s Grorce Senevocx Sureron Mace Beanh Konan Barns Keass Doucias and Hensley among others with multiple spellings and typos noted in the document.
A poetic passage proclaims not to live for self while praising communal harmony. The piece shifts to economic news: negotiations to extend the Lightning Line from Pittsburg to this city to connect with major eastern cities. Editor Case plans a Washington visit to finalize routes through Cumberland to Wheeling or via Philadelphia. The importance of the line is urged, with hopes for city completion in six to eight weeks and further extension toward New Orleans, plus questions about regional aid.
Stockton announces American governance of California after entering Los Angeles on August 43 and declares military rule until civil offices are established. He outlines loyalty oaths, residency restrictions, armed-sailor presence, and a plan to elect alcaldes. The notice also fixes a September 15 election date for municipal officers.
The passage argues that uniformity in books and classification is essential for a school’s collective character. It claims that without standardization teaching becomes wasteful and rote, and proposes coordinated recitation across geography grammar and arithmetic to avoid fragmentation.
Correspondence from Washington discusses the Santa Anna and Almonte free pass through the US blockade to Vera Cruz. It argues who authorized the passage, cites the Alamo and Goliad crimes, notes casualties along the Rio Grande, and mentions European diplomacy and Louisiana flour shipping amid war.
Intelligence from Natchez says Lieut Ezra R Price of the U S Volunteers and two companions were found slain near Camargo to Monterey route. Seventeen Mexican soldiers lay nearby. the men were armed with revolving pistols in a presumed desperate encounter. Price, brother in law to Lewis Sanders Jr of Natchez, had joined Sparrow Guards in Concordia and later went to Camargo to support Gen Taylor's advance.
The article argues Europe faces harvest shortages while America, though abundant, cannot prevent rising bread prices. It notes France and Austria tight for supplies, America sending flour and grain, but warnings of canal freezes and shipping disruptions threaten trade. It questions maintaining high duties amid looming crisis.
From the army front the Picayune reports the death of Captain Randolph Ridgely after a fall from a horse near Monterey. The Edith and other transports bring officers and paymaster Dashiell with gloom spreading among troops. Mexican troop movements near San Louis Potosi and Tampico are discussed with Santa Anna’s forces amassing north of Saltillo.
Fragmentary speech accuses Gubner Danting of profiting during the war by selling taters red eye to soldiers at eight dollars a gallon. The speaker asserts he did nothing else.
A grocer asks a boy what he wants from two bottles and offers a cent’s worth of beat yeast. The boy chooses both bottles and asks for a cork. The grocer implies charging the cent and sending it home, while the boy says his mother insists on payment.
Fragmentary text describes a creature in Treland with a skiver on its back. Characters Ay Irni An Patrick Faith Wil Cap tin discuss the animal and a misdeed or event. Overall the source is damaged and contains no clear reportable event.
A letter questions public charity by focusing on judging a “loafer” and a drunken man. It asks whether a poor widow with many children deserves help when neighbors are pressed to act only after rivals finish, suggesting neglect of the afflicted.
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