28 Dec 1839
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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1839
Page
1
A Whittier poem opens with a dawn war horn sounding and men rising for battle. It describes freemen marching from homes to the field of death, leaving daily labor, families, and loves behind as they pledge their strength to carve a broad free land with steadfast hearts.
At a December 14 1839 Whig gathering in the Indiana State House a majority of Whig legislators condemned caucus deliberations by the Democratic party. They denounced caucus dictation as a danger to republican government and pledged to publicize such actions until the dominant party ends caucus influence.
The Hon. J. D. Doty a Wisconsin delegate arrived in Chicago from Green Bay en route to Congress in his own wagon, the first person known to travel this way. He camped on the prairies at night during the journey.
During the past year 658,068 copies of the scriptures were issued by the British and Foreign Bible Society. The figure underscores persistent demand for religious texts and broad outreach of the organization.
The report outlines Senate actions on appointing a special commissioner to New York and other resolutions, plus House debate on per diem reductions and electing a public printer. Whig opposition cites constitutional concerns as Van Buren faction stalls voting, with John Livingston receiving 54 votes and many blanks.
The Senate spent Wednesday debating a resolution to elect the Fund Commissioner by joint ballot. Amendments were offered and the measure was modified to require separate viva voce votes in both houses, passing 27 to 18. A communication from Gen Stapp, the Fund Commissioner, was read. he is in New.
Correspondent reports a chaotic House session with the Naylor vote disputed after Wise's proposition to table. Turney of Tennessee led a furious outburst against Chairman Adams amid calls for proper rule enforcement and contested member ballots.
In a chaotic session Speaker and members clashed as insults and loud declarations filled the chamber. Debates centered on counting Naylor’s vote and addressing contested seats. A Rhett resolution to proceed with contested seat review passed 138 to 92, amid calls for adjournment and repeated attempts to control proceedings.
The Mississippi lands of W. P. Harris, a government defaulter, were valued at 36 000 but sold for 300 to his confidant after a cited sham sale. The maneuver enabled Harris to regain possession and keep the spoils, raising harsh questions about government corruption and impropriety.
The liner sailed from New York on Saturday carrying a cargo of 1.3 million dollars in specie. No casualties reported as authorities track the ship’s voyage and security details.
The essay criticizes public figures for private hardship while serving the nation. It recounts Gallatin Jefferson Monroe Harrison and Flo, noting long service, poverty in old age, and political maneuvering to aid veterans, including promotions and retirements as possible political leverages.
A local merchant exposed a major counterfeit operation with Mexican dollars circulating in Niles. Orrin Derby, who ran a brokers office, was arrested and bound over for the April circuit court session after an examiner’s probe revealed a wider network. A man near town kept a bogus casting machine and crude arsenic, suggesting a large, organized ring. Two men fled the area as investigations continue with prosecuting officials and citizens aiding the crackdown.
A 19th century note describes Icelanders performing a brief five minute head covering prayer whenever leaving home or embarking at sea. Dr. Henderson observed fishermen and others bowing heads to seek God’s protection, suggesting a culture shaped by isolation where maternal instruction deeply influences daily practice.
Col Worth departed Albany on Friday morning bound for the north western front in response to rumors of an unpleasant outbreak on the Canadian side of the line.
A Chinese artist depicts a youth of wealth and health falling, stage by stage, into opium ruin. It shows wealth and servants, lavish decadence, and finally poverty, degradation, and forced labor by wife and child to survive.
On November 19 the Vermont House of Representatives resolved to urge Senators and Representatives in Congress to pass a law providing a just distribution of proceeds from Public Lands among the states. It calls for land ceded under the common fund principle for the benefit of the United States.
From the Philadelphia Messenger a notice that Sully's portrait of Queen Victoria is now on display in Ashington. The paper also reports counterfeit ten dollar notes circulating on the Bank of the Northern Liberties with Pitfield’s name lithographed, and the engraving poorly done. Scarlet fever cases rise in the city and Buffalo. Also notes New Orleans papers, Atlantic crossings by a Liverpool steamer, sugar cane yield in Lafourche, a fire destroying the African Methodist Church near Camden, and railcar speed limits. Additional items mention a Randolph County Alabama gold discovery yielding $4000 in a day, a rich nugget over $320, seamen demand in New York, a Rochester and Auburn railroad car house, and emigration of free colored people to Trinidad.
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