30 Dec 1848
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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1848
Page
1
The notice outlines weekly publication costs and rates for marriages and deaths, obituaries, and political notices. It states charges for subscriptions, advance payment rules, and a plan for yearly advertisers with potential liberal discounts for yearly ads and new subscribers.
The narrator proclaims the spirit of light and love controls vast powers from air and ocean depths. It pledges to illuminate the world, transform storms into clarity, and end tyranny by spreading truth and freedom as dawn rises across nations.
W Thompson argues for a central Mississippi to Pacific rail line via El Paso del Norte and Gila Valley. He cites Mills and San Diego harbor merits, estimates two-thousand mile span, potential tolls, and the federal credit needed. The plan promises national unification and vast trade with Europe and domestic commerce.
The Indiana Senate and House organize on December 4 1848 naming Charles Test as Secretary of State and Frank Emerson as Assistant Secretary along with Charles Warner as Door Keeper. The Senate recesses after adopting a resolution to dispense with a sergeant at arms. The House elects G W Carr Speaker and Isaac Smith Clerk with Dobson Dowling and Brady/Cox committees named to greet the Governor and open daily services. The schedules include further ballots for prison warden and state official posts in subsequent sessions.
The column surveys varied items including an odd domestic quarrel over a wig and pudding, a claim about Cincinnati hotel ambitions, a court flogging anecdote, a comic quip about big men and plate forms, a riddle about the letter K, and notice of Benjamin West's youngest son's death in London.
A historical draft outlines admitting Upper California and New Mexico as a sovereign state with Congress power to partition new states along Sierra Madre and California Mountains. It proposes Eastern and Western districts, federal judges, a marshal in each, three annual court terms, and appeals to the US Supreme Court. The plan envisions two representatives, one from New Mexico and one from California, plus potential senators from those divisions. The territory would admit as a state once Congress enacts the law and electoral processes begin for a constitution.
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