08 Feb 1840
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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1840
Page
1
In Frankfort Kentucky Jesse Bledsoe delivered an oration in December 1811 honoring the Battle of Tippecanoe and those who fell. The poem The Battle of Tippecanoe celebrates Harrison’s forces, the Wabash fight, and the dawn of victory with martial imagery and calls to arms.
The Court of Errors reverses prior rulings in S. and M. Allen v Merchants Bank of New York, holding a foreign bill not paid must be protested under New York law, affecting endorser discharge. This decision marks a major change, noted as significant for exchange operations and will be remembered in Indiana and Indianapolis.
News from Norwalk and Newport confirms the steamboat Lexington burned near Eaton's Neck with near two hundred lives lost. Passengers included Robert Blake and others from Wrentham Boston Providence and New York. survivors and fatalities described with rescue attempts and limited aid due to ice and harbor conditions.
Correspondence from New York reports the loss of the steamboat Lexington under Capt Childs with 150 to 200 aboard. Names of passengers and crew are published, including D Follen J Corley Henry Craig S H Finn Charles Woolsey John Brown Mason George Child Captain Stephen Isaac Davis Porter Felt and others amid widespread communal shock.
The Raleigh Star extols William Henry Harrison as the people’s hero and a true North Carolinian farmer. It recounts his long service from Virginia birth to Tippecanoe victory and calls on voters to support him, presenting his career from militia aide to congressman and minister to Colombia.
The Staun ton Spectator notes strong Whig enthusiasm in New York after Harrison's nomination. Readers report early Young Men meetings and ward gatherings with a general citizen turnout. The piece lauds Harrison as a patriot with extensive civil service and battlefield record, predicting the spoils era will end and crediting him as the People's Friend.
An Indiana Journal item reports a widow who runs a boarding house on Washington Street faced a mass loss of lodgers after openly backing Whig principles. It names lawmakers Sands Edmonston Stewart Nelson Lice from Montgomery as being punished for expressing their views. The piece cheers General Van Buren's stance.
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