15 Feb 1840
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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1840
Page
1
The poem recalls old forest chats and youth, noting changing times and separated hearts. It laments faded merry days and lost loves while trees and paths stay the same and memories survive despite distance and time.
In Norway a covetous fisherman Uric seeks wealth and a bride Margaret. The Wood Demon offers gold for marriage but tests hearts. Olaf opposes the match. Uric tries to abduct Margaret with gold. A deadly lake ordeal exposes greed as Uric drowns amid magical gold, while Olaf and Margaret wed with Demon’s aid.
An Army officer at Fort Towson Arkansas reports the burial of Gen George Calvert head Chief of the Choctaw nation. He is honored as a Revolutionary veteran who served under Washington Wayne and Jackson and received commissions and swords. Calvert promoted civilization through industry education and plantation life among his people.
The Eaton Register comments on a reported Mormon settlement bid, noting twenty thousand acres purchased near Des Moines Rapid across the river at seventy thousand dollars. It argues for peaceful coexistence and upholds free thought and speech as essential under a just government.
A religious discourse extols divine omnipotence using a planetary system, describing colossal celestial bodies and their motions to evoke awe. It emphasizes that the vast, incomprehensible motions demonstrate a power beyond human control and knowledge. CALHOUN'S LAND BILE refers to a Federal bill proposing land cession to states with staged price reductions and cash sales.
The late Counsellor Colebeck presided as a king's counsel at assizes. He lectured a husband guilty of bigamy and said the law allows transportation for seven years. He added that, if it were his will, the man would face life imprisonment with both wives in the same house.
A Virginian commentary notes 1840 as a leap year with February 29 and observes how the rare birthday occurs every four years. It mentions social customs where women may propose to bashful suitors to hasten courtship endings.
Harrison served eleven years as an Indian Agent and concluded thirteen general treaties, charging the Government 4000 dollars. Modern officers would have asked double per treaty, yet Gen Lartison upheld that he was a servant of the people, not their robber.
The piece evokes winter sleighing as a festive social ritual with couples riding, talking politics, and courting by moonlight. It describes a showy sleigh, jingling bells, a muffled sweetheart beside the driver, and the playful, lively scenes of snowy evenings and gatherings. See Sam Slick.
The Postmaster General reports sending a social agent to Europe to study postal systems in major countries, with findings to be presented to Congress. He suggests allowing the department to charter steamboats temporarily to counter mail extortion and notes 261 post offices opened in the year ending June 10, with no cases of misused funds cited.
The President defends constitutional currency and estimates national specie at 85.09 million dollars. He says about 5 million will be used by the government leaving roughly 80 million for the people about five dollars per person. Critics argue the division favors officials and harms laborers and farmers.
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