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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1842
Page
2
The Indiana Legislature plans to close the session by adjournment on Monday the 31st of the month, signaling an impending wrap of legislative business.
In the Indiana Legislature the House reports a long bill package on the state bank. It seeks to resume specie payments and repay debts from the state to the bank, funded by canal land proceeds and sinking fund transfers. A separate select committee bill proposes issuing 5 million in scrip to counties for redemption. The paper weighs tariff changes, land and bankrupt laws, and hopes for resolving extensive private government claims this session.
The Indiana Journal reports editor observations on Washington, predicting possible finance and currency reform, a restructured board, and potential bill changes. It notes scrutiny of government expenditures, a push to cut unnecessary offices, and debated cuts to congressional pay to curb session length and costs.
A Beirut consular letter dated October 20 reports violent clashes in Mount Lebanon between Druses and Christians from October 13 to 17. Forty two Christians and about two thousand Druses were involved. an armistice was arranged by Colonel Roze after English officers intervened with Eyab Pasha. The Maronite patriarch calls for arms as a mixed village shifts to the Druse side.
Report details brutal clashes between Druses and Christians from Deir el Kammer. Villages burned, hundreds killed or enslaved, hundreds of refugees sheltering in Beyrout. Turkish and Mexican violence also noted, with arrests, executions, and mob assaults on American diplomats and consuls.
An 1841 Independence dispatch details Texian forces in New Mexico, their advance on Santa Fe, and the capitulation of Texian troops after clashes with Mexican militia. It notes the surrender of Col. McCloud’s main body, Mexican celebrations at Vegas, and the confiscation of arms and belongings of the Texians.
On Friday the 24th the Schuylkill River rose ten to twelve feet in Philadelphia causing considerable damage according to the Inquirer.
A sale set for Saturday February 5 1842 in Logansport Cass County Indiana to auction rents and profits for seven years from part of Lot 17 Canal street Logansport. Property owned by John Yopst and subject to an execution in favor of Wm G and Geo W Ewing against Yopst and Grover. Sale 10 to 4.
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