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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1842
Page
1
Terms of the telegraph specify two dollars in advance and two dollars fifty cents within six months. After six months, a three dollar rate applies. Subscriptions are due after six months. Job work and advertising must be paid in advance.
Correspondent notes New Year's Day scenes in Washington with crowds visiting the White House, President Tyler and cabinet officials, Marine Band playing, and social events. Mentions Temperance Society displays and anticipated Riflemen's Ball attendance. Also covers House and Senate tariff debates, Exchequer plan discussion, and treasury note bill proceedings with remarks on protection and manufacturing interests.
In the House, Mr Hunt moved a joint resolution to limit Presidents to one term. The discussion followed Mr Adams's resolution proposing further limits on presidential terms.
In the House on January 6 1842 a dispute arose after private claims were disposed of as Mr Saltonstall’s committee on manufactures proposed granting power to summon witnesses nationwide to probe tariff evidence. Mr W C Johnson opposed placing the matter under manufactures favoring Ways and Means or a select committee.
In Cincinnati a 2000 strong mob attacks and destroys banks including the Cincinnati Bank, Miami Exporting Company Bank and Exchange Bank. Letters report doors and desks torn out, fronts demolished, and widespread destruction as public anger rises against银行 shinplaster notes and illegitimate banks.
The piece urges education as essential to constitutional guardianship and national progress, noting Ohio ranks ninth among states. It retells a Sioux legend from the Great Spirit and pipe stone, describing a ceremonial rock site and calumet tradition preserved in folklore.
A Cin Gazette editorial scolds Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia for lagging and harboring foreigners, urging pride of state to be rebuked at this display of ignorance.
Folklore fragments recount Choctaw deluge tale of a light found in the north and a raft that saved a few. Sioux myth of creation features the Great Spirit, a spirited snake, and a pipe stone germinating humans. Red Pipe symbolism and tribal oaths for war or peace are also noted as enduring beliefs.
The brig Creole, carrying 135 slaves and five others, mutinied on November 7 near Nassau after departing Richmond October 27. Slaves killed three, wounded others, and looted. a Baptist minister Bourne allegedly guided plans. Captain and crew survived. Nassau authorities confined nineteen slaves. Five slaves later chose freedom and returned to New Orleans aboard the Creole. The captain’s dog killed in the struggle.
During a college vacation Angepote or Daniel Wensten and his brother returned to their father in Salisbury. The father forced them to mow to earn back education funds. Daniel claimed the scythe did not hang right. After the father adjusted it and it still failed, Daniel calmly hung the scythe on a tree and declared it hung very well now, fully satisfied.
The exchange features Pere Martini explaining why music is harder to judge than other arts. He cites two reasons: music must be innately felt like love, and most musicians who write about music cannot write well, while those who can write do not understand music.
A proposal in Alabama suggests holding Legislature sessions only once every three years. Advocates argue cost savings and long term planning, while opponents warn of reduced oversight and delayed responses to emergencies.
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