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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1841
Page
1
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The Senate debated uniform bankrupt legislation with memorials from Missouri Illinois and Massachusetts. It referred a lands proceeds bill to the Judiciary and discussed Webster and McLeod related dispatches with Buchanan Rives and others. The House elected printers Gales and Seaton and adjourned.
Treasury Secretary Ew ing submits to the Senate a plan for a District of Columbia Bank and Fiscal Agent with thirty million capital. It would provide government stock for five percent dividends, branches in states, and government deposits and payments through the bank. The plan includes strict safeguards on debt, lending, and oversight, with annual stockholder elections and seven directors.
English paper notes a reckoned menagerie in a vast forest with 225 lions 302 leopards 278 panthers 67 elephants 10 rhinoceroses 2700 wolves 78 rattlesnakes 216 boa constrictors 1040 hyenas and 96 crocodiles.
A New York Superior Court ruling found in favor of Benjamin K Hobart a bank porter in a case brought by William Fitch a broker. A trunk with 500 in silver was deposited with instructions not to deliver except to Fitch or his order. Fitch later claimed the trunk vanished and was never recovered. The jury, after review, returned a verdict for the defendant.
The Senate remains industrious but delivers little real business as the minority pushes topics lacking propriety. Mr. Clay and others endure long harangues while the majority restrains extended debates that could delay the extras. The public backs the majority’s course, and readers are urged to consult the Congressional Record for House activity. A House Journal copy is sought for the British Minister to forward to mr D Israel for his Curiosities of Legislation.
A reflective meditation on tears as symbols of strength, immortality, and empathy. The text cites Dr Johnson on tears as eloquent messengers of grief and love, urging mercy toward those weep and acknowledging tears as holy, even pleasurable, in human life.
A New York Commercial correspondent argues that vicious ignorant boys become tools of thieves and end in prisons. He urges charity societies to join magistrates and avoid destructive paths by placing them in factories as apprentices to gain disciplined habits and become useful citizens.
A rural editorial extols agriculture as the main driver of national prosperity. It urges farmers to beautify and improve fields, reject thistles, and pursue practical farming, arguing wealth, morals, health, and even religion flow from agriculture and the farmer’s diligent labor.
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