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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1841
Page
1
The notice states two dollars in advance for the Telegraph, two dollars and fifty cents within six months, and three dollars after six months. Subscriptions are due after six months. Job work and advertising must be paid in advance.
A new act extends redemption rights for real estate sold on execution. It sets twelve month window to redeem by paying purchase price plus 12.5 percent interest, addresses junior incumbrances, stays, and bonds. It requires minimum half appraised value sales, three bidders, and specifies appraisal and publication rules. It excludes banks, savings institutions, and state or local officials from certain provisions.
President elect General Harrison arrives in Washington from Baltimore by morning rail with a large crowd braving a snowstorm. A Marin Band lead procession to City Hall where welcome speeches praise his future presidency and reform. He tours Gadsbys Hotel and meets many citizens and Congress members.
Strong reasons for a called session of Congress are echoed by a large majority of the people in this part of Indiana and acknowledged as urgent.
The Madisonian extracts a Colonial Magazine article from January 1841 arguing for immediate settlement of the boundary with the United States. It urges a strong response including a naval squadron to Halifax and formal pressure via the British minister in Washington to fix the line within a set time.
A Philadelphia gentleman advocates a massive ship canal from Lake Erie to the Ohio River. He believes it would be feasible and keep the Ohio River consistently supplied, with a junction near Wheeling where the river bed lies close to the lake surface.
An able judge of the interior was once obliged to deliver the following charge to the jury. Gentlemen of the jury, in this case the counsel on both sides are unintelligible, the witnesses on both sides are incredible, and the plaintiff and the defendant are both such bad characters, that to me it is indifferent which way you give your verdict.
Details from the New Orleans Picayune describe Col Harney’s expedition with 90 men to Cape Florida where Chechichi and most of his tribe were killed or captured. Chechichi died after a pursuit and exchange of rifle fire. seven warriors were hung in presence of prisoners. Women and children were moved to Cape Florida. Sam Jones’s men and two white women from a brig castaway were among those connected to the scene. An officer who first reported the attack is under arrest.
A near finished steam fire engine in New York resembles a locomotive with lifting jack screws for wheels. It has twenty horsepower, a large boiler, a fifteen inch hose bore, and can discharge three to four streams. Stationed in the fifth district near Burling Slip, drawn by two horses with driver, engineer, and fireman.
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