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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1841
Page
2
Citizens favoring a Logansport Public Library are urged to attend a council chamber gathering on Monday evening to discuss establishment of the library. The notice appears in the Logansport Telegraph dated March 6, 1841.
After a period of low mood Logansport shows revival in business and improvement. Preparations are under way to erect ten or twelve substantial buildings this summer. The Logansport Manufacturing Company plans to improve the water power with the construction of a large Flouring Mill.
The Ohio Statesman and the Dayton Journal caution the public against receiving notes of the Bank of Newberryport Massachusetts Globe Bank Bangor Washington County Bank Calais Bank and Bank of Augusta Maine as spurious notes prepared for circulation in the West.
The Kentucky Legislature elected Governor Morehead to fill the Senate seat left by Mr. Crittenden who has been named Attorney General of the United States.
A local election will be held in Logansport on the first Monday in April to fill a vacancy for an additional Justice of the Peace in the township.
The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette reports that every patent issued since 1836 is void because the General Land Office countersignature and the Private Secretary's presidential signature were not affixed. The lapse endangers titles to land worth over sixty million dollars due to public official carelessness.
The Committee of Foreign Relations reports on McLeod and the burning of the Caroline. It notes British military strength as a world force likened to a million men under arms and warns that avarice and ambition drive modern statesmen amid ongoing East Asian conflicts.
A rumor cited as the Spy in Washington claims the United States government has received authentic accounts of twenty American ships seized by the British suspected of involvement in the slave trade.
The Philadelphia Sentinel reports 3309 miles in use costing 86 million dollars and yielding about 5.5 percent. Projected miles, finished and unfinished, total nearly 40000 across the nation.
The NH Legislature approved a divorce measure decreeing dissolution in favor of the innocent party where the other is convicted of a felony and imprisoned or becomes an habitual drunkard for three consecutive years. The US House will likely have a Whig majority of twenty five to thirty. Benjamin Whitney starts a New Orleans cotton factory aiming to produce about 100000 yards this year.
Governor McNutt of Mississippi references a Bank of the United States pledge of state bonds for a loan from Baron Rothschild. He condemns Rothschild with harsh charges, claiming vast mortgages and influence over global finance and holy sites.
A letter to the Telegraph discusses three convention types for Cass County elections and favors a nonpartisanPeople of the County approach if feasible. It outlines ethics for office, praises qualification, and details state funding decisions including 100000 dollars in Rail Road Iron for Madison and Indianapolis railroad, 50000 dollars for Wabash Rapids, and calls on Illinois for matching funds, plus provisions for completing unfinished works and debt payments.
The Indiana Journal reports a bill confirming land selections for the Wabash and Erie canal segment from the Tippecanoe River mouth to Terre Haute passed the House after Senate approval. The act confirms lands to Indiana and allows substitutions if preemption rights existed, limiting total land to one half of five sections on each canal side.
The Legislature has passed an act to classify public works. It designates the Whitewater canal from Brookville to Conn ersville the first class and the Madison and Indianapolis railroad to Edinburg and the Grand Rapids of the Wabash below Vincennes as first class. Other works listed in the 1836 act form the second class with a sum of 150000 dollars part of the suspended debt being appropriated.
The British government informs Secretary Forsyth that the Amistad Africans, seized from a Spanish slave voyage, must be recognized as free persons under Spanish law. Britain cites the 1820 abolition, 1817 treaty, and Ghent terms, urging the U.S. to act to secure their liberty.
Secretary Forsyth replies to Mr Fox on the Amistad affair noting the United States cannot control judicial proceedings. He states Spain may restore the enslaved Africans to Cuba under Spanish protection and that treaty questions may be discussed under proper jurisdiction and time. The letter emphasizes friendly sovereigns and noninterference in legal tribunals.
An officer of the U S S Peacock reports the July 24 attack on Malalo Fejee Island. Underwood and Henry were killed while trying to retreat with crew. Islanders later confessed the ambush aimed to procure flesh. Monument funds and memorials are planned.
A Pearl Street clerk in a country tavern offers to drop money into a hat from anyone who lasts the longest. An old farmer and a London cockney compete with coins in a humorous scene, but the farmer refuses to take the whole and treat the room. The note appears in a New York plant item.
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