Bank Loss Freely Beared to Save the Bank’s Credit
A former bank official recounts an 1840 loss from cotton advances to Mr Jaudon, repaid by Bevan Humphreys and Jaudon using Texas securities. Chancellor Kent and others sanction the bank bearing the burden, while the speaker declines a direct claim but settles to preserve peace and avoid controversy. The episode ends with the peculiar barter of securities to cover the over advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fuet
Europe
Humphrey and
Biddle
Liverpool
Bevan and
Humphreys
Jaudon
Mr. Jaudon
Bank of the United States
Hueth & Co
Messrs. Bevan & Humphreys
Humphreys and Biddle
T. Dunlap
Jandon
James Kent
New York
Texas
London
Kent
The Office Seekers and a Cave Tour Described
The article contrasts political office seekers with public virtue and cites Rome as an example of laws against intrigue. It then details a cave tour describing a subterranean route from a rocky ascent to a grand pillar, noting dimensions and features of chambers and columns along the way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
United States
Remarkable Epsom Salts Cave Described in Indiana
A letter from 1818 recounts an Indiana cave near Jeffersonville in section 27 township 3, with salt deposits described as snow like. The cave sits on a 400 foot hill with a southeast view, oak and chestnut on top, cedar to the southeast, and a dry entrance about midslope. The descent leads to a spacious chamber about a quarter mile long, eight to thirty feet high, ten to twenty feet wide, with arched and flat roof sections and a forked passage forming a right and left branch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Adams
Kentucky
Indiana
Epsom Salts
Jeffersonville
Harrison
Maj. Floyd
Big Blue River
Future wealth and population of the American continent
A foreign encyclopedia writer argues that full development of American resources could sustain 3600 million people, five times the world’s current population, within three to four centuries. He predicts the plains of the Mississippi and the Amazon will become centers of civilization as wealth, science, and freedom spread with numbers and intelligence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Globe
America
Euphrates
Nile
Europe
Mississippi
Amazon
Josefh Torr
Sixth Street
Philadelphia
Torch-Licht Procession Honors Harrison in Albany Night
The Albany Evening Journal notes a Torch-Licht procession on Saturday evening. Firemen in uniform led by a full band carried the urn and pall, lit by 600 torches, moving through the city streets between 8 and 10 oclock. The scene drew widespread spectators and conveyed the community grieving for the late Harrison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Harrison
The Resting Place by John Newland Maffit
An essay on death and quiet repose, describing the grave as a tranquil, perpetual rest where the living cannot disturb the sleepers. It envisions future revival at the trumpet’s sound and the dead awakening to divine call amid ages of change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Newland Maffit
Death of Mrs Jennet Smith of Sparta Illinois
Mrs Jennet Smith wife of Mr William Smith formerly of Indiana died at the house of Mrs Elizabeth Pettit on the 18th instant after seeking medical aid in Jackson county Illinois Her friends in Logansport Indiana are consoled she died with religious comfort A funeral sermon was given by Rev Geo J Barrett of the M E Church with Rev Mr Riggs of the Presbyterian Church Present She left an infant daughter aged two in Mrs Pettit s care
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Pettit
Jennet Smith
William Smith
Indiana
Jackson Co
Logansport
Geo. J. Barrett
M. E. Church
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Messrs. Bevan and Humphreys, Phila
Nicholas Biddle
the Telegraph
Remarkable Cave
Cass County
Wallace
Palmer
Eel
Clinton
Jefferson
Miami
Boon
Tipton
Bethleham
Clay
Adams
Maj
The
Albany Evening Journal
Sparta Ilinois
Badl’s
Amarante
Lowell
Jn Bontess
Fesaves
Taz Lowell Mints
Orrexine
Masa
FLAX
Timothy
Spencer & Rice
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