Idle talk harms social happiness and invites discipline
A moral exhortation warns that untrue and ungovernable speech ruins happiness, fuels suspicion and quarrels, and breaks up close bonds. It urges scrupulous speech, kinder words, and accountability to the divine for idle words, then folds in a Civil War era letter from the Alton Telegraph about the Encampment of Sucker Company traveling west, noting health, leadership, and progress toward St Joseph with a guard of wagons, flags, and a growing company of emigrants.
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Alton
California
Dean Lin
Missouri
St. Joseph
David Adams
Big Blue River
Fort Leavenworth
Independence
St. Clair Company
Jarret
Gifford
J. W. Buffum
California News From Crescent City May 1 1849
From San Francisco details arrive via Crescent City noting 126 passengers on the California steamer with near one million dollars in gold, 500000 freight and abundant emigration. Reports say California gold yields and discovery extend south along the coast near Santa Barbara. San Francisco crowded, housing and provisions scarce. Provisional government talk in California continues as miners await Congress action and a potential state government in the fall. A road survey for a Panama route progresses with cautious optimism.
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California
Crescent City
New Orleans
Chagrea
San Francisco
Forbes
Pacific
Alec
Santa Barbara
Lower California
Congress
Col. Hughes
Panama
Inauguration of President Sparks at Cambridge College
The Cambridge Chronicle reports the June 1849 inauguration of President Sparks at Gore Hall Cambridge. Attendees included Gov. Walker and Hon. Washington Barrow. Sparks impressed students with a classical inaugural address and a well delivered Latin oration. Illumination and decorations by Cambridge ladies and Cushing of Watertown highlighted the celebration. Class Day plans and a Harvard reception followed, with a late evening illumination on the grounds. A Cambridge horse race near the Course drew crowded crowds and noted fast trotting times and heavy drinking, prompting reflections on racing advantages and drinking excess.
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Sparks
Gore Hall
Walker
Werb
Pierce
Old Harvard
Washington Barrow
M. C
Tennessee
Harvard Hall
Cushing
Watertown
Cambridge
Spanish Warren
Lst Ia
University Hall
Harvard
West Cambridge
Boston
Burglars Active in the Neighborhood and Theft at Foster House
Burglars appear to be prowling in great numbers with several houses broken into in recent weeks. The Foster residence on Kirkland street was entered Monday night and silver plate worth about $1000 stolen, with the culprits escaping unseen. The editor notes the Lawrence Courier carried an extra on election returns for 1948 and a local directory among other items.
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Charles C. Foster
Kirkland Street
Lawrence Courier
Lawrence
River to Albany Railroad Elevates New York Travel
Correspondent describes arrival in New York and progression of the New York and Albany railroad up the Hudson to Piermont and beyond. Notes include the Erie purchases after the Empire accident, strict navigation laws, ongoing construction of piers depots and a costly sea wall, milk trains daily to New York, and the fertile Goshen Orange County countryside with notable bridges and scenic valleys along the line.
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New York City
Thomas Powell
North River
Piermont
N. Y. and
New York
Newburgh
Erie R. R. Co
Albany
Pérmon
Port Jervis
Binghampton
Owego
Lake Erie
Goshen
Orange County
City to Country Contrast and Cholera Fears
The writer notes the warm hospitality and rustic simplicity of country folk versus city formality. Cholera fears in New York ease as cesspools and filth draw concern. A Knickerbocker voyage from New York to Albany’s Point landings and Boston trip details are described with remarks on boat accommodations and safety by the line’s conductors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Knickerbocker
Allyn’s Point
Boston
The Genius of Itany and Other 1849 Works Reviewed
Review summarizes Turnbulls The Genius of Itany and Bayle St John Adventures in the Lingan Desert with notes on Arnold Guyots Banta and Man and Cloughs A Long Vacation Pastoral. It praises Turnbulls blend of history and inquiry, notes the English translation of Guyots lectures, and critiques the questionable originality of Cloughs poem.
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Lingan Desert
Oasis of
Jupiter Ammon
Bayle
Transatlantic Reviews on 1849 English Works and Local School Debate
AGleaned miscellany reviews praise Ripley and Ware on preaching, Kaloolah and other popular books, and a Toronto or Cambridge Chronicle venting over a month long autumn vacation. The piece contrasts foreign works with American tastes and discusses public school calendar decisions and catechism penalties.
Supposition on Mr Norton's datachise Penalty Inquiry
A Cambridge correspondent questions a court record claim about Mr Norton's datachise, challenging The Antiquary's rationale and asserting the editor’s value in correspondence. The letter expresses diffidence toward dissenting from a respected writer but support for contributions to the paper.
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Cambridge
Penmanship in Public Schools Should Start With Motion
Cambridge Chronicle argues that penmanship lessons must begin with controlling hand and arm movements before forming letters. It urges teachers to train free, easy motion, use slate exercises for curved letters, and involve parents in monitoring daily practice to foster observation, discrimination, and intellectual growth.
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Steve Caomm
Thas
Europe and Atlantic News Summary from June reports
From Europe and America, the steampacket America arrived in Boston with Paris to the 7th, London to the 5th, Liverpool to the 9th of June. Parliament has not decided Canadian affairs. Lord Elgin may be sustained. Death sentences on Irish state prisoners are commuted to transportation for life. The French president sent a senate message to the National Assembly praising its ability. Blessington, famed writer and social figure, died in Paris on June 4. Rome remains defiant as Maxzini denounces the pope and priests. Hungarians claim victories. no details. Russia’s march and Austrian actions are sparse, with Venice bombarded. Trade shows no material change. England and France harvest prospects improve for potatoes. Ireland nears the potato crop season amid famine fears and food shortages.
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Robert Turnbull
New York
George P. Putnam
Turnbull
Loce
Rome
Florence
Venice
Europe
America
Boston
Paris
London
Liverpool
England
Lord Elgin
National Assembly
Blessington
Paria Tume
Maxzini
France
Ireland
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Ile
NEW York & Erie Railroad
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Felton
Arthur Hugh Clough
John Bartlett
Sidney Smith
Maansachusettan Quarterly Review
Ang
Common Sense
Bartlett
Henry J. Ripley
Newton Theological Institution
Henry Ware, Jr
D. D
Gould, Kendall & Lincoln
Washington Street
Ripley
Ware
Messrs. Gould Kendall & Lincoln
Kaloolah
Tur
Jostan Henson
Canada
Arthur D. Phelps
the Chronicle
Tam
T. W
Ma. Eviron
Antiquary
Coffin
Newburyport
Thomas Scott
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