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Newspaper
Mount Carmel Register
Location
Mount Carmel, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1859
Page
1
A poem recalls a village printer who built a thriving paper and town, then faced debt and ruin. The verses depict his influence, his paper’s praise of local life, and his gradual decline under creditors. The narrator contrasts fame with financial strain and elegizes the editor’s demise.
A narrator recalls visiting a vine covered cottage in a spring 46 village beside the Ohio. At a wedding, temperance themes clash with wine and drinking, revealing the downfall of a noble temperance advocate and the fates of Alice Ellerton Edwin Melville Ophelia and Frederick Duvall.
The piece recounts the 1822 Charleston plot led by Denmark Vesey to murder masters, seize women, burn the city, and escape to St Domingo, ending with mass arrests and executions. It then covers Nat Turner’s 1831 uprising in Virginia, its brutal violence, swift suppression, and Turner’s death, noting wide white fear and political stirrings before Harper’s Ferry.
A traveler arriving from Paris describes Pekin entering under the great wall and through the northern gate. He portrays a bewildering, colorful city with crowds, camels, beggars, cooks, barbers, and musicians, all amid carved wooden walls and gilded structures. The scene is a unique, dreamlike panorama.
The passage extols music as a refining and elevating force akin to art and worship. It argues music boosts circulation, energizes the body, and animates life, asserting singing is essential to religious education and worship as practiced in biblical times.
A historical note describes Tucson on the Santa Cruz River about fifty miles from Cerro Colorado, noting a small population of six to seven hundred chiefly Mexican and Indigenous residents, a sparse white population, adobe housing, and a dry valley irrigated by the river yielding one crop season. Timber is scarce and costly, with surrounding desert and rugged hills.
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