Economic Signs Improve in Frontiers Regions
Land values exceed £20,000 per year at Wellington with £16,000 elsewhere. The panic that chased migrants has subsided. European arrivals grow slowly, while natives turn to wheat farming and livestock. External commerce and internal traffic show clear signs of expansion.
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Wellington
Plymouth
Barbican
Thomas Putt
Dolphin Inn
Near
Dolphin
Putt
North America
R. N. Alger
Derby
York
James Kelly
Liverpool
Eliza Falkner
Heaton Norris
Kirkdale
Slavery Debate and California Gold Mania Across Nations
The Canada arrives after New York and Halifax passages as slavery dominates US politics in Senate and House with three plans and strong Southern resistance. California gold rush fuels panic and emigration plans, with routes via Chagres Panama and overland prairie paths, plus a proposed Isthmus railroad granting vast land grants and free ports, aiming for 1851 operation.
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Canada
Liverpool
New York
Halifax
Columbia
Senate
House of Representatives
Clayton
Supreme Court
Douglas
California
Benton
Missouri
New Mexico
Calhoun
United States
House
Territorial Committee
Giddings
Ohio
District of Columbia
South Carolina
State Senate
Congress
Virginia
Washington
Publicus
Philadelphia
Morning Chronicle
Boston
Portland
Baltimore
Charleston
New Orleans
St. Louis
Pittsburg
Louisville
Cincinnati
Albany
el Dorado
Crosus
Gold
Chagres
Ithmus
Panama
Pacific
San Francisco
Rio de Las Plumas
Feather River
Sacramento
Tropics
Cape Horn
The
Horn
Fort Independence
Prairies
Rocky Mountains
New Grenada
Atlantic
Pacific Ocean
Foreign Miscellany describes gold rush vice and illness
A California correspondent to the New York Tribune reports widespread vice and sickness among gold diggers. Sailors abandon ships for dust and heavy drinking, yet no quarrels arise due to ample digging room. the writer notes the grim toll as people die without burial and observes ships left abandoned while crews depart.
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Mora
California
New York Tribune
Heroine of Rainbow voyage defends ship from mutinous mate
Captain Biden recounts Miss Arnold’s conduct aboard the Rainbow from Southampton to Aden after her father’s death. Facing a drunken second mate, she appeals to the crew, orders all spirits thrown overboard, and secures protection for the ship and herself. The crew guard her, captain’s remains are kept, and arrests follow.
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Henroint
Madras Spectator
Biden
Arnold
Rainbow
Aden
Southampton
Miss Arnold
Haines
Thomas
Chelmsford
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