Industrious Farmer Practices Seasonable Planting and Harvest Notes
The fragment outlines farm work from spring planting through summer and into harvest. It notes manuring, plowing, weed control, sowing plaster, and the sequence of crops including wurtsel, potatoes, corn, and wheat. It also references winter stock care, threshing, fuel, orchard planting, and urging readers to subscribe to the Plainfield Gazette. The piece mentions Michigan’s new constitution provisions and praises newspaper readership. It ends with a vivid view of San Francisco’s growth and commerce.
Democratic State Convention and Whig Electors Meeting Notice
Democratic Erectors of New Jersey plan a state convention in Trent on September 25 with delegates by Democratic voters. Essex Whig Electors meet August 30 to elect delegates for a Whig state convention in Trenton on September 4 to nominate a governor candidate. Antiquities note Nineveh Babylon and Rome walls with measurements. a telegraph hoax reports a supposed negro insurrection in Als.
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New Jersey
Trenton
Noex
State Central Committee
County of
Essex
Alsbares
Liberty and equal rights spark debate in New Jersey
The Plainfield Gazette argues for inalienable rights and denounces special privileges while criticizing Whig leaders. It recalls the Declaration of Independence, condemns slavery’s legacy, and notes reform efforts in New Jersey politics and law, including votes on property qualifications.
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Adams
Gerry
Hopkins
Sherman
Stockton
Morris
Rodney
Harrison
Hancock
Washington
New Jersey
Whig Party
United State Bank
Mate
Baskay
Jackson
Ieee
Braddock
Butcher
Busby
Carpenter
Fritz
Hageman
Hineline
Hooper
Mapper
Hornbeck
Hoxey
Hurt
Huyler
Loller
Marlow
Newell
Nizon
Opdyke
Phillips
Pries
Ribble
Remsted
Risley
Sithens
Tinsman
Abraham
Brown
Bentons Stand Against the Compromise Bill Inspires Praise
A long encomium to Senator Thomas H Benton praising his opposition to the Compromise Bill, crediting him with resisting sectional betrayal and defending unionist principles. The piece lauds his courage amid political storms and notes tributes from sympathetic presses while detailing reactions to Texas and California debates.
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Taoxas H Bentton
Senator Benton
California
Senate
Benton
Henry Clay
Ashland
Benneath
Thomas H. Benton
Wilf
Population Growth and Jewish Communities Rumors in Nineteenth Century Journal
The Telegraph notes population growth from 1 035 in 1834 to 3 088 by 1840 in a township area with about 7 000 people in surrounding regions. It mentions a predicted 50 000 Jews in US cities and a synagogue to be built, alongside rumors of a church resignation and a clerical succession.
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Telegraph
John Murphy
Tod Joseph Bryant
Barry
van Vors
Astres
Ion
Vewaeel Ae
Deaths and funerals announced for Bias Frazee and others
Bias Martha Frazee died in this place on the 24th at age 23. Her funeral sermon will be preached next Sunday morning at 10:30 in the Methodist church due to the storm. Also noted are the deaths of George Whitfield, 14 months old, and William Smith, 1 month, sons of local families.
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Bias Martha Frazee
Jotham D. Frazee
Dmethortist E. Church
George Whitfield
J. B. Brown
William Smith
John Boylan
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Plainfield
Michigan
Supreme Court
Freman
San Francisco
Ninevah
Babylon
Walla
Diana
Ephesis
Egypt
Thebes
Carthage
Rome
Plainfield Gazette
Plainfield, N. J
Albert D. Drake
S. G. Gould
N. H. Morgan
Hartford
Wna
Morgan
Don
William Livingston
Anty
William Paterson
Richard Howell
En Hunter
Elias P. Seely
Peter D. Vroom
Philemon Dickerson
William Pennington
Daniel Haines
Susse
Charles C. S
Vinorsta
Friends of Stitution
Joseph Bloomfield
John Lambert
Aaron Ogden
William S. Penno
Ae Mahlon Dickerson
Isaac H. William Garret D. Wail
Samuel L. Sow Rin Han
Tarevne
Texas
Santa Fe
United States
Congress
the Tribune
McKennan
T. Butler
King
A. F. Hopkins
Ala
J. L. Pettigrew
South
Courier
New Mexico
Journal of Commerce
Africa
Southern
Georgia
Augustan Chronicle
Towns
Harntesvec
Virginia
Othr Persops
Sailor
Portlaxp
Kenebec
Portland
Mornining
Cumberland
Morrerat
St. Lawrence
Buffalo
Bridgeport
Boston
Webster
Eisnor Oxnenpoxx
Fathers of the Church
Mass
Eales
A. H. Gale & Co
Third Avenue
Thirteenth Street
New-York
Mith & Lounsbery
Brussels
Sip Rama A
York
Chathemet
Hiss Manderson
Rasc Alderson
Bowery New York
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