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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1850
Page
2
Plainfield Lyceum members will gather at W. W. Davison’s school house on Tuesday evening next at 1 4 of 1 o clock to discuss a posed question. Albert D. Drake is named as the authorized agent for subscriptions and advertisements.
An editorial advocates a course of lectures by church pastors for the youth to shape character on moral principles amid concerns about immoral influences and light literature. It urges attendance, supports republican ideals, and notes Europe news from the Cambria, including Russian demands and Ottoman tensions.
The piece extols the rising spirit of enquiry among the masses, praising the press as a vehicle for truth and progress. It urges humility in communicators, predicts light against error, and pleads for spreading truth from pulpit, lecture hall, and printing press. It also references New York City commerce on Catharine Street and upcoming publications, urging subscriptions to Tar Bos Journal and Trexton1ax.
Debates touch on Speaker election movements and committee appointments amid tensions over California and Deseret admission. Critics argue Senate hostility to universal rights of all men, warping democracy. House actions include petitions for postage cuts and naval reforms, with memorials on chaplains and government issues referred to committees.
By end of 1848 New York had 1614 miles in operation and on December 1 1849 there were 2133 miles, an increase of 510. January 1 1850 will show about 150 more, totaling 2283 miles. Nationally, 1849 added at least 2000 miles, lifting United States total from 6120 to about 8120 miles.
A flourishing mill has been erected at the Niagara Falls suspension bridge site. It sits on the river bank 250 feet above the water and is connected by a cast iron shaft 270 feet long at a 45 degree angle to the power source.
The New York Sun pledges to prepare a message more acceptable to the people upon three days notice for any Whig or Democratic Executive, without Cabinet Reports, as a counterpoint to the December 25, 1849 document. The column also lampoons tobacco substitutes and missionary bragging with a taraf-related Indian anecdote.
The Trentonian digest finds the proffered message largely noncommittal and old in tone, detailing Britain relations, the Poussin affair, detentions in New York, Reyabduction, Hungary, Portugal, Rome, Mexico, Central America, and a proposed Isthmian railroad, with tariff and subtreasury brief mentions and a warning against sectional topics. Separate items report a lawyer’s cross examination, a wire-cutting arrest in St John, NC, dressmakers aiding newspapers, West Troy laziness, Cincinnati population, Savannah shad, and a closing note on truth in philosophy.
The article argues against naturalizing foreign women who reside permanently in the United States noting they cannot vote and may lose property to the State. It cites legal duties of the attorney general to protect widows and warns that current law deprives foreign-born women of clear title and enables seizure of estates upon sale or death. It condemns the law as unjust and despotism, invoking comparisons to Austria and Russia and referencing the Smithson bequest.
A fragment notes Indiana's state debt at 11,045,000 and suggests funding for every child in the state before birth, reflecting midcentury fiscal ideas on social welfare and taxpayer burden.
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