Plainfield Gazette Names Drake Authorized Subscriptions Agent
Mr Albert D. Drake is designated as our authorized agent to receive subscriptions and advertisements for the Plainfield Gazette.
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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1850
Page
2
Plainfield Lyceum Meeting on Slavery and Christianity
The Plainfield Lyceum will meet at Mr. W. W. Davison's schoolhouse Tuesday at 7 14 o clock. The discussion item is Ts Slave holding inconsistent with Christianity. Rev. D. T. Hill will deliver an essay. The public is invited. E M Doxx secretary.
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Plainfield Lyceum
W. W. Davison
D. T. Hill
E. M. Doxx
Senate proposal on Hungarian exiles sparks debate on liberty
A U S Senate resolution proposes granting free land to Hungarian exiles and others fleeing oppression. Critics question this approach, arguing for domestic justice first and suggesting recognition of independence on homeland soil would better advance liberty.
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U. S. Senate
Seward
Hungary
United States
Governor's Message Criticized for Lack of People’s Causes
The piece denounces the Governor's Message as noncommittal and urges advocacy for equal rights and hardy reforms. It cites state finances for 1849, prison earnings, lunatic asylum statistics, pilot duties, and notes militia decline and railroad commission action.
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G&g
Taylor
Free State
Wholesale Fish Store Advertisement Endorses Nelson Wells Co
Merchants are directed to a Wholesale Fish Store advertisement praising Nelson Wells & Co. The notice claims superior product quality and favorable terms available from the New York firm, suggesting it as the best source in the city.
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Nelson Wells & Co
N. Y
Lawmakers in Session Earn Three Dollars a Day
The Legislature has been in session six days or will receive three dollars a day for that time, and three bills have been introduced two of a private and one of a general character.
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Trentonian
Franklin's Birthday Plans in New York Planners Event
A fragmented notice notes Franklin's birthday celebration on January 17 and a planned event in New York with planners and a guest Greely. Details are incomplete, but the focus is on a Tennessee party organizer and associated figures.
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Franklin
New York Plnters
Horce Greely
Home of My Youth and a Sailor's Wanderings
A narrator recalls fourteen years since leaving his childhood home atop a New Jersey hill. He laments the changed landscape, praises the region's farms and villages, and recalls fleeing at a stormy night to become a sailor, visiting his mother's grave in grief and seeking forgiveness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotch Plains
Boundbrook
Leven
Recollection of Pangs Felt After Graveyard Farewell
The speaker reflects on spiritual remorse after a parting graveyard moment. They express sorrow for causing a mother distress with a harsh act, seeking repentance and hoping for solace in a higher reward. The note closes with a penitential resolve and a final plea for forgiveness.
New Jersey Legislature Debates Banking, Prisons, and Resolutions
The New Jersey Legislature conducts its session with committees named for Judiciary Education and Means while considering requests from Mercer County Judges and Bloomfield Essex Newark for charters and banking laws. Resolutions denounce slavery, disunion fears, and foreign missions, and lawmakers push adjournment and discipline motions amid petitions and introductions of bills.
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Judges of Common Pleas
Mercer
Judiciary
Bloomfield
Essex
Newark
Gill, Taylor and Graig
Reeves, Cassidy
Craig, van Brant
Walker, Garrison
Garrison
Land Olden
Rogers, Manmers and
Reeves
Morford, Satterthwaite and
Edmonds
Craig, Summerill, and
Olden
Satterthwaite
Grovr Mill
Summerill
Amicable Meadow Company
Senate
Mr. Tuttle
Abrahams
Delaware
Raritan Rivers
Hoxey
Passaic
Nees
Messrs
B Keuyler
Hackensack
Day
Day, Hagerman, Calf, Carpenter, and
Stebens
Condit
Bishop, Brown, Price and Certai
Congress
District of Columbia
Carolina
United States
Cong State
Hincline
Hineline
New
Easy
Vienna
Abrahama
California Steamer Cherokee Arrives at New York
The Cherokee capt arrived Sunday at New York after a collision on Thursday with 224 passengers and about 1,000 in specie aboard. Editor estimates population of California on Dec 1 1844 at 94,300 with Americans about 62,500 and Californians remaining. Prices rise sharply with meat and bread advancing to $50 a barrel and other goods higher.
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N. York
California
The
Insurrection fears and tariff debate across Europe
Reports from Vienna and Berlin describe a growing regional uprising with tens of thousands of rebels poised to join Croats, while Russia eyes pressure on Austria and Turkey. The piece also defends a protective tariff, citing its revenue success and stability against earlier forecasts.
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Vienna
Berlin
Forutdabe
Fontes
Pantie Usthren
Teskey
Turkey
Austria
Porte
Peterwordein
Esseg
Ruszia
Oaet
Servia
Russia
Hamburg
Lorsenhalle
Gazette
Breslan
Comora
Tariff Resolutions Rapidly Pushed Through Legislature
The legislature yesterday passed the tariff resolutions with no discussion. An aged Tren tonian praises the move as showing enlightened spirit.
Two Murders Shock County as John Johnson Arrested
The Paterson Guardian reports the last night killings of John S. Van Winkle and his wife, long residents, allegedly by John Johnson, a laborer once employed by the victims. A coroner’s jury returns a verdict of wilful murder and Johnson is in jail.
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Gaffle
John S. van Winkle
John Johnson
Johnson
Paterson Guardian
Extra
Vast U S Frontiers and Coasts Measured in Miles
The article computes U S geography noting a frontier line of 10 780 miles and sea coast of 5 480 miles with lake coast about 1 1 g miles. It compares rivers and harbors with European rivers and cities and cites Virginia and Ohio as larger than England and Scotland respectively. It mentions New York harbor and travel distances from Maine to New Orleans versus London to Constantinople.
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Tiber
Seine
Virginia
England
Ohio
Scotland
New York
America
Europe
Maine
Cresent
London
Constantinople
Belgium
Prussia
Gerany
Austria
Turkey
The English Language as Universal Tongue
The article argues English will become the universal language, spoken by 55 million now and 300 million in eighty years, surpassing Russian at 43 million. It predicts the Republic will become the greatest global empire.
Foreign relations in focus amid domestic concerns
An old lady quips that the administration should attend to its own family at home rather than chasing foreign relations, reflecting a local reaction to government priorities and policy.
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Dlaries
Journal of Com
Marital Notices From Plainfield And Nearby Towns
In this place on December 26 Isaac Newning weds Charity L eldest daughter of Rev St Drake of Plainfield. Also December 11 John C Wright of Woodbridge weds Elizabeth Jones of Metuchen. December 9 Warren Martin of Newark weds Catharine W Woodland of Plainfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ICA
Isaac Newning
Charity L
St. Drake
Plainfield
Win. E Perry
John C. Wright
Woodbridge
Elizabeth Jones
Metuchin
Warren Martin
Newark
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New-York
Ucogmsn
Sea Herries
Joe NN Wells &Co
Washington
West Etreete
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