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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1849
Page
2
The Plainfield Gazette urges reader action on education citing the governors message. It laments public ignorance, calls for evening schools for apprentices, warns against electioneering and rights neglect, and advocates congressional mileage reform. It notes Ambrose Sevier and Lewis Cass nominations and extols civil and religious liberty.
On Monday January 15 Lewis French son of David French of Stony Hill died after falling from a wagon house work platform. Enos L. Blue of the village broke his leg after a Sunday ice fall. California gold price soars eight dollars per ounce while pork hits two hundred dollars per barrel as food shortages loom and Mexico aid hoped. San Francisco vessels regain use and whale ships sell outfits at high profits.
An observer warns that excessive newspaper exposure shapes voting, citing a single reader in Pensylvania who read only one paper and supported Gen Taylor. The piece covers a New York Tribune report of a stabbing in a Phoenician style cellar, Michigan disease fears, anti slavery sentiment in Illinois, manure weathering, and John Bull on California.
The session discusses committee reports on keeper state prison, adjutant general, and pilotage. printing contracts and distribution to new members. treasury balance of 10 823 dollars. bills to equalize taxes and to incorporate firms. proposed rail lines from Morris to Elizabeth New York and other links. bills to abolish imprisonment for debt in fraud cases. Newark Orphan’s Asylum bill advances.
The governor notes pending House and Senate actions on proposed bills to admit California as a state and define Texas boundary lines with Mexico. He also reports on treasury balances, expenditures, and concerns about education turnout, urging improvements in public schooling statewide.
The record shows confusion as a member claimed to vote at every opportunity but later admitted an erroneous vote. He argued the race was sound, while discussion on member mileage continued with no decisive action taken.
The report notes four pilot boats and one station boat in service, twenty one branch pilots, and four deputy pilots. They have brought in port six hundred seventy five vessels and taken five hundred ninety seven to sea. The system is urged for state support to educate and benefit every child and secure suitable instruction.
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