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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1850
Page
2
The Plainfield Gazette announces a supplement issued to boost advertising income. Albert D. Drake is named as authorized agent for subscriptions and ads. The notice extols newspapers as an efficient, economical medium and pledges periodic supplements to benefit the public and the paper.
A public defense of abolition urges unity of friends of liberty to oppose slavery's expansion and party gains. It condemns partisan press for delaying action, calls for universal equal rights, constitutional amendments, and a cheap local supplement advertising plan.
The New Board of Chosen Freeholders held their annual meeting. Zachariah Webster was elected Director and Cyrus Baldwin re-elected Clerk. The board approved budgets, allowed relief for James Cabell, and considered jail expansion and public buildings. A $20,000 jail upgrade and a Nahway bridge study were authorized.
Reports from quarters and papers claim a secret New Orleans voyage aiming to invade Cuba with the stated goal of aiding Cuban freedom. The piece suggests ulterior motives of plunder and predicts gains for the New York Sun editors who fueled the agitation, while noting Plainfield's skepticism about patriotism.
St Louis reports two fatal cholera cases and 94 weekly interments across 12 cemeteries with 27 cholera deaths. five cemeteries未报导. Weather described as unfavorable. Also notes Sussex County Court ruling on distress for rent and landlord remedies, limiting debtor protections and affecting bankrupt families.
A first person tale follows John Smith as he recalls his notorious name and a thwarted marriage plan. A stubborn father-in-law blocks his union to Mary after a newspaper caution about a similar-sounding Smith. Death comes swiftly in a Burlington incident where a man dies from a bee sting during an attempted swallow.
Reports from Rio de Janeiro describe a severe yellow fever outbreak lasting since December with thousands of homes and harbor ships affected. The Grey Eagle, arriving from Rio, notes high death rates and severe suffering aboard vessels bound to California.
Abstract of committee views proposing: delay on new states from Texas, rapid admission of California with its boundaries, territorial governments for New Mexico and Utah without Wilmot Proviso, combine these measures, define Texas western boundary with pecuniary grant, strengthen fugitive slave laws, and prohibit slave trade in the District of Columbia with penalties.
A letter from Havanna dated May 3 reports cholera raging for three weeks with daily deaths from five to fifteen, peaking during the second week. On April 30 there were 80 deaths. May 1 saw 63. Gates closed and soldiers absent in Havana. Prince and Fuerza castles abandoned. Cholera also raging at San Antonio. Basuri. John Brown anecdote follows.
A garbled London Mail clip recalls a Gravesend trial where jurors debated doubt and mercy in a theft case. The piece parodies legal talk and features Mrs Partington quips on breeches of etiquette and a joke about a clerk mistaking wills for testaments.
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