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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1851
Page
2
The document states all communications are post paid and confidential with real named parties attached. It announces a schedule shift for delivery, moving Guerrite notices to Thursday mornings to provide the latest Wednesday papers.
The Central Railroad is urged to fix evident carelessness in freight trains. A recent August delay shows a half barrel from New York arriving nine days late due to an agent’s unfamiliarity with a new resident. Calls are made to improve schedules and mail routes to Elizabethtown Rahway and beyond.
The Steamship Atlantic reached New York on Monday with four days of intelligence. It notes cotton up one eighth of a cent per pound and firm, and Ireland reports a rising Potato Jot. The voyage took eleven days and fourteen hours. A local reader dismissed the Gazette as mostly advertisements.
A riot on Monday September 1 between 300 Irish laborers from the Upper and Lower sections of the Jersey Railroad left one man killed and two wounded. Muskets hidden for days were used. arrests followed in Elizabethtown. The clash stemmed from an old Corkonian Ferdown dispute.
The Spanish Consul relinquished his flag and offices in Cuba transferring duties to British and French counselors while American protection is cited. Sixty volunteers arrive from Montgomery and reports detail Castilian forces routing Col Crittenden’s detachment near Bahia Honda, with many killed or captured and ongoing massacres reported by Spanish authority.
The St Lucia Palladium reports a fierce eruption of Pelee Mountain in Martinique during Tuesday night. Aerial ash and calcined material covered St Pierre while residents observed multiple smoke plumes and strong sulfur odors. No earthquake shocks were felt, but villagers fled as fear and ash blanketed the town.
A reader recounts a journey from New York through Suffern Goshen Middletown and Jervis along the Delaware and Hudson line. He highlights the railroad’s size and speed, scenic views at Pond Eddy and the Cascade Bridge, and remarks on punctuality and safety measures during the trip.
A reader praises the Ralueau Loan and Building Association and urges Plainfield to establish a similar durable organization. The letter argues that a permanent thrift society helps laborers and mechanics own homes with small savings, urging action in Plainfield in 1851.
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