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Newspaper
Prescott Transcript
Location
Prescott, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1860
Page
2
Officials paused city business in Milwaukee as proclamations were read and funeral obsequies for the lost steamer victims were held. Captain Wilson and a few passengers acted with calm, averting greater fire danger. Fundraising efforts for widows and orphans continued amid relief appeals.
Election returns from Maine and Vermont indicate substantial Republican gains with Fairbanks leading in Vermont and Congress candidates favored. Early figures show a state-wide Republican majority increasing, and the Senate in Vermont appears fully Republican with the House leaning Republican as well.
The Republicans of the district nominate Elon A Scott Sion of Dodge County for Congress on the first ballot with full support. Sloan, their chosen opponent, is portrayed as the man to clear out Democrats in the state. The piece also cites official correspondence on suppressing the slave trade and criticizes current enforcement and profits tied to piracy.
The New York Breckinridge Douglas alliance aims to combine thirds of the state parties to defeat Lincoln, promising equal elder seats among Bell and Breckinridge factions. The plan faces voter reality, as Seward notes unity is easy in talk but hard at the polls, with Lincoln’s broad majority expected. The Virginia Republican paper Wheeling Intelligencer praises growing anti-slavery support and predicts Republican gains across Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri as the party consolidates nationally.
New York correspondence surveys summer excitements in the metropolis. It notes Prince of Wales’s expected visit, reception plans, a torchlight procession, and urban satire on the Japanese reception bill. The piece critiques council costs, mentions theatre openings, census figures, and debates over labor and slavery in national politics.
A Scapius or Praezes-An Ii- Tors paper reports a heavy perch trap in the lower state sections, estimating a district twenty miles long and five to seven wide will yield about a million bushels this year. The claim centers on high productivity and potential regional impact for local fisheries.
Reports from Southern papers warn of supposed insurrection fears in Georgia and Alabama with arrests in Dalton and suspicions of plotting to burn towns, destroy rail lines, and loot. Community panic runs along rail corridors toward Marietta as rumors spread through Selma and nearby areas.
A collection of brief items: presidential candidacy mentions for Sam Houston, Seward visiting La Crosse, Ireland and New Mexico political moves, the Niagara Suspension Bridge paint effort, Santa Anna’s residence destruction, columnists on Douglas and Breckinridge, and assorted disaster and embassy expense notes. Includes references to Wide Awakes and local political clubs.
In this district the second, a large Republican majority exists and Hanchett's election seems near certain unless a change occurs. The Republicans nominated an able, high toned gentleman for all that Luther Hanchett is. Grow nominated in Pennsylvania for a sixth term in Congress.
The Common Council of Prescot ordinances that no swine may run at large in streets alleys or unclosed lands. Distain and removal rules require notice to the common pound within 24 hours and sale of impounded swine at public auction with fees and penalties outlined. Constables to enforce, damages assessed for injury to enclosed premises, and penalties for violations. Ordinance takes effect September 19 1860.
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