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Newspaper
Prescott Transcript
Location
Prescott, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1858
Page
2
The Prescott Transcript seeks to deliver news in an attractive form and faithful progress of the city and Northwest. It invites communications from all parts of the country on matters of interest and promises to reflect Northern sentiment against oppression with independence and vigor.
The district weighs six weeks before election day as five opposing candidates vie for Congress. CabWALLADER C. Washburn is presented as a true advocate of right, while Fudge Devs is criticized for lack of prominence and mixed positions on slavery and democracy.
Discussion on a Kansas election as a slaver y policy for territories, with critique of a candidate and party loyalties. Also coverage of the North Western Agricultural Society fair at River Falls, praising local agriculture and urging participation, plus notes on the New Banking Law amendments and their potential impact.
A promotional notice praises the newspaper as reliable and comprehensive and notes subscription rates: daily seven dollars, tri weekly three dollars, weekly two dollars in advance.
A mix of items cites fashion fads with hair trends among young ladies and gents, a convention notice refiled for Eau Claire via River Falls, a missing person in Diamond Bluff presumed drowned after a canoe mishap, and assorted regional notices. Also reports Govey von Ocrosen, engravings, magazine offers, and political results from Morrill and Bradbury areas. News includes fever deaths in New Orleans and Clarette, a Hazard powder works explosion fatal to four, and a 80,000 dollar fire at a plows establishment.
A Charleston correspondent to the New York Herald reports 200 African captives at the quarantine station, mostly young with 60 women, being transferred to an unused fort. The piece notes U.S. authorities debate their fate while opponents challenge abolitionist rhetoric and a future Armistad scenario. The narrative contrasts public sympathy for the slaves with harsh views on liberty and commerce, while the Echo’s voyage and cargo details are disputed.
A Madison newspaper explains Governor Randall’s certificate on the St Croix and Lake Superior Railroad route from La Crosse to Bayfield. It notes the Governor refused a full certificate to one party but issued a limited certificate after consulting the company’s president, amid legal and territorial political tensions and broader party finances.
A compilation notes population decline in Beaton and prayer meetings in Philadelphia engine houses, Giddings writing a history of anti slavery in Congress, Carrie Bashford death at Oshkosh, a Billicottsville protest in effigy of Governor King, Texas pecan crop outlook and export value, Africans from the Echo to Liberia, Combs death by morphine in Bangor, Ravey horse taming book success and French edition, Tiffany Co. selling Atlantic Cable at 12 percent per inch, Great Eastern sale discussions, Hawaii Episcopal Church subscription, Africans sale contract at 560 per head, Capt. De Riviere arrest in New York, Dana preparing Household Book of Poetry, Janesville Bank note issues, Ocean Telegraph London dispatches, Eleazer Williams death, Humboldt prediction of his death in 1859, hoop wear rheumatic pains theory, police anecdote about Haters Bank robbery suspects, New York dignitaries at Cable Celebration, Judge Dunn and Know Nothing leanings, congressional nominations by Democrats in first and second districts.
The English returns for the first three months of 1858 show 19,000 British emigrants, 8,200 to the United States, 9,867 to Australian colonies, with emigration worldwide peaking at 72,729 in 1853 and dropping to about 180,00 in 1857.
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