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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1855
Page
1
The piece critiques Rev Henry Ward Beecher and other lectures in New York arguing that high prices and profits undermine public trust in the lecture circuit. It contrasts Beecher with Emerson and other luminaries, warns of reputational harm to literature, and urges fair pay without speculation.
An essay on how outdoor scenes and the changing seasons nurture mental growth and philosophy. It contrasts practical labor with intellectual development, praises nature’s beauty, and reflects on winter’s symbolic transition toward renewal and meaning. The prose recalls mountains, rose colors, and the soul’s language.
A damaged fragment expresses a muse like lovers who die in a promise of early resurrection. The speaker says the beloved relinquishes existence here only to resume it in an unblighted gardenlike climate.
At the Thursday Lyceum meeting, Rev. Geo. P. Gidinge, J. R. Hollowbush, Edward Everett, E. A. Dudley, and A. B. Lawrence were elected directors. The board is expected to organize a winter lecture course featuring renowned speakers.
Judge Hamilton in St Louis's Crevit Court grants bail to O'Blenis set at $40,000. The case has been appealed to the Supreme Court. The remainder condemns British press jibes, laments national pride, and notes historical letters and steamship developments including Persia Adriatic and New York vessels.
A Bremen lawyer named Kohl visits Prof. Kirtland, a geographer, noting similarities between Odessa and Abigago as two of the world's largest wheat exporters. He claims Odessa's population exceeds Chicago by about fifteen to twenty thousand, with Chicago expected to grow to match soon.
A quirky Irish fisherman brings home an unusual haul including a large turtle. He sneaks it into a servant girl’s room for a prank. Early breakfast reveals startled reactions as the household chief pretends ignorance and the tale spirals with humorous mishearings and odd phrases.
A convention of the husbands to meet soon in Syracuse New York to discuss fashion measures and the right to influence fashion costs. A proposal to raise only boys in the future is to be presented. Thigsig seeks wartime aid in Holland with capitalists ready to fund but wary of England and France.
Analysis of the United States as a growing nation with vast resources and rapid wealth creation. The text contrasts booming industry, immigration, and westward expansion with a critique of materialism, moral decline, and the worship of Mammon. It warns that wealth pursuit frays culture, intellect, and virtue while prosperity overlooks spiritual values.
The essay argues manners shape inner refinement and delight others. Teaching children to sit quietly, speak softly, greet gracefully, and help others builds benevolence. Politeness, though sometimes misused as self neglect, fosters outward decency and social harmony through shared etiquette.
The piece lists states and their represented Speakers, noting Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. It highlights Kentucky as furnishing the most Speakers with three for nine terms.
An odd folly letter argues that men must maintain and extend their social position for their wives and children, and that a wife deserves to be kept in her prior standing. It mocks the writer, questions gender equity, and playfully imagines a President's daughter constrained by class and wedlock. The missive ends with a sharp quip about downgrading trades and roles.
An old anecdote recalls Brown the English orator praising brief sermons during hot days. A Civil War preacher Stephen Marshall once split his text into twenty four parts provoking a fellow to rush out for his nightgown and slippers, remarking that they must stay for the quarter.
A critique of France’s secular turn, arguing that the French mind’s quick, superficial nature leaves it without a lasting religious conscience. The piece contrasts American and European leaders who acted in God’s name with French revolutionaries who embraced libertine atheism, lamenting the absence of faith as France's liberty struggles to endure.
A Down Easter asks how to reach Reading from a road near Reading, with a narrator guiding past a big barn, corn stalks, a fenced pig pen, and a hill swamp scene. The tale includes farm misadventures, a chiding wife, and a Beardstown Minosian push for a railroad tram from Keokuk through Beardstown to Springfield.
A Sauk elder and a young man aboard the steamer Westerner appear in ragged ceremonial dress. The piece muses on extinction, memory, and mourning for their people, imagining journeys to the Great Hunting Ground as history records fade but poetry preserves their image and costume for future generations.
The Missouri Democrat dispatch says a proposition to cede Benton and Doniphan to the Senate will probably pass. It implies the legislature intends to elect a new Senator to succeed Mr. Geyer and another to replace Atchison.
A Monday accident on the Peoria and Oquawka line near bridge No. 5 west of Peoria results in multiple injuries and the death of brakeman Walter Morrisay. The derailed box car crushed under iron, with one severely injured captain Goodchilda and others including Jobs Johnson and three Mrs Low family members. The article lists numerous injuries among forty to fifty aboard.
The widow of Charles Smith a Catholic priest seeks dower in two Jay Street Brooklyn lots valued at 10,000 held by Archbishop Hughes since 1848. The suit before J M Van Cott as referee tests whether Smith acted in fiduciary capacity when conveying land to the church and if the woman is his lawful wife with two children. Witnesses claim she was Smiths wife though he kept it private. The defense argues the lands were procured in fiduciary trust and denies marriage. The case unfolds with gossip and conflicting testimony.
A critical snapshot of 19th century taste arguing that popular yellow literature floods presses while sound poetry from Tennyson and Longfellow endures. It laments sentimental would be poets, mocks overblown epic attempts, and declares true poetry must spring from the heart not market urge.
Dr. E Hi. Fearing of Nantucket reports Jane James aged 44 who swallowed needles about twelve years ago during insanity. He has since removed sixty two needles and a pin from her stomach abdomen and left side with the greatest daily total eight. The pins cause her pain to lessen as they are removed.
The New Orleans Delta presents annual commerce statements for 1853 to 1855 showing exports falling from 23,933,154 in 1853 to 82,232,101 in 1855. It attributes the drop to railroads built by northern eastern and western interests diverting routes away from New Orleans as the entepot for freight.
A Bon ker Hill Aurora writer cites Gerrish Esq a Democratic Senate hopeful in Middlesex County claiming a writ against common carriers promised goods would be safely carried insured against all peril but goods were damaged and not by the public enemy or the named God This ends his legal career according to the piece.
Halifax reports the Royal Mail steamship Canada reached port with advices from Liverpool up to the 10th. News from Europe suggests tensions between Britain and the United States have cooled. War news is sparse with rumors from Perekop and Simferopol. Reports of Niklaieff bombardment and peace rumors circulate but lack foundation. Od essa and Totleben reports indicate further mobilization and Crimea activity.
Wisconsin election preliminary returns from several counties indicate Bashford leading by comfortable margins. Lacrosse Bashford 49, Pierce Bashford 92, Jackgan 90, Monroe Bashford 67, Chippewa Bashford 60, Clark Barstow 38, Dann Barstow 12, Polk Barstow 40, St. Croix Barstow 10, Trempealeau Barstow 29, Buffalo Barstow 150 with Douglas and La Pointe still pending. Bashford appears strongly elected.
Brown, Shipley & Co say advances in all breadstuff descriptions. Wheat 3 pence per bushel flour 1s per barrel corn 2s 3d per quarter. Market closes with active demand at firm prices. Western canal Flour 48s 4d 3 farthings, Ohio 45s 8d 3f, Southern oils to 60s. white Wheat 12s 2d to 12s 9d, white Corn 47 to 48, yellow 46s 3d to 45s 9d, mixed 46s 6d to 46s 3d. Weather unfavorable to sowing in England. Manchester market steady amid factory reductions. Spain tensions rise over Mr Boylan case. British Consul in New Orleans seeks indemnity. Sardinia Tuscany dispute unsettled. Anglo-Swiss legion departs Genoa for the Crimea countermanded. Sicilian revolutionary movement reported. Arctic conditions described by sloop of war Sara toga voyage to Port-au-Prince to recover Amelia and crew. some to be tried under revenue laws.
The New York Herald notes an advertisement seeking a thoroughly moral and pious female domestic whose conduct will bear scrutiny. She must be from Morab principles with the seal of the prophet, and address Jeroboam Herald Unice. Also mentions a quirky post office request for stamped envelopes and a dime’s worth of post-office favors.
A fragment recalls a man calling himself D. D. Dog Doctor while on Staten Island, claiming to have discovered a hydrophobia cure. When questioned about the initials, he asserts D. D. stands for Dog Doctor as his name in full. The extract reflects period slang and social attitudes of the era.
On Sunday morning a large elevator at the Genesee river mouth in New York fell into the water, carrying away 10 000 bushels of wheat. The building held 62 447 bushels and the loss to owners totals about 40. Was 70 Go. We estimate about 600 men in the city ready to go to assist Walker if opportunity offers. There is talk of chartering a steamer to take them. John Randolph once said a man who refuses to fight a duel because he belongs to the church, though no one suspects him of being Christian.
A long oration extols the printing press and publishing power as a vast societal force. It lauds freedom intelligence religion linked, calls presses the fourth estate, and praises publishers associations as moral warships against error. The speaker urges advance of printing’s societal mission and the defeat of falsehood. The rhetoric elevates books, newspapers, and industry as agents of God’s purposes in humanity.
A readable extract argues for kindness to animals and criticizes human vanity and selfishness. It contrasts compassion with greed, citing the dog as a moral mirror and urging generosity, self-sacrifice, and benevolence toward all, including the vulnerable.
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