09 Nov 1859
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Newspaper
Rensselaer Gazette
Location
Rensselaer, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1859
Page
2
News notes state Ex-Gov James C Jones of Tennessee died in Memphis on Saturday after a lingering illness He served as U S Senator from 1848 to 1867 and as governor from 1841 to 1845 The notice appears in a Tennessee area publication with other local items.
Mr. Berry Parris of Hanging Grove reported a beet weighing fifteen pounds. The note asks if any beet can beat that weight, framing a local height record for oversized produce.
Elder McCreary will preach at the Baptist Church next Saturday afternoon at two o'clock and Sunday forenoon at eleven thirty. The notice outlines the schedule for worship and invites parishioners to attend.
Citizens meet next Saturday at the Recorder's Office to arrange planting shade trees in the Public Square by order of the Committee.
The Agricultural Board will meet on Saturday November 19 to take action regarding the grounds of the cultural society. By order. President Panxen and Secretary B Dowarvsor are listed.
Mr. A. Seward stops at the American House to demonstrate toilet soap made in fifteen minutes for four cents a pound and washing soap in five minutes for three-fourths of a cent. He seeks township and county rights for sale.
Report notes that all prisoners taken at Harper's Ferry except Cook have been tried and convicted. The negro was guilty only of murder not treason, since he was not a US citizen. Cook, advised by his brother in law Governor Willard, is said to have written a confession seeking clemency.
Several prairie fires last week swept through Beaver Prairie farms damaging fences hay and rails. George W Spitler and neighbors suffered heavy losses with rails and fences destroyed while Mr Reese and Wir Childs lost fences and hay. Fire raged along the Bradford Reynolds route burning wood piles and road ties along the railroad.
A reader letter argues Captain John Brown is guilty of treason and murder and should be punished intensely. The writer urges government action to suppress the Bleve Trade by appointing an admiral to seize all vessels involved, claiming such decisive force would end the practice better than federal efforts.
Ship Ararat carrying convicts from Bombay to Penang and Singapore faced a brutal mutiny by fifty pirates plus guards. Captain Correya and European sergeants, aided by his wife, repelled attackers in a brutal hand to hand fight aboard the vessel. Eight pirates and several crew were killed or wounded. many more were captured or escaped. The hull survived, and Bombay received the rescued crew and convicts.
The defendant Brown, on sentencing Nov. 2, declares he only intended to free slaves and move them to Canada on a larger scale, denies murder or treason, and says he would suffer death for justice. He praises witnesses, defends aiding the poor, and asserts others joined without his instigation.
After Brown spoke the court found no reasonable doubt of guilt and sentenced the prisoner to be hanged publicly on Friday December 2. Brown accepted the verdict with composure while a lone bystander clapped, a reaction later suppressed and regretted by locals.
In the absence of the jury John Brown was brought from jail to be sentenced. He moved with pain and sat like a stone as the judge announced the death sentence and the execution would be public. One spectator cheered but was rebuked. Brown was led away to confinement. Cor. N.Y. Tribune.
The article recounts the Charleston plot led by Denmark Vesey, the Southampton Massacre led by Nat Turner in 1831, and a later Tennessee concern in 1856. It notes Vesey’s plan to murder masters, seize women, burn Charleston, and escape to St Domingo, and Turner's revolt causing widespread panic before its suppression.
The piece recalls rumors of a northern army freeing slaves and uprising fears in Tennessee and Kentucky amid John Brown's Harper's Ferry raid. It notes arrests and confessions sought by locals, then a common belief that no slave insurrection ground exists, and ends arguing abolitionist violence harms their cause.
Maryland election chaos reported in Baltimore with ward-by-ward clashes. Reform ranks face intimidation, shootings, and police inaction as roving bands disrupt polls across wards including the Third, Fifth, and Fifteenth. Galling violence shifts power toward the dominant party as citizens fear further bloodshed.
In to the city voters celebrate the Americana victory while Reformers deny any valid election occurred. Returns delayed due to many officers voting. Seventeenth ward reports an American ticket average of 860 votes while Reform ticket tops at 24.
A New York City man, William Hoffmen, had a divorce decree annulled in Kokomo after his wife Emma challenged it. Judge Buckles found Hoffmen was not a county resident at filing, overturning the decree and signaling stricter residency requirements for nonresidents seeking divorce in Indiana.
The St Paul Minnesotian reports complete returns on the state legislature with a projected Republican joint ballot majority around forty five to fifty three, Democrats contesting four seats. Ramsey County leads Becker by about 3,300, total statewide votes near 10,000, suggests population growth over 1857.
Wendell Phillips of Boston spoke in Brooklyn last night arguing Brown acted boldly to uphold true American justice. He denounced Virginia and Wise, called the Union a piracy, and urged using iron for Sharp’s rifles rather than chains to worship false leaders.
The Liverpool Post reports the splendid vessel Hetter was totally lost yesterday in Mulla Red Bey near Bengor. Over four hundred aboard with only ten saved, amid a storm that destroyed the Chester and Birkenhead railway in two places. Royal Charter carried half a million in gold. Twenty bodies washed ashore near Penmunawe. The bay lies two to three leagues from Puffin Island, Argie Sea, six to seven miles north of Bestmorer. The surrounding countryside is wild with few houses.
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