12 Aug 1834
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Newspaper
Republican Banner
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1834
Page
1
Poetic obituary laments the death of a revered figure, reflecting on his manhood, intellect, and virtue. It declares the door open to the heavenly realm and honors his service to country, urging mourners to remember his gifts and the enduring loss to the nation. The piece elevates his life to a beacon of national pride and moral example.
In a mixed gathering a lady narrates female generosity during the French Revolution. A young man hunted by gens d armes finds refuge with a kind woman who shelters him in a vault and helps him reach safety. The tale contrasts male brutality with steadfast benevolence and reflects on love, home, and fidelity. It also recalls Lafayette era events and attempts to free a prisoner with European military figures.
After planning to depart the concealed refugee is guarded by vigilant sentinels at the uncle’s church. Soldiers search the building while the couple remain hidden below the vault. The uncle guides them, proving innocence as the refugee is escorted to safety and returns home.
In the early French Revolution Lafayette champions limited royal power and rights restoration. He protects Louis XVI and family from mob violence, opposed bloodshed, and later endures five years in exile and imprisonment. His devoted wife and two daughters, aged 13 and 10, endured confinement in a Paris prison before regaining liberty.
A moral verse warns that drink leads to ruin in every aspect of life. It lists outcomes such as poverty, broken family ties, loss of respect, and personal decline, arguing that habitual intoxication destroys prospects, health, and happiness.
The excerpt muses on love and marriage as moral duties, noting love as central to happiness and society. It contrasts masculine and feminine social behavior, discusses discretion, courtship, and reputation, and cites Socrates and Alcibiades to illustrate patience amid domestic noise.
A domestic reflection counsels choosing a spouse by character over wealth or beauty, arguing that a wife should be a friend and companion with a virtuous mind. The piece frames marriage as union of person and virtue rather than material gains.
A 1834 letter from Maj Downing explains paper money, hard money, and bank notes. He argues Congress must regulate currency, defends the US Bank, attacks state banks, and predicts hard money would harm trade while noting political aims of Van Buren and farmers. He promises a follow up on the benefits of sound bank paper.
In Lowell Massachusetts a man wanted for stealing a watch jumped from a third story window to the pavement and fled unharmed.
In Camden Street a school house window once a grocery store bears the painted legend Powder and Shot. A gentleman asks what powder and shot have to do with education. The friend replies that it is the school master's calling to teach the young idea how to shoot.
The will dated January 1 1832 appoints friends William Leigh of Halifax and brother Henry St Geo Tucker president of the Court of Appeals as executors. It directs selling slaves and other property and investing proceeds in Bank Stock of the Bank of the United States or in English 3 percent Consols, or in US 3 percent stock or English mortgages if needed.
A gentleman visited our office showing a copper coin bearing the President’s image and the inscription my experimenta glory with the motto my substitute for the United States Bank on one side. The other side features a whole hog with my third beat down with the United States Bank and the legend Perish credit perish commerce.
At Pawtucket's July Fourth celebration the Journal notes eighty old Revolutionary soldiers rode in the procession aboard the Constitution stagecoach drawn by four white horses.
The New Yorkers plan a corps of Musxickat Foot Guards to aid the Mayor, Aldermen, and civil authorities in quelling disturbances and preserving city peace on all occasions.
The overview notes 52 newspaper periodicals with 14 daily papers in New York, 28 banks including 4 savings banks, 41 insurance offices, and 14 public markets. It also lists 30 consuls for foreign powers residing in the city.
The state rapidly grows wealth and population from 149,000 in 1820 to about 500,000 by later years. Public land sales in Indiana for the first three quarters of 1833 totaled 425,371 dollars, indicating strong land value and settlement expansion.
The Ne plazultra of mechamem machines for boring boxes planning awing cogging wheels and other tasks are exhibited at the Cincinnati museum. They are said to be worked by two domesticated young bears.
A Scotchman named Thomas Sewell, a deck passenger on the steamboat William Avery traveling from Oswego to So dus, quarreled with his wife on the 20th. While intoxicated he removed his cap, bade her farewell, recited a sorrowful couplet, and jumped overboard in front of the wheels, drowning.
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