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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1850
Page
1
A 1850 Charlestown poem describes a mourner's heavy grief for a lost William. The narrator recalls a brother named Witham and a servant, and laments life’s faded joys as daydreams die. The verse closes with a solemn image of sorrow and memory.
A fragment from a travel narrative recounts a perilous desert trek from Jerusalem to Jericho led by Mustapha, with scenes of an oasis, Jericho ruins, and a dramatic sheep sacrifice. The piece shifts to the Jersey prison ship, detailing harsh confinement, rations, and desperate escapes of American and British prisoners amid wartime exchanges. It also notes Paris gossip about the U S president’s privacy and a French princess’s pursuit, ending with a tale of a Greek boy and an apparent political intrigue at St Cloud.
A wartime account describes British prison ships off New York during the 1770s and 1780s. It notes the Amencan captives from the Battle of Brooklyn confined aboard ships near Gravesend and the North and East rivers, with deaths, poor care, and a lack of charitable visits by locals.
In 1811 General Jackson travelled through Chickasaw and Choctaw country toward an agency. He confronted an agent detaining emigrants and demanded a passport, arguing that a free-born American citizen travels on public roads without one. He warned he would defend the emigrants and passed the agency with his party. The agent later was dismissed. The text also notes various unrelated historical and political remarks and figures.
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