Dream of Calhoun and a Civil War fearlaced vision
A Washington correspondent recounts a dream about John C Calhoun foretelling disunion and Civil War. The account describes Calhoun at breakfast with a ghostly appearance, a hand blotch linked to Benedict Arnold, bones of Isaac Hayne, and a warning against signing a Declaration of Dissolution. Virginia legislature notes follow with railroads, Wilmot Proviso debates, and state officer elections.
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Washington
Washieton
D. C
John C. Calhoun
Hickory
United States
Calhoun
Carolina
Benedict Arnold
Isaac Hayne
Charleston
Senate Debate on Territorial Governance and Ridging Roads
In the Thirty-First Congress the Senate debates the second reading of a bill concerning territorial governance and the status of Mexican territories. The House discussion includes remarks by Mr. Disney on the vessel, the Constitution, and related doubts about over territories, with ongoing procedural points and delays.
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Senate
House
Disney
Explosion at Taylor & Co Steam Press Factory New York
A massive steam boiler explosion on Monday the 14th at Taylor & Co Steam Printing Press in Hague Street New York lifted the five story building six feet and buried 80 to 100 workers. The City reports teem with harrowing details and heroism as inquiries unfold, with editorial critique of a local committee card and calls for truthful reports from the faculty and press.
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Messrs. Taylor & Co
Hague Street
New York
New York Papers
Mr. Clay Speech Receives Mixed Approbation at Debate
The speech in support of Mr. Clay’s resolutions was delivered Tuesday and Wednesday last. It pleased in many details but drew less applause overall than Mr. Clay’s previous efforts. The piece claims Congress can legislate on Slavery in a Territory though the force of the argument is questioned.
Not a note in history yet to end the war of two or three years
In a charged appeal the speaker warned that the Nota war could drag on endlessly unless a decisive leader emerged to impose despotism and end man’s struggle with self-government. He urged Southerners to pause on the edge of disaster, invoking memory of ancestors and duty to country, God, and mankind, lest the Union dissolve and he not live to see it.
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Philipp Alexander
Czsar
Napoleon
Fire devastates San Francisco as Empire City sails west
The Empire City reports vast San Francisco fire losses of 1 to 2 million dollars after arriving in New York on Thursday morning. A City of Stockton blaze adds about 150000 in damage. The steamer carries California officials and notable passengers including George W. Wright Edward Gilbert Butler King and more. The Oregon reaches Panama with Fremont Gwinn and two congressmen aboard.
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California
New York
San Francisco
Dennison
Exchange Hotel
Stockton
Empire City
George W. Wright
Edward Gilbert
Butler King
E. Hanson
Wa. R. Kinder Esq
U. S. Boundary Commissioners
Secretary of State
A. J. Bowie
U.S. Navy
Norris
Com. Jones
Oregon
Panama
Col. Fremont
Wm. M. Gwinn
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Christ
God
Virginia
Louisa Railroad Company
Virginia Central Railroad Company
Richmond
Ferguson
Petersburg and
Lynchburg
Danville
Tennessee
Tyler
House of Delegates
Nashville
District of Columbia
Cambridge
Boston
Daniel Morgan
Clark &E
Shepherdstown Company
Stenson
Harpers Ferry
Morgan
Henry Bedinger
Michael Ion
Blue Licks
Kentucky
Peter Lauck
Winchester
Instituton
Denmark
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