Dream of Washington Visits Calhoun in Breakfast Tale
Washington correspondent recounts a dream of John Calhoun at a Washington breakfast table. Calhoun describes a cloaked visitor who reveals Washington's dead face and a plan to dissolve the Union, then a black ink blot marks the right hand. The guest shows Isaac Hayne’s bones, linking to rebellion and Arnold’s mark, leaving Calhoun shaken and uncertain.
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Washington
Wasutsleton
D. C
John
Calhoun
Old Hickory
United States
Yaombs
Congress
Georgia
Mr. Calhoun
South Carolina
George Washington
Patem
Carolina
Benedict Arnold
Isaac Hayne
Charleston
Isaac Jayne
Toombs
Ronking
First session highlights of Thirty-First Congress
Summary of weekly Senate and House actions in February during the Thirty-First Congress. Topics include Census consideration, territorial government resolutions, constitutional amendments for Congress over territories, calls to end the Home Department, slavery disputes, California issues, and the purchase of Washington's Farewell Address manuscript. Reports note deaths, adjournments, and rising wages in California amid miner housing demands.
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Senate
Root
California
Mr. Disney
Congress
Shepherdstown's Patriotism Highlighted Through Wars
In Shepherdstown history notes, the town furnished multiple officers and companies for the Revolutionary War, the Whiskey Insurrection, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and later conflicts. It supplied leaders such as Horatio Gates and Bennett Riley, with locals recognized for bravery and service from Plattsburg to Fort George and beyond. The piece ends by praising ongoing regional patriotism and noting governors from the area.
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Shepherdstown
Free Press
Revolutionary Army
Horatio Gates
Charles Lee
William Dark
Steven
Geni! Washington
United States
France
Old Shepherdstown
Abraham Shepherd
Great Britain
Samuel Lane
Henry van Swearigen
Plattsburg
Bennett Riley
California
Fort George
Niagara River
Upper Canada
Michael Durnhoe
Ohio
Tiffen
Lucas
Worthington
Vance
Virginia Senate Passes Rail Road Name Change Bill
The Virginia Legislature reports the Senate passed a bill changing the Louisa Railroad Company to Virginia Central Railroad Company and guaranteeing bonds to extend the line from the Junction to Richmond. A select committee found no impropriety by the Attorney General. Other small bills, including a state subscription to Petersburg and Lynchburg Railroad stock, were noted. The House set February 6 as State officers election day. The Wilmot Proviso and Nashville Convention preambles were approved with a new amendment pledging slaveholding states to mutual defense if slavery or the slave trade is interfered with in the District of Colombia or elsewhere.
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Virginia
Senate
Louisa Railroad Company
Virginia Central Railroad Company
Richmond
Ferguson
Petersburg and
Lynchburg
Danville
Tennessee
Tyler
House of Delegates
Wilmot
Nashville Conventon, &c
Weimsday
Pesalved
Colombya
Surviving Dinners At Harpers Ferry Spring Linked To Revolutionary Echoes
A fragment recounts 18th century military movements around Cambridge and Harpers Ferry. Morgan’s company fired guns near an island, Stenson’s men at Bedford’s Spring heard the salute, and in 1825 survivors Henry Bedinger, Michael Bedinger, and two others gathered there for a commemorative dinner, with Peter Lauck unable to attend.
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Washington
Cambridge
Boston
Daniel Morgan
Clark&e
Shepherdstown Company
Stenson
Harpers Ferry
Morgan
Bedford
Henry Bedinger
Michael
Blue Licks
Kentucky
Peter Lauck
Winchester
Terrible Explosion at Printing Press Factory in New York
A boiler explosion Monday morning at the Steam Printing Press factory of Taylor and Co on Hague Street collapsed a five story building, burying 80 to 100 workers. The structure rose six feet, then fell into a ruinous mass of bricks and machinery. Eyewitnesses describe gruesome injuries and widespread grief as families mourn. The factory building, owned by Messrs Jaspers, valued at 15,000, faced heavy loss amid reports of rescues and continuing inquiries. Other items note prices for Georgia corn and corn meal amid scarcity.
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Manu
Messrs. Taylor & Co
Hague Street
New York
Tam Tuld
Mouer
Messrs
Jaspers
Georgetown College Card Denies Student Rumors
A Georgetown College card from February 2, 1850, states that college difficulties were amicably settled and confirms rumors of student meetings denouncing a prefect are false. The committee thanks the faculty for prompt action and urges public restraint against further attacks on professors and staff.
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Georgetown College
Spain
Critics Fault A Collegiate Card For Its Tone And Tendency
A written critique questions a student committee card for its temper and rhetoric. It argues public reports should bear signatures, condemns efforts to shield faculty from blame, and likens the situation to a troubling state of Denmark without presenting supporting evidence.
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Owever
Denmark
Mr Clay Speech and California News in Union Crisis
The article reviews Mr Clay's speech on a constitutional middle path amid sectional tensions including slavery in territories and district. argues union must endure with no secession, warning of war if dissolved. It also reports California items from the Empire City and Oregon, fires in San Francisco and Stockton, gold flows, and notes prominent figures arriving from California.
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Mr. Clay
Congress
Adther
Siatesta
Kennedy
Free States
Atlantic States
Mississippi Valley
Union
End of Union Fearful Plea from Civil War Era Leader
A historic wartime speech laments endless conflict and warns against despotism if the Union fails. The speaker appeals to memory of ancestors, devotion to God and country, and the duty to mankind, urging a pause before catastrophe. He prays not to witness a dissolution of the Union.
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Badri
Philipf
Alexander
Cesar
Napoleon
Min
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God
Thompson
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Home Department
Cobb
Alabama
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Strate
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Alex. Newman
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Borland
Geo
Hale
Newman
Potter
Douglass
Dawson
Davis
Mass
Foote
Seward
Chase
S. Houston
Pacific
San Francisco
the Register
Shepherds Stow
Efferson Comity
Andry
Macon
Dennison
Exchange Hotel
Stockton
George W. Wright
Edward Gilbert
Buller King
E. Hanson
Wm. R. Kinler Hsq
U. S. Boundary Commissioners
Secretary of State
A. J. Bowie
U. S. Navy
Norris
Com. Jones
Oregon
Panama
San Pronecisco
Col. Fremont
Win. M. Gwinn
Rio
the Intelligencer
Colhmns
National Intelligencer
2D Inst
Intelligencer
South
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