WIRG STATE TICKET AND WHIG COUNTY NAMES LISTED
Weekly Herald from Wheeling notes state ticket with governor William Johnston and board of public works. Whig county ticket includes Alexander G. Conover for representative David Johnson for auditor William F. Masters for commissioner Joseph Shane and William Cunningham for poor house director.
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William Johnston
Board OF Public WorKs
Alexander G. Conover
David Johnson
William F. M.masters
Joseph Shane
William Cunningham
The Herald Adverts Offer Broad Range in Ohio Pennsylvania and Virginia
The Herald announces its established Tri-Weekly and Weekly editions with wide circulation in Eastern Ohio Western Pennsylvania and Virginia. Advertising rates advertise via agents in Boston New York Philadelphia and Baltimore and printing services offered from Steubenville hubalJou printing office opposite the Washington Hall for ornamental book pamphlet and other printing at low prices.
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Herald
Ohio
Wester Pennsylvania
Virginia
Creweraly
Mamoth Wesely Herald
Basten
Mass
New York
Philadelphia
Death of General Taylor and political turmoil
A telegraph confirms General Taylor’s death at the White House after a five day illness. The nation mourns a respected chief, while Washington debates Fillmore’s cabinet and the future of California, New Mexico, and Utah amid fierce pro and anti slavery arguments shaping the 1850 political landscape.
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Taylor
Washington
Union
White House
South
Notable early American leader described with career highlights
The article profiles Mizuaro Fiiusore as a self made leader born January 7, 1800, in Summer Hill New York. It covers his rise from tailoring to law teaching to politics including New York Assembly Congress state comptroller and service as President of the United States after 1850. It also notes a Pittsburg discovery claim of a multi colored earth vein usable as paint near Allegheny city and plans to commercialize it.
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Mizuaro Fiiusore
Usitep
Magistate
Summer Hill
New York
Filivone
Tailors’ Board
Woop
Buffalo
Eisai
New York Assembly
Congress
Committee of Ways and Means
Taylor
United States
Mrrrarp FillMore
Pitts Burgh
Pittsburgh Gazette
James Sims
Geo. Ledlie
Perrysville Plank Road
Federal Street
Allegheny City
Blake
the Gazette
Ohio Convention Adjourns Amid Cholera Death Controversy
The Ohio State convention in Columbus adjourned after a cholera death in the city. Members planned to reconvene on the first Monday in December, then meet in Cincinnati. Critics warn the delay wastes state funds as the treasury was spent on speeches and procedural time.
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Ohio
Columbus
Cincinnati
Steubenville
Bodies Found Floating In Mississippi River Between Cairo And St Louis
The West Newton reports six bodies seen floating in the river between Cairo and St Louis with no known recent disaster. Other boats report several more corpses along the same stretch. Rumor says people were cast overboard to avoid quarantine and burning, sparking relief and enforcement doubts.
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Horeiwrei
West Newton
St. Louis
Cairo
Republican
Worm in Wheat Threatens Pittsburgh Area Crop
A small worm about the thickness of a thread and sixteen the inch long attacks wheat near Pittsburgh. The heads look healthy but close inspection shows husks unfilled with grain, replaced by one or more of the active insects.
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Pitttsburgh
New President Fillmore Emerges After General Taylor’s Death
Following General Taylor’s death, Millard Fillmore becomes President of the United States. The text portrays him as a trustworthy leader capable of guiding the nation through crisis with dignity and firmness, despite Southern opposition.
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Hox
Muuro Fittmore
Mr. Fillmore
Taylor
United States
Small Minded Feud Between Wheeling Papers
The Wheeling Argus editor Dr. Dunham accuses the Herald of copying an item without credit. If proven, he will receive re publication with full credit. The dispute mocks advertancies in daily offices and reveals a petty quarrel over alleged plagiarism.
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Wheeling Argus
Dunham
Herald
Argus
General Taylor's Last Words Reported in Farewell Note
The fragmentary text presents General Taylor’s purported farewell lines expressing readiness to face death, sorrow in leaving his duties, and a resolve to discharge his duty before departing. The source provides no corroboration or full context, making the quotation appear as a historical note or excerpt warning of potential transcription limitations.
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Taylor
Chilliothe Advertiser praise of Bank sparks editorial clash
A Chillicothe paper denounces hard money critics and defends the Bank of the city as solvent and cautious. It accuses the paper of being mortgaged to the Valley Bank, hinting at a critique of the broader hard-money position in Ohio.
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Ohio
Chillicothe
Editor's Defeated Tie to Politics Cited
Western Whig Standard from Tiffin Ohio once backed Van Buren over General Taylor in 1848. The piece notes the sheriff performed last rites for the paper, bemoaning editors' finances and internal party strife within the household.
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Western Whig Standard
Tiffin
Ohio
G. L. Wharton
Conscience
Taylor
van Buren
Loco Foco State Convention Seeks Hard Money Stand
The Columbus assembly on the fourth nominated a Board of Public Works candidate and declared strong support for hard money. Democrats seek Madison Gladden's view on Bank extermination and urged him to publicly state his position.
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Locofoco
Columbus
Board of Public Works
Madison Gladden
Surveying the Steubenville and Indiana Railroad Route
The President and engineers survey the proposed route on the western end, reconnoitering, making surveys, and procuring additional stock for the railroad project.
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The
Steubenville and Indiana Railroad
Wellsville Report On Cholera Declared False
A Wellsville resident, Mr Alexander M'Laughlin, requested the denial of yesterday's Herald report claiming cholera was prevailing there. He asserts the circulating claim is untrue and a gentleman from Wellsville delivered the earlier report to the city.
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W. Wallace
Franklin Jo
Columbiana County
Wellsville
Alexander M’ Laughlin
Indiana Wheat Crop Expected to Break Records This Fall
The Indiana State Journal notes across Indiana the wheat crop is improving this year, promising more grain sent to market this fall than in any prior year. The report expresses strong optimism that harvest yields will set a new state-wide peak.
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Indiana
Indiana State Journal of
Six Cumpren Burnt to Drain
Albany July 9 report: Mr. Knox of Bristol Ottawa Canada killed aboard a steamboat on Rideau Canal. Mrs Knox, meeting the remains, took the youngest child. six other children left at home perished in a house fire. Only the mother and an infant survive from a nine member family.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Albany
Knox
Bristol
Ottawa
Canada
Rideau Canal
Harp Verprer Eli Williams Found Guilty of Rape
Eli Williams was tried in Tiffin Sene ca county Ohio for rape and incest against the daughter of respectable parents. The Whig reports the crime clearly proven by many witnesses and notes it lasted from August 1848 to arrest in February last. The sentence is imprisonment for life.
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Harp Verprer
Eli Williams
Tiffin
Seneca County
Ohio
Steamboat Casualties of the Year Reported
A St. Louis Union report from the 3d lists sixty seven steamboats lost this year to explosions collisions fires snags and more. The disasters have caused four hundred sixty one deaths with many injured or scalded and substantial property losses.
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St. Louis Union
Population returns show Massachusetts near one million
All but five towns filed population returns as required by law. The figures presented to the Governor and Council indicate the state population will be just under one million people.
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Commonwealth
Taylor’s Letter Delays Syracuse Fair Promise
President Taylor writes to the New York State Agricultural Society chairman, citing extreme uncertainty over Congress adjournment and heavy public business as the reason he cannot keep his promise to attend the Syracuse fair in September.
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Gen. Taylor
Taylor
New York State Agricultural Society
Syracuse
Congress
Cassville Geo Names Cass Democratic Presidential Nominee
The Cassville Geo reports Gen. Lewis Cass as the Democratic Union Nominee for the 1852 presidency with J Ell Cobb of Georgia as vice who will be chosen by the Democratic Nominating Committee. A Louisiana sheet also nominates the ticket. The Bayou Sara paper shows these editorials urging liberal concessions to unite the South behind the ticket.
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Cassville Geo
Lewis Cass
Democratic Union
Jell Cobb
Vic
Democratic Nominating Co
Slavery Bisons
Louisiana
Daniel
Balloon ascent over Salem and Lowell described
An account from Massachusetts details a balloon ascent starting near Navigation.gart in Lowell and passing Salem. The traveler rode high above the harbor, returning tired yet triumphant, noting frost on the car as the lowest point from which observers measured the ascent. The ascent reached an estimated height near a hill monument with onlookers witnessing the scene.
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Gart
Ell
Massachusetts
Salem
Lowell
Premature stand on Wheeling bridge ruling noted
The Wheeling Times reports that the telegraphport decision on the Wheeling bridge is premature. Chancellor Walworth arrives to pursue his appointment and the Supreme Court will consider further bridge case actions. Proceeds may mark the initial move toward advancing the cause amid questions if the bridge is a nuisance.
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Walworth
U. S
Wheeling
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Co
Wheeling Gazette
Allegheny County
Columbus Journal
Krauss’s
High Street
Wheeling Times
Vest
Calico Imports and War Hits American Mills
American trade notes indicate exports to England fall short of paying for British calicoes imported for American consumption. Domestic health manufacturers during wartime face failures as the market tightens and imports strain the economy.
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England
Soit
Grand jury returns true bill against Cuba expeditionists
New Orleans on June 21 the grand jury sitting as a grand inquest found a true bill against Gen Lopez Sigur of Delaware Governor Quitman Judge C Pinckney Mr Smith of Mississippi Ex Senator Henderson and Mr O Sullivan former editor of the Democratic Review and ten others of the expeditionists against Cuba Indicted for an offence under our laws they are held to bail for trial in the court
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Yars
Free Soil
Taylor
Ohio
Wilmot
Cromwell
Mexico
United States
Congress
California
New Mexico
Zack Taylor
Freemont
Smith
Francisco
Rio del Norte
Utah
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Delaware
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C. Pinckney
Mississippi
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