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Newspaper
Steubenville Weekly Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1850
Page
2
A Whig Central Committee address calls for patriotic energy and a concrete plan to energize the party in Jefferson area. It encourages members to contribute ideas, boost morale, and set a positive example with prompt, practical campaign steps.
The essay argues that avoiding politics is worse than engagement, calling out lawyers, mechanics, and farmers who profit from victory while claiming no interest in elections. It praises active, informed citizens who study government, vote wisely, and resist demagoguery, warning that neutrality harms the republic. Ohio constitutional cost and delays are criticized, with wasteful spending and upcoming conventions.
News from the California mines reports rich gold specimens in the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys and a hopeful outlook for the season. Quartz belts north and south are said to run through the country with Los Angeles yielding richer ore than Mariposa, suggesting machinery and skilled labor will drive large employment. In Stockton merchants blame foreign licensing laws for a dip in business, while the San Francisco summary notes increasing mining activity once licenses are accepted.
A yesterday’s exhibit showed a solid compact iron ore from the Rocky mountains. The ore is remarkably pure and free from dross, usable directly for making horse shoes and farming tools. Authors claim a mine could yield great fortunes by shipping ore to the States.
The New York Express reports General Taylor died intestate leaving a Mississippi plantation to buy a sugar plantation, with seventy to eighty thousand dollars due. Another purchased plantation proved unprofitable due to frequent flooding. It is suggested Presidential salary was relied on for more payments, but salary is gone. The timing harms his family’s interests and explains why the family does not return to Louisiana. Before marrying Colonel Bliss’s daughter, Taylor settled a substantial sum on her.
The Tribune reports the leading features of a cheap postage bill. Letters under a quarter ounce for distances within the region cost 3 cents if prepaid, otherwise 5 cents. Oregon and California rates are unsettled. Circulars treated as letters if prepaid. Stamps sold in blocks of at least $50 with a 10 percent discount. Papers under 1900 square inches charged half a cent in-state and one cent out-of-state.
The St. Louis Union criticizes Millard Fillmore, calling him an abolitionist and ally of SeWard, and claims his vice presidential nomination came from Nativeist opposition rather than Whig convention support. The Tribune notes pervasive dishonesty, while remarking on the Great Valley’s fertile but faulty invention.
The Richmond Clipper notes that preserving herald gas could light Steubenville without gas works costs. It also jokes that rebuked medical effluents from the weekly clipper could reduce doctor needs, forcing one to flee the country due to competition.
The Investigation committee closes its inquiry into the Oberlin Post Office letters. Witnesses report Mr. Giddings kept papers for two hours at his request. The Tribune correspondent notes his two denials before the House and questions how he can escape their implications.
A July report from Quaker Bottom Lawrence County describes six enslaved people fleeing south side of the Ohio opposite Lawrence County pursued by white men. The fugitives, armed, repelled attackers with gunfire and cudgels, then vanished into the wilderness as a larger posse of up to seventy men pursued them. The tale is said to be likely exaggerated.
M Wilkin retires from the Concord Free Press and Mrs C C Beatty becomes editor with John A Beatty as publisher. Beatty’s intro praises constitutional approach to slavery and opposes its extension, contrasting slavery’s harms with freedom’s benefits and prosperity.
Fredericksburgh Va July 23 A mob of about two hundred including Justices of the Peace and church members seized William Grayson at the Culpeper jail. They dragged him to the woods and hanged him after forcing a one minute confession. Grayson had twice been convicted of murder of David A Miller. appeals led to new trials. The outrage provokes calls for arrests.
A Boston dispatch states Hon. D. P. King, member of Congress from Massachusetts second district, died on the 25th inst in that city from dysentery.
Advices from California via New Orleans and Baltimore reach as late as June 18 describing a new gold mine on a Sierra Nevada branch. The find is claimed richer than any previously discovered, suggesting unprecedented richness and value.
The wheat crop in Ohio this season is said to be the largest and best ever raised in the state, signaling a strong yield and favorable growing conditions for farmers across the region.
About forty thousand black residents now live in Ohio, largely emigrants from slave states. The speaker notes Ohio's mixed heritage from Virginia families and Southern chivalry, reflecting on social progress and racial dynamics in the state. The passage emphasizes demographic shift and regional roots of Ohio's Black community.
Special correspondence from Baltimore notes Daniel Clay’s forceful push for the Compromise in the Senate as a decisive vote looms the next day. Webb and Rhett sparring is described with warnings of traitor if disunionist measures prevail, while Fillmore’s cabinet strength is praised as a powerful political force backing the administration.
A Chinese keeper of a San Francisco restaurant, As-Sing, faced a damage suit when a city resident fell into an open cess-pool on his premises. The defendant cited Celestial Empire law to justify no damages, but the suit was dropped after a brief exchange.
The Cleveland Herald reports Gov. Ford named Hon. Thomas Ewing to fill the unexpired term of Senator Corwin in the United States Senate. Ewing, former Secretary of the Interior, is praised for service, energy, and statecraft as he assumes the new department role amid Ohio pride in Corwin and Ewing.
The piece notes a sample of long staple cotton from Upper California praised for size color and quality. It questions whether such cotton could shift policy or provoke social tensions. It also mentions Judge Wood declining to discuss political topics with Judge Johnston and other assorted items from the era.
A wagon accident on the National road about four miles from town caused a death last Saturday. The unnamed victim was thrown from the wagon during descent and crushed by the rig, with locals noting the tragedy and urging caution on the road.
The Board of Health reports twelve hundred sixty three deaths in Cincinnati from all diseases from July 1 to 23, cholera causing most. Reports from Madison and Louisville note cholera deaths and other diseases. California emigrants and Oregon gold finds fill dispatches. A Kentucky family tragedy near Madison and a veteran cholera nurse in a hospital highlight the era’s grim toll.
The Boston Journal reports Professor Webster meeting Ephraim Littlefield, janitor of the Medical College, in his cell. Webster expresses penitence and asks forgiveness as Littlefield testifies. both appear emotionally affected and vow mutual good will. Littlefield plans to see Webster’s wife. Webster claims resignation to die for his family.
Reports from Jefferson Barracks New York describe arrival of several companies of Sols via Lake. Cholera outbreak in La appears malignant causing panic and 70 soldiers desert before barracks. Arrangements underway to move many troops to Fort Leavenworth and then to New Mexico.
Garibaldi, daily expected in our shores, writes from Gibraltar to Turin friends. He departs for England then New York to captain a merchant vessel under the US flag if allowed. He expresses desire to sail under his own colors but will obey what fate and conditions permit.
From the Louisville Journal an account notes a man named Jacques and his wife struck by cholera. After the wife collapses, Jacques asks the doctor about her condition, then gives his watch to his brother and says he will die with her. He dies within three hours as symptoms appear.
Daniel F. Miller, the Whig contestant for Iowa's seat in Congress, has reached Burlington from Washington and will immediately begin campaigning. The Locofoco opponent, Mr. Thompson, was expected to arrive soon.
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