Plains-Indian Religious Meetings and Cholera News
In a May 27 letter from Near West Missouri River Cincinnati editor Stephen Gano describes a Plains Indian Shawnee area visit. He details a 32 member Indian Baptist meeting led by Rev Baker, with English to Indian translation, sermons, singing, and prayer among red and white congregants amid cholera concerns.
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Plains
Cincinnati Chronicle
Stephen Gano
Gano
Charley
Mr. Baker
Reludian
Railroad Meeting at Ekay's School House Cross Creek
Citizens of Cross Creek Township Jefferson County gathered at Ekay's School House to discuss the Steubenville and Indiana Railroad. A. L. Frazer spoke on benefits and profits of railroads, and a committee proposed resolutions urging immediate construction and a county stock subscription of at least $100,000, with pledges to subscribe personally. The meeting urged private stock subscriptions and ordered publication in Steubenville newspapers.
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Crosse Creek Township
Cross Creek Township
Jefferson Co
Ekay
Steubenville & Indiana Railroad
Aram Rezo
Josefh V. Stevenson
A. L. Frazer
Steubenville
Jefferson County
Steubenville & In
Joseph M'Coy
Isaac Weldy
John Deters
Joseph ‘L'‘Ombleson
George’ M’cullough
Autissa
Joseph McCarol
Allison
James Crawford
Herod
Willis
Cross CrEix
Dot. Ralston
Jeu-Sipad
Mary Wiles
Cabinet Opens Doors to Foreign Appointments in 1849
Correspondence from Washington reports the Cabinet finalized several foreign postings, naming Lawrence as Minister to England and Rives to Paris with Barringer to Spain, while Whig and Republic papers emerge as administration voices. Subordinate postings at Baltimore Custom House to follow, and Whitlesey declines compensation at the Washington Monument Association while remaining active.
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Baltimore Patriot
Washington
Washineton
Lawrence
England
Rives
Paris
Barringer
Spain
Republic
National Whig
Whig
Intelligencer
the Republic
Baltimore
Whitlesey
Washington Monument Association
Union
Death Notice for Bro Silas Gerrard of Wilkinson Lodge No 10
Resolutions by Jeff. Lodge No 6 I O O P mourn the death of Bro Silas Gerrard of Wilkinson Lodge No 10 Woodville Mississippi. Lodge expresses deepest sympathy to widow and children, notes Gerrard as a worthy member, and commits to burial with mourning badges for 30 days. Copies to relatives and his lodge.
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Jeff
Bro
Silas Gerrard
Wilkinson Lodge
No. 10
Woodville
Mississippi
Gerrard
Died Hon. Joan McKlava nin’s Consort Mrs Ann
Died on the 7th instant Mrs Ann consort of the Hon Joan McKlava nin of Jefferson county in the first year of age. She was esteemed as a woman of ten thousand and a consistent Christian. Her last illness showed firm faith in gospel promises and her closing scene brightened toward immortality. Further testimony from N L Cody and W B Sloan notes demand for Condition Wonders Ointment and Tannin Paste with sales rising, and I S Hening in Steubenville selling the medicines.
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Joan McKlava
Jefferson County
N. L. Cody
Lake County
W. B. Sloan
Farrier
N. PT
Steubenville
Ohio
Phird Street
Third Street
Martet Street
Samuel McClain
Wood Street
Pittsburgh
Daily Herald
Prenbenville
R. Townsend
Dr. Townsend
Port Homer
Sloan & Wallace
Newburgh
Jeffersoneunty
Wallace
Philadelphia
W. H. Wallace
dieyOne
Jacob Ong
Court of Common Pleas
Efferson County
Finley Ong
George Day
State OF
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Jefferson Cound
Ezekiel Moore
Reflection and Consideration Debate Cholera Panic Controversy
A Letter to the editor defends a medical journal’s Cholera Panic report from last Saturday. It argues a misstatement should be corrected from five deaths to one hundred or one fifth, rebuts the author Reflection, and cites a fable about a tiger and a mirror to urge prudent discourse among physicians. The writer hopes Consideration’s warnings aid the community and asks Reflection to avoid controversy.
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Mr. Avuison
Baltimore Miss Swallows Gold Dollar Incident
A Baltimore story reports a young woman accidentally swallowing a gold dollar while handling coins, illustrating a curious popular belief about the coin’s supposed tendency to sing or sing out with people.
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Baltimore
Turbulent sessions reshuffle European politics in Rome
News from Rome reports a dissolved Old French Assembly, a new body seated amid confusion after a president’s outburst, and a Triumvirate plan for universal suffrage. Austria, Spain, and Neapolitan troops withdraw while French forces retreat. Hungary faces massed Austro-Russian pressure as Magyars claim key seaports. Rome’s fate hangs on papal negotiations and the Gaeta accord.
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Ledra Rollin
Algeria
D’aumale
Rome
Constituent Assembly
Jessops
Gaeta
Foreign News From New York June Sixteen Describes Hungarian Steps
Report from New York describes Hungarian victories claimed against Russia and Austrian forces. It notes Buda fallen to Hungarians with heavy Hungarian losses, and Romanian or Croatian officers killed. It mentions Bem and Dembrinsky actions, Russian troops reportedly missing, and widespread Hungarian mobilization. French forces advance toward Rome amid tensions with Austrians and Neapolitans.
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Prussia
Frederickshall
Germany
Hungary
Buda
Freinone
Jersey City
Russia
Odenburgh
Vienna
Bem
Dembrinsky
Raab
Galicia
Pariezel
Republic of Hangary
Debreczin
Kaschaw
Civita Vecchia
Rome
Gold Dust and Passengers Arrive in New Orleans
New Orleans reports the Crescent City arriving from Chagres with nearly 1,000,090 in gold dust and 12 passengers including Governor Mason and Captain Fornes of the mail steamer California. They confirm abundance of precious metals in New Mexico, while markets are overstocked apart from provisions. Sixty vessels were in San Francisco harbor, mostly from the United States.
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Crescent City
Chagres
Mason
Fornes
California
New Mexico
Oregon
Panama
San Francisc
United States
Boston schooner Zenoba captured off Africa with 559 slaves
The Zenoba a Baltimore schooner was captured by an English sloop of war off Africa’s coast. On board were 559 enslaved people including 33 women some branded on the breast with red hot iron. The seizure follows a slave trade interdiction effort and highlights brutality of the trade.
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Boston
Zenoba
Baltimore
Africa
Market Prices and Goods in Low River Trade Report
The notice lists current prices and availability for varied goods as the river runs low. Flour, corn, oats, cheese, butter, lard, candles, sugar, molasses, rice, coffee, tea, raisins, tobacco, cigars, rosin, soap, tar, dried fruit, seeds, confections, figs, oranges, window glass, and wool are noted with specific per unit or per box figures and remarks on supply. Indiana State Bank and Virginia branches are referenced in a financial note.
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Irge
Pittsbugi
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