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Newspaper
Steubenville Weekly Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1850
Page
1
A late 18th or early 19th century verse fragment from Steubenville recalls a maid and her heart as suitors seek to win affection. The narrative voice presents the heart refusing each suitor while a youth near a tree softly sings and the maid leans in, ending with the heart's quiet refrain.
The story unfolds in a northeastern Connecticut hamlet on the eve of the Revolutionary War. Harry Linton, a courageous carpenter, plans to join American forces after courting Mary Turner, daughter of a patriotic farmer. He befriends Joseph Reddy, who warns of raiding New England recruits and lawless stragglers under a leader named Pelton as tension rises toward war.
The Louisville Journal declined to publish a Boston public caution about trusting Mrs T B Lawrence. An editorial praises Mrs Lawrence as the city and state’s admired, benevolent, generous hostess, noting her refined hospitality and wide affection despite a troubled marriage.
The Anti-Slavery Convention met in Cincinnati with Sameer Lewis presiding. Elections elected Judge Stevens of Indiana as President, six Vice Presidents, and four Secretaries. Resolutions denounced slavery with support from Senator Seward’s stance in Congress, and sessions will focus on anti slavery sentiment. Spittoons were removed and no applause allowed. prayers opened each session.
New York lawmakers enact a statute penalizing telegraphic operators who divulge a dispatch or fail to transmit it, with penalties including fines or imprisonment. The measure targets secrecy and compliance in official communications within the state.
Historical text outlines acts by the Ohio General Assembly in 1850 fixing times for the sixteenth circuit courts in Allen Hancock Hardin Auglaize Mercer Shelby and summer and fall terms with provisions on juries writs and Sunday adjournments plus supplementary notes and a Honolulu dispatch about a shipwreck and a biographical tale plus congressional reports from Washington on financial measures mint and treasury matters and a Hawaii tale involving a marriage.
Legislative act outlines spring summer and fall terms for the seven teenth judicial circuit. It sets specific start dates in Scioto Pike Lawrence Gallia and Jackson counties and repeals conflicting provisions. Included are amendments and certifications from 1850 with notices from Benj F Leiter and an editor's anecdote.
A Maine woodsman selects a pine tree and mills 4000 feet of lumber from it. The event highlights a productive harvest in the Maine forest, detailing the selection and resulting timber quantity.
April reports detail the Belle of the West shipwreck with 360 aboard including 167 cabin passengers and unclear loss totals. Also noted are deaths in Louisville and Norval’s passing, river levels, relief funds raised, British steamer Medway arrival with gold dust, and treaty signals on the Nicaragua canal doctrine.
A blaze at 82 M street near 13th and Fitzwarren destroyed 20 houses, mostly occupied by Irish weavers. The loss is severe and many residents are displaced. The weather is mild and pleasant.
The Belle of the West burned two miles below Warsaw on Monday night at midnight. It carried 150 cabin passengers not counting children and 109 on deck emigrants, with 50 to 100 presumed dead. The fire started in the hold due to presumed carelessness, and the vessel was fully aflame within four minutes. The boat was beached and survivors were dragged from beds or carried ashore by crew as officers leapt to safety.
Second despatch from Maison dated April 2 reports about 400 passengers aboard with two California companies and thirty families relocating west. Over 60 perished and many unregistered missing. A lady and a man with a child stood between the chimneys when the deck collapsed. Many horses burned or nearly fatally injured and euthanized.
A San Francisco based wealthy firm proposed issuing paper currency, with bills printed and circulated locally before crossing the New York line. The scheme faced opposition described as a war against the plan, and authorities had prohibited certain steps as the project moved through steamship routes and crossed stations.
A Cincinnati dispatch notes Captain James of the Belle of the West survived a disaster with only 23 lost. From Mobile a cholera outbreak worsens in Mexico City as officials inch toward a border boundary task. New York reports steamers from Chagres with Californa news to come. Louisville sees river rise and Canal water at 9.6 feet. Peyton reports Chilean diplomacy and fires dominate New Orleans papers. Also included are anecdotes about a drunken mayor, bootmakers, a Shakspeare mishap, a Missouri elder’s death-preparedness belt, and a boy’s rifle incident in Michigan.
A fragment notes 117 paupers in Dauphin County poor house. It mentions the youngest being three months old and the oldest aged 103 years, highlighting a wide age range among inmates.
Six steam ships head to New York from Europe with eight ships in motion toward American ports. The Brit ish Queen and Helena Stoman sail from Hamburg on early dates, Cambria and Canada depart Liverpool, City of Glasgow and Washington hail from Glasgow and Southampton, and Crescent City and Philadelphia chase progress at speed. European news may arrive via Cambria and California news via the Chavres steamer today.
In the second municipality of New Orleans the Independent Whig A D Crossan won the mayoralty by about 800 votes, defeating Whig Joshua Baldwin as the incumbent faces a general Democratic wave. The report notes the local result came with broad party shifts and voter enthusiasm.
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