Arrival of the America at Tags Lisbon amid fogs
The steamship America arrived off the harbor and reached its wharf after dawn due to dense fog. News from Lisbon dated the 9th reports American fleet presence to enforce a $10,000 claim, with a 21 day response window and Portuguese resistance anticipated. Sir Robert Peel’s death dominates UK obituaries.
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Robert Peel
Tags
Portugal
Hauifax
America
Lisbon
Louis Phillippe
Sir Robert Peel
England
France
Whitehall
Constitution Hill
Sir Robert
London
John Russell
Drayton Abbey
Pennsylvanian Attempted Assassination of Louis Napoleon
A Pennsylvania printer, about 18, attempted to assassinate Louis Napoleon. He was described as socialistic and likely crack-brained. The passage recalls a Seneca Falls observer noting Millard Fillmore then leaving a trade to study law, later becoming U.S. president.
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Arteprs
Lews Naroteox
Louis Napoleon
Pennsylvania
Stoumme
Wongstan
Mynders
Seneca Falls
Millard Fillmore
United States
Woman Wins Trapainxine Cup at Seacombe
A Trapainxine match at Seacombe concluded with the victor taking a prize and discarding 19 cups as part of the celebration.
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Seacombe
Early 19th Century Firsts and Shipments Mentioned
Mittaup Fitzware is noted as the first U S president born in the nineteenth century. A German company begins porcelain manufacture in Wilmington Delaware. Gorra Penell Lily boats are now produced in England.
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Mittaup Fitzware
United States
Geamans
Wilmington
Delaware
England
Democratic Electors of Northumberland Choose Delegates
The Democratic electors of Northumberland county are requested to meet on Saturday August 17 1850 at their usual election sites to elect delegates to the Democratic County Convention to be held in Suntory on the following Monday to form a Democratic ticket for the ensuing fall election.
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Northumberland County
Suntory
Brponas
Borough of
Sunbury
Stutate
Point Township
County of
Northumberland
Jones James Nesbit
Charles Parks
Henry Paul
Mrs Nourte
Francis Grady
John Cratchley, Jr
Great Freshet and Loss of Property From Floods
Heavy rain began Thursday the 18th and lasted 36 hours, swelling the Susquehanna and its tributaries. Farmers along Shamokin Creek report extensive losses including shocks of wheat, hay, and corn. fences and kilns suffered. railroad bridges and embankments face urgent repairs after the flood.
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Reading Gazette
Schuylkill River
Philadelphia
Schuylkill
Maniyank
Phonisville
Manyank
Phaypixville
Conshehocken
Reading
Norristown
John Farnsworth
J. Culp
Bacon
Geo. Armstrong
John Z. Haas
Krum
Peter Kaldy
Capt
Hunter
Charles Gohin
Geo. Weiger
Messrs
George
Jacob Young
North Branch
Northumberland
Shamokin
President Fillmore Cabinet Praised In Civil Discourse
A Wilmington era column extols President Fillmore for a strong moderate cabinet led by Webster as Secretary of State. It highlights Corwin, Bates, Graham, Crittenden, Hall and notes Cape May editors, travel writers, poetry, and transatlantic steamship feats alongside brief notices of execution timing for Wenster and canal navigation resuming.
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Fillmore
Daniel Webster
Pation
Thomas Corwin
Ohio
North Carolina
Navy
United States
John J. Crittenden
Kentucky
General Taylor
Crittenden
Clay
Nathan K. Hall
New York
Buffalo
Congress
Mr. Clay
General Cass
Great Northwest
Altraists
John P. Hale
Nova Scotia
Mr Clay
Nashville
Mr. Webster
South Carolina
Barnwell
Rhett
Senator Hale
Hale
Col. Jefferson Davis
Mr. Yulee
Mr. Soule
Mr. Benton
Wasnixetor
Webster
Massachusetts
Corwin
the Treasury
Pottsville Court House Under Roof Ahead of Opening
The Pottsville Court House is under roof and nearing completion. A bell and clock have been purchased for installation. The piece notes Pottsville’s coal trade reliance and hospitality as background for its anticipated public opening and a celebratory event.
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Pottsville
Cabinet Nominations Stir Washington and State Ties
Washington dispatch details the new Fillmore cabinet lineup with Hall as Postmaster General and Crittenden as Attorney General, noting Northern and Southern balance and tensions with Governor Seward. The report mentions Pennsylvania opposition, New York influence, and a push for a conciliatory slate amid regional strains, plus brief notes on a divorce case and a poetically inspired youth.
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Hall
Pennsylvania
Mr. Crittenden
Kentucky
Crittenden
Corwin
Tressury Department of the Interior
Vinton
New York
Polk
Cave Johnson
Turney
Seward
Fillmore
Jobson
United States Treasury
Philadelphia
Mcfennon
Congress
Gov. Johnson
Domestic relations tale of quarrel over paint in Boston marriage
A long narrative from Boston outlines a quarrel between Mr. Lawrence of Boston and his wife Miss Ward of Louisville. The couple clashed over decorating paint and contraband beauty supplies, with letters and family plots described as plotting and deception. The tale ends with the wife packing and traveling to Louisville.
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Hnsé
Louisville
Nancy
Miss Ward
Mr. Lawrence
Public Ledger
Lawrence
New York Herald
Boston
Mass
Ward
Napoleon
Shakspeare
Sheroes
Eve
Ima
Talleyrand
Metternich
Sonme
Sallie
Czar
Louwville
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Richard Cobden
Manchester
Washington
Franklin
American Senate
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Atlantic
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George Washington
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Zaachary Taylor
Mear
Bancroft
Lamia
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Senate
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House of Commons
Jst
House of Lords
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Lords
Canada
United States of America
Paris
M. Poitevin
Hus
H. B. Masser
Susquehanes
Pensylvvania
William T. Morison
Montgomery County
Ephraim Banks
Milton Couuty
J. Porter Brawley
Cemwiord County
Tanle
Goury
Lanv
Godey
G.M. Yorks
Samuel Ent
WAM
St. Kipp
Samuel Lantz
Reuben Zartman
WM. Wilson
A. Armstrong
It. Reader
Snr
Samuel T. Browne
Sunbury Canal Company
Messrs. Clement & Bowen
Turnpike Company
Cape May
Caxis
Col Wallace
Sun
Col
Forney
Pennsylvanian
Capes
Col. Fitzgerald
Lem
Brandywine Springs
Wallace
Fitzgerald
Root
Alpha
Greece
Rome
Homer
Helen of Troy
Troy
Greene
Byron
Ocean
Cape Clear
Cape Race
Collin
Paoresson Wenster
Union
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Albany
Pensacola
Milton
Billmyer
Henry Crago
Ledger
Gen
Satan Mancaset Forcer
Timothy Fuller
N. Y. Tribune
Europe
Count Ogsoli
Florence
Leghorn
Elizabeth
Jamey Cooper
U. S. Senate
Washington News
The
Prim. Ledger
Pearce
Maryland
Interior
Bates
Missouri
Graham
Aky
Atd
Boston Post
Russia
Hightstown
N. J
Albert Lehman
Optiscian
Santary
John Baker
Emanuel Kantinan
Anid Hoker
Kantinan
Civort
Autibiry
Sunburs
Thorne Vastine
William Vastine
Amos Vastine
Samuel Smith
Peint Township
J. Greenough
Stleriff Sales
Lower Augusta Township
Said County
Jacob Seasholts
Adam Renn
Daniel Holfebach
Henry Long
Wm. Shipman
Dee'd
Conrad Baker
Leonard Reed
James Rosa
Augusta Township
Samuel Culper
Mark Steck
Samuel Culp
Benjamin Katterman
D&c
Benjamin FP. Wampele
George Wanpele
James Covert
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