Treasury notes revival act of 1839 passage
The act authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury with presidential approval to issue the remainder of Treasury notes under acts from 1837 and 1838 to cover current government expenses. It allows issuance before June 30 next, despite prior limitations, with James K. Polk and Martin Van Buren involved in approval.
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Treasury
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
James K. Polk
RH. M. Johnson
M. van Buren
Public Building Fund for Florida Territory Approved
A congressional act provides twenty thousand dollars to Florida Territory for a state house and public buildings to house the Territorial Legislature and archives. Funds are to be paid to the Territory Treasurer on the Governor's order and managed by the Governor and Legislative Council, with no further US appropriation implied. Approved March 3, 1839.
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Flovista
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
Florida
Iaid
Legislative Council
United States
Political party strife and power claims in Raleigh Standard
The Raleigh Standard quotes a reflection on party corruption and mismanagement, noting the contest over power patronage and money. It suggests the Whigs claim the Democrats hold all power, citing a Representative from the third district drawing a candid, unstudied likeness of the scene.
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Democratic Republican Party
Whigs
Raleigh Standard
Editor Doubts Dun Can Reply To Stanly Letter
The Washington Whig editor declines our offer to publish Mr Dun can s reply to Mr Stanly and will print his letter to Ohio abolitionists next week for edification. We doubt its value. a more edifying reply on Stanly’s conduct would aid readers more than the abolitionists’ missive. The Tuscaloosa Intelligencer, a federal Whig paper, also condemns Stanly s speech as driven by bitter personal invective against Dr Duncan of Ohio, calling it coarse and degenerate to political halls.
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Atherton
Duncan
Raleigh Standard
Stanzy
Washington City
Third Congressional District
Washington Whig
Tuscaloosa
Congress
Our
Republic
Globe
Daily Globe
PFESE
Chingy
Sudden Death of Geo. Pollock in Halifax County
Mr George Pollock died in a shocking accident Tuesday evening in Halifax County when a young horse reared and fell on him at a plantation gate crushing him almost instantly. He was an elderly, wealthy landholder reputed to own 1500 slaves and never married. The Raleigh Standard notes David L Swain named head of Fayetteville and Western Rail Road Company at a recent internal improvement board meeting. The Register disputes the annunciation as premature.
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George Pollock
Halifax County
Roanoke
Pollock
Raleigh Standard
David L. Swain
Fayetteville and Western Rail Road Company
Board of Internal Improvement
Mulberry Demand Grows In 19th Century Markets
A New York sale shows prices up 25 percent for mulberry plants. Augusta reports four five year olds sold for 150 dollars cash. Collins and Pettigrew’s spring sales total about 75,000 dollars. Norfolk Herald notes Alabama steamer carried 22,000 mulberry switches to Baltimore, value at least 45,000 dollars. Each switch carries about two million buds in total.
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New York
Star
Augusta
Messrs. Collins & Pettigrew
Norfolk Herald
Alabama
Baltimore
Valuable trees shipped from Eden ton estate to Baltimore
These trees belonged to Messrs Collins and Pettigrew of Eden ton North Carolina. They were sent to Baltimore in the care of an agent to be disposed of there. The trees were packed with great care in boxes containing about 250 trees each.
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Messrs. Collins and Pettigrew
Edenton
N. C
Baltimore
Democratic Unity and Principle Highlighted by Tarborough Speech
The Richmond Enquirer hail s a Toole speech and praises Democratic party spirit in the district. General Louis D. Wilson lauds his Tarborough remarks as sacrificing personal interest for principles and backing the candidate who upholds them.
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Richmond Enquirer
Toole
Union
Louis D. Wilson
Edgecombe
Tarborough
Congress
Washington
Swartwout Lands Sale And Political Rumor
The New York Sunday Morning News states Swartwout who paid defalcations into government funds invested in Texas lands and later sold them to capitalists in England for about six million three hundred thousand dollars. The Lincolnton Rep notes possible renomination by the New Light Whigs. The Tuscumbia Alabamian adds U.S. Marshal levies on Swartwout’s interest in eight hundred Chickasaw land sections in Mississippi.
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Swartwout
New York Sunday Morning News
Texas
England
Samuel Swartwout
New Light Whigs
New passenger car on Wilmington and Raleigh line
The Wilmington and Raleigh Rail Road introduced a new passenger car last week. It seats about fifty and has two compartments with a connecting door. Eight locomotives are ready on this road end. A steamboat named Wilmington will be ready May 1 to run between Wilmington and Charleston.
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Wilmington and
Raleigh
Wilmington
Charleston
Wilmington Chronicle
Small Pox-Limited Outbreak Reported in Newbern
For weeks a contagious eruptive illness resembling small pox has appeared in the area with eight to ten cases and a recent fatality. Physicians disagree on its exact nature, but the Spectator confirms an eruptive disease is present and notes Mrs. Cummings died on Wednesday.
Biddle resigns Presidency of Bank of Pennsylvania
Nicholas Biddle, esq. resigns as president after twenty years of service. Thomas Dunlap is unanimously appointed successor. The Raleigh Standard critiques Biddle as the greatest financier of the age, accusing him of mischief and a conspiracy against public morals and liberty.
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Biddle
Bank
Nicholas Biddle
United States Bank of Pennsylvania
Thomas Dunlap
Raleigh Standard
Fire and Loss of Life in Portsmouth Conflagration
A Norfolk correspondent reports on the Norfolk fourteenth stating the destruction of a new double brick tenement on High Street Portsmouth by fire. The Portsmouth Times printing office and much of the post office contents were destroyed. A nearby frame house used by Mr Thomas J Godwin as a cabinet factory suffered collapse burying him and others. Nichols and Brooks are reported badly hurt.
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Richmond
Norfolk
High Street
Portsmouth
Portsmouth Times
Anderson
Thomas J. Godwin
Godwin
Nichols
Brooks
Local tragic death mourned by community
Though not dangerously hurt. The death of Mr. Godwin is a loss to the community, and is deeply deplored by his fellow-citizens.
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Godwin
Goelicke's Match Less Sanative Gains Noted Fame
Advert claims the sick are taking Goelicke's Match Less Sanative and that it astonishes Europe and America with its mighty cures. The item reads as a revival era medical patent claim highlighting widespread popularity and extraordinary efficacy.
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Goelicke
Europe
America
Asthma cured after fifty four years by Evans Vegetable Medicine
Sara Simmons of Prince George County Virginia states she suffered asthma for fifty four years with near daily symptoms. She began using Dr Evans Vegetable Medicine in June and claims permanent relief after initial treatment. Agent J M Repmann advertised in Tarboro North Carolina.
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Wm. Evans
Win Evans
Sara Simmons
Prince George
Co. Va
J M. RepMmann
Tarboro
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