10 Apr 1846
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1846
Page
1
Printed and published weekly by A. M. Gest and L. D. Morris outlines subscription costs: one dollar seventy five cents in advance, two dollars within the year, and two dollars fifty cents after year ends. Advertising rates are noted as usual.
The act appoints three commissioners by joint resolution to continue the Columbus State House project, adopt the 1843-44 plan, and modify details without increasing cost. They elect a president and secretary, maintain records, report annually, and manage funds with duplicate receipts.
The 1846 Ohio acts authorize convict labor for the Olio Lunatic Asylum project under penitentiary supervision and allow limestone from state quarries to be transported by a new railroad. Separately, a marital property law limits a husband's claim on his wife’s real estate and assets, shielding them from debt collection during marriage and heirs, with exemptions for household goods and specific conveyance rules. The measures take effect July 4.
A Baltimore episode warns rush to romance. A Harford County cloth merchant sent a formal note to a ball guest, seeking an interview. The father arrested the suitor for assault after rough rejection, fined $20 plus costs, underscoring manners over ardor.
The piece quotes Thomas Jeffersons criticisms of slavery, arguing the system corrupts national morals and industry. It notes how master slave relations pervert education, provoke despotism, and threaten liberty, with reflections on divine justice and the potential for emancipation amid political upheaval.
A letter from missionary Hoyt describes aboard a slave ship at Monrovia scenes of agony and death among captives, with boys aged 10 to 17 among the 100 seized that the Albertan Conference Mission plans to care for, educate, and clothe. John Wesley and David A. Shepard named among rescued youths.
A detailed critique of harsher army expansion, arguing the skeleton regiments lack privates and praise for officers. It cautions that doubling privates with no more officers undermines discipline and suggests a modest, lasting increase is needed regardless of war. Mentions proposed fifty thousand volunteers as temporary and unreliable. Includes brief items on a mock marriage, youth morality, and a Florida Spanish fort discovery with 1539 markings.
A western character named Major Campion, living in Chicago, is challenged by a ferry man who insists on a fight. After a brief dispute, Campion and his wife watch as the Major defeats the challenger in a drawn out duel by the river. The defeated man then ferries Campion across the river, bidding him a good afternoon.
A private Macon letter reports Dr Ambrose Baber died after swallowing part of a deadly prescription intended for a patient. The druggist warned of death if taken. The doctor died within thirty minutes. A typographical error allegedly amplified the poison’s effect. In Stark County, Waynesburg, Daniel Sheffer died when an old shed collapsed on him, and Ezekiel Silvers died after recounting the accident.
The Maine Farmer editor says a farmer's daughter may study piano and poetry but must value domestic skills like darning, milking, and cheese making as the true foundation of worth. A Hartford woman elopes with two Mormon elders, with her child, while multiple California emigration parties are forming from Arkansas, Missouri, and Independence.
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