Basaltic Columns and Mutiny on the Essex in Oregon Tales
In Farnham's Travels the Oregon Valley yields basaltic columns and a perilous encounter with Chenook Indians as the narrator regains stolen gear after a tense standoff. The piece also recounts mutiny aboard the Essex at the Marquesas Islands and Commodore Porter's swift, stern response to preserve the ship and flag. It ends with notes on corn sugar production and an Ellsworth proposal.
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Roderick Chu
Oregon
Lee
Marquesas Islands
Pacific
Porter
Robert White
Valparaiso
White
Gamble
Patents
H. L. Fillsworth
Congress
Ellsworth
Louisiana
Hydrophobia cure claim from Udine and Padua tale
An unsigned Italian letter from Venice discusses a supposed hydrophobia remedy using vinegar. It describes a Udine case where a poor man suffered torture from hydrophobia and was allegedly cured by vinegar draughts, echoed by a Padua physician giving a pound of vinegar daily.
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Venice
Udine
Friuli
Padua
Countleonisss
Cattle Starvation Reported in Champaign County
The Urbana Citizen notes a large number of cattle have starved to death in the northern Champaign county area due to fodder scarcity.
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Urbana
Champaign County
Travellers Report Excellent Facilities Across Route
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes modern traveller facilities are very great in the country. A visitor from Paris Tennessee claims ten days travel at about $30 with fine arrangements from Wheeling to Baltimore, covering over 300 miles between meals.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Paris
Tennessee
Wheeling
Baltimore
Channing Warns on Wealth As Supreme Aim
The speaker declares that treating riches as the highest distinction corrupts judgment. Money should be a mere means, and those who live to acquire property reveal base, sordid motives ruling life.
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Dr. Channing
Cultivate the Affections in Desert Life
A reflective passage imagines binding one’s affections to trees in a desert. The speaker imagines loving a myrtle or melancholy cypress for their shade and protection, writing one’s name upon them, and mourning or rejoicing with their leaves as they change.
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Rocky Mountains
President's Range
Cascades
Niagara
Mount Washington
Mount Adams
Thie
Rosseau
Trué to his Profession Bigelow’s Counterfeit Plan
A Lewis County convict, Bigelow, serving time for counterfeiting, cast counterfeit coins in his prison cell weeks ago and passed them to a fellow inmate near release so he could pay his way to employment.
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Bigelow
Lewis County
Westward gathering to Oregon at Fort Leavenworth May Day
The New Orleans Bee reports about one hundred people will rendezvous at Fort Leavenworth on May 1 for emigration to the Oregon Territory.
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New Orleans
Fort Leavenworth
Oregon Territory
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The
Columbia
Crane
Emerald Isle
Cascades OF the Columbia
Bayou Salade
Lower
West
Yeader
Dalles
ESSEX
E. Silliman
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