Courier Extra Publishes President's Message Early
The Batavia Ohio Courier reports the President's Message was delivered in Washington on December 2 and an extra Courier issued December 8, giving readers early access before the regular publication day. It notes the intention to provide news for little cost with added labor. The paper also notes the death by suicide of Mr. John Lyle, a respected farmer and Presbyterian, with family and community sympathy.
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Courier
Washington City
Joan Lyne
Lyle
Presbyterian Church
France
Henson
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Cultivator Journal Begins in Columbus Ohio in 1846
This semi monthly agricultural paper priced at $1 per year or 3 for four copies urges farmers to subscribe by sending name and $1 to M. B. Bateham Columbus Ohio. The issue notes editor experience and upcoming prospectus. Also reports United States Senator elections in Virginia and South Carolina and a fire in Lockland destroying multiple factories with little insurance.
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Columbus
Batsnam
M. B. Bateham
Ohio
U. S
Sour Carolina
John GC. Calhoun
United States
South Carolina
D. E. Huger
Cincinnati Market Western Waters and Commodities
The Pittsburg Journal notes three feet of water in the channel and ice upstream and downstream opposite Cincinnati. Open water opposite Cincinnati with ice elsewhere caused weather-bound steamers. Fiora remains firm, buyer seller barrier with 10 to 15 cents range. Prices reported: 800 brls at 9.15, 1000 brls at 5.12, 350 brls at 500. store sales of ordinary country brands at 4.95 to 5.00. Hog markets show 600 head of Indiana and Ohio hogs at 4.00 to 24.25 per 220 lbs. Barrels, half barrels, and kegs price ranges noted. groceries include New Orleans sugar at 8c per lb and Rio coffee at 8c per lb.
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Pittsburg Journal
Cincinnati
Fiora
Waisky
Indiana
Ohio
New Orleans
Ohio Legislature Sets Senate and House Standing Committees
The Senate names committees on Privileges and Elections to Judiciary Finance Claims Public Works Roads and Highways Railroads and Turnpikes Common Schools Universities Medical Societies Militia Agriculture Manufactures Corporations Currency Benevolent Institutions Library State Buildings New Counties Retrenchment Salaries of Public Officers Public Printing Federal Relations Enrollment and notes Virginia abduction letter. The House assigns similar panels with members listed. the body adjourned. Judge Joseph Swan of Springfield Republic resigns as President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas.
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Quioby
Reid
Codding
Messia
Perkins
Ewing
Powell
Goddard
Newman
Kelsey
Cox
Wood
Thornhill
Welsh
Osborn
Utter
Bean
Mesera
Eckley
Edgerton
Madeira
Groff
Hastings
Messrs
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Martin
Fayette
Chaney, Perkins and Quinby
Osborn, King and
O'Ferrall
Jones and
Fayettte
Newman, Groff Ard Koch
Welfiore
Columbiana
Bean, Mackall and Madeira
Eckley, Reid, and
Cox, Thornhill, and Kelley
Anderson, Wood and Wetmore
Powell, King
O'Neal
Anderson, Ewing and Bean
Koch and Coombs
Warner and Chaney
Warner and Powell
Coombs
Fayettes
Kelley, Harte and Anderson
Quinby & King
Virginia
Ohio
Committee On Federal Relations
House
Mason
Phelps
Flinn
Vallandingham, & Noble
Cowen
Vallandigham
Olds
Harvey
Reemelin
Stanley
Brown
Montgomery
Owens
Evans
Willford
McIntosh
Ridgway
Knapp
Cutler
Anderson
Shreeve
Lemmon, Leatherman
Boyd, Betts
Parcher
Harvey, Willford, Smith
Licking
Higgins and
Moulton
Barnes, Dial
Gibson
Foust
Curry
Meears
Canby
Williams
Coshocton
Irwin, Gallagher and
Bowen
Steeve
Hibberd
Abernethy
Kimball
McMahen
Randall
Dial
Aflen
Thomas, Totten
MclIntosh
Cummings, and
Richey
Manufactures
Commerce
Stanley, Smith
Knox, Kimball
Abernethy and
Wright
Highland
Higgins, Riley
Richy
Messis
Allen
Johnston
Messie
Phelps, Johnson, Yost
Thomas and Dial
Bell
Yost
Stover
Ball & Anderson
congressional proceedings and clerk election in 1845
In Washington the Senate reads two bills including U S stock purchase for the Louisville and Portland Canal and river navigation improvements. The House elects Benjamin B. French clerk for the 20th Congress, then selects a printer in a near party vote and to draw lots for seating, with a brief lottery scene and a pending vote on printing the President's Message.
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Cobb
Benjamin B. French
Benjamin B. French, Esq
House of Representatives
Bargain over Calhoun nomination in Virginia convention
Correspondence from Washington reports a pledge by Mr. Ritchie to back Calhoun’s 1848 claims if Calhoun supporters backed off in Virginia. The pledge, witnessed by R. M. T. Hunter and others, may be revealed to Congress before printing decisions.
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Allente
Virginia
Baltimore
Calhoun
Ritchie
van Buren
Mr. C
R. M. T. Hunter Esq
Mr. Seldon
Hunter
McNulty Escaped In Bank Fraud Case
Mount Vernon Times reports that Mao McNulty, arrested in a Washington embezzlement case, escaped custody in Newark after a night at the Stadden House. Sheriff Thrift and security man Byram Leonard pursued to Jacktown, where habeas corpus writs intervened and the prisoner vanished with the accounting clerk's assistance.
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Byram Leonard
Mao
Washington
Leonard
Jacktown
John Kershaw
Mac
Newark
Licking County
Jackstown
Brice
Van
Stadden House
Asteep
Love
Mount Vernon Times
English Roads Run At Speed With High Safety In England
The article notes English roads allow speeds of 45, 42, 40, 38, 34 miles per hour on various stretches, including stoppages. It contrasts with American roads where the average speed including stoppages is about 20 miles per hour.
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England
America
Printing for Congress highlights patronage in 1845
A Washington letter argues patronage of congressional printing drives political favors, citing Senate and House reports on printing costs from 1834 to 1840 and estimated profits. It notes printing as a major stake in office rewards and references telegraph lines and a planned large steamer project as related topics.
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Washington
New York Herald
Oregon
Texas
House
Senate
Congress
United States
House of Representatives
Committee On Printing
Manufacturing Interest and Trade News Report
The piece argues for protecting domestic manufactures to sustain national prosperity and independence. It cites Tennessee’s resources and water power, warns against free trade, and notes robust breadstuffs and freight shipments to England. It also mentions Chicago wheat stocks, a steel church bell invention, and a Baltimore eye ointment recipe.
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Europe
Tennessee
Union
Nashville
Remedy for sore throat from old medical note
A medical notice describes a quick relief method for sore throat. Dissolve a pennyworth of camphor in brandy on a lump of sugar and let it dissolve in the mouth every hour. The third or fourth dose typically restores swallowing ease.
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Medical Journal
Late Election Returns in New York State Senate Race
The Albany Evening Journal prints complete state vote returns for the early month election. Excluding Duchess County the totals show Whig 153,875 Locofoco 154,385 Abolition 14,965 Native American 10,182. Locofoco majority over Whig statewide is 613 votes.
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New York
Albany Evening Journal
Secretary of State
Locofoco
Abolition
Rot in potato heaps prompts urgent farmer action
The article warns of widespread rot in buried potato heaps and urges immediate inspection and removal of rotted spuds. Sound potatoes should be aired or dried on a barn floor to prevent total loss, with cautions about potato disease and related livestock poisonings reported in nearby papers.
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East
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Athens Co. Athenian
Telegraphs Connect Wales Ton to Baltimore in Minutes
A message sent from Wales Ton to Baltimore arrived in just 13 minutes, with The Magnetic Telegraph identified as the communication medium.
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Waleston
Baltimore
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