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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1850
Page
1
The Courier announces new subscription rates starting January 1, with advance payment encouraged. Prices drop to 1.50 in advance, 1.75 if paid later, or 2.00 after year end, with emphasis on prompt settlement and added inducements for arrears. The paper pledges improvements and urges all subscribers to settle debts to support fair business.
The report lists 5590 mail routes totaling 178672 miles with 4760 contractors and 46541523 miles of annual mail transport at 2724426 dollars. It notes 6518 postmasters appointed, 18419 post offices, a year surplus, and calls for inland rate reductions to three cents prepaid and five not prepaid, with potential two cent reductions if finances improve. It urges regulation with the West Indies and South America and reform of Pacific coast postal ties.
The Postmaster General outlines rate cuts for letters and newspapers, with a cent reduction on newspapers sent abroad and ten cent rate on sea-going letters. He notes reductions will shrink resources for 3 or 4 years, offset by existing surplus and possible appropriations. He favors retaining franking but believes Treasury should reimburse for all free matter.
The report outlines 1849 to present year pension totals, including 19,758 pensioners and 846 deaths. It details revolutionary pensions under Acts of 1818 1828 1832 and widow pensions under 1836 1848, with total pension outlay around 1.4 million dollars. It notes land warrants issued 12588 for revolutionary service 28078 for War of 1812 and Mexican War claims worth 84705 dollars, plus 9418 General Bounty Law claims. The document urges broad Pacific land extension small tract sales mineral land auctions and a railroad link between the Mississippi and Pacific, plus a Bureau of Agriculture and clearer department boundaries.
The Secretary of the Navy reports six squadrons and a Navy composed of ships of the line frigates sloops and brigs with further vessels in construction and contracted. It lists about 68 captains 97 commanders 327 lieutenants and 7500 petty officers seamen and boys, with merchant service totaling 190000 men. Army strength is 12326 with 60-70 percent in service, Texas New Mexico California Oregon bearing most, plus depredations by Indians and recommended mounted force and Sioux action.
The document outlines retirements on liberal terms, merit promotions, and a potential recognized rank of commander by law. It recommends two rear admirals and notes steamers as valuable auxiliaries, with sail vessels to receive steam propellers. Abolition of flogging is urged, plus a discipline code. Proposals include more mail steamers to Asia, and total Navy budget of 8.11 million dollars with 5.9 million for Navy and Marine Corps.
The Commissioners of the Land Offices report detailed figures on public lands sold and disposed of in 1848 and 1849, with continued data for 1850. It notes acres disposed, revenue at 1 25 per acre, total area excluding western territories, and a net government profit of about 60.6 million dollars from sales and related costs over fifty years, alongside similar bounty allocations for internal improvements.
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture convened in Columbus on Monday. The treasurer's report shows receipts around 13 000 dollars and expenditures about 10 000, leaving roughly 3 000 in treasury on December 1, 1850. Resolutions honor Darius Latham, who died of cholera, and board officers and new members were announced. multiple motions call for memorials to the legislature, funding agricultural escheated lands, listing agricultural products for taxation, and taxing dogs to fund county societies.
Mr Bateham moves two resolutions urging the Legislature to require the State Board of Agriculture to provide county societies with eight copies of the Board Annual Reports for members and to arrange a design and engraving for a diploma for county societies with printed impressions available at a reasonable cost.
The British Academy of Sciences reviews Ferdinand Lemaitre’s plan for a suspension bridge across the Channel from Calais to Dover. Four barges per 100 yards would anchor iron chains, balloons would lift the chains, and atmospheric rails would run above the water. The estimated cost runs to 84 million, with sections priced at 300,000 each.
The Antoinette Douglass disaster left twelve dead and many wounded. Victims trapped over boilers fell through the cabin floor into hot boilers. Three men burned as flesh was burned from their hands while cries of the injured filled the hours from 5 to 6 PM. Bodies were landed at Mobile.
A late census list shows population and ten year increases for fifty cities and towns. Cincinnati led growth with 69,726, followed by Baltimore 69,125, St. Louis 63,531, and Boston 55,405. The article also notes a pamphlet promoting secession with historical data on slavery in Georgia and early colony policies. It includes remarks on reclaiming worn land and the value of education fostering independent thinking.
A visitor reports on a famed but harsh Gold Mountain in Southern California near the Nevada line. The area lies remote, dry, waterless, infested by rattlesnakes, with gold in rock yielding about $2.50 per pound. A San Francisco company has formed to mine it, hiring 100 miners at $6 a day and provisioning them, while warning would‑be prospectors to avoid rushing in.
The Clowes family secured the privilege of printing the fair catalogue for Worro's event at a premium of $20,000 plus two pence per copy sold to cover expenses. A multilingual edition will also be issued at ten shillings per copy.
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