16 Jan 1861
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1861
Page
1
A poet praises his beloved's beauty and virgin virtue, noting the tension between idealized praise and the truth of human frailty. He recalls a youthful portrait of her and laments how even exalted verse may fail to capture her full grace, yet vows her praises endure while she remains unseen by common singers.
The New York Tribune reports visitors from Charleston Mobile New Orleans Savannah and Memphis describe impending famine scarce money and depreciated bank paper across the Cotton States. Tax pressures deter property holders from leaving while hostages fears and slave uprisings loom amid bitter Southern political divisions and a reign of terror in South Carolina.
A Lafayette Indiana newspaper reprints a Boone County subscriber letter lamenting debt and economic strain. The piece contrasts grim schoolroom air with blood and poison analogies and quotes a cartoonish exchange about who made the monkey. It also includes a proverb about wealth and self, linking character to fortune.
Artemus Ward critiques Edwin Forrest's Othello in a lively souvenir of 19th century stage lore. He parodies the plot with comic misreadings, notes Forrest’s fame and pay, and recalls Ward’s reactions to Macbeth, ending with a wary jab at societal virtues and love.
In Siberia the luxuries include raw cats served in bear oil while in Japan a stew of crocodile with monkeys feet is considered the height of fat fare. The excerpt contrasts regional culinary extremes and food lavishness.
The piece surveys diet scales for hard workers and Arctic peoples, citing Ivan Thomas and various explorers. It notes weekly solid food totals around 350 ounces for a fighter, with extreme Arctic consumption claims from Equ adults to Hottentots, plus a political reflection on unity and restraint in the Free States.
Philadelphia North American quotes a Washington letter alleging three hundred million dollars gone by March 4 in four years of Buchanan's rule. It accuses a distracted country and deficient revenue as outcomes of his term. The piece also mocks complacent self praise and industry respect in commerce.
Rates of advertising and penalties for nonpayment are outlined. Special notices and birth divorce or death notices require advance payment. Transient advertisements must be paid in advance, otherwise the advertiser or notice bringer remains responsible.
The piece argues preserving control of the Mississippi delta blocks Southern state secession in Congress. It cites $23,000,000 for Louisiana plus $6,500,000 for Florida and $27,700,000 for the Mexican war, plus other costs, to claim the Union bears heavy obligations to slave states. It notes post office deficits and warns of debts to be repaid.
Senator Wade declares no bargain with secessionists can preserve the Union. Abandoning secession is essential to reconstruct a government and keep the states from turning against the federal structure. The Pittsburgh Press notes the stance as the only platform for preservation.
A reflective meditation on land ownership and the right of a man to till and possess the soil he works. It argues that laws of nation and nature confer exclusive ownership, linking a present generation to future heirs as stewards of a homeland crafted by God.
The article explains a German patent method for producing the coloring principle from sorghum used in Europe as fodder and alcohol source. Fermentation browns the bagasse, then drying grinding, twelve hour cold water digestion, pressing to remove water, dilute lye treatment, neutralization and washing to yield a pigment soluble in alkalies acids and alcohol with tin salts as mordant.
In 1860 New York welcomed 103,621 immigrants, up 24,209 from 1859 but below the 1850s average. The high tide was 1852 with more than 300,000 arrivals, reflecting long term migration patterns.
The coroner of New Orleans lists 85 murders and 42 personal crises for the year, with 109 accidental deaths, 68 drownings, and 105 cases of drowning, highlighting social distress and mortality patterns in the city.
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