20 Mar 1841
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1841
Page
1
The New York Express reports on steamship routes from Europe, India mail dispatches, and the Caroline affair. Parliament debates McLeod’s arrest, British protests, and possible redress, with Lords and commoners pressed for full papers and state actions.
Lord Stanly pressed Lord Palmerston on the treatment and protection of Mr M Leod amid US correspondence and forthcoming instructions to Mr Fox. The Foreign Secretary confirmed dispatches were sent and noted the Caroline capture as a justified defense of royal territory.
A reflective piece on how initial petty wrongdoing leads to serious crime. It recalls a young lawyer who forgery and theft began with small acts, escalated to prison, illness, and death, illustrating that the path of transgression is hard and fatefully consequential. The tale emphasizes remorse, ruin, and the ultimate ruin of a promising life.
A moralizing tale from the New York Observer cites the Franklin Bank of Baltimore defalcation by James L Hawking. Once trusted, Hawking’s rapid descent from virtue to fraud ends with ruin, his wife’s death, and a caution to youths to flee temptation and preserve self respect.
The New York Herald notes a Trieste company sending an agent to purchase a full flour mill for relocation to Trieste. It cites U S exports of steamships engines presses and firearms to Europe, signaling a broad push by American artisans into European machinery and weapons markets.
Governor J. M. Morehead emphasizes moral and intellectual cultivation as the path to happiness and prosperity. He praises widespread schooling and robust church attendance as essential for preserving political institutions and preventing tyranny or slavery.
A farmer in Cranbury NJ ploughed up a copper Roman coin about an inch wide. Obverse shows a won head in bold relief with corona triumphalis and AVGV. Pius is clear. Reverse depicts a temple with a statue and COS. cracks obscure some letters. Likely 1700 years old, possibly cropped by a British officer during the Revolution.
A Bristol inventor named Mr. Williams created a keyless lock with opening methods adaptable to a ring seal pencil case cane whip watch key or seal The device is inexpensive compared with other patent locks and is resistant to dust and moisture while preventing picking attempts.
The piece argues advertising is essential, comparing signs needing buyers to reach many unseen by door signs. It cites a Southern sheet called the Rasp mocking loafers sleeping in the market house and quips the editor intends to inform the public that their behavior is not fresh pork.
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