20 Mar 1846
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1846
Page
1
Printed and published weekly by A.M. Gest and L.D. Morris, the page outlines subscription terms and pricing. The notice lists annual rates and late payment penalties, indicating advertisement rates follow standard terms of the period.
The Enquirer argues the county should not abandon the current humane system of supporting the destitute by allowing them to stay with friends and family. It cautions that a Poor House removes liberty and deprives the aged of familiar comforts, turning the institution into a public spectacle. The piece urges careful, humane consideration of the proposal.
Anecdotes from the Fort Erie siege describe rockets entering a tent and shaving an officer’s head, a lieutenant’s head vanishing from his pillow, and a tailsless coat saved by a skirt as proof of a near fatal escape. Also notes rapid boot making in Massachusetts and Clintonville, plus canal boat night watch reports sparking thoughts of fence rails and tape.
The Baltimore American reports London papers arriving from New York note steady cotton and strong corn markets, with English wheat priced well. It cites Calhoun’s course, ministerial resolutions in Congress, Ireland famine agitation, Sikh war news, Peel’s timber duty plan, and Peel possibly favoring immediate Corn Law repeal after Morpeth's Yorkshire election victory.
In the House of Commons on Feb 5 Mr Foster pressed the Chancellor of the Exchequer about a circulating report that the government had or urged purchase of maize in the United States. The Chancellor replied that after receiving related reports government orders were issued to buy maize in the U S for Ireland's consumption. Foster asked the quantity and argued the policy was objectionable.
Reports cover Peel's corn law measures and potential duty reductions, prices for wheat and potatoes, Brookfield Democratic meeting and its stance against banks, a new steamboat propulsion claim, the American Bible Society presidency, the execution of a murderer in Scioto Gazette, curious notes on the oldest white male born in Ohio, and a Liberty State Convention discussion proposing tariff abolition and direct taxation.
The report consolidates statements from private and public sources across two dozen western points. It shows total hogs packed in 1845 46 higher by about 305000 compared with 1844 45, with many interior towns contributing larger amounts and only a few places showing declines. Additional Ohio and Illinois legislative text appears in the same compilation, including measures punishing fruit tree damage and cross county enforcement details.
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