05 Nov 1847
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1847
Page
1
Notices state that outstanding payments of 1.75 dollars if paid in advance or 2.00 dollars if beyond sixty days must be settled. The paper will discontinue the service until all arrears are paid with standard insertion rates applying.
The piece portrays Mexico City’s Plaza Mayor, Alameda and Paseo de la Vega, its streets, militia, markets, and notable sites. It notes Chapultepec as Montezuma’s hill and military stronghold, Mexican climate and moonlight, and the bustling life around the National Palace, cathedral, and Parian.
Chapultepec, meaning Grasshopper's Hill, is a porphyritic rock near the old lake margins in Mexico City. It figures in Aztec migration lore as a resting site foretold by oracles, where an eagle devouring a serpent on a rock marked a destined place.
The piece laments the toll of the Mexican War, noting about twenty thousand American lives lost to battle or sickness. It contrasts this with the Revolution’s toll, urges reflection by war proponents, and honors widows and orphans mourning fallen brothers and husbands.
A Indiana State Journal correspondent says old bonds are paying off rapidly with a large European inflow, possibly a million, on the 15th or late October steamer. Principal and interest surrendered may total eleven to twelve million before the Legislature meets, signaling success of the debt exchange and broad civic satisfaction.
The source notes Russia's population near sixty million with European Russia housing 54,092,000 people and other lands adding small totals. St Petersburg holds 449,000 residents and shows a male majority with 292,010 men to 148,000 women, while marriages fall and natural births rise.
Anthony Drouillard, a 23 year old Portsmouth Ohio printer, fell from the steamboat Union while running out from Brandonsburg and drowned. A separate note mentions a swarm of bees holding ten to twenty thousand in nature and twenty to forty thousand in a hive.
Complete roster of Ohio General Assembly members with Whigs marked and sitting members italicized. Includes county pairings such as Adams Pike, Ashtabula Meigs, Franklin Clark, Hamilton, Huron Eric, Jefferson Harrison, and many others with names like Emrie, Buckus, Olds, Ewing, Byers, Corwine, and Brackley across numerous counties and districts.
A fragmented line lists voters or district designations: Seneca W P Noble Stark John S Geck Sandusky M M Coe Summit Peter Voris Scioto Lawrence Elias Nigh Trumbull Joseph Truesdale John Harrington Tuscarawas Ezra Brainard Washington Geo W Barker Warren R Wilson Wayne Michael Totton 301M nen eRe Aiaois.
The city of Oregon with a population of 10 000 expands trade beyond local consumption. Merchants travel to eastern cities for goods, cross the continent by mule to the Pacific, and ship via Cape Horn. Oregon now engages Sandwich Islanders Polynesians and Chinese buyers at higher profits, signaling a bold commercial rise and a go ahead spirit unmatched elsewhere.
Hartfort inventor Mr. P Hewings of the Times notes a cheap composition used to make glass plates for flooring acting as a substitute for marble. The plates are stronger and more beautiful and cost about fifty percent less. A coloring process makes plates take on diverse colors that are part of the glass and remain fresh and vivid.
There are 2350 miles of telegraph wires already in operation in the United States with 708 miles in a continuous line from Philadelphia to Cincinnati. In a few months 1000 more miles will be added, mainly to the south and southwest, creating one uninterrupted line of over 3000 miles for instantaneous communication from the Atlantic to the Gulf.
At a Cumberland Presbyterian Camp Meeting held at Big Cove seven miles southeast of Huntsville Alabama, 176 professions of religion were reported. The meetings lasted only two days due to bad weather and are hailed as a great cause for Christian joy and rejoicing.
The Washington Union notes Webster has little popularity beyond his own state yet argues his case is stronger than Polk who also lacks popularity there. Polk was defeated for governor and president in his state and more recently faced renewed condemnation from his state in the past two months, per the Louisville Journal.
A Louisville Journal excerpt mocks a neighbor’s claim that Mexico’s Santa Anna would reward John P. Kennedy with Congress. It questions what honor Kennedy’s ally Polke might receive for Santa Anna’s own position in Mexican affairs.
A New Hampshire inventor offers 75000 for the patent right to an artificial leg. One leg per day is demanded in New England, with potential buyers in the south due to the Mexican war. The National Intelligencer notes limited flood damage to the Chesapeake and Ohio line and $20000 coal repairs. In Boston Naturalists meet, Prof Henry demonstrates that light and heat rays can produce darkness and cold.
Mr Pollock a navy midshipman was sentenced to five years imprisonment in Auburn Penitentiary for an attempt to kill Mr Jewett publisher of the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser office. The fire at the Philadelphia job office of Charles Alexander caused extensive damage on the 19th inst.
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