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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1846
Page
1
Printed and published weekly by A.M. Gest and L.D. Morris. Terms of subscription include one dollar seventy five cents per year in advance, two dollars if paid within the year, and two dollars fifty cents if paid after the year expires. Advertisements placed at the usual rates.
A Clermont Courier item debates slander accusations between editor S and Mr Borrors. The exchange centers on alleged falsehoods in an Ohio Sun piece, accusations of robbery and deceit, and a proposed public opinion trial with Joshua and Citizen as witnesses.
A Citizen of New Richmond challenges a speaker to reveal who is the slanderer and who speaks facts offering a fair public viewing. He warns that refusing will expose the other as a liar and foul slanderer before the community.
The article argues the government ordered an expedition from the Rio Grande under General Parke to seize Tampico, cooperate with the Vera Cruz blockade, and link with General Taylor at San Luis Potosi. It notes heavy costs of the war yet hopes for Taylor’s victory and a reckoning for rulers.
Washington reports suggest the President approves General Taylor's conduct in the Monterey capitulation and truce with Mexican forces. The Richmond Enquirer extract is cited as reflecting official sentiment, indicating no disapproval from the administration.
The Richmond Enquirer argues General Taylor acted with duty and prudence at Monterey. It counters Whig critiques that the capitulation was dictated by Washington and praises Taylor Worth Jefferson Davis and Governor Henderson for approving the terms. It lauds American bravery at Monterey, comparing it to historic valor while affirming trust in Taylor’s policy.
J Wise, famed aeronaut, proposes government use of a 100 ft diameter muslin balloon with varnish buoyancy for days. Loaded with 18,000 lb of torpedoes and shells, the balloon could hover a mile above the Castle of Vera Cruz, allow naval support, and potentially capture the fort with minimal life loss. He offers to build and direct the operation if funded.
A London correspondent reports a Protestant church rising in Alexandria near the Great Square for the European residents. The plan includes state support and a London-licensed Anglican clergyman. Accounts from Tahiti note French forces retreating from entrenchments and natives defending mountains after destroying huts and breadfruit trees.
The Baltimore Sun summary notes 992 lodges in US and Canada, 22 316 initiations, 2713 suspensions, 493 expulsions, 8500 Past Grand initiations, and 144 Past Grand Masters. Maryland lodge data include 32 lodges and 1331 initiations, with relief totals and education and burial expenditures listed.
Sally Clinton, an old maid in Linaville, schemes to snag Ben Ellis, a shy, green youth, by cascading churchyard tactics and a fainting fit. The plan backfires as Ben resists, Sally’s mother interrupts, and a tense scene ends with threats and a demand for marriage.
A Linnville tale recounts Ben’s reluctant engagement to Sally ending in a hasty elopement plan thwarted by kin and local authority, with Ben fleeing toward Santa Fe while Sally keeps to black attire. Separate notes cover a Pennsylvania match seeking dash and a mother’s warning about promises of marriage. The piece closes with comments on Jerusalem’s tribes search and Monterey’s strategic value in the Mexican War era.
Four steamers of 1800 ton capacity are being built by Cunard to form a direct semi monthly line between New York and Liverpool, ready around May next. Four more vessels of similar size are planned for American lines to replace others or meet special needs. The new schedules aim for Saturday departures and arrivals by the following Thursday or Friday in the second week. Col. Watson of Baltimore, a Whig and former Baltimore marshal in 1844, is noted as a brave officer.
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