10 Oct 1845
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1845
Page
1
Printed weekly by A. M. Gest from Graham's Magazine presents The Appeal. The verse explores heartbreak and reconciled love with rich imagery of flowers, sunlight, incense, and altar fire, concluding with a longing for renewed tenderness and shelter.
The speaker, writing in a somber tone, speaks of a guiding star and a vestal lamp as symbols of comfort. A prayerful longing fills the verse for heaven, where beloved friends and a leafy, musical solace await, contrasting earthly loss with imagined eternal bliss.
An extended excerpt discusses inner beauty over outward looks, urging women to cultivate moral and intellectual grace. It contrasts physical charm with compassion, kindness, and humility, and cites art and literature to claim true beauty lies in goodness. The piece ends noting Hunt's Magazine tea and coffee consumption estimates.
Dow Jr delivers a morning sermon probing origins and belonging. He cites racial slurs and social critique while urging humility before God. He asks where listeners came from and who they belong to, warning against self made arrogance and self harm. The message concludes that all return to dust.
The piece critiques fashion's endless shifts and the social pressure it creates, from exaggerated dresses and hats to courtly expectations for travelers. It contrasts fashion with a nostalgic ideal, then moves to manners, mourning, moral greatness, and a thoughtful meditation on youth as a rapid, formative passage of time.
The article notes a bizarre practice where the bastinado is inflicted on a substitute in place of the offender. It mentions Mussulmen of the lowest order relying on lashings of wealthy criminals for subsistence, earning four to five dollars per flogging.
The Portage County Star notes tax time reveals the new law reduces county tax rate by one mill and lowers the tax per hundred value from last year. It argues the law is an innovation over the old unequal system and supports cash valuation of property for taxation, while critics offer no substitute.
The Baltimore Sun notes experiments in Frederick county on wheat varieties from Oregon and China. Oregon wheat yielded 50 bushels per acre from 4.25 acres, with heads 5 to 6 inches long and 90 to 130 grains per head, while China wheat produced 423 bushels per acre last year and 47 this year, with large white heads and similar grain counts.
The Warsaw Signal rails against the far west temple saying it may serve fortification with round port hole windows and a thick surrounding wall. It contrasts the claimed sacred use with a proposed defensive purpose tied to fortification and defense.
The National Intelligencer prints a specimen from Colton’s Life of Henry Clay noting his refrain I had rather be right than be President and his magnanimity in the Adams-Bargain charge, with plans to unveil more in a future page.
The Cincinnati Atlas reports a mysterious armored man walking beneath the river for a half mile to recover anchors and other items. Liverpool papers recount a Tyne Jarrow Colliery disaster with about one hundred workers, fifty killed by fire damp explosion.
The passage extols the comfort and genuine friendship found in modest, unpretending friends, arguing they offer more than those with higher attainments. It highlights truth and simplicity as the greatest school, better than formal prestige.
The passage asserts love’s essence remains constant from palace to cabin. It argues human happiness governs every stake, regardless of rank, and that hopes, fears, jealousies, distrust, and despondency arise in lovers of both nobility and peasantry.
The article recalls Septembers past as the seventh month when March started the year and lists former names such as Tiberias Germanicus Antonius and Tacitus. It mentions old timekeeping devices like hour glasses sundials and a water clock and cites King Alfreds wax-tapers timekeeper. It also reports local events: a young man Charles Williams killed in a military mock fight at Shotesbury Massachusetts and Major Nicholson’s wife dying by suicide in Baltimore. It notes Albany Buffalo railroads may halt trains on Sundays after the Lat of November and ends with a reflection on wealth pursued through mean paths.
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