21 Sep 1839
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1839
Page
1
Edited and published weekly by A M Gest. Subscription prices: two dollars per year in advance, or within thirty days. twenty five cents at any other time within the year. three dollars if payment is delayed until the year expires. No paper discontinued until arrearages are paid. failure to order discontinuance at end of subscription considered a new engagement.
The midnight wind mournfully sighs through memory stirring longed-for years. Voices of the dead seem to rise from the past as the speaker recalls hopes that bloomed then died and loves now mouldering in time.
A poem by Edmund Law of FLQ contemplates the end of love and beauty. The speaker posits events such as stars ceasing to shine and rivers turning from the sea as signs that love on earth will end. It envisions a world where music, flowers, and birds lose charm and beauty’s spell dissolves.
A dramatic tale of Sir John Cochrane facing execution after a royal warrant and a ship of fate, while Grizel, his devoted daughter, pleads for mercy. A highway robbery on the Berwick road thwarts the death order, renewing hope before fate claims his doom.
A tale of pursuit and danger unfolds as a robber confronts Sir John Cochrane, seizing his horse and mail to delay execution. Grizel Cochrane turns out to be the savior, delivering the pardon and revealing herself as the deliverer who twice thwarted the warrant and saved her father from the scaffold.
A Philadelphia socialite wore a diamond circlet worth about twenty five thousand dollars to a ball at Saratoga's United States Hotel. A Choctaw woman on the Levee wore a modest necklace, yet both ladies may feel proud. An anonymous note ends with a reflection on self knowledge and humility.
A Kennebec Journal excerpt satirizes the motto let every man mind his own business as townsfolk condemn temperance critics yet ignore social ills. It recounts a drunken street brawl, a missing debt ledger, and pauper woes blamed on rum, ending with a humorous anecdote about a hostess and guests.
The Armistad mutiny tale from Havana to New Haven is recounted with deposition by Don Jose Ruiz describing slave rebellion aboard the long low black schooner. Questions arise on legality of slave trade and future court actions amid international law concerns.
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