State Nominations in Assembly and County Tickets
State nominations list H Rouse for Assembly South West John Sill for Treasurer Warren and Chase Osgood for Auditor Sheffield. Gillis Rexominarep notes Lecompton convention renominated Gillis. Warren County limited representation. reflects committee control and apportionment. Telegraph and political notes follow with Morse Atlantic Telegraphed forecast and Douglas era shifts along with Corwin’s likely win. Democratic counts include McKee Donnelly Stephenson Irwin Morrow Hartze assembly. Blood for Senate. Chautauqua speaker Dickinson discussed.
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Gillis
Lecompton
Brookville
Clearfield County
Warren County
Buchanan
Atlantic Telegraph
Allegheny County
Samuel McKee
Congress
Thomas Donnelly
Philip Stephenson
John M. Irwin
Robert Morrow
A. Hartze
Assembly
Kansas election verdict sways slavery issue in 1858
In a Kansas dispatch dated August 16 1858 H H Moors reports a landslide pro humanity vote of about 12000 suggesting the Lecompton measure failed. He notes Buchanan’s shaken cabinet, the Southward shift in Democratic policy, scarce money in Kansas and expected land sales and Indian annuity refunds aiding circulation as emigration likely rises this fall and next spring.
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Wranport
Kansas
Lecompton
Buchanan
Washington
Cobb, Slidell & Co
James Buchanan
Titus, Jones & Fugit
H. H. Moors
68th New York regiment encamps at Camp Worth near Fredonia Dun Kirk
The 68th regiment held a four day encampment at Camp Worth between Fredonia and Dunkirk. The command list includes Col. D S Forbes Lieut Col H A Prendergast Major Chas Kennedy and others. Companies A to E from Fredonia Jamestown Westfield and Dunkirk, with muskets and musicians detailed. Regimental Band of Dunkirk and a Friday review by Major General Randall Brig Gen Riley Scroggs Chamberlain Fox Parker and staff.
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68Th Regiment
N. Y
Camp Worth
Fredonia
Dunkirk
D. 8. Forbes
H. A. Prendergast
Chas. Kennedy
G. C. Lester
J. E. Mayhew
T. W. Glis
Jamestown
C. L. Jeffords
Westfield
Jared R. Babcock
Wm. O. Stevens
P. Barrett
Regient
Randall
Riley
Scroggs
Chamberlain
Aid
Fox
Parker
Field of Atlantic cable hero Field returns to New York
The Niagara steamship brought Mr Field back from the Atlantic cable project to New York on the 18th. He recounts intense excitement during laying the cable, the niagara’s compass issues, and the Agamemnon’s even pace. Field notes the crew’s quiet discipline, the first trials, and signals via ship to ship. He later rose to wealth in New York and played a key role in the ocean telegraph project, hailed as a modern civilizational achievement.
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Prof
Morse
J. ©. Spencer
Atlantic Telegraph
Atlantic Ocean
Niagara
New York
Field
the Tribune
Trinity Bay
Telegraph Station
London
Great Britain
United States
Stockbridge
Mr. Field
Fulton
Dudley
Springfield Republican
Southern Mercury
Boernep
Thomas Smith
Blooming Valley
Crawford County
New Braunfels
Texas
Filip Fox Govenor
New York Apress
Cyrus W. Field
New York Evening Post
Atlantic
Virginia
Blankenship
New Orleans
the Picayune
Spain
Toracco
Detroit Tribune
Justice Baggs
Field Family of Western Massachusetts and Cyrus W Field
Cyrus W Field and his family hailed from Stockbridge and Westfield Massachusetts with members distinguished in law religion and engineering. The narrative traces Rev D D Field and seven sons including David Dudley Field Cyrus W Field and Matthew D Field among others. It notes global ties through a Greek mission and a Paris death and mentions Stockbridge as the family home and the early clerk career of Cyrus W Field with later struggles in business.
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Cyrus W. Field
Massachusetts
D. D. Field
East Guilford
Conn
Yale College
Haddam
David Dudley Field
New York City
Jonathan E. Field
Berkshire
Stockbridge
Matthew D. Field
Southwick
Hampden County
Stephen I. Field
Supreme Court of California
H. M. Field
Congregational Church
West Springfield
New York
Timothy
Cyrus Field
Paris
Josiah Brewer
Greece
Dr. Field
Rev
Henry M
Williams College
Matthew
Lee
Westfield
Read's Nomination for Supreme Court Accepted
Correspondence from Harrisburg convention leaders includes John M Read's letter accepting nomination for Supreme Court judge and a list of state committee members with post office addresses. Also notes on Frazer’s Canal Commissioner nomination and distributed notices. The piece references a 1858 Harrisburg People's Convention and regional political appointments.
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Warren Mail
Supreme Court
John M. Read
Philadelphia
Wm. E. Frazer
Fayette
A. H. Reeder
Harrisburg
State Committee
Easton
Read
Frazer
A. H. Reever
Tom
Joan M. Reep
Entertaining Time Capsule of Miscellany Delights Readers
A scattered ledger of 19th century curiosities and notes spans editorials, quips, and local tidbits. Items cover moral reflections, lampooned tales, animal tales, weathered incidents, and pseudo medical musings alongside brief notes on flames, theft, and foreign policies. The column threads a mosaic of names, places, and fleeting events from daily life.
Second Annual Fair and County Society Notices
The Second Annual Fair of Sugar Grove Township Agricultural Society set for Thursday Sept 25 at spacious grounds inviting exhibitors and visitors from Chautauque and Warren Counties. Chautauqua County anniversaries begin Sept 24 with Bible Temperance Tract and Foreign Mission societies and Sabbath School gathering. local musings follow about venison hunting, mowing machines contest in Busti won by Bullock over Stoddard. Warren Post Office vacancy hoax then a humorous editorial exchange. Warren Mad notes, Jamestown Journal parody, and a Warren Mail Directory listing national officials and supreme court roster.
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Sugar Grove Township
the Bible Society
the Temperance Society
the Tract Society
the Foreign Mission Society
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H. R. Rouse
South West
John B. Brown
Sugar Grove
Isaac H. Hiller
Sugar Gro Ve
Robert Campbell
Kinzua
John Sill
Warren
Chase Osgood
Sheffield
Junius R. Clark
Sterling Waters
Douglas
Illinois
Union
Tom Corwin
Ohio
Clinton
Greene
Madison
Fremort
Corwin
United States Senate
Treasury
Fillmore
K. L. Blood
Clarion
Senate
Venango Spectator
A. B. Dickinson
Steuben Co
Chautauque County Fair
Cobb
Thompson
Brown
Lecomptonism
Democratic Party
Etna
Douglas Schoo
South
Mr. Read
D&c
State Central Committee
Henry M. Fuller
Charles A. Close
William B. Mann
William Millward
James J. Creigh
West Chester
John S. Brown
Doylestown
Henry King
Allentown
Isaac Eckert
Reading
Robert M. Palmer
Pottsville
Charles Albright
Maud Chunk
A. K
Muncy
George A. Frick
Danville
Lemuel Todd
Carlisle
John Wood
Conshohocken
John Wallower
A. S. Henderson
Lancaster
Oliver J. Dickey
David E. Small
York
A. K. M'Clare
Chambersburg
David M’murtrie
Huntingdon
Alexander Mullen
Ebensburg
Darwin Phelps
Kittanning
Edgar
Toronto
C. W
East
Cartier
Galt
Alleyn
Legislative Council
Bellean
Rose
West
M’donald
Ross
Crown Lands
van Konghert
Smith
Tiffany & Co., Jewellers
Canada
Brooklyn
Parma
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York County
Henry Lehman
Samuel Maxwell
Lancaster County
Appearace
Feaf
Corres
Weisse
St. Petersburg
M. Pensa
Egypt
Home Matters
Allegheny
E. Leslie Randolph
Earth
Hettie
Warren, Ia
Ae the Baptist Association
Tor D. M. Williams
Cornplanter
Mr. Trask
Youngsville
James Lecompton Gillis
Co. Agricultural Society
Chaut. Co
Sinclearvillé
Front Street
Busti
Stoddard
John A. Hall
Ira Young
Jos. A. Case
E. E. Gallop
Eliakim Garfield
Bullock
Democracy
J. W. Weaver
Jamestown Journal
Atlas
Eph
Frank
Isaac
Warren Mail Directory
U. 8S
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Lewis Cass
Michigan
State
Howell Cobb
J. Thompson
Miss
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Navy
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A.y General
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Tenn
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Maine
Li Ee
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Arkansas
Wiliam K. Sebastien
Robert W. Johnson
California
William M. Gwin
David C. Broderick
Connecticut
Lafayette S. Foster
James Dicon
Delaware
Martin W. Bates
James A. Bayard
Florida
Stephen R. Mallory
David L. Yulee
Georgia
Alfred Iverson
Robert Toombs
Indiana
Graham N. Fitch
Jesse D. Bright
Stephen A. Douglas
Lyman Trumbull
Iowa
George W. Jones
James Harlan
Joan B. Thomarson
Jony J. Carrtenden
North Carolina
David
Reid
Asa Biggs
Ontio
George E. Pugh
Benjamin F. Wade
Pennsylvania
William Bigler
Simon Cameron
Rhode Island
Phillip Allen
James I”. Simmons
Louisiana
Judah P. Benjamin
John Slidell
Wim
Pitt Fessenden
Hannibal Hamlim
Henry Wilson
Charles Sumner
Maryland
James A. Pearce
Anthony Kennedy
Charles E. Stuart
Zachariah Chaniller
Minnesota
James Shields
Henry M. Rice
Mississippi
Albert G. Brown
Jefferson Davis
Missouri
James 8. Green
Trusten Polk
New Hampshire
John P. Hale
Daniel Clark
William J. Seward
Preston King
New Jersey
William Wright
John R. Thomson
Tennessee
Joan Bent
Andrew Johnson
Sam Houston
J. P. Henderson
Vermont
Jacob Collamer
Solomon Foot
James M. Mason
Robert M. T. Hunter
South Carolina
Wisconsin
Josiah J. Evans
Charles Durkee
James H. Hammond
J Ames
Doolittle
Miztise
Mozart
Beethoven
Jesus
Jamestown Suicior
McDonald
Messrs
Dominy
Seanear
Somerset
England
Church of England
Buffalo
E. W. C.J. Hall
Estray
George Sailor
C. W. H. Verback
H. J. E. Grant
Rose of
Crystal Palace
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