Railroad Progress and Pacific Route Prospects
The article details rapid progress on a major railroad from Atlantic to Pacific. It cites contracts let by the Pittsburg and Erie, Venango, Fort Wayne Lacon and Platte River, Clinton Line, and Tiffin links with substantial county subscriptions and strong competition. It notes a direct, highly feasible route with minimal north south divergence and strong eastern connections, and mentions a convention in Lacon seeking federal support to advance the Platte river central route.
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Atlantic
Pacific
Pittsburg and Erie Company
New York and Erie Road
Ohio State Line
Ohio
New York
Venango Company
Sunbury and Erie Road
Fort Wayne, Lacon and Platte River Company
Oskaloosa Herald
Iowa
Pottawatomie
Missouri
Clinton Line
Tiffin
Tiffin and
Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, Lacon and Platte River
W. H. Gibson
New York City
Council Bluffs
Alleghanies
Boston
New York and Erie
Albany
Binghampton
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Erie
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Chicago
St. Louis
Pennsylvania
Lacon Sentinel
Platte River
Congress
Hudson (D
Dark view of Australian emigration warns of disappointment
The article argues many who left England for Australia within three years face hardship, with diggings and towns overcrowded and wages high but living costs ruinous. It notes few succeed, many workers endure invalidating toil, and skilled tradesmen struggle to find steady demand amid inflated prices and rents.
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Mangioran Purto Fitant
Vicksburgh
Wyman
Geneal Pike
Mississippi
Portsmouth Transcript
Australia
Antipodes
Diggins
England
London Advocate
Cob and Corn Meal and Mice in Fruit Trees
The article argues corn cob meal can improve animal feed and farm efficiency, suggesting grinding corn and hay or corn stalks to make valuable meal. It also gives a remedy against mice damaging young apple trees by snow compaction or building wooden boxes around roots, then notes odd anecdotes and freight arrivals, and ends with a quip about credibility.
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Germantown
President's Address to Congress on Relations and Foreign Policy
The president outlines the nation’s duties under a balanced government, praises religious toleration, and notes progress, foreign disputes with Great Britain Spain and Austria, and plans to expand trade. He discusses fisheries rights, Cuba, Mexico, and the Amistad and Koszta cases, and signals efforts to open China and Japan to trade.
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Senate
House of Representatives
Republic
Congress
Confederacy
Great Britain
United States
Central America
London
Washington
France
Spain
Cuba
Porto Rico
Havanna
Havana
Madrid
Martin Koszta
Turkey
Smyrna
Austria
Snc
Constantinople
Ingraham
St. Louis
Koszta
China
Japan
Commodore Perry
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Warren Mail
L. Rogers
C. O. Bates
Wetmore & Spencer
Second St
Johnson & Brown’s
Warren
L. D. Wetmore
T. C. Spencer
Ludlow Building
Warren, Pa
P. Johnson
Rasselas Brown
John N. Miles
Scofield & Brown
Water St
Glenni
W. Scofield
William D. Brown
L. T. Parmlee
Water Street
Carver House
Warren Co
Phillip Mead
Justice of the Peace
Scott’s Exchange
Youngsville
Warren Co. Pa
Carver & Arnett
Exchange
Warren, Warren Co
D. M. Williams
Temperance House
J. B. Brown
Sugar Grove
Warren O
Dorwin Greene
Parmelee & Gilman
Parmelee
H. Gilman
Summerton & Church
Water St. Warren
L. R. Geer
Mansion House
H. L. Towle
Gilman Merrill
Warren Saloon
Hazeltine &Co
Variety Hall
W. Hazeltine
H. H. Hunt
Stockton & Fuller
Brown’s
Park Row
P.R. Bennett
Pittsfield Exchanger
A. L. Acocks, Pittsfield, Warren Co. Ae
P. S. Coz
Court Horse
Mead
Main
Diamond Sts
Warren County
James Andrews
Mead & M’leod
Hickory St. Warren Pa
E. M. Pierce
Third
Hickory Streets
J. L. Hall
Rail Road
Warren Co. A
Ames & Davis
Benson & Vere
Nesmith & Goodrich
Exchange Building
Kentucky
Old Kentucky
Railroad Progress
Iron Horse
Dickens
Argus
Fae
New York and Erie Railroad Company
Patterson
Jersy City
Dunkirk
Jersey City
Botifar
Horace
Clock
New Orleans
Virginia
South Carolina
Ambertsburg
U. States
Winsor
Voice of the
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