President and Vice Presidential Electoral Returns Read
On Wednesday of last week the electors met to cast ballots for President and Vice President. The official tally lists California Connecticut Illinois Indiana Iowa Maine Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota New Hampshire New Jersey New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont Wisconsin among others, with Lincoln and Hamlin leading by a national majority and carrying California and Oregon per the latest advices.
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California
Oregon
Lincoln & Hamlin
Connecticut
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Vermont
Wisconsin
Notable midweek jail term and theft trials reported
Last week a general jail delivery featured Peter Robinson found guilty of murder in the first degree for the April killing of Joseph Pearce. Several inmates faced sentencing including Boyd, Belden, and McBirney with prison terms and fines. Arthur McBirney jailed for horse theft and store breaking. Belden for breaking into Bunker’s store. Nobbs acquitted after stealing from Thomas Marsh.
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Peter Robinson
Joseph Pearce
Scofield
Derickson
Boyd
Johnson
Arthur McBirney
Joseph Archibald
Mr. Stone
Thayer Belden
Bunker
Columbus
Brown
Boyd, Belden and McBirney
Allegheny City
Lawrence
Sugar Grove
Stephen Nobbs
Thomas Marsh
Farmington
Luck as will and character in Beecher sermon
The sermon argues against perpetual bad luck and blameless grievance, stressing that circumstance helps or hinders character but will, effort, and conduct decide outcomes. It cites reform through circumstance and warns most rely on luck yet fail without purposeful action and perseverance.
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Henry Ward Beecher
China
New York
Indian Sea
Calf weighs 600 pounds at five months old
Catr and N B Langdon of Sugar Grove raised a Durham Calf fed on sour milk. At five months ten days its live weight reached 600 pounds. After waste deduction the calf weighs 400 pounds, a strong claim. The piece pivots to politics with South Carolina abolishing the 4th of July and Galveston News reporting hangings for Lincoln votes in Coryell county Texas.
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N. B. Langdon
Sugar Grove
Durham
Tury
Texas
Galveston News
Coryell County
Lincoln Hamlin
Local Artist Captures Warren Scenery in Erie Sketches
A Warren observer praises four or five landscape studies by Mrs. C Ingersoll Gara of Erie. The scenes include the Allegheny valley from the hill near the rail depot and the Conewango bridge area, with forests, hills, and a lively stream featuring two barefoot boys. The works are well executed and credit the artist despite one unsold piece.
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Warren
C. Ingersoll Gara
Erie
Mn Scofield
Conewango Bridge
Conewango
Tanner’s Hill
Portraits of Lincoln Hamlin and Mrs Lincoln in Chicago
A West observer describes the Lincoln Hamlin party in Chicago and of Mrs Lincoln as pleasant and plain. He notes Lincoln’s sharp eyes commanding forehead and vigorous grip like a lion and predicts firm leadership if he attains the presidency.
Huntsmen Return From Deer Chase Near Tio Nesta
Report of a group of huntsmen venturing for venison near Tio Nesta caused a stir as they were thought lost. Washington Brown of Brown and Salisman endured a wet cold night before reaching Charley Jones shanty, then all returned on Wednesday with two or three deer as proof of the hunt.
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Bold
Tionesta
Washington Brown
Brown & Salisman
Charley Jones
Nimrod
Oil prospects near Corydon prompt deeper drilling
The Willow Creek Mills owners B. P. Bailey & Co. report fair surface indications of oil near Corydon. They are sinking a well on the river side, currently about 120 feet deep, planning three or four wells to test the area. A nearby well at Kinzua also shows encouraging signs as drilling continues.
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Corydon
B. P. Bailey & Co
Willow Creek Mills
Kinzua
Oil well over the creek shows encouraging progress
The oil well near the creek reaches about 150 feet, with renewed signs of success. A quart of oil was reportedly gathered from the sand pump last week, though the reporter has not seen or smelled it.
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Havn
Mayor Election in Boston Elects Wightman Over Kimball
The passage notes Joseph M. Wightman, Democratic and Union candidate, was elected Mayor of Boston over Moses Kimball, Republican, on the 10th instant. It also mentions recent cold, rain, and sleighing conditions.
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Tay
Joseph M. Wightman
Union
Boston
Moses Kimball
Secretary Cobb resigns as Treasury head amid secession moves
Secretary Cobb has resigned after exhausting the Treasury and travels south with the stamp for secession. Secretary of the Navy Toncey is asked to officiate until a replacement accepts the empty honor of running an empty treasury. An employment ad invites canvassers for Township and Local Laws. apply to Hazeltine Co. in Warren County. The Bank of Commerce is said to resume on currency basis soon. A lady's garnet ear ring and a muff are reported lost in Warren. rewards offered for both retrievals. The state census totals 2,911,104 with an increase of 598,328 in ten years.
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Cobb
Treasury
South
Toncey
Navy
Hazeltine 4
Warren County
Compromise Plans Rise Amid Lincoln Era Debate
Washington clerks report hints of congressional moves to avert wide secession by amendments akin to the Missouri Compromise. Proposals include territorial self government, equal representation, and protections for slavery where legal.
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Washmeton
South Carolina
Congress
South Carolina Bill Aims to Swap Independence Day
A proposed South Carolina law would replace the Fourth of July with June 28, Fort Moultrie’s anniversary, retaining Good Friday Christmas New Year’s Thanksgiving and fast days. The proposal provokes strong national backlash amid debates on state holiday policy.
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Apouisainatus
South Carolina
Fort Moultrie
Heir to English Estate Found in Rutland County
Joseph Burnham, formerly of Middletown in Rutland Vermont, now in Wisconsin, is identified as heir to a vast English fortune. An English agent confirmed the heir is a son of the testator’s brother, with Burnham’s married daughter in Rutland connected to the windfall. The estate totals 32 million dollars.
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Joseph Burnham
Middletown
Rutland County
Vermont
Wisconsin
England
Rutland
House approves anti slavery bill for territory
Omans December 10 The House passed a bill to prohibit slavery in the territory with only two dissenting votes. The measure will be taken up in the Council tomorrow and is expected to pass shortly.
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Omans
Wigfall’s Threats Alleged as Racial Provocation
The passage accuses Wigfall of misrepresenting Texas in the United States Senate and boasting he armed his enslaved people to shoot intruders on his plantation. It adds a cautionary note advising him not to return home hastily, labeling him as a dangerously odd white man for his race-based bravado.
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Wigfall
Texas
United States Senate
Prentice
Family trip overrailway. conductor cites young travelers
Mr. E. P. Linnell of the Michigan Southern Railroad reports a family of man wife and thirteen children passed the line recently. He could not collect half fare from any child as the eldest was seven years old. Secretary Cobb is said to be confined at home by a painful indisposition. The copyright of Webster’s Dictionary earns $30,000 per year and 35,000,000 copies of his Elementary Spelling Book have sold, with annual sales over 1,000,000.
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Fae
E. P. Linnell
Michigan Southern Railroad
United States Treasury
Treasury
Joan
Congress
Department
Postmister
Penny Post
Navy
Delaware
United States
Bainbridge
Perry
Dauphin
Pensacola
Saranac
Powhattan
War Department
Fort Benton
Missour River
Fort Walla
Oregon River
Atlantic
Pacific
Hale notes kinder reception from South Carolinians
MF Senator Hale says he has never before been treated so kindly by South Carolinians. A legislator who barely recognized him last year has crossed the chamber to shake hands, illustrating the saying extremes meet.
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Hale
New York Leader Stockholders Add 30000 to Support Two Cent Paper
The World publication reports that original stockholders subscribed an additional $30,000 on Saturday to sustain the paper on the two cent platform.
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New York
the World
Potatoes and Principles Caution Quote
A proverb warns that hunger can mask virtue and warns against mistaking potatoes for principles, noting many mistake a full stomach for moral integrity. The line mocks those who confuse appetite with ethics.
Treasury and Navy reports reveal deficits and proposed reforms
The 1860 department reports show a total national debt and notes near 64.8 million with a 3.88 million deficit for 1861. The Post Office details routes, offices, and a 5.66 million revenue shortfall. Navy plans advocate steam adaptation and repairs. War Department urges Indian control, road expansion, and cost-saving civilian reductions.
Advances in Ordnance Craft and Cannon Production
The experiments with ordinance have greatly improved the fabrication of seacoast and garrison iron gun carriages the models and mode of casting of heavy cannon and the quality of metal for the same the manufacture of cannon powder and rifling of cannon and more.
Wanted an Heir in a Philadelphia Baby Scandal
A Philadelphia paper recounts a habeas corpus defense over a pretend pregnancy and foundling hoax. Mrs. R. P. Hyde and accomplices plotted to fool Pawnbroker husband Mr. Hyde with a fake birth at Mrs. Fenton's home, aided by Dr. Robinson and Dr. Gebhard. Recorder Erie issued warrants as two hearings proceed.
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Philadelphia
Businss
Cunningham
New York
Lidy
Erie
R. P. Hyde
R. ?. Hyde
Mr. Hyde
Downfall of Tom Marshall as Temperance Lectures Fade
The piece recalls Tom Marshall once known for eloquence in Kentucky politics now cited in Cincinnati police records as a "red faced" drunkard. He blames rheumatism for his crimes and pleads for clemency, reflecting a dramatic fall from a senator’s prominence to degraded vagabond status.
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Tom Marshall
Tom
Cincinnatti Inquirer
Kentucky
Real Life Threads From Uncle Tom Allegory and Court Snippet
A reported reflection links Uncle Tom's Cabin to a real case. Col James Buchanan Cross was jailed for forgery, with Bob in voluntary support of his master, mortgaging himself in the South while Cross faced trial. The piece notes Cross’s conviction and imprisonment in the Eastern Penitentiary.
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Cross
Bob
Europe
Paris
Mr. Mason
Letter from Cassius M. Clay on secession and union
Cassius M. Clay argues against peaceful secession, warning it leads to civil war. He endorses the Union and Republican cause, urging steadfast loyalty to the government and its supremacy. He cites Jackson and the spirit of 1776, urging courage and patriotism in the face of crisis.
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Cassius M. Clay
Union Party
South
Union
Jckson
C. M. Cuay
Fort Moularie defense grows as secession sentiment rises
Eyrom reports strong fortifications at Fort Moularie while Florida shows united support for secession. The Legislature may convene amid the Contention. Fernadina marks a burning effigy as tensions mount. Botts argues Virginia must stay in the Union, opposing secession and arguing for federal law enforcement despite South Carolina's stance.
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Cuartiston
Fort Moularie
Florida
Fernadina
Verdict in Budd case sparks village celebration
After a nine hour trial the court adjourned at 2 PM and the jury returned a verdict for Mrs Budd. Cheers and rockets followed the decision as supporters rejoiced in Cuacaco. The lasting case covered 19 days and featured arguments over child custody and alimony. The section also reports on secession debates in Texas and potential political shifts.
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Cuacaco
van Arnan
Buved
Wintch
Toous Aane Cursnur The Lynchburg Vaginian Opinion
The Lynchburg crowd repudiates Senators Toombs and Chestnut and urges steadier policy. It argues if reason guides policy, the Union’s interest is to keep full congressional representation with northern conservative support and resistance to executive encroachment.
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Toous
Lynchburg
Toombs
Chestnut
Congress
Gvernment
Proclamation for Union Meeting in New Jersey State House
The mayor calls a union meeting of citizens on Thursday at noon at the State House in Trenton New Jersey. A convention of Union men will be held to discuss the country and urge conciliatory measures. A prominent Kentucky Democrat says Henry Clay's speech could be misattributed to Seward or Wil...
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Puitapetruia
Howe
Renton
N. J
Kentucky
South
Henry Cly
Lexington
Seward
Wilsh
Senator Lerson's Harangue Explained by Alcohol Influence
The article states Senator Lerson delivered a vituperative harangue and attributed his behavior to being under the influence of liquor, offering a partial explanation for the outburst.
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Lerson
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