Controversy Over Territorial Slavery Policy in Dred Scott Era
The Warren Mail surveys reactions to federal policy on slave property in territories citing the Dred Scott decision. It critiques executive framing, contends for a protected territorial slave code, and discusses political alignment within the Democratic party amid calls for Congressional action.
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Supreme Court
Dred Scott
Taney
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Circuit Court of the
United States
Atlantic Monthly readers get new poems and works in December
The Atlantic Monthly of December showcases a poetry piece by its editors and an excerpt from Mrs Harriett Beecher Stows The Ministers Wooing set to appear in successive issues. Prescott is publishing History of the Reign of Philip II of Spain with a $3 annual price offered at $2. Phillips Sampson & Co. promote standard and miscellaneous works amid a busy catalog update.
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Atlantic Monthly
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New England
Philip II
Spain
Wm. H. Prescott
Phillips, Sampson & Co
Boston
Political letter urges Horace Mann for U S presidency
The writer argues education should steer leadership, urging Horace Mann of Ohio as a nonpolitical candidate fit to unite North and South. He praises Mann’s devotion to public schooling and condemns political maneuvering, recommending him for high office. Also notes New Orleans papers report Key West court condemning Lyra and her cargo for alleged slave trade. Charles B. Jones elected Door Keeper of the U S Senate.
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Ohio
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North
South
Staver
New Orleans
U. S. District Court
Key West
Wessel
Later From Europe Dec 12 Persia Arrives. Markets Steady
The Persia reached New York at 3 P M with Liverpool through Dec 29. Cotton fell 1 16 on middling and 4 on lower grades. Week sales 40 000 bales. Breadstuffs dull provisions down. Consols 98 for money 984 for accounts. Missing steamer Indian Empire not heard. Admiral Lord Lyons dead. Montalambert sentenced to six months and 8000 francs fine. Lord Napier’s recall not official. London Times criticizes Mr Reed. Anglo French fleet may sail Dec 19 for Gulf of Mexico with artillery to deter filibusters. Prussian election favors Constitutional party. Austrian army reductions. Naples king orders naturalization for foreigners. Shanghai tariffs discussed. Canton business suspended but more peaceful.
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Tims
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Gulf of Mexico
Central America
Constitutional Party
Naples
Shanghai
Canton
Democratic Caucus Excludes Douglas Amid Contested Territorial Powers
A Washington correspondent describes the Democratic Caucus that ousted Douglas from the Territorial Committee with Slidel as generalissimo and Brigit as lieutenant. Some backed the move to align with the President, others argued Douglas could be excluded only after statehood. Green’s opposition to Douglas adds significance. Also noted: a Shippenville youth, son of James Ailkins, died after a Halloween accident when a fallen timber shattered his skull.
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Douglas
Territorial Committee
Slidel
Brigit
Brown
van Buren
London
Green
Dougla
Kansas
Man suffers fatal skull injury at factory blades
Detroit Free Press reports a man injured by revolving knives at a local factory. His head was caught, severing the upper skull near the ears and removing brain tissue. Despite the horrific wound, he walked to an adjoining room, then to a carriage and home, living nearly half a day more.
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Posixe Fun at a Coxneter and Political Quips
A discharged Ohio Railroad conductor is rehired after aiding a limping passenger with a wooden leg on a recent trip. The piece notes Kansas governors resigning and hints at political patronage for Lecompton figures, urging care for similar men while lampooning current officials.
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Ohio
Buffalo Lodge of Malta gifts $1000 for winter charity
The Buffalo Lodge of the Sons of Malta appropriated one thousand dollars for charitable purposes in the city during the current winter. Ax Louis Haussen recently played fifteen chess games simultaneously.
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Buffalo Lodge of the Sons of Malta
Sons of Malta
Ax Louis Haussen
A Boy's Trials in Springfield History
The Springfield Republican reflects on a boy's trials from childhood to adolescence. It humorously catalogues rites of passage such as curfews, school seating with girls, the first long coat on a boy, social entries into young society, and the awkwardness of courting. It ends noting men remain boys of larger growth.
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Big Rachel
Jane
Caroline
Calico
Escape From Indians in Brown County Report
The Waco Democrat reports that two Johnson children escaped Indian captivity near four miles from the Corn boys fight site and were returned to their friends. An elder daughter, fourteen, was found dead and desecrated. a white man allegedly paints himself as an Indian daily, with a white girl of about fourteen or fifteen involved.
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Waco
Texas
Cora
Chandler
Brown County
Joshua Jackson
Om Middleton
Household Tragedy Stirs Indian Settlement Tale
Testimony describes two young children saying a white man and woman killed their mother after Indians left camp. The children, warned they would be killed if they escaped, hid for three days in a thicket while the Indians and guardians were away. They later reached the settlement with the grim claim of murder.
Pike’s Peak discoveries and mining reports in October
From the St. Louis Republican comes Pike’s Peak news via returning travelers. About 1500 people worked the mines on October 1, Yankee towns are forming, provisions are ample, and gold prospects seem rich though uncertain. Dust in regular mines lies two to six feet deep, with six men earning forty to fifty dollars daily above Cherry Creek.
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St. Louis
Russell
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French
Prize stock shipped from royal shows to America for Barrett
The Belfast News Letter reports an American gentleman Mr Barrett has shipped almost all prize stock from late royal shows in England and Ireland to America from Derry. Value of stock and freight total £6000. Also 500 tons of guano are en route from Jarvis Island to New York aboard four clipper ships the White Swallow Flying Beagle Flying Dragon and Reynard. A New York sale contract for guano nearing $11,000,000 is noted.
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Denver
Belfast News
Barrett
Kentucky
United States
Derry
America
England
Ireland
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Jarvis Island
New York
White Swallow
Flying Beagle
Flying Dragon
Reynard
Yankee pen pedlar arrested after fake platinum pens
A Yankee pen pedlar toured Geauga and Trumbull Counties selling a so called superior gutta perch pen with platinum paint at 3.50 a box. Inspectors found the pens were mere steel items worth about 40 cents a box. The pedlar was arrested.
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Geauga
Trumbull
Atlantic Cable progress and spots of defect near Valentia
A Valentia despatch of November 21 reports the Atlantic Cable shore end laid five miles, with seven tiles at Green yet to be added. A kink in the wire was found as underrunning continued, the defective section cut out and underrunning halted. No testing occurred after shore end attachment and no Valentia body to test it.
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New York
Atlantic
Valentia
Freak Turkey Hatches Chickens In Hartford Home
A Hartford man owns a turkey cock that nested after its mate brooded. Confined a week, the bird returned to its nest and hatched a dozen eggs placed under it by a servant. The turkey subsequently cared for over forty chicks all summer, a remarkable angular freak among gobblers.
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Hartford
General Cass Feeble and Confined to His Room
The 2 General Cass is described as very feeble and frequently confined to his room in Washington, forced to forego all heavy labor due to poor health.
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Cass
Washington
Reading last week purse snatched from General Jackman
Gen Jackman of Lock Haven was relieved of his porte-monnaie in a Reading railway car by light-fingered thieves. It carried 175 dollars, papers, a safe key, and other items. The item follows a long column of assorted late 1850s notices and brief items.
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Murphy
Europe
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Commodore Stewart
Harvard
Wwe
Boston Daily Advertiser
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