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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1853
Page
1
The poem proclaims true solitude not in wild places but in crowded human scenes. It contrasts quiet natural haunts with markets and revelry, where genuine loneliness persists despite abundance of people and pleasure. The speaker urges the reader to seek inward truth amid social glare to find true isolation.
The passage blends Washington family dining lore with humorous jests on Kentucky and the State of Matrimony, includes Mrs. Washington’s wit about clergymen at Mount Vernon, and ponders distance to the sun while riffing on Adam and Eve and Neptune. The excerpt mixes biography, satire, and popular Victorian curiosities with Household Words style observations.
A Philadelphian recalls a tippling house seen near a gaudy window where a wife waited in cold anonymity for her husband. The piece argues reform of the liquor trade, favoring licensing changes over radical measures, to curb intemperance and save families.
A moral on farming emphasizes that wealth from large acreages comes only with thorough culture. The piece warns that big farms mislead, and success depends on soil preparation, timely seeding, and attentive stock care. It cites Virginia and Southern soils, and warns against overextension.
A whimsical summary of odd eating facts from Kidds Own Journal noting animals devour large amounts, a whale swallowing shrimps, a nursling canary eating its weight, and a maggot or hyena’s appetite. It also mentions a Williamsburgh marriage with extreme height differences and a quip about dogs tied to income and meals.
The current year’s naval force totals seventy five vessels with two thousand fourteen guns. The active force lists six squadrons under Commodores Newton Dulancey Stringham McKeefer Lavalette Perry and Perry plus survey and exploration assignments aboard Michigan Dolphin Vincennes John Hancock Porpoise and Water Witch. A sea tale closes the page with a Paradise gate joke and a Corn Bread recipe from New Orleans offering a sour milk Indian meal soda batter.
A Victorian note explains how darkness boosts growth in calves sheep and pigs by reducing energy spent in motion. It contrasts the efficient fattening of the Ortolans by a controlled daily cycle of light and darkness. The piece also includes emotive prose about a dying child and a report on Crystal Palace news and international participation.
The Whig party yields control of the General Government while leaving a record of peace and national development. It notes no war on the horizon, substantial investments in territories and infrastructure, and improved national credit, despite Congressional opposition. The piece contrasts calm progress with calls to labor and duty, urging work over idle genius and stressing mutual duties of employer and worker.
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