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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1852
Page
2
The Warren Mail announces it has grown in patronage and plans to enlarge its size before the current volume ends. To fund the expansion, it urges prompt payment of outstanding subscriptions job work and advertising, asking overdue accounts be settled by mail or in person.
W D Brown delivered the 15th lecture on Europe from the 7th to the 11th century at Warren Lyceum, a clear, forcible survey of the Dark Ages society, praised for thought, judgment, and taste. The next talk will be by S W Dana next Monday evening.
Washington correspondent notes the Whig Congressional Caucus sustained the chair in ruling Marshall of Kentucky resolution endorsing the Compromise Measures as out of order. The roll call shows 46 ayes to 18 nays with listed senators and members. A second Gentry resolution on convening terms was also ruled out of order.
The nominees for President and Vice President publicly pledge to regard the Compromise measures as a final settlement of the dangerous questions they embrace and to uphold that settlement in violation.
A group of Poland Ohio gentlemen rebuke a Mrs Loomis and Miss Martha famed for clairvoyant feats. They expose tricks that Read through the back of the head and other marvels. The communication, deemed not worthy of full publication, states Miss Martha is a humbug and departs in disgrace.
A report from March 10, 1852 details a British Hudson's Bay Company voyage to Queen Charlotte Island uncovering rich gold in quartz leads. The Una crew blasted two rock crevices, recovering 13,000 in gold and ore before a clash with local Indians forced withdrawal. News of the find sparks plans for immediate expeditions aboard Tepic and other vessels, with estimates of island size, climate, and a population of 7,000 to 10,000 Indians.
A seaman named Sherwood, jailed in Key West for a July 4 shooting, refused escape or plea. He slept in the unlocked jail, worked to pay board, and accepted capital punishment when his trial came, claiming guilt by the community choice. No further capital cases followed.
Report of the Birkenhead disaster off Southern Africa on February 26. Of 638 aboard only 184 survived. 454 Englishmen perished as Captain Salmond’s temerity led to a near-shore wreck. Discipline kept troops orderly while women and children were saved.
The Missouri Whig State Convention adjourned in Cincinnati announcing delegates to the Whig National Convention and naming Mr. Fillmore as their first presidential choice.
Washington April 29 reports a National Free Soil Convention will meet in the coming summer. Pittsburgh is the likely site, with Columbus or Cincinnati as alternatives. The Committee Chairman has full power to summon the gathering. Mr. Clay has telegraphed to bring his son due to his father’s feebleness.
Harrisburg April 26 The Committee of Conference from both Houses failed to agree on the apportionment bill for selecting U.S. Representatives. It is understood they will report their inability to the two Houses tomorrow.
Clergy including Bishops Hopkins Whittingham DeLancey McCloskey and Potter gathered at St Johns Church to decide on sending delegates to England for the Jubilee year closing service of the Society for propagation of the Gospel abroad. Proceedings were private amid a circuit court reference in a Methodist case. Attorneys only present. A large sale of foreign and domestic dry goods valued at 500000 drew many buyers. prices were satisfactory. Luther Bradish declines the vacant office of Assistant Treasurer after the resignation of the vice governor.
The Times reports Southern Whigs forced to confront a split over endorsing the 1850 Compromise and Fugitive Slave law. Northern Whigs resisted, fearing a sectional clash that could propel slavery into the main campaign and split the party along regional lines.
The Pittsburgh Gazette notes the Whig Congressional caucus in Wasatleton, April 20, with 60 to 65 members present. Presley Ewing of Kentucky offered a resolution fixing June 17 in Baltimore for the National Whig Convention but tied to party orthodoxy on the Compromise finality and fugitive slave law. The chair ruled the resolutions out of order. Ewing appealed and failed. Several malcontents left, and the caucus adjourned after more than eleven hours, forming a call for a June 16 Baltimore convention.
Harrisport April 22 Senate debated the Pennsylvan ia Bank suit and the supplement to regulating Banks but took no final action. In the House only a resolution for the legislature's final adjournment on the 29th inst. passed, 63 yeas to 23 nays.
Several New York papers spar over railroad safety and travel choice. Data cited show 28 killed and 20 wounded on the New York and Erie line versus higher tolls on rival lines, arguing the Erie route is safer.
In 1862 Whig members of Congress meet in the Senate Chamber to set a date and place for a national convention. A June 16 nomination gathering is planned in Baltimore with Mangum as chair and Dockery and Chandler as secretaries. The note includes other local dispatches on crime and legal cases from across the region.
Paris correspondent reports unprecedented German emigration to the United States. Galignani notes three Antwerp ships with 844 passengers, plus ten more vessels planned to carry about 1 900 more emigrants, all expected to sail soon. Havre, Dutch ports, Hamburg and Bremen also show record outflows.
In 1771 Norwich City Connecticut the Reverend Epnramin Jupsos offered a quaint wedding feast joke. He compared guests excuses saying a buyer of oxen begged to be excused while the man who married a wife could not come. The moral: one wife can pull harder than five yokes of oxen.
An English friend reports success in training many horses by hitching a steady horse behind and pulling the animal backward on smooth ground. The stubborn beasts yield after three or four tutorings, without a whip, and become tractable in a single instance, he says in Rural New Yorker.
A local hen enthusiast bought a painting of a beloved bird that appeared so real it lay on his table for weeks, sparking amusement and curiosity about the uncanny likeness and the life-like display.
The April 26 note from Ginarn Pennsylvania reports a vessel named They May flower afloat and heading toward Cleveland, signaling movement toward a harbor or port along Lake Erie.
The March Democratic Review exposes more of its party’s schemes as a bid to topple him from influence. A Clarksville reader resigns patronage and asks payment of a final bill while the publisher responds the Review serves the party and will not accept patronage.
A stage scene shows a young man teased by friends about courting a girl. He jokes the real target is his father’s pocket book. In a parlor at 11 pm the young man woos Miss Matilde while she reveals an empty pocket book and ends by leaving him swooning.
A vast landslide near Coal Hill above Lorenz and Wightman’s glass works alarms residents. The earth moved four hundred feet, destroying the large rail factory and endangering the white school, turnpike, window glass works, and worker housing. Thirty workers lose their jobs as danger escalates.
The Ohio flood caused extensive property damage from Wheeling to Cincinnati with water near 1832 levels at Wheeling and rising two inches per hour at Sausage Row. Northern districts report freshets from Maine to North Carolina and a strong northeast gale driving high tides along the Atlantic coast.
The excerpt from the Veosophic Gem notes playful rules for punctuation set by Randolph Academy students and reports their desire for credit when copied by larger papers. The piece mentions Gov. Kossuth's reception in Boston and a light exchange between youths, reflecting local society chatter.
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