War on Kansas Slavery Plan Termed a National Crisis
The Warren Mail condemns the Kansas slavery strategy as a calculated plot by the South and Administration to plant slavery. It argues the Constitutional Convention's actions and the two reports favor slavery while portraying the minority as honest, and predicts the majority will push a bogus election to ratify a slavery proposition.
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Kansas
South
the Tribune
Washington
State of
Walker
John Calhoun
Congress
Calohan
Democratic Party
Calhoun
State Rights
Black Republican Party
Death of Hon Lansing Wetmore Prominent Warren County Judge
Obituary notes the death of Hon Lansing Wetmore a long time Warren County figure. Details his birth in Whitesboro New York in 1792 career as Prothonotary Register Recorder associate judge and lawyer plus public service and farming. Members of the bar and county officers held a meeting to draft resolutions and express regret.
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Lansidg Wetmore
Warren County
Presbyterian Church
Johnson & Brown
G. Merrill
John F. McPherson
Findlay
Siultze
Conenango
Warren Gazette
Judge Wetmore
B. W. Lacy
Lansing Wetmore
Resolutions on Deceased Judge and Public Welfare Calls
A meeting adopts formal resolutions praising the deceased as a man of integrity, officer, lawyer, judge, and Christian with public spirit. It extends condolences to his family and orders publication in Warren papers. The note urges charity for the poor, recommends reducing luxury, and mentions a 2 mill poor tax. Further items discuss Union School attendance, and assessor duties for 1856 1857 returns and tax payments.
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Warren
G. Merrill
Pres
T. Jxo. F. McPherson
Sec’y
Bepo
Mart
New Brunswick
N. J
Times and Union
Injured Former Townsman Lewis McIntyre Knife Incident
Mr. Robert McIntyre, a former townsman and carpenter now living in Pittsfield, was badly cut on Monday when a knife slipped while he was marking a board. He attempted to recover the blade, which slipped, and the knife pierced his abdomen.
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Robert McIntyre
Pittsfield
Sacket Joins Jamestown Journal as Co proprietor Editor
£2 C D Sacket formerly of the Youngsville Express Mealville Hall and Westfield Republican becomes joint proprietor and editor of the Jamestown Journal. The firm is Palmer and Sacket. The move should add interest and value to the journal and is welcomed by the trustees.
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C.D
December Godey issue features two warm Christmas engravings
The December Godey issue is said to be “chuck full” of good things with engravings titled Christmas Night and Christmas Morning as home pictures. The prints are described as heartwarming and likely to be echoed by many readers who find them sweet and memorable.
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AZ Godey
Warren Sociable and Mite Society announce meetings
The Warren Sociable will meet at Rev. C. L Hequembourg's residence next Friday evening, November 27, and the Mite Society of the Methodist Church will gather next Wednesday evening at brother Cowan's house. Hazeltine & Co. advertise Cosmopolitan Art Journal at 2 per year or 50 cents per issue, Varity Hall. Graham's Magazine for December at 3 per year with promotions for 1858 clubs and premiums.
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Warren Sociable
C. L Hequembourg
Mite Society
Methodist Church
Brother Cowan
Hazeltine & Co
Cosmopolitan Art Journal
New York
Variety Hall
Graham’s Magazine
Notaries Public Appointed by Governor Pollock
Christian Smith and John S. Wilbur receive Notaries Public commissions from Gov Pollock. O H Hunter already appointed earlier, totaling the county's legal quota of three. New Tanor Suor William Griffiths opens a workshop over Stranahan and Randall's, praised as a diligent workman deserving patronage.
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A. Messrs. Christian Smith
John S. Wilbur
Pollock
O.H. Hunter
New Tanor Suor
Wm. Griffiths
Stranahan & Randall’s
Fate Accidents and Bank News in Early November 1857
A fatal accident at the Tidioute Steam Mill ends with William Mead’s skull fracture after a misregulation of machinery. The era’s financial update reports a rise in bank numbers, capital, loans, and circulation for 1856, with 1,416 banks and total capital around 496 million dollars. Guthrie’s annual banking report notes shifts in specie and chartered versus unchartered banks.
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William Mead
Tidioute
Guthrie
Congress
United States
Proclamation by Brigham Young defies U.S. troops
Advices reach Washington that Brigham Young issues a proclamation defying the government and urging hostility while ordering troops to stay out of Utah. Col. Alexander replies that federal forces remain by presidential order and will be disposed of by the army commander.
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Washington
Walker
Reeder
Dudgeon
Oxford
Washinetton
Col
Alexander
Brigham Young
United States
Utah
Young
Engine Room Calm Amid Storm On Steamer
A World traveler recalls aboard a steamer how in the Engine Room calm persists as the giant wheels and valves operate through white seas and blackened storms. The ship groans yet maintains steady progress like a steady heart in battle.
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Chicago Journal
Delhi falls to rebels as Britain reports mutiny turmoil
The Arabia from Liverpool brings news Delhi was stormed and captured after a six day siege. Mutineers fled and the King of Delhi and two sons reportedly escaped. British losses rise with hundreds killed or wounded. Havelock and Gutram reinforce Lucknow while efforts to quell unrest spread to Bombay, Calcutta, and Kurrachee amid bank failures and market downturns.
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Arabia
Liverpool
New York
Delhi
India
King
Wilson
Gutram
Havelock
Cawnpore
Lucknow
Assam
Bombay
Kurrachee
Calcutta
Thorton, Huggins, Ward & Co
Manchester
W. H. Brand & Co
London
Charles Smith & Co
James Condis
Perth
Prioress
Babylon
Sir W. Gore Ousley
Central America
Washington
Gen. Cavignac
Prince of Prussia
Hong Kong
Shanghia
Sloop of War
Portsmouth
Japan
Levant
San Jacinto
Shanghai
Canto River
North Wind
St. Jouns
N. F
Vanderbilt
Ariel
Bremen
Southampton
Cape Race
News
New York Associate Press
Cunard
Niagara
Boston
Halifax
Victor Immanuell
Sardinia
Indian Mutiny Fund
Boona
Cape Sparteret
Europe
Africa
Prussia
Frontier Mormon Militia Readied for Fall Mountain Campaign
News from Beaver Settlement reports renegade Mormons fleeing Danites reveal Brigham Young and Heber C Kimball plan a six weeks campaign to block US troops. Salt Lake forces expect to hold passes at Bhar River Cut-off or Steeple Rocks and resist invasion while forming an independent government. Mountain men claim ten to 150 US soldiers face mounting odds, and Indian tribes from Oregon and Utah may join the Mormon effort.
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Omawa City
N. T
Loupe Fork
Platte River
Beaver
Mormon Church
Salt Lake
Brigham Young
Heber C. Kimball
Salt Lake City
United States
Bhar River
Fort Kearney
Oregon
Utah
Sap Story at Xenia and Kansas Copybook Oddities
The Cincinnati Gazette recalls a train scene at Xenia on the fourth where a young man weeps with a woman described as his sister after she fell into a life of sin. A Cincinnati Times report adds Gov. Walker’s Oxford precinct roll, a 54 foot list of 1601 names copied from a directory with blocks aligned by initial letter.
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The
Cincinnati Gazette
Xenia
Cleveland
Emigration to North-Western Virginia Promises Land and Trade
The Weston Herald notes Swedes arrived last week with substantial specie aiming to buy land in the vicinity and make North-Western Virginia their permanent home. The piece extols the area's healthful climate fertile soil and favorable farming and grazing conditions as strong incentives for settlers seeking modestly priced land and lasting fortunes.
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Weston
Virginia
West
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Masonic Order of the
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