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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1853
Page
2
An offer promises delivery of the mail for one year to anyone sending one dollar in cash before January first. After that date the price returns to the old rate. Readers are urged to inform neighbors across the county about the opportunity.
Subscribers who offered wood as payment for their newspaper should note the current weather favors such bartering. A few loads of wood would be welcome and useful to supply the paper needs.
A long editorial notes that voters in Pennsylvania, angered by locofoco rule and looming debt, supported Democratic candidates in areas like Southwest and Pittsfield. It contrasts turnout with Whig inactivity, praises temperance stances, and highlights official majorities in several counties. Also mentions a forthcoming road survey, a temperance focus, and local notices about publishers and firemen.
Atlantic reports Europe keeping watch as the Ottoman Grand Council urges war against Russia. Vienna, with Austria France England and Prussia, seeks a peaceful settlement while Britain fears renewed conflict. Marseilles courier, Besika and Martin Kotta movements, and Austria’s Smyrna meeting accompany a tense atmosphere. The Isaac Wright carries 600 passengers. cholera rises in Liverpool. France extends breadstuffs suspension to 1854 and bans potato and vegetable exports to July 1854. Divan declares war on Russia. Omar Pacha seeks leave to act. Roustchank eyes Russian moves as the Isaac Wright arrives in Liverpool with 20 deaths.
The Whig slate for New York includes Extas W. Leavy for Secretary of State, James M. Coox as Comptroller, Etsrings G. Spart pina as State Treasurer, Ocorn Horrman for Attorney General, Cornelius Gardiner as Canal Commissioner, Thomas Kirkcatrick as State Prison Inspector, Joan T. Craix as State Engineer and Surveyor, Gav. Woop for Court of Appeals, Joseph Muten for long term, and Benjamin F. Harwoon as Clerk of Appeals. The list assigns Onondaga, Saratoga, Erie, New York, Montgomery, Albany, Oneida, New York, Jefferson, Livingston origins to the nominees.
An 1851 address by Judge Johnson of Georgia condemns a tippling shop as a hellish breeding ground for crime. He sentences G T Commet to death for the murder of W W Hails, calling the liquor trade a public vice and urging accountability under law and public opinion. He notes a coroner's verdict of death by visitation of God.
Opponents argue enforcement is ineffective and infringes liberty, while supporters cite reduced crime and pauperism where the Maine Law operates. The piece defends prohibition as a public good, contrasts personal liberty with societal protection, and notes broader engagement for social reform beyond mere drinking.
Mecchi praises a rotary digging machine as the future of farming. He argues the plough is doomed, claiming six to eight horses plus the new implement will cheaper and more effective. The device supposedly cultivates, pulverizes, sows, and finishes soil in one continuous operation, even harvesting corn without extra tools.
A chaotic collage reports snow on Peaks, Texas editorials on a longer 4th of July, cholera violence in Sharpsburg, Bank of England receipts, and Punch quips on soldiers. It notes Monks settling Iowa land, elopement in Elmira Rochester, a rattle snake bite in Iowa, and a coroner's verdict on snuff. Also mentions railroad delays, seminary funding in Binghamton, a track accident, and political stances in New York. The piece weaves humor, crime, religion, and local incidents in a rapid, magazine-like roundup.
The Star of the West arrived at 3 o'clock from San Juan in under eight days. It carried over 500 passengers and freight valued at $181,670 with $500,000 in passenger funds aboard. Democratic gains predicted in Governor Bigler's re-election, San Francisco Mayor Garrison elected, and a largely Democratic city, county, and state legislature forecast. Yellow fever death tolls rise in Mississippi and Louisiana, with numerous towns reporting cases and casualties as fear and disease spread.
Miss C Southland proposes a new piano instruction class and offers pianos from leading Boston manufacturers. She will be at P. R. Bennett’s residence in Warren on October 18, 1853 to accept students and arrange sales.
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