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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1854
Page
2
Despatch from Harrisburg reports Governor Bigler signed the bank bill for Warren. A Warren Lyceum meeting is set for next Monday at 74 oclock at the Johnson and Brown office. Local election tallies list Pollock, Black, Mott wins, various county results, and mentions Prohibition majorities. Arctic wreck details noted with Capt. Luce rescued.
Our Assembly ticket Daniel Lott PMcalmont and Ralph Clapp were elected on a prohibition driven wave. Mercer leads with 1,200 plus votes for Prohibition, Venangoten and Warren about 300 each. De France attacked an old man at a speech. both balanced by a pallet-box shove. County results show majorities for various officials and a slim statewide gap on Prohibition.
The election results in Warren County show the Anti Nebraska effort failed as Barclay won Curtis place and Pollock the governor candidate with a large majority. Nebraska Assemblymen and most county candidates were defeated signaling a clear rebuke of anti Nebraska tactics and the wire workers who influenced the convention.
The message covers liquor prohibition sentiment in Warren County and a Cincinnati vote wave. It notes temperance workers, court actions against licenses, and calls lawmakers to enact bans. It also reports statewide results, Indiana and Pennsylvania influence, low river levels, and business dullness. It mentions Holloway pills and a prison release, plus advertising economics.
The report lists current and elected Pennsylvania congressmen by district with names such as Florence Tyson Millward Broome Jones Roberts Kunkel Campbell Fuller Packer Grow Pearce Topp Robinson Edie Covode Knight Ritchie Purviance Alison Barclay Dick and others. It notes Nebraska connections in italics and identifies anti Nebraska factions among the Whigs and Democrats.
Prohibitory Liquor Law vote reported across Erie County townships. G. J. Ball and James Thompson are elected to the Legislature from Erie County, one Whig and one Democrat.
A traveler from Freeport to Stephenson County in Illinois describes the landscape farms mills nurseries and springs the region’s prosperity and water features. He notes limited fruit orchards and abundant springs on farms plus a decisive eight horse power threshing machine culture. The piece ends with Indiana news and a report on early electric telegraph experiments across a mill dam near Portsmouth and Edinburgh claims of the inventor.
An evocative passage describes a thrilling ride on a red stallion named Sultan near Dar-Furr and Khartoum with a rival milk-white horse, racing across a sunlit desert plain before attendants on dromedaries close pursuit. Separate item notes emigrant parties bound for Kansas leaving port via lake, Chicago, Alton, and Missouri routes after the election.
Arrival of the Steamship Baltic reports a great battle at Alma River in the Crimea on the 21st. Allies stormed entrenchments after four hours. Allied losses about 2,800, Russian losses 6,000. Menschikoff’s forces retreated to Sebastopol, battles continued, siege intensified, many ships sunk, and Sebastopol eventually threatened surrender. British and French flags reportedly over Sebastopol after the latest dispatches.
An emigrant era steamer the E K Collins caught fire near Malden while carrying many Sault passengers. Twenty three perished, with survivors saved by the Fintry under Cabt Langley. The Arctic disaster followed, detailing the loss of the ship with Captain E B Ward and Captain John Russell’s rescue of survivors from the Cambria under Capt Nye.
A reflective adage notes that true excellence requires restraint, with those most worthy often saying little about their own achievements. The maxim contrasts boastful talkers with quiet, enduring excellence.
A brief proverb-like line states that anger lives only in foolish minds, implying folly in reacting with rage rather than restraint. The remark reflects a moralizing tone typical of sharp aphorisms in historical print.
Washington reports show the administration feeling the western election impact. Four cabinet members are absent Cushing Guthrie McClelland and Campbell. Davis still supports repealing the Missouri Compromise but the President dissents. Marcy remains silent on the issue. Democrats study historic battles Waterloo Yorktown San Jacinto to regain perspective.
Within a seven mile circle in Wayne county Pa about nineteen families share a total of 195 children. One man Thomas Todd is surrounded by 29 descendants and another Amos Tyler by 22. A man named Lockwood, married three years, has six living pledges of connubial love to fill his home with music and babies.
Dr R M Graham, accused of killing Col Loring at the St Nicholas Hotel in August last, was tried this past week and found guilty of manslaughter in the second degree. A juror turned out to be a cousin of the murderer's wife. the prisoner consented to withdraw him and accepted the verdict of the eleven remaining jurors.
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