Democratic Convention Resolves on Slavery and Kansas
The Brookville Democratic Convention endorses the Cincinnati Platform on slavery in territories, pledges support for the party ticket in Kansas and Lecompton matters, and lauds Chief Executive leaders. It adjourns to hold the next convention August 1860 and notes praise for James Gillis and Westly Frost while affirming Porter’s leadership.
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Brookville
James L. Grits
Cincinnati
Kansas
Nebraska
Lecompton
Democratic Party
United States
Commonwealth
Wm. A. Porter
Supreme Court
Westly Frost
James. Gillis
Count the Stars in You Bright Sky Poem Fragment
Poem fragment praises counting stars sands leaves and waves as blessings from on high. It muses that gifts exceed human counting with nature as a divine abundance. Tone is lyrical reflective and spiritual.
The Country Cousin Ball in Balfour Manor Traces
In a Vermont styled social whirl at Mrs. Balfour’s home, Ralph Balfour aids a masquerade while courting Maria Chamberlain and admires Carrie Lindsay from afar. Allan, a country clerk, struggles with class barriers yet vows to win his future, as Ralph plots further intrigue and potential engagements. (Contains romance, social deception, and family finance reform.)
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Tsay
Ralph Balfour
Propria
Allan
Allen
Green Mountains
Ralph
Winthrop
New York
John
Eben
Usin
Uncle John
Lave
Chick
Aunt Balfour
Carrie
Carne
Caroline Lindsay
Kate
Carrie Lindsay
Jol Balfour
Maria Chamberlain
Maria
Jacob
Rachel
Urele John
Judson on Missionary Work and public adulation
I recount meeting Judson in New York at a Missionary Convention. He laments constant attention, saying his body aches from crowds and that some would let the cause of missions die rather than let him work in solitude. A woman carves his hair as a souvenir, symbolizing intrusive public interest.
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Judson
New York
Burmah
Mermaid of the Forth Displayed by Mr John Anderson
In the nets of John Anderson on the Forth a mermaid or angle fish nearly six feet long and 100 pounds was caught this week. The creature has a frog like face, a shark like tail, and eight inch wings. It rises upright and glides on the surface before diving, then was netted. It will be shown at Andersons on George Street.
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Macbeth
James Murdoch
Ile
James’ Prowess
Cincinnati
Ralph Bafour
Frank
Rustie
Miss Chamberlain
Robert
Vermont
Ralph Ballour
Maria Chamberlain
Maria
John Balfour
Gentienen
Ralph Balfour
Frank Chamberlain
Parvenus
Balfours
John Anderson
Vaults of St Sepulchre Preserve a Corpse in London
A New York correspondent reports from London on the vaults beneath St Sepulchre Church near Old Bailey. He describes mummified coffins and a fully preserved female body raised from a sarcophagus, believed three centuries old, with the vaults set to be closed after surveyends.
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New York Evangelist
London
St. Sepulchre
Old Bailey
Old Prison
St. Paul's Cathedral
Unified strides toward laying the Atlantic cable
The passage notes how scientific progress across fields advanced together toward the Atlantic Telegraph. Morse in Electro-Magnetism in New York, Maury in Physical Geography at Washington, and a British captain in the East Indies gathering gutta percha all contributed indirectly. American and English shipbuilders also pursued war steamers, all converging toward undersea communication.
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Atlantic
Morse
New York
Maury
Washington
East Indies
Ocean
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Treadville Academy
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Holy
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Second and
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Warren, Pa
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Johnson’s Exchange
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Scofield and Brown
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George Sailor
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Chicago
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Jamestown
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Chautauque Co
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Thos.t. Gannt Esq
St. Louis
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