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Newspaper
Watertown Chronicle
Location
Watertown, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1849
Page
2
Reports from San Francisco describe a complex push to organize California under U S authority after military rule ends. General Riley urges a constitutional convention and a provisional government with a 37 member Monterey convention. Proclamations warn San Francisco's legislature and calls for elections to form a state government. A San Francisco mass meeting supported forming a local government and electing delegates.
The Western New Yorker notes that Let Alone advocates and Barnburners push no laws to bar slavery in new territories while Whigs demand explicit prohibitions in territorial government acts. It warns that absence of law invites slave traffic, citing a San Francisco merchant buying a woman and child for 1009 and a Missouri governor’s letter urging cash for two or three slaves. The piece urges Congress to act, fearing delay endangers freedom.
A composite report covers Calhoun’s reply to Benton defending the Southern cause and accusing Benton of aiding abolitionists. It notes political maneuvering over the Missouri Compromise, Texas, and slavery, plus a brief item on the Grand Encampment of J. O. U. F. in Southport and progress on the Depere and Rapid Croche improvements with locks and cofferdams.
A Madison Argus description of the Portage at the Wisconsin river between Fox and Wisconsin rivers. It details a planned canal across a sandy plain near the high land, a former project by the Wisconsin Shot Company that stalled, ongoing digging by twenty-five to thirty men, and a new canal route to the north. The work includes a steam dredge arrival, locks on ends, and completion hoped within the contract period. The canal would draw water from the Wisconsin to feed the Fox, with speculation about riverbed shifts and land purchases.
In a Washington Union echoed outcry over Taylor proscription, four malfeasances emerge as reform follows the election. Nathaniel Denby, Navy Agent at Marseilles, is said to be short 155 508 dollars. Earlier defaulters include Ely Moore 20 000 and Major Scott 40 000, with Patrick Collins yet to be tallied. The report credits these as part of a wider inquiry into unsettled accounts.
The convention invites friends of free and universal education to meet at the capitol in Madison on Wednesday October 10 at 10 o clock AM. Attendees include Eleazer Root James L Enue Samuel E Thornton A C Barry J R Bradway L R Humphrey S E Miner Peter Conrad A Jones S W Mann plus editors urged to publish this call. Other names to be added as received.
A County Convention will be held at the Court House in Jefferson on Saturday August 25 at 12 oclock for the appointment of three delegates to the State Convention and the naming of a candidate for County Judge. Delegates apportioned among towns including Aztalan Lake Mills Palmyra Watertown and Jefferson. I. L. Whith, Watertown, Aug 7, 1849.
Our Whig friends note the call for a county convention and urge full representation from the towns. The body will decide on delegates to the State Convention and whether to nominate a candidate for County Judge. Some oppose politicizing judicial elections, insisting honesty and ability are the tests.
The town supervisors bought 40 acres three miles south of the village on the river road for a proposed poor farm. A 24 by 36 foot house will be built by October first, with duties to support able bodied paupers and cultivate crops. The plan aims to halve costs of boarding out, though its success remains to be proven amid 10 to 18 paupers.
A Dodge County correspondent critiques a proposed union between Free Soilers and Democrats and questions abandoning long held Democratic creeds. He notes severe language toward leading Democrats and warns that progressives may erode the old Madison platform. The piece laments desertion of traditional party tenets and laments rapid political change.
The steamer Cambria reached Halifax on Thursday and Liverpool trade remains active. European crops are generally good. The Roman Assembly adopted a constitution before yielding Rome to the French. government now includes three Frenchmen and one Roman. Hungarians press an unequal fight with Austrian and Russian forces. Prussia and Denmark sign peace terms, details not yet disclosed. A lodge of an ancient order formed in a village, 16 initiations in two meetings, 99 new applications awaited. Land sales in Green Bay district total 188,484 acres with 155,440 entered by warrants. Five steamboats burned at St. Louis on the 29th. riot between Irish and firemen leaves seven firemen dead. Thorn still sees little lake travel. many boats laid up. Canee-chelera.
Father Mathew was received by Boston authorities on Wednesday visiting Faneuil Hall and other sites. A banquet for the temperance cause followed at Faneuil Hall. Julius P. B. McCabe died suddenly in Detroit from excessive drinking. Henry Clay and son arrived in Buffalo on their Portugal assignment, then moved toward the Falls. A Albany fire damaged 25 buildings, costing about $80,000 and eight to nine blocks burned. Wheat rust threatens an expected harvest. E W Drury injured in a buggy accident near Fond du Lac. Manchester factory superintendents, ex-operatives, join Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad start. Brevet Major Gates died of cholera at Fredericksburg.
Milwaukee market reports brisk activity with prime winter wheat selling around 80 cents and various prices for oats potatoes and freight warrants. New York and Buffalo markets show little change with mixed milling and grain quotes. Watertown listing notes prices for floor corn meal flax seed onions and other staples.
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