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Newspaper
Watertown Chronicle
Location
Watertown, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1849
Page
2
A garbled OCR style passage hints at political contention and civic rhetoric. It mentions Whigs, liberty, and state affairs with fragmented phrases about public sentiment, courage, and duty. Names appear in broken form, suggesting a historical public notice or editorial fragment.
From California notes via Mazatlan and Vera Cruz reach New York aboard the British steamer Severn. Gold yields remain steady with monthly production around 2,000,000 and health generally good. Tensions rise between Americans and Spanish Americans, with expulsive actions against Mexican and Chilean miners. By Sept 1 reports show August placer activity increasing on Sierra Nevada streams but overall prospects fading due to low water. new washings found, some old ones abandoned, and Sacramento River cited as a northern boundary.
A desolate overview from July 25 reports great suffering on the Fe JDadl road with hundreds dying daily and wagon trains abandoned after oxen perish. Desperate families seek refuge at Salt Lake, while fights among emigrants and blockages hinder movement toward California. U S agent Babbitt arrives at Font Larasim with grim sights of cattle dead for 200 miles and warnings of many who will stay behind at Salt Lake.
A three year search ends as a four year old boy abducted to a circus is found in Syracuse. The boy, once taken by a woman to Oswego, endured abuse before running away and living on canal boats and city streets. He is restored to his mother and father, who relinquish all claims. authorities call for punishment for those involved.
A digest of 19th century notices reports Berks county wine output, Ohio vineyards, and a New Orleans steamer fire. It notes a Paris Paris Presse conscription tally, Dover and Kentucky curios, a pension agent suit, and the St Johns wreck with near 100 lives lost.
A critique notes the Free Soilers face overreach and the Hunkers faithlessness in distributing nomina tions to friends. Senator Waxeer defends in a long windy seven to eleven column tract, while the Whig state committee address is printed. The piece urges honest voters to oppose perpetuating the dominant party and to attend a Whig meeting at Planter's Hotel Friday evening.
A partisan review condemns Mr Dewarr for vetoes and hesitations, questions his re election entitlements, and labels him weak. It debunks lieutenant governor nominee Deana as inconsistent, notes Banstrow’s alleged methods, and judges other candidates as superior or corrupt, naming Coons and Famcup with sharp cost concerns. It also reports Free Soil nominees in Fond du Lac and a Whig candidacy in the seventh district, concluding with notes on California prepayment for newspapers.
Democratic papers in Michigan praise the rise of banks under Lawre Cangemcar tered and defend Democratic banking as safe amid opposition to hard money. The Farmington postoffice disruption is blamed on Taylor Republicanism. A trio of topics includes an electrical locomotive show by Clark and Fisk, praise for prairie chickens, pickled oysters, new stoves by Mayville works, and the Menominee pay- mant event with U.S. troops present but no disturbance.
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