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Newspaper
Weekly Times
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1859
Page
4
Poem by William Cullen Bryant praising March as stormy yet hopeful. The speaker welcomes the month with wind and cloud, notes its harsh days for northern lands, and foresees sunny May skies and renewal. The verse contrasts wild blasts with the coming gentler warmth and blooming earth.
A New York Tribune correspondent chronicles Congressman Joshua Reed Giddings and the 1842 Creole case in which nine resolutions opposed efforts to recapture enslaved people. It recounts the furious House debate, Giddings’s resignation and reelection, and a 1846 Georgia slave payment clash with Georgia’s Mr. Black leading to threats and pistol display, with multiple Northern and Southern players named.
Contemporary account details the 1807 duel between General Andrew Jackson and gambler Dickinson Dickinson near the Kentucky Tennessee border. Jackson won the wager, Dickinson died from a shot to the side, and the event drew public alarm over dueling. Dickinson left a wealthy husband slain in a violent confrontation.
From Dr Buckland Curioities of Natural History a man recounts his near fatal cobra venom episode after second hand exposure through a rat fight. He details the rat’s brave attack on the snake, the cobra’s counter strike, and his own recovery aided by hartshorn and brandy.
A late night incident near Cumminsville reports a man entering a burying ground, removing a corpse in a sack, and later dying as the cord around the sack’s mouth tightened while he attempted to scale a high fence. The details, though extraordinary, are stated as true by the Cincinnati Commercial.
A Washington audience packed to hear Mr Thompson, famed as a wit in Congress, deliver a long, humorous address while visibly aged and frail. Roars of laughter filled the room as Lord Napier and guests enjoyed the performance, praised as one of the wittiest in recent Congresses. The piece also notes Dr Hil’s odd sleep advice and mentions Evengrt receiving donations totaling $8,211.90 from various addresses since last November, plus $10,000 from Boston for weekly Ledger articles.
Paris and London correspondents report guns moving from Vincennes Metz and arsenals to the Mediterranean and Lyons as Emperor prepares to lead. Disraeli flags reforms. Lord Malmesbury notes potential Congress on evacuation. Great Eastern registered for sea trials. Solomons elected MP for Greenwich.
A messenger from Platte County reports Day and his son, arrested near Topeka on alleged theft of slaves, were lynched by a mob. Three hundred locals attacked the jail, forced the son to drive a cart to a ridge two miles from town, and hanged both men. The crowd acted to prevent transfer to another district, fearing a court would acquit. The event sparks widespread Platte County unrest as authorities confront the violent act.
Report from Winona notes that a tentative agreement between Gov. Sibley and Winslow Lanier & Co. of New York is unlikely to be ratified. The terms proved objectionable to the railroads, and a rival New York firm has offered better bond terms, though acceptance remains uncertain. Construction of the Transit Railroad continues as planned.
In the Criminal Court of Philadelphia Edwin BR Biles faced forgery charges after a trial. The judge ruled that erasures and altering eight figures in a business journal by a bookkeeper to defraud an employer constitute forgery under Pennsylvania law, with imprisonment possible upon conviction.
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