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Newspaper
Weekly Times
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1859
Page
8
Horace Greeley arrives overland at Sacramento and pushes Pacific Railroad. Discussion of overland mail vs steamer routes, telegraph extensions to Salt Lake, and a nationwide rail plan with Russian and British interest cited. Weather notes rain in August, a giant fleece, port traffic, and local political notes on Baker and party fusion.
A reader from Dubuque Times complains about Harper's Magazine publishing a political article in September edition. He condemns the publishers for fraud and questions trust and integrity, fearing influence by money and possible future misuse.
Cedar Falls sees new buildings and hotel improvements while the Cedar River baptism marks a church revival. Across Buc hanan and surrounding counties delegates present at county conventions nominate officers and candidates amid rail and crop optimism. Districts haggle over representatives and judges as elections approach.
The Springfield Republic notes Col. John C. Fremont’s new travel book by Childs and Peterson for $20,000. It highlights his graceful political retreat and his Mariposa grant settlement yielding him a handsome propertyadvancing a portrait of his public life and private enterprise.
A Cincinnati child falls from a second story window striking a passing dog and dies while the child survives. At a slave sale in Bowling Green Missouri a 13 year old girl brings 1200 dollars, a 55 year old man 800 and a six year old boy over 500. Fernando Wood reportedly will run for New York mayor next December. William M Porter runs as an independent for Georgia’s Second District Congress over the slave trade issue, a fourth candidate in that district. Demester sails for Liverpool aboard the City of Baltimore and may perform from Tennyson before the Queen at Balmoral. Judge Perkins will challenge Sliderl for US Senate in Louisiana’s Third District before the next Legislature. A rich skin flint faces a tenth bill, prompting a quip about the roundness of the bill. British taxation this year totals 69 million pounds, about 308 million dollars, more than US federal and all state and municipal costs combined. Art critics lament Ralph’s degraded status as he composes for Christy Minstrels in London, a misdirected sympathy if he’s better paid away from opera. The St Augustine Florida Examiner claims cargoes of African negroes landed in the United States with a Rhode Island shipmaster Miller F Wickman delivering eighty captives to the Southern coast for sale.
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