07 Jul 1860
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Newspaper
Whitewater Register
Location
Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1860
Page
1
A fragmented OCR calendar lists racing dates and figures across months. It mentions numbers, days, and possible race codes, with scattered year markers and event notes. The legible items hint at a schedule or tally for a counting-house or betting context.
The Republican platform calls for preservation of the Union, strict constitutional adherence, federal restraint on expansion and slavery avoidance, homestead and naturalization protections, tariffs, and rapid action by Congress to curb slavery expansion. It frames the party as defending liberty, property, and an industrious national economy against Democratic excess.
The text blends dreamlike seascape lines with garbled phrases and historical notes. It mentions a voyage, sunset seas, shadows, and distant bells, then abruptly shifts to an officer escorting a girl, gratitude from her father, and a stay in Jeddo. It ends with Nelson learning Japanese and becoming a coast pilot aboard the USS Mississippi.
A sprawling narrative recalls Captain Nelson, a Swede by birth, rising from a teen deckhand to a famed pilot. He endured harsh discipline, endured captivity in Jeddo in 1831, and aided a Jeddo magistrate’s family, including an elopement rescue, in a tale linking early sea life to later fame in Bandy House pilots.
A Naples dispatch reports General Letizia as he departs for Naples after meeting Garibaldi seeking his word on the Sicilian communication. The piece describes rising militias in Palermo, preparations for defense, weapon revivals, and friction with foreign powers amid ongoing revolts and barricades.
A Genoa correspondent reports a clash near Seherdee Land where about one hundred Sioux attacked the Pawnees. Three Pawnees were killed and several wounded, while the Sioux retreated after reinforcement arrived. Bravely stood Babliste Bashytie and Crooked Hand despite wounds and heavy fire. The Pawnees lacked powder, depleted by prior supply losses.
The article notes Fitzpatrick declining the Douglas ticket amid press critique and disunionist cheer. It also recounts a near-Vinton Iowa incident where a father forced a teacher to admit a three year old to school, leading to a hostel of violence, arrest, and acquittals. Additional items quote family expenses and import values for tea coffee and sugar in 1859.
Recent lunar observations by Knox, Melvin, Secchi, Dela Rive and others reveal heat in moonshine, seasonal changes on the surface, and evidence suggesting atmosphere and water. The work supports that the moon may share Earthlike matter and conditions capable of sustaining organic life.
Traveler recounts descending into Vesuvius crater watching glowing lava, ash showers, and sulfur clouds. The scene described as terrible and sublime, with fumes irritant and ground rumbling as rocks are hurled into the mouth.
The Portland Transcript laments the profit from destruction over peaceful progress and highlights a monstrous new cannon at Fort Pitt Iron Works destined for testing at Fort Monroe. It details a 49 099 pound bore sixteen bushel capacity gun with six foot diameter iron bands and a dangerous new gunpowder. It mentions a steam propelled mortar by Sir Macdonald Stephaneon and a rotary steam engine to unleash rapid shots, describing a weapon's vengeance in dramatic terms.
A correspondent from Spain describes Cadiz and its dark eyed maidens with Byronic allusions, noting charm, fashion, and a general view of Spanish women as lively yet not bookish. The column also reports on spectacles in Canada, a rope-walker act, a schoolboy joke about admission prices, and various brief items from New York and Charleston including slavery manumission, jackasses, and stray curiosities.
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