24 Mar 1860
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Newspaper
Whitewater Register
Location
Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1860
Page
1
A long OCRed fragment blends Badry Cornwall poetry about a brook and memory with dense 19th century land law notes. The text alternates from reflective lines about winter light on a stream to a Governor and Surveyor General debate over swamp lands and state rights under federal acts, with references to 1850s legislation and land office procedures.
A Confederate era discourse argues that under Congress Act of September 28 1850 Arkansas owns all swamp and overflowed lands unsold at that time. The document warns against executive releases without legislative authorization and asserts state title cannot be divested by federal or state officers acting alone. It cites Governor Dewey and legislative authority in selecting lands and stresses the act’s extension to other states.
A discussion notes allocations from the swamp land fund, referencing reimbursements, survey costs, and the aim to employ labor for state benefit. It cites a substantial amount drawn for the fund and hints at forthcoming patenting and sale of swamp lands. Alex W. Randall comments on treasury shortages and project efficiency.
A schooner named Lupa, outward bound to New York from Havre with seventy eight passengers and twenty eight crew, foundered on rocks near Cherbont Barlear during a north wind gale. Of the living, one man and seven others perished, with many bodies washing ashore. Italian Clement, exhausted, could only say the ship sailed Friday with forty seven men, twenty two women, and one child aboard.
Luvering recounts Lowell Institute lectures on Saturns rings. Observations from 1750 onward suggested an interior dusky ring and possible second ring. Theories evolved from solid mass to liquid hypothesis, with satellites maintaining ring positions.
A gambler nicknamed Mountain Jack, six seven and powerful, bent an arm around a horse’s belly and lifted it above the bar at Bt. Charles Hotel. The horse balked, the rider fell, and the crowd gasped as the giant repeated the lift amid a packed room.
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