Battle of Frenchtown
(1) Died in this village, on Thursday last, WILLIAM DOWSE, Esq., aged 42 years, member of Congress elect, for the 15th district. Mr. Dowse was considered an able advocate at our Court. He appeared at the bar on Thursday of last week, and attended to his duty nearly all that day, but was finally obliged to leave the Court-House in consequence of his ill health, and was confined to his bed till his death. He has left a wife and family with a numerous circle of acquaintances to regret his loss.
February 21, 2013
Rescue from Algerine pirates
It appears by the late reports of the Albany Board of Health, that the prevailing epidemic in that city has in some degree subsided. The joint committee of the senate and assembly, appointed to consider on the propriety of a short adjournment of the legislature on account of the prevailing sickness, reported on Thursday last against an adjournment, and their report was accepted. â€" Utica Gazette.
February 14, 2013
America and Algiers
The political situation of the United States and Algiers…may be thus summarily stated …
February 7, 2013
New York blockaded by British line of battleships
Herkimer, NY: Alarming Disease! â€" For nearly two weeks past, a very alarming disorder, said by the Physicians to be similar to the Spotted Fever, has been raging in this town and its vicinity; and, as it is thought to be contagious, excited almost universal consternation.
January 31, 2013
Battle with the Indians
WHEREAS my wife Betsey, has eloped from my bed and board, this is therefore, to forbid all persons harboring or trusting her on my account, as I will pay no debts of her contracting after this date. JAMES YOUNG, Jun., Milford, Jan. 8, 1813.
January 24, 2013
Gunpowder explosion
Died, in Cazenovia, on the 15th ult. [December] Mr. JOSEPH HEWES, in the 19th year of his age, son of Mr. Daniel Hewes of Springfield, in this county. He was a volunteer in his country's service, and was on his return from Niagara, to his native town - but the cold hand of death arrested him on his journey! Thus has a patriotic volunteer met an early death far from friends and relatives.
January 17, 2013
Warships ordered
It is confidently rumored that the Rev. Mr. Mendior the Portuguese Rabbi, received a letter a few days since from the Rabbis of Jerusalem, informing him that there had been no darkness in the sacred city for three days and three nights, in consequence of a cloud of fire which rested on a tree in the vicinity, and that the third day it vanished, to the general consternation of the inhabitants.
January 10, 2013
Imprisonment of seamen
The Otsego Herald for Jan. 2, 1813, is missing from the file, so I am copying at length from the Newport (Rhode Island) Mercury of the same date:
January 3, 2013
Indian wars
The following message was received by the House of Representatives on Friday the 11th inst. [Dec.] from the President of the United States, by Mr. Coles his secretary.
December 27, 2012
Disaster upon disaster!
To make room for the last bulletins of Bonaparte, from Russia, we have omitted several local matters as well as foreign articles of some moment. The burning of Moscow, one of the largest cities of the Russian empire, as detailed in the 20th bulletin, is one of the most awful events in the history of nations. â€" Albany Register.
