Old Marietta Papers - Number 29

Marietta Register, April 15, 1864

"Old Marietta Papers" was a series of columns compiled and published in 1863 and 1864 by Rodney M. Stimson, editor of "The Marietta Register."

Our venerable friend Sampson Cole has kindly furnished us some old Marietta papers which give us facts in reference to the transient Democratic papers published here, that had not previously come to our knowledge.

A copy of the "Marietta Democrat" is before us. It bears date October 22, 1836, Vol. 2, No. 10. Printed and published by Charles B. Flood. Mr. Flood, who has since been a somewhat notorious Democratic editor, connected with the Ohio Statesman and other papers, left Marietta within a few months after the date of the paper under consideration. The field here, it is to be presumed, was not very promising to him. The copy of his paper which we have contains the "Delinquent Tax List," signed by William A. Whittlesey, Auditor, but nothing else worth mentioning.

Next we have "The Democrat." Marietta, October 21, 1837, Vol. 2, No. 31. By J. Baughey. This appears to have been a continuation of Mr. Flood's paper, after a suspension of about six months.

And here comes the "Washington County Democrat." Vol. 1, No. 31. Marietta, November 14, 1840. By Daniel Radebaugh, Jr. Office in the brick building on the corner of Hart and Fourth streets, over N. Bishop's shop. The Presidential election of 1840 was just over, and its party had been defeated in the Nation, State, County and Town; and the issue before us contains a loud call for assistance from its friends, "or the paper must be discontinued." It was discontinued within a short time thereafter.

Our notes from the "Old Marietta Papers' have now been brought down to May, 1833, the files of the American Friend for twenty years - 1813-33 - being complete. For the next six years, until the Intelligencer was started, in August 1839, there is no complete file in existence. The Register Office owns about ninety copies between July 1834 and April 1836. James Dunn has favored us with about two-thirds of the numbers in 1837, and we have most of the latter part of 1833, and other numbers, from Mrs. Emerson's. We have not now in our possession but a single copy of a Marietta paper between October 1837 and and August 1839.

June 29, 1833, Messrs. Delafield & Nye - John Delafield, Jr., and Edward W. Nye - issued their first paper, "The Marietta Gazette." It was larger than any paper before published in Marietta, having six columns to a page. The salutatory speaks of the "brightening prospects which has opened on this town and vicinity," and "We gladly hail the ascent of the star of increasing promise which has beamed upon this beautiful (if not the most beautiful) spot of the West, seen, as it is in the increasing enterprise, the active and productive industry, and the advancing prosperity of our citizens, crowned as these are, by Providence, with health and a general climate." And "the recent establishment of a promising literary institution in this place" (the College) is given as one of the matters of "good cheer."

June 20, 1833, a son of Sampson Cole was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun.

July 1, 1833, the house of Eli Iams was destroyed by fire in the afternoon.

August 17, 1833, Professors Henry Smith, D. H. Allen, Milo P. Jewett, and Samuel Maxwell, were all here in the "Marietta Collegiate Institute." Miss D. T. Wells had charge of the Young Ladies Seminary, and Mons. G. M. Martin was the teacher of French.

August 20, 1833, the cornerstone of the (former) Episcopal Church, at the corner of Fourth and Scammel streets, was laid; address by Rev. J. T. Wheat.

September 7, 1833, Levi H. Goddard swung out his "shingle" as a lawyer in the Library Hall building.

September 22, 1833, Sunday, the steamer Statesman exploded six miles above Marietta, killing three men.

A "puff" is made on a calf raised by Benjamin Dana of Waterford, that weighed alive 238 pounds when only forty-three days old.

October Election. Strange as it may seem the Marietta Gazette published no returns of the election in October 1833, neither of Marietta, nor of Washington County - except we learn that Calvary Morris of Athens was elected to the Senate from this district, and that Silas Cook,  Jackson man, was elected Representative of Washington County; the vote on Senator in this county, only being given, to wit: C. Morris 295, E. Cutler 182, I Humphreys 641. It appears that the opposition to the Jackson men let the election go by default.

Marriages:

June 17, 1833, in Cincinnati, John Delafield, Jr., and Miss Edith, daughter of Rev. M. G. Wallace.

July 4, Benjamin Ward and Nancy Burns, both of Newport.

Sept. 19, George W. Hoskinson of Newport and Lucy Bosworth.

Sept. 19, Aaron Howe and Mary Thornily, both of Marietta.

Sept. 19, Henry Posey and Susan McKibben.

November 6, William Cole and Elizabeth Pattin, both of Warren.

November 14, Theodore Gerry of Marietta and Jane Smithson of Aurelius.

November 14, Charles Doane of Chester, Meigs Co., and Abigail S. Lund of Aurelius.

November 13, Simeon F. Seeley of Waterford and Maria Adelaide Curtis of Gallia Co.

Deaths:

June 17, 1833, Miss Adaline, daughter of Capt. John Greene (at Covington, Ky.).

July 30, Alfred Poole.

September 7, Rev. James Callahan, M. E. Church.

October 12, at Alton, Ill., Benjamin Ives Gilman, Esq., formerly of Marietta, aged 68.

October 27, at Charleston, Va., Rev. James McAboy.

November 4, Mrs. Susanah Stone, in Belpre, aged 78.