Might be a good idea for them to keep on moving on, at least until they're well past Mountain Meadows, do you think?
* Section opens with a disclaimer that it was a slow news month.
News of New Granada; U.S. diplomatic appointments; more grumbling from Utah. “A Convention for forming a State Constitution for Minnesota assembled at St. Paul, July 13.” Let’s hope they have more luck than the folks in Kansas, which is discussed next. A Convention is also forming in Oregon. “The confusion still continues in the municipal affairs of the city of New York.” A crime wave in that city “led to suggestions that a Vigilance Committee, after the model of that in San Francisco, should be organized, on the ground that the present police organization is altogether inadequate to secure the public safety.” Update on the rioting in the 17th Ward that George Strong last wrote about on July 16 (reply #37). Still more on the Burdell murder case.
In Great Britain, the “Oaths Bill, so modified as to allow Jews to sit in Parliament, which passed the Commons, has been rejected by the Peers.” There have been problems with the laying of a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. First word here of the Sepoy Mutiny, now considered a great emergency.
News from France, Italy, Spain and The East is also covered.
The riding habit on page 17 is very reminiscent of 1790s fashions for horseback and carriage riding.
I see the Indian Mutiny gets a few paragraphs on Page 4. Perhaps we’ll hear of the recapture of Delhi in the next issue, being as how it’s “expected daily.” Will readers learn of the heroic, tragic, even folkloric adventures of Col. John Nicholson, a doomed-warrior archetype reminiscent of some who will emerge in America’s future?
I’m falling askew the space-time continuum here. What time zone are we on, anyway?
