This is the September 11, 1869 issue of HARPER’S WEEKLY newspaper.  Harper’s was one of the most successful newspapers of the time.  Other publishers in the late 1800’s included Frank Leslie, in New York, and Gleason’s and Ballou’s Pictorial, and Every Saturday in Boston.  All of these publications were highly illustrated with wood engravings.  This issue is in good condition, except for some foxing from being handled over the years, which is normal for a newspaper of this age.  The pages are flat, and the issue is still very readable.  This issue gives good insight into life in the 1800’s, with articles on politics, literature, and art.  Additional pictures are available upon request.  Please include your e-mail address.

ARTICLES:

PRINCE ARTHUR IN AMERICA - Prince Arthur, of England, the son Queen Victoria, arrived in Halifax, from England, August 22, 1869 in the steamship City of Paris.  An engraved portrait of the Prince is presented on the cover page.

SHERMAN STATION - Sherman, Wyoming Territory, is the highest point attained by the Pacific Railway, on its whole course from ocean to ocean.  It has grown into a little town from nothing but bare hills.  An engraving depicting the Union Pacific train station and the town is presented.

THE INTERNATIONAL BOAT RACE - In the contest between the Harvard and the Oxford crews, August 27, 1869 the latter won the victory.  A description of the race with three engravings is presented. (See picture “The Harvard Crew Practicing in the Elliott Boat”)

DROUGHT – A poem by Florence Percy

A LAUGHING POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER - The action of the late Democratic Convention in Massachusetts is but another proof that the party has no common principle except opposition to the Republicans, and no national policy whatever to propose.

IS CUBA THE MARKET? - “Reliable authority” is very busy with the Cuban question, and the English and French papers are disclaiming in advance jealousy of the new bond, which may be formed between Cuba and United States.

EAST INDIAN COTTON - There are, however, one or two facts, which are apt to be overlooked by those writing of the probable effects on American industry of the success or failure of the East Indian experiments to increase their exports above that of the United States.

LADY BYRON’S STORY - Since “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has written nothing that has made so great a sensation as her late article upon the separation of Lord and Lady Byron.

INDUSTRY AT THE SOUTH - The general testimony in regard to the cotton culture is, that there must be more and better labor.  There must be small farms, improved implements, and intelligent and interested people brought to the industry.

TEXAS - The mask of “Conservative Republicanism” is pretty well stripped off in Mississippi and it is now evident that the nomination of Judge Dent, if it should be made, will be merely, an attempt of the opponents of the Administration and of the Republican principles and policy, to obtain control of the State.

LALAGE - A poem.

VERONICA – A fictional novel

COAL-MINING AND THE COAL MARKET - Luzerne, Carbon, Schuykill, Columbia, North-umberland, and Dalton counties comprise the anthracite region of Pennsylvania, and, so far as has been discovered, this is the anthracite coal-field of the Unites States.  Two pages, containing nine engravings, are devoted to illustrate the coal-mining of Pennsylvania from sketches by Theodore Davis.  (See two of the nine engravings: “Miners at work, Mining and Loading Coal,” and “Honey Brook Beaker Building.”)  

MEMORY’S IDYL – A poem

SO RUNS THE WORLD AWAY – A fictional story

REV. F. J. JOBSON, D.D. - Was elected President of the Methodist Conference, at Hull, England, during the twelvemonth ensuing, and received from Mr. Hall, the retiring President, the official seal of the Conference, and John Wesley’s pocket Bible.  An engraved portrait of Rev. Jobson is presented.

THE WAR IN CUBA - The conflict between the Spaniards and the Patriots has taken on a desolating character.  Confiscation and despoliation are the order of the day.

HON. FOSTER BLODGETT - Mr. Blodgett the Chairman of the State Central Committee of the Republican Party in Georgia has been the object of unmerited abuse and persecution, at the hands of his political opponents.  The article gives a biographic sketch of Mr. Blodgett, and an engraved portrait is presented.

RAKING FOR CLAMS - The fleet of boats engaged in the clam business in Prince’s Bay, south of Staten Island, bring to New York City, between 300,000 and 400,000 clams per week.  An engraving drawn by Edwin Forbes depicting men raking for clams is presented. (See picture)

A VERY SMALL COLONY - Tristan D’Acunha, is situated at thirteen hundred miles to the south of the sentry-girt Long-wood, and acts as an outpost to the naval guard around St. Helena.

THE SOLAR MUTABILITY - Science is every day teaching us to think of the sun, and what now been so long called the “fixed” stars, with less and less of that sense of fixity which their enormous importance to planetary beings would seem to render desirable.

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