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The Daily Phoenix
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina
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The schooner United States departed Wilmington, N.C., on the 7th for Venezuela carrying about 15 emigrants, mostly poor or reckless individuals, with few well-to-do people; the scheme was unpopular locally.
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The Wilmington (N. C.) Dispatch, of the 8th, says:
The schooner United States sailed yesterday for Venezuela with a cargo of about fifteen living souls, destined to settle "for better, for worse," in that yet untried land. The scheme did not prove popular here, and a number of those who were induced to venture their lives were poor miserable creatures who had worn threadbare in this country, and could not be much worse off anywhere. An equal proportion were reckless, dissipated adventurers, some of whom are happy riddances. There were only a few well-to-do, intelligent-looking people in the party.
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Wilmington (N. C.)
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Yesterday (Reported On The 8th)
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schooner sailed with 15 emigrants to venezuela; scheme unpopular, mostly poor or reckless participants.
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The schooner United States sailed from Wilmington for Venezuela carrying about fifteen emigrants intending to settle there. The emigration scheme was not popular, with many participants being poor, worn-out individuals or reckless adventurers, and only a few well-to-do, intelligent people.