MIDDLESEX GAZETTE, Middletown, Connecticut, Jan. 12, 1815  Page 3 has a report with a small heading: "The Hero of Lake Champlain" which is on Commodore Macdonough. All: "More Of The Constitution Frigate", and then: "Peace Rumor" which includes: "...A very important and pleasing rumor is now circulating...The report is, that Preliminaries of Peace have been signed at Ghent..." with more.
Four pages, very nice condition.

background: The January 12, 1815, edition of the Middlesex Gazette serves as a poignant historical time capsule, capturing a nation suspended between the fervor of naval glory and the exhaustion of a prolonged conflict. By spotlighting Thomas Macdonough, a local Middletown resident and the "Hero of Lake Champlain," the paper reinforced a sense of regional pride following his strategic brilliance at the Battle of Plattsburgh, while updates on the USS Constitution maintained the public's fascination with the resilient frigate that defied the British blockade. However, the most significant entry is the "Peace Rumor," which highlights the agonizingly slow communication of the 19th century; while the Gazette was cautiously reporting that "Preliminaries of Peace" had been signed at Ghent, the Treaty had actually been finalized weeks earlier on Christmas Eve. This created a tragic historical irony, as the readers in Connecticut were just beginning to celebrate these unconfirmed whispers of peace even as the bloody Battle of New Orleans was unfolding simultaneously, unknown to the editors or the combatants themselves.