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The native American., 1840-05-02
POETRY.
Fer the Native .Amsrican.
TO MY SISTER.

TO MY SISTER.
My Sister! 0, how sweet the sound
II falls like masic on my ear;
II sheds hallowng influence round,
Which drives away dark, sad dispair.
love to dwell upon the name,
Fen in lifes darkest, gloomiest hour,
IT'S sweeter than the voice of fame,
More lovely than the blooming flower.
While tossed upon fe's troubled sea,
And angry pillows rage and foam,
My sister, of think Of thee, ...
And of our own dear native home.
When waves Of trouble Ger me roll,
And clouds of sorrow gather Ger,
When anguish fills my troubled soul,
IT'S then think of days of yore =
those bright sunny hours, when we
Around our humble, peaceful home.
In childish innocence and glee. .....
Outlines Der Hill and dale would roam;
AMI pluck the lovely, blooming flowers
That shed their fragrance to the breeze;
Or while away the feeting hours,
Beneath the widely spreading trees.
Although those sunny days have past,
And fate has called me far away
Yet still, while memory shall last
| oft on fancy's wings shall stray
Back to the scenes Of childhood's hours,
| never, never can forget;
To those delightful, rosy bowers,
Where love and innocence oft met.
Affection drops the silent tear,
While memry brings the past to mind;
And love oft Breaches fervent prayer,
For her whom have left behind:
For thee, my sister, yes for thee
l often pray that Heaven may bless
Thy every act, that thine may be,
On earth, peace, joy and happiness.
Yes sister, my most fervent prayer
To heaven, is that thy life may be
AS calm as when the summer air
Is sleeping on tn unrufled sea;
Bright as the suns efulgent beam,
Sweet as the night-bird's merry song,
And peaceful as the gentle stream,
Winding its lonely way along.
Should pain or sorrow fill thy breast
Or gloom and sadness gather round;
Should worldly cares thy peace modest,
Or disappointment weigh thee downs
May hope, the anchor of the soul,
Thy pathway srew with richest flowers,
Then, though the waves of sorrow roll,
Hsppy will be thy darkest hours.
May Heavens most precious gifts be thine,
All springing from The fount of love;
May light celestial round thee shine,
To point thee to rest above;
And when the things of time shall fade,
And death shall close thy sparkling eye,
0 may thy spirit be conveyed, ry,,
To that bright home beyond the sky.
NV. L.
GEORGETOWN D. C.
The native American., 1840-05-02

no confidence in any story whose propagation is
They
THEY should never be believed in religion,
morals, politics, or in any matter pertaining
to social life -SOuthern Arg.
The native American., 1840-05-02

A Quick Trip The steamboat Queen OF
the West recently made a very short trip from
Cincinnati to New Orleans and back. Fhe
Gazette say:
The Queen was four days and six hours on
her wav from Louisville to New Orleans ana
six DAYS and twelve hours on her return
Her entire tripfrom Cincinnati 70 New Orleans
and back, was made in fourteen days ana
twenty two hours
The native American., 1840-05-02

ART of Icing Happy The following max
inns or rules might, if strictly observed, go
far to increase the happiness or at least DIP
minsh the inquietude and miseries of humans
life.
Observe inviolably truth in your words, and
integrity in your actions.
Accustom yourself to temperance, ana De
master of your passions.
Be not too much out Of h,fmor with the
world but remember it is world OF Gods
creating; and however sadly it is mared
with wickedness and folly, yet you have found
in it more comforts than calamnles, more GIVE
lities than affronts, more instances Oh ki"aiiesS
towards you than cruelty en-, ,
Try to spend your time usefully, both to
yourself and Others
Be it rather your ambition to acqult your
self we'll in your proper station than to raise
above it.
The native American., 1840-05-02

UNITED STATES AFFAIRs.-We have now
the pleasure of laying before our readers the
following valuable table, compiled with much
care expressly for the Register, by the same
gentleman by whom the tables heretofore pub
lished by us respecting the committees OF Con-
gress and the election of Speaker ofthe House
were all prepared Niles' Register.
Mr.. Editor: The Expenditures of the Indi-
an department, including the Florida war,
has long been subject of animadversion. The
following condensed statement, (which has cost
some labor, time and patience may, perhaps,
throw as much light on the subject as any that
has appeared before the public; If you think
so, it is at your disposal. Taken from the re-
ports of the Hon. Levi Woodbury., Secretary
Iof the U. S. treasury, as follows:
4 comparative vie,o ofthe expenditures ofhe
Indian department for the last four gears
Expenditures for 1886.
REFRESHING hostiities 1,44O566
Preventing hostilities l,s74,7Ol
SURPRISING host,lities 499,94O
Militia and volunteers 1871 1886
Transportation expense IL, l34
Exploring party S,OO3
locating reservations 1854
Indian department 42,32l
Ol lluldIlS @o,lCJ
Presents to Indians 5, 1873
Civilization of Indians 1886
House for agent, smith shop, &c. &c. LOO
Removal of Indians 24464l
Indian annu:ties 366,74S
Treaty with Cherokees 762,653
s" Ottawas 263,s93
/" " Caddoes 100000
/" " certain tribes 5O,76O
e. C. certain Indians 22,5OO
" " certain Indians 27,84O
Pay of agents 1879
Miscellaneous 38,OsS
$5,9OS,53O
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-14
Tra,lSplanting.

There is no, shrub, vine, plant OF tree 10 I've
found in fields and forests, that is not su.cepti-
be Of high degree of mpr vcmen, ifiaken up late
in fall or early in the spring property trmmed, aud
tsnspan,ed into good rich soil near dwellings,.
Their change for the better soon becomes apparent.
Take, for instance, young cbesnut uecs from the
mountain, Top OF much Of ,hcir tops you
leave Of the roots set them out as you would your
apple trees; not deeper in the soil than they have
stooj.-Thcy then have rarid growth, aud if well
preserved, will spread and bear Po iicalis, pr"du
cling a nut three times the size Of those gcneIally
brought 10 market and Of better flavor. The hickc-
~ tree Will do the same All will hear grsftiDg as
well MS the pear tree. Experiments in this line Cost
but htlle.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-14
Improved Chimneys--EceDOn of
Fuel.

by very simple and cheap improvement in
chimneys, the largest dwelling houses may he made
comfortably warm. in the most nclement weather,
by single fire Of Schuykll coal, and onc-haf the
I" uble Of keeping rooms and furniture in order a.
voided.-An ing NOUS friend of ours, two Yeas a.
go, caused 10 lie erected fine three story house in
the front part of the basemen, he had placed crate
of the ordinary size and style fr rooms of similar
dimensions, through which three cast iron tubes Of
two inches diameter passed from on under cellar.
TO the second. and the other to the third story
each ending in handsome mouth projecting a IT,
tie way from the chimney into the room for which
heat was required. The currents of heated air thus
produced, were found to all the purposes OF
separate fires. and the trouble Of du,tng furniture
two or ,hr times day, and the Cost Of purchasing
il before il had seen hall its appropriate ser
vice, were no longer to be incurred. When it is
desirable to moderate the heat in any Of the upper
rooms, cap is placed on the lower end Of the tube
and tie ingress Of air p even,ed. Every houscke,-
per whose furniture has been spoiled, and every
person whose health las been impaired by coal fires
will appreciate the advantages of this kind of chin
neys, which, if known, would be generally intro
duced.-Nc Yorker.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-14
(hiidreIl.

Tell me not OF the lrim, precisely arranged homes,
where there are no children-'wheIe,' The good
German has ii, The ily Flaps hang straight en the
wall, tell me not of Tho never disturbed nights
aud days; OF the tranquil, anxious hearts. where
children are not care not for these things God
sends chiklren for another purpose than merely to
keep up the race--lo enlarge hearts, to make us
unsefish, and full of kindly sympa,hies aud alice
iioas-to give our souls higher arms, ana call out
all our faculties TO extend enterprise aud exeTIion;
to bring round our lircsdc bI ghi faces and har-
Iy smiles, and loving, tender hearts My soul bles-
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-14
ECOnOilly.

Economy is one Of the chief duties OF state as
WILL as Of an individual. II is not only great vir.
tue in ITSELF bu, il is the parent Of many others. I,
preserves men and nations from the commission Of
crime md the endurance of misery. The man tina,
lives within his income can be just, humane, ch nj
comes. almost necessarily raPscous, mean, aithlesS
contemplate; the economist is easy and comfora
BILE the prodgai. harrassed with debts, and unable
10 oh ain the necessary means of life So it is with
nations. National character, as well as nationa
happiness, has, from the beginning of the world 'r
the present day. been sacrificed the altar of pro
fusion,
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-14
Population Of Pittsburg.

The popul tlon of Pittsburgh including depen.
dant villages in the vicinity is computed at 50 600;
places of religious worship 60; schools 100; pa
pers 30; banks and insurance companies 0, EMPLOY
ing capital of s5,o00,0O0; daily lines of stage
coaches and canal boats 90; single and double lines
OF canal freight boats Il annual arrivals and depar-
lures Of steam vessels engaged in the river trade,
$500; annual amount Of manufactures and me-
chanical productions, sl2 900 900; annual sales in
The various departments of merchandise, Sl3, 900,
900; annual amount of freigh; on merchandise and
produce passing through the account of non-rcsi-
dent owners, S3,0O0,OOO.
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and when they claimed their promis-
ed reward of liberal constitution,
they were answered with stripes, dun
geons, and fetters. Arnt, we believe,
was one of those who felt most Deep
ly the faithlessness of the King of
Prussia, and most loudly and elo-
quently expressed his indignation. For
that he was imprisoned, and for that
he has been kept i prison for twen-
ty-one years. The present King of
Prussia has the merit of releasing him,
Of restoring him to his professorship,
and of compensating him for part
of the pecuniary loss he has sustain
ed by his Imprisonment. But the ty-
rant who confined him could no more
restore Arndt the years Of which he
deprived him, than he could restore
the dead to life. Arndt has been rob.
bed of his fame, past all human pow
ers to give him redress. For twen-
ty one years he has been dead to
Europe, and he comes forth from his
dungeon only for men TO ask, "who
is Arndt London Sun.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-14
The Bride.

The writings of Va hing,on Irving abound in
pictures, which, for deIcacy, tste and truth, are
not surpassed by any writers in the English Ian
guagc. The following is al exquisite passage from
a chapter in his Bracebridgc Hall:
81 know no sight more charming and touching
than that of young and 'imid iride in her rob s
of virgin whi,s el up trembling to the altar. When
thus behold lovely gl in the t. tndrrncs' of her
year, fors;kng the house Of her fIrhrrs, and the
homo Of her chilihood--and, with the implicit con-
fiencc, and the sweet sel.aband ,nment which bc
ioug 10 woman, giving up all the world for the man
of her choice when hear her, in the good old
language OF The Iual vi lJins herself to him 'f,r
better, for worse, for richer for poorer in sickness
aud in health to love, honor AID obey, riIl death us
do par'-I, brings to mind the beautiful and stlrc
ting devotion of Ruth. ~ hithcr thou goest will
GO, and where thou I,dgrs will lodge; thy people
shAll be my people, and thy God my God"
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-14
TR I.9L OF T. L. ID R I'D q + :.
10th Month 2slh, iS40.

The trial of DIR. Eldridge, for for
gerry, is still in progress. The two
eminent Counsels for the accused, w.
L. Hirst, and David Paul Brown,
Esq's. have occupied most Of the time
during the week past, in the delivery
of their speeches.-Thcy have made
great exertion on behalf of the pris-
oner, and all that legal ingenuity, wit
and eloquencec could do, has been
brought into requisition on his behalf.
On the other side, however, stands an
array of eminent counsel, the solici-
tors for the various banks that have
been defrauded, who are untring and
vigi!ant, rendering, it would seem,
escape impossible. We shall be able
possibly in our next, to give the ver-
dict.
The mass OF irrelevant testimony,
and the number of minor issues, which
have been forced into this case, have
unnecessarily consumed the time and
money of the Commonwealth, but with
the number of lawyers engaged, il
could not be otherwise. Every man
must have his say, and will endeav.
or TO show how fierce a lawyer he
is, to the gaping crowd Of idlers, who
throng all the Courts of Justice
while perhaps the families of many Of
them, are in actual suffering for the
necessrries Of life.
saturday Evening Post.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-14
Quick Way to Get Rich.

A Miss Ingram, Of Ponteac, some
time since was perusing a Texas pa
per, and observed among the persons
that bore prominent part in the af-
fairs of that government, man bear
ing her own name, and jocoscly re-
marked to her companions, that she
had found namcsakc in Texas, and
intended to write to him and claim
relationship. This resolution. more
from curiosity and desire of novel
ty than from any conviction that her
hopes would be realized, was carried
into effect. She wrote him respect
ful letter. giving him a history Of her
family and parentagc, and suggesting
that as the name was not as com
mon as most of the names of our
country, the probability was strong
that relationship existed between
them. She received in reply, a friend
ly and afiectionate letter acknowledge
ing her as cousin, and expressing
an earnest desire that the corrcspon-
dencc might be continued.
This was readily acceded to, and
it was carriep on agreeably and sat-
isfactorily TO both parties, until very
recently, when she received intelli-
gcnce Of his death, and information
that in his will he had beQucathcd
her the handsome sum of $4,000 in
gold and silver, leaving his personal
property and immense landed estates
to his relatives in that country. A few
days previous TO the reception of this
joyful communication, she had con.
nected her fortunes with those of a
Methodist clergyman, and should their
deeds Of charity comport with their
means, the widows heart will be filled
with JOY, and many an orphan live
TO implore blessings upon the heads
of their benefactors, for their deeds
Of benevolence and generosity.
michigan Northern Advocate.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-14
Romance I'm Real Life.

A romantic incident has Just occur
red in the MaryIebone Infrmary.
Ann Dempsey, young and interes-
ting girl, who had been the support
of an aged mother, had gone into
the infrmary for the purpose of I'M
dergoing an operation for the reno
val of a dropsical complaint, which
had assumed the form Of a large tu-
mour. She was warned of the pain>
ful and even perilous nature of the
operation, but she expressed her res
olution to submit to it, owing to the
ardent wish that her life might be
spared for her mothers sake. The
operation was accordingly performed
in the presence of her mother and
several eminent medical men. Ii
lasted two hours and forty minutes,
and the magnitude of the tumour
taken from her may be imagined
when it contained no less than two
gallons and half of water. Not
withstandng the long and painful
operation, singular to relate, this he
roic girl never uttered a single cry {;
but at the conclusion tears were OBJ
served rolling down her cheeks, and
being desired not to shed them, she
replied that they "were tears of JOY
at her freedom from the incubus
which had so long afflicted her,
AS she appeared to be in sinking
condition, the medical gentlemen up
on consultation, deemed fresh
infusion of blood into her veins abso-
lutely necessary. On making inquiries
as to whom they could procure TO
provide the blood, il was ascertained
that two men were in an adjoining
room, one 25, and the o4ler between
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-14
QIIairClS.

Ono of the most easy, the most common, most
perfectly fool sh things in the world is To quarrel
no matter with whom, man, woman child or
upon what pretrnte, provocaton, or occasion what.
soever. There is no kind OF necessity in il, no
manner Of use in it, and no species degree "f bc-
ned; to be gained by it; and yet, strange as the
fact may be, tbcologians quarrel and poll icianS,
lawyers, doctois and princes qrurrcl, the Church
quarres, and the State qu,uels nations and Tribes
and corporations, men, women and childen dogs
and cas-, birds and hesst, quarrel about oil manner
# things, and all manner Of occasions. If lhcfr is
any thing IN the world that will make man feel
bad. except pinchine his fingers in the crack Of a
door, i, is unquestionaby quarrel. No man ever
fills TO thiuk less Of himself after u be did bef
one: II deerades him in his eyes and in the
eyes OF others, and. what is worse, bIunts his sen.
sibIliiy "a disgrace on the hand. and increases
the power of passonsie irriiabiIi'y on the other.
The truth is the more quietly and pesceally We
Ill get on. The better the b tier for ourselves the
helier for our neighbors. In nine cases out Of ten
the wisest course is, If man cheats you, you quit
dealing with him If he is abusive, qui, his conpi-
ny il he ISLANDERS you take to live that no
body will believe him. No matter who he IL, or
how he misuses you, the wis ST way is generally
just to let him alone f,r there is nothing better
than This cool, calm, quiet way Of dealing with the
wrongs we meet with
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-14
Professor Arndt.

Professor Arndt, after being shut
up in a fortress for twenty-one years,
his struggles, his suflerings, and his
name almost forgotten, has, we learn
by the German papers, been restored
TO liberty. Young men will ask, we
are afraid, in Germany as they ask
in America, who is Arndtl -Four or
five and twenty years ago a profes-
sor Of his name was the terror of the
German Government. He was impri-
soned, not for misdeeds, but his pop
ularity. The students sung his hymns
TO liberty, repeated his burning words,
and frightened Kings. By the patri-
otto exeriions of the Germans, the
French were driven across the Rhine,
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-14

80 and 40 years of age, anxiously
awaiting the issue of the operation.
Believing them, in the first instance,
to be relatives of the poor girl, they
were ushered into the room, when it
turned out that the eldest was her
employer, for whom she worked at
shoe binding and the other Jour
neyman in the same employ, both
devotedly attached TO the unfortunate
girl. On being made acquainted with
her state, and what was required TO
be done for the patient, they both
simultaneously volunteered TO supply
the blood from their veins. Much
bitterness of feeling and contention
between them cnsued as to which
should do so, which was put an end
to by the decision of the surgeons in
favor of the youngest, who, barring
his arm, with great energy exclaimed
that he was willing to lose the last
drop of his blood to save her life"
The blood was then carefully infused
from his arm into the veins of the
poor sufferer, till the young man
tainted from his loss. On this taking
place the elder lover implorcd per.
mission TO supply the remainder, but
the girl recovering, it was deemed
unnecessary. The poor girl began to
improve and great hopes were enter
taincd Of her recovery, but unfortu-
nately those hopes were blasted, for,
unknown to the surgeons, she was
found to be inflicted with severe
diarrhea, which increased until il be-
came a confirmed case of cholera,
from the effects of which she died
on the fifth day after the operation.
She was sensible to the last, and the
death bed scene is represented as
truly affecting. She expressed wish
to see the young man who had lost
his blood for her, kissed him, bade
him cut off lock Of her hair, and
begged OF him TO be kind to her mo.
thcr. She then entered into prayers
with tho Ro,. Mr.. Moody, til. Ci,op.
lain to the workhouse, and in the
midst Of it expired.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-14
American Copper.

A late number Of the Wisconsn Enquirer says,
that Mcssrs. w. Afford aLd p. W. Thomas Of New
Baltimore in that territory. have me, with complete
success in their experiments on smelling copper
ore. Thy constructed very simple furnace which
cost only ten dollars, in which they smelted on the
2s,h Of September last, $500 pounds of ore, from
which they Obtained nearly 700 pounds Of good pig
copper, pronounced, by competent judges, to lie su-
Perior to the soulh American pig copper. The
time occupied in procuring from the The above
amount Of copper, was only nine hour. Neither
Mr.. Afford nor Mr. Thomas had any experience in
the business Of smelling, and the result is Justly
de"med meter Of great consequence to that terri
tory, which ab1unds in rich copper ore.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-14

and qu;red the close attention of six mer and six
woman. The total weight Is four hundred and
half I, was ordered by captain, who de-
signed it as present for IN African prince. The
price will bc about fifty guineas So admirably is
the work executed that man can pu, it up and
take j, down wi,hou, tho least difficulty. 1t is al
together elegantly finished, aud will, no doubt, con-
tribute materially to enhance the glory of his sable
Journal.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-14

The books of the several marshals
employed to take the late census in
New York, present an aggregate of
$4,000, Of whom l44,32i are white
males, and l53, $50 are white females.
The colored population amounts to
l5,675, of whom 6,637 are males,
and 0,03S females. The increase
since 1885, has been about $4,000.
The value of real and personal pro-
pcrty in the city assessed this year,
is SlS7 ,l2l AGA real, and sos, 70 800
personal total, S253,643,l being
decrease Of Sl4,O2S,267 from las
years valuation.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-14
An Umbrella.

Yesterday evening The largest umbrella said Ia
have been ever made at least ia this country, was
finished in the msnufaciory of NJ, ssrs. VIM Bar,
and Son. Edmund street. The circumference OF
the stick, handle, is inur inches and half sn
the height eighteen feet, mounted with balloon at
the top painted with red and crimson st'ipes. There
are twenty whslehone ribs, each bundled and
ten inches long. !, is seventeen feet in diameter,
requiring sixty Two yards Of crmson damask merino
to cover IL; 10 which is appended yellow fiuge,
with twenty tass,ls. There are fifty pounds weight
OF brass work in the runners, tips, and no'chcs
which have hecn admirably executed hy man
named Joseph Davis, employed in The above esab-
li.hment. The s'relchers weigh three quarters Of
a hundrcd, aud are made Of japannrd iron. II has
been three weeks in process Of manufacturing,