Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-10-31
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BusiRKss At Sr. Louis.-The st. Louis Gazette
weeks, sold about slOo,O 900 worth of eoods--most
Iy for cash-,he credi, on the residue being very
short.
Father Matthew lately administered the Temper.
ance pledge TO 100 600 persons in two days
The Boston Journal states the, the Pacha of e.
gypt has issued irman, directing the release Of the
prosecuted Jews at Damascus, and forbiddng any
person TO moles, them in future.
The steam ship Acadia left Boston September lst
at i2 o'clock, NJ. and arrived at Liverpool Septem.
her Is. at 10 o'clock, midnight, making the passage
IN IL days and IL hours left Liverpool Oct 4th.
at a o'clock %. NJ. and arrived ngain October 9TH,
at o'clock, A. NJ, making the passage in IL days
and Ia hours. Thus the two passages were made
IN 25 days and 4 hours, notwithstanding the deien.
ton a, Halifax IN both trips. This is truly an as
tonishng performance
The grand total capital represented by all proper
ty in Great Brain aud Ireland is estimated at E3,-
620,0O0,O0O. The value of all sorts of public pro-
perty is flO3 100000 he value Of lands, ships
canals, railroads. mines, horses timber crops, &C..
is estimated at E2,945, 100000. The value of all
sorts of furniture, apparel plate, specie, money in
chtncery, savings banks, &C., estimated a, $780,
600 900. The national deht !. about R764 ,000, 900.
DrArH oF RAcEns-The sixteen mile on
the Louisville course, the 9th inst, too
we're for the horses engaged in it. Sambc, who won
the first heat, and Darnley who won the third, died
on Friday night. The other two were too much in
jurcd, it is thought ever to run again. Mary Morris
it is feared will de- Ia the wottis o. certain jury
.'safved the owners right"
The Baltimore Patriot ex presses the oplni,n 4 al
,he Bunker Hill Monument will now advance with
ou, deIy y, aud thai preparations will be mmed atey
made for rais,g this Imposing structure to its de.
signed elevation.
Several of the New York parers endeavoring
10 induce the tropre,ors Of the Atlantic steamers to
make such arrangements viii prevent the arrival
of those vessels on Sunday.
The Baltimore papers mention rumor that Benz.
C. Howard of that city has been ap, oncd Minister
TO Austria.
A ftllsw named ShatIer was convict at Orwigs-
burg on Tuesday last, on tive separate indictments,
for stealing COW and calf He was sontcaced to
three years solitary confinement in the Eastern peni
Tertiary for each offence. The fellows hair had
not yet grown long since his release from two years
boarding 10 the same magnificent mansi,n.
Oliver hmcs Of West Bridgewster, Moss, CON-
mcnced life by making dozen shovels, which he
took to market in a wagon. He now owns three
extensive factories at Eas.on, Brain'ree and West
Bridgewater-employs sixty woIkmen. and has four
teams to carry his shov els to market. His profits
are twenty thousand dollars annually.
TRADES USIoN.--The trial Of certain journey
men shoemakers in Boston, charged with conspi-
racy, Trades Union "Concern," has resulted in u
verdic, of "guliy." The git Of The matter lay in
the proof that the society attempted to fix prices for
others than themselves, and attempted to cocrce
j,uneymen into membership with them.