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Fanny EllsIer.

This woman made new engagement at tho
Park Theatre, in New York, on Monday evening,
the llth inst before an audience the most numeT,
Gus sho has ever attracted in TIA. house. The re-
ceipts were within fraction of $3.50, and lit
tie did the house full off on Wednesday, that their
receipts Of the two nights $4,000, or there j.
bouts.
We give go much for the qualification Of thai
part Of our readers who wish fer such intelligence.
We add word more in behalf Of decepcy, Fan.
ny Elisler is an ignorant low.bom, and abandoned
woman, about thir-fve years old Though never
married, il is understood that she has number Of
children now living in Europe, where she is nearly
as we'll known as court'za as she is dlncer.
That she is graceful performer is Of course trus
but her iriunphs have not Ieen won by artistic
merit. She is, on the stage, fine locking animal;
she appears there divested of all the decencies Of
her sex, and draws around her. whenever she ex,
hibits herself the depraved and sensual Of all class
es To contend that the men ond women Of Phila
delpha, New York and Boston, or the asses OF Bal
tmore, who throng the theatre Whenever she bsres
her person 10 tho public gaze attracted by the
admirable skill and grace with which she dances,
is exquisitely absurd. If these people have so en-
thusiastic devotion 10 art, why is II that our pic
lure and sculpture galleries, (ior we have some
cTeditable collections of works Of art, and should
have more and better ones, if they could be sup
poted,) are all desired lie who has fine per.
cepton of the beautiful in art or nature, will by no
means neglect music poetry, and sculpture, to look
upon denuded and shameless public dancer A
single glance around the theatre, by one familiar
with the town, would show, when this woman ap'
pears, that pit and boxes were filed in nearly all
cases. by the least intellectual and the leas, moral
There are exceptions, certainly. Among the rel-
neG and educated are many who can appreciate ihs
poetry of notion" But the multitude cannot.
The exhibition of any voluPtuous and half funcov-
cred woman, would by the mass who praise Ellsler.
be deemed alone worth the price Of tickeL'
Boston IImS,:
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DR.. HENRY, an Irish Surgeon Of the
Goth Regiment, gives the following ac-
count Of the horrible superstition of
the natives of India:
"Whcn we reflect that the inhabi-
tants of the valley of the Ganges are in
number at least thirty millions; that the
superstitious reverence for the sacred
aver induces every family who can
possibly approach it to commit their
dead to its waters; and that far the
greater part of the year the atmosphere
is very hot-we may form some no.
ton of the multitude Of human corpses,
in every stage of dissolution, that must
be perpetually mixed with or bouyant
on the flood-the surface waters must
be actually a decoction of putridity. 1t
can be no wonder that infectious disea-
ses, with cholera at the head, should
eternally hover over this gigantic open
sewer Of Bengal, and diverge far and
from its centre of corruption. DIR.
Henry has a description of the scene
too painful to be quoted. We can but
alIude to the enormous flocks of vul-
lures and other birds of prey eternally
Tapping and screaming over the float
ing masses of decay, tearing and disem>
boweling naked carcasseS of men wo>
men and children. But the horror OF
horrors is the fact that the voyager can
never keep near the shore for an hour
at time without seeing some old,
worn out, dccrepid grandfather or
grandmother, carried to the verge OF
the stream by the hands of their own
offspring, their mouths stuffed with the
holy river grass, and the yet gasping
bodies tumbled into the flood. We are
weary ofhearing that such usages could
not be interrupted without alternating
the minds Of the hindoos. No super
stiton was supposed to be more deeply
rooted than the horrid one of the Sut>
lee-but a single rescript put that abo-
mination down-and, except from GER
tain sleek Brahmins interested in the
matter Of burning fees, not one voice
has been heard TO complain of the abo-
lition. The same as to intanticide in
some extensive districts, where it had
| prevailed from a remote antiquity
| Who can doubt that all these diabolcaI
atrocities have always been perpetra>
| ted amidst the secret loathing of the
priest-ridden population of India! II
is of the very essence of such tyranny
that it succeeds in suppressing all out
ward show Of aversion on the part CT
| its victims:
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Love and Romance.

In the recent search and eXamina-
ton of the island and bayous in the Vi
cinity of New Orleans, in quest of the
retreats of the supposed pirates of the
ship Charles, Captain Taylor found up
on one of the lone islands IN the gulf, a
suspicious looking chap, and his mis-
tress, dressed in male attire. They
were brought up TO the Balize, and on
examination it was found that the lady
was the wife of a resident of New Or
leans, and her romantic enterprise 10
have sprung from the love of her new
lord being so strong as to induce her to
break her marriage ties, and fly with
her lover to his wild and rocky retreat.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-17
Judgment I'm the Far west.

a correspondent of the New York f.
vcnlng Post, who writes from the west>
ern extremity of Illinois, thus notices
peculiarly in the administration Of JUS
tce arising out of the peculiar circum-
stances Of The people:
When | arrived at Dixon | was told
that the day before man named
Bulge, being at Washington Grove in
Ogle county, came into town and COM
planned that he had received notice
from a certain association that he must
leave the county before the seventeenth
of the month, or that he would be look
ed upon as proper subject for Lynch
law. He asked for assistance TO de-
tcnd his person and dwelling against
the lawlesS violence of these men. The
people of Dixon county came together,
and passed resolution TO the effect
that they approved fully Of what the
people Of Ogle county had done, and
that they allowed Mr.. Bulge the term
of four hours to depart from the town
Of Dixon. He went away Immediately,
and in great trepidation. This Bulge
is notorious confederate and harborer
of horse-thieves and counterfeiters
The thinly settled portions Of Illinois
are much exposed TO the depredations
of horsc-thieves, who have a kind Of
centre of operations in Ogle county,
where it is said that they have a Justice
of the peace and constable among
their own associates, and where they
contrive 10 secure a friend on the jury
whenever any one of their number is
tried. Trial after trial has taken place,
and it has been found impossible to OBJ
tain conviction on the clearcst evil
dence until last April, when two horse
thieves being on trial, eleven Of the iu>
ry threatened the twelfth taste of the
cow-skin unless he would bring in a
verdict Of guilty. He did so, the men
were condemned and before they were
removed to the state of prison, the court
house was burnt down and the jail was
in flames, but luckily they were extin>
guShcd without the liberation of the
prisoners. Such at length became the
general feeling of insecurity, that three
hundred citizens of Ogle county, as
understand, have formed themselves in
to a company of volunteers for the pur-
pose Of clearing the county of these
men. Two horse>thieves have been
seized and fogged, and Bulge, their
patron, had heen ordered TO remove OF
abide the consequences.
nanother part of the letter, the wri'
ter says:
The regulator of Ogle county reno
we'd Budge's family on Monday last
and demolised his house. He made
preparations TO defend himself, anC
kept twenty armed men about him fol
two days, but thinking, at last, that the
regulators did not mean to carry theil
threats into effect, he dismissed them
He has taken refuge with his friends
| Akin family, who live, | believe, in JEFF
ferson Grove, in the same county, ant
who it is said, have also received no
tice to quit. ., --
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M 1trIlAl . nv.

lc following lay for the ladies must be read .
in this manner--fnt, third, second, and fourtl
ny gentlemen, whose addresses have been r,
j, wish to rail against marriage, they must rea
ritten:
That man must lead happy life,
Who's free from matrimonial chains,
Who Is directed by his wife,
j. sure to suffer for his pains.
Adam could find no solid peace,
When eve was given for a mate,
Until he saw woman's face,
Adam was in happy state.
In all the female face appears
Hypocricy, deceit aud pride,
Truth, darling of heart sincere,
Ne'er known in woman TO reside.
What tongue is able TO unfold,
The falsehoods that in women dwell,
The worth in women we behold,
Is almost inperceptble.
Down with the foolish man | say,
Who changes from his singeness,
Who will not yield to woman's sway,
Is sure of perfect blessedness.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-17
Observation-Disclosures.

OF modern books, the best know,
The author all the world is thanking,
One written more for use than show,
Is quantity titled, "Gouge on Banking
But still improvements might be made,
Whilst books on books the world is scrouging
let BidRe try to help the trade,
And write one titled, "Banks on Gougmg."
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-17

The Milkwaukie, (W, T.) Sentinel says that
there has never been time when settlers were
focking into Wisconsin in greater numbers, than
at present. Every boat brings large numbers Of
most respectable emigrants,
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-17

SMoKISu,-"Whal harm is there in pips |"
says young PufIwelL "None that know Of"
replied his companion except that smoking induA
res toxiestiOn--intoxicatior induces the bile
lille induces the jaundice-jsundice leads to drop
sy-snd dropsy terminates in death" Put that in
your pipe and smoke il.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-17

Charity does not begin a, home in the family to
which the boy below noticed belongs The fact
is from the st. Louis Argus. Wonder if they
have many such charitable mothers out West
"Miss Brown, wish you'd sew up my tIowseTs.
so they won't keep coming down the boys keep
plaguing me-" "Why can't you &c, your mother
to do it for you, Jimmy - so coz, she can't;
she's gone TO the Sewing Circle A fact.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-17

A FLYING MACHINE has been invent
ed by Jacob +. Hester, of Philadelphia
county, for which he has taken out a
patent. 1t consists of a balloon to buoy
up the body, and pair of wings to pro
pei it through the air. We should like
TO witness a trial of that machine.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-17
The Farm er.

4 SONG.-By ]. J. BAKER, Of philadelphia.
Rg al meeting of The Agricultural Society
Ne,U BruRSicick.
A farmers life is the life for me,
own love it dearly;
And every season full Of gleo,
/ lake its labors cheerly--
20 plough or sow,
To reap or NOW,
Or in the barn to thrash, sir,
Ais one TO me,
plainly see,
Twill bring me health and cash, sir
The lawyer leads harrsss'd life,
Much like that of hunted otter,
And tween his own and others strife,
He's always in hot water
For foe or friend,
A cause defend,
However wong must be, sir
In reasons spite,
Maintain It's right,
And dearly earn his fee, sir.
The doctor styled gentleman,
But this hold but humming;
For, like tavern waiting man,
To every call "he's coming"
Now here now there,
Must he repair.
Or starve, sir, by denying
Like death himself,
Unhappy elf,
lie lives by others dying.
A farmers life then let me live,
Obtaining while lead it,
Enough for self, aud some to give
To such poor souls as need ii.
I'll drain and fence,
Nor grudge expense,
To give the land good dressing
III plough or sow,
Or drill in row,
And hope from Heaven blessing.
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friend carried more dead than alive to
his room.
That scene | can never forget: it
dwclls on my memory still, strengthen
ed by the fate of poor Maxey, who from
that hour pned in hopeless imbeciIity,
and sunk into an early grave.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-17

search among the ruins OF Pompeii, which
took place on the 27th ult led to The discovery of
marble statue, silver vase, and quantity Of gold,
silver and bronze metals in good stue of preser,
yption
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-17

"Maint see you home from meetin Psggy."
"No. ycu shanldo no such thing, I'm otherwise
engaged" "WellI swan guess you've lnis.'i
this time for I've got my pocket chuck fuu Of gin,
gerbread," "You may take my arm Jonathan"
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-17

The editor of the Chicago Democrat says' ave
never cared farthine about getting meried until
we attended an cid bachelors funeral. God grant
that our latter end may not be like his y
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-17

THE" AMERICAN" is published every Satur-
ay at TWO DOLLARS per annum to bc
,aid half yearly in advance. No paper dscontin-
led till ALL arearsges are paid.
No subscriptions received for less period than
TX MONTHS. All communications or letters on
'usness relating to The office, to insure attention,
nust be POST PAID.
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At recen, Charter election at Akron, Ohio, i,
was decided that license for the retail oil ardent
spirits should be granted during the year.
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The King of Cochin China, has recently put to
death ten Catholic missionaries IN his dcminions.
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TERMS OF THE AMERICAN
III. ". .u.4SSEH. Editor.

HENRY b. MASSER,2 2 PunLrsuERs AND
JOSEPH EISELY. 5 PRoPRIEToRs.
Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-04-17

JEsrs OF DomITIlN.--Like Nero whom he
resembled in some points, Domitian was capri
cious in his cruelty. When at the shows
which followed the triumphs, a tempest of rain
came on he would not allow any one to quit
the place and seek shelter. He himself also
remained, but he had several cloaks, and chan
ged them as they became wet. Many of the
spectators died in consequence of colds and ie-
vers. To console them, he invited them to a
public supper, which lasted all through the
night. He gave the Senate and Knights also
curious supper, at the same time. The room
| in which he received thenrwas made perfectly
black, the seats were black; by each stood a
lpillar with the name of the guest on it, and a
sepulchral lamp: naked slaves blaekened to re-
semble spectres came and danced horrid
measure around them, and then each seated
himself at the feet of a guest; the funeral meats
were then brought in black vessels. All sal
auaking in silence; Domitian alone spoke, and
/ his discourse was of death. AT length he dis
missed them; but at the porch, instead of their
Town attendants, they found strange ones, with
chairs and sedans to convey them to their
.Ehomes. When they were at home and began
to respire freely, word came TO each that one
was come from the Emperor; terror returned
but it was agreeably dispelled by finding thai
the pillar, which was silver, the supper StensiE
+ of valuable materials and the slave. who hac
3 played the 5host, were arrived presents from
= the paiace.-Keighiley'S Roman Empire.
Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-04-17
An EDITORS SITUATION.

Next to poverty, delinquent subscribers and
duns-to which most editors are sublect-the
greatest difficulty is to please the public, for SO
great is the variety of public taste and teeiIng'
fhathad the conductor of periodical paper
as MANY hands and as many pens as his paper
has readers, he could neverhope to please all;
for they cannot please themselves. Does be
speak out in language plain and simple! Il Is
mere common place; the taste OF the learned
i not gratified; it isfit only for the vulgar,
Does be aspire TO elegance? The unlearned
cannot understand; and the learned regard
him as pedantic fellow, dabbling in what ne
has no real pretensions TO. Does ne show
his, ;rolors and boldly contend for his grounds
I l.is i too severe. Does he hide himself be
meath .Tnasssof unequivocal matters He
a temporising hypocrite. If he publishes ex
tracts that are better than he can write, b
has no talents Of his own to display; and # h
f;lls b;s naper with original matter he nigh
have owen something better from the work
&c others. Ifhe attempts tophilosoPhise, it,
dpll and undressing; and if he writes on plal'
and familiar subjects, every body knew then
before. Does he attempt to instruct II
/ need be instructed. Does he use his endeavoI
to amuse9 Ii is light and triaing. Peopi
Generally, are fond Of being praised; and on
i would suppose this might satisfy them b.
llet an editor try the expedient, and ne WI
soon find out his mistake; for such = the Pow
Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-04-17
THE DISMISSAL.

The election of the editors of the Globe,
as printers TO the Senate, has given rise to no
little of complaint and vituperation from the
portion of the press that is disposed to find fault
with the present administration. 1t is appar-
ent, however, that the discomfort is confined
exclusively to partizain organs. Among the
masso of the people, there is no sympathy for
the wrongs and privations over which the
friends of the Globe utter such loud complaints.
For our own part, it has always seemed to us
a degree of presumption, bordering on down.
right impotence, for the conductors of that es-
I Enlistment to advance any pretensons to
patronage under the administration of Gener-
al Harrison. The improperly OF their con-
duct becomes still more gross when they CON-
plain, that these pretentions are not recog-
nized. For the last twelve months the columns
4 of the Globe have been crowded with the foul
lest calumny and blacklist ISLANDERS, levelled
against General Harrison and the whole wing
party. Even after the struggle had been con-
cluded, its maevolence ceased not to pour out
coarse vulgarities and contemptuous illusions,
calculated to bring into disrespect the new ex-
J ecutive on the eve of his induction. Under
such circumstances, it would have been an in
suit TO their President elect, had the Wing
portion of the Senate consented 10 retain in
employment his inverterate and insolent ira
, Queer. The cou rSe OF the Senate, on the 0cca-
sion, was highminded, dgnifed, and such as
the voice of the whole country will applaud,
On the other hand, the pertinacity with which
, the organ of Locofocoism continued to hang
d onto "the spoils," cannot fail to excite feel
$ ing approximating too closely to disgust to be
called pity. Its political career is evidently
near the close, the party of which it has been
g the organ is in dying condition, and it was
: to be expected that "the ruling passion would
be exhibited strong in DEATH" Without the
\ nourishment derived from executive patron
+ age that mercenary establishment cannot live,
and it chung to the last remnant with the des-
/. perate grasp of drowning man, TO whom a
floating straw holds GU: delusive hope of sur
; vival. But thanks to the manly independence
a of Wing Senators, our country is spared the
E disgrace ofhaving any longer inits employment
the official organ of the antecedent administra-
\ ton. On the ground of the infamy of the
v print, its base subseryiency to partizan malice
4 and scurrility, the dismissal of the editors of
q the Globe from the office of Printers to the
; Senate must meet with applause from every
4 honest enlightened citizen, and contribute to
d enchance the purity of the national charac.
$ tern. O. Bulletin.
Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-04-17

IMpoRrANr INyENTIoN-T London cor
respondent ofthe Boston Post notices the man !.
lufacture. of "a species of woollen cloth by an
American in England, whichis perhaps des-
tined to make "a new era in the articles OF
wearing apparel The inventors name is
Wells He has constructed machine, and
discovered process by which wooen cloth
of every description is produced at less than
a fourth of the cost hitherto usual. The ma
terial is not woven bat compressed. One
hundled yards can be turned out by two boys
| in twelve hours; and where twenty-iour shll-
lings were demanded per yard, six shillings
afford the new manufacturers abundant remu-
neration.
The correspondent of the Post continues as
follows:
ssThis new cloth is likely TO create great
revolution among the manufacturers, for al
ready they discover thatsit is something more
than mere bubble of AN hour. The Austri-
an government has purch ased the right to
manufacture in Austria, and several other
rights to manufacture it in England and IN
France have also been purchased. There are
four or five large mills now in constant ope'
ration in this country, which turn out daily
lsveral hundred pieces of the cloth OF various
Qualities Soon the markets here will be fill
LED with IL, and no DOUBT large quahtlly WI
be sold in the United States, as Mr.. Wells
who is New Yorker, informed me, that Sc
soon as7he had completed all his arrangement
for supplying the European markets, he shoul'
establish several large factories in America
4 Mr.. Wells has worn frock coat made OF hi
new cloth, every day during the last six months
land it is an elegant garment even now-th
material being compressed, there is no threa
in it, and the nap has the same smooth, gloss
appearance as when first looked at it. TIL
: cheapness, durability, and beautiful appear
ance of this new cloth, must give it decide
advantage over all other kinds. So far 1t ha
met with great favor from the most extensIv
dealers in cloths In London