Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-11-27


he Jewels was clamorously pressed To retire, and
cave the las, remaining orticle Che wine fountain,)
10 its fate as the destruction of the entire of this
building then appeared inevitable.
Mr.. SwifIe states that haNnr seen the last arti-
Gle of his charge cut OF the Jewel chamber, which
had become itself almost like a furnace, he with
difficulty effected his escape, for the flames from the
armory completely crossed the cnurt yard from the
Eastern gable to his dwelling, the doors of which
were hIisering quite fast. lie made the hest of
his wny To the house of the governor, and having
again examined the regalin, (particulnHy her Ma.
ies,y's crown) he found that not the mnu,est par.
tcle was missing.
Mr.. Swite states that the intrinsic value Of the |
regalia is Mt least upward of a million sterling,
which of course, i4 far under the amount, looking
upon taem as relics of antiquity
The Paris correspondent Of the National nci. |
der date of
PAnIs, October 10, 1911.
Whatever scandalous occurrences are repnred
from the United Sia,cs-whatrvrr yirulcnco, dis,
honesty or brutality is there pcrpetraed-confrms
the common notion and industrious representation
of European lis Of the same character The mo-
del Republic makes the tree known Ivy its fruit
Both London and Paris editors find food f,r sar,
casm in the announcement of Mr.. WISE To your
House, the day afer his battle with Mr.. SrlNLEr
AS soon his nature had permitted, he became re-
concIled to the gentleman from North Carolina,
and the next mornings sun rose upon the renewal
of their former friendship.' So, Likewise, they do
in the report ofthe committee proposing fine one
bundled dollars for an in.ulting wo,d addressed hv
one member to anathcr Yhry refer to the obser.
vaton Of Messrs. Curv ,IrER and nE TocauEvILLv
that every thing in the American Republic is mea,
sured and compensated by mooey-dollars and cts
The debate in the House on the 10 h uliimo. a
bout President TYLER has not escaped their vai-
liant spirit Of fde,raciion. NJ. Borrs and M GIL-
MEn have figure on this theatre. I must confess
that the alteration ot in,erlocu,ion which followed
the report of the committee in the case of Mr.
WISE, appears to me scarcely less disreputable
than the original scene. President TrLEn's sec
ond veto has occupied some French editorial pens
but they caunot understand motives or reasons pro
or con.
| The Steele admircs the act, yet pronounccs the
! President an ordinary politician for wishing along
with the Wing party, 'ie par'i de Ia prair a de
| farsen Il tout prir,' to avert with England.
AS soon, adds, the British can contrivc to 10
without American cotton, they will compel a rup-
ture and hbrate all the American slaves The
contrlvance requires length of time sufficient for
adequate preparation on your part. Our Paris
sfcibes seem TO be struck with the phraseo!opy OF
this paragraph of New York paper The Pre-.
siden, had been burned in eligy at Louisville by
Mghty reSpecia6le young men, chiefly Nirginians
very natural, though not qinte regular proceed
ing 'Whst IDEAS they exclaim, 'have these A
meIicans of resPcctaJihty and regularity, wher
they associ tie with these terms public outrage ST
gross Oh the Chief Magstracy ofther Uniun.
The following is an extract of tt letter from Mr.
List, L. :. Consul at Lcpsic 10 the Secretary o
he Treasury.
vice of SAKE Gotha, has lately made pfonosj,ion
to the smaller states Of Slxouy. for ransporfin.
|, their criminals 10 hc port Of Bremen, aud embork
ing them there far The United States at seventy
five dollars per head which offer has been &C
ceDted by several of them. The first transport
criminals WHO far Tie greater part hare Jec'
condemned TO hard ioLor far life, (among then
f,ro noforiGus r0JJers Pieiier and Albrecht,) wi
leave Gotha on the 3h of this month and il
intepdcd by and by TO empty oil tie 'corkhouse
and iaiis Of that country IN this manner. Ther
is little doubt that several other states will imitat
the nefarious practice. 1t has of late
J also, become a general practice in the towns an
horoughs of Germany, 10 get rid of their pauper
and picious members, by collecting the means io
eiiectlng their passage TO the United States,
mong the inhabitants, and by supplying then
, from the public .fnds."
, ''ln letter TO the President, August lcth, 1885,
e the Ma, or of Baltimore states, that fourteen con
5 uiciS from Bremen hid been landed there. The
+ rere stripped in irons, chich wers not taken O
uRtiMey trere near Fort McHenry."
The report ofthe Agent of the Tennessee Pen
q tcnary has been published showing the c0ndto
of it, for the two years ending 30lh September las
. 1t app that there l7s convcts then in COT
: fnement. The habit, OF part ofthese conycls al
, thus ata'ed
. Constantly, drunk, 81
Common d,unktrdS, 80
Occasionally Ioo
And const ant drinkers,