Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-12-03
MISCELLANY.
Editorial, Condensed and Selected.

''"'u hP III IL PcIdlhiS ipl Tue press ms oO-
servat rms Oh the Americans. As he is liberal
minded nobleman, his work will be looked for with
interest.
Duff Green has laid before the President
scheme, for the S t,men of all disput tween
foreign nations, hy mediation.
imprisonment for debt is unreservedy abolished
in Tennessee.
There are now ahou, one hundred Indians left
in Florida.
two-penny paper entitled the Midnight Crv,
devoted 10 the destruction of the void in lsi3
and regularly in mourning has been started in the
city of New York. Mr. Miller ha, been Iec,urng
in that city.
The legislatures Of Vermont, Nj souri, and Ten,
nessec have passed resolutions in favor of repeal
Of the Bankrupt Law.
The Legislature Of Vermont has passed. an Act
which virtually abolishcs punishment of death
The people of Nashville are about to establish
school for the Blind in that city. We heartily wish
them success in their ph,lanthropc exer,ions.
Essex county, Massachusetts, has a population
of 81 600 inhabitants, Of whom ca 800 have signed
The total abstinence pl,dse.
Wooden Clocks are now large article of expor,
to England. The Yankees invoice them al a
pound sterling each, and the Engl sh Custom House
officers dare not seize them.
The editor of The Philadelphia United States Ga.
zette has II ceived from Mr.. Joseph Hsnnum. Of
Concord township, Delaware county, parsnip three
feet six inches in length.
A young man nam Jonathan Cbe,ter. com.
mited suicide in Coumhil county. Pa, few day.
siuce, by hanging himself in his fathers barn.
A young lady has recently obtained, through the
Court of Common Pleas at Chambrrsburg, Pa,
verdict for $500 damages from her lover, for a
breach of promise OF marriage.
The number Of persons carried over the Troy
and Schenectady Rail Road exceeds 800 per day.
The fare is only IS cents.
LondOn covers an area of Ia square miles 1t is
I! miles east and west, and nine miles north and
sauh, and allowing for inequat es, it is 80 miles
in circuit.
Advlces from several Of the towns and landings
on the Illinois river speak of the large accumull-
non Of produce, particularly wheat and hour IL
some places the amount has accumulated 10 such
an extent that there is not warehouse room for
more, and yet The f4rmers have more ready for mar
ket.
C0rdora kN,d-Durng the fight at Soado
Cotdova, one If the mos, invelera,e and d ngerous
enemies Of Texas, was killed by man named
Adams, Of Guadaloupe.
Florida Tigers One of,hese ferocious animals,
says the ~. Augustine News, which are very nu-
mcrous in our Territory, was killed few days
since, about eigh, miles from our city. He meas
surej from the tip of the tail TO the Eight fee,
six inches.
HSanity.-There are l7Isl insane persons in
The United States; and the estimated number Of
those who become so annually, is 57l9. There
IS insane ssylums in the country containing
something less than 1000 patients, aud receiving
almost 200 annually.
Dwarf Trees.-An extensive forest Of dwarffui
. Nees Has Ut'h i"uAu III ietds' HiihCIPdIiy plutnu
trees, in full bearing only two feet in height; also
oaks bearing aco,ns, eight fee, high. Nothing like
them in any other country.
A man came 300 miles, fiom New Hampshire,
for the express purpose of witnessing the execution
of Colt. The officers very properly declined to
crafty his brutal appetite, and refused him Perms-
, sion 10 enter.
! Boz BhlndrS.-Dickens makes the Yankees
/ use the word clever in the of eligible. This
they never do. CLercr is almost invariably used
! for good nait4rCd with Us.
Lafin.-Lain is a living tongue; 1t is spoken
! in Hungary, and the debates in the legislature OF
that country are conducted in that language.
The greatest and mos, ami 'hle privilege which
The rich enjoy over the poor, is that which they ex-
eIcise the lesst-ths privilege Of making them hap
py,-LGeom
Hmm TINEs-Messrs. PcN sold some o,G
Wines Yesterday SOME Of which went as high a,
fifteen dollars gallon, Old Peach B,a,J,
brought yny high price, showir: ,ha, there ar,
some small corners in the Upper cicles where tots
! abstinence has moi ypi al