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The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-03-03

NuLaN.-At he Montpelier, Vt, Court Of As
sizes, man named Pomerede sentenced to death
having been convicted Of arson nineteen highway rob
init murder.
The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-03-03
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

The Address Of Richard s. Evans, Esq. at Apollo
Hall, on Saturday evening last, was attended by a
large and highly respectable audience and re-
ceived with great and repeated applause.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26

KEEP DoING.-I know nothing better, for
poor, miserable, do nothing, fear-all sort of be-
ings-such as not unfrequently attempt to act
their part in llie's drama-than to set about do
ing, with all their soul and strength, whatever
proper work, either for body or mind, comes first
to hand. When one ls in the Slough OF Des'
pond, good leap at almost anything will get
him out. ADO you keep doing,"i Natures
great discretion. Our work can never be done
up. There is no rest. If we sit down, we are
gone. Like criminals in treadmill, we must
90 on nolens volens-if willingly and constant
Iy, very well if reluctantly and remiuently,
then we must expect raps to keep us going
Turner.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26

cealcd in the woods, they had seen the Judge
and his family going to church.
The body of the dead Tory was taken Up and
buried by the Sexton of the church, as he had
no relations in that vicinity.
After the absence of two hours or therca-
bouts the negroes returned, having succeeded
in capturing Finley, and one of the strangers
who were that night confined, and the next
morning, at the earnest solicitation of Judge
V. liberated on promise of mcnding their lives
1t was in the month of October, of the same
year that Catharine N.was sitting by an upper
back window of her fathers house knitting ;
though autumn, the weather was mild, and the
window was hosted about three inches About
sixty or seventy feet from the rear of the house
was the barn, a huge ediice with upper and
lower doors the lower doors were closed and
accidentally casting her eye towards the barn,
she saw small black door on range with the
front door and window at which she was sitting,
open and a number of men enter.
The occurrence of the summer immediately
presented itself to her, and the fact that her ia
ther and the other males of the family were at
work in a field some distance from the house.
led her to suspec. that the opportunity had been
improved, probably by some of Van Zandt'
friends to plunder and revenge his death
Concealing herself, ther behind the cur
tains she narrowly watched their movements.
She saw mans head slowly rising above the
door, and apparently accommodating the premi-
ses-it was Finlcy's. Their object was now
evident. Going to the "armory," she selected
a well loaded musket and resumed her place by
the window. Kneeling upon the floor, she
laid the muzzle of the weapon upon the window
still between the curtains, ard taking deliber-
ate aim, she fred.-What effect she produced
she knew not, but saw several men hurrvng
out of the barn by the same door they entered.
The report again brought her father and his
workmen to the house, and on going into the
barn, the dead body of Finley lay upon the
floor.
Catharne afterwards married captain of
the Continental army, and she still lives the
mother ofa numerous and respectable line OF
descendants. The house is also in the land of
the living and has been the scene of many a
prank of the writer of this tale in the heyday
of his mischlevous boyhood.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26

PETTY ARIsrocRAcy.-lf there is anything
disaqreeable in the social circle, really loath-
some in any kind of society," it is to hear po-
yerty-stricken aristocrai, too lazy TO work, and
ashamed to beg, talk of what he once was OF
rich uncles, aunts, cousins, of the splendor Of
his fathers mansion, and his mothers "frst So
ciety." He had better date his origin in hog
ety, and then the public, now bored to death
with stories of ancient eminence, would give
him credit for some energy in getting up in
the world,
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26
Grating Of Grape Vines.

We received, two or three days since, the
Horticulture! Magazine for August. Among
the contents is an interesting paper on the
grating of grape vines, which is described as
an easy and generally successful operation, and
by which the most delicate European varieties
may be rendered more hardy by inserting them
on native stocks The writer, Mr.. Cnmak, OF
Athens, Georgia, says:
"As to grating nothing is more simple, the
right method be adopted. Cut off the old vine
below the surface of the earth, after the leaves
are fully expanded, and all danger of bleeding
is past. Split the stock as in cleft grating.
Insert the scion, consisting of one year old wood,
and having two or three buds, having first cut
the end to be inserted in wedge like sh1pe
| lithe stock close firmly on the scion, tying is
unnecessary. If it do not close firmly, then it
must be bound uptght. Draw the earth upa.
round the whole, leaving the bud mainly de.
pended on, usually the second from the top, Just
even with the surface, and the work is done.
The after management consists in taking of
the sprouts that rise from the stock, those that
spring from the scion, all but one, and training
that up carefully as it grows. Notrec is so easily
proPogated, by grating, as is the vine in this
way"
Mr.. Camak adds, that it is essential that the
operation should not be performed in that season
when the plant is subject to Mceding. lie
performs it after the leaves of the stock are fully
expanded and the sap has ceased to flow. He
mentions, also, that he has been told that it is
equally successful pcrformed before the sap
rises. He gives these examples of the good re-
suits of grating:
"On the first of June, of this year. put
scion of the Gros Marokin on the root of wild
vine. 1t has now (June 30th) grown about
two feet. | have had scions grow, when put on
strong roots, full fifteen or twenty feet in one
summer, and invariably produce good crops the
second year a white grape from France, the
name of which do not know, worked on the
root of the vigorous growing iox grape ofour
woods, produced abundantly the second year,
while cuttings ofthe same grape, treated as cut
| tngs usually are, grew very slowly, and were
| five years in coming to bearing state. The
delicate foreign varieties, have invariably
found to be wonderfully strengthened by being
worked on the roots o. our strong native kinds.'
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26

Coon ADvIcE.-Thcre is much good sense
in the following, which although cd, deserves
TO be repeated once year:
"lt anything in the world will make man
feel badly, except pinching his fingers in the
crack OF door, it is, unquestionably, quarrel
No man ever fails to think less of himself after,
than he did before one-it degrades him in the
eyes ofothers, and what is worse, burts his
sens,bity to disgrace on the one hand, and in
crcascs the power and passionate irritabllity
on the other. The truth iS. the moro quietly
and peaceaby we all get on, the better the
better for ourselves, the better for our neigh
bors. In nine cases out Of ten, the wisest
course is, If a man cheat you, to quit dealing
with him; il he be abusive, quit his company ;
ifho slander you, take care to live so that no.
body will believe him. No matter who he is,
or how he misuses you--the wisest way is just
to let him alone; for there is nothing better
than this cool, calm and quiet way OF dealing
with the wrongs we meet with
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26
T." On the bank where droop'd the wiler,
Long time ago."

SrRoSG VERDIcr.-About the commence
ment ofthe present century, black fellow, who
had lived at the North End of Boston, suddenly
disappeared, and it was thought that he had
drowned himself: Accordingly diligent search
was made, and at the end of two days his body
was found in dock in Charleston. As is usual
in such cases a jury was called and as the
story goes, (Which is true for all we knowO
they were all 'men OBJ color After some de-
liberation, they brought in verdict some
thing ns follows Dat going home one berry
dark night, he fell from the wharf and was
kilicd; and the tide coming in strong it float
ed him over 20 Charleston and he was dro,0n-
ed i; dat the wedder being berry cold, he fro,r
TO death > The Coroner, who was very wng-
gish, notwithstanding the solemnity of the oc-
cason, said, you may as well add, died in III.
noOlr
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26
Lament of n single Lady.


It's really very Il, gu'ar,
cannot make il out,
"" m,ny hcauX, yet none propose
What are IN v all about !
There's NJ. Bailey, comes here daily,
To dinner, ard to-dnze
He smilcs and sighs, looks very wis.
And yet he don, propose.
They steal my pocket handkerchi,ts,
They pray for locks Of hair,
They ak M for my hlnd-to dance,
They praise my grace and air
There's Mr.. Dyson, fond of Tyson,
| wonder he don't close:
make his tea he smiles on me,
And yet ne don't propose.
At park or play, by night or day,
They follow me about,
Riding or walking, singing or talking,
At revcl, masque or route.
My father thinks it very bad,
That out of all the heaux,
Who come to dine and drink his wine,
None of them will propose.
Yes, il is VERY singular,
I've half mind to pout;
Ofsll the beaux none will propose,
What do they dream about
However, now my minds resolved,
In poetry and prose,
Whate'er ensue, or false or true,
One Of them SHALL propose!
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26
Vol. 3--NO. 4S--VvhOle No. IJ2.
The Jew 8.

The present physical, moral and social con.
dltion of the Jews must be q miracle. We can
come to no other conclusion. Had they con-
tnued from the commencement of the Christian
era down to the present hour in some such ma.
tonal state in which we find the Chinese, wall.
ed off from the rest OF the human family and
by their selfishness on national scale, and
their repusion of alien elements resisting eve
ry assault from without, in the shape of hostile
INVASION, and from an overpowering national
pride fnrbidding the introduction of new and
foreign customs we should not see SO much
this is not their statc-f6r from it, They are
neither an united nor independent nation, ror
parasitic province. They are peeled and scat
tered into tragmcnts, but like broken globuIes
OF quicksilver, instinct with cohesive power,
ever claiming affinity and ever ready to ANAL
gamate, Geography, arms, genius, politics
and foreign help do not explaiu their existence;
time and climate and customs equally fail to
Of their perpeuity. They have spread over
every part OF the habjtable globe have lived
under the reign Of every dynasty; they have
used every tongue, and lived in every latitude
The SHOWS OF lapland have chilled and the suns
of Africa scorched them They have drank OF
the rlber, the Thames the Jordan, the Mis-
sissippi. In every country, aud in every de-
gree of latitude and longitude, we find the Jew.
1t is not so with any other race. Empires
the most iustrious have fallen, and buried men
that constructed them, but the Jew has lived
among the ruins, living monument of indie
structlbiIlty. Persecution has unsheahed the
sword and lighted the fagot; Papal supersi-
ton and Mosem barbarism have smote them
with unsparlng feroclty; penal rescripts and
deep prejudice have visited on them the most
ungenerons debasement-aad notwithstanding
all they survive.
Like their own bush on Mount Horeb Israel
has continued in the .1amcs but unconsumed.
They are the arlstocracy o: scripture, let of
coronets--prnces in degradation. A Babylo-
man, Thcban, Spartan, an Athenian, Ro-
man, are names known in story only; their
shadows alone haunt the world and flicker its
tablets. A Jew walks every street, dwe!ls in
every capital, traverses every exchange and re-
leves the monotony of the nations of the earth.
The race has inherited the heirloom orimmor-
talty, incapable of extinction or amalgamation.
Like streaincts from common head, and COM
posed OF waters Of peculiar nature, they have
flowed along every stream without blending
with IT, or receiving its flavor, and traversed
the surface of the globe amid the lapse of ma
ny centuries, dstnct-alone. The Jewish race
at this day is perhaps the most striking seal OF
/ the truth Of the Sacred Oracles. There is nc
possibility of accounting for their perpetual iso.
lation, their depressed but distinct being, on
any ground save those revealed in the records
Of truth.--Ffaser's Magazine.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26

4 NIGILtNr I.FGIsrArOU A member of the
British House Of Commons, one Benjamin
Chapman, happening 10 vote The wrong way
on thn Irish Question, neat day "denned his
position" in the following unique card
Il wish TO explain how | came 10 vote in
the majority last night. Il iel asleep some
time before the division took place, and on
my being awakened by Some members as III
the opposition members had already retired to
their lobby and as saw large crowd going
ont Of the door leading to the old lobby,
thought the house had adjourned, and did not
perceive my mistake until it was too late to re.
turn.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26

III dfoH"b W, BtTHuNE, D. II.
Yes hear them 10 their rest
The rosy babe, tired with the glare of day,
The ptailler fallen asleep cen in his play,
Clasp them 10 thy soft breast,
O, Night,
Bless them in dreams with deep hushed delight,
Yet must they wake again,
Wake soon 10 all the bitterness of life,
The pang of sorrow, the temptation strife
Aye, to the conscience. pain
O, Night
Canst thou not take with them longer 4 gh,
Canst thou not bear them far
En- now all innocCnt-hefore they know
The taint Of sin, its consequences of wo,
The wo Ids dstracing jar,
O, Night,
To some ethereal holicr, happier height,
Csnst thou not hem them up
Through s,arlit skies, far from this planet dim
Aud sorrowful. cen while they s'eep, to Hin
Who drank for us the cup,
q, Night,
The cup of wrath for hearts in faith con,rite
To Him. for them who slept
babe all lowiy on His mothers knee,
And from that hour to s.crowned Calvary,
In all our sorrows wept,
o, Night, flight
That on our souls mi hit dawn Heavens cheering
So, lnv their little heads
Close 10 that human breast, with love divine
Deep heating, while his arms immortal twine
Around them he sheds,
O, Nigai, might
On them a brother's grace of Gods own bundles
Let them immortal wake
Among the ineathless flowers Of Paradise,
here of, nh
This their last sleep may break,
q, Night,
And 10 celestial joy heir kindred souls invite.
There can come sorrow,
The brow shall know no shade, the eve no tears,
Forever young thrnug. heavens eternal years,
In one unfadng morrow,
o. Night,
Nor sin, nor age pain their cherub beauty hight
Would we sleep as they,
So stainless and calm, at rest with thee,
And only wake in immortality
Bear lis with them away,
q, Night,
To that ethcral, holier, happier height.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26

We have seen a stone erected in memory Of
an old aud valued Dog, native Of TINS city,
from which we copy the following terse and per-
tnent inscription. An ANNA! tha; has been
faithful and sagacious may be a worthy Of COM
me'noration as many of the lords Of Creaticn,'
whose monuments are proof rather OF the par
tiality of their friends, than of their own merits.
Newark Daily Aduertiser.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26

A GENTLE IIINT-An uncle left in his will
eleven silver spoons to his nephews, adding,
"lf have not left the dozen, he knows the
reason The nephew had SOME time before
stolen one from his relative.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26

He who is of surly and unyielding dispos.
,ion never fails to excite troubles even among
relatives and friends
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26
a Louisiana Loeferl

During the hardest ofthe storm the day be-
fore yesterday we took lounge down to the
steamboat landing; while standing on the brink
ola deep gulley that emptied its torrents of
water into The bay OF, our attention was attrac-
ted TO the bottom of the gulley, where drunk
en- loafcr was stemming the torrent holding OH
to a root last anchored in the bank-'rhe poor
fellow, not knowing any one was near him,
was combating his fate manfuy, and in calcu-
ating his chances of escape, gave utteranco TO
the following:
"1aynt this a orfhl sitivation to be placed in
nohow, TT was steamboat, a rail, or n wood
pile, I'd be better worth fifty cents on the dol.
lar than III ever be again. Unless I'm gone
care now, there haynt nc truth in frenologv.
I've weighed all the chances now like a gine-
rel, and find only two that bears in my favor
the firt is skunk hole to crawl into, and the
sccondu special interpersition of Providence
and the best chance of tho two is so SLIM If
only had the chance, Id give premium for
the skunk hole-them's my sentiments. IF
could be mink, muskrat or water snake,
for about two minutes, perhaps | wouldn't mount
the first stump tothet side of the Bio, and flap
my wings and crow over everlas'in' life, skien.
tifcally prcservated. But what's the use hol-
din on this root! there haynt no skunk hole in
these ere diggings, the water is Citing taller
! about feet, and ifmy nose was as long as king
dom come, it wouldn't stick out much longer.
Oh, Jerry Jerry you're gone sucker, and
guess your marin don't you're out poor wo.
man won't she cry the glasses out fher spec
| tacles when she hears her darlin Jerry has got
the whole of Buffalo Bio for his coffin What
pity It's some phIlanthropis, or member ofthe
humane society, never had foresight enongh to
build house over this gutter, with a steam
engine to keep out the water If they'd done
it in time. they nigh. have the honor and gra-
tification of saving the life of a feler being
but it's all day with you Jerry, and a big har-
Dor to cast anchor in. It's too bad to 20 of in
/ this oriul manner, when they knows I oilers
hated water ever since was big enough to
know.it 'twant whiskey. feel the root gvn'
way, and since don't know prayer, here's 4
bit Of Watts Doxoogen to prove died chris.
! tian -
4" On the bank where droop'd the willer,
| Long time ago. "
Before Jerry got to the conclusion, he was
washed into the bayou, within a few feet Of a
large flat that had just started for the steamboat.
his eye caught the prospect ofdeliverance, AMI
he changed the burden of his dirge into a thrill
| ling cry of"IIeave to passenger overheard
and sinking with belt full of specie the man
what saves me makes his fortune !" Jerry was
fished ashore by darkey and to show his gra-
ti,uee, invited Quashey to go up to the doggery
and liquor"
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26
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DIEp. JuIr 30, is43.

On brute and monarch Death alike will call
Dogs have thei DAY, and Spring has had his fall.
Doctors hy barkiue-lawveIs, biting, thrive:
Spring could DO both both could not make him live,
From human puppies he had gifts apart,
They, heaTless souls, and he a souess heart,
They, doon,ed TO future life meer death with ar,
But he, more happy, eleeps forever here.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26

Why lie a man throwing away money when
he buys shiling's worth OF perfume at
time Because he gives shilling for (s)cent.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26

What you keep by you, you may change
and amend, but words once spoken can never
be recalled.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26

From Gr0hnm's Mdgasine.
LINES.
Written on seeing Tho,,colHsn's baS.reHcf repre-
senfns Night.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26

Every subsequent insertion, o 2s
Yearly Advertisements: one column, S25 half
column, SIS, three squares, sl2; two squares, Ss
one square, IS. Half-yearly one column, SIS
half column. sl2 three squares, IS; two squares,
S5; one square, 50 so.
Advertisements left without directions as to the
length of time they are to be published, will he
continued until ordered out, and charged accord.
ingly.
CTSixteen lines make a SQUARE.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-26

ny GEORGE W. BtTmuNE, u. II.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-10-20
City Intelligence.

INTERESTING POLICE CAsR-About Eve wears since il
will be remembered that John p Darg was robbed OF
about $4,000 by his colorea servant Thomas Hughes
who Yves tried and sent to the State prison for two
coored man named William Henry Clark, with several
Others were indicted fer the offence and Clark es.
capped from the city nolle prosequi entered Oh
the indictment against Hopper Ruggles Gibbons and
Barry Corse, the slave of Darg who charged as
TO the act but in the Of Clark no scen
was made Thus has the matter remained and Clark has
snce been at large in southern cities Ga Tuesday
ngst he made application to officer Cockefar TO assist
him recovering coat that had been stolen from him
whleSt sparipg exhibition Of coored pugilsts at %
he ad three $500 bank notes tsst we're
Isaac Jacki who to take the coat from the
place wher he had laid in the spsrripg room The
ced anu on conference with Jutce Merritt he at once
ORDERED Cakto be kept in custody until coat was
recovered. Jacilin was secured Wednesday morning
nu the money Md to have been lost, restored
Justice Merritt 1.-the time reccilected the c,rcum
stances attending he indictment found against Clark and
ordered him to be Committed prison in order to be tried
on the charge Of grad As soon as the arrest nj
Clark was made known amongst the colored population
an aoOton ieepg w Immediately excited on the sub
ec ana duncan u rel came forward and entered bail in
the sum OF $1,000 when Clark discharged 1t appears
that Clark manuacureohe story about the msney being
to exert themselv recovery but in SO doing
he hardly supposed that would lead 70 his the
old charge OF grand larceny
l FIRE AT HARLEM The Hdel known as the Harlem
River House, kept oy Andrew Howe, on the 4h avenue
between lSst and l32d partially ed nv
fire Saturday last the l4th Inst The Ere !,
have been caused by sparks ihm tn kitchen chimney
Damage from $1,000 to $1,000. Ntjnsurance.
| DISHONEST srRvANr-A young woman named Ellen
Boyd, was arrested yesterday, CHARGED with robbna Mr.
Harvey est Farms in whose ho,se she lived ss SCR
want. The robbery was effected during the temporar,
absence Of the family, and the loss Feeds BOO hnt
very small proportion of which has heess vet received
The articles taken consisted of ewelry tbs linen and
gof watch OF great value The girl ADMITS her evil,
butrefuses to disclose the whereabouts hT pIunder
lsauEsrs-The Coroner held nquests yestrd,v n, the
boy Of John Quinn, journey man tailor. VIII, in stat
OF ihoxiGsilon, on wednesday fell down stars at tbe
hoise OF Hugh Cannon 10 Elizabeth street and led I'M
n,diately alter from congestion of the brain. "
An unknown man W as found by watchInan in te sin
atthe loot oil Oliver street. on Tuesday night in site o
nox,cation and teken TO the stchhouse where
thsiolowng morning Verdict "death from eypos,rs
and intemperance.n ~fV'fe