Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-05-13
MISCELLANY.
EDITORIAL, Condensed and Selected.

Editorial, Condensed and Selected.
The Legislature Of Rhode Island. under the
new Constitution, assembled at Newport, on Tues.
day.
The Hon,ton Telegraph talks of secrect s.pe.
dition against Sants Fe.
Large numbers Of emigran,s are pouring into
no o,hern and eastern Texas.
Seventy seven thousand five hundred dollars are
paid in Boston per snnum, salaries 10 Public In.
structors.
Rhode Ekand.-The Government of This state
under the constitution was to have been organ
lied on the I'd instant.
A child was killed in New York, few days
since, by eating the ends of loco foco matches.
The Davenport Gazette says, that at Burlington
,hirty-eight persons enrolled themselves to go to
Oregon. The same desire is manifested a, Iowa
city.
There 900 cotton mills in the United States
with an c.r!.=! 80 900 invested.
Seventy rock fish, weighing from 10 to 80 pounds
each, were csugh, last week in the Potomac, Q,
one haul Of the seine.
The infant Of Madame Perez, of New Orleans
which was so iehumaniy treated by a negro girl,
who attempted to poison it, has recovered. The
negro is said to he idiot.
A revolutionary soldier, named John Miles, aged
sc years, was married in Rankin county, Miss, to
Mrs Sally Fuzzle, aged SO years. Go it while
you young"
More Eurthqunkes.--From letters received at
New York from New Orleans, by the way of Ha-
vana, we learn that there has been another Earth.
quake at Guajaloupe, which occurred on the l4lh
of March.
The amoun, of United States Treasury Notes,
outstanding on the LIST Instant was 81 ,632075.
At the beginning of April, three women were eI-
posed on the public pilory in France.
4 WindfaH-An industrious French upsolster,
who worked at his trade in Baltimore, received a
letter the othcr day from France. SITTING that a
hundred ,hous mi dollar legacy for him. awaited
his arrival a, Paris. He Immediately took his de-
parture for that city.
1t is stated that TnouIs MooRE, the Poet, is en-.
geJ in writing history of Ireland.
A large collection Of immense bones discovered
in Benton county. Mo-, have been brought to ST.
Luis. They intended to stock some Of the
Europe,n Museums.
Murderer Sentenced-In 81. Albans, W., Eu-
gene Clifford has been found guilty Of drowning
his wife in Fairfield Pond. in October last, and
sentenced TO one years solitary confinement in the
State Prison, and then 10 be hung.
Dead Letter M,ney-It is stated that in Eng
land before he reduction of the postage, the annu.
al amount of property found in dead letters
about .e443 800. Since the reduction it has only
been about f29s,0O0!
TIE Unkadea Cut IF AH-A lard oil manu-
acturer in Pi,sburg. has cut over his advertise
mem, representing two f., hogs eating whale.
Ac9mtted-Godftey Pope, editor Of the Louis
vile Kentuckian, who lately killed Mr.. I.eonidas
Bliss has been acquitted the ground tina, the
killing was in selfdef nee.
Steamboats, There are now sir,y-,ne steam
boats owned in part wholly in St. Louis, aud en-
gagged in trade with New Orleans.
Georgia Gold Mnes.-The value of the yield
from these mines is compated at million Of dol
lars this year.
Intelligence has reached this country that
large boly of taors, painters and clerks have had
meetings in London, and have appointed commit
tees to make arrangements for their embarkment
for the United States and Canada.
A late London paper states that Forrest, the ac-
tor, had heen 'nominaed for the high and impor-
,ant Office of the President of the United States"
Many Of the negroes engaged in the lae insurrec-
ton at Havana, have been beheaded.
II is said ,ha, in Asia there one newspaper
for every fourteen million of inhabitants ; IN the
United States one for every ten thousand.