Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-12-07


late you on the happy auspices under which you
have assembled, and at the important change in
the condition of things which has occurred in the
last three years? During that period questions
with foreign powers of vital importance to the
peace of our country, have been settled and adj
justed. A desoating and wasting war, with
wage tribes has been brought to a close. The in
ternal tranquility of the country, threatened by
agitating questions, has been preserved. The
credit of the Government, which had experienced
a temporary embarrassment, has been thoroughly
restored. Its Golfers, which, for a season, were
empty, have been replenished A currency,
nearly uniform in its value has taken the place
of one deprecated and almost worthless
Commerce a Id manufactures, which had suf
fered in common with every other interest have
once more revived; and the whole country exh-
bits an aspect ofprosperity and happiness. Trade
and barter, no longer governed by wild and
speculative mania, rests upon solid and sub
stantal footing andt the rapid growth of our ci-
ties, in every direction, bespeaks most strongly
the favorable circumstances by which we are sur
rounded. My happiness, in the retirement which
shortly awaits me, is the ardent hope which
experience, that this state of prosperity is nei
ther deceptive nor destined to be short lived, and
that measures which have not yet received its
sanction, but which | cannot but regard as close
ly connected with the honor tn, glory, and still
more enlarged prosperity of the country are de-
stned, at an early day to receive the approval of
Congress.
Under these circumstances, and with these an
ticipations, | shall most gladly leave 10 others,
more able than myself, the noble and pleasing
task of sustaining the public prosperity. | shall
carry with me into retirement the gratifying re.
Election that, as my sole object throughout has
been to advance the public good. | may not en-
tirely have failed in accomplishing it and this
qualification heightened, in no small degree, by
the fact that when under happy and abiding
pi, | bapo licnp nal 10
resort to the qualified veto, it has neither been
followed by Gisapproval on the part of the peo
pie, nor weakened, in any degree, their attach
tnent to that great conservative feature of our
Government JOHN TYLER
WAsuNGroY, December, lSil
AN iNFDrL COMMUNITY ORGAxIsEp.--We
have received several copies of strange journal
issued at Mottville. Onondaga county New York,
hy a new social organization, who call them
selves the 'Skeneatles Community
This singular community is founded on open
and avowed infdel ciples-oppostion to
Christianity, and all other reigions-for they
look upon Christ and Moses as on the same level
with Mahomet and Buddah. They muster near.
ly one hundred persons of both sexes-occupy
ing and cultivating farm of several hundred a
cres, situated on the shores of the lovely lake of
Skeneatles, in Onondaga county, New York
They publish weekly journal, called the Cow
Mr'SIrIsT, in which appear all their views, doc.
trines, and movements
This community had its origin in the efforts OF
John A Collins, who is believer in this new sys-
tenn of socialism, derived partly from Fourier
and other socialists of Europe. These people
'orm an isolated community among themselves.
They marry, and are given in marriage-but
only as long as they see ft--they have all pro-
pcrty in common-and express, openly. every o.
pinion in religion or philosophy, that they be-
ieve 10 be true.
This is truly inidelity in state of organiza-
tion-and, during the next few years, many new
theories and new movements will be attempted
all over the country Mormonsm and Miller
are too ignorant and too vulgar for the
times.-The Skcneatcs formation is ;he most
startling of all N Y He,aM
A PANTHER KILLED BY A GIRL.-The La
range CreXas) paper, gives the following Incl
lent which occurred near Douglass Nacogdoches
county:
A panther came into honse in which there
vas no person but yonng lady and her little
brother. The young lady being very busy at
tending to her little household affairs did not see
he panther until he had got entirely into the
1ouse, but so soon as she discovered him she
seized bold of him and called to her little bro.
theT TO bring her the After waiting some
time for this weapon, still holding TO the pan
her, the young lady then told her brother 10
aring her a smoothing iron, with which she soon
succeeded in putting the intruder to death, The
screams, during the encounter of the heroine
were heard by some Of the neighbors, who
went Immediately to learn the cause, but when
they arrived, they found her the conqueror, and
viewing with much composure the lifeless body
|'f her frightfu intruder.
VALUE OF NEwspAPEas.-A thousand times,
ays the Macclesfeld Courier, have we heard
his question and answer:-Two gentlemen
neet-"What's the news !" says one, "Nothing
Iut what you see in the papers" They pass
an about their business Has it ever been no.
iced that among the thousand benefits of a
newspaper, not the least is that it does away a,
ish eXaggeration, scandal, and news-mongerng
which once took up so much of the time OF those
who were always hearing or telling some ne"
thing. One real evil OF social life is thus end
ed. The man rises in the morning, looks ovel
the paper, and is satisfied that he knows al
worth knowing of the passing history of the
world. lie has nothing to tell aud nothing tC