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Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03
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" Who neer hath felt her hand assuasive stca
Along his heart the heart can never feel"
Who is there that hath not experienced the
soft Establishments of sweet music stealing DER
h's soul, and moving it to holy aspirations -
Many time and oft has the hardened, reckless
criminal, eecn seen 10 brush away a tear from
his rough check, when listening to its soft and
melting strains. We are ulled to sleep in our
infant days by the melodies cf,he parents voice;
Tor full well the mother knows the gentle and
soothing influence of music and sweet sounds
upon her tender offspring. In ripper years, its
power still moresus, ever awakening the tender
sensblIlties Of the heart. In the house cf God,
when old age ard tender youth bend the knee,
side by side, in humble alteration to the great
Parent Of all, how thrills the organs notes upon
the heart, seeming the very tongue of Heaven
speaking in deep and touching strains to earth's
offspring, There is a close alliance between
music and religion.
What were poetry without music! It is the
medium through which poetry has ever wrough,
It's Chief eiects-they are inscperable. How
many emotions are there indigenous to the hu.
man breast that can only find vent in sung!-
Man could never have been without it, else he
would not have possessed the soul capable o
such emotions. Our earlies. knowledge of the
first tribes Of the earth show us that TINY were
no strangers to the art divine Music had found
an early home through all the world: even thc
wild Indian has his chant, his war song and hi,
death song. Let us duly appreciate an ar
which is so peculiarly calculated to add 10 on
happiness, TO assist in the cultivation of the bet
ter feelings OF the heart; let us cultivate an u
musemcnt so rational and innocent, thcrcb,
adding 10 the pure, quiet, freside enjoymcn,
! of home,
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

Book of books deep, wonderful mine, whose
shafts ages have assaulted, ages have trayersed
and will yet traverse. Holy lineage-roll dis.
playing the record of the internal unfolding of
the race of man from the hour of his birth-ri.
gantlc drama of llfe's beginning and end Ora
ma with dark episodes and bloody scenes, but
whose mornings are in light, which commences
with mans infancy, and ends where begins
new life after death and the grave. Hs'orv Of
histories! how often have not descended into
It's depth with an ardent and lnquirinc heart.
long-long was it to me dark, mysterious, and
ncomPrehensjble, and could not separate the
precious metals from the dross and earth which
adhered 10 IT; the great pulse of reconciliation
steadily bearing beneath the varying veal and
wo of earthly life, amid the solemn blessings
and curses of the wajllng mind, was concealed
from me long have straycd and doubted
often dcsPairing Of the way and the truth. Yc,
the eye became, by degrees, used to see by
twilight and even Tor the least Of bis inqulring
children, does God let his light shine. Now
| will walk securely on the wonderful course
| and, to my last hour, will Journey on, search
ing and praying. To effect mans reconcia
ton with the true life, and with God, the de-
velopment ofhs nature and his farther progres.
he must in the present age, especially become
rec0ncled with the crIptures.--Iredcriko
| Brcmcr.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03
Peace Maker.

The "Peacc- Maker is the name which has
principal armament 9f the L. 5. steamship
PRINCETON. a correspondent of the Boston
Post, who recently paid visit to the Princeton,
off New York, was present at the trial CT the
gun, and says of it,
"Instcad of being placed on the ground in
some remote corner, as is usual in proving guns
of not one-thrd of her calibre, such was Cap
tain Stock,on's confidence in this wrought iron
piece, that the proving was actually performed
on board small vessel of some twenty feet
in length, This appears the more astonishing,
when we consider that the charge was fifty
pounds of powder Charge that might well be
required for the capacious NAV OF gun fifteen
feet long, with a bore of twelve inches, carry
ing ball of two hundred and thirteen pounds
weight, and itself weighing ten tons. The
gun was placed on slide made o. strong tim
Der, in which a groove was made to receive a.
bout one half of the vast body, the slide being
secured to the vessel by several strong hawscrs
passing round the same, and under the vessels
bottom, to prevent the terrible recoil which
would otherwise open the yessel-the gun be-
ing placed athwartships.
The gun was fired off by means of slow
match that burned about halfa minute, during
which the boats containing the officers and crew
had rowcd away some two or three hundred
Yards from the vessel. to listen to the explosion
and witness the effects oft, at n cafe distance.
The reco,l Of the gun, caused by the explosion
of this immense charge of powder, gave the
vessel deep lurch Ia the opposite side, and,
the gun being placed near level, the huge two
hundred and thirteen ID. bah recocheted along
the surface of the sea 20 very great distance,
touching the water at twelve different points
at each sending up a perpendicular column oil
white spray, exhibiting the appearance OF a
succession afwater spouts, half dozen otwhch
were visible at the same moment of time. Not.
withstanding the confidence entertained thai
the gun would stand the proof, we can readily
imagine that the moment was one OF intense
excitement, and thatno little pleasure was ma
infested by both officers and men to find the bi!
gun without speck or flaw, and as bright anC
smiling as if it were not the most formidable en-
gine of death and destruction on the face OF tn
globe"
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03
Curions Agricultural E.per,ment,

The following novel and interesting experi'
inent has been successfully made by Mr.. A.
Palmer Chcam Surrey. In July, lsi2, he put
ono grain ofwheat in a common garden pot, In
August the same was divided into four plants,
which in three weeks were again divided into
twelve plants. In September these twelve
plants were divided into thirty-twu, which in
November were divided into fifty plants, and
then placed in open ground. In July lSi3,
twelve of the plants failed, but the remaining
thrty-eight were healthy, On the 10Th of
August they were cut down, and counted 1862
stems, with an average of fifty grains to stem
giving an increase of 0s 900! Now if this be a
practicable measure OF planting wheat, il fol.
lows that most of the grain now used for seed
may be saved, and will infinitely more than CO.
yer the expense Of sowing, ns the wheat plants
can be raised by the laborer in his garden, his
wife and children being employed in dividing
and transplanting them. One ofthe stems has
been sent to us as a sample which is rather
mere than SIX Fee, long, stout in proportion.
London paper
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03
Bottled Thunder.

One of the editors fthe New Orleans Plea
yune, who has recently returned from tramp
through the praires, gives the following anu.
sing incident.
"I'hese Indian warriors remained with us
during the night, and the next day they were
invited by Capt. Stewart to take shock from
an electrfying machine that he had brought
with him.---Thls was about the newest ina
chine that the Sioux had heard of Bottled
lightning! The man that shades the sun tur-
ned pale when he heard of it. A few of us
stood around and received shock before tho
Indians; that they might gain something Of an
understanding of the affair and witness what eC-
feet it would produce. But though they mani
tested great wonder at the clnking of the
sparks and at our simultaneous start, it was e.
vident that no true intelligence had glmmered
upon their comprehension in regard to what ie
all means. They, however, readily arranged
themselves, as we directed, and we set the Me-
dcine Machine in operation upon them. No
| thing could have been more comcal than the
| effect produced when the shock took place.
! The Solitary Dog thought the White Bull
| struck him, and al once commenced pummelling
back in furious fashion.--For a moment the
thing hooked as if we had kicked up despa-
rate row among the Brutes,-They shouted
and jumped and tossed their arms IN the air.
The Bull roared, the Dog howled, Little Thun-
der rumbled, Gray Eyes twinkled. The Fly
ing bird futtered, Nito-hee Cthe untranslata-
ble) looked indescribable and the Causer of E.
clipses blushed blue at finding himself eclipsed.
What surprised them most was the fact of the
shock starting them all at once with such in-
Simultaneous rapdty while their unsophiStica-
ted notion was, that ifthe bottled lightning had
to get through one man on lis road 10 strike "a
mother, the man struck first ought to feel first
They expressed this to us, at the same time
acknowledging that the desc of lightning wo
gave them was great medicine
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03
Churnin- nutter.

Every good housewife knows that at times for
some peculiar causes, (most generally extra
sourness or bitterness of the crcam,) much diff
iculty is experienced in making the cream into
butter. a lady writer in the Indiana Farmer
recommends the following course 10 such cases
We have, says the Western Farmer for years
used soda or snlaratus for the purpose, and
found them usually successful;
81 wish to inform my sister buttermaRers OF
the means used, which So successfully re-
moved the difficulty churncd, perhaps three
hours, 10 no purpose, and then tried to think of
something that had read in the Indiana Farm
err or some other periodical | could not re-
member precisely, but rccollectcd the reason
stated was the cream being too sour then
thought of soda, (pearlash, presume, would do
as WE'LL and dissolved a large tea-spooniull in a
pint of warm water, and as poured it in, churn.
ing a, the same time, it changed in moment,
and gradually formed into beautiful solid
lump Of sweet butter.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03
Properties of Charcoal,

a gentleman tattcued a turkey in month bv
placing him in box some four or five feet
square, made as dark az It could be and allow
ventilation and feeding him sA kernels of corn
per day during the time. In additnn he had
plenty of pulverized charcoal, and pounded
brick, and fresh clear water,
""hat stuff" says one--"lEumbug," says
Nnother-"Book farming" says third.
Not too fast, my friends. | do not know that
the turkey was iattcned because did not see
1t ! but this I do bHoW,-a gentleman who had
great faith IN the use Of charcoal TO feed all fat.
tenlng animals, once took two pigs of the same
litter, and as near alike MS he could get them.
One he fed with clear meal; the other he fed
with half meal aud half pu.e,ized charcoal.
At the end of the month, the one fed with clear
meal was perccptibly losing whilst the one fed
with the charcoal continued 10 gain. Desiring
to try the experiment thoroughly but being
compelled to leave home for some time, he put
his pigs in the especial care OF his hired man.
On his return, some four or five weeks after
he found, very much to his surprise, that his
meal pig was decidedly ahead of his coal pio
They had been fed just alike, and MS nstruc
tions followed to the letter-eyceot the ma,
had made mistake, and fed the meal and Goa
TO the wron@ pig! Will SOME of our youni
irIenoo try the experiment on one or two of thei
fowls, and give rs the results! Let il be don
faithfully and farly.-Noc GeAeSee Farmer.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

Good humor Is the clear Eiue SKY of the soul,
on which every star of talent will shine more
clearly, and the sun ofgenius encounter no va
pors in his passage. 'Tis the most exquisite
beauty in nne ace-a redeeming grace in a
homeiy one. 1t IS like the green in land
scape, hnrmonizng with every color mellow
ing the glories ofthe BRIGHT and soNening the
hue Of the dark
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

puSrStN FIrs,--We copy the following re-
cipe for making the genuine Yankee Pumpkin
Pies, from Massachusetts paper;
The almost universal mode in New England
ofpreparlng pumpkins for pies, "a knd which
is universally odmtred,) ls That of siotcu2 the
pumpkin after it has been cut in pieces, oni
passing through one CT two other processes be-
fore it l. in a STATE OF baking Thereby making
much labor.--l think more preferable mode
of preparation, and one which | believe will be
highly gratifying to all housewives, is that Of
graiing hc pumlkia: after grating add the
milk, eggs, &c, ot the same proportions rs
when srewed. Nour domestic readers viii find
that pies made IN tins way are equally nice
and even more delicate with one third the la.
Dor, a HOUSEWIFE.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

A man down east has invented machine to
renovate old bachelors. Out OF good sized,
fat greasy old bachelor he can make quite de-
cent young man, and have enough LETT to make
two small puppies, a pair of leather breeches,
and small kettle of sott soap! Surely this
is an age Of improvement,
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03
Small Produce Farm,

raised, the past year. from 30 acres Of land,
100 bushels of potatoes, 50 bushels Of barley.
- bushels of beetS, - bushels of wheat, 10
bushels OF beans, 4 tons of moved oats, q tons of
English hay, 10 tons ofmeadow hay, 40 bushels
OF corn, % bushels of carrots, - chickens, and
turkeys, mud great variety of garden sauce
have killed one hog, weighing 200 lbs,
made AOc pounds of buiter kept three cows,
pair of oxen, two heers, twr steers, eigh, sheep
and four hogs. have hccn on tho place bu,
two years, and have laid six acres of land 10
grass, The land a clay loan, easy to work. |
have no convenience for my hogs TO Craze, nei-
thcr do believe II economy, for the extra ma
nurc that can be made by yardlng them, will
pay the extra feed. | mlS lime with nv CON
post, and plaster my corn, poIalnrs aud grass.
| sort my potatoes before sale, and by that
means save half peck per bns,el which would
be lost 10 me ituo, sorted. Finally, cook every
thing give my hogs, and feed warm, and keep
W0rm. a. i. PERKINS.
GruCsSCs Farmer
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

An irregular apprentice frequently keeping
late hours, his master at length took occasion to
apply SOME ,oeighty Arguments to convince
him Of the "error OF his woys" Daring the
chastisement, he continually exclaimed, "Hop
long wH you serre The DEVIL The boy re-
piled whimperng-" You know BEST Sir-I
beIicre my indeniure wH be ont IN three
month ~
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

DR.. Rush was once asked by a student what
per cent he had added to the period OF human
life by the skill practitioners Of medicine
and he answered, III by practitioners of medl-
cine, you mean to Include old women and nur-
ses, think the increase has been very conside-
rable, but if you exclude them, very little
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03
THE DRUNKEN MOTHERS CHILD.

A tender infant girl
Lay in her shrCud and coffin;
Her checks were like the pearl
For tears had washed Them often.
An me- her lol was sad and wild,-
She was a drunken mothers child.
Some children seem, when dead
As though they were but sleeping;
But her eyes in Ihu hcaG
Were sunkrn, as If weeping
Had emptiej out thc ieunt of life
In streams Of agony and stiic
Her fingers wore as thin
A. starving want could make them
N ere bones cncascd in skin
The ircblcst strain might break them ;
That wasted form her sorrows told,
AS She lay there so pale and cold
Her time was Short;-who'd wcpt
Had with hcr been shorter
Gods love on her was kept
He claimed his suffering daughter
His goodness bade the child TO die,
His mercy took her Ia The sky.
So delicate flower
Should have kindly keeper;
Say, who-had he the power
Would wake the little sleeper
Recall her from her homo above,
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

The following inscription is literally taken
from show board :-'Wrighten and Readden
and trew SpeIin and also Marchants Acfounts
with dowbe Entrey Post-Skript, GIRLS and
Bouys Bourded, and good loozitch l0r chill
drcn.'
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

The Mercantile Journal says that Mr.. Crates
Ufthe Massachusetts, Legislature, presented tho
petition Of Mg. and Mrs, Death, and their iami-
ly, for a change of name, They should feel
much obliged to him for undertaking the of.
fee.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

QUESTION " Nav AyiGArloS.-Scppose a canal
boat heads wes.-north-west for the horses tail,
ana Las the wind abeam, with flaw coming up
in the south, would the captain, according to
.naratime law, be justified in taking rect in
the stove-pipe without asking the cook
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

The editor Of the Ohio Statenan asks tho
following question -'Ifa fellow has nothing
when he gets married, and the gal has nothing,
is hur things hi2zen, or his things hurnr We
should guess they are.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

A St. Louis paper tells story OF discohso-
late wdower, who on seeing the remains of
his wife lowered into the grave, exclaimed
with tears in his eyes We'll, I've lost hogs,
and Eve lost cows, but never had anything
to cut me like this.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

QuBsuoNs FOR DEBATINo SoCIETr-Were
the stars made TO be bored 10 death with second
rate poetry of the first class asses, or where
they intended to guide canallers on their lonely
way above the nine locks
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

ANAcRAA.-Pilate's question to our Lord,
"What is truth I" in the Latin Vulgate stands
THUS: Quid est reritas These letters trans-
posed, Est rcr qui adest-uignify, ut is the
man before thee"
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

The editor of The Oasis asks iheto.lowine
question Did you ever knew young man
TO hold sken of yarn, for his fa,orte to wind,
without getting it strangely tangled We
never did, says an exchange, but one, and he
turned out to be AN old Bachelor
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

There is so much opposition among the feli4
gious societies in certain village in Vermont.
that the Weather-yanes or churches wont point
in one direction at the same time. This IL
what we cali the height of prejudice.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

The EYE OF A NATuRALIsr-lt is said that
Audubon, when on a visit to see the natural
bridge in Virginia Tor the first time, travelled
a short distance with a farmer, who made bet
that Audubon could not tell when he came to
it. Mr.. A seeing Pee Weet, stopped and
said, we are on the brige now. The farmer was
astonished to see him stop at the prorr-r place
Mr.. A. explained by sayirg that these bird.
build their nests un1er bridges. and seeing one
, Of them in tius place, presumed that the bridge
could net he far away,
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

A young lady, who had been severely inter
rogated by al illtempered counsel, observed,
leaving the witness box, that she never before
fully understood what was meant by cross eX'
animation.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

BEEs--It is a well attes,od fact, that when
. or 3 distinct hives of bees are united in au-
tumn, they consume but little il any more than
one would in the winter, and scnd tortE. the
earliest and best swarms
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

CoNDFNsED MoRALIrS.--An exchange says.
'Getting into debt, without intending to pay, is
only an improvement in stealing"
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

Patrick, you fool, what makes you stale af.
ter that rabbit When your gun has no lock on
it tH-'liush hush my darlin,' the rabbit
don't know that =
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

"Jack. your wife is not SO pensive as she used
to be-" "No-she's left that Off and become
expensive.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

CO The following letter from gentleman
travelling in England, sls,N.s how we'll ,he A
mercans are able TO compete with the British in
the manufacture of various articles of trade. II
proves also, that a protective tariff, in The end
invariably enables our mechanics to produce the
article cheaper than it could be imported, in ma
ny instances even without any duty:
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03
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Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

A wit and a fool in company are like a crab
and an oyster-the one watches till the other
opens his mouth, that he may catch him up.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-08-02

orchard. She also agreed to furnish the merchant
with several bushels of the same kind the next day
The boy returned and informed his father what he
had seen, but was unnoticed by the woman When
the evening came the old gentleman put on his over
coat and retired to the orchard. At somewhat
advanced hour of the night, the suspected woman
came with her boy and filled several bags with APP
pies, when the old gentleman rose from his seat
beside the wall and very pleasantly offered to as
sist her in putting them into the wagon. 20, mop
the woman exclaimed, Il would not take them for
the world, and began to beg for pardon. Certain
tainly you shall have them'' said the venerable
man, you shall not be put to all this trouble, and
expose your life to this midnight air for nothing.
SO laying the apples into the wagon, he led the
horse into the road, politely assisted her into the
carriage, saying, Il will put up the bars, but want
you should be careful and never do SO again
These circumstances would probably never have
been fully known, had not the humane, may we
not almost say the Godlike conduct of this pious
man had its desired effect in bringing the woman
to repentance, who penently confessed the Cir
cumstances which led to her reformation.