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The Woodville Republican., 1851-11-11
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The Woodville Republican., 1851-11-11

A PLEASANT CLinarE.- follows
ing is the calender of Siberian or
Lapland year June 90, snow melts |;
July |, snow gone July .. fields quite
green; July II. plants at full growth I;
July 25, plants in flower August 2.
fruit ripe August 10, plants she'd their
seed; August. 10, snow, continuing
from August Is to June %.
The Woodville Republican., 1851-11-11

UTMeasure are been taken ii Bal
timofe to receive KossUTH. with appru-
pirate horrors. A meeting ofihe iHilu-
entail eli izer.s was held on Saturday,
in the Mayors office, at which three
Commuters were appointed to devise
suitable measures of respect. One OF
hese Cor0mittee Of ten persons I'd pre-
pare. an Address Of Welcome and the
pro graT.me OF 4 procession--'he whole
TO be reported to proposed town
meeting for ratification. NY Wcehty
Times.
The Woodville Republican., 1851-11-11

gT-A woman quareIing with her husband
told him she believed II she were to die. he
would marry the devils daughter. The
law does not allow man to marry two sis
ters," replied the tender husband.
The Woodville Republican., 1851-11-11

1PIt Is stated that there are more
landholders in the State Of Massachu-
setts alone, than in all England and
Ireland together
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PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING
BY VIC. BOXxET.

ono. on ths Sorth Side Of rAe Putiis Square
East ofths Prssbytsrian ChSreh
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10
A GOOD STORY.

young American gentleman, Mr..
P, who is visiting Paris, with the
cold folks" went 10 the masked ball TO see
the elephant and 10 have some fun. His
great desire was 10 meet an angel Of the
fair sex He first looked all around. waiting
to make decision the moment he should
find a fine waist and small feet. These
beauties he discovered in domino of small
figure, who took his arm and began to inri-
que with him. The lady told him his name
the city of the United States from which he
was, and after all these preliminaries, she
related to him many fitting excursions which
he had made last year at Saratoga and at
Newport. All these things, whispered in
good English, were puzzlng 10 Mr.. p. and
in order 10 find out who was his fair COM
panion, he invited her to supper in private
cabinet. The lady at first refused ; but af-
Ter some time, she consented, and the cou-
pie started in a carriage for the well known
restaurant of Vachetie where all the Ameri-
cans take their meals. A cabinet was open
ed, the final petit souper was ordered and
when they came 10 eat, the lady was obi
ged to take of her mask, M. ?. discovered
in her-who Guess it. You give ii
up? Yes. She was his mother The
romance was over and he took the joke the
best way he could. Mrs. P is one of the
prettiest American ladies in Paris and no
one, when looking at her, considering the
freshness of her complexion and the beauty
OF her charms, would suppose that she had
son twenty-three years old.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10
IOH IUe y I-IIsJITCI ; TIvIIui IVI 1tPII''
CIRCuMSTANTIA EVIDENCE.

We know not when more singular case
has been presented than the following from
AN English paper 1t shows how likely judi
ges and Jurors are TO be mistaken, and how
often the innocent have been convicted
a young gentleman, articled 10 an attorney
| in London, was tried on five indictments for
different acts of theft. person resembling
the prisoner in size and general appearance
had called at various shops in the metropolis,
for the purpose Of looking at jewelry, books,
and other articles, with the pretended nten"
tion of making purchases, but made oil with
the property placed before him while the
shop-keepers were engaged in looking out
the other articles. In each of these cases
the prisoner was positively identified by
several persons, while in majority of them
an alb was clearly and positively establish
ed, and the young man was proved TO be OF
orderly habits and rreproachable character,
and under no temptation, from want OF
money, 10 resort 10 acts of dishonesty
Similar depredaiions on other tradesmen had
been committed by person resembling the
prisoner, and those persons proved that
though there was a considerable resemblance
10 the prisoner, he was not the person who
had robbed them. The prisoner was con-
vcted on one indictment, but acquitted on
all the others: and the judges and jurors
who tried the three last cases expressed their
conviction that the prosecutor had been rob
bed by another person resembling the pri-
soner. A pardon was Immediately procured
in respect of that charge on which the con-
vicion had taken place.
Not many months before the last mention
ed case, respectable young man was tried
for highway robbery committed in the neigh
borhood of Beihnal Green, in which neigh
borhood both he and the prosecutor resided.
The prosecutor swore positively that the
prisoner was the man who robbed him of his
watch The counsel for the prisoner called
a gentee Young woman, to whom the pri-
soner paid his addresses, who gave evidence
which proved complete alibi. The prose-
cutor was then ordered out Of court, and in
lllt lilNCINd al duIItl NOuile AIilI VI 'hS
of Greenwood, who awaited his trial on
capital charge of felony, was introduced, and
placed by the side of the prisoner.
The prosecutor was again placed in the
witness box, and addressed thus "Remem-
Der, sir, the life of this young man depends
upon your reply to the question am about
to put. Will you swear again that the
young man at the bar is the person who as
saulted you ?' The witness turned towards
the dock, when, beholding two men so near
alike, he became petri6ed with astonish-
ment, dropped his hat, and was speeches.
for a time, but al length declined swearing
TO either. The young man was of course
acquitted. Greenwood was ;ried for another
offence and executed and few hours be-
fore his death acknowledged that he had
committed The robbery with which the other
was charged.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10
A MILLIONAIRE's FEAST.

A Paris letter gives this account Of din
ner given by Baron Ro,hschd to Narvaez
at which were presented only twenty eight
guests, the flower Of the French ars,ocra-
cy:
In the first place, there was the splendid
service of Sevres porcclaine, which belonged
to the unfortunate Marie Anoinette. and
which was bought by Rolhschild for l5O, 900
francs. Beside this enormous price, he still
pays an annuity Of 10000 francs TO the pei
son who consented 10 give it up to him
During the repast, the whole service of the
table was changed four times, the last being
of silver and gold, worked by the most cele-
braled artists of Europe 1t was almost
impossible to tell by what end, by what
side, to take hold Of the things, the use of
which almost disappeared beneath the ma
terial and The workmanship, both so pre-
cious as 10 make of most ordinary articles
verllab!e works of art. The knives, for
instance, were so ornamenled, so carved,
that il was quite difficult to handle them.
All these riches were sent off to London
| the day after the revolution of February
and were the wonder of the nobility oi
England, when displayed at grand dinner
given TO the Duke of Wellington. AS tC
the eatables of the dinner am describing
they consisted, says reporter, of all the
impossibilities Of the season, sought ou
from the most celebrated lighthouses, anC
hunted from the most noted hunting grounds
in France. Peaches, cherries, strawberries
appeared in the greatest abundance at tn,
dessert, by the side of pine apples, which
says the same reporter, blushed at havini
cost only one hundred francs piece. Be
sides these were various rare fruits fron
tropical climates--in short, the luxury wa
of the most unheard of character, and III
guests did not rise from table until after te
o'clock.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10
OLD SERIES VOL. II, NO. IN
FACTS ABOUT ORCHARDS IN NEW
ENGLAND.

AN instance of Yankee shrewdness has
recently come to my knowledge which
well illustrates The advantages Of knowing
something on this subject. Iu the spring of
1916, Mr. w. was engaged in grating an.
pie trees in various parts of Rockiurham
county, and among the rest, grated enouoh
TO amount to about twelve dollars, for Mr..
H., OF Braintree, upon an old orchard of ma.
tural fruit consisting of about one hundred
trees. Mr.. R. thought it rather ex,ravayan,
10 eXpend so much in an experiment so
hopeless, and w. finally proposed that he
would 60 on in subsequent Yeas, and graft
as many Of the old trees as he choose. do
the necessary pruning, and receive for his
pay one half the fruit that should grow on
his gratis during The next twelve years, and
should cultivate The land among them.
ior his own profit This was considered
very liberal proposition, and at once accept.
eo, ana The contract was reduced 10 writing,
and executed, | happened to be at Brent.
wond during the past autumn, lust after w.
had called for his share of the fruit. and
learned that the scions set in 1916 for set.
ting which, he had charged twelve dollars,
produced sirteen lGrrelS of marketable Bald.
win Apples, worth twenty four dollars. Mr..
had become so far Convinced Of his mis-
take, that he offered w. one hundred dollars
TO release his interest in the orchard which
w. promptly declined. soon afterwards
met w. aud conversed with him on the sub
ject, and he said that 50 far from releasing
his interest in the contract, for that sum, he
would not sell his share of the fruit for one
gear, for that amount, and allow the purcha-
ser TO choose it out OF the term.
He has now grated most of the trees with
the Baldwin Apple, and thinks he shall get
more than hundred dollars year, in each
of the even years of the las, half of his
term. The even year is, as you well know,
the bearing year for the Baldwin, throughout
New England. MIR. R. further informs me
that he has made many similar contracts in
the neighborhood, and has acquired an in
terest in about one thousand trees that his
share of apples, grown on land of other peo-
pie the last fall, was ninety barrels, and that
none of the scions which produced were set
prior TO lS15. He grated one tree in 1874,
which produced in 1850 six barrels of fruit,
and he knows fifty trees which this year
produced ten barrels each, worth in all,
S750.-Termont Chronicle
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10

HEARTRENDISG TRAGEDY.--An affray oc.
cured at Greensboro, Ala, on the 1lth
inst The parties engaged in it were Mr..
Elisha w. Harris, DR.. Plat Groom, and Mr..
Pleasant May. Mr.. Harris was killed DR..
Groom was shot, we learn, in both arms, and
one shoulder-his wounds, however, are not
considered dangerous. May was also badly
though not dangerously wounded Some
SIN or eight pistol shots were fired, and the
wonder is that all three of the parties were
not killed. The fighting was commenced
near the Post-ofiice door, and was continued
across The street 10 The old Mansion House,
where Mr., Harris received a bowie-knife
wound, inflicted, we understand, by DR..
Groom, which caused his death almost in
simultaneously. The affair had its origin in
disagreement between Mr.. Harris, and
DR.. Groom, in regard 10 fence boundary.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10

READ THIS. George Thompson says in
one of his Canadian speeches
al do not believe there is one ministers in
the United States who believes what he
says. know enough of ministers in that
country to believe that they preach wilfulIy
and desiguedly what the know 10 be false
These men deliberately go 10 their closets,
and for purely political and pro-sIavery pur-
poses, write sermons for the Sabbath day
which they all the while know to be palpa'
bly, and damnably untrue J"
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, BY II. W
LoNGFELLow.
There sat one day in quiet,
BY an ale-house on The Rhine,
-Four hale and hearty fellows.
And drank the precious wine.
The landlords daughter filed their cups
Around the rustic board
Then sat they all so calm and still,
And spake not one rude word.
But when the maid departed,
A Swabian raised his hand,
And cried, all hot, and flushed with wine
''Long live the Swaban laud
"The greatest kingdom upon earth
Cannot with that compare
With all the stout and hearty men
And the nul-brown maidens there.D
''lIa !" cried the Saxon, laughing
And dashed his beard with wine,
81 had rather live ia Lapland,
Than that Swabian land of thine
"The goodlest land on all the earth,
Ii is the Saxon land
There have as mauv maidens,
As fingers on this hand ~
"Hold your tongues both Swabian and
Saxon,"
bold Bohemian cries
al there's a heaven upon the earth,
In Bohemia it lies.
"There the tailor blows the flute,
And the cobber blows the horn,
And the minor blows the buole,
Over mountain gorge and bOurn.o
y
And then the landlords daughter,
Up 10 heaven raised her hand,
And said, aye may no more contend,
There lies the happiest land ~
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10
And Wickedness eleven

A French Work recently published con-
tains an Interesting account of The rage for
gaming al the Court of Louis XIV Madame
de Moutespan was in the habit of losing
SO or $4,000. She once bet SaOO 900
upon three cards and won. On one Christ
mas eve she lost about 100000. A cour-
tier named Dargeau had such knowledge of
Algebra, that he calculated the chances du-
ring the schufiiing of the cards. and often
won enormous sums by it.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10

MONSTER BALLoN.-Mr. Wise, the
great American eronaut and distinguished
author on the ar, Of balloon, has now in
preparation monster balloon, holding hity
thousand cubic feet of gas, and capable ct
carrying up sixteen persons OF one hundred
-and fifty pounds each. lie expects 10 have
it ready for ascension from this city about
the lst of Iuue, Speaking of balloons re-
mnda that next week an ascension is to
be made in this city by MIR. Pusey-Led>
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10

A Farmer in the neighborhood of Paisley
Scotland, states that, by paliing garlic in
the bottom of his grain stacks he has fol
some years past kept them free fom rats oil
mice, The garlic placed at a sufficient dis
tance from the corn to prevent its imParling
favor,
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10

WHEN people are laid up with the rheu-
matism, always press them TO come over
and take tea with you. While such acts OF
kindness entail no expense on your pocket.
book, they procure for you large reputa.
ton for sympathy and neighborly kindness
With proper discrimination, there is nothing
that pays better profit than 'tgooduess O
hearI.n
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10

HIDEoUs FAsHIoN.-There are few wo-
men handsome enough 10 stand the present
little bonnets, which are placed on the top
Of the head, and look as If they were abont
TO fall off behind. They are of the lopback
order, and make the woman look as hideous
as Chinese and as brain as the Colossus of
Rhodes Truly does the New Yorker say
that Fashion, at this precise epoch of the
Christian era, with both male and female
eXquisites-and with shades OF difference
the same may be said of all who pretend 10
style-is untasieful, vulgar, filthy, or ridicu-
lous mere concoction of tailors and
milliners, etc, who must get up some.
thing new monthly or quarterly, TO keep
their trade good and involve vanity in ex.
! travagances.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10

The Late Aerial Voyage Of the Duke Of
Brunswick cost his highnesa not less than
$1,000. His expenditure during eight days
residence at Hastings exceeded f4Oo not
wilhslanding the assumption of the humble
iucoguito of Smith,
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10
The Farmer.

Drive on, ihou sturdy farmer,
Drive cheeriully DER the field,
The pleasures of farmers life
No other life can yield.
Thou rselh with the morning sun
To ill The fruitful earth,
And when Thy daily Task is done,
Thou seek'st thy peaceful hearth.
Thou lowest not the gaudy town,
With its tumultuous roar,
Plenty and peace thy fireslde crown,
Aud thou dost ask no more.
Monarchs in robes with crimson dyed,
Are low compared with thee,
They are pampersd sons of pride,
Thou arl Gods nobility.
Go on, thou sturdy farmer,
Tread proudly on thy sod,
Thy proud and goodly heritage,
Thou chosen son OF God
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10

COUSIN WILLIAM said merry, mischie-
yous yeung girl, .'what do you think heard
pretty lass say Of youp
4 don't know--something good, hope
What was it, cop
'Sha'n't tell you but it's the truth-a
very pretty girl did say something about
YOU
well, tell me what it was'
4 sha'n't-unIess you will give me that
annual that you bought
well, agreed-you shall have it-now
tell me-
Well, now-dou't blush so--she said you
were the ugliest looking man she eper laid
eyes on y '&
BEGIN EARLY. Sir Robert Peelis father
determined 10 bring up his son expressly for
the House of Commons. When quite a
child he would frequently set him on a ia
BILE, and promise him cherry if he would
make a speech. The applause that followed
his efforts stimulated exertion, so that
before he was ten years old he could address
company with some degree of eloquence.-
As he grew up, his father made him repeat
every Sunday, as well as he could, the
sermon which had been preached, by which
his habit of attention grew powerful.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10
NATIONAL. HOTEL,
SHAM 0KIN,
Northumberland County, p

YENIIE subscriber respectfully informs hisfrends
n and the public generally, that he has open
ed new Hotel in the town of Shamokin, Nor
thumberland county, on the corner of Shamokin
and Commerce streets, nearly opposite to the
House he formerly kept. He is well prepared to
accommodate his guests, and is also provided
with good stabIing lie trusts his experience,
and strict attention TO business, will induce per-
sons visiting the coal region to continue the lib
eral patronage he has heretofore received.
-" asrIH4 -- WILLIAM WEAVER.
Shamokin, April 10, l850.--f.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10
tARE yon fond of novels, Mr.. Jones Q

Very responded the interrogaled gentle
man who wished 10 be thought by tie lady
quesiioner fond of literature.
Have you, continued the nquisilve lady
'ever read HTen thousand Year P''
No madam never read that many nov
els in all my lile,i
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10
WIFE-lIISTR ESS-LADY.
Translated from the German for the N. Y.
EUening Mirror.

> y
Evcning Mirror.
Who marries for love takes a wife who
for the sake of convenience, takesa mistress;
who marres from coSs Ssderation, takes a
lady. You are loved by your wife, regarded
by your mistress, tolerated by your lady
You have a wife for yourself, a mistress for
your house and its friends, lady for the
world. Your wife will agree with you, your
mistress will accommodate you, your lady
will manage you Your wife will take care
of your household, your mistress Of your
house, your lady of appearances. If you are
sick, your wife will nurse you, your mistress
will vist.you, and your lady will inquire af-
ter your health. You take walk with your
wife, ride with your mistress, and Join par
ties with your lady. Your wife will share
your grief, your mistress your money, and
your lady your debts. If you are dead, your
wife will shed tears, your mistress lament,
and your lady wear mourning. A year after
your death marries again your wife, in six
months your mistress, and in six weeks or
sooner, when mourning is over, your lady.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10

DuRABILITY OF WooD.-The piles under
the London Bridge have been driven 500
years, and upon examining them in 1916
they were found 10 be little decayed. They
are principally elm. Old Savoy Place, in
the city Of London, was built $50 years ago,
and the wooden piles consisting of oak, elm,
beech, and chestnut were found upon re-
cent examination 10 be perfectly sound. OF
The durability of timber in a wet state, the
piles of the bridges built by Emperor Trajan
over the Danube afford striking example.
One OF these piles was taken up, and found
to be pertifed 10 the depth of of an inch
but the rest of the wood was not different
from its former state, though it had been
driven / 900 years
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10

one ungra'eiul man does an .ulury 10 all
who are wretched
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10

The Mining Register says that one of
Pages Circular Saws has recently been
erected on the property of the farmers
Bank of Reading and the estate of S. Girls
com, near Lewellyn, in Schuylkill county.
For cutting timber it exceeds any other
mill in this part of the country. Upon trial
OF ordinary speed, it has sawed cut through
80 feet pine log in one minute. On ano-
ther trial, log - feet long was sawed in
five minutes, making 10 boards--l25 feet
This mill will cut timber, pine, oak, and
hemlock, to the length OF so feet.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10

1t has been said that Napoleon never in
dulged in more than six hours sleep. A
poet has said:
Nature requires FIVE
Custom gives seven
Laziness takes nine,
And Wickedness eleven
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-05-10
SELECT POETRY.
The Happiest Land.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, BY II. W
LoNGFELLOw.
North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-01-08
RESOLUTIONS ON SLAVERY.

Resolutions on the Slavery Question introduced into
the Senate of orih Carolina December 81, 1850,
by Mr.. Speaker EDWARDS.
kesofred, That, in The opinion of this General As
sembly, North Carolina is deeply devoted 10 the
Union of the States. and will to the utmost endeav-
or to pre- and perpetate it, long the Union
itself shall secure the great and bene6cent purposes
for which ii formed.
Resolved, That while do not approve of all the
provisions Of the compromise by Congress, called
The Gdjusfmtnf, sill, from fratcrnal spirit of for
bearance towards our brethren in the non-slavehold-
ing States, and sincere aud heartfelt attachment TO-
the Union, willing to acquesce in said cOM-.
professionally and Jaithfuhv carried out.
Resofred, That while disposed accept the
said compromise as the scOrk Of peace, deem it
sacred duty TO warn the people OF the free States
against any further Entertainments upon rights
and to delare explicitly, that, in the opinion OF this
General Assembly, n orih Carolina lcOud, and ought
regard entirely inconsistent with her longer
tinuance in the Union, the abolition of slavery
in the District OF Columbia by Congress triihOut The
consent of the slave-holding States, and incompatible
with their safety and interests any act If Congress-
prohibiting the citizens OF one slave-holding State
from removing their slaves any other slaveholding
Stale; refusal by Congress TO admit into the
Union State any Territory belonging 10 the
United States account of the existence of the n2
stuon of domestic slavery within its limits; any
act applying the dangerous and mischievous priDcI-
pie of the Tiiof PrOpiso the Territories Of Utah
and New Mexico; any act which repeats the recfps
act for the reclamation of fugitive slaves, or SC mod
lies the same essentially 10 impair its efficiency
and usefulness.