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VOL.. 2.
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POETRY.
Niglit.
BT JAMES MONTGOMERY.
Night is the time to rest;
How sweet, when labors close,
To gather round an aching breast
The curtain of repose;
Stretch out the tired limbs, and lay the head
Upon our own delightful bed !
Night is the time for dreams;
The gay romance of life, .. ; .
When truth that is and truth that seems
Blend in fantastic strife;
Ah! visions less beguiling far
Than waking dreams by daylight are!
Night is the time to toil;
To plough the classic field,
Intent to find the buried spoil
Its wealthy furrows yield;
Till all is ours that sages taught,
That poets sung, or heroes wrought.
Night is the time to weep ;
To wet with unseen tears
Those graves of memory, where sleep
The joys of other years,
Hopes that were angels in their birth,
But perish young, like things on earth!
Night is the time to watch;
On ocean's dark expanse,
To hail the Pleiades, or catch .
The full moon's earliest glance
That brings unto the home sick mind .
All we have loved and left behind. .
Night is the time for care;
Brooding on hours misspent,
To see the spectre of despair
Cbme to our lonely tent! - , j ,
Like Brutus, midst his slumb'ring host,
Startled by Caesar's stalwart ghost.
Night is the time to muse;
Then from the eye the soul
Takes flight, and with expanding, views
Beyond the starry pole,
Descries athwart the abyss of night
The dawn of uncreated light.
Night is the time to pray;
Our Saviour oft withdrew,
To desert mountains far away,
So will his followers do;
Steal from the throng to haunts untrod,
And hold communion there with God-f' t
Night is the time for death;
When all around is peace,
Calmly to yield the weary breath,
From sin and suffering cease;
Think of heaven's bliss, and give the sign
To parting friends such death be mine!
"Pa," said an interesting juvenile yesterday
to his indulgent sire " Pa, haven't 1 got a veto
as well as the President V " No, my child."
"Yes I have, Pa; my fifth toe is a V-toc, I reck
on." "Thomas, take that boy to his mother,
he's ruined!"
Some body says the true illustration of 'kid
napping is an infant goat asleep.
There are upwards of three hundred and six
ty thousand persons employed In the cotton,
woollen, and silk mills in Great Britain.
The following is one of Prentice's best:
We perceive that Mr. Wise is denomiated at
Washington 4Mr. Otherwise.' Why don't they
call him Mr. Crosswise?
There is a man lit New Orleans, says the
Crescent City, with a nose so big, that he can
only blow it by ihe use of gunpowder.
" Well, how-did-you like the sermon litis af
ternoon?" "Gosh I dun know.,",-said Sam, "I
haint heard .uncle Zeke say yet."
When a person gets married in the town of
Hull, down East, he pays the parson in mo
lasses. The Rev. gensleman is furnished with
a long stick, and led to the cellar. Tie bung
of the molasses cask is knocked out and he
sops to his hearts content.
When a man wants to get trusted to three
cents worth of rum while his wife and family
are suffering for the want of bread, it about
time" for him to hegin to think of joining the
temperance .society.,. - t ."?
OFFICIAL.
By the President of the U. States of 'America.
A Proclaaaatioii!
Whereas it has como to the knowledge of
the Government of the United States that sun
dry secret Lodges, Clubs or Associations exist
on the Northern Fronlior; that the members of
these Lodges are bound together by secret
oaths; that they have collected firo-arms and
other military materials, and secreted- them in
sundry places; and that it is their purpose to vi
olate the laws of their country, by making mil
itary and lawless incursions, when opportunity
shall offer, into the Territory of a Power with
which the United States are at peace; and
whereas it is known that travelling agitators,
from both sides the line, visit these Lodges and
harangue the members in secret meeting, stim
ulating them to illegal acts; and whereas the
same persons are known to levy contributions
on the ignorant and credulous for their own
benefit, thus supporting and enriching them
selves by the basest means; and whereas the
unlawful intentions of the members of these
have already been manifested in an attempt to
destroy the lives and property of the inhabitants
of Chippewa, in Canada, and the public proper
ty of the British Government there belonging:
Now, therefore, I, John .Tyler, President of
the United Stales, do issue this my Proclama
tion, admonishing all such evil-minded persons
of the condign punishment which is certain to
overtake them; assuring them that the laws of
the United States will be rigorously executed
against their illegal acts; and that if in any law
less incursion into Canada they fall into the
hands.of the British authorities, they will not
be reclaimed as American citizens, ner any in
terference made by this Government -in their
behalf.
And I exhort all well-meaning but deluded
persons, who may have joined these Lodges,
immediately to abandon them, and to have no
thing more to do with their secret meetings or
unlawful oaths, as they would avoid serious j
consequences to themselves. And I expect the
intelligent and well-disposed members of the !
community to irown on an tnese uniawuu-combinations
and illegal proceeding, and to assist
the Government in maintaining the peace of the
country, against the mischievous consequences
of the acts of these violators of tho law.
Given under my hand, at the city of Wash
ington, the twenty-fifth day of September, A.
D. 1S41, and of the Independence of the Uni
ted States the sixty-sixth.
JOHN TYLER.
By the Piesident' :
Daniel Webster, Secretary of State.
Slioe Pegs.
A paper recently established at Meredith, N.
IT., called the Belknap County Gazette, de
scribes a manufactory of shoe pegs in that place,
as follows:
We found it in full operation, and were grat
ified to see its wonderful simplicity, and aston
ishing rapid;') with which wood is convened in
to vrirs. The loss of birch wood, from six to
twelve or fifteen inches in d Timet cr, are taken
into the mill and cut off by a circular saw, fori
the length of the peg for which they are intend-'
ed. The blocks then go through a planing pro-1
cess by which they are made perfectly smooth!
they are then crensed or marked off' for the!
size of the peg to correspond with its length
ihe blocks then go through the splitting opera-
tion by which they are convened into pegs of
any desirable size the pegs then undergo tho
drying process, in summer by sun, in winier or j
wet weather by the use of a furnace they arc
then put into a revolving cylender, where theyj
are turned over and over for the purpose of,
polishing, and finally come out into a box lncc
a miller's meal trough, from which they are
packed into sacks containing from half a bushel
to iwo or three bushels each, and being marked
and numbered, are ready for market. These
pegs are a source of revenue to our communi
ty, drawing a profit from our forests, of which
we had no conception until we witnessed the
operation. It is not uncommon to see Messer's
big teams loaded with pegs from the Meredith
Bridge manufactory. The price of these pegs
vary according to their size and quality, aver
aging, perhaps, a little more than two dollars to
the bushel.
Solder for Sheet Iron. Sheet iron may
be soldered by filings of soft cast-iron applied
with borax (deprived of its waters of crystali
zation) and sal ammoniac. Tubes of sheet iron
have been constructed at Birmingham lately by
a process of this kind, which, according to
Messrs. Perkins and Gill, is to ho practised in
the following manner: The borax is to be
dded in a crucible, not till it fuses, but till it
forms a white crust; then powdered and mixed
with the iron filings; the joint is to be made
bright, and moistened with a solution of.sal am
moniac; then the mixture is to be made into a
thick paste with water, and placed along the
inside of the joint, and the whole limited over
a clear fire till the cast-iron fuses. 7 eci. Rep.
1822. " "
From the Berks & Schuylkill Journal Extra.
The following paper has been put into our
hands for publication. The signers are men
of the highest respectability were all former
supporters of D. R. Porter, and most of them
Van Buren men, at the last election. Their
views are worthy the attentive consideration of
the Democracy of Pennsylvania.
ADDRESS
To tUo essaoeralic .Party oi Peansyl-
The undersigned members of the democratic"
party, and recently supporters of D. R. Porter,
find themselves L-ompelled by a sense of duly
to act unpleasant to their own feelings and per
haps surprising to their late political associates.
For many years past wo have acted cordially
with the democratic party of this Stale sup
porting its nominees and (aboring to promote its
principles. To those principles we are as much
attached as ever, but convinced as we are, that
the man forced upon the party as its candidate
for Governor, is neither a democrat in feeling
nor conduct, we have determined to publish to
the world our reasons why we can no longer
give our support to David R. Porter. To the
various acts of his administration we have given
a careful attention, with every disposition to
support them, so far as we could do so consist
ently with honest principle and our duty to the
slate and the democratic party. But when a
man elected by the party, turns traitor to its
principles, we consider it better that he should
at once be thrown off than that by -supporting
him, the parly might be suspected of approving
of his measures or conniving at his direliction
from duty. Whatever may be the views of
some others, we would rather suffer an election
to go by default, and see a man of the opposite
party, but of unimpeachable character and hon
esty elected rather would we see this happen
than give the sanction of our approval to such a
man, as we regret to say D. R. Porter has
proved himself to be or help to sustain the cor
rupt faction he has gathered around him.
We now submit to our democratic fellow cit
izens and a candid public the reasons for which
we can no longer support David R. Porter.
Because, He was elected by the democrat
ic party in 183S, against Gov. Ritner, exclusive
ly upon the ground of opposing the Bank of
the United States, and to restrict the Bunking
system and compel them to pay specie for their
notes whereas, he was scarcely in office be
fore he took a loan from the Bank of the United
States and thereby, instead of opposing the
Bank humbled the stale of Pennsvlvania to be
come her debtor.
Because, He has interfered with the action
of the Legislature furslailing them, when they
were passing an act compelling the Banks to
pay specie for their notes by, sending a special
Message to the Senate in favor of a suspension
and thereby preventing the passage of the act;
aif3 Because it has been recently discovered
that the brother of the Governof? J. M. Porter,
about that time visited Philadelphia and spent
an evening with Thomas Dunlap, the President
of the U. S. Bank returning to Harrishurg
with a Director of the U. S. Uanlc, in whose
hands were placed at that time and afterwards
S99;200,00 those facts giving grounds.for sus
picions and charges which there is too much
reason to believe are true and which charges
have never been properly met or contradicted.
Because, His leading measures are Federal
and have been approved by the federal party.
Because, He has no independence of char
acter, as is shown by his conduct, whenever an
act was passed which might affect his re-election.
He has refused to approve or disapprove
the act relative to granting tavern licenses, for
fear of incurring the displeasure of the Tem
perance friends by signing the act, and that of
the friends of tavern keepers by vetoing it.
Because, His nomination was not the result
of the choice of tho democratic party of Penn
sylvania, but waS forced upon the party by the
tactics of the Cameron and Wharton faction
and his office holders and therefore is not
binding upon the democracy of Pennsylvania.
Because, He consults his own interest be
fore that of the State, by recom uending appro
priations to certain improvements, which will
enrich him, his relation? and favorites at the
expense of the State.
Because, It is generally believed and upon
good grounds, that he ii a private contractor in
tho great excavation which his brother has un
dertaken and receiving G2 1-2 cents more per
yard than offered by others.
Because, We consider him in every respect,
unfit lo rule this great Commonwealth.
Because, He is in faVo'r at high taxes, such
taxes as we cannot endure taxes which all our
earnings will be insufficient to pay and which
in the end, will swallow up all our prosperity.
Because, He is not the friend of ihe fanner,
mechanic and laboring class of people, but more
of that class which ride in chariots, and wear
silk stockings. ,
Because, He has made his appointments
throughout the state conferring them general
ly on his relations and our opponents, and now
makes, appointments which,, arc obnoxious to
.thuvpariy. . . - , -
Because, TTc has expended ten millions of
dollars without having affected any thing to the
benefit of the state, but gave nearly every dol
lar into the hands of his Political Robbers.
Because, Wo consider the ONE TERM
PRINCIPLE the most salutary means to keep
together the Democratic party and givo strength
to all our undertakings
Because, He has borrowed 400,000 dollars
from the U. S. Bank, four days before she sus
pended specie payment, (with the full knowl
edge that she would suspend,) by this act of
outrage on the Democratic party, he has identi
fied himself completely as the friend of the U.
S. Bank.
Because, Wo have been fighting against the
U. S. Bank for ten years with all our might,
and were victorious, with the great Jackson at
our head; but in spite of our exertion D. R.
Porter has deserted us by going soul and body
for the monster.
Because, Ho signed an act of Incorporation
for a Rail Road, going through the district of
Kensington, in the county of Philadelphia, to a
foreign company, thereby destroying an im
mense property and streets in said district with
out any compensation to the property holders
against the expressed will of upwards of 2,000
inhabitants, which we consider unjust and with
out being called for, to the great injury of the j
inhabitants and a measure which no democrat
can approve of.
Because, When a bill was passed by the
Legislature of this Commonwealth at theirjlate
Session, providing for the institution of a suit
at Law, against the late State Treasurer foqthe
purpose of determining ihe legality or the pay
ment of large fees to the Governor's brother
and the Attorney General; Governor Porter re
tained the bill and prevented its enactment into George Stine
a law: thus manifesting a desire to evade the ! John Berger
investigation provided for by the bill and afford
ing just grounds for suspecting that tho pay
ment in question was made under authority il
legally and unwarrantably assumed by the Ex-
Because, After formal and solemn promises John Remel, jr.
to approve of a Bill for rendering the Canal ' Jacob Moll
Commissioners elective by the people, he has, Jonas Behm
retained tli hill nassed for that nurnose bv the ' Jacob K. Shenk
Senate and House of Representatives, which
is in effect a veto, thus evincing his. contempt
of the Democratic principles which, refers the
selection of the officers of Government to the
will and the votes of the Governed.
Because, The State Debt under the admin
istration of the present Governor has been in
creased by the addition of nearly ten millions John Veist, jr.
of dollars, and a crisis has been reached in the j Peter S. Foust
fiscal Department of the Government, in which ! John Heibman, j
nothing but an immediate and radical change 1 John Light
both of men and measures can save the people j John Foust
. "I l.l. r . 1 ! Vn rt til CVl unit!
ni mis irrfini iriinrnonweaiiii irom niu suaiuu iamsi Kjuy.tj
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and infamy of Slate Bankruptcy and ruin.
Because, From the bargaining between J.
Madison Porter and the President of the'U. S.
Bank the large loans to said Porter and Attor
ney General Johnson, from the bank, and the
appointment, of the Governor's nephew to an
office in the Bank, at a salary of $2,000, there
is every reason to believe that the Governor
Jno.M.Eilhecberger.TJohif S.:Quinter
Jacob Xander
P. N. Sellzer
Charles Young
Fredk. Heller.
Jolm M. Barlet
J. Addams
Mathias Eisenbeis,ljr
John Homun,-jr.
B. M. Breneiser
Jeremiah Eisenbeis
J. Ritier "
Henry Witman
Samuel Allemau
M. E. Baily
John Reinhart
George Yerger
John Hantch
John S. Moore ,
Francis M. Bollmah
John Miller, jr.
S. M. Reist
Samuel Reinel
John Xander
J. S. Carmoney
Jonas Sellzer ,
Peter Bachmah
David Keller
Jonathan NoIlt 1
David Bachman
Jacob Maurer -4
J. D. Fisher
John Moyer Tayler
Henry Smeck
J. S. Kochel
Jacob Pile
Jarnes S. Beatz
William Church.
Jonathan. Clark
J3. M. Stroh
Hugh Tregah
John W. Noll
James Keller
John Bachman
iN.-Buchwall
J-. Bush
vPeter Smith .
W. S. HuntcdVoc.!
- Augustus S.pAngJer
cell
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Jsinies il. a nreei
James Gehret
Berger
tit
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idV
Alfred Behm
Jonathan Shenk
John Haberstich
John Grebil
Jacob Grebil
E. C. Forest
J. S. Hening, ir.
Daniel C. Guldin
Peter Stine
W. S. Yerger
J. Yerger
William
Peter
i. L. Imboden
Jacob Stroh
'Janifs FregaVr"0
" John.M. BoHmarrin)
.Daniel L.'ErguijitrO
5E. Daviv v ; ,stn
Eltsha Landis
.Abraham Mos'ser'' ,fn
Owen McGovern '
John Eichoru : -Charles
Egelman
George S. Quintet
Josnua Van Keeu
Joseph Murphy1
J. M. Rupp
Abraham Herbst
Ferdinand Egelman
James Rupp
Amos Grist
""John Eicholtz
J. 15. Keely '
John Ernst
Henry Bard
Joseoh Quinter
John R. Van Reeuf
George Oboltl - ''
Peter S. Egreth .
John M. Quinter. ..
Amos Krepp 4
James Cassel
Peter Cassel
Jonathan Kreamer"
John M. Pauli . .v'
Amos S. Flickinge.r.
John Grantz
Peter N. Forney
John D. M. Vocht
Andrew Breneman
Jefferson Breneman
j. K. Ruth
Michael Iv. Ruth
John S. Christian '
D. H. Marshall
A. U. Spohn
James Hnber .
John S. Hiester
John Moyer
J. P. Hinnershitz
John T. Albright..
.George Heller
Henry Biedericop
Petor Levan . '
David Fox "Cm.j
James Harrison n
John Y. Gehr
Peter S. Moore
"James M. BolIrmtrT
Adam Stine
S. Fichtborn.
Solomon Outdone. A lady living in Hanover-street,
Baltimore, lost by robbery, a few-
entered into an unholy, traitorous and criminal Ldays since, a box of valuable jewelry. A young
alliance with the bank an institution for whose j man in the employ of the gentleman ol tho
destruction every Democrat has labored with t house, determined on an experiment which
unading assiduity since the period when its j would probably clear up some slight suspicion
character and designs were detected, and de-j already entertained against three colored boys,
nounced by that illustrious statesman and Pa-j who had occasional access to the house. He
triot, Andrew Jackson. procured a bucket, turned it bottom upwards,
Because, He on several occasions Pardon-! and carefully covered the bottom also with a
ed Criminals before they had a trial, thereby thick coat of blacking placing inside a large
brinoino- disgrace to the laws of our State, when rooster. The three boys were then called into
he in fact ought to be the guardian of the State
to see that evcrv man that violates the sacred
laws should be punished accordingly.
Becatse, He has suffered the Central Com
mittee to lay a tax or contribution on each
and every one of the Clerks of the different of
fices at Harrishurg, of 200 dollars to carry on
and defray the expenses of his coming election;
an act of the mbst aristocratic and shameful
character.
The foregoing reasons we deem sufficient to
justify our act, and to take away every suspi
cion of having treated D. R. Porter with injus
tice. We respectfully submit them to the candid
consideration of the Democracy of Pennsylvania.
Samuel Miller
Adam Miller
John Imboden
John O Stroli
J. F. Behm
John Shenk
Jacob Meverlv
Samuel, Grebil
Daniel S. Hening
Peter M. Reist
John P. Kaufman
P. S. Heilman
James Landis .
Sebastian Keefer
John Bard
Philip N. Kline--:
John Keefer
Jonas Kaufman; .
Philip Hirsts X
Amos Imboden
A. M. Ulrich
Adam Moyer
Jacob M. Ulrich
IT. Shaeffer
Amos Oberheltzer
John Eyerly
J. Seizrist
John M. Seytrit
Frederick Beidher
J. S. Burk
II. D. Dees
Jacob W. Miller
W. Palm
Solomon Boycr
George Boyer, jr.
Jacob Marshall
John B. Mourer -A.-
B. Kochel
the room and charged with stealing the jewelry.
It was then proposed that each should lay his
hand in turn, on the bottom of the bucket, and
the guilt should be fixed on that one whose hand
was on the bucket when the rooster crowed.
Two of the lads laid their hands on the bucket;
the third one refused, fearing that the rooster
would actually betray his guilt. The onewas then
charged with the theft; he confessed it, and
pointed to the place where box of jewelry was
concealed.
We find the following account in alatcTBng
lish paper, and we regret to state il is by no
means a rare occurrence in that country:
Selling a Wife. A disgraceful scene was
exhibited in Stafford market on Saturday. A
laboring man o; idlo and dissolute habits, called
Hall, residing at Dunstono Heath, noar Penk
ridge, led his wife into the town with a halter
round her body, for the purpose of disposing of
her in tho public market to the best bidder.
Having taken her into the market place, and
paid toll, he led her twice round the market,
when he was met by a man named Barlow, of
the same class of life, who purchased her for
eighteen-penco and a quart of ale, and she was
formally delivered over to the purchaser. Tho
parties then went over to the Blue Posts to rat
ify the transfer, followed by a considerable
number of persons, who had been attracted by
the proceeding.---iSit7jL)rti5irfi (Eng.) Adv. .
Peter Mill Stravor and Wm..Corman, tho
accomplices of Braddee the niiill'idbber, have
been pardoned by the President. ? -
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