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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1838
Page
1
A brief notice credits W C McAuslen and L Harper as editors and publishers, noting their roles in producing the local newspaper edition. The item confirms leadership by the two names and hints at the publication's governance without additional details.
The American Union is published every Wednesday morning on Market Street, south side, below the bank, at two dollars per year in advance or three dollars after expiration. Papers not discontinued until arrears are paid. Advertisements at usual rates. Editors require postpaid letters.
Edwin Forrest delivers a lengthy July 4 oration before Democratic citizens in New York. He extols Jefferson and Bacon, defends republican liberty, and lauds experiment and reason against reformers while contrasting American progress with England's monarchy and unrest.
The passage argues that despotic rule suppresses human passion briefly, but hidden harm grows until a violent eruption occurs. It praises simple constitutional democracy where free opinion shapes institutions, preventing violent disruption. The comparison favors federations, showing democratic liberty as a steady protector of public will.
A lyric vignette describes a blind flower girl and a crowd of voices urging buyers. The speaker laments the girl’s isolation and beauty, contrasting light with night as the market chorus pleads to purchase the flowers she tends. The poem dwells on love, loss, and the gaze of the living toward the unseen.
The Edinburg Evening Post warns ship owners about frequent steam boiler explosions in small steamboats. It blames gagged safety valves for failures, urges a reliable substitute, and calls on authorities to require adoption of a real safety valve.
The writer argues that a longstanding rheumatism reliably signals coming weather, more so than almanacs or new diseases, likening it to a barometer near us and recalling a personal experience that warned of easterly weather. Cooper's Homeward Bound.
A Boston beekeeper, Andrew P. Young, displays a glass globe containing 16 pounds of honey produced by bees in four weeks. The globe is formed by placing a fish globe inverted over a hole in a wooden hive, allowing bees to fill it without harming the colony, an improvement over common methods.
A late Attorney General meets a client in his library and is surprised by the many wigs on display. The barrister explains each wig for different courts, but jokes about an honest man's wig as missing.
The Reverend Lemuel Potter of Second Baptist Church in Lowell reports that a young woman, daughter of Levi Atwood, vomited about 300 maggotlike insects on July 1. Some became white bottles then chrysalis, later turning into common house flies by July 26. Questioned how eggs entered the stomach. lettuce or food contamination suggested. No further insects since July 14 despite emetics.
The New York Star reports the Northampton silk company plans to raise $30,000 immediately to enlarge operations. One early U S silk firm faced early disadvantages yet prospered, while another two and a half year old venture paid $100 per share where $25 was invested, highlighting varied fortunes in American silk manufacturing.
A quoted recommendation by E. L' Hommedieu advises spring ploughing of a yard area for cattle. After two to three weeks, plough again and repeat until wheat sowing time. Diggins spread soil from the yard, harrowed into the wheat, to mellow ground and absorb cattle dung for tenfold profit.
The note recalls Maelzel, famed for the automaton chess player, dying during a voyage from Havana to this city. It extols his ingenuity that gave life to his creations, mourns the loss of his kindly smile for children, and notes his body rests beneath the Atlantic as the last tramper sounds for the convocation of quick and dead.
The Greeks and Romans framed justice as a blind girl with scales, not blind to truth but blind to persons. She assessed merits and demerits without regard to wealth rank or noble status, viewing litigants only by their case. From the Kentucky and Ohio Journal.
Constantine, when Emperor, found Christians in office and issued an edict to renounce faith or resign. Many resigned, others renounced to save careers. He then removed the complying officials and kept those loyal, declaring that deserters were unworthy of his confidence.
An official West statement supports a lower estimate of steamboats on Western waters at 401 with 55 800 tons. It suggests North and South totals around 800 and a national total near 800 vessels, noting typical exaggeration in regional figures.
A note on green corn warns of harm from eating corn that is too fresh or stale and advises dissolving a piece of pearl ash the size of a hickory nut in the boiling water to neutralize any danger. It emphasizes using this precaution in the city where fresh corn often comes from stalks long harvested.
In a House speech responding to Mr. Bono of Ohio, Mr. Duncan denounces bank and government corruption, defends reform under Jackson, and challenges claims of insufficient reform. He presents War and Treasury department testimonies from 1838 by Paymaster General, Surgeon General, and Quartermaster General officials, arguing abuse exists but is not unique to current administration.
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