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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1838
Page
1
An archival notice credits editing and publishing work to W C Mcaussen and L Harper, indicating their roles in producing the issue or volume. The fragment confirms editors or publishers attached to the periodical.
A lyrical panorama opens on Leila and the Jewish Maiden grave, with sunrise over Alhambra ruins and Moorish grandeur in Granada. It recalls Moorish glory, Christian conquest, and a bold Moorish band retaking Boabdil El Chico, restoring their name amid decay and legends.
An aged companion of Boabdil, Muza Ben Gazan, the Knight of Grenada, endures a doomed ascent from Alhambra to legend. He envisions glory, flees to Africa, returns as a king, falls in love with Leila, and dies at Leila’s tomb beside a fountain now known as The Lovers’ Fountain.
The column mentions a court martial in Frederick Maryland to examine Gen Jesup, hopeful Massachusetts fruit prospects, a fire at Stephen C Phillips Salem oil factory, wheat damage from chinch bug in Petersburg district, Shreve reporting Mississippi snags removed, and remarks on lilies. It also cites Boston bank capital, a private $5,000 Charleston fire relief gift, informers in customs cases, Rhode Island Sunday Schools totals, a Boston seafaring remark, a Natives’ soapbox quote, Thomas Rector’s murder escape, possible loss of the British frigate Pique, Na Nahant sea-serpent joke, a Vicksburg fire, Richmond murder trial,盗 stolen whips in Westfield, a Bellingham cotton factory fire with $8,000 insured, Cincinnati bank notes discounts, Solomon’s Balm of Gilead advertising income, and a Tobacco Inspection Warehouse note.
The Genesee Farmer reports on melon growing in Egypt where Fellahs plant melons in dry river sand near Nile beds mixed with pigeons’ dung. Dr. E D Clark notes fragrant ripened melons aboard a Rosetta to Acre voyage. A local claim cites 60 pound melons from sand beds and manure, urging trials in sandy soil for heat-loving melons.
A Chester County Pennsylvania farmer adopts alternating rows of sugar beets and corn with six foot corn gaps. Beets intersperse corn, crop shade may help roots, labor is not greatly increased, and a strong beet harvest is expected. Encouraged for those preparing ground for roots to provide winter cattle feed.
A Tennessee farmer shares a garden trial using coarse dry straw buried under a bed of beets carrots parsnips peas and other vegetables as underdeath and manure. The farmer notes its convincing results and hopes others will test the method, claiming straw has seldom been used for manuring crops other than potatoes.
A Pennsylvania farmer from Delaware County, Parke Shee, devised a simple apparatus to kill cut worms in corn. Old cart wheels fitted with cogged projections dig four inch deep pits in soft soil, guiding worms into the hole where heat and sun eliminate them.
The Farmer and Gardener reports that Clover and Plaster, two handmaids of agriculture, have shown striking benefits among farmers in the lower counties of the western shore. Orders this season have doubled from last year, signaling widespread improvement and agricultural progress.
The speaker asserts that a thrifty practical farmer reads agricultural literature or borrows ideas from neighbors who read agricultural papers. He contrasts this with the careless farmer whose decaying fences and underfed cattle ignore agricultural information, implying a link between engagement with farming literature and better husbandry.
Ezekiel Rhoads notes that within a week of exhausting his sugar beet, butter from three cows dropped from twenty to fourteen pounds weekly. He observes butter in higher renown than in winter, while praising farming as the most honorable and independent profession, reliant on honest effort and divine blessing.
A historical analysis explains Congress's exclusive power to coin money, the shift from specie to bank notes, and the 1816 resolution directing the Treasury to accept legal currency or bank notes on demand. It details the evolving payment media from 1799 to 1816, including the Bank of the United States charters and Treasury notes amid wartime strain.
The document analyzes a 1816-18 conflict over Treasury receipts of bank notes and the role of the Bank of the United States. It argues Congress did not intend a universal tender through non specie paying banks and cites the bank’s rules showing its practice aligned with specie receipts. It notes the 1816 charter and Treasury deposits as context for the bank’s fiscal agent role.
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