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Newspaper
The Watchman
Location
Danville, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1822
Page
2
The Watchman reports in Danville that the appraisement law remains in force until November 1. The legislature's recent session produced 172 laws, with titles already begun to be published and full completion expected soon.
A Philadelphia reader notes a proposed republishing of Mears Catechism by supporters at fifty cents per subscriber, with four copies each, to cover printing costs. The column criticizes the governor and legislature over tax policy and condemns Republican editors for denouncing Pennsylvania lawmakers as beardless boys and hoary headed ruffians.
The Sunbury Inquirer prints a facsimile claimed to show former governor William Findlay’s perceived flaws with a mocked letter. It notes Vir Binns sells copies, mentions a March 29, 1822 date, and recounts a senate bill on abolishing Indian trading houses with factories listed from Chicago to Fort Mitchell.
The Observer casts doubt on a transcribed letter attributed to Mr Findlay and alleges it is a calculated political ploy by a demagogue. It argues a friend of Findlay may have been used, mocks spelling lapses, and warns that a public office holder could be ousted for distributing copies to profit from the deception.
Harrisburg March 26 1822 The house representatives passed a bill authorising a loan of 2400000 at five percent repayable in fifteen years A bill to prevent sale of spirituous liquors near camp meetings passed a second reading The governor approved the bill apportioning senators and representatives to districts
The report states 120 000 dollars to complete the capitol, discussed in Congress. A Paris caricature shows a liberal youth figure with Bertrand and Montholon pushing a snowball, while armed figures loom behind and the ball bears It will grow larger. Separately an assembly of Welsh Calvinist Methodists met in Swansea with at least thirty ministers and more than five thousand in attendance.
The naval committee in the house introduces a bill to fix the naval peace establishment with a defined roster of officers including one rear admiral five commodores nineteen captains twenty three masters commandant one hundred and forty lieutenants. The measure may discharge many current officers. Washington reports ministers of France Spain Russia are reshaping their missions. Spain angers over American recognition of Spanish American independence. Mr Potemka and Neuville plan Lisbon trip. Russia’s envoy returns to Washington en route to Rio de Janeiro.
Brooklyn delivers the court of injury opinion regarding Commodore Barron. It holds the alleged 1899 conversation with British consul Mr Lyon at Pernambuco unproven and finds Barron unable to return sooner, deeming his absence without government permission a breach of naval duty.
The British Annual Register laments the slave trade’s persistence and even growth after abolition. It criticizes governments and treaties as failures, noting increased misery since the war and after Britain’s acts against the trade. It condemns murder robbery village desolation and related evils.
The account describes the brutal slave trade along the coast with fleets moving captives between ports, crowded into small ships and subjected to misery and high death rates. A Portuguese voyage to Brazil reportedly embarked 1100 slaves, of whom over 500 died at sea and many more perished after landing, while some were hidden under false decks or packed in casks.
An extract from a January 1822 American letter from Messina describes a Palermo plot to seize control, massacre unfriendly figures, and declare independence, with the citadel to surrender. A military tribunal handles about thirty defendants tied to disturbances as telegraphic news reports twenty seven executions in Palermo.
The Northumberland Female Academy announces a new term starting May first in the green house opposite D. S. Jackson's. Lists show textbooks for 1st class and 2d class including Guthrie's Universal, Murray's Grammar, Blair's Lectures, Walker's Dictionary abridged, and American Tutor's Assistant. Tuition is 75 cents, with limited board for six students at 150 cents per week, and extra instruction in craft and box making for nonmembers in late March.
G. H Plumb and E. J Burr are listed with Northumberland Academy in the February 28 1822 document. The entry records their associations and roles within the institution.
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