RY AMER II. B. MASSE R, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE, 'MARKET STREET, OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE. a jramfljt ilctospnprr Dcbotcto to DolWcs, aftctnturt, jftforalftg, jforcfflit nnr Domestic Sletos, science nntt the Elvis, aorfculturr, flltUluts, Amusements, Set NEW SERIES, VOL. G, NO. 50. SUNBURY, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, .PA.; SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1854. OLD SERIES, VOL. 14. NO.' T4. TERMS OF THE AMERICAN. THE AMF.BICAN I. pnblisheil every Pntimtay nl TWO DOLLARS per annum to be poiil Imlf yearly in advance. No paper discontinued until all arrearage, ure paid. All communications or letter, on linsiiies. Telntnij to the office, to insure attention, must be FUST PAID. TO CLUBS. Tliree eopie. to one address, s 00 Seven 1 Do W'" Fifteen Do Do 80 OU Five dollar, in advance will pay for tliree year'. sub scription to the American. Ono Sntinre of 10 lino., 3 time., Kvery .ub.e(uent insertion, One Square, 3 month., Bu months, One veur, Un.in'ejw Card, of Five lines, per annum, Merchant, and others, ndvcrtisiinr by the year, with the privilege of inserting different advertisements weekly. C9' Isirgel Advertisements, as per agreement. 100 2j 30U 60(1 600 3UU 10 DO 3. B. MASSES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ElXTEUmr, PA. Business attended to in the Counties of Nor thumberland, Union, Lycoming and Columbia. Itcfer to i P. & A. Rovoudt, Lower & Uarron, Somers & SnoilRriiae, Reynolds, Mcl nrlnnd & Co., Spcrinir, Good it Co., S. Philad. HENRY D0NNEL, ATTORNEY AT LAW . Office opposite the Court House, Sunbury, Northumberland County, Fa. Prompt attention to business in adjoining Counties. TO. H. ROCKEFELLER, ATTORNS1T AT LAW K II X Ml I! Ill', PA. Dec. 13, 1851 If. M. L. SHINDEL, ATTO?lTliY AT LAV , SUNBURY, rA. Ucccmber 4, 1S52. tf. DOCTOR I. W. I1UGUES, OFFICE on Broadway, near the Episcopal Church, Sunluiry. Suntiury, May 14, 1653. tf. N. M. New mini's Beathfs Row, Norwegian street, Pottsville, Penna. HAS CONSTANTLY OX HAND A 8UP ply of all Kiws of Lead iie. Sheet Lead, It luck Tin, Bath 1'ubs, Shower Baths, Hydrants," Hose, Double and Kiegle Acting Pumps and Wa ter Closets ; nls.r, all kinds of brass Cocks fur water and uteain. Bras. Oil Cup, and Uluhcs for Engines. All kinds of Conper Work and Plumbing done in the neatest manner at the shortest notice. . N. B. Cash paid for old Brass and Lead. Pottsville, Aug. M7, 1853. ly IMPORTANT TO PHYSICIANS AND LADIES. CONFIDENT!? cm lie iilaced, to tlie fullest extent, in the use of tlie SepponTRn. of Mia lir.rrsul l'liila delphin. S.i limnv tlunlstulil i'ii.c. are known "f entire le'ief of bailie, from" the most intense pain of bmly und anxiety of mind, niisiny Irom tne use nf ulhr;r npplir.it ions of no reputation whatever. Hewnre of mewl, el is. springs of nil kinds, and elastic preprint: ions, thetuiidencyol wlneli M injure the patient, m tmt loo wen Known m ninny km ferer. and pliv.ieian. To lived nil CVuinlurfieH. apply pei.;iiiully or by letter to Mrs. ., No. 321 Walnut Street ; examine her Signature on em.-ii Supporter, nutl her l'liiied Stales Cnpyriiht label, on eneh Imx. Her Siipp'ilters me sanctioned by a standing of 'JO years and iil' by the. Fncul tv. consisting os the highest names in the United States. Wt ssxd b Mil mt:s. Pricks m-ibur tb. Address, wh.ilejule or retail orders, M JAS. UlSTTri, Agent, Nu 3VI Walnut Street, Philadelphia. Phila., October 1, 1K-3. tf. WMrCAIiTYT ' B O O K S 13 L 1. E It , Mtrket Sired, SUNBURY, PA. J UST received and for sale, a fresh supply of F. V A X G E LI 1! A li H11SJ4J for Singing Schools. He is also opening at this lime, n largo assortment of Books, in every branch of Literature, consisting of Poetry, History, Novels, Romances, Scientific Works, Law, Medicine, School and Children' Books, Bibles i School, Pocket and Family, both with and without Engravings, and every of vari ety of Binding. Prayer Books, of all kinds. Also just received and for sale, Purdons Di gest of the laws of Pennsylvania, edition of 1 S3 1 , price only $6,00. Judge Reads edition uf Blackstone. Commen taries, in 3 vols. 8 vo. formerly sold at 10,00, and now offered (in fresh binding) at the low price of 86,00. A Treatise on the laws of Pennsylvania re specting the estates of Decedents, by Thomas F. Gordon, price only $1,00. Travels, Voyages and Adventures, all ot which will be sold low, either for cash, or coun try produce. 'February, 81, 1652. tt. Shamokin Town Lots. rfMIF subscriber is now prepared to exhibit and A dispose of Lots in the new Town-Plat of Shamokin. Persons desirous of purchasing can ascertain the terms and conditions of sale by csllina on the subscriber, at Shamokin. VM. ATWATEK, Agent. Shamokin, Oct. 15, 1853 tf. LEATHER. FRITZ & HENDRY, Store, 29 N. 3d street. PHILADELPHIA. Morocco Manufacturers, Curriers, Importers, Commision and General Leather Business. WHOLESALE & RETAIL. (C Manufactory 15 Margaretta Street. Phila., August 'i0, 1853. ly. MICHAEL TRACY, Wholesale Deal er in Confectionary, Fruits and Groceries, Ko, uoi MARKET Street, above sixth, south aide, next door to Red Lion Hotel, Philadelphia Phila.. Oct. 89. 1853. 3m. 171.KESH Vanilla Bean of a su just received and for aalo by lime 4. 18.M H. B. lupcrior quality MA8SER. tlVK Boureau'a celebrated ink, and also Con res ink for aale, whobsale and retail by December 28. 1850. H. li MASSER. SHOES All kinds of BooU Shoes and ilip peri for aale by F ' fi. F.I.RBERG & CO. Market afreet, opposite the Post Office. e.eWiry. Oct 8, 1853. JUSTICES' FEE BILLS For aale by , H. B MA88EF. eunbuy, m ' SI Select $ctle. From Dentlev'. Mireellany. A VERY IMPROBABLE STORY. KissiNa i tug: dark. The 10.15 'raih elided from Paddington Mav 7, 1847. In the left compartment of of a ct rlain first-class carriage were lour passengers ! ol lliesf, singularly enough, two were worth description. The lady had a smooth, while, delicate brow, strong ly marked eye-brows, long lashes, eyes Ihat seemed to change color, and a good sized delicious mouth, with teeth as white as milk. A man could not see her nose for her eyes and mouth, her own sex could and would have told ns some nonsense about it. She wore an unpretending grey ii.ll dress, buttoned to the throat, with lozenge-shaped buttons, a Scotch shawl "hat agreeably evaded the responsibility of col- ' ... 3 ii J.' I. ,: .1,1 l.e or. she was line a outs, eu uji" ,"7' plain feathers fitted her; and there she sat, smooth, snug and delicious, with a book in her hand, and a soupqfin of her snowy wrist just visible as she" held it. Her op posite neighbor was what I call a good style of man the more to his credit, since ne belonged to a corporation, that frequently tnrnsrout the worst imaginable style of youii" men. lie was a cavauy uiinn, oged twenty-five. He had a moustache, but not a very repulsive one; it was far from being one of those subnasal pig-tails, on which soup is suspended like dew on a shrub; it was short, thick, black as a coal. His teeth had not yet been turned by to bacco smoke to the color of tobacco juice, bis clothes did not stick to nor hang on him, they sat on him ; he had an engaging smile, aiid, what I liked the dog lor, his vanity, which was inordinate, w.as in its proper place, his heart, not in his face, jostling mine and other people's, who have none : iir a word, he was what one oltener hears of than meets n young gentleman. He wns conversing in an animated whisper with a companion, a fellow officer they were talking about, what it is far better not to do, women. Our friend clearly did not wish to be overheard, for he cast ever and anon, a furtive glance at his fair vis-a-vis, and lowered his voice. She seemed com pletely absoiued in her book, and that le assnre'd him. At last the two soldiers ?ame down to a whisper, and in that whisper (the truth must be told) the one who got down at Slough, and was lost to posterity, bet ten pounds to three, that he who was going down with us to Birth and immottal itv, would not kiss either of the ladies op posite upon the road. "Done !" "Done !" Now I am sorry a man I have hilheito praised, should have lent himself, even in a whisper, to such a speculation, but "no body is wise at all hours," nol even when the clock is striking five-and-t wenty : anil you are to consider his p(ession,- his good looks, and the temptation ten to three. After Slough the parly was reduced to three ; at Twyford one lady dropped her handkerchief, Captain Doligan fell on it ike a tiger and returned -tt like a lamb; two or three words were interchanged on that occasion. At Reading, the Marlbo rough of our tale made one of the sale in vestments of tbat day, he bought a 'Times' and a 'Punch ;' the latter was full ol steel- pen thrusts and wood-ciis. Valor and autv dep'ned to laugh at some inuateei humbug or other punctured by Punch. Now laughing together thaws our human ice ; Ion" before Swindon it was a talking match at Swindon, who so devoted as Captain Doligan he handed them out he souped them he tough-cmcUenca mem he brandied and cochinealed one, and lie brandied and burnt-sugared the other ; on tln ir return to the cairiage, one lady passed into the inner compartment to in spect a certain gentleman's seat on that side the line. R"uder, had it been vou or I, the beauty would have been the desi'rter, the average one would have stayed with us, till all was blue, ourselves included: not more surely does our slice of bread and butter, when it scapes from our hand, revolve it ever so often, alight face downwards on the carpet. But this was a bit of a fop, Adonis, dragoon so Venus remained in tete-a-tete with liin. You have seen a dog tneet an un known female of his species; how hand some, how tmnresse, now expressive ne becomes: such was Doligan alter Swin don, and to do the dog justice, he got handsomer anil handsomer ; and you have seen a cat conscious of approaching cream, such was Miss Ilaythorn, she became demurer and demurer; presently our Cap tain looked Oiit ol the window and laughed, this elicited an enquiring look from Miss Haylhorn. "We are only a mile from the Box Tunnel." "Do you always laugh a mile from the Box Tunnel!" said the lady. Invariably." "What for?" "Why! hem! it a a gentleman's joke." "Oh ! I don't mind its being silly, if it maki's me laugh." Captain Doligan, thus encouraged, recounted to IMiss Ilaythorn the following : "A lady and her husband sat together going through thn Box Tunnel there was one gentleman opposite, it was piteh dark ; after the tunnel, the lady said, 'George, how absurd of you to salute me going thiough the tunnel.' 'I did no such Ihing,' 'You rlidu'tl' -No, why?' 'Whv, because some how I thought you did !' " Here Captain Doligan laughed, and endeavored to lead his companion to laugh, hut it was not to ba done. Ihe train en tered the tunel. Miss Haylhorn Ah !" Doligan "What is the matter V Miff H. "I am frightened." Doligan (moving to her aide "Pray do not be alarmed, I am near you." This is suppose)) to .Hade to two esenetions ealld . I i Ih - aarfkl Mill Ml I port SltO .awry, man wj , -1 jitk. of s n.ious nature. Miss H. "You art near me, very near me, indeed, Captain Doligan." Doligan "i on know my name :" Miss Havlhorn "I heard Your friend mention it. I wish we were out of this dark place." Doligan "I could be content to spend hours here, re-assuring you, sweet lady." Miss H. "Nonsense!" Doligan "Pweep !" (Grave reader, do not put your lips to the cheek of the next pretty crealure you meet, or you will un derstand what this means.) Miss H. "Ee!" Friend "What is the matter?" Miss H. "Open the door! open the door !". There was a sound of hurried whispers, the door was shut and the blind pulled down with hostile sharpness. If any critic falls upon me for putting inarticulate sounds in a dialogue as above, 1 answer, with all the insolence I can command at present, "Hit bovsasbig as yourself." bigger perhaps, such as Sopho cles, Euripides, and Aristophanes; they began it, and 1 learnt it of them, sore against my will. Miss Haythorn's scream lost art of its effect, because Ihe engine whistled forty thousand murders at thp same moment ; and fictitious grief makes itself heard when real cannot. j Between the funnel and Bath our young friend had time to ask himself whether his conduct had been marker! by that delicate reserve which is supposed to distinguish the perfect gentleman. With a Jong face, real or feigned, he held open the door, his late friends at tempted to escape on the other side, im possible ! they must pass him. She whom he had insulted, (Latin for kissed,) deposited somewhere at bis foot a look of gentle blushing reproach ; (he olheV, whom he had not insulted, darted red-hot daggers at him from her eyes, and so they parted. It was, perhaps, lortunate for Doligan that he had the grace to be friends with Major Hoskyns, of his regiment, a veteran laughed at by the youngsters, for the Major was too apt to look coldly upon billiard balls and cigars; he had seen cannon balls and linstocks; he had also, to tell the truth, swallowed a good deal of mess-room poker, but with it some sort of moral poker, which made it as impossible for Major Hoskyns to descend to an nngentleman like word or action, as to brudi his own trowsers below the knee- Captain Doligan told this gentleman his story in gleeful accents; but Major Hoskyns heard him coldly, and as coldly answered that he had known a man lose his lile for the same thing; "Thrtt is nothing," con tinued the Major, "but unfortunately he deserved to lose it." At this the blood mounted to the yoliag man s temples, and his senior added, "1 mean to say he was thirty-five; you, I presume, are twenty-one !" " I wenty-five." "That is much the same thing ; will you j be advised bv me ?" "If you will advise me." "Speak to no one of this, and send White the jL'3, that he may think you have lost the bet." "That is hard when I won it!" "Do it for all that, sir." Let the disbelievers in human perfecti bility know that this dragoon, capable of a blush, did this virtuous action, albeit with violent reluctance, and this was Ins first damper. A week after these events, he was at a ball, not Ihe first, since his return, i?'e?i enlendu. He was in that state of fac titious discontent which belongs to us amiable English. He was looking, in vain, for a lady, equal in personal attractions to the idea he had formed of George Doligan as a man, when suddenly there glided past him a most delightful vision ! a lady whose beauty and symmetry took him by the eyes another look, "It can't be!" "Yes it is!" Miss Ilaythorn! (not that he knew her name!) but what an apotheosis! The duck had become a pea-hen ra diant, dazzling, she looked twice as beauti ful and almost twice as large a9 before. He lost sight of her. He found her again. She was to lovely, she made him ill and he, alone, must not dance with her. If he had been content to begin her acquaintance the usual way.it might have ended in kis - sing; hut having begun with kissing, it must end in nothing. As she danced, n I sparks of beauty fell from her on all around, but him she did not see him ; it was clear she never would see him one gentleman was particularly assiduous ; she smiled on his assiduity ; he was ugly, but she smiled on him. Doligan was surprised at his success, his ill taste, his ugliniess, his im pertinence, Doligan at last found himself injured : "Who was this man ?" "and what right had he to go on so?" "He had never kissed her, 1 suppose," said Dolly. Doligan could not prove it, but he felt that somehow Ihe rights of property were inva ded. He went home and dreamed of Miss Haylhorn, hated all the ngiy successful. lie spent a fortnight trying to find out who this beauty was ; he never could encounter her again. At last he heard of her, in this way : a lawyer's clerk paid him a little visit, and commenced a little action against him, in the name of Miss Haylhorn, for instilling her in a Railway train. The young gentleman was shocked, en deavored to soften the lawyer's clerk j that machine did not thoroughly comprehend the meaning of the term. The lady's name, however, was at least revealed by thin un toward incident ; from her name to her address, was but a short step ; and the same day, our creat-fallen hero lay in wait at her door and many a succeeding day without effect. But one fine afternoon, she issued forth quite naturally, as if she did it every day, and walked briskly on the near- When our ueeaufiit riwl is uf ly toe blow is dou.ly aevwe, ertuhiiif w fall by bliulgeoa we who thought lb. keemsl npier ntif at psrehsuce tarast el u in vsiu. lest Parade. Doligan did the same; he met and passed her many limes on Ihe Pa rade, and searched for pi'.y in her rytg, hut found neither look, nor recognition, ror any o her tentiment ; for all this she wa k ed and walked, till all the other promt na ders were tired and gone, then her cul prit summoned resolution, and taking off his hat, with a voice tremulous for the first time, besought permission to address her. She stopped, blushed, and neither ackr.owl edged nor disowned his acquaintance. He blushed, stammered out how ashamed he was, how he deserved to he punished, how he was punished, how little she knew how unhappy he was; and concluded by beg ging her not to let all the world know the disgrace of a man, who was already morti fied enough by the loss of her acqaintance. She asked on explanation ; he told her the action had been commenced in her name; she gently shrugged her shoulders, and said, "How stupid they are." Emboldened bv this, lie begged to know whether or not a life of distant unpretending devotion would, after a lapse of many var, erase the memory of his madness his crime! "She did not know !" ' She must nnw bid him adieu, ns shn bad somo preparations In make for n ball in the orescent where everybody cos to le. They parted, and Dolignan determined to bent the ball, where every body wns to be. lie was there, nnd after some time he obtained an introduction to Miss Haylhorn, itnd be dan ced wilh her. Her manner was gincious. Willi iho wonderful tact of her sex, she seem ed to have commenced ihe iicqimintnnce that evening. That niht, for llio fi t ft time, Dj lignan was in love. 1 wi'l spare the reader nil a lover's arts, by which ho succeeded in dining where she: dined, in dancing wheio 6he datieed, in overtaking her by accident, when she rode. His devotion followed hei even to church, where our dragoon was le. warded by learning there is a world where they neither polk nor smoke, tho tivo c.ipi" tal abominations of this ni.u. Ilu made actjnaintanco with her uncle, who liked him, nnd he saw at last wilh joy, that her eye loved to dwell upon him, when sho thought he tlid not observe tier. It was three months afier the Cox Tunnel that Captain Dolipian called ono day upon Captain Haylhorn, K. N , whom ho hail met twice in tris life, and slij-hlly propiiate 1 by violently listing to a culling-uut expedition; he called, and rn the usual iay asked per mission to pay his addresses fn his danghler. The worthy Captain straiyhtway begnn do ing Quarter-Deck, when suddenly he was summoned from the Hpartinr ut by a mysteri ous message. On hi return, he announced, wilh n loinl fliature of voice, that ' It was till right, anil his vi.-imr might run nluii;:ilrt us soon an be chose." My reader has divined the truih ; this nautical commander, terrible to ihe foe, was in complete and happy slIju- gi 'ion to his daughter, our heiuiiie. As ho wns taking leave, DViIgnan saw bis divinity glide into the diawing-runm. He followed her, observer a sweet consciousness which encouraged him; that consciousness which encouraged him ; that ron-iuMie-n deepened into confusion she tiled to laugh, he cried instead, and then she smiled again ? nnd when ho kissed her hand at the d.ior, it was "George" and "Marian," instead of Cap lain this nnd Mi's the other A reasona ble time niter ihi, (for my lale is merciful and skips formalities and toiluring delaj) these two weio very happy I hey were once mote upon the railroad, going to enjoy their honey-moon all by themselves. Marian Do" lignan was dressed just as before dueklike' and delicious ; all blight, except her clothes : but Geotge sat beside hef ibis time instead of opposite ; nnd she thank him genlly, from un der her long eye lasheV "Marian," said George, "married people should tell each other all. Will you ever forgive me if I own to you no " "Yes! yes!" 'Well, then ! yon remember tne Box Tun nel," (Ibis was the first allusion ho had ven- lured to it,) 'I am ashamed to say I had j bot X3 lo1. wi,h While 1 ,V0,,U kisi " j"1 ' ladies," and George, pa'.betic externally, chuckled within. 1 1 know that, George; I overheard you;" was ihe demure reply. "Oh ! you overheard rue? impossible." "And did you not hear me wbipor to my companion? I made a bet wilh her." "Vou mado a bet ; how singular ! What was il "Only a pair of gloves, George." "Yes, 1 know, but what about il ?'' 1 Thai if you did, you thould be my hus band, dearest." "Oh '.but stay then you could nol have been to very angry wilh me, love; why, dearest, llieu who brought thai action against me?" Mrs. Dulignr.ii looked down. "I was afraid you weie forgetting me! George, you will never forgive tne!" "Sweot angel why hei 6 is the Bux Tun nel I" Now, reader fie ! no ! no suoh thing! You can't expect to ba indulged in this way, every lime we come to a dark place be. sides, it is not the thing. Consider, two sen sible married people no such phenomenon, I assure you, took place. No scream Issued in hopeless rivalry of tho engine this time! A prisoner in the Wilkesbarre jail, named James Qoinn, who is under sentence of deaih, attempted to burn the jail by salting fire to the planks of his cell, lasl week. The smoke nearly suffocated turn and compelled him to give the alarm to save bis life. REPORT Of tilt Pitsidont of the Sutqitekanna Fiaili-oad j C'ncfltni, fu the S'.ockhrldcrs. ! The net to incorporate tho Susquehanna raihoad company was passed on the 14th day of April, 1851. By the lliird section of said act it is provided, "lliat if the said corn piny shall nol commence the construction of said rnnd within three years, and complete II in eight yenis from ihe passage of ibis act, ihe same shall be null and void." Thu ninth section of Ihe supplement 10 the net to incorporate ihe Sntihnry and Erie railroad company, passed the 57lll day of March, 1852, provides that, "if the Susquehanna railroad company shall fail lo put thai por tior. of ihe line of their road under contract, between Biidgcpoi t and Sunbury, within one year fiont the passage of this act, and com plete the same within two years thereafter, then and in thai case the Sunbury and Eiie. railtoad company is hereby nuihoiized to extend iheir road fiorn Puribuiy by tho valley of Ihe Susquehanna, lo connect wilh ihu Pennsylvania railioad at such point as may be deemed most expedient by Ihe said com pany." This company was organised on the lO'.h day of June, 1S52, and the grading and ma sonry of (ho entire lino from Bridgeport to So n bu i v, vmis put under contract en thu 21th of November, of ihe same year. The dis tance from Bridgeport in Sunbury is 51 J miles; upon 2(iJ miles of which Ihe grading and masonry have boon completed. -A portion of each mile is under way, nnd ninr rt i nl a half miles of iho most diliicult work have been guided for a double hack. -As far ns Ihe wink has progressed, it has been done in llio most permanent manner. Tho amount expended fur guiding nnd mrisoniv, supersti iiclute of bi idges, i i;;hl of way, cgineeiiug, fee , is $509,502, of which sum $-130,307 was paid in the slock of thu company al par, and the balance, S.379 105, ill minify. According lo ihe estimate of the engineer, there will yet be required lo com plete ihe grading nnd masnniy, nm! the su perstruclnrti of biidges, SrS2C,542, which under existing contracts, can bu met with i-CB2.sC5 in cash, and Sl it), 137 in slock Tl" same officer estimates life cost of the lailway superstructure, including iron, cross ties and laying, (at the present advanced price of railroad iron.) at 5.000 per mile. To meet these various '"expenditures, the company have the following- assets, viz: Su'jseriiition by Nnrttaimliertaiul comity SJOaO.C.OO llo. by Union county Sao.OOO Do. liy b ireuli i f Lewisburj. "0.000 1)... by liir.niali of Sanhury, (c ir.ditl nni,) '2",000 Imliviilii.tt siileripti.Mis, (inelniliiij e 'iilraeti'i.') JlOVriOO i.nan l"riri Yoik und Cini.lxTlnul Kailrcail Co. 600. 000 Mukbig a toli...f fcl,3M.'M l! I lie foiegiiiug subscriptions wero availa ble in cash, ihe means of ihe Company would be neailv sutiieienl lo complete the entire road, -'lie niliiiicip.il subset ipiions having, however, been paid in the bunds of the re respeclive counties and borough, the Com pany have been nimble to dispose of them at par, and l!i-y consequently remain unsold in the hands of thu treasurer. This has been owing, in a great measure, to Ihe prfssuie which has prevailed in the money market during Iho past season. There exists no good reason why the coupon bonds of Union nnd Nurthnnibei laud counties should not sell readily, and at a premium, to capitalists de filing a safe investment of their funds, secu red ns they are, not only by the pledged faith of the proper county, but by an equal amount of iho stock of this Company. The work on the line has been greatly retarded by ihe scarcity of luborcts, and by ihe unusual sickness which pievailed along the valley of tho Susquehanna (luting Ihe past season. Notwithstanding the most ac tive excitiuns were made by the contractors to obtain and keep up a force sufficient to complete the woik in ihe lime specified in their contract, il was not until very recently that they were able lo procure a foice a! all adequate lo iho accomplishment rf that ob ject. The health rif the line is, however, now cr.lirely recovered the force employed exceeds two thousand men and Iho con tractors are presiiig forward thu yroik wilh gieat eueigy. If funds are promptly provj. di d, they can still complete ihe entire grading and masonry, between IJiidgeport and Sun bury, befuiu Ihe lirsl day ol August iif.vi, ihe period stipulated in iheir coulrnut wilh ihis company. This result is gieaily to be desi red ; ns well to render pioductive, at the earliest possible moment, the iuvenlmeuts of our own stockholdeis, os In accommodate iho vast imprests involved in connecting roads, which depend for Iheir productiveness and nn outlet, in a great measure on ihe com. plelion of the Susquehanna railroad. This is especially hue of Ihe Dauphin and Pus qiiehanna laiiioad the Lykens Valley rail road ihe Tievcilon railioad, and the Sun bury and Philadelphia railroad as well ns Iho Williamsporl and F.iuiiia railroad. Al Sunbury we reach ihe nnrlhuin termi nus of the Sunbury and Philadelphia railroad: Iho nutlet of iho g'eat Shamokin coal fields, second to none in iho Stale, and possessing, in many respects, advantages superior to the best collieiies of the schnylkill region This road, 20 miles in length, during the lasl sum. mer, was relaid with a heavy T rail the en tire distance fram Sunbury to the town of Shamokin, in the centre of Ihe basin, and the enterprising gentlemen who have conhol of iho aflaiis of the company, have Iheir exten ,ion lo Mount Carmel in such a stale of for. wardness, as lo insure Ihe completion of the w bole line al a very early day j Ihus afford ing every part of that extensive region direst communication wilh the Fusquchaona rail-toadf The vnrious coal companies now operating in and nbnui Shamokin, are expending lurae sums of money, in opening new dtifts, erect ing coal-brakers and nil other machinery ne" cessessary to enable them to work Iheir col lieries upon tho most extensive scale. Five hundred thousand tons, it is ihonght, would be a moderate estimate tf the amount of their shipments during the comrning season. At Sunbury we also connect with tho southern terminus of the Sunbury nuJ Erie railroad, portion of which is now under con tract nnd the crading nearly completed fiom Sunbury to WilliamsDorl. C,uwrn Wit. liamsport nnd Milion, Iho point of connection with !hi Caltawissa railroad, it is expected lhal iho grading will be finished, and a single track laid eaily the ensuing summer. The Susquehanna railroad company have author zed, nnd placed under contract an extension nf iheir road from Sunbury to I.ew isburg, from which point they can either conne:t w ild ihe Sunbury nnd Eiio Railroad, or con linue Iheir road lo Williamsport, as may hereafter be deemed expedient. In either case, or should ihe Sunbury andEiiecom. pany proseculo their wmk from Williams- pott, by the valley of ihe Susquehanna, to Baltimore and Philadelphia, passing over the entire length of tho Susquuhanna rail- road. At illiamsport, we connect with iho Williamsport and Elmira railroad, which extends Irom Williamsporl on the line of the Susquehamn, and Sunbury nnd Erie rail roads, in rennsylvanin, lo Elmiin, on the New York and Erie roalrnnd, in the State of New York, a distance ot 74 miles'. Twenty five miles of ihe Soulhren end of ihis road, extending from Williamsport lo Rulston, have been completed, and trains of car pass between ihose points every day. The bal since of Ihe road, from Ralston to Elmira, is. ne.W.y graded, and, at the uoilhern end the track is laid for several miles. Tho toad, it is confidently expected, will be graded, nnd a single hack laid from Williamsport to El. mira, before. Ihe 1st of July next thus com- plcting ihe last link hi the chain of rnilioads, connecting by a north and sonlh line, lliiougli the centre of Pennsylvania, the great North ern Lakes wilh the Atlantic sea-board. The whole extent of the road embraced by ihe charier of the Susquehanna Railroad Company, is nbit 94 miles, commencing at ihe terminrsof the York and Cumberland Railroad, nt Bridgeport, ppposiio 0 Harris burg, and ending at Williamsport. Thus: From Bridgeport to Sunbury 54J miles. From Sunbuty to Wiliamsport 39J To,aI- S4 miles. The average grade for Iho entire line is under two nnd a half feet per niilo. On that pmtion of Ihe mad under contract, between Sunbniyntid the terminus cf the Yoik nnd Cumberland Railroad, over 30 miles of the road is dead level. On 16 miles tho grade is under three feel per mile. On C miles she grade is over ihree nnd under six feet per mile. On 4 miles, tho grade is over six nml under eight feet per mile. And on 2 miles, ihe grade is above eight and under ten feet feet per mile, In every instance the giade is in the direction of ihe trade toward liie seaboard. The grades above eight feet were tendered necessary lo eflect crossing at the points of intersection wilh the Cumberland Valley and Shamokin P.nihoads. Is it not rcmaikuble that a line cf railioad possessing so many local advantages; wilh such abundant resources supplied by the country through which il passes, should sn long have been overlooked or neglected? The coal trade alone, of ihe valley of the Susquehanna, would unquestionably render a railioad along its borders a source of ptofi'. lo its owners, l'ut when In this is added the products of the richest Agricultural valleys in Penus) Ivania tilled by Ihe most careful husbandry the iion which is found side by side with the coal, in exhaustible quantities and the lumber of ihe gialest limber country in fin y of Iho Atlantic Stales the productive ness of such a load is rendered certain be yond a peradvenliire. Wiih the iron trade of the Susquehanna and i s li ibutaries, Ihe public have long been familiar; iho value of iho lumber hade may be judged of by the fact ihnt a! the port of Williamsport, itlono, theie weie shipped by canal during the boating seasoii of the year 1S53, thirty-one millions of feet. of plank and boards. The value of the lumber trade of the West Branch of the Susquehanna during ihe past year, may safely bo estimated al S-100,000,000, n,:d lhat of the North ibiinch, while it does not equal the West, Is nevertheless a most important item. The country abounds wbh lowns and villages, and a thrifty, enterpri sing and rapidly increasing population, wilh all the disadvantages under which the valley of the Susquehanna has luboied, in conse quence of being cut ofl from tho rest of the business world during one third of thu year, while the liver and canals are ice-bound, il has in ihe face of Ihose obstacles, gone on developing its resouices and increasing its wealth and piosperily, unlill it new embra ces within its limits as many of the elements and maltuialsof trade und commerce, as any other pmtion of territory of equal extent in the United Slates, It has been usual in the building of rail, roads in other portions of the country, to first construct Ihe main stem of the road, and af ter that Ihe lateral branches for the accomo. datioti of the local hade ; but in the case of the Susquehanna railroad, lateral roads ex tending in all to near 100 miles, have been completed in udvanue, and in anticipation of tho const ruction of the main line. A sum of not less than f3 000,000 has already been ex penJed In opening railroad, losing from the western slope of the southern aid middle coal fields to the Susanehanna. all of which will connect wiih and become tributary to the Susquehanna, railroad. There is but one estimate that time will not falsilfy, and that is, thai every favorable outlet will ba filled In it. lilmnl rnnnrilv. . . .. , j- The income on each will be measured by tho number of Ions the improvement can carry.. The completion of the line of tailronil from Elmira to Baltimore and Philadelphia, by ine valley ol tne Susquehanna will open such a thoroughfare. In distance, it has the advantage of all others no? onnsiriieted in grades it has no rival it local trade would alone justify its construction in short, in ine language oi a Uislinguished Ballimoiean, in whatever relation ihis nw line cf mu,l -onsidered whether in relerenr.R in n,. wants nnd convenience or the population upon its course, nnd of ihose who reside within the compass of its various hibnlary road, or whether in reference lo tbnt ,., body of Ihe traveling population whose occa. sions o: uusmess or pleasure carry them through the several Stales lo the Nona, iha East, or the West, this line or Susquehanna improvements must ever possess atlraciions, which will render it one 0r ihe most desira ble nnd piofitahle in the whole country. By oider of ihe Board, WM. V. PACKER, President. Offick Scsqcehanna R. U. Co. 1 Ilarrisburp, January 0, 1854. ' A LADY'S WAJiTS. Elizabeth, Iho daughter of Si, John Spen oei, who flourished in Ihe middle of lie siy. tecmh century, nnd was known as ihe "Rich Spencer," married an EnalMi noblemen, to whom, a few years after her marriage, tht addressed the follow ing leller ; "My Sweet Life, Now thai I declared to yon my mind for Ihe settling of your estate, I suppose it were best for me to bethink what allowance were best for me j for, consider ing what enre 1 ever had of vour estate, nnd how respectfully I deait wiih those which, both by the law of God, nature, and civil po licy, wit, religion, government, and honesty, you, my dear, are bound to, I pray und be seech you to giant lo tne, your kind and lov ing wife, the sum of one thousand pounds per annum, quarterly lo l,e paid. "Also, I would, besides that allowance for my apparel, have six hundred pounds added, yearly, for the performance of chaiitable works; these things I would not, neither, be accountable for. ' Also, 1 will have three horsrs for mv own saddle, ihnt none may dare lo lend or l or- row , none icnil but I, none borrw but you. "Also, I would have two gentlewomen. lest ine should bn ;,!. ,.Ln 1, ol;.,.- ;, , ' ' - , hVlll.!W IV would ba and indecent think for a gentlewo man lo stand mumping alone, w hen God lias uiessea ineir lord anil lady wilh a great estate. "Also, when I ride hunting or hawking, or travel from one house to another, I will have them attending, so for each of those said wo men I must havo a horse. "Also, I will have six or eiuht r?ent!empn and will have two coaches; one lined wilh ' myell, wjth four very fair horses; and a coach for mv wompn. i;b.i ...;,i, ...ui cloth, o'eilaid wiih gold; ihe other wiih ..... .1.. II I . . ' ..a.ie., iui ,a,i, win, watchet lace and silver, with four good horses. Also, I will have two coachmen, one for myself, ihe other for my women. "Also, w hencver I travel, I will bo allowed not only coaches and spare horses for mo and my women, but such carriages as shall be filling for all; orderly, not pestering my ihiuss with my women's, nor theirs wiih chambermaids', nor iheiis with washmaida.' "Also laundresses, when I travel; Iwill have Ihem sent away with Ihe carriages to see all safe and the chambermaids shali to before w ith the grooms, lhat the chambers may bo ready, sweet and clean. "And for myself, besides my yearly allow ance, I would have twenty gowns apparel, six of Ihem excellent good ones, eight of ' them for the country, and six others of them excellent good ones. "Also, I would have to pit in my pursn Uvo thousand pounds and two hundred pounds, and so you to pay my debls. Also would have eight thousand pounds lo buy ihe jewels, and the six thousand pound for a pearl chain. "N ow, 6eeing, I have been, and am so reiisoriab'e unto you, I prny you to find my children appearel, and Iheir schooling. and ail my setvants, men and women, their wages. 'Also, I will have all my house furnished, and all my lodging chambers lo be suil.nl with all such lurmiure as is lit, as beds stools, chairs, cuehions, caipels, silver warming-pans, cupboards of pkiie, lair hangings, ko.; for my drawing chambers, in ull bouses, I will have Ihem delicately furnished wiih hangings, couch, canopy, cuihiona, car pets, &ia ''Also, my desire that ycu would pay your debts, build up Ashley House, nd pmenase lands, and letnl no money (as you love God) lo Lord Chamberlin, which would h.tve all pei haps your life, Irom you; remember hii son, my Lord Wildan, what enteitHinment he gave me when you were al the Tiliyardj I you were dead, he said, he would be a" husband, a father, a brother, end aaij he would many me. I protest, I grieve to the poor old man have to litilu wit and hon esty to use his friend so vilely ; ,0, he fed me wiih untmths concerning the Chaiier House; but lhat is the least ; he wi.h. s me much harm-yon know how. God keep vou and me from hun, and ,ich as ha is "So now 1 have declared la roy mind what I would have, and wha? I w?,n,T "5 have I pray y0fl whn E. (ft u low a thousand pound, more lhat, ow I d. sire, and double attendance. I oyr lovinn; wife, 1 ,tSlu. CMrrt)3.! 4
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