SUNBURY, NOHTII UMliKKLAND COUNTY, PA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1855. OLD SERIES, VOL- 10. Noi 13.
XKW SERIES, VOL. 8, NO. 39.
Tha Suabury American,
rL'ULI.Hfll VI ATOAt
BY H. B. MASSEB,
Market Square, Sunbury, l'tnna.
TKrtMS OP SUBSCRIPTION.
rV LIJI.I.AHS per siuiiiiti lob paid lisIC yearly In
lmnoe. Nn pupal ilisciiiiin-ied until all erresragenre
i ..uimiaicuilnns ir letter, ihi business retsiing to
ni- Ore. i" insure atiemi.Mi, must be TOST PAID.
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V ive .1 -IHre in wlvaiiee will 1 tnt three reel's suh-
pripti"ii t" American.
P ..:innters will ple"e ct our A"M,, nd franl1
IritPr.r..Hi.iiMi,iKiil'rnti.i money. Tliey e permit
e,l p. il i tin. umler llie Post OflrCe Imw.
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We hve e "ilii"i "l Willi orit cstnhliehment Well
elerie.l .IHM OVFIOK. which will enniile u. tii execute
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neiuiMl tto. rvery variety of priming.
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c id J 7 iladelphia :
.i, I'h-m. (iihl.ms, Esq..
, 4. l.iim, Smilli ft Co.
; ,. Aoil A NTliKAClTE COAL
,. .-I TUB I.SSCASTKn CoLLlIBT,
.Northumberland county, Ft.,
ItLKii we have very extensive improve
ments, anil are prepared to oiler to the
a v. iv superior artio'e, particularly suited
pnl'l
lor tiir manufacture of Iron and making Steam.
Our sizes nl Coal are:
I.ljMt', for Smelting purposes.
STEAMUOAT, Y lor do. and Steamboat
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f.iHi. ir Family use and Steam.
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Jj ',' ' ' I for Limeburnera and Steam.
Our point of Shipping ia Sunbury, where ar
iiiiigoiiriii. are made to load boata without any
1Hi,' COCHRAN. PEALE& CO.
J. J. Coi n hah, Lancaster.
('. V. 1'kali, Sliamokin.
I'svj. Kmkiiolii. Lancaster.
A. i; I'MDAanKKH. do.
ir.lrr adilreswd lo Shamokin r 8unbtiry,
ill irn'ivr prompt attention.
I'.'li. hi. HAS. I v
XJ. S. OF
' Cnd and our Native Land."
CM SOl.TIHANNA ('AMP, No. 89, of the O.
of llif l('. S. A. holds il staled sessions ever
Von4T ening in their Kew Hall. op osite E.
V Itiiiht "tore 8 mliarv, Pa. luilitation and
rrga la. .UU.
P M. SHINDEL, W-
C.
Km'l. WllVBMT. I. S.
Ui l'ii'V Oct. 50, 1H55.
O. OF TJ. -A.. 1-
Si;xi;ky ocncii.. No. ao, o. of r. a.
M. moit everv Ttksii? evenin? in the
Ame icaii Hull. n o.isile E. V. Uriu'lit'a store,
Miirte. ir. i t. Snnlmry, Pa. Members of the
riler are rei.e. tlu'ilv rrqmsted to attcnil.
P. M. SHI.NDEL, C.
A. Hihiveb. R. 8.
Sunbur), Oct. 20, 185.
IU ELSII1R EATING SILOON!
I IIAKI.: U. WIIARTON
S tikeu Saloon formerly occupied
l.y .1. W. Washington,
In Marl tt Square, Sunbury,
where lie will be happy to dispense to his
friends and the eating public generally, all the
tleliciirie of the season, including Oysters tresh
sn.l apiced. The bill of fare will include sul
staiiiiulssiid delicacies, calculated to satisfy those
who are hirisrv, and ihoie who desire merely to
nave iMr palates tickled. It will tie open at all
burs of llie day, and all reasonable hours of the
niclil. Iive ns a rail and taste fir yourselves.
IV Families and partiea supplied on abort
notice.
Sunbury, fcpt. 55. 1835
LEATHER,
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An, 29 North Third Street, Philadelphia.
flllliOi;Cl) Mniiiiluclurers, Curriers and Iin-
IVA purlers of l IlKNCH CAI.K-SKIX8
and
lealcr in lied
ml
Oak SOLE l.EATHElt k
SHY.
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T. H. S3IITH,
PORT MONNAIE, POCKET BOOK,
OrcMi-.v C- laiiufiiiturer,
A'. M'. cur. nf Fourth ff Chestnut Sti.,
I'llll.ADF.I.I'lll.
Hwis .n band a iniue and varied assortment of
I'.irl M'OiiiMi.'e.
I'.i kei Hooks.
IVi.ktr4 Cas.
.ne M ilder'.
J' irl K'.ili'M.
i'mmMo Uee'k.
Work Uoxes,
('alias.
Traveling Bags,
Hackgammou Uoirda,
Chess Men,
Ciiar Cases,
iiro-wmg Cases.
Pocket Memorandum Books,
AI- general assortment of English, French
n l li-rinan Kam y (i.Hls. Fine Pocket Uullery.
!at irs. lUaor Strops and Gold Pena.
Vh ilesale, Second and Third Floors.
f. H. SMITH,
J. W. ror. Fourth 4 Chestnut Sts.. 1'hilada.
,. Ii On the receipt of I, Superior Gold
'en will be sent to any part of the United Stalea,
y mail ; deacribinj pn tnu, 'n'J'u,n b,rJ'
'iMiiL. Marct 9i. IBM Py-
DANVILLE HOTEL,
JOHN DEEN, JR.,
Market Street, VanMle, Pa,
rl' I -l it one of th largest and most eororoo.
dious hotels in l h interior of Pennsylvania.
I has been recently fitted lip, in eicelleat ttyie,
Mill all the modern convenience.
I. ille. Sept. 33, 1885
TABMER3 TAKE NOTICE.
11D0 hushel Flaxseed wanted immediately at
llie Cheap Store of K. Y. Uright, for which
ie highest market pric will be paid,
rtu ib irv, October 6, 1 859. If
I I A UUVV ARB. -Table Cutlery, Raton, Poek
ll el Knives. Hand saws' Wood taws iu
... I. It . r L . .-.I llna
latel DH. Waiter. AVc juat reciva ind for
,) l,y I. w. Tin IKftVU
ehiiilrurs Deo. t, IW4.
NEW ENGLAND.
BT WUITTIRB.
Oh Orornrr hill may cotch the ann
t Bpnpnth the plorions heaven of France ;
Ami stnuims. n jnicin)? na thoy run
l.iTclike lieni'ath the buy-beam'u planco.
Mhv wnndor where the oranfre brugh
With polilen fruits ia bending low
And there may bend brighter sky
O'er irreen and elawic Italy
And pillared fume and ancient grave
Bear record of another time.
And over shaft and architrave
The preen ltixurient ivy climb j
And fur tnwitrds the rising sun.
The palm may shake its leuves on high,
Whore flowers are opening, one by one,
Like stars upon the twilight sky ;
And breezps soft as sighs or love
Above the brond hnnnma Btray.
And through the Brahmin's sacred grove
A thousand hricht lined pinions piny !
Yet. unto thee. New Knglnnd, still
Thy wandering boiis shall stretch their
arms.
And thy nule chart of rock nnd hill
Seem dearer than the land of paling !
The mossy oak and mountain pine
More welcome tlmn the liunyan s shade,
And every free, bluo stream of thine
Seem richer than the golden bi d
Of Oriental waves, which glow
And sparklo with the wealth below J
bsbm Jr jnaaNaeBki mbtw .
PlisccKann.
SPIRITUALISM FIZZLING OUT.
It would seem that scarcely nny f.m or do.
Insion, however preposterntis, can lie advanced
ill these days, snys the .Toiirnnl of Coinmerep.
without securing the belief of cnnxiderahle
numbers, including persons of acknowledged
ability, prudence und sagacity. But they
cannot long endure t he severe scrutiny of
religion nnd intelligonee. Like icebergs in
the blazing sun, they must ore long waste
away before the all pervading liirht of truth.
"Spiritualism," which is one of the most mon
strous of these modern dogmas, already gives
signs of approaching a I rophy and decay. The
editor of the New York I'ntiifiiuler. who r- p
resents himself as having fur months pnsl
been "at the head of the most extensive es
tablishment in existence fur the investigation
of the phenomena, publishing one of the lead
ing journals, devoted entirely to the cause,
and employing about the premises no less
Ihnn eight mediums, for public sittings, for
iuuestigation and instruct inns, and Ibis eslab-
lishment being earned on at nn expense of
over z ntinilieil dollars a week, comes nut in
bold renunciation of the whnle craft. Still
enteriaining belief in the '-undeniable eviden
ces of the existence of disembod'ed spirits."
these mnnifi st.it ions are reuari'ed as inflict
ing incaleiibible evil wherever tln ir influence
is felt. The editor, Mr. John F. Whitney,
fays :
'Now. after a long and constant watchful
ness, seeing for in on t lis and years its progress
and its practical workings upon its devotees.
Its Delievers, ami its mediums, we are com
pelled to speak our l.onest convict ion, which
is that the iiniuiresliitions coming through
the acknowledged mediums, who are designa
ted as Rapping. Tripping, Writing and Kn
tranced Mediums, has had a baneful influence
upon its believers, nnd create discord nnd
confusion ; that the generality of these
teachings inculcnte fuNe idis, approve of
selfish individual acts, and indorse theories
and principles which, when carried out, ile-
tnse and make man but little better than the
brute creation. These ore among the fruits
of modern Spiritualism, nnd we do not hesi
tate to say, thut we believe if these manifes
tations are continued to be received, and to
be as little understood as they are, und have
been, since they first made their appenrance
at Rochester, and mortals are to be deceived
bv their false, fascinating, and snake like
charming powers which co with them, the
day will come when the world will require the
appearance of another Savionr to redeem the
world by its deputing from Christ's warning
to ins followers to hewaro of wolves in sheen s
clothing, and to try what manner of spirits ye
were ui.
A nd a;ain he says :
"Seeing, ns we have, the gradual progress
it makes with its believers, purticular'y its
mediums, from lives of morality to that or
sensuality and immorality, gradually and cau
tiously undermining the foundation of good
principles, we look back with amazement to
the radical change which a few months will
bring about in individuals, fop its tendencies
are to approve and endorse each individual
act and character, however good or bad those
acts may be."
The article from which these extracts ore
made, rnncludes as follows :
"We desire to send our wurning voice, and
if our humble position, as the head of u nub.
I c journal, our known a Ivocuey r Spir tnal.
ism, our experience, and the conspicuous part
we have pluyed among its helievers, the hon
esty.and fearlessness with which we huve ile.
remind the subject, will weigh scything in our
favor, we desire that our opinions maybe re.
ceived, and those who are moving passivelv
down the rushinj rapids to det met ion, shonlil
pause, ere it be too late, and save themselves
from the blasting influence which those mani
festations are causing,"
Such developments nnd confessions from a
source so high in spiritual humhiiireerv. must
tell d lustrously noon the 'establishments ."
' circles," and other machine rv employed iu
..A.iM... r. 1 .1.:- j , i f -
n;i"S iinmu mis uegirucuvp tieiusion
Land in Camforkm. The Kan Joaquin
Till flats, thought to be the most worthies-
lands iu California, from their being sublert
to overflow, and covered with tules. having
lately been put under cultivation for the rais
ing of pen-nuts. I he vine producing this nut
thrives vigorously there, and an abiiilaut crop
was expected this season. Ihe basket wit
low i also a native of that region, and the
manufacture of willow ware front it has been
commenced In Sacramento city. The flats
are also adapted to the raising of the orange
cranberry, a product or much value.
Locis Napoleon in our G'bain Mabkkt.
The Rochester Union states that the agents
of the French emperor have been largely en
gaje I tbi fall in purchasing wheat in the
West, on his acconnt. They have purchased
nil.nor) bushals, of which Mo.'WIO came to
Bagald, and 2'0.nvi burhels t Oswego. All
but 40,000 went down the Krie Canal. The
same a rents are still buying in Illinois and
other Western State, to go down the Mis
sissippi and oni bj Js'tw Or Mot.
The Expedition for Camels.
The Washington Star, contain a letter
from Major Wayne. U..S. A., the officer in
charge of the expedition or this Government
to procure enmeis to be brought 'hither with
the view of experimenting for their' future
employment in U. S. military transportation,
especially on onr great Western deserts. The
letter is dntrd Constantinople, Oct. 31. ami
gives an interesting account or the writer's
visit to the Crimen, nnd his kind reception by
several English officer. Ile found there
both the Bntrician two-hnmped camel, ami
the Arabian, or one-humped ; but the latter
alone seemed to be used for the purpose of
military transportation, and to these there are
objections. Major W. farther says !
Col. McMurdo informed me that in the ex
pedition against Sinde he had in service about
twenty-five thousand camels, und that from
his experience he esteemed them highly : so
much so, that he had then at Sinnpe. three
thousand of them, in addition to the few now
in use in the Crimea, in readiness Tor the
campaign next spring. The loads they will
carry depend much, he said, upon the service
in which thev are employed rapid move
ments n at u rally requiring light burdens but
their average foads, under favorable circum
stances, be stated to be about six hundred
pounds, and these they will carry easily, with
out pushing, twenty-five or thirty miles a
day. lie mentioned ihe interesting fact,
which I do not remember to have heard be
fore, that during the expedition against .Sinde.
General Napier organized a most efficient
corps of one thousand men, mounted upon
fiva hundred dromedaries two men to each
dromedary the men sitting back to back,
one facing thi! head, the other the tail, and
both armed with rifles mid sabres. The man
facing the head was the animal's groom and
driver, and the manner of using the corps wus
as follows :
Upon nrnving at tin; scene of operations
the ill-nine darics Were made to km el. in
square, umler i-liaie of their five hundred
drivers, forming, as it ei-e. a base of opera
tions, from which the ntln-r live hundred ope
rated us infantry. As the advanced body
moved, the square or squares, if more 1 hail
one wus formed, if required, were also moved j
and in cusm of extremity, the sipmre ofTered a
cover under which the one" thousand men
cuiild find com pa rat ice shelter behind the an
imals, who were prevented from rising by a
bubble on the fore leg. and use their rifles
lanet elli clively. This corps. Col. Mi Mnnlo
informed me, could he readily marched 70
miles in nny direction iu twelve hours, (ft !-G
miles per hour.) and rendered throughout the
campaign most ellicieiit service.
(Jen. Simpson also bore testimony to the
value of the camel iu the same campaign, and
said be preferred them to the best Kng'ish
horses. Major Wayne had abandoned his
contemplated visit to l'ersia. ns before he
could return the roads would be tdocked up
with snow. He would proceed next to Hyria
or Kgyid. for dromedaries, and then back to
Snnrii'i fur burden camels, in the expectation
of comiueiu-ing his return home sometime in
the mouth of Februurv.
Jews Witnessing for Christ.
The Christian world has been scandalised
within a Tew veurs by the buhl attempts of
cultivated skeptics, like Francis Newieiin. to
impeach the perfection of the Saviour's char
acter. One must pity the moral obtuseness
of such nu n. who seem overtaken bv 'mucin!
oiinnness. so tunr wnue the ngnt slnnotii in
darkness, the darkness comprehends it not
In contrast with such moral ilehiisement. it is
cheering to note bow Jewish prejudices are
gradually abating, and candid ami honorable
Jews are admitting the moral sublimity i-flhe
Saviours's li'e. The late Ir. Noah, or New
York, gave the following testimony:
"Jesus preached nt all limes, and in all
plnces. in and out of the temple, with anelo-
qveneesneh as no mortal has since possessed
. . . . It has been snid. with some common
dation on what has been called my liberality.
that I did not in a former discourse term Jesns
of Nazareth an impostor: I have never con
sidered him as such : the impostor genernllv
aims at temporal pnwer.ntlempts to subsidise
the sick and wenk believer, and draws around
him persons of iiiflnencewhomhe can control
Jesns wn free from fanaticism: his was i
quiet, subduing, retiring faith. Hn mingled
with the poor, communed with the wretched
avoided the rich, and rebuked the vain ulnn
on In the calm of the evening, he sought
shelter in the secluded groves of Oliver!, or
wandered pensively on the shores of Galilee.
Ile sincerely believed Ins mission, courted no
one, flattered no one; pointed and severe in
ins denunciations, he was calm and subdued
in his religion. These are not the character
istics of nn impostor: but. admitting that we
give a different interpretation to his mission,
whpn one hundred and hTty millions believe
in his divinity, nnd we see around ns abun
dant, evidence or tho happiness, good faith.
mild government, and liberal reelings which
spring from his religion, what right has any
one to call him an imposter that religion
which is calculated to make mankind harry.
cannot he a false one."
IK. Raphael, the elegant scholar and elo
quent Rubbi, speaks in a similar strain :
iry 11 are desirous of knowing the opinion
of a Jew. ay. of a teacher in Israel, resnocliug
tha proceeiiingsagninst and the condemnation
of the Master from Nazareth, I do not liesi-
tate to tell yon that I do not by any means
feel bound to indent il'y myself, or my brethren
iu failh, with these pioci edings, or In uphold
that condemnation : Las a Jew. do sav that
it appars to ine. Jesus Ix-vame the victim or
fan.it ic'sni combined wi'h jealousy nd lust
of power in Jewish Ireiurchs, I'ven, us in
later ages. I loss mid Jerome of Prague. Lat
imennul Kiiiley, became the victims of fiiuiit
icism convened with je ibnisy und lu-t of pow
er in Christian hieraichs j 'and while I etui
tae Jew or the present day protest against
being indentlfied with the zealots who were
Concerned in the piocceiliug against Jesus
of Nuzureth, we me fir from revi irg li s
character or deriding h:s precept, which are
for Ihe most part tho-ie i f Moses and tl e
prophets." II orcamon awl Jt.Jlectnr.
Dasiri, Wni'STr-R'a Marriaok. The man
ner of Puuiel Webstpr's engagement in Miss
Fletcher is thu' plensantly discovered by a
letter writer: "He was then a young luwver
in Portsmouth, N. II. At cue or hi visits
t Mis Grace Fletcher he had, probably
with a view or utility and enjoyment, been
holding skeins or silk thread for her. when
suddenly he stopded, saying, 'Grace, we have
thus been engaged in untying knots t let u
ee if we can tie a knot, one or which will not
untie for a lire-time.' lie then took a piece
of tare, and, after beginning a knot of a pe
culiar kind, cave it to bar to complete. This
was the ceremony and ratification of their
engagement. And now in the little box
marked by Mm With tl words. Pr ci us I)o
cttiuent.' containing t be letters of lis early
courtship, this unique, memorial if till to tm
I rmrnj tu knot oem oowea.
Th3 Hoop Petticoat.
Prentice, of tlio Louisville Journal, don't
like the hoop petticoat. Hear what be says
of it: .
A correspondent asks n to "take off' the
hoop petticoat. We cannot take it of, but
we heartily wish that Borne of our female nc-
rjiiatntances would. Certainly fashion never
Mutated a more tinirracenil and senseless
mode. It is a gross libel upon the taste ami
udgment of the sex. Rebellion against
such a fashion is simply fidelity to woman
hood. Of course we shall offer no apology
for sputiking or a thing that so obtrudes itself
upon everybody's notice, and runs into nearly
everybody's convenience. If it were a mere
private Imlcnusuess the case mifbt bo difiVr-
ent, but it is seriously a pnblic nuisai co. If
there are not independence and delicacy
enough in fashionable, society to abate it, it
must be abated by the strong arm of ridicule.
We are greatly tempted to republish No.
Hi ot the spectator, but lorbeur for the
present. It might be a desperate remedy,
but it would be a sure one.
Hoops are certainly inconvenient in omni
buses where three inflated female fill a side
intended for six ; and in grand parties where
half a dozen ladies occupy a large sized draw
ing room. But then they insulate tlio wearer,
ind keep her sacred from contest with the
ruder and rougher sex. In other words, like
a blacksmith's leather apron, they serve to
keep ofl "sparks."
THE BARK THAT LOW BUILT.
fA correspondent or the Evening Post.
happily hits off the alarm of the British offi
cials, about the haik Maury, in the following
paraphrase of "the House tint Jack built. J
I. This is the bark that Low built.
II. These are the guns that lay in the
hold of llie. Bark that Low bniit.
III. This is tho policeman, cunning nnd
bold,
Who peeped at the guns that lay in
the hold
of the Bark that Low built.
IV. This is the mate, a bit of a wag.
Who quizzed the policeman, cunning
and bold.
Who peeped at the guns thut lay in
the hold
of tho Bark that Low built.
V. This is tho boy with ears so great
U'ho repeated the story told by the
mate
Tho merry mate, a bit of a wag
ll'lio quizzi d the policeman, cunning
und bold,
H'ho peeped at the guns that lay in
the hold
of tho Bark that Low built.
VI. This is the lawyer with his big green
bag.
H'ho pumped tho lad with ears so
great.
ll'lio repented the story told by the
mate
The merry mate, a bit of a wag
ll'lio quizzed the policeman cunning
und bold,
H'ho peeped at the guns that lay in
the hold
of the Bark thut Low built.
VII. This is the
straight
Consul with back so
H'ho employed ihe lawyer
with big
green bag,
ll'lio pumped tho lad with ears so
greut.
H'ho reported the story told by the
mute.
The merry mate, a bit of a wag.
H'ho quizzed the policeman, cunning
and bold.
H'ho peeped at the guns that lay in
the hold,
of the Bark that Low built.
VII. This is tho plenipo, Crampton by
name.
IHio was fooled by tho Consul, with
back so straight,
H'ho employed the luwyer with big
green bag,
H'ho pumped the lad with ears so
great,
H'ho repeated the story told by the
mate,
The merry mate, a bit of a wag;
H'ho quizzed the policeman, cunning
and bold
H'ho peeped nt the gnns that lay in
the hold
of the Bark that Low built.
IX. This is the Viscount all in a flame,
H'hcn he heard from the plenipo,
Crampton by name,
H'ho was fooled by the Consul with
back so straight,
H'ho employed the lawyer with big
green bag,
HTio pumped the lud with ears so
great,
H'ho repeated the story told by the
mate,
The merry mate, a bit or a wag,
H'iio qnirzed the policeman, cunning
und bold.
Who peeped at the guns that lay in
the hold
or tho Bark that Low built.
X. This is the
man
of the Times the
same
Thut talked with the Viccount
all in
a flame,
lrhen he heard from the plenipo,
Crampton by name,
ll'lio was fooled by tha Consul with
back so straight,
H'ho employed the lawyer with big
green bag.
Him pumped the lad, with ears o
great.
H'ho repeated the story told by the
mate
The merry mate, a bit of a wag,
H'ho quizzed the policeman, cunning
and bold,
lllio peeped nt the gnns that lay in
the hold
of the Bark that Low built.
IIxtt Damaie. The Court of Common
Pleas of Lai ouster county, held at Lancaster
Pa., on the Cth instant, in the case of Cath
erine Cooper i. The. Ohio and Pennsylva
nia Railroad $.1500 ami costs were awarded
o pi lintiff whose husband died from injurie
received by jumping frpm a cur which had
run off the track near Franklin, Ohio, in
February. 1854.
Wbat ii Jot? To eoont yoar tnoirj and
Had ft cfrorrw a Buodrva oonam
One of General Jackson's Eoldieri Con
f emned fcr Jdtirdtr His Speech before
Sentence.
An interesting murder trial took place in
Birmingham, Iowa, in November Inst. The
accused was a man named John J. Jones,
seventy three year of age. He had been n
soldier under General Jackson, and was with
tho old hero in several of his campaigns
against the Indians.
Jones was charged with murdering Ilora
lio W. McCardle, a neighbor some fifty years
ago. Ha made his escape, and was not heart!
of until a short time before his arrest. Capi
tal punishment having been abolished in Iowa
the prisoner was sentenced to hard labor in
the penitentiary during tho remainder of his
life.
Jones, through his attorney, when asked if
he had anything to sav why sentence should
not be pronounced submitted the following
statement:
"May it please the Honorable Court :
"I am an old man. fast tottering to the
grave. The Trosts or seventy threo winters
though they have not whitened my brow,
have wrinkled my face, nnd chilled my heart
with many sorrows. Mine has been a che
quered life. And now, when abnnt to be se
parated from my fellows, I may give a truth,
ful version of the past.
"I had a family and a home a rude home,
it is true, and a plain and humble fumily
but they were my all. The deceased robbed
me of the one nnd invaded the sanctity of the
other. Two small sons, a lovely daghter and
a wiTe a cherished wife.
"On returning to that home, the day or the
fatal deed. I learned tho certainty of the mad
dening truth, nnd hastened to the field, my
rilh: still in hand. I know not why I went. I
had no fixed design. lie met me with a club
I shot him. And though I claim not to
have noted in defence. I do assert that there
was mutual combat. You know the rest. I
fled my family followed. But for the fifteen
years I have lived at Lockport I made no se
cret of the deed I had done.
"Now time has done its work. Tho gov
ernment itself has changed. New laws are
passed nnd old ones repealed and those who
men surrounded me have mostly passed
away. A different people aro in the land
a different code or morals now prevails. I
drank liquor, it is said, nnd true it is I drank
it. Not to hnve done so then would have
been the objection. Men in high station
leaned upon the dram-shop Tor support. To
treat one s lellow to the poisoning cup was
deemed proof positive or genteel training.
"I may not bo held responsible alone for
the vices of society it is enough that I have
been the'r victim. Those dajs are past, and
that loved one is gone borne down with
trouble, she sank down into nn early grave.
That lovely daughter is now a hopeless crip
ple, wearing n haggard face. Of those two
hovs who should hnve been tho prop of my
ohi age the one is gone to join his injured
mother, a witnesses against the dead de
stroyer of their peace tho other and my
heart sinkf within me when I say it live
but not to me with an ear deaf to my ca
lamity, he come not near me! But 1 for
give. "To this honorable court, the jury, and to
the attorneys and officers thereof, nnd to tha
people of this community, I return my hum
ble thanks Tor their impartial hearing.
"I have never been a criminal of choice,
but rather the creature of cireumstunces, be
neath the weight of which far belter men
tin. n mo have sunk. 1 n ny have been too
jealous of mino honor, but never huve but
once proved faithless to my trust. When
my country's rights wcro invaded. I answered
them, and so 1 did mine honor. With Gen
eral Jackson iu all his Creek Campaigns I
bat I led fur my country and its laws. At the
fast in the wilderness I was there ; at P.nme
fa Taledaga I was there; and when the
shouts of victory drowned the cries of the dy
ing at the buttle of Horse Shoe, in the front
ranks of mv country. I was there; and the
name of him whom we now call John J
Jones wns another word for deeds of daring
"I hose nre ot the past. A long lile is
nearly spent the scene has changed ; but lie
above, who reads the humuu heart, is, further
than the formal sentence of the law, couipe
tent to judge me."
After Longfellow (with a sharp-pen.1)
A few moments since, wh found the follow.
ing poem in the delightful chirography of our
devil, lying in close proximity to a copy or
Mr. Longfellow "Song of Hiawatha. It is
positively refreshing, the impuder.ee or onr
devil. And the poem no one hut Mr. Long-
fellow or the devil enuid have done it :
HIAWATHA.
Have yon read the misty poem
Of the mystic Hiawatha
Read about the wild Dakota,
And the brave Humhngawainpams,
In tho vales or II ifnlutir.
In the vales or Wishy Washy.
In the vales orSkimmy DashyT
No Sir E. Sir. that I have not,
A nd I would not Tor a hundred
Dollars paid in silver, or in
Gold by the inflated teller
OTabn'nk called the Manhattan,
j looked in the book a moment,
And my spine is really aching
At the hard words Mr Longfel
Low puts in his learned verses.
Rumor savs that Mr. Riply,
Critic or the N. Y. Tribune.
Hired by a snob called Greeley,
Labors with an awM lock-jaw,
Got in reading Hiawatha.
Guess he got a-fotil of this word
Obejay wayascalula ! ! 1
Item l he MS. ends nbruntlv.
"Since the above was in type." the bead
compositor has inarmed us that tho body of
our devil ' lying nnoer ine press, wnu nu
emntv bottle in his hand, marked braudy. but
sunnosed to have contained laudanum.
Another genius gone, i ney uio eariy wuuni
. . ...I i. , i
the gods love. V. Y. Mirror.
Tir.FR Kll.!.F.D.-The Jacksonville (Florida
Renublican. of the 28th ult.. say that "Capt
Homers, who resides eight or ten miles from
tins city, on the opposit" side or the river,
killed one day last week, near his place, a
verv large tiger, measuring six and a half
feet from bis ears to the eud of his tail, three
feet high, and weighing between three and
four hundred rounds. This it the second one
that ha been killed it: this country within
tha last fourteen or 01 teen mourn.
Canckr. In reference to the curability of
cancers, a very eminent physician of the allo
pathic school. Dr. Monro, of Edinhnrg, states
that ha witnessed the extirpution of sixty-two
cancer, and not two of the patients were free
from tha disease two years afterward ! Tbi
appears to be poor encouragement for any
on to undergo a painful and often dangerous
paratitTti.
jfaunnr's glcpavlmcut
I'lom the Germnatown Telegraph.
Another Great Corn Crop.
There is no doubt but that the crop of corn
this season is the heaviest ever produced in
eastern Pennsylvania, consequently we hear
of large crops pur acre, and very many there
are that doubtless approximate closely to one
hundred bushels per acre, so seldom realised
and by so few believed.
In most of the statements, it appears that
the lucky owner was honestly satisfied with a
little measuring and some guessing, that
there was one hundred bushels of corn on his
acre ; yet. to an outsider, this statement ex
hibits but little more than that some one
appears to have raised one hundred bushels
or more per acre ; while as to the modn oper
andi by which so large a crop had been crown,
and which is u matter uf particular interest
to those who have to be content with orty
or fifty bushels we nre left entirely in the
duik consequently more concise und ex
plicit statements are ilesiruble.
James Thornton. Jr., and Edmond Thorn
ton, of Byberry, being satisfied that they had
a very superior crop or corn, called on their
neighbors, Edward Comfort and Morton A.
Wnlmsley, who assisted them to ineasuro olT
one acre of the middle of the field, which on
being shelled and well cleaned produced one
hundred nnd two bushels nnd twenty-one
quarts or corn, which was sold for eighty
cents per bushel. The corn u-nt shelled by
one of Heading's Corn Shelters in Jifty-six
minutes!
The field contained nine acres, timothy sod,
had been mowed threo times; there were
sixty ox curt loads of barnyard manure spread
on the field in the rail plowed from the Mb
to the l.'dli of April, six inches deep, rolled
and well-harrowed. The corn was planted in
the first week of May, in rows 4J wide and 2
feet apart in rows. 3 'grain in each hill, after
wards thinned down to t'.vo stalks ; a pill ol
ashes, unleaclied, wus applied to each hill at
the time of planting, l lie com was well
worked with cultivator and plow, one way
nnd cut up and shocked iu the usual inaiiiier.
The corn was a variety which the Messrs.
Thornton hud produced from a mixture of
the Cooper ami Gourd com, which thev have
justly styled the "Thornton Prolific Com."
Tho Messrs. Thornton hud another field of
fourteen acres in with corn, butoncloversod.
whicn was treated in a similar manner with
that above referred to. excepting there was
no manure applied in tho full there were
three acres of this field injured by the wire
worm, yet on the whole crop they estimate by
the contents nl tin ir crib, that the y.cul from
the twenty-three acres was 2150 bushels !
I he following is a copy of the certificutu
given by Messrs. Comfort and Walmsley.
we, ine undersigned, assisted James and
Edtnond Thornton in the innasurment of
one acre of their corn ground, and being pre
sent at the hauling in, shelling, cleaning and
measuring ol the corn, do certify, that the
quantity or gram obtained from the said acre,
according to strict and accurate meusurment,
wus one bun: red and two bushels and twenty-
one quarts, of well-cleaned corn, 1 his was
taken from a field or about nine acres nnd
from our frequent opportunity of observing
the crop throughout tho senson, we bclivc it
to be a fair average of the field.
EnwAitu Comfort,
Morton A. Wamsi.kv.
Byberry, 23d ward, 1 1 mo. 20th, ly;.".
Cranberries.
For some years past I have been making
experiments in raising cranberries. I he i
plants that I have set have ull been taken i
from wet ground. At first I set some in the j
gnrdeu ; they lived a few years, but bore no i
fruit. Next 1 rut some in a cold, soringv
place in a meadow; thev did not flourish.!
lint disappeared in u few years. 1 then tried
them in a wet, srouuv moss: thev grew i
thriftily, and bore fruit abundantly. Lustily,
i sei some on ine top ot a hill, on a gravelly
knoll, so barren that nothing else Would grow
there. Dining the first year the plants bare
Iv lived. Th,. next year they grew n little.
The third they sent out runners and bore a
few berries. The fourth vear the runners
extended themselves in every direction, so as
mooter ine ground. I liey blossomed fully,
and bore a medium quantity of fruit. Having
lived t rough the greatest" drought that we
have ever hud, (last year.) I consider them
acclimated, and adapted to the place. From
these experiments, i huve come to tho con
clusion thut tho bel phice for cranberries is
a spongy moss, where there is lust water
enough to keep it moist. Tho next .best
place is a bed ol s.md Both act on the sumo
principle, that of a sponge, to ubsorb water
from the air, and also from the subsoil. Cran
berries receive their uiiiii ishiiieut mostly from
the air and water. They also went nlentv of
sunshine. Ruuuinir water is not good "for
them cold water will keen them, und too
much water will drown them. Grass will
choke them and run them out. Massachu
setts I'loughinan.
Flora the (ieimaiil-iwu Telegraj.li
Tho Japanese Potato Plant.
We see a good deul written about this
plant, the Japanese name of which is Jiisns-
ciuea, and its substitution for our potutn
Some have been raised the past season in
New Ymk, crowing about two feet in ieiiiih.
and they will be no doubt for sale at very
exorbitant prices in the spring. A florist's
wile a Irs. Boi.l lias boiled one of these
two feeters." ami pronounces it to possess
the flavor of the common Potato and is an ex
ceedingly nice vegetable for the table. Mis
ter Bid. I, it is scarcely necessary to say, will
be one of the disposers of this '-substitute for
the potato," to as many greenhorns as may
be captivated ,y Kreut length of the
"root. But uh'y substitute it lor the pota
to? Are we tired of the potato, and do we
want a substitute T The idea it the height, of
absurdity. Were potatoes nver better than
now! Was there ever a more abundant, a
finer or sounder crop, than that for Ihe pres
ent year T If disease ha attacked Ihi escu
lent, is it any more than bus nappeneii iu
other productions of the soil T Doc not t be
lly and the weevil attack the wheat, the
blight and mildew assail it at timet land
shall we abandon it on thut uccoanl ? A
"substitute for the potato!" Yon might as
well attempt a substitute for bread and meat.
It will do fort peculators and "florists" to get
up thi hnmbug but it will b a longtime
before the common sense farmer will be led
astraj hy such transparent devices to filch
money from their pockets.
Tha Legislntiire of Virginia holds its bob-
sloiu biennially, but th business accumidau
go overwhelmingly that the beiier ia thai n
nual sessions will have tn be resorted to.
Tbe present setsiou, which is allowed ninety
days for completing its work, will, it is b
liovwl, bay to be exteuded.i
bold and Grain. j
The Baltimore American has the following
statistics from a reliable s'ource :
The gold in Ihe United States was. previous
to the California discoveries, $80,000,000
Found in California in the years i
1849 to 18M. t : 2!H.OnO.OOO
To ante in 1855, : : 45.00ii.noO
Imported in 6 yrs from elsewhere. 33 000.000
Tola). i . : . .: $458.)CO,000
Remitted abroad in 6 years add
10 months. : t : 214.000,000
Loft in the country. ! : $241,000,000
Total estimate of harvest in 1 855-.
Wheat, bushels,
Indian com, :
Oats, : i
Rice, pounds, i
16e,000.000 a 185.000.000
: : 1.000. out), (inn
: 4ftn,000.0"0
: 250.000 000
IC.000,000 A 18,000 00(1
: : 7.000.P00
: 115,000 00(1
: ; 9.400.000
: : r,4.r).onn.oo(i
: 3,200.000 a 3.5 00.000
: : 15.000,000
Rye. barrels, :
Barley, : :
Potatoes, ! :
Peas and Beans,
Sugar, pound :
Cotton, bales, i
Hay, tons,
Now. comparing the above products of the
oil with the yield or California gold above
presented, anil the result is not it liltle re
markable. It will be seen that our crop of
Indian Corn if we value it at but half the
present market prices amounts to more than
all the gold from California, and t'-ivt our
wheat crop, at the most moderate estimnto,
is north as much as all the gold now in the
country; whilst, the modest growth or oats,
with nil reasonable allowance for cxiiggern
tion. morp than equals any two years product
of the California mines.
Tub Gcaxo Island tn thf. Pacific. A
Washington leltprs gives some ndditionnl in.
formation in relation to the guano island in
the Pacific, discovered by an Ainerienn nnvi
rntor. Tho fnct.s connected with this dis
covery nre clearly set forth in the affidavit!!
of the discoverers, sworn to by tlipm ; and in
consequence of their importance to tlic agri
cultural interest of the country at large, the
iidm'nistrn'ion have ordered a vessel of war
connected with tho Pacific squadron to pro.
ceed forthwith to said island and take formal
possession or the same in the name or the
United States. Neither Teru nor any other
nation will find nny pretext for 'raising, r.
question of jurisdiction, inasmuch as tho
island in question is far removed from the
main land, as is not to be found on any known
may or chart. To convey some idea of tho
amazing importance or this discovery, an es
timate lias been made, bapod upon data fur
nished by the discoverers, in which it appears
that at Ibu lowest computation tho island in
question contains at least three hundred nnd
fifty millions of tons of guano; that being
situated in a latitude where it seldom rains,
if ever; the guano is consequently of the very
best quality ; und that in consequence also of
the trade winds favoring, voyages niBy.bo
made much sooner than from tha Chincha
Islands.
Items of Ucfos:
It is said that ten thousand copies of Long
fellow's uew poem have been sold.
About 2000 gallons of oysters are shipped
daily from Norfolk to Jlutliilo N. Y. .
The Princess Royal ol England was fifteen
years or iipe on the 2HJ ult.. and the even
was duly culebruted at Windsor.
The sales of land along the line of the Illi
nois Central Railroad, up. to the present
time, ninouut to .1,000,200.
A single hour in the dny given to tho stu
dy of some interesting subject, brings unex
pected accuniniulatioti of knowledge.
It has been decided by a Western Court
tlmt a clergyman may . marry himself. This
is a fee-saving process. n,t all events.
Tho United States Agricultural Society
will hold its annual session ifl Washington
on the 12 of uext month.
Theatrical performance are given on .un
dav evening, in New Orleans, for 5t Cts ad
mission. On other evenings, lie pri.-e i3 "5
j cents.
A petition to Congress is in circulation nt
Columbus. Ohio, calling for the impeachment
of Judge Kane.
Louisville contains Sti.COO inhabitants.
The buildings put nn during the past two
yenrs are valued nt 237.700.
Patrick, when will water stop rnnning
down hill ?" "When it gets to tho bottom,
sure, you spulpoon."
A felon generaliv appears on tlio end of
the fingers and t numbs Buffalo ltcpubli
can. ; ,
Sometimes on tha end of a rope Boston
Post.
If von want enemies, excel, others if yon
want friend, let them excel you ; in other
words, give them the preference occup ytlie
highest seats.
GinvR Belgium is the great glove man.
ufact'orv of the world. It is Mated I hat from
one establithnicnt last yeai. 4 lU.llUO .lozeti
pairs were exported to England and Ameri
ca. There are threo thousand hands employ,
ed there.
Lr.xr.TH or thk Mississippi. The Boston
(Mass.) Transcript Hives the total length of
tlie Mississippi and all its tributaries as fifty
ono thousand, miles, which is more than
fici'r the equatorial circumference of the
earth.
A Dkae Ctriosit. A Tew nights since, a
train on the Central road ran ovr two deer
and killed them, near Blootningtcn, III. This
deer, seeing the light from the lantern in
front id the locomotive and not knowing ex.
actlv whnt it was concluded to remain ou the
track but it was a death-blow to them.
Worsk than Ren Drinking. The Elmira
f. Y.) Advertiser says there is a dwarf in
thut village, about 13 years of age, who drink
every day, at oie time, two ounce of land.
num. urious means nave Keen tried to
baeak him or his pernicious habit, but with
out effect.
Poisokois Hair Pyfs. We notice a
statement that a short time sinca a rentla.
man was placed in a lunatic asylnm in Berlin
Prussia, to be treated for mental alienation
brought nn by the i of I air rive. On x-'
ming the article which ha had employed, ii
was ascertsii ed to be composed of lead, mar.
oury and lunar caustic. It produced violent
paint in tba bd, ad at length led to aad.
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