Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-12-11

time, for truely it is no small work. TO give |
you an idea of the agreeable manner in which |
they travel in this country, | will tell you, my
dear sister, that we passed fourteen nights in
the woods devoured by all kinds Of insects, af- |
ter being wet to the bone, without being able |
to dry ourselves, and eating pork and some !
times little salt becfand corn bread"
The yellow fever broke out in Philadelphia
on their return, and these Princes were so poor
and reduced as to be unable to leave the city
until a fortunate remittance ircm their mother
gave them the means of making an excursion
to New York, Boston, ard the Eastern States.
Learning that their mother by IA new law Of
France had been sent to Spain, the eyles
fastened to rejoIn her. and as The surest, though
not the most expcdtioss way, travelled with
wagon and horses to the Ohio, thence by water
to New Orleans, which journey they accom-
plished in little over two months. A. little in
cident, illustrative of the strong and versatile
character Of the King, occurred at Carlisle, in
Pennsylvania. lie was thrown from his wa
gon, and, Knowing that he required blcedng
he slowly crawled to the house of farmer, and
requested assistance, opened vein in his own
arm, and derived the benefit he expected. The
/ good people, suppospg him some Eastern doc
! tor going to settle West, urged him TO remain
| in Carlisle, and promised him an abundant
practice. Arriving at Havana, they were soon
after ordered to leave, and again return to New
ork, whence All English packet carried them
to Falmouth, and they arrived in London in
February, 1900.
Such is a rapid outline of the AMERICAN part
of Louis p.,llippe's history. 1t vas full Of in
cidents and vcisstudes, stirring scenes, muta-
tons of fortune, escapes, peris, and adventures.
And now he isl upon the throne of France, and
his son is upon the ancient footsteps of his IA
ther. Since the visit of Louis Philippe, France
has been revolutonzed Napoleon has arisen,
seized the rens otempire, conducted his nation
to the pinnacle of glory, and fallen to rise no
more and oonvulsed distracted aud war-blast-
ed Europe has settled down in peaceful rrpose.
The poor stranger, who, for want Of money,
could not leave an American city filled with
yellow fever, and who had to teach for his sup
port, is now The richest man in Europe, with
millions and tens Of millions at his disposal.
The refugee seeing before the assumed power
of the First Consul and the Emperor, now sits
with a Bonapart's splendor on his throne.
This country, once traverscd in poverty and
peril, and WEAKNESS by the prosecuted sire, is
now visited by hrs royal son, IN pfiucely charac.
{ ter and glcry ; nay, more, that very son, anc
, that very ship winch he commands we're com
I mssonrd 20 transport from Their solitary rest
ing place the remains of that colossal geniu,
of military power, and brlng back to his owr
, loved France its dolizcd Napoleon. Sucl
, changes constitute the romance OF history, anC
assure us that truth is often stranger thsn fc
tion.-Could the son. as he iourneyed in ou
, midst, look back forty years with the eyes q
his father to the days of Washington, to the in
| fancy of our institutions before the steam boa
: ploughcd through our waters, or the first rail
road tracked our land-or could the father
Y calling up the scenes he orce saw, gaze wit
# his sons eyes upon our teeming population AM
h behold, in the then solitude of the west cities
a States, territories, with millions of stirring
$ bustling inhahitauts--coud he, in the yicjnlt
S of Canandaigua, again meet Lord Arbutor
4 who then so bitterly complained Of the roads
O that he doubted whether Niagara itself wuul
a compensate his toil-could he again visit til
: spoa then dnbut, unplanned, which now is til
capital of our nation, and the Seat Of our &c
vernmcnt he would believe himself not in Tn
America of I795 and 96 but in Il new worlt
!, where every feature was strange, and ever
. sccac novel. SO rapid ist the march of improve
:, ment that il is only by guiding ourselves b
/, some such land marks of thought as these thu
!, we can sufficiently realize the rccentncSs
. our origion, or the submity ofuur increls
We say suDLIHIry, for the contrast we 10
-, present TO our condition seventy years Lack
- one of the most sublime manifestations of O
:, vernmcnt in the history of the world. And v
., we have begun our career. We are still
:, the infancy Of political being. Long may "
, realize, as we turn backward to the past az
=, look onward to the future, the beautiful proph
70 cy OF the poet
s. This land is like an cage, whose yonng ga
. Feeds on the noon-tide beam, whose golden plur
Floats moveiess on the storm aud Iu tie blaze
~ Ot sunrise CLEANS, when earth is wIapl in gloon
er An 'pi,aph of glory Tor The TONY
hl or murdered Europe"
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