Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-09-02

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VALLEY OF THE CoLuMBIA--"l do not date
upon the value and extent OF this country. A
word sulices TO display both. In extent, it is
larger than the Atlantic portion ofthe old thr-
teen L. States in climate, softer; in fertility,
greater, in salubrlty, superior; in position
BETTER because fronting ASIA and washed by
tranquil sea. In these particulars, the western
slope oftur continent is far more happy than
the eastcrn.--1n its confguraton it is mex.
pressiby fine and grand-a vast oblong square,
with natural boundaries and single gateway
into the sea. The snow capped Rocky Mour4
tains enclose it on the east, an iron bound coast
on the west, frozen desert on the north and
sandy plains on the south. All its rivers, rising
from the segment OF vast circumference, run
to meet each other in the centre, and then flow
! together into the ocean, through gap in the
mountain where the heats of summer anG the
colds of winter arc never felt, and where north
crn and southern diseases are equally unknown.
This is the valley of the Columbia country
whose every advantage is crowned by the ad
vantage of coniguration--by the union of all
lis parts, the nacccssibility OF its borders, and
lis single n,rogrcssion TO the sea. Such
country istormed for union, wealth and strength.
1t can have bat one capital, and that will be
Thebes-but one commercial emporium, and
that will be Tyre, queen of cities. Benton's
Speech on the Treaty Of Washington.
STEAM on THE THAMES Sunday last was
the most productive day Of the season, and al
though twen,y-soyen steamers were running
to Gravesend, they had all good freights. Twen.
ty four steamers were voyageing to the Tun.
mel Pier, Greenwich, and they carried the a.
! ma2ng number Of 10000 persons during the
day The watermens steamers were excessive
: " crowded. and the Waterman No 9 carried
i50 on her decks in one trip The city of Can.
terbury, Captain Large, conveyed 450 passcn-
gers to TIerne bay and Margate. The business
done above bridge with the Myriad Of small
t steamers would almost defy calculation There
J. were forty-fve steamers engaged in carrying
a passengers TO Vauxhall, Chelsea, Putney, Ham
v mersmith, Kew aud Richmond, and the num-
IT Der cerricd would almost defy calculation.
9 They We're occasionally crammed in trighttul
!, manner, particularly those on the four-penny
y trips. There were landed and embarked in
ID the course of the day. 10000 persons, and at
l the Adclphi Pier 10000. This will give some
idea of the immense traffic The steamers a
. bove aad below the bridge are so numerous that
= they are constantly in each others way tugs,
II, "watermcn," aud General Steam navigation
-. boats are always on the move.-L London pa.
is per.
Id PIANE RoAns.-This sort of road in a new
A country where forests abound, has been found
in both cheaper and more advantageou for draught
he than McAdam roads, and greatly cheaper than
he railroads.
We In Canada there are several Of these road J.
er and the citizens of Buffalo being desrons O
lie constructing a good road to the falls Of Niaga
IS ra, distance of some 90 miles, 1t is suggeste,
to BY the Buffalo Commercial that it be laid viii
A. plank.
as According to the estimate of that paper, tht
lk whole could be completed for $1,000 mile.
zee GroRon SANp-The history of Madame Du
'u' deylnt George Sand) the author of Indiana, i
briefly this She was The daughter Of MaurIc
var Dupin, who rose TO high military rank unde
; is Napoleon He was thrown from a horse an
es' killed, and Aurore, his daughter, was confdc
as to her grandmother, by whom she was tran.
Tor fered TO the Partisan convent. After the deaf
ghi of her guardian she was married in the fashion
lily able style TO an old soldier of the empire. Fror
re Paris she retired to the Pyrenees, where sh
no remained few short years with her husbanC
but when 1t was discovered one night that she wa
missing. She had eloped and fed 10 pari
where she commenced the indulgence of thos
passions so yiyidly described in Indiana. 4
cal bout this time she commenced authorship, an
within twelve years has published more tina
thirty volumes, some OF them Of worse mora
hat than Indiana, and some ola great deal bette
and few, including "The Private Secretary
-, perhaps her most brilliant and popular wori
nearly unexceptonable. Late in life she b'
came somewhat pious, and published in 9TH
re- WorlI" a Partisan journal, seven letter
ers which contain SO much religion that some SUI
posed they were Intended a sort of peace
Offering, Tor the eyll that went before! Ih
lost name of Gorge Sand was assumed after hC
ci- elopcncnt and has been retained ever sine
She is said, although advanced in years, to /
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