Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-04-19

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CO. FRuIr TREES have not, we believe,
sustained any serious injury in this quarter, by
the late cod weather They are all in bloom,
and will, we trust, produce abundantly.
u The Legislature adjourned on Tuesday
last A vote Of thanks was voted to the Speak.
ers of each House. Mr. Wilcox, the Speaker of
the Senate, having resigned, usual, the Senate
elected j B. Sterigere, of Montgomery, over H
Chapman, of Bucks, by vote of II to TO- two
votes scattering.
0s- The Legislature was convened by procla.
nation from the Governor, after the adjournment
on Tuesday, and kept in session one day longer,
for the purpose of final action on some important
bills that had not been reached. They adjourn.
ed on Wednesday. The Girard Bill was killed
in the House, by strong vote.
CT THE GREAT FIRE AT PIrrsprRG.--Tn ano.
ther column our readers will find full account
of the most awful coniagratIon that ever occur
red il this country. 1t is estimated that about
1900 houses one third of the whole city, is laid
in ashes, comprising about twothirds of the bu-
siness part The high winds and the dry weather
were no doubt the principal causes of the great
extent of the fire. Meetings, we are pleased to
see, have been called in all the principal cities,
to aid the suffering inhabitants of the i'll faed ci
ty. The Legislature also, before the adjourn
ment, appropriated fifty thousand dollars in aid
of the sufferers.
C3- We publish, in another column, plan OF
the city Of Pittshurg showing the extent of the
ravages of the late fire. Pttsburg is probably
the most enterprising manufacturing city in the
United States, and hardly exceeded for the extent
and variety of its manufactures in the world
! The city contains probably &c, 600 inhabitants.
! % The Pittsbnrg papers say that the bns.
ness of the city is not prostratcd-that the great
manufactures, of the city, with two ex-
| ceptious, were saved The business portion OF
! the community, we presume, has not suffered as
much as was at first expected.
| c. TInEwArEn NOTES.-The Legislature
have passed an act, compelling the Company TO
receive Is per cent of their notes in payment OF
tolls A bill of this kind was passed last win.
/ ter, but was vetoed with another bill TO which it
was attached. The Legislature should not have
fixed the amount less than one third Still, this
! is better than nothing
0y- FIRE IN THE WooDs AND MouNTAINs-We
have been surrounded by fires in the woods and
mountains, for the last ter days. The Blue Hill
west of the Susquehanna, Immediately opposite
this place, has been burning 10 its very brow
The Mahonoy, Locust and Broad Mountains, ex
tending about twenty miles, between this anC
Pottsville, are all on fire. We have been infor
med, also, that the woods about George Conrad's
about five miles from this place, were on fire. |
we should not soon be visited by rain, we hardl,
know 10 what extent the fires may reach Pro
| fessor Espy's theory of rains WILL we think, suf
fer considerably, if we are not soon visited with
genial showers The high winds, il is true, pre-
vented the smoke ascending perpendicularly, ac
cording TO his theory, during the last week bu
the weather during the last three or four days
has been calm. Our Borough. for a week past
has been shrouded in atmosphere of smoke
The moon, as IL Iises, presents a blood red aP
pearance, betokening from its lurid glare, all th'
dreful conflicts of impending war.
Since the above was in type, we have been IA
vored with refreshing showers, which certainly
strengthens our opinion in favor of the theory o
Professor Espy. At the same time, we refe
our readers 10 a communication upon the subject
in another column, from the pen of an intelligen
correspondent.
O. THE lEoS BUSINESS Persons with ca
pital, have now an opportunity of doubling thei
money in few years, by investing il in lro
Works, in good locations. For Anthracite Fur
naces, there is no place in Pennsylvania that ha
advantages superior 10 this. The Coal, Iron an
Limestone are all convenient and accessible a
all times requiring no great stock to be kept uT
At the present prices, iand they cannot be muc
lower for years,) ten or fifteen Thousand dollar
expended in the erection of furnace, at thi
place, would more than double itself in on
year Besides, il should be recolleCted that III
best Anthracite Iron made In Pennsylvania wa
made with Shamokin Coal, at the Shamokin fui
a mace. Shamokin Coal can now be delivere
; here, at all times, at 81 60 per ton, and lower
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