Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-08-16


calls for either. This is a kind OF aan, by the
way, much priced in London wholly unrecog.
hi2ed (as to vnluc) in America. have often
picked out one of the kind in New York, and
smiled inwardly TO see how his gold passed for
copper-but i, is of no u-e to hurry civilization.
Our society, TO use n hutney figure, is
pudding as well mixed as that Of England,
only Engand's pudding is cutie baked ours
only halC like to taste England occasion.
ally, till ours is done.
had little talk with Morier on copyright.
| told him that the English novels's, spite of
our injustice to them, were "dogs in manger.'
No publisher would buy novel from me- for
instance, when they could get all his, and Bul.
WERE and D'lsraei's, and every bodys else,
for nothing. The consequence is that Ameri.'
can writer's shrink from elaborate works and
spend their efforts on period ica writing or do
anything-ollow any profession-raiher than
help the national literature and starvc The
question then came very naturally, "why does
not Congress see this, and agree To mend the
obvious injustice by proper copyright law ~
AnSwer-because it would slightly raise the
prices of literature, and short sighted dema-
gogues find excellent stuff for speeches in the
advocacy of "cheap books for the people,
Rcsult--ihat the people get no American
books, are imprcgnated exclusively by foreign
writers, aud with English and monarchal prln-
ciples, But this begins to read like an essay.
/ There was one topic touched upon that will
be interesting To artists. The exhibition Of
cartoons opened yesterday, and sume of tie
company had been to see them The Govern
ment, in ornamentug the new House OF Par.
Lament, wished to know the value of frcSco-
paiating-whether it could BE- successfully and
effectively done by modern artists. They
therefore literally offered prizes for the best
crayon drawings for The ornament of walls and
ceilings and the result has been more Ameri-
can than Engli,h-.e the "new brooms have
swcp, the clcancst.' The best are decidedly
by artists never before heard of. II is so uni.
versally the case, in this conservative country,
that man must have been "heardofhefore
bcfore he is crer heard Of, that for nameless
artists 10 carry off these prizes is much of a
wonder. have no, seen the drawings myself,
but shall 90 tomorrow orneXt day
The moist clinmte is beginning to do its usu
al work on me-,hat OF relieving me Of my out.
cr skin, and permitting me to walk abroad III
an under one that more resembles the one
sported in my youth One gets so transparent
in Engla nd trust TO be quite "as good as
new in n fortnight morc--having most iurtu
natev made desperate and successful resistance
To the Doctors proposition TO shave my hear
during my late illness. But seriously, ther,
are mary beauX and bellies in our dry climate
who are looking, sadly, at their yelow'yins
iacps-drying prema,urcly up IN our climate
ofyiolcnt extremes, when, if they wonId onI,
come to temperate England, they would "cas
their slough" like insects, and renew thei
youth altogether. & trust the "Cunard line q
} steamers" will give me my next passage graft
for the hnt.) Ladies look as fresh at fifty, il
this climate, as ladies', in ours, cease to look a
: thirty.
| looked in, for few Minutes. an evening II
two rincr, at .nifre OF the British md For
, cign Institute, and saw Chinese Mandarin
and Miss Cushnan among other celebrities.
struck me, (uot for the first time,) how une
: pually mnles and females dress, as to protection
from coll-Seeing this Chinese with a clos
coat aud q huge cashmere shawl over III
: shoulders, while the Indies around him wcr
. in foil dress nudity. Most of the London lions
| understood, were in the crowded rooms be
yond the threshold where halted, but nreds
my bed more than TO hear them "roar," As
a made my exit lady passeh me on the starcas,
y whom the servants passed up with the announce
meut ot tie "CuunIess Calabrella, ia litcra
, ~ lnness Of the nost luminous name, land
: pair of very pretty feet and ankles stepped fror
. shovy egupage AT the street door-all thg
Y is attractive gong, (as is sadly frequen, in til
. wicked world)
: "1he other way, the other way"
- 1t wants but half an hour of the mails closin
t for the packet oftomurrow, and there is a INT
e sic grinder just commencing under my window
e and can neither think nor write TO an Italia
e air. So, my dear Morris, adieu for this packc
g Yours, respectfully,
It N. p. Willis.
= Beware OF HoRsE FLFsn.~An eXtrayagai
v young cent ntleman having a pair of beautiful gTJ