Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1848-01-01

auy tethuIks upon tnle PrOCeeOlnv.
We shall have more to say on this grave sub
ject another day.
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SUDDEN DEATH OF SKsATos FA,RrIkLD-We
learn by telegraphic despatch from Washington,
that Mr.. Fairfield, of the U. S Senate, died sud.
deuy in that city on Friday evening. A cor.
respondent of the Herald says Mr.. Fairfield has
been suffering for long time from a diseased
leg. A year ago he bad a surgical operation
made nron il, which relieved him, without eau.
sing any immediate Inconvenience. On Friday
morning, having the advantage Of the adjourn
ment over to Monday. for repose, he seized the
occasion again to call in his physician to repeat
the incision, from which he had received such
benef: in the hrst experiment. The operation
was accordingly made by Dr. Magruder, the
physician in the first instance. During the day
DR.. May, was called in but in the mean time
powerful solution had been applied TO the wound,
the necessity OF the case doubles suggesting
some such stimulus TO the nervous system in a
direct application to the seat Of the disease But
the symptoms rapidly became more sarming,
and although everything that the best medical
skill and experience recommend was promptly
supplied Ithe patients sufferirgs continued to in.
crease till about o'clock this evening. when, in
great agony, he expired.
1t was but Thursday that Mr.. Fairfield repor.
ted, in pursuance of the Presidents recommen.
dations, the bill for the appointment Of assistant
pnrsers in the navy. A, chairman on naval af
fairs he has been industrious, we'll informed and
useful, in \ high degree, TO the deliberations of
the Senate. He was . modest and a valuable
man, and the public. in him, have lost another
faithful! servant. Within the short space If a
year. Pennypaeker, Of Virginia. barrow. OF
louisiana, Speight, of Mississippi. Huntington. OF
Connecticut, and Fairfield, Of Maine. all Of the
Senate, have died. severe mortality Tor %
small body Of men.
Mr.. Fairfield, we should suppose, was abou,
| hfty years Of sgs. He was small in stature and
time past from the dis-ass which has thus end
denly terminated his life. But he seldom CON.
plained-wss seldom absent from his post in any
weather.
But We leave the details Of his last day Of a
gony, and the merits Of his character. and the
services Of bis useful life. to his physician, hi,
eompeers, and his immediate assoc: c:ates.
TsLraRArH TO THE PACIFIC magnetic
telegraph being now in operation to ST. Louis
thSaewspspers Of that place are talking Of ex
i tending il to the Pacific The cost for 2O0(
miles, At $3.50 per mile, 10 $500, ,0o0 The Re
veille says-
"Looking at what has been done, we regare
the feasibility and utility of this plan already
demonstrated. For the present, il might res
here, but would it continue to do so' Wouls
not the next dash be to connect the Wsllamett,
and Sacramento valleysr Would not San Fran
cisco, Monterey, Los Angeles, San Diego, soo'
be linked. and the returning line be found on il,
way from this last point, flashing mp the Gil,
valley, once more crossing the mountains. stri
king the Del Norte, below Santa Fe, and eventu
ally completing the grand circle by linking it
self at the capital of New Mexico, with tha
earlier line which should already have connected
New Mexico with Missouri, This is ceItainl,
erfensirs but, in support Of it. we repeat, o.
Reilly has finished serenteen hundred miles ofteh
graph since last June"
Whitney's project for connecting the Atlantic
and Pacific by line across the Continent is lite
rally to be accomplished by the telegraph. Thi
is literally realizing what was once the fancifu
: idea Of the poet Chapman, of quitting a girdl
round the world" ...t
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