Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1848-06-17

believed him not to be. Another question
asked was is Taylor opposed to the acquisi-
ton Of further territory, questions not an.
swered
A resolution was offered by MIR. Gentry,
that the Convention approve of the Alison
letter Of Taylor, which resolution did net
pass. The previous question was called
- The resolution was here Withdrawn, and q
motion to adjourn was made. An informal
discussion here took place upon a point of
order.
An ad journment having been moved the
President made some remarks of a general
nature, and returned his thanks 10 the Con-
vention for the honor which had been con.
ferred on him. (Adjourned sine die.
THE sIAMEsE TWINS.
Much has been said and written respect
ing this remarkable pair, Chang and Eng
Oi late the public have sight Of their move
ments. The following extracts from an arti-
Gle in the Soutkc,ncS, Richmond IVA pa
per, is full of curious matter:
"But must hasten my description of the
'Siamese Twins | rode from Wilkes county
to their new residence in Surrey, soIine 40
miles, and arrived at their house the evening
of the second day, after leaving Trap Hill
On riding up to the yard observed the
Twins busily engaged in shingling house
and on seeing me, they promptly approached
and requested me to walk in, adding that
they would attend TO my horse, and in the
meantime walked into the house and intro
duced myself to Mrs. Chang pronounced
'Chun,' and found her to be quite handsome
young woman, just %. Her maiden name
was Adelaide Lates,' (sister Of Sarah j and
| her dress and general appearance all indica-
ting degree Of tidiness which Mrs. Eng
lacks: indeed the people about here all say
she is mighty townifed.' Mrs Chang was
married on the same night Of her sister, and
now has three children viz: Josephine Vir
gina days younger than MIR. Eng's first,
Christopher Wren, days younger than
Mrs. E.'s second, and Nancy aged only six
months They are all very healthy and for
ward children, hui have their fathers fea-
lures clearly stamped upon them. You could
readily single them out Of crowd Of ten
thousand children.
CATER having passed some time with Mrs
Chang the Twins came in, and gathering
up their pipes, commenced putting away at a
great rate. | found them exceedingly social
and soon had them fairly engaged in conver-
sa;ion.
"Ny first question was; How do you like
farming' They both replied: we like
him much good business for u.s. do you
raise much corn and potatoes, hay, etc
We make enough TO eat and feed two hor-
ses, cattle and sheep and hogs This is a
new place, what did you pay it I" we pay
three thousand seven hundred and fifty dol
lars, and have no good house to live in.'-
How many acres of land do you plant = we
plant last year 200 acres Have you many
sheep, hogs, cows turkeys, geese?. we got
200 sheep, great many cows and hogs, have
So turkie:, so geese, some ducks How
many plows do you run 2 -Four plow,'-
Does your land produce well = Some place
make tiriy bushel corn on one acre. How
many negroes have youp we got ,irteen
| (l3 big and little How long have you
lived in n. CO we lib here nine year,
What made you settle at Trap Hill 2 Mighty
purity place, high mountain, big rock, 'nough
deer, squirrels, foxes, and all kind of garre'
You love TO hunt q mighty well; love
shoot mark, too do you vote at elections! p
'Oh, yes, never miss any time who did
you vote for President in ls4Or we vote
for Gen. Harrison, and in 1874 we vote for
Mr., Clay, and now we ready to vote for Mr.
Clay again, if he is wiling Then you are
both Whiesl well, we amt nothin' else'
How do you like our Republican form of CO.
vcrnment 2 we like him much, very
much much better than where we come
from 'Do You over expect to return 10
your own country 2 we never going back,
have wife and children here all 'Merican;
and we 'Mericans nou too Have You any
relatives living in SIAM we have mudder
her very old, We can't write Siam, arid
mcdder can't write 'Merican. We only hear
from home two time since we been in this
country. Can't get nobody to write Siam to
we mudler. and she can't write 'Merican'
would YOU not like to see your mother p
we like 70 much Have you much mo-
ney p we have some in New York who
has charge of it 2 we leave him with Mr.
Bunker II may be proper here to state tina,
their msney, $4,000 is invested in wine
importing company at per cent, secured
by mortgage on real estate, in the city OF
New York, and that Mr. Bunker, whose name
they bear, is their agent. They draw on
him for the interest, but nevet tctich the prin-
cipal. Their investments in N. c. have been
made with the interest of the money.
"'Do you ever expect TO travel sgainP
We wish to try il again next fall, about oc
tober.' What direction are yon going'
we going to the west, we no 60 H.