Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1849-07-21
AZ ENGLISH PARSONAGE.
FROM. ooLEMAN's "LErrEns FROM ABROAD"

shire,) and have seldom in my lite passed
IA more agreeable Sunday, have been
twice at church, aud am staying with the
clergyman. He is gentleman OF fortune,
and though without title himself, he married
a lady of rank, and his family are allied by
blood or marriage to some of the highest
aristocracy in the kingdom. Hespecially ill.,
vited me 10 come and pass few days with
him: and | came by appointment yesterday,
and shall leave Tomorrow, as my engage
ments do not admit of longer delay, though
he has urged me to remain. He has small
church; parish, with the exception of a
few families composed principally of tenant
farmers and laborers. His salary is f900,
that is about 81 800, and a house and glebe
of about forty acres. His father, man of
great wealth, lives directly in his neighbor
hood. Imagine beautiful country, not
naturally fertile but made one of the most
| productive by cultivation, and everywhere
covered with a most luNuriant vegetation :;
! imagine roeds as fine as can be trodden,
without pebble 10 impede the carriage, and
| bounded with green and neatly-trimmed
| hedges; imagine here and there a substan-
! tial farmhouse, surrounded with acres and
| acres OF green crops, and many of them with
stacks of wheat and barley made in the most
finished and beautiful manner, in some cases
twenty, thirty, and even forty in number,
containing, by estimate, two hundred and
three hundred bushels of grain each Il am
only stating tacts;) imagine your approach
TO a large cluster OF ornamental trees, through
which you see the turrets of the house rising,
and occasionally appearing and disappearing
as you approach; imagine several smooth
avenues, bordered with shrubs and flowers of
the richest description imagine an exten-
sive lawn, stretching far away i'll front of one
side of the house, as smooth as Milton de-
scribes 1t, with the sheep and cattle grazing
upon it; imagine beautiful mirrored lake
of half mile in length, and with correspond
ing width, glisening and sparkling at the
foot of the laMn; imagine a grove of mag
nllicent forest trees, III the rear of the par
sonage, with the tower Of the old church
manted with ivy, showing It's gray and ven
cradle image among these trees, with its
church-yard, and marble and moss-growu
monuments, where Old Mortality might find
congenal employment for days and months,
and you will have some little notion of the
eNerior Of my transient resting place. Now
enter the house, and find the libraries stored
with books, and the drawng-rooms, elegant
in their plainest attire but crowded with the
most beautiful objects of ornament and Curl
osity, and fitted up with every possible ap.
pendage of luxury and comfort; imagine an
elegant dining room, the table covered with
the richest plate, and this plate filed with
the richest yiands which the culinary art and
the vintage and the fruit.garden can supply
imagine "A horse at your disposal, servant at
your command TO anticipate every want
imagine an elegant bed-chamber, bright
coal-ire, fresh water in basins. in goble,s, in
tubs, napkins without stint as white as snow,
a double mattress, a French bed, sheets OF
the finest linen, canopy of tie richest silk,
a table PORTFOLIO writing apparatus and sta
tonery, aIumettes, 4 night-lamp, candles
and silver candlesticks, and beautiful paint
ings and exquisite statuary, and every kind
of chair or sofa but a rccking-chair, and then
you will have some little notion of the place
where now am and indeed pretty accurate
and not exaggerated description of my resi-
dence for the last three weeks-four weeks
five weeks-three monthS-I cannot say
how long, and then Judge whether it is not
likely entirely to spoil me. For the last
fortnight, for example, with the exception of
one day, have dined off of nothing but sill
yer and porcelain, and have sat down each
day to table as sumptuous and abundant, /
and various and elegant as | ever saw at any
dmner-party in Boston indeed, more so, and
much of the time with large party of ladies
and gentlemen, as elegant in dress and man
ners as you can meet with never with less
than four men-seryants, many times with
eight or ten, and in one case counted eleven,
eight of whom were in elegant livery, trim
med with silver and With silver epauleItes,
&c, &c.
A New AppLIcaTIoa of the principle of
steam has been made in Paris, which is eX-
planned as follows Water boils and gives
off steam at 100 degrees, French scale.
Heat the boiler to SOC degrees, and the same
quantity of wafer will give off steam with an
expansive power perhaps fifty times as great
The heat should be always kept Just below |
that, at which the water takes the spherical
state and gives oirno steam al all, A French |
mechanic has made a small boiler, which, |
under the great heat aforementioned, runs |
powerful machinery, The boiler and en-
CINE occupy about one twentieth part of the
space occupied by common boiler of the
same power.
p THE PREsIpENr's VIsIT TO THE NORTH
The exact period for the departure of Presi-
dent Taylor for the North is not yet settled.
The Republic says the prevalence of the
obnlar, NAV indnre him IN aha andnn the visit