Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1849-06-30
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IFTLCT OF GOLD III NTING.

Looking over .Pollock's Course of Time"
the annexed passage struck me as quite pro.
phcic. compared with the accounts we have
received from the gold region of California
Although the writer has been dead near Il
quarter Of 4 century, the picture he has drawn
bears all the tulness and truth of an eye-wi,-
ness. 4 SUBSCRIBER.
"Gold many hunted-swcat and bled for
gold;
Walked all the night. and labored all tie day.
And wha, was lhisallurement, doSt thou ask
A dus; du- from the bowels of the earth,
Which being cast into the fire, came out
A shining thing that fools admired, and called
\ God aud in devout and horrible plight,
Before it kneclrd the greater 10 the less
And on lis altar sacrificed case, peace
Tmih faith, integrity; good conscience,
friend,
Love, charity, brneyolence, aud all
The sweet and tender aympathies Of life;
And to complete TO the horrid murderous rite
And siGnalize their folly, offered up
| Their souls and an eternity of bliss, ar
To gain then--what! an hour of dreaming
Joy!
4 feveri,h hour. that has,ed 10 be done,
| And ended in the bitterness of woe.n
CHEMICAL ANAIYSIs OF TIA In the me-
moirs OF the London Chemical Society, there
is in interesting paper of Warrington, on the
analysis Of tea, in which he states that he
has not only removed the whole of the color
iug matter, or glazing, from green ten, but
he has been able to unalyze the matter re-
moved, and prove il, by chemical evidence,
10 consist OF prussian blue and gypsum, prin-
cipally. So that in fact the drinkers of ma
ny qualities OF green tea, as it comes 10 the
English market, indulge in beverage of
Chinese paint aad might initiate the mixture
OF dissolving Pmssian blue and plaster of
| Paris in hot water. The Chinese do net
dni0k this painted tea; they only sell it.
i GREAT TSpEcULArIoN.-Thc best specula.
tion in California of which we have heard,
was that of loaier who stole a hen, and in
vited four returned miners TO dine upon her,
at the reasonable rate of five dollars each. In
preparing the hen for cooking, our oater
found in her craw two ounces of gold. After
paytakiug freely of the hen, the loaier found
the following to be the profits of the transac-
ton: For four guests at S5 each, $40; for
two ounces of gold found in hens craw. S3s
Total profits on hen, S52.
AMERICAN 0RANGEs.-The Mobile Herald
says that since the destructive hurricane in
Cuba a few years since, the Mobile fruit mar.
ket had been supplied chiefly with Creole or.
anges now raised in that neighborhood, Pas:
cagoula, and on the "coas,o near New Orleans
These oranges are generally larger than those
raised in the neighborhood of Havana, and
much superior in flavor. The Herald con.
tends that number of locations might be
selected ouihe Bay and dneighborinc islands =.
1t instances the case of person who realises
from $500 to 81, 600 annually from about tb;,.
'y orange trees cultivated in garden some
miles south of that city. The fruit is said NJ
be delicious and Of most exquisite flavor
1t Is fact worth repeating, that the En-.
peror os knssa came to this country for bis
model war steamer, and for railroad engineers
Nicholas has always manifested predllea,,,.
Tor American genius, in spite of hi, ha,rsd ;,
American politics and constitutions