Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-12-21

owners of the soil. Words cannot paint
them-gold cannot buy them : they flow
out Of the deepes! fountains of the heart
they are life springs OF fresh healthy and
generous national character.-Ed Everett:
A Geographic despatch asserts that the
attempt to light Lo%el with red-haired
girls has been abandoned.
IT is stated that steam communication
will be opened next spring between lee
land and Leith; the vessel calling at the
Shetland and Faroe Isles.
Dr.. TURNBrLL has discovered remedy
for shortsightednesS, by the application of
the extract of ginger to the forehead; so as
TO effect the fifth pair of nerves.
TIE number OF Pnblic Houses IN Livet-
pool is 1850, and of beer-shops,7O0; or, in
all, 2lS0: Taking the population at $780,
600, this is one public house or beer-shoP
to every 100 individuals-m women
and children.
ThE late Mrs. Glenny, of Cincinnati,
great wit as well as very lovely Woman,
being asked by one Of her numerous admi=
rerS, why she was called the Great Western,
raplird, "Because have so many flats in
tow"
TAXING THE NoRTA.-The Governor Of
Virginia, in his message, recommends 4 tax
upon all products Of non-saveholding
States offered for sale IN Virginia.
| PREPARATioNs have been made for bring-
ing the mineral Lands in the Lake Superior
region into market early ne&t summer, at
the reduced minimum provided by law.
/ FROM THE PULPIT TO THE BAR.-On
Tuesday, in the Court of Common Pleas, al
Boston, the Rev. Mathew Hale Smith was
admitted as an attorney and counsellor at
Law.
THE "NlILLER BRIDGE" over the Now
hawk River, at Utica, broke down on We'd
nesday with drove of 81 cattle and two
men. One man and II OF the cattle were
drowned.
HENtY BBB, fugitive slave is going to
start a newspaper at Sandwich, Canada
West, TO be called the "Voice of the Fugi-
tives.
IN a virtuous course, not to proceed is
certainly to 20 backward there is no es-
tate between advancing and retreating.
PRIVATE letters from Charleston will give
an unqualified assurance that the Legislature
/ will recommend immediate secession.
AMONG the Jenny Lind charities to be dis,
pensed by committee for that purpose, arc
appropriations to the Jersey City and Newark
OPhan Asylums,
There is a hotel in Cincinnati, so leaky
tha. in rainy weather the boarders are com
PEELED 10 take umbrellas TO bed with them.
THEaE are four thousand acres in vineyard
. within radious Of nine miles from Cincin
' mali.
y Mrs PARTINGToN wonders why the selec
u men dou'l impound the Pope's bulls, if the
IT. commit such lrespasses as the English pa
pers attribute to them,
, LcrsoN, the "Amercan Deer" it is though
e will not recover from his run at Nashville
5 At the conclusion of the race, he fell, CON
v petely exhausted,
The FRosT saw the pretty flower, an
! sought to marry it, "Wilt thou" said IN
! Frost, and the Flower vilted.
. The cost of single copy OF Kendall'
forthcoming work on the Mexican Wa
y will be $35.
J. AT Savannah, on Friday, the thermome
IS ter stood at so degrees.
y GENrErL society is not always good SC
y ciety.
The forests surrounding CINCINNATI ar
filled with squirrels.
/ The latest improvement is patent say
filing machlns.