Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1852-11-20
A ENJiRkiBLE MAN.

Al temperance meeting, held in Ala
bama a shorttime ago, Col. I.emanousky
who had been tweny-ihree years in The ar
mics of Napoleon Bonaparte, addressed the
meeting. He arose before the audience,
tall, erect, and vigorous, with a glow OF
health upon his cheek, and said
"You see before you man seventy years
old. | have fought iwo hundred battles
have fourteen wounds on my body have
lived thirty days on horse flesh, with the
bark of tees for my bread, snow and ice
for my drink, the canopy Of heaven for my
covering, without stockings or shoes on my
feet, and only a few rags of clothing. In
the deserts of Egypt | have marched for
many days with burning sun upon my ma.
ked head feet blislereI in The scorching
sand, and with eyes, nosrils aud mouth
filled with dust-and with thirst so tor
menting that have opened the veins OF my
arms, and sucked my own blood ! Do you
ask how survived all these horrors
answer, that under the providence Of God,
10 this fact, that never drank drop of
spirluous liquor in my lie, and, continued
he, "Baron Larry, chief of The medical staff
of The French arms, has stated as a fact,
that The 5000 survivors who safely returned
from Egypt, where all those men who ab.
stained from ardent spirits"
OPIUM Used IN New YoRK.--A physician
of New York asserts that a lhousand pounds
of opium are sold by ret-i in that city every
week, and that the iciribly destructive
practice of opium eating is fearfully incrcas-
ing. If their is anything worse than alcohol
opium is the article
APPLES FOR LIVERPOOL. -- The Arctic,
which sails to-day for Liverpool, carries out
$500 barrels of apples. The previous sicam-
er took on. 1000 barrels, which brough, Sl7
a barrel. They cost here abou, S5, and The
freight charged was j 80 per barrel.
Two cases containing provisions. recently
eft al PORT Leopold, for the Arctic eXpedi-
lion, were destroyed by bears and other an
imals. Those, however, at Fury Beach,
which had been lying there for thirty years,
were still uninjured.
GEORGE WLEINs KENDALL, Of the n. o.
Picayune, is about TO marry and retire TO his
vast sheep raising farms in Texas. Kendall
has surely seen The world and little more
is about 4s, and possesses fortune of
100000.
SIXTY persons died from yellow fever, and
nine from cholera, IN New Orleans, during
The week ending on the Sh inst Cold wea-
ther will soon cause both these diseases TO
vaeale that city aud seek more tropical
latitude.
SPoRTsMEN have a gIeat lime oil it up
above Keokuk, Iowa, in baeging quail
They are Shipping them IN coops of hundred
dozen, to ST. Louis, where the people consider
them luxury for eating purposes.
FANNY KEMBLE is still giving Shaksperian
readings in London and the Provinces.-
Fanny's temper is growing no sweeler, ac.
cording 10 all accounts, for we read that in
Leeds, recently, she Cup fist" and knocked
head waiter out of his moccasins
THE Greene County Wing gives ''picteT"
of green turlle-a large, fat fellow-com.
ing in with the election returns under the
following caption; "Lighining Express
Dreadful Splashy Travelling"
A COMPOSITION in our employ seven years
ago, and who has "worked at casen in this
city within the past five years, is now citl-
zen of Minnesota, and worth over one hun
dred thousand dollars Phila. Sun.
A RUNAWAY slave from Georgia planter
recently returned TO his master a wealthy
man. The master was povery-sIricken, and
The slave gave him 1000 for his freedom
papers.