Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1852-05-29


good TO wandering sinner. Let ministers
aud private Christians; who labor for the
spiritual well-being o! their fellow men, cast
their bread upon the waters, in full faith that
though they lose sight of it themselves, it
shall be found after many days.-London
Ecang'l Miscellany. ..s ..
CHANGE OF HABIT.-A gentleman recently
from Africa, while at one of the civilized
colonies on the coast, met young colored
woman whom he had known in Old Virginia
who had obtained her freedom for good con-
duct, and had emigrated TO Liberia.
"Where are you travelling to, Mary 2"
said the gentleman.
Il am going down to the village on The
sea shore. Pm tired of seeing nigger, Mig
ger want to see some white folks !'
"But are You doing well here %
"Oh, very well. have four slaves who
make palm leaf hats"
"Slaves, Mary. You, emancipated, to
have slaves in your own land ~
''Oh, Yes" said she, with great sim.
plicity, "must do as they do in Old vir.
ginia."
LARGE RAIL ROAD LOAN Baltimore, May
H-The proposal for the Coupon per cent
loan Of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road
Company, to the amount of 100000, were
| opened to-day, according 10 previous Motif.
cation. The entire bids amounted to So.
365, 900, Messrs Lee & Co., of this city,
get Sill 900 at $50 TO- The rest was
awarded in smaller amounts. The bids
ranged from $50 10 TO 800 O5.
SOFT GINGERBREAD-6 Tea.cnps of Flour
do of Molasses, do of Butter, l do of
Cream, l teaspoon(ul of Pearlash-Gnger
and Spice, 10 suit the taste Mix the ingte-
dents, then put in the -four and bake in
pans the same as pound-cake.
The power Of Jenny Lind's voice may
be in some measure, understood, when it
is stated that it was distinctly heard more
than quarter of mile from the Town
Hall on the evening of her concert in Nor
champion.
The passenger traffic by rail road, in
Grea, Britain, annually exceeds four times
in number the whole population The speed
is three tines as great as formerly, Oh The
average, and the fare is one third less.
SAYS Freeman Hunt, in his Merchants
Magazine, "The young man who leaves the
I E,r, Eall ha fparrbapt'S JasE mr.
( lawyers or DOCTORS Office, thinking TO
dignity or ennoble his toll, makes a sad
mistake.
4 Washington paper says tan ndustri-
Gus friend lately returned from a two years.
residence in California has made twenty
thousand dollars-in experience; and brought
home with him sixly-two cents !"
A MAN with large family was com.
r planning Of the difficulty of supporting all of
them, "But,n said friend, "ycu have sons
big enough to earn something for you now"
aThe difficulty is, they are too big TO work" !"
There is a book with the dangerous title Of
the Pocket Lawyer. We shouldn't like a
| UO0k WllE tuiS lilie tnuCi lOl We u'S oi'"'N
if we once got the Lawyer into our pocket,
we never should be able to get him out
au Punch
Beware how you regard as triling, faults
which appear of but little consequence. You
weigh them and think them nolhingj but
count them, and you will be frightened at
their number. ..
BESEvoIrNcE is daily more and more gene
rally acknowledged as the true rule of con-
duct The maxim, 'I.ive and let live" will
soon be superseded by still nobler principle
of action, olive aud help live.p a Pisa
AMONG the dead letters sent 20 Washington
D ftom Northampton post office, the last quar-
ter, about one hundred were add'essed h
/, Jenny Lind Goldschnidt, with the postage
unpaid.
: Ir is all mooushine about the Connecticut
girls peitiouiug to Congress TO have "leap
) year" come cosiderably oiteaer They can