Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1854-05-20
COUNTY, PA, SATURDAY, MAY 2O 1854.

~ very frequent specimen OF the modt RI
Greek. Still! young, be has acquired a
very considerable fortune. In reality STU
perficial, empty, and ignorant; acquainted
with no one art or science, and hardly able
to read and write correctly, he has yet a
natural acuteness that would puzzle the
wisest. He is indeed one of the most sue
cesslul sharpers in the corn market and
that is saying great deal. He has the
most pleasant, frank, plausible manner pos
sble; yet he only speaks truth by accident.
He seems to divine other mems thoughts
and sntentionS by a sort OF instinct and no
one ever comes in contact with him with
out somehow or other getting The wrong
end of an argument or bargain. He will
commit the most impudent robberies with
cool air OF assurance that is positively
Astounding. He is hard, unjust, oppressive,
cunning, false, tricky, selfish all with the
air OF an injured man. He has his temper
under the most extraordinary command,
! and would never by any chance let slip an
| expression of a dsagreeahle nature toward
any body, from whom be might ever by
any possibility have the chance OF gaining
! sixpence. To dependents he is of course
! as heartless tyrant as ever insultcd worth
or imbI,ered misfortune. No man has
ever shown him to appear in the wrong.
| His !abors are only known by their fruits.
Somehow or other every body who makes
his acquaintance and gets mixed up with
him in business, grows poorer, and yet you
can not convict him Of dishonesty. The
/ fact is there the reason is mystery. His
very victims are constrained to speak well
OF him, for they can prove no evil. His
aCquaintances seem all under obligations TO
him. Persons formerly thriving and well
10 do in the world, pass beneath his yoke
into difficulties in a manner that is almost
magical. When they ta,I and sink into
utter ruin, he has always conrveG to get
paid. He has forseen what was going 20
happen, and has disposed of their accep-
tances-sold them perhaps 10 some friend
who desired safe investment, and who
had asked his advice In short, he is out
of the scrape, let who will be in it. To
be sure there are one or two people who
look shyly at him. II is possible 10 be
sharper than soine men, but not to be shar-
per than every man. Strange whispers 60
about respecting him; his mother is said
to have died in extreme poverty, and one
OF his brothers TO have got into trouble aud
10 have never got out OF L BIT he does
not mind such reports as these, for he has
one OF his poor relations living with him
and can point triumphanilv 10 her. To be
sure She cooks and Supprintenas the wash
ing, but be can not be expected to entertain
her Tor nothing although she is SAID 10 be
a perfect Of economy, and to liye
altogether on boiled salads. There is a
grand gold chain which her important rpla-
tive wears rather ostenta'ousy, md which
is said 10 have belonged to her deceased
husband, as we'll as the watch which is at
tached TO it; but that's nohody's business
It is natural that derendcn's should show
some substantial marks Of gratitude to their
protectors, ifthey have any.
II does not seem on the whole aslonish-
ing that the friendship o! such genius as
this should have been disastrous to Captain
Jorgey. Shortly after its commencement,
the Sea Captains affairs got into maze,
and they never got out OF it. He had then
an olive garden, and a little vessel of his
/ own, with which he went about 10 the
ports in the neighborhood, and sometimes
got as far as Malta, driving thriving trade
/ But as soon as he began to carry cargoes
| for kyrios Ozlan and 10 leave the manage
ment OF his affairs at home in the hands Of
his employer, everything went wrong
His olive trees produced no fruit, his house
was burnt down; and, though every thing
was destroyed in the fire, ne has since seen
some things about the premises Of his patron
so like his own as TO be quite surprising.
But this does not shake his simple good
faith, and he seems 20 me 50 respectable
and happy in it that sometimes wonder
il after all he is not really the wiser man
Of the two. My opinion is not at all dis
turbed by the fixed smile which is always
on the lips of Kyrios Ozan for | can not
help fancyng that he must sometimes feel
uncomfortable, especially in the long windy
winters nights,
Captain Jorgey's olive garden and bis
into the hands OF his patron. II makes
one quite uncomfortable TO hear him talk
about them with such compacency, ana
brag Of their produce. II is painful 10 see
Captain Jorgey on the summer afternoons
toiling home with large basket Of fruit,
proud that the land which once was bis at
least produces something. Kyrios Ozlan
however only receives them with grunt
of disapprobation q ia not worth his
while to ilattrr Captain Jorgey now,) and
an ungraeriul observation about the expense
of gardening SO that The modest sailor
really feels quite puzzled that the property
which was once little fortune 10 him,
should be such bunhen 10 bis patron. lie
feels quile.disgraeed by il, aud is ashamed
that he should have allowed his generous
TREAD 10 accept It for sueh large debt as
that which was due 20 him at the date Of
the lransaelion Captain Jorgry knew Il was
large debt, though he dad not quite kaow
how much, iaF there had eeyeF been an
account between them, and he Was not a
good hand al hguFes Il there had been one.
The fact is, that when Captain JoFsey's
alive trees woa!d obsinalely psfsiA 10
bearing no fruit 10 the most favorable sea-
sons when his grapss seemed oil gathered
bsiofs they bal gown and vhen biz dgs
did not appear 70 grow u al when b.
fFlurasd hons aad found his house bufnl
dowa, and ruin staring han 10 the face
kyF,as oslsn proposed 10 hlm ysfy Hola,
ble sghsms ioT Fsdssn,lag his hnuAss.
fhls Nas 10 lead m0nry Il a hiah tais Al