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Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-11-03
EXTRACTS JOTTED DOWN FROM LEr-
TIERS OF SNYDER SMITH

Zone evil of old age is, that as your time
has come, you think every little illness is the
beginning OF the end" WHEN man cx-
pects 10 be arrested, every knock at the door
is an alarm !" and again he says, Among
the evils of getting old, one is, that every lit
tie Illness may probably be the last. You
feel like Il delinquent who knows that the
constable is looking out after him "
"The only consequences Of University
education are the growth Of vice and waste
of money.
OF himself and wife he says; "Wc are
both tolerably well, bulging out Ike old hog-
Ses, but with 70 immediate intention of tun-
bling down"
The Scotch "are not to be believed on their
oath. where the climate of Scotland is con
cerned."
at seems necessary that great people
should die with some sonorouS aud quotab!e
SAYING. Mr.. Pitt said something not intel
liglble in his last moments. G. Rose made
it out to he '.Sdce my country, HedUear The
nurse on being interrogated, said that he ask
ed for barley ,r0ter."
On inheritng G3O.O00 from brother. he
says: "At,erb Denying mto.,the Consols and the
Reduced. read Seneca. On the Contempt
Of Wealth! What intolerable nonsensew ~
our charming wife, | am sure would
bring any plant in the garden into full flower,
by looking at it and smiling upon it. Try
the experiment from mere curiosity.
His daughter, Lady Holland, and her chill
dren, being with him. he writes "My house,
us tell my daughter, is as full Of Hollands
Gs gin shop" H
TELL me how TO dress the herrings; but,
perhaps l mistake, and they are 10 be eaten
naked"
by deaths and marriages the world is
thinned since we met"
II am toleraby well, but intolerably old
"As never return books, make it rule
never to borrow them"
In one of his late letters he wrote, "If you
hear of sixteen or eighteen pounds of human
flesh, they belong to me. ! look as if cur
ate had been taken out of me.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-11-03
TIE FLOWERS AND TIE COFFIN.

Last week was at funeral. Two rooms
were filed with friends. who had come to at
tend the burial of u little girl. Her body lay
in a coffin, on a marble table, in the middle
of the parlor. Her sweet lips were closed,
and her pale hands. folded over her bosom,
were as cold as marble
BY the side of the coffin was silver cup,
such as children use. and in it was bunch of
fresh flowers. dare say it was Emily's cup.
Whenever her father and mother look at
it, they will always think Of their child who
used TO drink out of it.
1t may be sorrowful to see those sweet
flowers by the side ola corpse They. were
beautiful. but they were sad. Emily was like
these flowers She grew up, and WAS as
promising and as lovely as they. No she is
cut down and withered
In few hours the flowers will be dead
also. But here is the difference. The flow
erS will never bloom again. They are gone
rorev,r.-But Emily is not gone forever.
The little body will live again. Christ takes
care of it in the grave. | saw it put into
the deep, dark, cold vault. Christ was bu,
ried IN the same way in the sepulchre. But
he rose again, and that is sign that Emily
Will rise again, tCo. AS surely as Jesus rose
so surely will he raise this dear little one.
When these flowers die, all is over with
them. All their gay colorS, all their sweet
perfumes are lost. But all is not over with
Emily. Her soul is not lost, itiswith Christ
1t is better to be with him than to be viii
US, The soul shall be joined to the body a
the resurrection. Then soul and body vii
be happy to all eternity. This is what
thought on looking at the silver cup anC
flowers beside the coffin.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-11-03
foreigl' Ve(us.
ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA.
LATER FROM EUROPE

HALIFAX, Oct. 24.-The Cunord steamer
Africa arrived here this morning at 10 o'clock
with Liverpool dates to Saturday, 18th inst.
FROM THE CRIMEA AND THE
.s- DANUBE.
The Allies have been threatening on at.
tack on Perekop, but their advance has been
checked for the present.
French troops are concentrating on the
Danube
The Allied fleet is before the walls Of
Odessa, and the bombardment was to be
commenced Immediately.
A force Of ten thousand men are employed
in making road from Balaklava TO the Al
lied camp ut Sevastopol.
A Frankfort paper states that the Rus
sian army has been withdrawn from the
plateau or the north side Of Sevastopol to-
wards the heights Of Belbec and that only
Il few thousand men are now garrisoned in
the northern forts. In the neghhorhood Of
Nicolaetf $4,000 men are concentrated.
The allied feet anchored before Odessa on
the Sth OF October, consisting OF eight ships
of the line and twenty-seven steamers.
The Emperor of Russia arrived at Odessa
on the 22d ult and left the next day for
Nicolaef to attend council of war.
The detailed accounts show the Russian
losses for the three weeks previous TO the
fall Of Sevastopol to have been over 22,000
men, not counting the deaths from disease.
Rations have been ordered to the Danube
for 10000 French troops, who are expected
to arrive at Silistrin about the end of Octo-
ber. The Anglo-rurksh contingent has
been ordered to Shumla.
Austria has issued a circular to its repre-
sentatives in which it is stated that though
4l.
present is not the proper time. That the
Western Powers must follow up their adj
vantage and not treat with Russia till she is
expelled from the Crimea.
ASIA.
General Monriaeff announces q successful
engagement between the Cossacks, militia
and Dragons and the Turkish cavalry and
the Bashi Bazouks to the number of nearly
three thousand. The Turks had nearly four
hundred Killed, and their commander, Ali
Pasha, was taken prisoner.
The Turkish garrison at kars was reduced
to great extremity. Omer PaSha was ad-
vancing from Batoum to attempt TO raise the
siege.
FROM THE BALTIC.
The Russians are repairing Swcaborg with
great activity The accounts concerning the
BON 5ardment of Riga state that the batter
les at the mouth Of the Dana suffered very
little but that at Ballen, they were much
| injured.
Three of the allied ships anchored at the
north of the Sails on September 2jth, and
set on fire ten vessels
Nineteen Russian merchant vessels have
been captured of the coast Of Finland.
FRANCE.
/ The London Times correspondent saws
that an alliance between Prince Nupoieor
aud the Princess Royal Of England is ru.
nored in political circles.
DENMARK.
1t has been announced that the Danish
. Government had invited all the various mar
itime powers, including the United States t.
meet in Congress at Copenhagen to settle
the question Of the Sound Dues.
GREECE
The ministry has resigned and a new one
has been formed.
a British feet Of FIVE ships has been sen
to the coast of Italy, proceeding first to th'
Bay Of Naples.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-11-03
FEMALE CHARACTER.

Character to woman is like cash TO a
man--wthout it one is poorly off indeed
The person who will deliberately iuiure wo-
mans reputation by word or deed is guilty of
an act that should crimson the cheek with
shame, and burn the conscience as with fire
The trouble of il is too often attended with
no such result. We,fnd the following afloat
on the sea Of fnewspaperdonl, which is good
enough to have the widest possible circula-
ton:
Never make use of an honest woman's
name at an improper time or in mixed COM
pany. Never make assertions about her that
you think are untrue, or allusions that you
feel she herself would blush to hear. When
you meet with men who do not scruple to
make use OF II womans name in Il reckless
and unprinciplcd manner, shun them, for
they are the very worst members of the COM
munlty, men lost to every sense of honor, ev-
cry feeling of humanity. Many u good and
worthy wUmans character has been forever
ruined, aud her heart broken by lie,
manufactured by some villain, and repeat
ed when it should not have been, and in
the presence of those whose little judgment
could not deter them froyi circulating the foul
and Dragging report. A SANDER is soon pro.
paaated, and the smallest thing derosatory
to woman's character, will hy on the wings
Of the wind, and magnify us it crcuiates, until
its monstrous weight crashes the poor uncon-
scious victim Respect the name of woman,
for your mother your sister, are women and
us YOU would have their fair names untarnish-
ed and their lives unemblttercd by the SLAM
dercl's biting tongue, heed: the i'll that your
own words may bring upon the mother, the
sister, or wife Of some fellow creature"
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-11-03
THE IRON TRADE.

According to calculation in the Plitsbhrg
Post, the iron manufacturers of this country
have sure demand before them OF rcnrly
$500. .O0O. coo for fabric 10 be turned out from
their mntiulactories- demand that Will re"
quire all. and more than all their capnci'y 10
supply fast enough. The calculat on rpoI
which the statements are based is the extent
of railroad now in course Of constrnc tlnr.--
With one hundred tons rcr mile, single track,
it will require 100000 tons of iron rail to
complete the thirteen thousand miles Of rail
road, either in progress or which will be II
progress ere long, including the Pacific Rail
road. AT $50 per ton this would require an
outlay Of SGj, ,00O,00 for single tracks alone.
But many Of these roads will he double
tracks, besides turnouts, Sc. Then follows
vast outlay for cars, locomotives, and othQr
iron works about such roads, And it mny be
fairly estimated that all the iron for them will
cost not less then Sl50,000,000. Ocean and
inland steamers, iron ships, manufacturing
machinery, iron buildings, and all the other
nnumerabo uses to which iron is applied
as much more making an aggregate sure de-
mand for $300,000,000 worth Of iron. Be
sides which, many other railways will be char
tered and undertaken every year. to keep M
Il steady demand to that amount for many
years to come il not a constantly Increasing
amount. With the high price of iron abroad
and the demand at home, the iron manufac
turers have tolcrGbe fair prospect OF profit
before them, without the aid Of legislation to
help them OH their business, at the expense
of other Industrial pursuits.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-11-03

pers without PRAYER" Alas, she went but
in vain. These were retnined arainst them
those demanded more than thov had to give !;
and all batle them despair. Wha, was to be
done No advocate. and the cause to come
ON to.morrowl Now (,innetta had n lover.
and he was student of the Inv younr man
of great promise. Lorenzo MartelIi. He had
studied long and DILIGENTLY under thot learned
LAWYER, Givovanni Andreas. who, though lit
tie of stature. was great in renowp. and. BY
his cotemporaries was called tbe Arch doctor.
the Rabbie of Doctors. the Light of tho
World. Under him he had studied sitting
on the same bench with Petrarcb and also,
under his daughter Noyella. who would often
lecture to the scholars when her fnther was
otherwise engaged nlacino herself behind a
small curtain. lest her beautv sbould divert
their thoughts a precoution in this instance
at least unnecessorv J,ornnzo having lost his
heart 10 another p, him she Aies in her
necessity but of what assistance can he he :?
He has lust taken his Mace ot the bar brt
he has never spoken and how stand un alone
unpractised and unprennred os he is. AGAINST
an army that would nlnrm.,he most expe,ien-
ced? Were as mighty MS am weak" saic
he "mv fears for Won wonld make me as moth.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-11-03
SELF!SIINESS.

God has written upon the flowers that
sweeten the ar-upon the breeze that rocks
the flower on the stem-upon the rain drop
that rei'eshes the sprig OF moss that lifts its
head in the desert-upon the ocean that
rocks every swimmer in its deep chambers
upon every pencilled shell that sleeps in the
caverns Of the deep, no less than upon the
mighty SUI which warns and cheers millions
OF creatures that live in lis light--upon his
works he has wrilten--"none of us live,h for
himself" And probably We were wise
enough TO understand these works, We should
find that there is nothing-from the cold
stone in the earth or the mlnutest creature
that brcathes-which may not in some way
or other ministA" To the happiness Of some
living creatul We admire aud praise that
Hover that / q, answers the end for which it
was created, AID be.tows the most pleasure
We value aud praise that horse, which best
answers the end Tor VIII oh it was Great. d
and the tree that bears fruit the most rich
and abundant; the star that is the most
useful in the heavens is the star that We
admire the most.
And is it not reasonable, that MAN. tC
whom tie whole creation, from the flower NJ
10 the spangled heavens, all minister-man
who has the power OF comforting deeper mis-
cry or higher happiness, than any being OF
earth-man, who can act like God if he will
is it not reasonable that he should live fol
the noble end OF living, not 10 himself but
for others?
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-11-03

MECHANICAL INvENTIoN-W have seen
lately. as specimen of rare American me-
chanical genius a machine, costing not over
FIVE hundred dollars. invented by working
man, which takes hold of a sheet OF brass.
copper or iron. and turns of complete hinges
at the rate of u gross in ten minutes-hinges,
too, neater than they are made by any other
process. Also, machine that takes hold oil
sn iron rod and whips it into perfect blt-poin-
ted screws with wonderful raPidity and by a
single process. This is also the invention oi
a working man. And both these machines
are superior to anything of the kind IN the
world, No other process of manufacture can
compete with them. Yet these are but u
fraction of the marvellous inventive triumphs
constantly going forward in this country.-N.
Y. Mirror.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-11-03
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GUESSING.

What would become of Yankee land,
Were it not for guessing?
This last best sense bestowed on us
Is really quite u blessing.
The lawyer guesses at case,
Beyond his power of solving;
The jury guess he must be right.
While verdicts they're evolving.
The doctor guesSeS he will find ...s
Ills patient quite trouble; .,.
Aud sure his guessing, in my case,
VIII not turn out II bubble.
The girls are guessing who will come
10 take them TO the party;
The fellows guess who they will take, BE-
And step along quite smarty.
The lover guesses he had best
To make ".hc propositon,"-
Guesses his heart, when that is done,
viii cease its palpitaton.
The maiden guesses what he'll say,
And has her answer ready
Guesses she'll tell it off quito glib,
But finds her voice unsteady.
The mother gucsses ''somcthino's broke"
She hears such wondrous clutter
GuesseS the children told fib
BY saying, M great matter"
The father gucsscs he'll he rich
If things should 20 to suit him
GueSSes "i' costs sight to live
\ fact there no disputn'.
The one who wrote this. guessed he'd make
One day, a lannon's poct;r
The people guessed his head was turned !
guess these verses show it.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-11-03
TuNNELING THE BROAD MOUNTAIN.

The Pottsvile Gazette states that MI
Poole, an engineer Of the Mine Hill Railroad,
has been for some time engaged, under the
directions Of that Company, to make recon
noissances for the location Of the proposed
tunnel through the Broad Mountain. This
is one Of the most important public improve
ments ever undertaken in that region. as it
will dovelopp an immense extent of coal ter.
ritory which can have no other outlet TO the
East, except by means Of heavy ascending
grades and inclined planes. The rock to he
cut through is the conglomerate of the coal
formation, and although very difficult and
costly to penetrate. it is confidently asserted
that the work cGn be executed at cost of
less than 81 000,0O 1t will pay the interest
of five times that amount. The tunnel VIII
vary from q to 3 miles in length; but the
selection Of tie location will depend more on
the character Of the rock and other local con-
sideratious, than the length Of excavation TO
be made.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-11-03

\ MAN Forbidden TO BURN THE DEAD
BoDY OF HIS WIFE.-The Milwaukee Amer.
can says that city was thrown into the great
est excitement on the 10th inst, by an at
tempt Of man there to burn the dead body
Of his wife.
The story is as follows A Russian by the
name OF Pieil married woman who was a
Brahmin in belief. He Was possessed of
wealth, and both were persons Of culture
She sckened and died. and requested accord
ing to the faith of her fathers that her body
should be burned. Pieil had collected siX-
teen cords of wood, arranged 1t properly, and
was about TO perform the deed. when news OF
the fact was circulated, creating intense ex-
element
sheriif Conoverproceeded at once to Pfeil's
house aud forbade the act. The Russian as
serted his right and duty 10 be. TO burn the
body OF his wife "No law forDids," said he
my religion commands; will do it," The
body was in its shroud the torches prepared
and all was ready to place it OF the funeral
! pyrc. Let il be borne to its place" contin-
ued the Russian there is no law against il
| in Wisconsin" But the sheriff took posses
siou Of the body. ordered a coffin. and made
preparation Tor its christian burial. The
crowd grew and thronged round the house
| Alarmed or afraid 10 persist, PfcI gave his
consent 10 Il christian burial. " uu may Or
der or have what ceremonies JON please over
the body said Sheriff Conuyer Gentle
men" replied Piei Iii makes no difference
with Us, If We cannot go on in our own way"
| Thereupon the body was buried-thuugh the
American intimates that the woman had been
! luully dealt with and demands the fullest in
vest CATION into the matter. What authority
had The Sheriff to interfere, and to decide that
the man should bury and not burn his wife
We leave the lawye,s to settle.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-11-03
4@S@<

Poor THAT THE Moon Is NOT INuABITED.--
DR.. Scoresby, in an account that he has given
Of some recent observations made With the
Earl of Ross telescope, says with re-
spect 10 the moon, every object ON its surface
Of 100 feet was now distinctly TO he seen
and he has no doubt, that under very favora-
ble circumstances it would be so with objects
sixty feet in height. On its surlace were era
tiers Of extinct volcanoes. rocks and masses
of stone almost innumerable. lie had no
doubt that if such building as he was then
in were npon the surface of the moon, it
would be rendered distinctly visible by these
instruments. But there We're no signs of in
habitation such as onrs--no vestiges of archl-
tectuI7ll remains TO show that the moon is or
ever was inhabited by race of mortals simi-
lar TO ourselves. 1t presented no appearan-
ces " hich could lead 10 the suppositioE thai
it contained anything like green fields and
lovely verdurs Of this beautiful world Of ours
There was no water visible-not sea or q
river. or even the measure ofa reservoir fol
supplying town or factory-all seemed desc
late"
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-11-03

CHEAP LAHDs.--In Philadelphia on We'd
ncsday the following sales Of Virginia lands
were made 10y Thomas d Sons, auc,ioneers ::
Ten tracts of land each 1000 acres, Dodd-
rige county. Va. cents per acre ; Ave tracts
of land. S25. 1000, 1000 1000 ani 1000
acres, Randolph county, Va, II cents per
acre; one tract, l,05l acres, Gilmer county,
Va, p cents per acre two tracts. 1000 and
5000 acres Washington county, Va, | cent
per acre four tracts 1000, $500 $500 and
5000 acres, Washington county. Va, u
cents per acre; one tract, 10000 acres.
Washington county Va, cent per acre ;
one tract, $500 acres. BraXton county, Va,
| cents per acre; one tract, $500 acres,
Monongalia county, Va Il cents per acre ;
one tract, l4,000 acres, Gilmer county. Va,
q cents per acre y; seventy.eight tracts. :
600 acres each, Montgomery aud Fayette
counties. Va, ceat per acre.--Richmoad
Examiner. |
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-11-03

TIE TABLE TURSED.--There was time
when we were indebted TO Europe for por-
ton ff our finest machinery, and foreigners
regarded American ingenuity as at its climax
in the production OF wooden nutmegs and
clothes-pins. Latterly We have astonished
them with our patent reapers, and six-shoot-
ers, and at last they have come to acknow-
ledge that our mechanics are entitled 10 rank
with the best of their own. A farther illus
tration may now be given: Yesterday sloop
arrived at This harbor, bringing from the DER
sew shore, 40 tons ofiron machinery construc-
ted for use in Scotland, aud the same is now
being shipped direct to Glasgow, II is de-
signed for the manufacture OF India rubber
goods, a process in which America is ahead
| Of all the WORLDLY Y Jour Cor
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-11-03
EXCELS0IR EATING SAL0Q \.
sHAk s.Es ID. WHARTON

EEAS taken the Saloon formerly occupied
d by J. w. Washington,
In Market Square, SumIury,
where he will be happy to dispense to his
friends and the eating public generally, all the
delicacies of the season, incluling Oysters fresh
and spiccd. The bill of fare will include sub
,tontials and decaces, calculated to satisfy those
no are hungry, and those who desire merely to
nave their palates tckled. 1t will be open at all
hours of the day, and all reasonable hours OF the
ninht. Give us a call and taste for yourselves.
~ Families and parties supplied on snort
notice.
Sunbury, Sept. 2e, 1886
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AUTUMN.

Sweet Sabbath Of the year,
While evening steps decay,
Thy parting steps methnks 1 hear
Steal from the world away.
And thy silent flowers
'Tis sad, but sweet to dwell,
Where falling leaves and dropping 4 over
Around me breathe farewell.
Along the sunset skies
Their glories melt in shade, ....r
And like the things we fondy prize,
Seem lovelicr as they fade.
A deep and crimson streak
Thy dying leaves disclose;
AS on Consumption's waning cheek,
Mid ruin, bic )ms the rose.
Thy scene each vision brings
OF beauty in decay:
Oflair and early faded things,
Too eXquisit to stay -
Ofioys that come no more;
OF flowers whose bloom is fed;
or iarewells wept upon the shore
OF irielids cstranged or dead
or all that now may seem,
To mCmory's fearful eye.
The vanished beauty of a dream,
Ger which We gaze and sigh.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-11-03
GETTING AN INVITATION.

1t having been observed that a certain rich
man never invited any one to dine with him
IN lay wager" said u wag, Il get an invi-
tation from him.
The wager being accepted, he went the
next day 10 the rich mans house, about the
time he was to dine, and told the servant that
lie must speak with his master immediately,
for he could save him thousand pounds
Sir" said the servant TO his master.
"there's a man at the door, in great hurry
who says he can save YOU thousand
pounds
Ont come the master.
"What is that sir? Can you save me q
thousand pounds ?'
Yes. sir. I can."
Won't you walk in?"
Thank you; nc. sir. see you are at
dinner, | will 20 to mine and call again"
"Oh pray, sir, come in and take dinner
with me-
u shall be Troublesome"
"Not ut ALL"
hcinvitation was accepted.
As soon as dinner was over, and the family
retired, the conversation was resumed:
well, sir" said the old man. "now to your
business. Pray let me know at once how il
is that You can save me thousand pounds {?
why. sir" said the other, II have Just
heard that you have u daughter to dispose Q
| in marriage"
Il have sir"
"And you intend to portion her with ter
thousand pounds"
! Il do, sir
"Well, then, sir if you'll let me have her,
vii! most gladly take her ut nine thousand"
! The master of the house rose up in an aw
| FIJI passion and kicked him out of the hous,
-as he richly deserved.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-11-03
LEATHER.
EEENEeasY s. &c.

No. % North Third Street, Philadelphia.
-%OROCCO Manufacturers, Curriers' and I'm
VA pop.ess Of FRENCH CALF-SklNs, and
dealers in Red and Oak SOLE LEATHER &
kIPP.
Feb. II, ls55.--w ly