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Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-05-05

A DEAF MAN AND HIS DoCToR.--A deal
man is invited by one of his physicians to at
tend the performance of one of Spontini's
operas. 1t is pretty well known that the
orchestra of this celebrated composer was
notorious for thunder and lightning crashes
At the first act the doctor enquired of the
sick man. Do you hear No After the sec
ond act. Do you hear No But in the third
act the thunderings of the orchestra were
terrific. Suddenly the deaf man cried out
hear hear! His words were drowned by
the noise ofthe music but the doctor saw
the expression of joy depicted on his counte
nance, and asked him. Do you hear? The
deaf made a sign in the affirmative. Bah
replied the doctor. How can that be wher
the orchestra is not playing The patient
was completely cured but the doctor had be-
come as deaf as post,--L Echo du Pacific
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Form the Dublin University Magazine.
NOUN TAIN MUSINGS. Id

The lordly merchant in his hall, ,fsr -.
Recounts his gain with pride;
His bales of spice, his gems of price,
And wharf and warehouse wide.
He feasteth aye on dainty fare,
He quaffs the blood-red wine;
And yet his lot envy not
Nor would change for mine
With bosom light and spirit free
10 wander where / may,
Up to the hills, and couched on heath,
To view the hamets spread beneath,
And blue lakes, far away.
Oh, lowland marts, and marble domes,
Still craven vassals gave;
But never yet on mountain top
Was born or dwelt slave.
On mountain peak the prophet first
Gods awful mandates bore;
On mountain peak the dove did rest,
That flew the Deluge DER.
Then ye, whose hearts doth weary beat,
With care or sorrow riven,
Come, climb with me Sieve Callan's brow
And let your thoughts, like Titans, now
Ascend from thence to heaven!
The scholar hath q quiet look 7.
Within his cloistcred cell:
He poureth o,er some goodly book
Till peals the vesper bell. -.
But though his life unrufIled flows,
Like gentle streams that glide
All smooth and still through level plains,
With sunshine on their tide,
That student pale envy not
Such guise ill-suited me
Oh, better far the wave-tossed lake,
The pino-crowned crag, the forest brake,
And stop DER heather free!
The trickling rill that cools your lips.
Soft flowing througr .he glen:
Or else the spring that bursts from rocks,
Like tears from rugged mon
Hath Cyprus wine such flavor sweet,
Or stoup of Malvoise?
Preachd ever abbot, like those hills,
So true homilie?
Then in their Sabbath solitude,
Go, often mediate .,.
And when their lesson right is read,
The valley slope then boldly tread,
\ wiser man, in heart and head,
70 wrestle with your fate!
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-05-05

CLERGYnEN.-Some people talk great
deal about ministers, and the cost of keeping
them, paying their house rent, table expenses,
dollars to pay the salaries Of Amer can law.
yers that twelve millions of dollars are paid
out annually 10 keep our criminals, and ten
millions Of dollars annually TO keep the dogs
in the midstiof us alive, While only six mil.
lions of dollars are spent annually to keep six
thousand ministers in the United States.
These are facts, and statistics will show
them TO be facts. No one thing eyerts sucl
a mighty influence in keeping this mighty Re
public from falling to pieces as the Bible anC
its ministers. 'ft4 I'M -g f.1ga-a
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-05-05

Power OF Cocoa, Professor Johnstone,
in his "Chemistry Of Common Life states,
that by the use Of cocoa leaf, the Peruvian
Indians undergo the most incredible labor
He says, "With feeble ration Of dried maize
or barley crushed into -four. the Indian, il
duly supplied with cocoa, tolls under heavy
burdens day after day, up the steep slopes Of
the mountain passes, or digs, for years, in the
subterranean mines, insensible TO WEAKNESS,
to cold, and TO hunger He believes, indeed.
that it may be madc o substitute for food
altogether 1-r p.
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LEATHER.
FRITZ, HENDRY Il CO.

No. 20 North Third Street, Philadelphia.
NTOROCCO Manufactures, Curriers' and I'm
1sk porters of FRENCH CALF-SKINS, and
dealers in Red and Oak SOLE LEATHER g.
KIPP.
Feb. n, le55.-w ly
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Files and Rasps.

NEW SIRE E T FILE WORKS,
PHILADELPHIA.
FENHE subscriber is constantly Manufacturing
Il for Wholesale aud Retail, Files ard Rasps,
OF every description, and having been practically
engaged in the business more than Thirty Years,
can guarantee his work at the lowest prices.
Manufacturers and Mechanics, can have their
Old Files ro-cut and made equal to New at hall
The original cost.
J. B. SMITH,
No. 81 New street, (between Race
and Vine and End d sd SITS.
Philad'a. Feb. 3. lS55.-w mo. 3
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A soldier. at Jefferson Barracks, by leave
Of his Commanding officer, got married. On
being ordered, with his company, TO leave for
the frontiers, he asked that his wife accom-
pany him.--This being refused, the soldier
asks that he be discharged from service, in
order that he may be able to support and pro-
tect his wife. as required by law. fhe case
is before the Court, and Is considered nov
elty. t- 81 gfrpl1
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-25
Barbarous Outrage.

Rev. W. II. WILEY, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church North, gives an ac-
count in late plumber of the Missouri
Democrat of his violent expulsion from
Cass county, Mo-, by the iire-ea.ers OF
that section. He was taken to The Court
House, where he found about two hun
dred persons of the lowest class assem-
bled. This mock tribunal proceeded to
make their charges, and without giving
him an opportunity to show his inno-
eence of them he was ordered to leave
the State in seven days, and forbidden
to locate in the Territory of Kansas. Mr..
W. closes his letter to the Democrat as
follows:
f"The fair fame of Missouri is thus dis
graeed by bands of outlaws, for rcertainly
men thus acting can be termed nothing
else, and as yet 10 effort has been made
by the officers of the law or the executive
of the Statc to relieve her Of tie STAIN
Whata eontrastdo such proceedings form
to the genius of our institutions and the
spirit OF '76. Can this be called kand
|of liberty, if such a state of affairs are al
lowed 10 continue? l, sir, am southern
man by birth, and came here from a
southern city, butif southern institutions
are to be protected by such men as have
msltreated me, | think [ shall seek some
spot where, at least, my dearest rights
shall be free from lawless inyasions. Let
tie citizens of Missouri think upon the
circumstance which | have endeaIored
dispassionately to describe-one only of
several similar ones which have recently
occurred-andl let them decide what they
will do. Whether they will let these fire
eating politicians ride over them rough
shod any longer, disgrace the State, and
bring disgrace upon themselves and their
chiIdren?''
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-25
Friends of Kansas- Read

Nota week passes away butwc receive
a dozen or more applications from news
papers FOR an exchange. We have graf
flied this wish until We End We have about
three hundred weekly exchanges. Three
fourths Of these are valuless to US, and
many are never opened for want of sufi-
cient leisure on our part to do so.
The anxiety of the eastern press to get
a reliable paper from Kansas is worthy of
eomnlendation and our only regret Is,
that oar small subscription list viii not
justify 50 great a tax on our purse as tire
supplying of the many papers desired
would be. Persons wishing TO aid the
Herald OF FRKEDoN with pecuniary
means, and at the same tine advance the
cause. could not do better act than place
8 fund at our disposal, and allow us to
send to such papers as may desire infor-
nation from this region. Fer every dol
lar sent US from any source for this pur-
pose We viii send copy of the Head
to an exchange for one year, the person
sending the money furnishing the list, or
We vii select from the numerous appli-
sants at this Office for an exchange.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-25
The ueSt conxress

The Senate will stand, as. at present
constituted and politically divided, 80
Nebraska men to 10 anti -Nebraska.-
There are four vacaneies-one in Penn
sylsania. one IN Alabama, one in Mis-
sour. one in Indiana.
The House now stands l28 anti-Ne-
braska to IS Nebraska. There are yet
50 seats to be filed from districts that in
tie last Congress sent 90 Wings and 40
Democrats. Il all these seats are filed
with Gebraska-Pierce men, then freedoms
viii have majority of 22 in she House
enough 10 keep out any new slave State
that may scratch at the doors of the
Union for admission.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-25
Words OF Cheer.

A clerical gentleman writes US from
MilIviile, N. Y, sending us three dollars,
which he desires to be credited him for
oaae gears subscription to the Herald OF
Freedom, and says
81 have read your Herald of Freedom
with a grtat deal of pleasure, aud | find
that my interest in lis columns and the
cause it advocates is daily increasing. =
| like the style, character and tone OF
the paper-the cool, yet. firm and deter
mined spirit it evinces. My advice is
''abide your time, ye friends Of freedom
but when the crisis comeS-when the
time arrives for the Storeocrats to call on
you and by tie force of arms attempt to
make you how down and worship fhe
gods they have setup, or leave the Ter
fitory, then resist unto blood, striving
against this monstrDus wrong, this stu
penduous fraud. this new tyranny which
they have set up i'll Kansas
Our friends may rest assured that the
people of Kansas viii be true to them
selves, to their posierity. and the flag oi
freedom under which they were born
and educated. When tie crisis comes
We ask our friends in the east to furnish
us means to enable US to bear our arms
aloft, and they shall never have occasion
10 blush for their brothers and friends in
Kansas.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-25
The D. p.,s

Tie Missouri Democrat has very
fine article under this heat 1t says tie
politicians have lately taken upon them
selves the liberty of conferring tie de-
gree of D. D. upon It's voters with a
most promiscuous irreverance. To illus
irate its position it refers to few late in
stances in which the title has not only
been imposed by unanointed hands, bu;
what, as is not always tie case in the
ministry, itAos stuck. Thus it was only
a shor: while since that Senator Benton
gave The aecolade of Petit, of Indiana,
and affixed the D. d., { DIRTY DoG) in
dellibly upon his escutchion. In like
manner he imprinted upon Douglas crest
the talismanic words, d. d., (Debauch-
ed Douglas) and they seem riveted to all
eternity. And lastly, we must not omit
the distinctions which have been cleaned
in Missouri. Who does not recall the
first application of the significant conso-
nants, ID. D., to the somewhat renowned
ex-senator from Missouri, David r. At
Gibson, and yet who shall doubt but tina;
he will be known to history, if ever he is
exhumed in the future, as Drunken
Dayy.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-25
ErMe Heragd et' Freedom
MEsrpoRr. AUG. 9. ..

w NEsTPoRT, Aug ., 90
This question is one of moment TO
many who live in this happy land. Ever
since tie production of that unpropitious
bill, called the Nebraska Bill, has this
question excited alarm both North and
South.
In the North, the alarm arose, not on
aceouatof anyssia that she had commit
ted, or consented 10 as a people: but, be-
cause of the alarming increase of an evil
I'm our midst which threatened the coun-
try; and, because it menaciDgly threaten
ed to enguIf in darkness a. daughter be-
trothed TO freedom, and iast in the act of
Eadorning herself for the nuptial banquet.
And because, also, she felt that herrigits
bad already been disregarded in an en-
eroacbment upon tie free exercise of
conscience, and The actions corresponding
Herewith, by an act compelling them. to
deliver to bondage again the slave whom
their consciences prompted them to lib
crate
OuS tt5c ftfafIii Oi lES CO1ln arose. not
50 much from afear of losing any of their
rights but seemingly ON account of the
dying thrces of a guilty conscience; to-
gether with the fear of refribution al the
hands ofan ayenging God, and an indiq-
nant brotherhood of tie North. But.
having taken tie first infamous step. and
thus obtained pretense for taking The
second, they at once raise the CRY of pro-
tecsion for their rights and property
falsely so called-while they vainly pre-
sane to set themselves in array, bidding
defiance TO the voice of conscience. and
the champions of freedom, It's vindiea-
tors OF the North; and heaping abuse and
insult upon that people.
The above isa mere statement of facts
as they have occurred; and In order to
illustrate the facts in the case, and that
the question OF freedom or slavery in
Kansas may be answered the more read
lly. | iwilladd the following remarks.
That slavery is an evil, It needs no efz.
fort 70 prove, but Is apparent from ths
fact that it is 50 admitted By even unoss of
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-25
Location Of the canital


The. .Quasi-Lesislature, in session in
the Indian Reservation, has located the
capital at Lecompton point eleven miles
above this place on. the Kansas river
When movement is made to expend
money theEe5agreeably to such an enact
ment, a writ of gao garrdnto should be
issued from the Supreme Court of the
United States gnquiring "by what author
ilyy pubic moneys are about being ex-
pended at that point. The Territorial
organic law has authorized the Lesisla-
tiye Assembly Of Kansas to locate the
permanent seat of Government and ap-
propriated $4,000 to be expended by
the. Governor at hpoint as they shall
select. The Supreme Court would OF
course inquire into The legality of the
Legislature, and their decision would be
conclusive in the matter.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-25
Gov. Reeder nPennsylvania.

Gov. Keeder in n1Fenn5yivania.
The Crawford Journal, a leading Wing
paper of Western Pennsylvania, has run
iup the name Of Gov. REEDER as a candi-
date for Canal Commissioner OF that
STATE. This Office, in importance, as
well as emoluments, IS only second to that
of Governor, and is held three years.
We copy the leader from the Jcura,ai,
but would suggest that We have our
doubts whether Gov. Reeder would ac-
Iceps the Office. lie ias never been an
laspirant for political favors, on. the CON
trary, prefers the retirement of home,
and home associations. We do not know
whether Gov R. would accept the Office
of United States Sem to but we would
suggest to our cotemporary that were he
in that position lie could do more for
Kansas than any other person in the na-
tion, and We think Legislature should
be elected this fall which viii be fight
on that question. What does the Joar-
nal say to this suggestion ?
"CANAL CoaNIssIoxER.-The dismis-
sa! of GOV. REEDER, from the Governor
ship of Kansas, calls for an expression
of indignant disapprobsyion from Penn
sylvania which can b. attained in no or
dinary way. She has spoken, it is true,
iii the last election for Governor and Con
gressional Representatives, but the people
are anxious to make direct issue with the
national administration OH the question
of slavery ropagation, and speak through
the bal'ot-bo in tones which cannot be
misunderstood We propose, therefore,
that the freemeE OF Pennsylvania, with
out regard TO party considerations or ties,
NJ inmate and east their votes for ex-
| Governor A. H. REEDER. In token
of our own-intentions, we raise his name
to-day, at the head of our columns
Hitherto, We know, that he Las been al
verse 10 us in politics. But in his dis
missal Pennsylvania has been insulted-
Freedom has been trampled upop-and
the ruffians of Missouri have triumphed.
We are, therefore, disposed to throw all
other considerations to the winds, and let
the people of Pennsylvania speak out,
| by direct vote. We think that an ex-
preston can be obtained by this method,
that can be secured in no other. One
that will make the ears of the admins
tration tingle, and show the South that
Pennsylvania will no longer submit to be
trampled upon. The issue win thus be
made upon the conduct of President
Pierce, not only with regard to tire re-
meval of Gov. Reeder, but his uniform
efforts to ''erush out" freedom from
Kansas. and sustain the ruflians who
have taken foreible possession of the
government of that Territory. To this
end eve set this ball in notion and
shall follow it up with whatever ability
we may possess as the most speedy and
effective mode of obtaining an expression
from the people. If seconded by the
press, Gov. Reeder will be elected by the
largest majority ever cast in Pennsyl
Yania.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-25
A Glorious celebration

We published long letter from a
Missourian two weeks ago, headed Sad
y Desecrated." We suppose everybody
has read it, if not We ask them to hunt
up cur issue of week.before last and give
it an attentive PerusaI. II was 10 reply
team asticl { n,sthe Leasenwol hi sl.a..
finding fault with tie mannert..e Fourth
was celebrated in Lawrence.
Had tire Fourth of July been eeIebra-
ted in Leavenworth, as proposed by the
..squatter Sovereign edited by the.
Speaker OF the Quasi-Legislsture of Kan
sas. We suppose, instead of intin,ating
that the day was "sadIy desecrated,s a
long article would have been published
by tie Herald rejoicing over the great
victory accomplished for-slayery. and it
would have been called a GLORIOUS
Celebration The Sovereign, publish
ed on the Sd of July. said:
"In the absence of the customary ia
ciiities for due commemoration OF the
glorious Fourth, pleasant fostinae and
fit type of the day we celebrate, would
be tie hanging cf aGoilionisis. The
departed spirits of our revolutionary
sires would greet with approval a work
ike this for in their time, in this mum
dane sphere. it was their wont TO use tie
utmost rigor with all traitors. Slfall We
then, deviate from their example, apd
permit tFeaehery to thrive and grow
strong in our midst? At least let US
devote portion of that day to calm
consideration of the expressions sought
to be imposed upon US. IT'S vain for
us To contemplate, with emotions of pleas
,ure, the memories of tie morrow, while
we are ourselves subject to tyrannical
and arbitrary rule. Let US, then, gath
er fresh vigor and zeal from the refiec-
ton of the glorious achievements of our
patriotic ancestors, which ought TO be
brought wildly before US by the remem-
brance of the events that have endeared
the fourth day ofJuly to every Ameri-
can"
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-25
Et tic Herald # Freedom.
kansas T.. Aug. % '55,

Ed, HERALD OF FREEpoN your
paper of the 11th inst, j observed let
ter from Mrs. Van Winkle. Size hints
that there has been signs of war down
that way, and talksabout running bullets,
and sending the boys TO Palmyra to keep
the Missourians from burning down the
town. She goes on to say
'.If the Missourians would come and
live with US, we reckon there wouldn't be
any fightin'" She adds:-"We have
several Missouri neighbors, and they are
right peaceable people. We wish we
had more of 'em, for, as tell Jacob. the
very air of Kansas smells of freedom,
and nobody can breath it long and curse
the Yankees, because they love it. and
have brought it with them from Ticon-
deroga and Bunker Hill.''
Now it seems to me, Mr.. Editor, that
the writer designs to convey the idea to
hereastern friends that the Yankee air is Il
great leaven for Missourians, or for max
ing freemen of them. Now, | beg leave
to differ from her if that is herconyiction.
l hail from Missouri myself. and have
undergone no change in my political
views since coming to Kansas. came,
like hundreds of others, to escape tho
tyannies and oppression of slavery, and
have ever been opposed to its extension.
| am proud TO say it, and that without
the fear of successful contradiction, that
the fee State voters who hail from Mis-
souri,, are as firmly devoted toSheir prin-
ciples, and will labor as energetically for
their extension, as viii those from any
other part of the Union, "Ticonderoga
or Bunker Hill'' included. We are as
ready to avenge tie wrongs perpetratcd
upon the people of this Territory as any
person. Don't understand me 10 say
we are as humane as some profess to be,
for We claim no relationship to the Afri-
can, and shall not recognize them AS
brothers until their sable skins become
white, and they comb their hair straight.
Our principles were established before
We became acquainted withthe Yankees,
therefore we object TO their claiming Us
as the workmanship of their hands.
BACK W00DSMAN.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-25
AIeader.

The Pittsburgh Dispatch says if We
had such man as CAssIus N. CLAY in
Kansas, the border Iuffians, f" when they
invade. our Territory again, with their
foul intentions, .would be driven back
bowling
When the time shall come for action
aSmaa viii be found for leader who is
worthy of the occasion. We have great
confidence in the prowess Of Mr. CLAY.
and wish he were here to aid us in our
struggle for freedom, and when he learns
that q collision has taken place. ifnos be-
fore. We trust he viii make his way
thither. His name would be toserzI
strength IN itself; nevertheless, we would
merely hint to our Pittsburgh cossmpo-
rary, that when the issue is commenced,
he viii be satisfied we have heroes in
Kansas, those who can dare and DO.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-25
a Rriha offered.


8 We were conscious that every induce
ment IL the power Of President Pierce
was held out % Gov REEpER, while in
Washington, IN tie spring, to induce
him TO resign, but were hardly prepared
to suppose that bribe was rendered
him to do so. The Washington Cores
pondent of tie n Y Tribune gives cur
rency to the following statement. and We
are inclined TO think it has more truth in
it than tie reader viii at first suppose.
A warm personal friend ofthe President
on one occasion, urged the Governor to
resign land said that the President deem
ed il necessary in order to restore har-
mony in lie Democratic party. The
Governor gave it as.his opinion that if a
resignation from Office was. essential. fot
the harmony Of the party it would be
well for the President to commence the
work sha: more division had been oeca-
stoned IN consequence of his presistins
in holding on to an Office, contrary to the
wishes of the people, than fTom any other
source. But 10 TIE letter:
WAsTISGToN, August 5, 1850
Many important facts have transpired
with reference 10 the dismissal of Gov.
Reeder, but there are one or two more,
of whose authenticity can give You the
most positive assurance, which yet re-
q1ire 10 be brought 10 the notice of an
admiiing world.
No sooner had the Governor comru-
nicated with Mr.. Fierce, after he had
arrived in the Eastern states from Kan
sas, than the President besought him to
resign, in order TO relieve the Chief
Magistrate of the Union from the embar-
rassment in which he found himself
By way of indncement the President
proposed to confer on Governor Reeder
tie appointment of Commissioner 10 Chi
ma, then vacant by the return of Mr.. Ne
Lane. This the Governor promptly de-
eiined.
This proffer having thus proved IN
sufficient, the President made higher
bid. He now said that on condition OF
Reeder's vacating tie Governorship of
Kansas, he acoutd give hm The place Of
Embassodor to England, from which Mr.
Buchanan was seon to return. The
splendor of this proposition was a matter
to consider, and after two days the Gov
ernof gave his ultinatum. He offered
to resign if the President would write
him letter asking him to do SO, and
publish it in The Union together with
its reply, it being understood that
his appointment to England should be
gazetted Immediately after The Pres
ident refused to publish such CORES
pondence, and the Governor accordingly
left him under the necessity of turning
out a Territorial EXECUTIVE for the sole
reason that he Would not lend himself to
the establishment of Slavery by foreign
invasion and conquest, against the will
of the vast majority of the people of the
Territory. A. b..