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Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19
tFfom the Germantown Telegraph
The Japan Pea.

Our neighbor, the Public Ledger, con-
tained q few days ago, an editorial Oh the
cultivation and merits of various foreign
seeds, among the rest and particularly that
of the Japan Peo--Its wonderful product
iveness is especially noticed, and its merits
thus ut is very nutritious in its qualities,
and makes an excellent winter food for man."
The Japan Pea is an old acquaintance Of
ours, having produced it upon our premises
in 1853. 1t is besides well known by all
seedsmen and cuiivators of rare productions
generally throughout the United States, aa-
ting from about that time.--We distributed
the seed in 1854 and last spring to some
fifty different persons. Its p:oduetiveness,
as given by our cotemporary is fully sus
tanned. We raised nearly a pint from half
o dozen seed-the soil aud climate snt it
well; but we assure the Ledger it is totally
unfit for human food, unless, as in the case of
the poor sailors, who had either to eat the
pea or starve. They woule perhaps have
eaten their old boots. under the same circum-
stances, if they bad been deprived of the pea.
We have seen il stated that horses and
cattle wonld eat it; but generally those who
have raised it, condemn it altogether when
compared with the excellent beans aud peas
of our own or at least adopted by MS. We
have cooked the japan Pea, or rather bean,
as it is nothing else, and pronounced 1t at the
time TO be the hardest human fodder we have
ever been pat to. Ii is almost always found
that seeds imported. especially from distant
countries, are of little or no value. Now and
then, at long intervals, we fall upon some
thing worth cultvating and even valuable.
The seeds distributed through the Patent
Office last wintor, have not proved to be of
much account. Among the rest was a con-
siderable number Of squash or pumpkin seeds.
We gave them to many farmers, and the
only one who has made any report to US, is
Mr.. Bones, farmer for j. Dorance, Esq. near
Bristol, Bucks county. We sent him six
seeds of a squash, so-callcd---two, only, Of
them grew, which produced six pumpkins
averaging one hundred pounds each in
weight This was . great yield, certainly,
but the quality, we hear, is not to compare
with our own many fine though less produc-
tive varieties and the probabilities are, that
in a few years it will diminish in size, and be
cast aside, as is usually the case, MS useless.
| Now, if our good neghbor will turn its
attention to the encouragement Of the MeNi-
can or Spanish Black Bean, known as the
I FrejoIe, it will be doing n real service tc
people depending on the Philadelphia mar
kets for supplies. Here is the best bear
ever produced in this country-it is acclma
ted, easily raised upon any light soil, require!
little attention, yields well, and is reall,
worth two or three times as much as any
other bean in the market. We shall Civ,
from Is to so packages of it in the spring t(
the first applicants, and shall be glad TO senC
some to the editors of t.e Ledger.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19

CURIoUs GEoGRAPHICAL FAcT.-Captain
VIM. Allen. of the British Navy. has publish
ed book advocating the conversion of the
Arabian Desert into an Ocean. The author
believes that the great valley, extending from
the Southern depression of the Lebanon
range 10 the head OF the Gulf OF Akaba, the
Eastern branch Of the head of the Red Sea-
has been once an Ocean. It is, in many
places, thirteen hundred feet beloY the level
of the Dead Sea aud the Sea Of 'riberas. He
believes that this Ocean, being cut of from
the Red Sea by the rise Of the land at the
Southern extremity, and being only fed by
small streams, gradually became dried by
solar evaporation.
He proposes to cut canal Of adequate size
from the head of the Gulf Of Akaba TO the
Dead Sea, and another from the Mediterra'
mean, near Mount Carmel, across the plain
Esdraelon, to the fissure in the mountain
range of Lebanon. BY this means the Medi
terranean would rush in, with full OF thir
teen hundred feet, ill up the valley, and sub
stitute an Ocean oftwo thousand square mile:
in extent for barren useless desert; thus
making the navigation TO India as short q.
the overland route, spreading fertility over {
now arid country, and opening up the fertil,
regions Of Palestine, to settlement and cult
vation. the conception is a magnificent one
but no sufficient survey has been made Il
determine its praeticabiliiy or its cost.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19

DIscoSoERTING AN ORAToR-It is an as
tonishing thing how little matter will some
times dsconcert man who is accustomed to
speak in public, and TO have his thoughts
about him, and ready at command on almost
all occasions.
II was once opening a speech from the
stump" said distinguished western politi-
cal orator TO US recently, and was Just be-
ginning to warm with my subject. when q
remarkably clear and deliberate voice spoke
out behind me, saying:
"Guess he wonld'nt talk quite so hihlutin'
if be knew that his trowsers was bust clean
out behind 70
"From that moment couldn't get on.
The people in front began to laugh, and there
was loud roar in my rear and dared not
reverse my position, for fear of having new
audience Of my condition. made. or rather
invented. an excuse for delay, and sat down
The malicious scoundrelr continued the
orator, lit was only mean trick after all
There was nothing under heaven the matter
with my unmentionables r.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19
Sketch Of General Walker.

The following sketch of the Nicaragua hero
is furnished to the Washington otar w
correspondents .;,i.
William Walker was born in Nashville
Tennessee, and is now about thirty Inroe
wears old His father is James Walker, Esq,
a citizen of Nashville, of Scottish birth, ano
very much respected. His mother was
Miss Norvell. an estimabe lady from SEN
lucky. Walker. after quitting school 10 ms
native State-which he did with mucn cfeoi1
and honor-commenced the study oil meoi-
cine in the University OF Pennsylvanla, where
be graduated. He then went TO Europe eu-
tered the medical schools OF Paris as o stu-
dent, received diploma there, ana al SON"
time spent in travel, returned to TINS country,
went to Nashville. and commenced tne stauy
and practice Of the Iow. Walker Is mus mus
both lnwver and physician. From NashTilic
he went 10 New Orleans. and was for some
time editor Of the Crescent. In June, loao,
he went to San francisco, and became one
OF the editors OF the Herald. While IN thus
position, an article appeared in the He rasn!
animadver.ing upon the judiciary, to whlcn
exception was taken by Judge Parsons, OF
the District Court, who forthwith summoned
him before his Court, and inflicted on the
editor fine Of $500. This Walker refused
to paw. and was accordingly imprisoned, but
was subsequently discharged on writ o.
haJeas corpus, issued from the Superior Court,
which action was sustained by the Legisa.
ture at its next session. The next enterprise
in which Walker was engaged was, the
famous expedition to Sonora, with the disas-
trous result of which your readers are as
familiar as they are with his more recent
history. .st
From the above It may be feen that Wal
lIer is of respectable family intelligent, well
educated, a regularly trained physician, and
graduate of one of the best schools in Ameri-
ca. He is, besides, o man of indomitable
courage and perseverance. When student
in Philadelphia strange as it may seem, fS
was remarkable for his difIident and ever
taciturn manner and gentle disposition. In
person, he is rather under than above the
medium height, and was formerly Of fair COM
| plexion, somewhat freckled face, with light
hair, grey eyes, and high check bones.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19
The India Rubber Tree.

Chevalier d. C!aussen, inventor of the fax
cotton, read paper on the above subject.
He stated, that in the course of his travels in
South America, he had occasion to examine
the different trees which produce the India
rubber, and Of which the Honcornia speciosa
is one. 1t grows on the high plateaux Of
South America, between the tenth and twen-
teth degrees Of latitude south, at height
from three to five thousand feet above the
level of the sea. 1t is of the family of the
Sdpotac@, the same to which belongs the tree
which produces gutta percha. 1t bears
fruit, in form, not unlike a bergamot pear,
and full of milky juice, which is liquid India
rubber. To be eatable, the fruit must be
kept two or three weeks after being gathered
in which time all the India rubber disappears,
or is converted into sugar, and is then in
taste one Of the most delicious fruits known,
and regarded by the Brazians (who call it
Mangava) as superior to all other fruits OF
their country. The change of India rubber
into sugar, led him to suppose that gutta
purcha, India rubber, and similar compounds
contained starch. He therefore tried to mix
it with resinous or oily substances, in COM
binatlon with tannin, and succeeded in max
ing compounds which can be mixed in all
proportions with gutta percha or India rub
Der without altering their characters. BY
the foregoing it will be understood that a great
number of compounds of the gutta percha
and India rubber class may be formed by
mixing starch, gluten, or -four with tannin
and resinous or oily substances. by mixing
some of these compounds with gutta percha
or India rubber, he can so increase its hard
ness that it will be like horn, and may be
used as shields to protect the soldiers from
the effect of the MIME balls and some of
these compounds in combination with iron,
may be useful in floating batteries and many
other purposes, such as the covering of the
electric telegraph wires, imitation Of wood,
shiD-buiainr Hc
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19

PuNcH on WOMEN. Women are never sat
isied. If man is jealous, they cry out
against his tyranny; il he is not jealous. they
complain of his indifference. A man ceases
TO be good fellow the moment he refuses to
do precisely what other people wish him to
do. Tell a women she is..a firt, and she will
laugh; that she is ugly, and she will get an
cry hut Just hint that she is growing old,
and she will never forgive you. Self love is
love with two bandages over its eyes instead
of one. A man marries generally to leave
society-a woman TO enter it. Those who
live only for appearances, generally end in
making one at the insolyent court. Many a
man talks with loud complacency about the
charm of his fireside. and yet let temptation
give bat the smallest tap at the door, and he
evinces the most wonderful alacrity in leaving
it, Satire is a dangerous acid, which none
hut the most skilful should presume to use
Many clumsy hand has been blown to pieces
by the explosion of bis own retort.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19

PAr's DREAN.-Two sons Of the green and
glorious isle met day or two since, and thus
collpquzed
Good morning, Pat"
"Good morning, Dennis"
Dennis.-"lIow is it wild ye Pat ye same
in quandry."
Pdt.-"Bedad, but it's all right We are with
out knowing it, for it's in tina. same avn. It's
a provoking dhrame I've had"
Dennis.--"A dhrame was |. good or
bad one I"
Pat. Bad luck. but it was little Of both.
! dhtamed was wild the Pope. who was as
great gntleman as any boy in the district :
and he axed me would | dhrink Thinks !,
would n duck swim and seein' the lrishown
and the sugar on the sideboard, tou ID him
wouldn't mind takin' wee dhrap Of punch
Cowld or hot says the Pope. Hot, says
and with that he stepped down to the kitchen
for the hot water but before he got back
woke up. and now it's disthressin' me to think
didn't take it cowld."
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y . { t r y.
PINKY WINKY AND HER FATHER

\ IMITATION OF "niAwATHA," By LoXGFRL-
Low.
Said my daughter, Pinky Winky,
Pinky Winky young and tender,
With a cheek as red as roses,
With lip like ripe cherry:
Father. dearest farther, tell me
What it's best to have for breakfast?
Said |, darling Pinky Winky,
Proud its makes my heart paternal
To perceive this thirst for knowledge;
Such laudible inquiry
Should be answered, who can doubt it,
Therefore, dearest Pinky Winky,
Since you asked me | will answer,
l will answer, will tell you,
Possibly it may be Licer.
At this only bare suggestion,
Pinky Winky slightly shuddered.
Saying with some hesitation,
Liver is the food for Paupers,
To be eaten but with mustard;
Mustard which is hot and fiery,
And is apt to burn the gullet.
Then, renewing the inquiry:
Father, dearest father, tell me,
Tell your fond, devoted daugher.
What it's best TO have for breakfast?
Said !, with deep emotion,
While my heart oyerflowed with kindness
Dearest little Pinky Winky,
Since you ask me | will answer,
will answer | will tell you,
1t will probably he Sausage.
At this answer, Pinky Winky
Turned her little saucy nose up,
Saying pertly, smartly, tartly.
Sausage, sausage, always saus age
am tired to death of sausage
Sausages are fat and greasy,
Sometimes made It's said OF puppies
Puppies juvenile and tender,
Which come to their end untimely.
No, my venerable father,
If you love your Pinky Winky,
Don't by any means have sausage!
Then again my Pinky Winky,
Asked, with question pertinacious
Father, dearest father, tell me.
Tell your fond and loving daughter
What it's best to have for breakfast?
Now felt my anger rising,
And rising OF my dander;
Said | with so me irritation;
Since you persevere in asking,
Pinky Winky, Pinky Winky,
| viii answer, | will tell YOU
Said ], in voice emphatic,
Which can only be compared
To the sound Of rolling thunder,
Which reyerbrates from the mountains
When it scatters wide destruction;
Or the sound Of raging whrlwind
Or the sound Of mighty waters
At the cataract of Niagara;
Or the sound Of booming cannon,
In. l.. n
Or the braying of the trumpet,
Urging on the charging squadron;
Or the neighng of the war horse,
As he rushes to the battle.
Said |, in voice empathetic,
Then it must be buckisbeat pancakes.
AS fair and blighted lily
Droops beneath the feryid sunbeam;
As the grass oppressed with moisture
Droops with weight of pearly dew-drops,
Dropped the head of Pinky Winky
While her tears in gushing torrents
Fell in puddles on the table;
Deep her bosom heaved with anguish,
Sadly in voice of sorrow,
And of tender melancholy.
Sad she murmured-buchphea pancake!
Omy grdciors-buckieheat pancakes!
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19
sslett 4oetrp,
tFrom the Knickerbocker Gallcry.]
THE sNOW.SHOWER.

By wILL1AN CuLLER BRYANT.
Stand here by my side and turn, pray
On the lake below thy gentle eyes;
lhe clouds hang over it, heavy and gray,
And dark and silent the water lies;
And out OF that frozen mist the snow
In wavering fakes begins to flow
Flake after flake,
They sink in the dark and silent lake
See how in living swarm they come
From the chambers beyond that misty
VEIL
Some hover awhile in air. and some
Rush prone from the sky like summer hail
AL dropping swiftly or setting slow
Meet, and are still in the depth below;
Flah6 after flake
Dissolved in the dark silent lake.
Here delicate snow. stars, out OF the cloud
Come floating downward in airy play,
Like spangles dropped from the glistening
crowd
That whiten by night the milky way;
There broader and bnrler masses fall /;
The sullen water buries them all;
Flake after fake,
All drowned in the silent lake.
From their chilly birth-cloud, dim and
gray,
Are joined in their fall and, side by side,
Come clinging along their unsteady way;
AS friend with friend or husband with wife
Makes hand in hand the passage of life;
Each mated fake
Soon sinks in the dark and silent lake.
Lo while we are gazing, in swfter haste
Stream down the SHOWS, till the air is
white.
AS, myriads by myriads madly chased
They fling themselves from their shadowy
height,
The fair frail creatures Of middle sky,
What speed they make, with their grave so
nigh;
Flake after fake,
TO lie in the dark and silent lake?
l see in thy gentle eyes tear
They turn to me in sorrowful thought;
Thou thinkest Of friends, the good and dear,
Who were for time and now are not;
Like these fair children of cloud and frost,
That glisten moment and then are lost,
Flake after fake,
All lost in the dark and silent lake
Yet look again, for the clouds divide;
A CLEAN of blue on the water lies
And far away, on the mountain side,
A sunbeam falls from the opening skies,
But the hurrying hest that flew between
The cloud and the water no more is seen;
Flake after fake,
At rest in the dark and silent lake.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19

OLD AGE-"0ne evil of old age is that. as
your time has come, you think every little ILL.,
ness is the beginning of the end" "When
man expects to be arrested, every knock at
the door is an alarm" And again, Among
the evils Of getting old. one is. that every lit
tie illness may probably be the last. You
feel like delinquent who knows that the con-
stable is looking out after him."
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19
A Pretty Woman.

The subjoined waif we have discovered in
an exchange "A pretty woman is one of
the "institutions" Of the country-an angel
in dry goods and glory. She makes sunshine
blue sky, Fourth of July, and happiness wher-
ever she goes. Her path is one of delicious
roses, perfume and beauty. She is sweet
poem, written in rare curls and choice calico,
and good principles. Men stand up before
her rs SO many admiration points, TO melt
into cream and then butter. Her words float
round the ear like music, birds OF Paradise,
or the chimes Of Sabbath bells Without
her, society would lose its trucst attraction
the church its hrmest reliance, and Young
men the very best of comforts and company.
Her influence and generosity restrain the
vicious, strengthen the weak, raise the lowly,
aaunel-shirt the heather. and strengthen the
fant-heartea. Wherever you find the vir-
tuous woman. you also find pleasant freside
bouquets, clean clothes. order, good living,
gentle hearts, music. light and model 'institu-
tions' generally. She is the flower ofhumnn-
ity, very Venus in dimity, and her iaspira-
ton is the breath of Heaven.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19
F. II. SMITH,
PORT NOMINATE, POCKET BOOK,
AND
.uE pE

Dressing case HShutattEfeF,
" W. cor. of Fourth s. Chestnut Sts.r
PHILADELPHIA.
Always on hand large and varied assortment
Port MoRuaies, Work Boxes,
Pocket Books, Cahas,
Bankers Cases, Travelling Bags,
Note II oldeFs, Backgammon Bolrds,
Port FoliOs, Chess Men,
Portable Desks, Cigar Cases,
Dressing Csses, Pocket Memorandum Books,
Also, general assortment of English, French
and German Fancy Goods. Fine Pocket Cutlery,
8azors Razor Suors aud Gold Pens.
Wholesale. Second and Third Floors.
f. II. SMITH,
n. w. cor Fourth & Chestnut Sts., Philnda.
n. Bon the receipt of 81, a Superior Gold
Pen will he sent to any part of the United States,
By mail ;--describing pen, thus, medium, hard
or s5f.
Phils., March 81. ls55.-ply.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19

The fpauces Of the editor Of the Elktcn
(Ky.) Banner are in desperate conditiot.
In an appeal to his subscribers to pay up, he
says: Friends, we are almost penniless-
jobs turkey vas millionaire compared with
our present depressed treasury To-day, if
the price Of salt was two cents barrel full,
we couldn't buy enough to pickle jay-bird y
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19
LEATHER.
FRITZ, 6saG.NsbssY s.; Go.

No. 80 N0rta 1Aird Street, Philadelphia.
MOROCCO Manufacturers, Curriers' and I'm
IVA pouers OF FRENCH CALF-SKINS, and
dealers in Red ard Oak SOLE LEATHER s.
kIPP.
Feb. II, ls55.--w ly
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19

"WHArs IN NAME PA friend just re-
turned home, says he once found two Aus
trian Custom officers endeavoring to make
out his name from his travelling trunk. One
called while the other wrote. They had got
marked "Warranted Sole-leather"
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19

UHARDWARE. Table Cutlery, Rszors, Poek
RA e, Knives, Hand saws Wood saws in
frames, Axes, Chisels, Door Locks, and Hinges
Hand Bells, Walters, 4e, just received and for
sale by !. w. IENEh q W.
sulbcry pss. s,lss4.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19
EXCELSOiN EATING SaL00N!
GE:AsiEis -. WHARTON

E3AS taken the Saloon formerly occupied
z by Wharton St Fisher,
In MARKET Square, Sua5uH
where he viii he happy to dispense 10 his
friends and lhe eating public generally, all the
tleiicacios or the seasoa Including Oysters fresh
end sp.ccl. The hi'i Of iare will include sub
.tantia and de.cacics calloiatod to satisfy those
who are hIngry, and those who desire merely to
gave their paa,es ticklcd. It viii he open at all
hours OF the dag, and all reasonable hours Of the
night. Five 4 call and taste hr yourselves.
ty' Families and parties supplied on short
notice.
sunbu7y, Sept 90, 1885,
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pANVILLE HOTEL,
JOHN DEEM, JR-,

JOHN DEEN, JF-,
Market Street, Daaaitle, Pa,
'ENFIS is one Of the largest and most commo-
n dious hotels in the interior Of Pennsylvania.
Ithas been recently fitted up, in excellent style,
with all the modern conveniences.
Danville, Sept. %, 1885,
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19
FARMERs TAKE NOTICE.

4 300 bushels Flsxseed wanted Immediately at
81 the Cheap store Of Z. Y. Bright, for which
the highest market price will be paid.
Suubu.v, October 6, lS55.-~H
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19

WHITE ASH ANTHRACITE COAL
Fnou TIE LANcAsrsn CoLLILRr,
Northumberland county, Pa,
WHERE we have very extensive improve
w mcnts, and are prepared to offer to the
pnhlic very superior article, particularly suited
tor the manufacture of Iron and making Steam.
OGr sizes Of Coal are:
LUMP, : for Smelling purposes.
STEAMBOAT, : for do. and Steamboat
EGG, for Family use and Steam.
STOVE,
SEA Dei for Limeburners and Steam.
our point of Shipping is Sunbury. where ar
,augements are made to load boats without any
delay.
COCHRAN, PEALE & co.
]. J. CocnnAN, Lancaster.
Z. W. PgALE, Shamokin.
BEsJ. RgIHuoLp, Lancaster.
q. D ,UHGAHuNEU, DO.
81 Orlcrs addressed 10 Shamokin or Sunbury,
will receive prompt attention.
Feb 10. lS55.--ly
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19

A genius has just invented stove that
saves three-quarters of the wood, while the
ashes It makes pays for the remainder.
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u S OF a

"God and our NIo,ire Land"
ESCsQUEHANNA CAMP. No 30, Of the o
~ of the L. s. A. holds its stated sessions ever,
MospAr evening in their New Hall opposite E.
Y. Bi.hts store Sunhury, Pa. Initiation and
!ega'ia, $500.
Pm. SHJNDEL, w. c.
EVIL WILvHRT. Il. s.
Suuhury Oct. 20, 1855.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-01-19

Indian dsprsd.sions consinus iO Texas.