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Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1857-08-29

Sowing Corn Broadcast for soiling or fod.
der may still be done. If September should
be warm, dry month, as is often the case 1T
will be great support to stock to have sup
| ply OF succulent and nutritious green food at
band. Or if to preserve as fodder for winter
feeding, what is so valuable as this young
crop properly cured. Horses eat it with
great avidity, and many horsemen consider it
superior to any other food for the horse
Farmer, don't overlook the present opportu-
nifty. To delay it single week, will lose you
the season.
TURKISH FLINT WnEAT--Mr. George w.
Holme, of the 23d ward, this city says that
two years ago he received some Turkish Flint
Wheat from the Patent Office, which he SOW
| ed, and that it stood the winter well, grew
well and yielded abundantly. lie was so
much pleased with it that he sowed it again
last fall, bnt that this season it proved to be
quite failure. 1t had grown well and look
ed hourishing, but there ,caS no gram IN he
| head
\ CrR1osrrY-Tho Selma (Ala.) Sentinel
has seen a silver coin, the property OF Mr..
Eliesberg, of that city, which is said 10 have
been used by the lsraelites before the de-
struction Of Jerusalem, and must, consequent
ly, be nearly 1900 years old. On one side is
the Tree Of Life, and the words Jerusalem
the Holy" in Hebrew. On the other side is
an urn, on which are inscribed the words
"Shekel of Israel" 1t is very poor silver,
and although as large as half dollar, does
not contain over fifteen cents worth Of silver
AN OLD WoRK.-Dauiel Fanshaw, an old
and much esteemed New York printer, ie-
Gently presented the Typographical Society
of that city with two volumes of Pitts Eng
lsh Atlas, printed in London in 1683-l14
years ago-with statement to the effect that
the original cost price of the same, and inter-
est added to the present time, would amount
to more than thirty millions Of dollars.
Temperatures OF THE EARrn.-By expert
ments made during the last year by Professor
Smyth, at Edinburgh, with a series Of earth
thermometers, imbedded in the earth at vary
| ing depths. it was proved that there was u
gradually increasing heat Of one degree Fab
renheit, for every forty feet of depth so that
at less than two and half miles, water would
be at boiling heat, and at less than one hun
dred miles depth all things must be in state
Of fusion.
! A JOKE BY WASHINGTON Washington
| seldom INDUCED in JOKE or q sarcasm, but
when he did he always made a decided hit.
| During the debate on the establishment OF the
federal army, member of Congress offered Il
resolution, limiting it to three thousand men;
| to which Washington suggested an amendant
providing that no enemy should ever invade
the country with more than two thousand
men. The laughter which ensued smothered
the resolution.
| A SAD REcoRD.--Out Of the ifiy-nine Sem
ators during the last Congress, (there being
vacancies from INDIANA, Missouri and Cali
fornia,) no less than five have already passed
away, viz: Messrs. Clayton of Delaware, Bell
of New Hampshire Adams of Mississippi,
! Butler Of Carolina and Rusk ofIeXas. The
record is without a parallel in the history of
the country.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1857-08-29

which, by chance, had been left 10 his Goa,
pocket. An old female darkey, who resided
in>the family, had been prevailed upon by The
ladies, who noticed jenkins bashfuness, to
show him his bedroom, and she accordingly
introduced herself to him in as modest style
as she could.
"Mr.r Jenkins said she, "past two o.
clock"
"Oh, yes, I know it, I'm going home in a
few minutes. Old woman, where's my hat p
ut is in Miss Lucy's room, sir-you can
get it there if you'll go in, MIR. jenkins; why
don't you go to bed ?" .
The old woman seized hold Of jenkins and
pulled him along until she got out OF the hall
and all his gaze was fixed for moment upon
the entry door; but she was determined to
put him in Miss I.ucy's room, and, after vo-
lent efforts, succeeded.
There he stood with the knob OF the door
in his hard, but the old darkey had been
smart enough to lock the door outside. Lu-
cy pretended for some time to he asleep, but
that sort of Cannon would not answer, at
last she said r.r .-r H.f
"My dear Billy, what is the natter"
al wart my hat! !" screamed jenkins, and
Lucy, knowing his modesty, eaped out of bed,
and after caressing him for some time, Billy
went to bed with his clothes and boots on,
and trem5led till morning.
How Jenkins, subsequently, succeeded in
getting over his bushfulness, can be known
by application to bis dear Lucy Ann.
Reader, strange as it may appear, there are
Jenkinses all over the world, but the free.
masonry of Welded life draws the curtain
before the eyes Of the uninitiated. Going to
bed on the first night after marriage must be
among the most delicate situations in life.
Ask your married ueiehbor how it was with
him. We have no experience exactly in that
way.
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Mistdlaneous.
The Apoorypha in Germany,

One Of the strongholds of the Apocrypha
is to be found in the catechisms used in diff
ferent parts Of Germany. In the one used in
the Principally of Coburg, in reply to the
question, allow do we know that there is q
God ?" We find an answer, From the Holy
Scriptures, Sirach, xviii 30-37," thus declar-
ing the Apocrypha to be the word of God.
Ia the Protestant catechism, until very lately
used in Rhenish Bavaria, we find ten Of the
prophetical books of the Old Testament not
once quoted in it, three only twice, and one
once (; even Isaiah and Jeremiah are only
quoted one-siXth part as often as the Apo
cryphal book Sirah. The first eighteen
books OF the Old Testament are quoted forty
eight times the four greater and twelve
lesser prophets thirty.siX times, but Sirach
nuety-fve times. The books of Wisdom and
Tobias are oftuer quoted in this catechism
than the thirty canonical books OF the Old
Testament.
In view of such facts it cannot surprise us
that the Apocrypha should be more read in
different parts of Germany than the Holy
Scriptures. A friend of mine, not very long
since, asked fifty-two young persons, to whom
be gave religious instructions, preparatory to
their being confirmed in what books Of the
Holy Scriptures their parents read the most
all answered "In the Apocrypha." One
alone added, "My father reads sometimes in
the Psalms"
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1857-08-29
Extraordinary Surgical Case.

A Dirk Iraueliiag Faurteen Years through a
Mans Scul t
We met with the most interesting case
this morning which has occurred in our expe-
rience for long time We were introduced
to gentleman who gave US a practical ey-
emplifcatlon of the wonderful. Fourteen or
fifteen years ago he states that he was pass
ing down Baltimore street, late at night,
during heavy snow storm, when he met
near Frederick street, three men and a
woman. He gave them the way, but being
Violently JostleG by one of them, he upbraided
them somewhat sharply when they attacked
him. Being powerful man, standing about
six feet in his shoes, he soon laid two Of them
hors du combat, and chased the other to the
opposite side Of the street, where he felled
him to the ground, and where, leaning over
him, he received blow in the left temple,
which staggered as well as bewildered him
Tor few moments. Upon recovering himself
bis assallants had fed, and feeling the blood
1owlng pretty freely from the wound, pro-
ceeded to physician, who soon found that
ne had been stabbed, the instrument entering
about half way between the eye aud ear, aud
breaking oil short, leaving considerable
length Of blade in his head All efforts to
extract it proved futile.
Strange to say, be felt very little pain or
inconvenience from his condition. The wound
soon healed, and he attended to his regular
avocations as if nothing had happened.
Three years after, the wound again opening,
he consulted a surgeon, who, feeling the
ragged edge of the blade, made several
efforts to draw it out, and, after considerable
labor, drew from the wound portion of the
base of the broken dirk, which measured
within fraction Of two inches in length.
This part Of it gave an idea of the amount
remaining, which was supposed to be Il piece
Of about the same size taken away.
For eleven years longer did it continue in
this condition, when, about two weeks since,
after suffering great degree Of pain on the
right side OF his nose, near the corner Of his
eye, on the opposite side to where he received
the wound, and considerable swelling ap-
pearing, he went to Professor Smith who,
upon examining the diseased part. found the
point Of the blade protruding 1t had actually
traversed through the bones Of the head,
and, after fourteen years, made its appearance
in the above locality. Such is its position
plain to the eye, and wonderful to be believed
excepting by an eyewitness DIR. Smith, we
understand, proposes in u short time, to op,
crate for its expulsion We have often heard
of pins and needles being swallowed, and in
after years making their appearance in differ
ent parts of the body, but that the blade of 8
dirk, between three and four inches in length
should thus travel, and through bones al
| that, forms an interesting subject for the
| surgeon as well as for the common mind
! Baltimore Patriot, 1uguSt Is.
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The Infidel end the Christian Child

"Uncle Bob" was great scholar. lie
had taken degrees both of "physics" and
divinity" aud was student of many books
besides those handled in colleges lie could
quote texts from the Scriptures as well as
from the infidel writers. | am sorry 10 say
that he preferred reading the iufidel. His
little niece Nettie. about twelve years of age,
was Christian, and she felt truly sorry for
her uncle Bob, and fer all the people who do
not love God.
She said to him one day, "Uncle, why don't
you love God ?"
81 do love my Cod
"Who is that, uncle?'
1T is the beautiful-beautiful objects in
nature and art"
DO you mean the Falls of Niagara and
the Crystal Palace"
"Well-yes." ...
"Who made the Falls, uncle? ?"
IL don't know, Nettie."
"If you could see the one that made the
Falls, uncle, would you love him ?" ...
IF that could be should adore him"
Il love him, uncle" said the little girl
"iust as we'll as if ! could see bin, and love
all who love him. You must read about him
in my new Bible"
81 know the Bible, Nettie. 1t is nothing
but piece of Jewish mythologcal history
"Are there any prophecies in other mytho-
| logies, uncle" 2"
"Weh-no."
"All the world knows, uncle. that the
Bible prophecies have been fal6lled, and
should like to know if any kind of mythology
has ever been spread all over the world, aud
created love, and peace, and joy in peoples
hearts like the history of our Saviour p
Uncle Bob made no reply.
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CAN DO WITHOUT A PAPER.

WHAT do without paper? No!
I've tried it to my sorrow,
SO to subscribe for one, III go,
Nor wait until tomorrow.
should lovers frown or hang themselves,
Or other foolish caper,
l'll never get to hear of it
l do not take the paper.
Why, there's my neighbor, Jotham Stout,
lie always has the news,
And having news to talk about,
lie never gets the "blues."
While Others yawn in ennui,
His mind is like vapor;
The cause is plain to half an eye
lie always takes paper.
While neighbor Stout hears all the news,
And knows each current price,
And always minds his P's aud Q's,
= by taking good advice =
| cannot tell the price OF calves,
OF poultry, coffee, tape, or
Any kind of merchandise,
Because i take no paper.
Though have studies which require
Much time and mental labor,
Yet can spare little time,
AS well as Stout, my neighbor.
Though time be precious, l can use
longer midnight taper;
And thus take time to read the news
Therefore, I'll take the paper.
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sele,tt 4se,1t,r,p, Il,
From the Pennsylvania Inquiier.
rs 1T WELL WITH THEE +!
By NARY L. LAWSON.

|
Parted-perchance we may meet 10 more,
Yet each lip in parting gay smile wore;
We shed no tear, we felt no grief
Our words were cordial, frank and brlef
We parted, as even friends will part,
On lilies highway-oer its crowded mart;
| Who with gentle words, and kind goodbye,
Choose the separate paths where their duties
And noU in my dreams thy face ] see,
And / ask as start from that reverie,
"Is it we'll with thee p "ls it well with
| thee :" '
Busy with pencil, pen or book,
Or with thoughtful eye and earnest look
Meeting those daily cares that come .....
To the poor mans hut, and the rich mans
home. ....
Musing in Natures perfumed del!s-
Happy where mirth aud music dwells;
When with ceaseless Jest the glad lips part,
Or tears well up from the wounded heart;
amid tile city roar-by the lonely sea,
Comes the same old question back to me,
as it well with thee p "Is it well with
thee?'
Oft in those shrines man builds for prayer
For the great God reigIeth erery rhcre,
sit with calm and quiet mien
With heart attuned and with eye serene;
Listening to holy rite, and prayer
Feeling that peace and truth were there,
Where no worldly visions dare intrude
On the depth Of this mortal soitude
Upon my ear some word will fall e..
OF that final doom that is meant for all,
And family ask-though fervently--
"Is it we'll with thee p "ls it well with
thce?' .f
DO you remember one summer day
Ere its beauty and freshness had passed away
That we sat meath thickly clustering vine,
And watched with delight the day decline;
We were both too young to sigh at this
Our hopes seemed endless, and life was bliss,
And music's breath, and the poets tone.
And tie painters dreams, we're our themes
alone, ..... ...
BY the friendship not wholly passed away
Pure as the clouds Of that lovely day
Send message, or token, or word to NE.
THAT It's well with thee" AYE well with
thee"
Boston, August 4th 1857.
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Married in Spite of Themselves.

Old Governor Saltonstall of Connecticut
who hourished some fifty years since, was q
man Of some humor, as well as perseverance
In efecting the ends he desired. Among
other anecdotes told of him by the New
London people, the place where he resided,
is the following:
OF the various sects which have hourished
FOR their day and then ceased to exist, was one
known as the Rogerstes so called from their
founder-Jo ohm or Tom or some other Rogers
who settled not far from the goodly town
aforesaid
The distinguished tenet OF the sect was the
denial the propriety and scripturality of
the form Of marriage : at is not good for
man TO be alone" This they believed, and
also that one wife only should "cleave to her
husband" but then this should be matter Of
agreement merely, and the couple should
come together and live as man and wife,
dispensing with all forms of the marriage
covenant. The old governor used frequently
to call upon Rogers and talk the matter over
with him, ard endeavor TO convince him Of
the improperly of living with Sarah as he
did. But neither John nor Sarah would give
up the argument.
1t was q matter Of conscience with them
they were very happy together as they were
OF what use then could n mere matter of form
W CuPPoSo tuey Wouiu tHeTeDy escape
scandal were they not bound "to take up
the cross" and live according to the rules
they professed? The governors logic was
powerless.
He was in the neighborbood of John one
day, and meeting with him, accepted an nvi-
tation to dine with him. The conversation,
as usual, turned upon the o,d subject.
"Now, john" says the governor, after o
long pause, "why will you not marry Sarah
Have you not taken her to be your welded
wife p
Yes, certainly" replied John, "but my
conscience will not permit me to marry her,
in the form of the worlds people,"
very we'll. But you love her?'
Yes"
"And cherish her, as bone of your bone,
and flesh of your flesh ?"
Yes, certainly do"
nd you, Sarah, love him and obey him,
and respect him, and cherish him ?"
"Then," cried the Governor. rising. sin
the name Of the laws of God and of the Com
monwealth of Connecticut, pronounce you
to be husband and wife"
The rawlings and rage Of John and Sarah
were of no aval-the knot was tied by the
highest authority in the State.
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Discovery OF New PRINclrLE IN Gun.
merry AND PRoJECTILEs.-We learn that a
patent has just been issued to Capt. j. l.
Mcconnell Of Illinois, for ali improved new
shaped ball, suited to every Specs OF fire.
arms, from pistol to q cannon of the largest
size.
The discovery consists in the peculiar for
nation of the ball, being so made as to give
it spira! motion when fired from a smooth
bored gun, the same as it would take ii fred
from spiral grooved or riiled barrel
The inventor discovered that ball Of the
exact shape Of an egg thrown with the large
end foremost, would keep tina. position, and
would not revolve or turn over in lis fight,
as the MIME ball, thrown with the small or
lightest end forward, is liable to do. lie also
discovered that, by putting upon bail Of
that shape spiral grooves of peculiar shape
and angle, the force Of the atmosphere, acting
through these spiral grooves when the pro-
jectile is put in motion, gives the same a
spiral or twisting motion, like rifle ball
thrown from n twistng-grooved barrel. The
result is that the ball flies upon u straight
line, and does not oscllate from side TO side,
as an ordinary round bali is known TO do
when thrown from q smooth-bored gun. Thus
the certainty of the rifle is attained, at u far
greater distance, and with less force applied,
than can be attained with Il round ball When
thrown either from rifle or smooth bored
gun. of either small arms or cannon.
In this invention, the rifle growing is upon
the ball, and not IN the gun, and tine spiral
motion is communicated to the ball by atmos-
pheric pressure upon its surface, ant not by
the gun from which it is thrown, as in the
ordinary riilr.-NGtiOn0i Mteiiigencer.
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VOLCANIC ERUpTIoNs.-We learn from d
gentleman who left the Sandwich Islands
about fifty days since, that just before he
took his departure, news was received that
the volcano of Mauna Loa, on the island Of
Hawaii, had again become fear!ully active +;
and as tie lava discharged at the last erup.
tion approached within about seven miles Of
the village Of lIillo filling up the uueveness
Of ,he surface down to that point, distance
of GO or 20 miles from the crater, there was
great apprehension that the present eruption
would either bury that village entirely, or
undermine it and carry it into the sea. This
last apprehension resulted from the actions
of the lava at the last eruption; ii having in
several instances appeared TO stagnate for a
while, bat afterwards burst out lower Gown
The mountains and carried all before it.
Forests were broken down and destroyed by
it like bullrushes. The village of llilo con
tans population Of about 500 persons, iucls.
ding perhaps dozen white families. 1t is
situated on the north easterly side of the
island, and such is the surface Of the ground,
that if the lava ever finds its way TO the sea,
it must be, apparently, over the ruins OF the
village. The present eruption is from Il Is
same crater as the last 1t is not on the ex-
treme apex Of the mountain, but from posi-
tion somewhat lower down, on the easterly or
northeasterly slope, looking towards lilo -
Ne,U York Journal of Commerce.
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BREACH OF PROMISE CAsE-DAMAGEs $685.
O00.-A case of no little interest to !ashlona-
BILE circles in this city, has just been entered
upon and reveals the following state OF affairs.
Ii would appear from the legal papers in the
case that in 1853, the plaintiff young gen.
tleman OF New York, named Moses lnglee,
became acquainted, during tour in Italy,
with the youthful widow of the late Amos
Binney OF this city, and mutual regard
spriugiug up, the two pledged themselves to
| matrimonial alliance on their return home.
The plaintiff alleges that he was ever ready
to perform his part OF the contract, but that
the lady, after her return home, by various
devices postponed the fulflment Of the agree,
ment, until at last, with utter disregard OF
his rights under her promise, she deserted
him altogether, aud became the vile OF DR..
George Hayward, Of this city. In view OF the
loss OF his business, which he neglected while
in her service, and because OF the much valu'
able time and treasure that he expended IN
her behalf, he now sues upon the violated
promise, and lays his damages at $50 200
DR.. Hayward and his wife are now abroad in
Europe, and Messrs. Choate and Chandler
have been engaged to defend the suit
Boston Ecening Journal Of dug, IL.
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HEAVEN BRoUGHT Down TO us.-At the
Yale Commencement, Mr.. Perkins, Of Yer
mont, ridiculea the aristocratic idea Of those
who anticipate heaven only as a gloSifed
FltM arenue. And this reminds US Of Il
tender mother, who was endeayoring 10 con-
yey to the inquiring mind of her little child
all idea Of heaven, and the necessity for being
a good boy, in order to obtain admission
there hereafter. She pictured to his inagi-
nation the happiness of the blest, aud as an
additional inducement for him to lead a cor
rect life, said that he would be "like the
angels, who have harps in their hands. y
Mamma" responded the urchin, wistfully
gazing into his mothers eyes, 'mamma, II 1t
makes no difference to God, I'D rather have a
Jews. harp" The astonished parent rang the
bell, and the nurse removed the polite little
STRIPPING TO his crib.
A MAN, whose appearance indicated that
he was staggering from the excessive weight
of brick in his hat, being asked if he was o
Son of Temperance, replied
"Hic-no--no relation--not even an hic-ac-
quaintance."
Mr.. McElbaths name has been withdrawn
from the New York Tribune. The firm is
now "IIorace Greely ( Co."
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IMMENSE EXCITEMENT !.
Revolution in the Dry Goods Business J!
r g & r, e, NIIISE,


Resrecthlllv announce to their friends and the
nnI,,;c in General that they have received at their
store in Upper augusta township, Northumber-
land county Pa, at Kline Grove their spring
and Summer GOODS, and opened 10 the pupllc
, general assortment of merchandise &c.
Consisting in part of Cloths, black and fancy
Coss mers, Satinetts, Checks, Kentucky Jeans
touether with general assortment OF Spring
and Summer Goods adapted TO all classes oil per-
sons.
Ready made Clothing consisting Of Goats and
Vests.
Ladies Dress Goods,
Sunni er Shawls, Ginghams, Lawns, Ducais'
Calicoes, black Silks DC.
Also fresh supply Of Drugs and Medicihes'
Groceries &c., of all kinds.
A new supply of Hardware. Queensware'
wooden ware Brooms DC.
A large assortment OF boots and Shoes sui'u-
Bile for men women and children.
HATS AND CAPS.
School Books, Stationery. Envelopes INK &C.
FIsHAND SALT.
And all goods usually kept in country store
Came and see Come one, come all. ,
The public are respectfully Invited to call and
examine our stock before purchasing elsewhere
All Of the above named stock OF goods VIII pe
sold positively at low prices for cash. OF III eA'
change for country produce at the highest mar
ket price. ,,.;.,
Thankful fer past favors we hope by s'r'c'
attention to bus mess to merit a continuance Vi
the same.
Kline's Grove, Pa, May l6, le57.-t
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ladies Ebress Goods
HARDWARE and aUEENsWARE,
PATENT WHEEL GREASE.

yENHIS Grease is recommended to the notice OF
Wagoners, Livery Stable keepers, &c, as
being SUPERIOR 20 any thing of the kind ever in
troduced As it does not gum upon the axles
lis much more durable and is not affected by
the weather, remaining the same in summer as
in winter, and put up in Tin canisters at 37l and
rs cents, for sale by A. W. FISHER.
March Il, $751;