Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1859-06-11

ET The PRESIDENT AND Gov. PAcKER.-
The Washington correspondent Of Foruey's
Press contains the following item Of political
gossip:
] forgot to say TO you that while General
Bridgeus, OF Lock Haven, Clinton county, Of
your State, was in this city protesting against
the appointment Of Mr.. Quiggle as consul to
Antwerp, he let out fact which bears some.
what upon the future Of Pennsylvania poll
tics. After he had told Mr.. Buchanan that
the appointment alluded TO was most un-
fortunate one, the President responded by
stating that he desired to be let alone-tbat
be was now on old man, who would soon be
out of Office and forgotten; but that he,
General Bridgens, would render him, j. b..
an essential service, by helping to crush
Governor Packet--a point which the Presl.
dent earnestly declared he and his friends
had fully determined upon-snd that Bird.
gems started home resolved, after having had
this programe submitted to him, to take OF
bis coat and assist in putting down your in
dependent and high. toned Governor. This,
bo we'll assured, is the fixed purpose Of the
Administration here. A number Of small
editors Of small country papers in your State
have been located in Washington, and are
sending home weekly calumnies upon Gov.
Packer, prepared by order Of Judge Black
and the President. while those who are con-
nected with persons holding Office in this
city, in your State, and elsewhere, who own
or control newspapers, are commanded to do
the same thing on pain OF ostracism.
DRIGes PATENT PIANO FoRrz-Tbe great
superiority Of these beautiful instruments
over the old style Of Pianos, is so obvious
that they must ere long supersede every
other kind. They need only be seen and
heard to be appreciated. We have Just re-
ceived one of those Pianos from VIM. Hall
& Son New York, sole agents for the Patest
Having received an agency for their sale, We
can furnish them at the manufacturers prices
The following will more fully discribe Their
merits:
THE New PIANO roRrE.-It is some five
years since Mr.. briggs invented the new Pi
ano tha. is now generally known as the "W al
lace Piano. forte" but it is only within the
past few months that it has excited such uni
versal attention. Testimonials OF its excel
lence in fneuess Of tone, fulness, power and
capacity for giving expression, or what mu
sicians call singing upon the instrument, oil
sustaining itself in sostenuto passages, have
been furnished by Thalberg, Gottschalk
Strakosch, William II. Fry, Maretzek, anG
most Of our eminent Pianoforte players ant
musicians. In fact it seems destined to in
augurate new era in Piano.forte playing
enabling the performer to develope the sym
pathetic powers Of music heretofore confined
to instruments Of the violin class. The prin
ciple Of its construction is theoretically tha
of the violin. and the frame instead Of being
mass of heavy blocks and bars, is complete
vibrating SHE'LL with an upper and low sound
ing board, extending over the whole instru
ment and connected by a sound post.
The iron bed.plate, which takes the Who'll,
strain, makes it impossible for it ever to give
out, and from the first models made Eve year
ago il shows that like the violin, it improves
with age, and with the hammers and actor
renovated, Piano which has been used fit,
years, will be better toned than o new one
from the factory. The inventor is Mr.. 5. B
briggs, who has named it The Wallace Piano
after the well-known composer VIM. Vincen
Wallace. VIM. Hall & Son. the Music pub
fishers, are the sole agents. Evening Post.