Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1859-05-07
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
NEW YoRE, MAY 3D., 1859.

NEW YORK, May 3D., 1859.
The merry month Of May having arrived, il
is TO be hoped that less rain, and more steady
and pleasant weather will fellow. Notwith.
standing the open winter and prospect for
on enrly spring, vegetation is not as forward
as was anticipated. The prospect o! u fair
crop OF fruit, this season. is thus far favorable,
which will be blessing to all, high and low,
rich and poor, but more particularly TO the
the latter, as money seems to be capable, in
this age OF progress, Of securing almost any
thing, without regard to season or climate
After look into the windows of raylors Sa
leon, one might almost imagine that the
Strawberry, Cherry and Grape season was
consolidated and had arrived, some months
earlier than usual. However, this allusion is
soon dispeled when one inquiries the price of
these 6ehcaries. The Strawberries have fal.
len in price fifty per cent. within the last ten
days. A fine looking quality, can now be had
at one dollar and fifty cents per quart, cher
ries at 25 cents per bunch Of FIVE, or five cents
each. The old adage Of making two bites o.
cherry, might, perhaps, not be deemed so
absurd, in coUnexion with such prices
Grapes, mostly the black Hamburg, are worth
from two dollars to three dollars per pound.
The cherries and strawberries came from Sa.
vannah, Georgia. The grapes are hot house
productions, mostly raised in Massachusetts,
and considerable quantities are sold in this
city even at these prices. Indeed there is
scarcely any luxury that can be named but
what can be had in New Y ork, if Que is will.
ling to pay for it.
Monday last was moving day in New York,
being u month later than we Pennsylvaniaus
There is on that day q great time among the
furniture carts in the streets The moving
mania prevails TO a much greater extent in
this city than in the country. Even persons
of great wealth who own their residences are
frequent movers.
The affairs of Europe are still n very un-
settled state, aud the opinion is still main.
taiDed that war is inevitable, notwithstanding
the last news is rather more pacific in conee.
sequence Of Sardinia, ut the instance OF France
aud England having agreed to the principle
Of disarming. But this is merely the princi.
pie, the fact, presume will be another mat.
ter
Governor Wise of Virginia, who is famous
for bis long and laborious productions hos Just
defined bis position on the Popular Sover.
! eighty question, in letter of some thirty
columns in length. The Governor takes
back nearly oil his liberal views, hereto.
fore expressed, and says his views in oppo
stion TO the President Oh the Kansas ques.
tion WAS owing to the outrageous villainy
aud frauds perpetuated by those who got up
and favored the Lecompton Constellation
The Southern men ure generally for the South
without regard to principle, when it comes 10
the sticking point. The South who now con
tend that tariff ia unju and unconslituiion
al, were the first under Mr.. Calhoun, to sns
tain it, New England was then largely en-
| gagged in Commerce, and consequently Mr.
Webster himself, whosrepresented the New
England interests in Congress. in 1920. made
a strong speech against Protective Tariff
Most Of those Southern men who supported
that doctrine of Popular Sovereignty as laid
down by Judge Douglass in his Kansas Ne
braska Bill, are now backing out, as the Pre-.
sdent himself has done
AS an evidence OF the South in regard 10
the question OF Slavery the following extrac,
from one Of the Mississippi papers, will show
how little attention or respect they pay Ia
the laws or requirements of the Constitution
whilst they are eternally finding fault with
the North, for not more strictly enforcing the
Fugitive Slave Law
ZONE THOUSAND AFRICAN NEGROES WAN.
TED.-An advertisement appears in the Neus
published a: Enterprise NJ ISIS, addressed 10
ship owners and masters of our mercantile
marine, offering $500 each for 900 native
Africans between the ages Of fourteen and
twenty, sound aud healthy, to be delivered
within twelve months at soma point between
| Pensacola, Fla and Galveston, Texas. The
advertisement is signed by eighteen response
bic citizens, whose characters is vonched foI
| by the editor Of the NewS."
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