Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1859-06-04
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
PnILApEI.ruIA. May 81,

The country never looked more lovely than
at the present tseason-especially TO one ac-
customed to the country, after confinement
OF some Eve or six weeks within the limits Of
great city like New York, with its eterna!
tbrong and crowded tboroughfares. The
cultivated portions Of the country between
New York and Philadelphia is now teeming
with vegetables and fruit grown for the mar
kets Of these two cities. In some fields
observed, perhaps, thirty or forty persons
employed in gathering peas 1t is the cul-
ture Of fruits and vegetables that has so en-
riched the farmers Of New Jersey. II our
farmers, or others in or near town, we're to
pny more attention to this matter they would
find il much more profitable than farming
Vegetation here seems TO be considerably in
advance of New York. Vegetables and
fruit ore, therefore, much cheaper. saw,
TO day, In market, pretty 6re Jersey straw
berries at l2I cents. and some very fne at
25 cents. These were selling in New York
as high as one dollar per quart.
observed in the american Of last week
notice.of the trite saying of the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher. When in New York ] sell
dom omit going over to Brooklyn to hear
this eminent divine, who is, beyond all ques.
tiop, the greatest pulpit orator living.
1t is a great mistake to suppose that Mr..
Boecher's eloquence is owing to hueDcy Of
speech or elegance of language. There is n o
studied effort or laboring after effect. He
expresses himself 10 the plainest language,
often using The most common. place terms Of
every day life. His great forto is his origi-
ralty, his genius and practical illustrations,
his liberal viaws and independence of thought
and action without regard to forms or cere-
monies, however old or venerated, il they
have nothing else to recommend them He
remarked that some individuals show by their
actions and conduct in life that they ore truly
christians, without knowing or protesting to
be such, while some of the meanest men liy-
! ing are those who conform most strictly to
the rules Of the church. If lie we're asked
whether ho thought church membership, CON-
munion or profession of religion, as neces.
sary to salvation he would emphatically say
no-but be would say these were great helps
and it was unfortunate for any one who did
not embrace them. He would remark to
those who set up Knox, Calvin, Edwards
and others, us standards, from which no one
was permitted to swerve, that these same
men were ouce, themselves, new school men
urging new measures, and he presumed ir
less than twenty years after he is dead nnC
buried, his tracts and writings will be gath
cred and set up rs a standard, from which nC
one will be permitted TO devate, but this, ht
said, will not be so while he lives. His de
scripton Of an over cautious and timid man
watching his shadow, lest il might be caugh
in bush or turning q corner, though appro
pirate, was, nevertheless, most luGicrous.
Business here, as we'll as in New York, il
not as brisk as has been expected. Th'
western trade, which is very important hal
been greatly depressed. The south, however
has been doing extremely well in the in
creased demand for her cotton.
The passenger railroads in this city accup,
almost every street, and are great convent
ence. AS place of residence Philadelphia
is, in many respects, more desirable than Nev
York, but as business place it is indeet
no more than suburban city compared witt
its great commercial rival. The contras
when coming from New York to Philadelphia
is apparent to all.
buve often observed the great dfrerenc
in the enterprise of the news journals a
compared with Philadelphia. In New Y or
you can scarcely see Philadelphia paper i
hotel, and have never heard one ofIere,
for sale, while in Ph ladelphia you will b
sure to find the New York papers n ever
public place.
The Washington correspondent of tn
Press is down on Mr. Buchanan for his RI
moval of Westcott es Post Master here, On
says Mr.. Buchanan is perfectly consistent i
this, as he always prnctised the doctrine c
, Furnishing his friends and rewardng his enc
mics.