Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1861-10-19

sNYDER's BARN--THE MYSTERY SOLVED.
We are reioiced to learn that the perpe.
traitor Of the incendiarism Of Spyders barn,
near Seliusgrove, out OF which the Selinsgrove
Times and the Northumberland County Dem.
ocrat labored to make political capital, hns
been discovered. The Selinsgrove Times
Of the 4th inst, thus referred to the burning
Of the barn tie second time
BARN BURNED AGAIN.-We are under the
painful necessity Of again announcing the
outrageous fact that George A. Snyder's new
barn was burned down on Thursday evening
of this week. Last spring soon after the war
broke out and the mob spirit became rife 10
this place, Mr.. Suyders barn was burned
down subsequently bis house was set on fire !;
after that bis hog stable was set on fire and
now bis brand new barn, with oil its contents
Of hay, grain, etc, was ogain burned to the
ground. IL was covered with $1,000 actual
Insurance., we believe, but this can never
repay oil his loss, even aside OF oil the labor
and trouble had oil summer in puttipg up
this barn. These, fellow citizens, are the
fruits Of political mobism.
Some days after this, a bed iE one Of the
rooms Of Mr.. Snyder's house was discovered
on fire and consumed. Mr.. Snyder, who had
accused some of bis negbbors politically
opposed to him, but men of excellent churac.
ter, began to open his drowsy eyes, and
charged the act upon q servant girl, of
doubtful character in his own household -
She confessed to the crime OF oil the different
burnings and attempts to burn. AT first she
said she was threatened and persuaded TO do
80 by negro, aud made some other absurd
excuses, but finally confessed, on her way to
prison, that she did SO entirely OF her own
accord, aud without any provocation.
How this deneuemeDt will affect our neigh.
Dor Purdy, of the Democrat, we cannot say.
Had it occurred before the election, half of
his political capital would have vanished, and
those profound articles on mob law and
incendarism would have been lost TO the
world. We trust that our neighbor will now
relieve US from the accusation of encouraging
iucendiarism and the implied charge of having
something to do with Snyder's barn. His
friends should see to this not so much on our
account as his own. This strange hallucina
ton had taken such deep hold on his mnt
that his Imagination was haunted day and
night with imae mary conaagratons, Of barns
hog pens, and other outbuildpgs, in flames
Hence, almost every article in his pape,
reflected this morbid temperament of o dis
eased imag gination, and the lurid glare Of !h'
incendiary's torch was ever uppcrmostin biz
thoughts, and followed him like phantom
through all the conjurations of his brain
We trust the above facts, which dispellet
his Illusion, were rot too suddenly revealed
lest such sudden step from the sublime Il
the ridiculous, might be attended with seriou
consequences. II is friends, especially ,hos,
skilled in medical knowledge, should recon-
mend gentle opates for the present, aud
bottle Of aromatic spirits of hartsborne con
stantly to be kept beside the iDks,aud, 81
that hereafter, when such words as Snyder
fire, barn, hog pen, incendiary &c, occurred
the pungent ammonia could be administered
without delay.