Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1865-01-07
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

AN IMMENSE MAIL FROM snERMAN.-The
| mail from Sherman's army, by the Arago
reached the New York Post Office at CT
o'clock on Friday night and the last letter
OF more than two hundred thousand was
despatched by the Erie line ut At the next
afternoon. The stamps not having been
cancelled this labor was necessarily perform
ed in the New York Post Office, and en-
ployed fifteen men throughout the night
and up to noon on Saturday. Twenty men
were required to sort the letters. This is
the largest mail that the n. Y. Post Office
ever received.
The death of a celebrity, dwarf, in Paris
the French counterpart of Gen. Tom Thumb,
is recorded. In Ills 10th year he was placed
in the establishment of the Duchess of
, Orleans, the mother of the Citizen King,
and was so small at that age that he passed |
for an infant, and SO dressed. During the
stormy period of the First Revolution, Sc
, cret dispatches were sent by him, which |
thus reached without suspicion the impri- |
son4 members of the royal family of France |
To the day of his death this dwarf named |
Richcbourg received pension from the Or
e leans family of three Thousand francs year
, During the last thirty years he has lived in |
the same house. in the Faubourg ST. Ger |
)
G ror OF appearing in public, and for nearly
t half \ lifetime has never crossed the three,
= old of his own door. He lived to De %
, years old.
shermn's G.eat Expedition, seems to
G nave open"u the eyes of the London Times,
, whicp says of it, "such u Phenomenon as
= trat presented by Sherman's movements
n has never been witnessed in any hut Asintic
n war, and even when Sir Charles Napier
vanished in the Scindian Desert it was
b. known what he designed, and upon what
~ point he was marching. But General Sher-
- man with $4,000 men under his command,
!, has been missing for weeks without leaving
sign OF his intent, or even trace of his
,. direction Sill the Times declines to say
n our side has been most successful by the
!. years operations until it knows the result
. OF Sherman's movement. The Times is
!, much exercised ut the rebel defeats anu
V the close hedging in of the rebellion.
t TIE Pennsy lvania coal mines yield about
s. 100000 tuns OF coal per week. There are
100000 more tuns used this year than
last.
Gentlemens Hats.
III All the best styles at CHARLES OAKroKp =.
n. SONS, Continental Hotel, Pniladelpha.
~ Nov. II, lsdI.-3m
le Spurgeon, the widely known Baptist min
~ lister in London. has rvnounccd the mini>tc-
lie nal title of Reverend. He desires to hc ad-
&c dressed without any other than his own
ie name.
w Ladies' Furs.
Nv The largest assortment at CHARLES 0AkFORD
ne & SONS Continental Hotel, Philadelphia.
C. Nov IL, l6S4.--3m
d. EXTENSIVE Discoveries OF FSILvER.-The
D9 Commissioner of the General Lam. Office
We has received intelligence of the discovery of
rich and extensive Silver mines in Washing
ton Territory, along the western slope of the
Cascade mountains. The ore is represented
as exceedingly rich, yielding about seven
hundred dollars to the ton The lead. which
he has already been traced for more than four
n miles, as from seven To fourteen feet thick.
sd 1t is situated about fifty miles north OF
IL | Olympia. Miners nrc ilucking III large num-
ne bcrs 10 this new III Dorado WashiHs ton
Republican.
w. Ladies' Furs.
Purchasers may rely upon getting the best Fur. II:
70. CHARLES 0AkFoRD SONS, Continental ii"'s!
,,ot Philadelphia.
=, Nov H. 1865 m
10 ARMING THE NEGRnEs. The Army "f tic
10 James correspondent of the New York Tft
,sa b1ns says: the rebel Senate, on motion I"
07 Mr.. Hill. OF Georgia, went into secret session
0S Immediately upon assembling on saturday
~ last, and Il stormy time was had. The ga, =
,7o tion OF Immediately arming the pcgI' e. Mas
1870 again brought up, and it is believed to have
- been passed hy an almost unnnimuuo \u!e
lS,, For several DAYS past every abicboii,d ne
III groe in Richmond. wcthcr free or slave, ha,
,S2 been quietly seized amt hurried ui. 10 i ,ami
40 OF instruction.
o6 Ladies' and Oh liren's Hnts.
D3o Latest styles at CHARLES OAkFoRDa sons
1875 Continental Hotel, Phi,adclphia.
40 Nov. H.. lo6i..3m
- BEECHER os Tue ArrLr.-IIenr, Ward Becchcr
,73 made address the other day " New York fruit
50 convention the apple. He said il the great
40 est Of American fruits, being the hardest vide.
III ly distributed aud the most useful The tree Often
m reaches the great age of two huDfred years, The
:; fruit IS always luxury. Even pear may not vie
ST. with it in lusciousncsS, and il has pecuary
I'll which not even the peach share it clogs
MIR. Bcccher rau over the various methods Of pre-
pairing ii for the table and INDUCED in most glow
Ing apOstrophe to the apple pie and it, blessed ven-
H. tor The useof cider, he thougt. WAS gradually
creeping back from the oblivion to which the pro-
an gress OF p.rance had consigned it. and athvus
of as temperance man, he could not recommend its
lis use, III you w'H make sai! he, Il bes OF you
y. TO mako itgooi."
.G Gentlemen's Hats.
~ All the latest style. at CHARLES oAKroRD /
w SONS, Continental Hotel, PhiladelphiA.
ID Nov. L. l36i.--3n
y; Although the financial year. in connection
~ with the Missionary Society of the NJ. L.
IP Church, has just commenced, the collections
~ ~ thus far are increased from twenty to one
~ VI hundred per cent.
It. A POSITIVE AND INTRREsTIG FACT
ty Facts are stubborn things" no matter
\ where found. II is positive and at the
n. same time most interesting fact, that our
r. sick soldiers, who are SO fortunate as to OBJ.
n tain bottle of PIsKERToN's WAHoo AND
al CALIsAyA BIrTERs, gain strength much
or faster, and are sooner able to do duty ON the
e, battlefield, than those who are deprived of
at them. This is owing to the stubborn fact
al that these Bitrers are the greatest renovator
RS and purifier Of blooG ever before offered To
r. the public. This is no idle talk. No one
iy ever used these Bitters but was highly de-
ht lighted with the beneficial results arising
ly from their daily use. We are glad to learn
c. that steps are being taken to supply the
sick soldirrs in onr GAMMA and haSriI ole