Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1865-05-13
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

mouse IN Porto kicO through an agent In
that city.
Steamboat navigation has commenced on
Lake Wiunipisaukee.
Payne, the assassinator Of the Seward
family, has made full confession of his
crime.
Out Of eight Thousand, rank and file, pri-
soners of war confined last week in Fort
Delaware, but three men declined to renew
their allegiance to the United States.
A colored woman in Marietta, Ohio,
brought to her minister FIVE dollars. 1t was
the first money she ever earned. She want
ed it to begin monument to Abraham Lin
coin.
John c. Fremont has bought country
seat at Tarrytown, N. Y.
1t is prophecied that the coming summer
will be the hottest IN ten years.
A young man while trout fishing in Roch-
ester, Mass, caught his hook in bone of
human arm. Search was Immediately made
and skeleton found, which was identified
by shreds of clothing and buttons to be that
of ellison Cushman, who left his home in a
state of mental alteration February 10, 1858,
and has never been heard of since.
They are getting s27 worth of gold per
ton from quartz dug from Bakers Noun
tain, in the town of Moscao, Maine. Some
S22 in gold anC So in nickel have been OBJ
tained from ton of rock taken from ledge
near Norwich; Conn.
The bodies of the first martyrs of the
rebellion"-Ladd and Whitny-were depo-
sited under the monument ut Lowell on
Friday evening last.
AT the late inundation at Sorel, in Cana
da, thirty-iive lives were lost, the property
to the amount of $S3,000.
Seventy six rebel flags were presented to
the War Department, Cn Monday last, by
General Gibbon, commanding Gath Army
Corps.
The petroleum excitement in Iowa is in
creasing. Companies have been formed in
Des Moines and other points, with capital
sufficient to give the section through test.
Among party of emigrants recently ar
irving at New London was an Irish couple
with twenty three children.
The milkmen of Syracuse, New York,
have astonished the city by voluntarily re-
ducing the price OF milk to six cents a
quart.
The net profit on all the crude petroleum
! produced in this country is not far from
$50, 900 per day, or nearly Sl1 100000 year
ly.
The Stuyvesant pear tree, in New York
city, is in full blossom for the two hundred
and twentieth season.
When the Lincoln family remove to Chi.
cago. Captain Robert Lincoln will establish
himself as a lawyer there.
Milton, VT, has made 100000 pounds o
maple sugar this season.
The Governor of New York has signed
the act authorizing the erection of new
Capitol at Albany.
REBEL SURRENDERs.-The is no organ
Zed rebel army now left of any strength
jeff Thompson surrendered his army on til,
2d of May, and Gen. Echols has surrendered
in Southwestern Virginia. Eastern Tennes
see is now clear, Basil Duke, with all Iii
Vagabonds, having fled into Arkansas.
The present rate of wages in the oil re
gions in this State is moderate. Dnller
and engineers get from 50 to $3.50 per da,
and board mechanics get from So to S..
In St. Louis, the other day, the relative
and friends of young lady who had dice
at a distant water-cure establishment, anC
whose remains had been forwarded by cX
press assembled to take a parting view q
the counteuance of the dear deceased, when
upon opening to coffin, the face of a maj
met their astonished gaze. The express
man had blundered, and the body of tn,
young lady had gone to Chicago.
w. p. Powell, colored man, has beel
appointed notary public 10y the Governor o
New York, and on Wednesday took til
oath of office. He is the first colored maj
who has occupied such a position in tha
city.
Among the passengers in the Fulton, iron
; New York, for Hilton Head, S c., Associ
ate Justice Wayne, of the United State
Supreme Court, who returns to his home i
) Savannah, for the first time in four years.
MORE REWARDS FOR JEFF DAvIs.-It
believed that the reward of 100000, Offer
cd for the apprehension of JEFF Davis, vii
soon be increased to one million dollars, Al
, well by Governmental action as 10y the libel
al patriotism of the people. In Chicag
about 100000 have already been raised to
the purpose, and many other prominen
citizens have done as well.
WHY OULD WAS ARTEsTED.-Tlie Ricl
mond Wig, of Thursday, annouces the al
rest of Robert Ould, late of this city, bu
more recently the rebel commissioner {
exchange 1t is said that the goyernmeu
took this course because of certain informt
, ton that he had appropriated the none!
clothes, etc, sent from the North for ou
suffering prisoners On the proceeds of thi
robbery he is said to have Jared sumptuous
ly, and been the most snowy man in Ricl
mond.
SHENANDOAH VALLEY EARLY.-This r.
doubtable chief, who distinguished himse
so little in the Valley, is lying sick in Lyncl
= burg, a prisoner in our hands. He went t
| Southwestern Virginia, but losing all hop
of success and all heart in the war, gave u
gracefully to our forces and the rheumt
tism.
The Chicago Times, which has eulogize
Mr.. Lincoln since his death, and denounce
his assassin in set terms, thus expressed j
self in its Issue of July 1st. 1864:
=. "He president Lincoln) could not |
more worthless dead than he is living, br
7 would be infinitely less mischievoue, an