Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1865-11-04
OLD SERIES, VOL. rs, NO. 5.

A VIRTUoUs LEGlsb New York
paper says, "a person high in authority" ass
scrts that it is all nonsapse to elect Den-
bcrs tothe Legislature vi Albany; for it is
much cheaper to buy them after the cleo
tion is over"
WATER AS FUKL.-Tle New York Asso.
ciation !ur the Amusement of science asc
discussing the practicability of burning wa.
ter. We hnpc they will establish the fact
that it can bc tonc. .a. .....
CosTLY.-lt cost Mr. Hughes (author of
Tom Brown fl,1oS, or over $1,000 in
American currency, to procure his seat in
Parliament, and then he paid not one cent
i'll buying votes.
A CAuTIoN.-A young lady in St. Louis,
by the name of Mary Ann Hclpen. died last
Wednesday from the uso of arsenic which
she had taken to improve her complexion.
TRuE.-Jeff Thompson says the only per.
sons in the South at the present time who
wish to do any more fighting are thoso wAo
dld not do any when'they had the chance.
Moses Taylor has advanced 5000 900 to
pay the Metropolitan police of New York.
the Comptroller of The city being unable to
psy.
President johnson has received u memo
rial, signed by 5000 ladies of Georgia, ask
ing for the pardon of Jefferson Davis.
Rev. L. d. Huston, who was asgestrd fer
scdition ut Covington, KY, but released by
Gen. Grant, has resumed his preaching.
The duties on the cargo of the Ship Hyn.
dale, recently arrived at New Orleans from
a French port, amounted to $lla,000 in
gold.
Efforts IRE being made in Richmond TO
turn the Dutch Gap canal to the peaceful
uses of commerce and trade. -
At the recent election in California, the
republicans carried the State and elected
two thirds of the Legislature.
The planters of Cuha have addressed Il
mcnaeria to the Court in Madrid asking for
the abolition Of slavery on the island.
1t is stated that Sc, 900 barrels of herring
have been caught on the coast of Maine this
season.
The death of the Hon. y. c. Smith, Sccrc.
tary and Acting. Governor of Idaho Terri
tory, is confirmed. lie fell dead in the
streets of Rocky Bar. ........
Rush OE Emigrants from
the Eastern States are pouring into Missouri
apparently without limit. Not only is St.
Louis receiving large accessions hut all the
towns along the Missouri river. On the 9th
no fewer than thirty large covered wagons
entered that city and passed westward.
George w. Gayle, the author of the ad-
vertiscmcnt Offering reward for the assas.
sinati"n of President Lincoln, is to be tried
in a civil court in Alabama.
Creek, and 10 me proprietor oI some hail
dozen teams, which nre hauling oil from
Ptholc to Milcr's Station.
Judge Dennis, of the Court of Appeals of
New York, has rendered decision that ma
tioial bank stock was lablc to State taxa
tion. All the judges on tho bench concurred
with him.
! A New York dispatch says that one gen.
tlcman will take all of the Mexican bonds
of the smaller denomination, and that our
Government will not interfere in any way
with the negotiations.
The jackson Miss Neus, Of Oct. 10, m.
nounces tho death of Col. Greenwood lie.
! fore, the last chief of the Choctnw Indians,
and by his influence mainly the best portion
of the State of Mississippi was ceded by the
treaty of Dancing Rabbit crrrk to the United
States. Letlorc was formerly State Senator
from his county. lIo was the son French
man, by an Indian wife, 1ut identified him
self fully with the Indians.
Alexander II. Stephens, who was enter
tanned ut private dinner IN Boston on the
10th, expressed purpose to support Presi
dent Johnson's reconstruction policy.
DR.. Blackburn. of yellow fever notnriety
has been admitted to bail at Toronto, Cana
du, on his own recngnizanre to appear wher
called for, and his sureties have bsen dis
charged.
Mr.. DIR. ID. T. Patterson, son.in law %
President johnson and Senator elect from
Tennessee tn the United States Senate, hell
the Office OF Circuit Judge under the rcbe
rule in Tennessee, and consequently tool
the oath to supper. the Southern Confeder
acy. This makes him ineligible.
The following appears in Flakes Rilletin
Galveston, Texas) Of September 20 wv
learn that John ii. Reagan, late Postmaster
General of the so-called Confederate States
has written letter which WILL no doub,
astonish some of his ASSOCIATES. AmcAl
other things he favors negro suffrage"
The State dsbt of New York is $26,634,
$50. The value of property in the State
81 $50, ,S70, ,6S5.