Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1865-09-30

THE Louisville Journal has seen letter
from responsible source giving some facts
concerning the great oil well bored on Gro
cus Creek, Cumberland county, Kentucky.
TIE indications are that this creek traverses
one of the finest oil regions in the world.
This we'll commenced flowing on the Sth
instant, and has lccn flowing ever since rs
flow is estimated ty soule rs itiGl as 5000
iarrels day, and hy none less than 1000.
The Cumberland River is covered with oil
from CrocTs Creek Tor long distance, and
looks like river Of oi. instead of wafer.
y YOUTH fifteen years old residing near
Marion, Ala, drank three glasses of butter.
milk, ate three watcrmelons, and a basket
of peaches; on the same day dincd heavily
GENERAL FREMONT will take up his resi-
dcncc at st. Louis in few Gays, for the
purpose Of putting into operation very
large railroad iron manufactory.
/ UNJUST DISCRIMINArIoY.- jeremiah
I Townsend stole one hundred thousand dol.
! lars from New Haven Bank, and was SEN
fenced to State prison on Tuesday for serea
years. Benjamin G. Green, postmaster at
Mystic. stole between two and three hun
dred dollars, and was schtcEccG to State
prison yesterday for ten lears.-IhrtJori
! COurdpt
/ Mr.. A. s. MERCER. n resident of Wash
iugton territory, has engaged passage for
seven hundred women in the United States
steam transport Continental, for 'hc flourish
ing region from which he haiIs. These
women are from the surplus population Of
Massachusetts,, and the enterprise of depor-
tatlon has the approval Of many of the best
men in that State.
JusErH II. ANDERSON, of the Trcdcgar
Iron Works, at Richmond, was pardoned 10y
the President on Thursday. lie belonged
to three Of the excepted classes, having
graduated at West Point having been IA
rebel general, and being worth over twenty
thousand dollars.
Inr r't.shnrn Dispatch savs:-A cores
pondcnt writes from pithole that ,ho Holm.
den farm, owned by Thomas G. Duncan
Esq, of Pittsburg, and George c. Crothcr
of Tlumcr, Pa, was sold by them on tn,
litl for two millions ot dollars cash. This
sale is onciourth of the oil and the town
lots, with a reserve of one acre each to the
former owners. These gentlemen have in
one year made millions in the oil regions,
and have still left large and valuable
property, promising great developments and
great augmentation Of their already required
possessions.
THE young men of Canada, and, in fact
people OF all ages, are leaving that country
in large numbers, and Gaming to the United
States. At Toronto, where there were 10,
900 Catholics in 1861, there are now only
5000 left Among the French population
in Lower Canada there is IL movement, quite
as active.
The whole number of negro troops mus
tered into service during the war is lS0, 900
of whom over $4,000 have died, a ratio o.
mortality greatly exceeding that of tho
white troops. 1t is said that G0,000 are
about to he mustered out, which will leave
about 10000 in service. '....
ScoTCu topper at Elgin, whose wife ha.
a wooden leg, prevents her going after hin
to the grog shop to take Inn home, a,
Scotch women have a habit of doing, by
obtaining possession OF the limb and taking
1t with him, when starting on Il periodical
spree.
THE Chicago Lake tunnel has now reach
cd distance of $500 feet, and the work o
sinking the iron cylinders for the shaft in
the great crib will commence this week.
1t is proposed at Lewistown, Me, to have
an exhibition of the different styles of bon.
nets worn within the past twenty five years
very large hall will be required.
In 1919, at dinner to Mr.. Adams. al
Browns Hotel, Washington, Mr. Calhoun
proposed the following sentiment "Univer
sal suffrage and universal education"
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