Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-02-10

tutc Of shame.
The dicisoB in the case of the Pcnnsylya-
MIA Railroad Co. W. the Atlantic Il Great
Western Railroad Co., has not been decided,
rs stated in our last The dicision will bC
made perhaps, to day:
E3uropcnu Comments eDon ssrc
E'rcsfsicsi1's yscs-ugc.
Letters from France and England instance
many complimentary illusions to the late
message of President johnson. y Paris cor.
respondent says :hat one reading and think
ing Frcnchman said it was the abicst mes
sage which lad been sent to Congress for
forty years, an cXtravagant laudation. The
Partisan journal LII Prose says of the docu
mcnt:
1--WE advise our readers not to he fright
cncd at the length of this document; they
will be amply repaid for their perusal of it;
they will find in it, couchcd in the simplest
and clearcst forms of expression, the whole
sci,ncc Of modern craftsmanship condensed
10y a man who came up from the people, and
who found himself all at once charged, dur
ing the absence of Congress, with the tnan-
ccs, the executive power, and the whole
direction of the affairs of great natiCn Just
issuing from n cruel war and q condition Ct
profound disorder. II is one of the finest
lessons of history and of social science which
any one can study, and in reading it one
can comprehend the grandeur and the pr's'
pcrity OF the United States After having
written the culogy of the American Cnnsti-
tuition, after having shown its origin, its de-
vClOpmcnt, its means Of existence, the prcsi-
Il ,l
the late events, which would have brought
about the destruction Of the most powerful
States, have only added new guarantees OF
preservation and OF progress to the Republic
of the United States. * * Tic mes
sage is Il chict' H'0Hrrc Of intelligence, OF
moderation, OF wisdom. We 60 not believe
that there is in Europe a statesman capable
OF writing more complete or more remark
able programme Ui governmental sciCucc or
who could give mere elevated lesson on
the governing and the governed
From the Washington star
(. .cEluI.ftal,le .adycntt,.. of'; CORPSE
: Not long since native of the Emerald
Isle, one OF the victims of the late arsenal
explosion, died in this city, and Immediate
~ preparations were made to give lin a
nice, gentcel funeral. 1t was at first arrang-
cd that he should bc buried here, but some
Of Lis kindred being buried at Parkcrsburg,
West Virginia, it was finally determined
that what remained of poor Johnny M
should be sent to that place. Accordingly
utter Il wake" Zone Of the good old sort, }
the remains we're accompanied by his sor-
rowing friends and relatives to the depot, to
take the cars for the place of burial. The
funeral procession arrived at the depot some
time before tie departure of the. train IN
which the remains were to go, and the
mourncrs spent the intervening time in as.
suaging Their sorrows at the ncighboring
bars, 81 abundant in that vicinity, the corpse
meanwhile remaining on the platform, ready
to bc placed on the 8 7. N. train, whiclI
would connect at the Relay House with tia
western train.
The party meanwhile dran,; 50 many
libatlnns TO the memory Of the departed that
they returned ia the station II Il very mellow
condition, and tkc railroad officers being
appgchtn5irc that they would be incapable
OF taking care Of the corpse, tclegraphcd to
the agent at the Relay to see that the corpse
was taken oil at that point, Shortly before
the tirac Of starting the corpse was placed
on the train, and IA attempt was made tu
muster the mOuTncrs wien il was ascertain.
cd that one or two Of them had got Sc
Obtusticatcd Gs to have taken the New York
train. The rest Of the party, however, man.
Z aged ta get aboard, and ere l0ngz johnny
Ms body wgs again "marching on.
at the Relay the corpse was transferred tc
the western train, but two or three of the
mourncr5 were too far gone to get out il
time, and so proceeded TO Baltimore, whilC
the balance of the party with the corpse
was hurried on with extra speed westward
AZ the points along the road where The
engine stopped "to water the mOuIners a
invariably stopped ito wet" and not being
up to time. quite as invariably brace OF
more were left behind at each watering and
wet.ing place, and by the time Grafton wa.
reached, where the corpse was to chang,
cars for ParkcrSburg but few of :hc mourn
crs remained with it, and these were SO be
wildcrcd that they failed to get in the pro
per tram, and Johnny's corpse went on Il
Wheeling without them. From THENCE. b,
some means, it was sent to Columbus. Ohio
the corpse thus having got into the wron,
state, anu The mOurncrs being scattered
through Maryland and West Virginia, ant
altng the line of the Baltimore, Wilmington
and philadelphia and Camden and AmLo,
Railroads By this time the telegraph Wa
put into excited operation, and various m .,
sagcs were whiskcd over the wires inyarior
directions in regard to the missing corps
and scattered mourncrs, making confusion
doubly confoundcd for awhile.
From Grafton an anxious mourncr inuuir
cd, "Wherc in the ID is the cnrpsc!" f'hi
despatch was crossed on the road by lou,
inquiry from Columbus rs to the ownership
of stray corpse arrived there unconsigned
y Baltimore scattered mOurncr tclrgraphe,
TO postpone the funeral till get there AM
the squad of mourners by the New Yer,
train were sending wildlyconfused message
to Parkcrsburg, ltelay House, Grafton an,
Washington, all helping to intensity tn
prevailing muddlc. The corpse, meantim,
had resumed its travels, and, like poor Joe
not being wanted in any locality, had bcc,
. kept moving on, until it arrived at Littl
Miami depot where it created no little eS
cltement, being without any mark for iden
tliication,, and foulplay being at once sus
! peeted Acoroncr's inquest was held with
) out throwing any light upon the mystery
$ which was, however, cleared up Ly a telI
graphic despatch for the missing corpsI
The railway officials then got the CORPSE !
$ motion eastward, and the mourners headc