Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-02-03


G. r. Bcauregard publishers a "stirrng
appeal" in the New Orleans Delta for the
delivery of fifty thousand cyprcss cross ties
along Louisiana Railroad of which lie is
General Superintendent and Chief Engineer.
The Kentucky Senate on the 18th instant
passed bill to incorporate bank in the
city Of Louisville, to lie controlled by free
colorel citizens. The bank is prohibited
from having any connection with the Freed
mems Bureau, and forbids the election of
any person as an officer of the institution
who has ever lived in Boston.
For the fiscal year ending June 80, 1865,
the mint and branch mints of the United
States coined S23,sl9,24s,64, in gold
silver and copper.
One hundred citizens of Springfield, H.
have formed Vigilance Committee for the
purpose Of Kidding the city of gamblers,
thieves and murderers that infest it.
In Illinois the farmers, forty miles from
Chicago find it economy to cant their grain
with oxen to that city, instead of sending it
by rail. A comment on railroad charges.
Immense discoveries of diamonds and
gold and silver are said to have been made
in Idaho.
a writer says that lie has cumc to thc
conclusion that the terms grass widows
arises from the fact that their husbands are
always rowing blades.
An exchange gives the following toast :;
"Woman-The morning star of infancy
the day star of mauhood--thc evening star
of age. Bless our stars!' :" ., IN.
The number of soldiers buried in the Ma
tional Cemeteries At Gettysburg aud Antie-
tam, as mentioned by the rcports of the
committees appointed to establish these
cemeteries are: Gettysburg, 1898; Antietam,
6,732. ....
The Scranton Register says coal in the
bed is worth twenty-five cents ton. 1t
costs eighty cents to mine it, and eighty
@s"re to prepare it for market-a total OF
for ,Gf5 i and shq5gsa pi above that
NEW FRACTIONAL CuRRENCy.-Fiye
hundred thousand dollars of the new fifty
cent fractional currency have been printed
at the Treasury Department The issues
will be mace in few days.
ARTIFICIAL SUBSTITUTES. is not gen,
orally known that soldiers who have lost
limbs in the service of the United States are
entitled to artificial substitutes, tha, can be
procured upon the presentation of evidence
Of honorable discharge, and that the wound
causing the loss Of limb received in service.
They are furnished free Of charge, and do
not effect any pension or bounty claim the
soldier may have against the Government.
HALF NOTEs NOT TO RE REDEEMED. The
Secretary of the Treasury has decided that
half L. S. notes, that have been punched
will in no case be redeemed by designated
repositories of the United States. =.
SOLDIERS DISCHARGES. 1T has been as
ccrtained that individuals engaged in pur.
chasing honorable discharges from soldiers
dispose of the same 10 "conscrpts" who
evaded the draft by fleeing to Canada. The
names of discharged soldiers, by means of
chemical process, are removed and the
names of the purchasers substituted.
There are yet in the volunteer service 90
Major Generals and 40 Brigadiers. In the
regular army there are Lieutenant General,
4 Major Generals and 10 Brigaders; and the
whole number Of officers and men is 24,9l9.
The product of the gold and silver mines
OF Montana Territory, for the past year.
amounted to more than $4,000 600 -Four
years ago, the Territory was wilderness,
uninhabited, except by savages.