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Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-06-16

~ The Banks now ch2ge one per cent. on all
notes Of State Banks taken deposit, and fvo per
cent on all such notes out of the State
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-06-16
Support Home Industry {!

IL ats Of Every ID q - crh pE @ IL!
AFULL ASSORTMENT JusT OPENED by
SAMUEL FAusI,
Two doors west OF BcuuClts Drug Store Market ST.
SUN NBU2 y, PEN nI'A-
NAf.L and oxauue tho large assortment Of the
I hies, New York and PhilulclpAia styles Of
Si'k, Cashmere, Petfo Derby, Vine BFin' soft or,
Siro,y upl Bows HAS which iar beauty aud du-
rsbiiv cauuoJ be exoclled, Being practical Hat
ter he aattcrs himself that bis stock has been select
ed with more care than any ever before brought 20
us also manufactures 70 order M kinds Of sytt
Fur uAs. all Of which will be sold at wholesale AMI
rriuil. at reasonable rates.
Dveins dono ehurt notice ani At the lowest rates.
SuuLuly. May | :, 1864.
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gnteruntioBnl Eoacl.
:, EOO Pius YEAR! We want

m, zoo PEbs WEAR! We want
S51-o agents everywhere to sell our IN
PROVED S2c Sewing Machines. Three new klnas'
Innar and upper feed Warranted i've years
Abava salary OF large commissions paid The ONLY
machines sold in Unitod States for ess than ' SiG'
which are fully licensed by Howe, Wheeler WI
All other cheap W aehines inifingements and II
sler or user are liable 70 eIsest tine, and i'm priso
msns Circulars free. Address, or call upon shaw
b Ozark, Biddesrd, Maine, or Chicago, IL dee2S
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-06-16

Ehe;,ljie.s, Aslsndpe>s and Gagthrrb,
Treated with the utmost success by DR., j. ISAACS
Ooulist aud Aurst, formerly of Le,dcn, Ho!lnndl }
No. $40 Pine street. Philadelphia. Testimonials
from the most re liable in the City and Cuun
try can be seen at his office Tho medical Eiuulty are
invited to accompany their patients, as he has so
crets in his practice Artificial Eyes, inserted WitA
out pain. No charge made for examination.
July %, ls6j.-ly
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-06-16
WILLIAM w. AP5LEY'S
Wholesale
Boot, Shoe and Trunk
" A r Il II o U s Il,
SstSnshrRX rsa

yVM. ". APSLEY has lust oncnc1 NTw
w STORE in the well known housc Of Mrs Bout
ton. in Market street, and offers TO the ctiz.is or
Sunbury and neighbOriug towns, BOOTS & SHOES
of the best quality and workmanship. lie Lnyi,.
niado arrrns semenis with frst-clsss mnnLiscturrts
to supply tic best qualify OF socds.
Ia the Wholesale Department he calls the atieY.
ton OF Country Storekscpers to his fno stock which
will be sold at the lowest whocsale prices thus crl-
bling Retail Dealers to save expense OF visiting the
cities to replensh their stock.
In the Retail Department can be found BOGUS
SHOES, TRUNKS, YALlSES, &c, which, i'll price,
at these times, are without parallel.
The stock OF Ladies W Wear is superior in style and
workmanship tEan is usually found In country towns,
embracing gems Of Bulmorais, splendid Congress
Caters. and fancy shoes Of every kind.
W W. A also calls attention to his large stock Of
Mems wear of latest styles, that will fit any foot
with ease and comfort.
Come 0nc! Come All!
C,,,l,-,. M,rch
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Not so. If a man die, shall he not live
again Beyond the grave, in the dis
tant Alden, hope provides an clysiun OF
of the soul where the mortal assumes
immortality and life becomes an endless
spendor.
But where, in all the dreary regions
of the past. filled with commissions, wars
and crimes. can YOU point Your finger to
the tomb of free commonwealth on
which the angel Of resurrection has ever
descended or from whose mouth the
stone of despotism has ever been rolled
away? Where, in what age and in what
cline, have the ruins of constitutional
freedom renewed their youth ana re-
gained their lost estate? BY whose
strong grip has the corpse OF Repuolic
once fallen ever been raised? The merci-
full Master who walked upon the waters
and babe the winds be still, left no Or
dained apostles with power to wrench
apart the jaws of national death and re-
lease the victims of despoti5n. me
wall of the heart-brOken over the dead
is not so sad to me as the realization OF
this fact. But all history, with a loud
unbrollen voice, proclaims it, and the
evidence Of what the past has been Is
conclusive to my mind of what the future
will be. Wherever in the wide domain
Of human conduct a people once possess
ed of liberty, with all power in their
own hands, have surrendered these great
gifts of God, at the command of the
usurper, they have never afterwards
proven themselves worthy to regain
their forfeited treasure. Daniel ". For
IPPS
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which they cannof forfeit b. any idle
ness and destination, the nobility of
England lose those habits OF care and
self-preseYvation which alone can render
family merit urcand prolonged? The
worthy and poor boy grows up with the
feeling that he has bis future character
and fortune to make by industry, ener-
gy and intelligence; hence he cuitivates
these. The Young noble grows up ieel
ing that wealth and high position are
his without effort. and so he begins life
without ambition, and is as likely to fall
as to rise. All men should feel that they
must depend upon themselves fof success,
Or they will never succeed.
But the most important matter here IS
that the American system leads men to
feel that there is no security lor the
progress OF each except By the progress
sive education of all, The strength aud
civilization Of society, IS to he measured
not by the top but dolton strata. So long
as whole classes lie degraded, depiaVed,
Ignorant and uncstred for, the highest
classes, however wealthy, or propped up
i'll hereditary honers, neverean de secure:
Revolutions wilthreaten and groWl, and
the children of the highest may descend
to the lowest. 1t is only by elevating
Stie loNtSt tliIOuSi Noeies'tioii .t'Nt va
that civilization is to be extended, and
families preserved from degradation
."There is that scattereth and yet increas-
eth, and there is that witholdeth more
than is meet, and it tendethto poverty"
There are noblemen in London whose es-
tates produce them from two to three
millions of dollars annually, and they
add field to field, and increase or squan-
der their rent rolls. But such AN act as
this Of Mr.. Peabody's is wholly unpre-
cedented," because the mobiles there
scarcely ever think Of or hope for the ell
ovation ofthe poor, as is customary here
They do not dread having vast masses
of low, vicious and unedueated families,
never rising 10 breathe the pure air OF,
education and religion. Those masses
OF the uncaredfer will yet be the down
fail of the English monarchy.
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ld}ujrf,l .Se}3jpes at Home.

The return of Admiral Il. Semmes to
his home has filled With joy alargecircle
of friends and with gratitude toward the
President all those who cherish what is
great and noble.
We had the pleasure of spending an
evening with the brave sailor, and to
hear from his own mouth the relation of
his release as well as the views of the
President on his political status, and we
can assure his friends, those who do not
believe that republics should always be
ungrateful, that the election of Admiral
Semmes to the responsible office OF Pro-
bate Judge has the Presidents full APP
prevail, and that nothing should be al
lowed to influence or oppose it ON such
groundless approximations.
The valiant struggle made a few days
ago by the friends of General Johnston
to elect him to a responsible office, fully
proves that there is right spirit in the
land, and although unsuccessful, it es
tablishes the fact that many hearts still
beat, which cannot remain cold when
certain glorious names are pronounced.
When the history of the late war shall
have been written by an impartial hand,
the proudest and most glorious incident
of it will be found in the pages record
ing the unequal contest between the
kearsage and the Alabama.
Shall Admiral Senmes, just escaped
from the very jaws Of death, through the
baciDg and humanity ofan Englishman,
fiMl less devotion among his own COM
patriots. mobile Times.
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IN Congress.

The New York Times sees in the I'M
restrained exercise Of absolute and TN
constitutional power by Congress, a Sc
rious and immediate danger to all repub-
lean institutions. 1t discusses this sub
ject with force and candor:
We Americans may be founding a
freer system on this continent than othe,
nations have ever known. But thing
has to be proven. Neither thinking
men among ourselves nor Well-disposed
strangers of the higher order abroad,
will accept our mere assertion as a phil
osophic maxim. There is danger of the
party of "grand moral ideas" becoming
the party of absolutism, and there is
all the greater danger that our people are
more religious in their habits, more OBJ
servant of the strict services, of public
worship and more intolerant of ''non pro-
.fessors," than any people in the world.
An INSCRIPTIONS sectional majority
may readily, and with temporary sue
cess, use this element to carry out their
PARTISAN purposes without any concience
as to the present, or consideration for
the future. And as long as we have IA
republican government it will probably
be hard to make any Roadway against
what appears to the religious commu-
nifty among us to be the abstract path
of justice-no matter what may be the
obstacles lying in the path.
The great political problem seems to
be gradually resolving into this: Wheth-
er ninorities in a republic ought to have
any rights. The President has been quiz
city cherishing the idea that they have
certain rights. But the President evil
IDENTIFY cannot be right, if the majority
are also right. Thus, it is, that those
who desire to see this republic strong,
not only in its central authority stong
not alone in the matcria! power which
it possesses, but strong in the bonds of
unity and oneness of purpose ,are watch
ing with much concern and fearful alarm
the ordeal through which Republican
Institutions are now passing.
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.fn.oricaa aisd L'nylish NobigtsY.

Whist contrast the London papers fur
nish between the character and conduct
of Mr. Peabody and Lord Aberdeen The
former an American, educated in ads
trict school, the archi tect of his own for
tune, pushes his way as a London banker
to sucilavealth and such position that he
can do and does acts of munificence so
great rs to shame seven the hereditary
princes of Great Britain, and such as the
Queen in her letter to him, pronounoes
"whollv without parallel in. the history
of the gigantic charities Oft the British ma
tion. Clearing that he is about to reNis-
it his native land, the Queen of England
sends him an autograph letter, desires
to present him her likeness, and would
have conferred a haronetcy upon him but
that lie declined it. The London Times
devotes awhole leader to the discussion
of his 9hae acts in behalf of the London
poor.
On thesether hand, contrast with this
the title OF Lord A Aberdeen trailed in the
dirt. as WAC pointed out the other day. by
an heir to it, who is leading a half va
grant life ssy going abselt the world in
disguise, wasting his time, his money
and hiss opportunities. And yet, for tif
ty years and more, FROM 1902 to 1854, ONE
of the owner of that title stood foremost
among the great men OF the worlds his
tory ia almost every respect. Now the
heir of the family honors, fond of low
companions and full otlow tastes. instead
of living to elevate the poor like a Pea
body, lives only 10 weary, Brighten and
disgust his friends by squaadering time
and money in mlbecoming designations
that corrupt them. Such contrasts. we
should hope, are rot verV csssnmon in IA
world like this. But when ghey do oc-
eur, it is well 10 trace the cause: that pro-
duce them. At least we may learn the
aalue of our American systetg of COM
tlon-school education. where even the
poorest may be SO educated tlsat they
may take their places among the high
est of any land and afford even to refuse
outward honors in the eoncious wealth
of living for higher purposes, and seav-
inga name which unadornedby titles car
ries with it the remembrance of wholly
npreeadented''a Facts of goodness
We iaaight have expected the descen.
dants OF so able, refined. weD-edueated
and Distinguished a man as l@rd Aber-
deem 10 succeed in better educatinga fam
lily than tl4at they should come to have
such tastes as those we have described.
How has It all happened, we naturally
ask? is il rot because. pFopped up by
entails in hereditary ease and greatness
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DEATH Of Free Government.

II is a melancholy spe stacle to behold
q free government die The world, it is
true, is filled with the evidence of decay
All nature speaks the voice of disso-
tuition and the highway OF history and
OF life ;is strewn with the wrecks which
ti,ne, the great desp,ilers has made.
BE, nope of the future, might visions
of reviviag glory are nowhene denied to
the heart save as he gazes upon the
downfall Of legal liberty. i3e listens
sorrosgfully TO the autumn winds as
they sigh through disaantled forests,
but he knows that their breath will be
soft and vernal in the Spring, and that
thedead bowers and the withered foliage
will blossom and bloom again. he sees
the sky overcast with the angry frown
af the tempest, hut he knows that the
sun will raappear, and the stars, the
bright emhiazouIy of God cannot perish.
Man himselE, this connecting link be
tween dust and Betty, totters YEARLY
onward under The weight Of years and
pain toward the gaping tomb, but how
briefly his mind fingers around that dis
mai spot. II j. flied With tears and
grief. and the willow Msd the cypress
gatller around Il aith their owing but
nlaur3ftl embrace. And Is this all:
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tips on goods IL h,dnSUU between Canada
and the United States at the time of the
expiration OF the Reciprocity treaty was
taken up and passed. The Senate bill
to facilitate Geographic communication
between United States and the West lu
dies wa, passed. y joint resolution was
introduced from tho Committee on the
District OF Columbia, to place twenty
thousand dollars at the disposal OF the
Commissioner of Public Buildings for
sanitary purposes 1t was referred 10
the Committee OF the Whole, The Dill
far the relief of Paynlasters in the tn1-
ted States army, WAS reported .irom the
Committee on Military Affairs, with a1l
amendment. 1t WIS passed as amended.
The House resumed the consideration OF
the bill to amend the charter OF the
Nothern Pacific Railroad Company A
long discussion ensued. Pending q vote
the bill was laid aside. A message was
received fretH the President recommends
ing an extension Of the time for the
completion Of the Eastern division OF
the Union Pacific Railroad. 1t was or
deyed To he printed. 1t was ordered
that ten thousand copies of the tax bill
be printed The House then adjourn
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To MotHers--.SDeuE LO1c.

There are some houses, well built and
handsomely furnished, where it is not
pleasant to be even n visitor. Sharp
angry tones resound through them from
morning till night, and the influence is
as contagious as measles, and much
more to be dreaded in a household. The
children catch it, and it lasts for life, an
ncurable disease. \ friend has a neigh
Dor within the hearing OF her house and
even the poll parrot caught the tune, and
delights in screaming and seolding until
she has been sent in the country to i'm
prove her habits. Children catch cross
tones quicker than parrots, and it is a
more misehievous habit. Where the
mothersetsthee example, you will scarcely
hear pleasant word among the chill
dren iii their plays with each other.
Vet the discipline Of q family is weak
and Irregular The children expect just
SO much ssolding before they do any
thing they are hidden, while in many
home where the low, firm tone of the
mother, or decided look of her steady
eve, IS law, they never think OF DISC
hedienee either in or out Of her sight.
Oh, mothers, it is worth a great deal to
cultivate that excellent thing i'll a
woman, Il low, sweet voice.
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in Honest Life,

The poor pittance of seventy wears 10
not worth being villain for. Wbat
matter if your neighbor lies in a splens
did tomb? Sleep you with innocenco
Look behind you through the track of
time. \ vast desert lies open in retro
spect; Wearied with years and sorrow
they sink from the walks Of man. VA
are to leave them where they fall an
you must go further, and you will dnf
rest Whatever you have TO encounter
between the cradle and the grave, everu
moment big with events, which coma
not in succession but bursting forcihl,,
from a revealing and unknown cause
fly over this orb with diversified influ''
ence.
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A bashful youth was paying his adj
dresses to a gay lass of the country, who
had long despaired of bringing things to
crisis. He called one day when she
was at home alone. After settling the
merits ofthe weather, the girl said, look
ing slyly into his face:
dreamed of you last night
Did you : why-how p
Yes, dreamed that you kissed me-
Why, now! what did you dream your
mother said -
'Oh, dreamed she WASH It at home.
A light dawned on the youths intel
lect, a singular sound broke the Stiffness
and in less than four months they were
married
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The Harrisburg Pdtftot and Onion

The Harrisburg Ptttfiot and Onion
states that call has been made fora Re
publican johnson State Convention, to
be held in Piltsburg, in July next. to put
in nomination a third candidate for Gov
enor in that State. Thousands OF Con-
servative Republicans Tor rather the on
~ Republicans have signed copies Of
the call endorsing and approving the
movement. The "boys in blue" who
fought for the Union, are especially active
in the movement. They declare that
the Yankee politicians and Government
pIunderers shall not destroy, for the ben
eft Of the negroes, and for mere party
purposes, the work they sacrificed so
much TO perform. Many OF them pro-
nounce Geary traitor TO the cause, and
unworthy the support of any soldier eX-
eept those who believed the war was
waged g for the African and his race"
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CHIEF JUSTICE CHAsE.-The com.
paratively insignificant position occu-
pied by Chief-Justice Chase, of the Su.
preme Court, is the subject of general
remark. Marshall almost invariably
carried the Court with him. fancy
generally did so. But Chase never.
where the Court is divided. Thus is
this partisan Judge almost daily hu-
inflated and rebuked by his own assocl-
ates! So the whirligig of time has
It's revenges,' and the fanatical sower OF
dissension and promoter of discord
between the different members of the
American family, though raised to the
lottiest pinnacle Of the Federal Judicl,,
AIRY, finds himself without influence and
without obedience. Like Lear-that
poor, disoWned king"-he already
begins 20 learn that the honors which
. should accompany old age" are not for
him, and that his future career is to be
as barren and as protitless as though ne
were consigned for life to the remotest
corner of New York - Washington Cor
.icW York Express.
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In republishing Mr.. Lincoin's speech
the National Republican Of Washington
concludes with the following remarks:
"Mr. LINCOLN shows when, where and
how the work OF reconstruction com.
menced. AND. JOHNSON was assisting
him in the great effort as Military Gov
enOr of Tennessee. His assistance was Of
such great value to Mr.. Lincoln that
when it was indicated to him that the
Presidential Nominating Convention Of
1860 might succeed Mr.. Hamlin with
new man, Mr.. Lin ON dis inctiy and un-
hesitatingly expressed Il desire that Au-
drew johnson, OF Tennessee should be
the man selected. He was selected.
BY the mysterious course of human
events. the man II Mr.. Lincoln's own
choice is his successor to carry out his
reconstruction policy, so we'll begun by
him in 1868, and so highly approved
since. "Presidant johnson has takenup
the thread where Mr. Lincoln laid it
down, and is only carrying out the same
wise policy which the latter initiated,
his entire Cabinet approved. and which
Military Governor Andrew johnson eX.
ecuted in Tennessee to the highest salts.
faction of President and Cabinet. With
such precedent and such an experience.
aurely Andrew johnson is the right man
in the right place, and will in the end
command the respectful approval of the
American Congress and the full endorse
ment of the American people,"
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HIGH AND Low LIFE.-Who ARC
those generally in society, whom soci.
ETY. itselfregards enviable-as, indeed
representatives of the highest class Of
society? Are they men of pure morals
and Of pure motives, the Christian men.
or are they the men of wealth, or tho
occupants of place? Who are those who
give to society its shape-:who pull down
one and set up another Vino arrogate
to themselves the distinction and prero.
gatives of high life? | answer the men
of power and the men of money. II
matters not what their pursuits are: if
matters not what their motives are
whether love of power o. distinction.
or money; they claim, receive, and hold
the highest place. Low lie rides and
high life walks. low life assumes the
the leadership, and high life, modestly,
though with many inward protests.
a9quiesces. Low lie throngsthe market
places, throngs the watering places
throngs political conventions, throngs
the halls Of legislation, thronghs all the
fashionable assemblies. It has low
and Vulgar desire to be seen of men
while high life is modest, and shrink
from contact with so much that is mere
tricious and base. The animal is ram-
pant and regnant, and the angel hangs
his herd and folds his wings.
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The Washington correspondent OF the
New York Tribune states that Messrs,
Evarts, Clifford and Rosseau have been
retained by the Government for the trlal
OF Mr.. Davis, and have been at WASH
ington arranging the case. No decision,
however. has been reached. rs yet, as 10
where Mir. Davis hall lie tried, nor has
any particular time for the trial been tlx-
ed
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TnE PRESIDENTIAL CAR

TIE PREslb21NTlAL CAR SOLD.
AT the sail of property belonging to
the Government, which took place at
Alexandria, by order of the War Depart
ment, the magnticent.cAr that was built
for the late honored President Lincoln,
and which bore his remains to their last
resting place, was sold at public auction.
The car cost upwards OF $50, GOO and was
bid off to ex-Marshal Ward II, Lamon
for less than slo,0o0.- Washington Re
l)1Ajiira33,
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Not only does death beautify our life
less forms, but the thought Of II gives Il
more beautiful expression to the eoante-
nance even in life, and new strength to
the liSaft as rosemary is both placed as
a ehapiet on the brows Of the dead and
81 vcS life to the sainting by it, vififying
ttt:} lI.,s.