Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-09-22
Mrs. swissheln in her washington iette

Mrs. Swisshelm in her Washington letter
to the Chambersburg Reposstery makes q
curious statement in regard to what is wit
messed at the White House. She says
Some anxiety is felt here about the White
House, and people wonder whether Mr..
johnson is carrying on the embalming busi-
ness or entertaining some Fee Gee friends.
Several times rvcently, yerY early ia tae
morning, a carriage was driven up to the
Presidential mansion, four men alighted
from it, lifted out dead body and carried
! it in. Sometimes the carriage comes to the
| front door and sometimes it drives around
and discharges its load at the basement
opening on the South side. No one has oh.
served any funeral cortege leave the house;
| and the query is, what becomes of the dead
bodies which are carried into the Executive
Mansion before breakfast .-.t.r-s
Last week young bull was picked at
sea, off Chobeague Island, coast of Maine
The animal was five miles from the main
land when he was overhauled, and was hard
on his way to visit his English cousin,
1t 10 said that the King of Prussia ia 60
pleased with the letters from his army,
written by Captain Hosier, the correspon.
dent of the London Times, that he proposes
to confer upan the journalist an Honorary
decoration. = liz Ia '-.e
Mr.. Baldwin, who died in Philadelphia
last week, built the first model locomotive
engine ever constructed in this country,
about the year 1929, ard at the time of his
death had over 1000 men employed in his
locomotive works -' - 'I
A flock of geese recently wandered from
Small's, Oh Plum Island, rear Newouryport
harbor, and alighted on the grounds of
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capture them, aud in doing so wounded one
of the number, and had severe fight with
the flock, which valiantly defended their
injured companion. They were finally ae.
cured. i',H" '. ''I
Advices from Montana state that the Col
den Ore Company, of Brooklyn. N. Y, have
discovered in one of their lodges mine of
cinnabar, or q sulpheret of mercury.
In Gloucester Mass, as Mr.. Brainard
Parker was firing pistol at cat, the pistol
recoiled and struck Mr.. Barker in the fore
head with such force as TO break the skull.
In Eairfax county, Va, recently, James
Boswell, o gay and festive colored gentle
man OF 97 years, was married to Mrs. Sarah
A Burke, dark complexioned but bloom
ing lady Of eeventy.nine summers.
J. Scott Harrison, son of President Har-
rison, and formerly a member of Congress,
is the johnson candidate for clerk of Q court
of CINCINNATI. ..'. -
The American colonization Society have
recently had applications from 600 colored
persons 10 aid them in their purpose to emf
CRATE to Liberia
A gentleman and his wife residing in
Oswego, New York, are making q jaunt to
New Orleans, in a little steamer, built ex-
pressly for the purpose. 1t is twenty-five
feet in length and six feet wide. In the
middle of the vessel is carried a neat little
steam engine, by which the craft is driven,
on the propeller principle. She had touched
at st. Louis at last accounts. .H
The total AMOUNT deposited by the labor
ing classes in New England and in New
York is as follows:
.-..-- .- Sayings Dep. No. Dep Aye
New England Sl15,9T7,000 $4,000 S2l9
Safe of New York ll5,472,000 100000 250
Total amount savings
deposited S231, ,449, 900 s.U..
The coffin of q colored woman who had
apparently died of cholera at Cairo, Illinois,
the other day, during her husbands absence,
was opened by the latter on his return, and
signs Of life were observed in .he supposed
corpse. The woman was removed from the
coASn iand 10 pouy uall oo ayar '''