Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-05-09
RREVuTlEs.

NSoJSiu luWt year
In about three weeks the Georgia farmers
will harvest their wheat. III II
One mill in Pittsfeld, Mass. manufactures
ton of collar paper daily. ~ L
There are ten thousand privates and three
thousand endowed schools in England.
There are 40 wooden mills in Wiscon,
sin.
A coal bed has been found ir Gennesee
county, New York.
Why will Washington correspondents
continue to pump" the President, when |
they know he is always US dry as fish. |
The annual exhibition of the Philadelphia
Academy of Fine Arts is now open.
The St. Louis brewers pay 5000 900 year
for hops alone, and considerably more for
barley.
Major George M. Lauman, of Reading, 10
spoken of for United States Marshal for the
Eastern District Of Pennsylvania.
Congress, at present. has among Its MEM
bers thirteen Major Generals, fifteen Briga.
diers, six Colonies, and eleven officers of
lower grades.
Ad interim Thomas continues to attend
the regular Cabinet meetings, but since
Buffers rossexamination, he is no longer
useful or ornamental.
The fifth anniversary of the battle of
Gettysburg is to be celebrated at that town
by re union of the officers of the Army Of
the Potomac.
The Astor House rents for $50 900. The
ST. Nicholas for $4,000, the Metropolitan
for $4,000, and the Fifth Avenue for $780,
900 yearly.
Fred. Douglas, it is reported, has made
up his mind to settle down among the
Yankees in Vineland, New Jersey.
General Meade ordered Board of Army
Officers to meet at Atlanta on the 4th inst,
to count the returns of the Georgia election,
with full power to Investigate and correct
oil errors, frauds, abuses, &c. He is deter.
mined so far as in his power to have fair
| count and return of votes.
1t is believed at Washington that Pendle.
| ton having obtained the support of the
Illinois Convention, his nomination for the
Presidency is secured.
Vice President Wade never votes in the
impeachment, and is extremely reticent
about everything connected with the even.
tualiny of his becoming President. Those
who approach him do not repeat their visit
He certainly acts with great propriety.
! Two years since hole was bored for oil
at Rock river, near Clevland. Without
reaching oil, the workmen were driven of
! by escaping gas, to which fire was after.
wards set, and has been burning ever since,
in flame from six to twenty feet high.
In and near London, England, there ore
nine branches of the Mormon Church. one
J hundred and seven elders of conference, fifty
| three priests, twenty-four teachers, thirty
| deacons in all eleven hundred and seventy
| tun attanho1 IN bo TppIOp I'm
! ference.
A Legal decision has been made in New
York to the effect that a bank is liable if iis
paying teller pronounccs a check or certif
cate good, even although it be forgery,
providing the holder of the check act on
the statement of the teller and suffers loss
thereby
The prospects for a good crop of peaches
the coming season is said to be quite good
along the Delaware. In low situations the
trees have been somewhat injured by cold
weather, but on the high ground they have
sustained little damage.
The "Christan Drcssmakers" is the title
of new society in Paris, established for
the purpose of discouraging low-necked
| dresses. The members take q solemn oath
not ii make such garments
Columbia, Pa, is to be erected on the piers
of the old one, and will be completed by
the first Of January next.
REMOVAL THE Office of the Printers
Circular" and Printers Furnishing Ware.
house formerly located at SO Hudson street,
has been Removed to 5l5 Minor street
Address all orders for material to II. S.
Menamin, SIS Minor street, Philadelphia,
Penna.
JACOB N. CAMPBELL, present Surveyor
General of the State, and Republican candi.
date for re election, was brevettcd Briga-
dier General, March l3 1865, for long and
gallant service. He had the command of a
Brigade during the war, which he led into
many hard fight. Most of the Republican
papers, announce him as Col. Campbell,
yet he is General thrice over-oncc by
service-once by breyet, and once by the
votes of the people. Let him be called 10y
T proper rank hereafter.
Martin Van Buren, is the only man who
, held the offices of President, Vice President t
Minister to England, Governor of his own
State, and member of both houses of Con
gress. Thomas II. Benton is the only man
, who held seat in the United States Senate
Cor thirty consecutive years. The only
, instance of father and son in the Uniteo
{ States Senate at the same time, is that O.
t Hon. Henry Dodge, Senator from Wisconsin
and his son Augustus q. Dodge, Senator
. from Iowa General James Shields is the
only man who ever represented two States
| in the United States Senate. At one time
l he was Senator from Illinois, and subse
quently from Minnesota. john Quincy
c Adams held positions under the Government
I during every administration from that OF
: Washington to that of Polk, during which
! term he died. He had been Minister to Eng
land, member OF both houses of Congress
Secretary of State, and President of tn,
: United States. He died while member OF
s the House of Representatives
, The Ohio Soldiers, at their recent Stat,
: Convention to. appoint delegates to thu
, Chicago Convention on the goth of May
ratified the nomination of General Grant il
advance, and adopted series of resolutions
, pledgng adherence to the principles of thu
Union Republican party condemnipg til,
, Acknowledgement of wounded soldiers wht
have taken refuge in the asylums of tn,
! State; favoring the election of manned
soldiers to public offices where it can justl,