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Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-03-27

New York city has over 5000 music
The Montreal streets are buried under
The sale of -herseflosl as food slowly in
creases in France. ..- ~. 4 gvrr5f 3D.,
Horses are SO NUMEROUS in New SoNh
Wales that they can be bought foI two centa
apiece.
Two brothers, residing in louisville, Ky,
went out hunting the other day, and in de.
fault of other game; shot each other. rv
Ashland, Ky, formerly the home of Henry
Clay, is now the seat of hourishibg uni
vcrsity. 49,"
81 hope this hand is not counterfeit, -
said a lover as he was toying with his sweet
hearts fingers The best way to find out
is to ring it," was The neat reply. ,zis'-
Cleveland has set up n free library under
one of the best laws of Ohio, which author.
izes.a tax OF che tepIh Of q mill to he levied
for free libraries, in every city, with a popn-
lation exceeding 20 600 Inhabitants. Tile
young library is une.er 6 900 volumes but
the achieyemant is of infinite value in tbs
example thus offered to the people of sthcr
States and cities
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-03-27

!, svSBtrtIFgY NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, pENSA.
49, L.gd1auel.,...f D 5snn HJra iaa ...
OLD SERIES, VOL. 90, NO. 81.

A week afterwartls Mr.. Joseph Nerey
took the i2,S0 return, with his wife and
piecesthe happiest ofrecnimed old paehe
iqls, and it was all the unconcious baby's
wnrlr e
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-03-27

POPULATION OF CITIES Philadelpbis,
Pittsburg and Alleghany are the three larg-
est cities in Ie State. The following is q
list of the remaining cities, with their esti =
mated population, based on the vote of last
October, and allowing six and =, half per
IONS 20 eech voter: Eeading, 3o,tt1 ;
Scranton, 29,601 ;sIIafrisburg, %, l35 Ian.
caster, 24,65l, Willa,hsport, 9,792; Wilkes
barre, 1906; Allentown 16,6S5; York,
1887; Erie, 14,274; Pottsyi!le, 1882 3,
Norristown, l3, ,4l6 ,,...
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-03-27

"Tak about bed bugs" said Bill Jones'
who had been across tie Plains. "You
should have seen some of the critters ! met
in Idaho last spring. stopped one night
with some settlers who lived in a log cabin,
containing only one room and loft When
1T came time to go to bed they strung a
blanket across the middle of the room, and
the settlers family slept on one side of it
and gave me the other. laid down to go
to sleep, and the bed bugs began 20 gather
like lunch eaters around free layout
tried TO kiver up and keep away from em,
but the pesky yarmints would catch hold of
the bed clothes and pull them from ME-
They didn't think no:hin' of draggin' me
round the room if held on. fit 'em till
about midnight, and then looked around
for some way of escape, There was sladdcr
reachin' up into the loft, and thought tho
best way to get away from the block suckers
was to get up thar, so did. There wasn't
any bugs in the loft, SO laid down, congra-
tulatin myself on my ESCAPE. Pretty quick
heard the ladder speakn, as if somebody
was comm up. Bimeby saw bedbug
raise himself up through the whole made in
the floor, and looked carefully around the
loft. Soon S he saw me he motioned to his
chums below-the bloodthirsty cuss-and
cried exultin'ly, Come up, boys he's here"
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-03-27

: Sorrow sobers. US and makes the mind
genial. And Ia sorrow we love our friends
more teuderly, and the dead become more
dear TO us. And just as the stars shine out
in the night, so there are blessed faces that
look at Us in our grief, though before their
features, were fading from our recollection.
Suiferingl Let no man dread it too much,
because it is good for him, and 1t dwill help
him to make sure of his being immortal. 1t
is not in the solemn night, that other " orlds
are to be seen shining their long, long dis
tahces.s And it Is in sorrow, the night Of
the soul, that we see farthest and know
ourselves natives of infnity aud sons and
daughters Of the Most High.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-03-27

4 Toueh CAer.-ih Arkansas, Elder
Knapp, while "baptising" converts at re,
vival meeting, advanced7with swry sharp,
eyed old chap into the water. He asked
the usual question, whether there was any
reason why the ordinance of baptism should
not be administered. After apause tall,
powerful looking chap. with an eye like a
blaze, who was leaning on long rifle aud
quietly looking on, remarked "Elder,
don't want to interferein this yere business
any but Iwant to saythat is an old sinner
you have got hold Of, and know that one
dip wonit do him any good. II you want
to get the sin Que of him you'll have to an
chor him out In deep water over night" Z
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-03-27

An ATrEMrr 10 ARRgsr .SSi ,ISDiAS OpT
3 LAW BELONGING 10 THE ktFLux.kLAN i
CR1TrENDEN CouNTy, ARK.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-03-27

'And don't you know when you will pass
through this part of the country again, Mr.
Verleyp
e No, l don't,' said the old bachelor, de-
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-03-27

IJIdHEsf market price in CAST. pail lot sli
III 0epPsr Brass Lead Zinc, Iron, g }, BY. u
W. o. HICK0K &B0H -
January 9, lsOS.-lm s--
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-02
General Hennin gsen,

,s Gen. Henningsen, who has landed
with what is termed a filibustering ex-
peditiOn in Cuba, direct from Charles
ton, is New Yorker by residence and
adoption, if not by birth, and thorough
ly understands the arts and mysteries
of that style of warfare known as the
guerrilla or desperate. We are not cer-
tain about his having been connected
with the Lopez expedition, but we
know full well of his prominence in
Walkers adventurous raid upon Mica
rauga. Henningsen is man inscnsiblc
to fear-the beau ideal Of one whose
fortune il his sword his powers of en-.
durance are akin to the marvellous; his
experience is by no means shallow; his
reckless bravery is like the hurricane
and the Spaniards will find desperate
and determined assailant. If they ,pla.
butcher with any of his forces, he will
not DO slow to retaliate in kind.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-02
The Real and the Moral.

The New York Democrat thus mo-
ralizes over the difference between pre-
cept and practice:
1--WE cannot see one bit of religion in
passing by half starved beggar in the
street, who is dying for q siXpence, for
the sake of putting an unbroken dollar
on the contribution plate at church,
We cannot see why it is that women
put on their diamonds, their silks, and
all the fineries and trickeries of fashion
when they go to the place of worship,
to open their hearts to God, when the
Bible and true religion so earnestly de-
nounce them for so doing. We cannot
see why it is that professors of religion
should array themselves as if for ball
or festival when attending church, pro-
Tossing to worship God in meekness
and humility. We cannot find religion
in this hunting over Of fashion book
six days of the week and looking at a
hymn book or Bible ten minutes of a
Sabbath, all the while protesting to
possess that Heavenly love, Christian
meekness, and contempt for outward
show, upon which professors of reli-
gion base their hopes for happy i'm,
mortality"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-02
Fears a COup D'Etat.

The Georgia Constitutionalist, refer
ring to the Cabinet, remarks: "Raw-
Inns is said to hold the same influ.
cnce over Grant that the late Count de
Morny held over Louis Napoleon. II
matters don't work to suit the President.
General, Rawlins has good precedent
for coup d'etat." The New York
Herald says: at would be queer sight
to see Rawlins prowling around a,
midnight, with corporal's guard and
"a dark lantern, catching intractables
and posting them off without change
of linen to the coast Of Guinea. But
our Georgia contempory need have nc
fears. When Grant and Rawlins set up
late o'nights il is for another and bet.
ter purpose, .... ..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-02
Cuban Recognition.

The New York Times desires to see
the revolutionary movement in Cuba
successful, but at the same time it does
not see with what prudence or consis-
tency our Government can recognize,
just yet, the independence of the island.
The case is just this: '..'~ T....
"In the case of Cuba, what we are
asked to do for the revolutionary party
there is precisely what for the last sew
en- years, we have been denouncing En-
gland for having done in the case of
our rebellion; indeed, it goes far be-
yond it. No one doubts that if, at tho
end of 1S63-after the war of the rebel
lion had been waged for nearly three
years, and when its prospects Of success
seemed good-England had recognized
the Confederacy as an independent Pow
er, we should have met that action OF,
her part by declaration of war. But
we are now asked 10 extend that recog-
nition 10 the revolutionists of Cuba, al
though their struggle against Spanish
rule has lasted only five months. Can
we do this. without a fragrant and disc
honorable departure from our own
principles of public law and interna-
tionas obligation p '"ii"" '"'
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-02
Texas Politics.

The three parties in Texas are CLASH
fed as Democrats, Foxes and Cayotes.
The Foxes are the Jack Hamilton party.
OF the Cayotes, the Corpus Christi i'd
certiser says:
The Cayotes are lean, lank, snarling,
hungry, NANCY pack, who would snap
at the shadow of mules tail to satisfy
their cravings. These providers after
offal are led by death OH Mule y
"Old Bitterness" Hamilton, and some
CANNES of small note. They go for the
entranchisement of darkies and scala.
wags, and the disfranchisement of any
white man, Indian, or negro who don't
vote their ticket. They are rampant fol
division of the State, for Office, and con.
scqucntly for increased taxation. They
have been legislating for themselves in.
stead of making u Constitution for the
State of Texas. They desert the last
party which fails to give them an office
and they would starve the last mule ir
the United States for their advantage
or accommodation. They are the simon
pure, straight-out Radicals of Texas
and represent the sentiment of the Afri
can wing of the party.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-02
DaltOn--TimeIy Warming.

The Citizen, Dalton, Ga, publishes
the following, which ought to fetch the
boys down: lHy. -"i it
If the unmannered, pale-faced, wor-
lmy.looking, fuzzy-lipped Young Amer
leans, who are in the habit of sit
ting around the church doors and
street corners watching the feet and
ankles of passing ladies, like group
of esger, bob-tail monkeys in fly time
around sugar hogshead, don't mend
their manners we will give them dose
through these columns, that they will
appreciate about as much as they did
the last spoonful of yermifuge admin
istered by their doting mothers before
turning them out to grass. We hope
this will be sufficient. /. ..,.. ......,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-02
Old Man BrOWnlOW.

A Washington correspondent says of
Senator Brownlow:
Trembling like an aspen-lcaf, his
hands, feet and even his jaws are in a
constant tremulous motion; he sits there
like candle burned to its socket, ready
in moment to go out. Every motion
is that of most enfeebled invalid, slow,
languid and unavailing. His voice is
so feeble and tremulous that his son,
who constantly attends him, must place
his ear close to his fathers lips, and
thus convey his words to his friends.
Day after day the eyes of hundreds in
the galleries are fixed upon the old man
as he half sits, half lies there in his
chair, a silent, quivering, human wreck.
He has reached the Senate, the goal OF
his latter-day ambition, but to drop
when barely across its threshold, toe
feeble to stand even while taking the
oath of Office, and too faint ever to utter
u sentence that shall be heard across the
Senate Chamber, .....
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-02
The Curse of Office-Seeking.

Attached to every political party are
thousands of men who never dream of
engaging in regular business pursuits,
or Of working as producers for liveli-
hood; but live. Heaven knows how,
year after year upon the hope, and with
the intent, of procuring Office. They
will spend ten years of idleness to get
one or two years Of partisan and official
bread and butter; or often the bread
without the butter. About one of these
in say five or ten thousand ever gets a
position worth daily salt. Yet nothing
will induce them to seek subsistence in
any other form. They have usually
suffering families, many of whom are
as anxious, eager and visionary upon
the subject of Office holding as theil
heads. 1t is great pity that this curse
of habitual oflice-seeking cannot be
modified, reduced, or altogether abro'
gated. ....r
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-02
FRANK BLA1R's PROPHECY.
A Fair Prospect of its Fulfillment.
(From the Chicago Times.)

General Blair charged that General
Grant, If elected, would turn the Presi-
dental chair into throne. Nobody
believed this assertion. 1t was received
as an utterance which, originating in
the heat of discussion, was indicative
only of fear of Grants general policy,
rather than as being liable to a specific
and literal construction.
There is, as yet, nothing which par
ticularly supports the literal meaning
of General Blair's charge, unless one
be disposed to be an alarmist. Were
one of the latter character, he might at
tach q certain amount of significance to
some prominent occurrences of Grants
short administration. Thus, he might
argue somewhat as Follows:
/. The appointment over Thomas OF
an INSCRIPTIONS instrument like Sheri-
dan, is indicative of some bad project
9. Sherman, the successor of Grant as
commander of the army of the United
States. is known to be an uncompromis.
ing monarchist.
3. Grant is filling n majority of the
official positions with relatives. perso.
nal friends and his immediate retainers
a. Grant is disposed to push our rela
tions with Cuba and Great Britain t0
the verge of war, and. in SO doing, give
rise to the suspicion that he wishes tc
create an army upon whose support he
can rely for the carrying out of some
ulterior and sinister project.
OF course, these assertions are those
of an alarmist. Grant is of the people
Grant was elected by party that is sc
governed by conscience, SO devoted t(
the interests of God and humanity, Sc
full of sympathy for the poor people
that it would never permit him to com
nit the crime of overthrowing the re
Dublic
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-02
Murder in Georgia.

The Columbus (Ga.,) Enquirer, o.
the 23d inst, reports the following mur
der: . ..r. .... .,..H,,. gr.
We learn from an office: of the South
western Railroad that on Saturday last
at Reynolds, one brother deliberately
shot another through the body and kill
ed him almost instantly. 1t seems tina
two brothers, named Blair, were in {
store, and one of them, being slight,
inebriated, was mischievously cutting
open sacks of corn with his knife to SCI
the corn run out, and acting improper
ly, when his brother, who was sober
after using all his efforts to get hin
away and failing, stepped of a few
yards, and deliberately shot him, a
above stated.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-02
To Owners of Marble Quarries.

A late number of the New York
Tribune contains the following:
We are informed by a gentleman con.
nected with the Department of Agri-
culture at Washington, who is charged
by the Commissioner with the duty Of
making collection of specimens of all
the varieties of marble in the United
States, that it is desired by the depart
ment that all those engaged in the quar-
,rying Of marble, or who own quarries
not now worked. will forward speci-
mems of their marble, by express, di-
rected to the Commissioner Of Agricul-
ture, Washington, ID. G.. The express
charges upon such specimens will be
paid by the department. The speci-
mems should be six inches long, four
inches wide and one inch in thickness,
and polished. A description should
accompany, stating the location of its
bed, the name of the donor, and briefly
any other item of interest concerning
it, such as the extent of the deposit,
when discovered, if now worked, sc.
AS fast as received the specimens will
be arranged in case for exhibition in
the museum of the department; each
specimen will bear label containing
the information sent with it; and the
collection will exhibit the resources of
the whole country, State by State, in
this natural production, for the most
ready information of all. 1t is hoped
that those who are able to contribute
will make an early response to this eff
fort of the department.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-02
Caught.

The Knoxville Press and Herald
states that the parties who placed the
distractions ON the East Tennessee and
Virginia Railroad a few weeks ago, by
which the locomotive and tender were
thrown from the track, the fireman
killed and the engineer badly injured
have been caught and are now in Jail al
Grecneville. The three culprits are nc
groes. The Oldest one, and the insti
gator of the crime, is named Reelant
Freeman. He is about twenty-eight Oh
thirty years of age. The two boys arr
aged respectively sixteen and twelve
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-02
THE CHINESE.
How They Talk About Them In
California. .r
(From the san Francisco Herald, Feb. 2s.)

(Ffom Che San Francisco Herald, Feb. 2S.)
There is a growing feeling of indig-
nation iff this community at the utter
disregard not only of decency, but of
all our laws, recently exhibited by the
Chinese. 1t is horrible to reflect that
politicians are pursuing course that
renders it even possible for these crea-
lures to obtain share in our govern
ment--perhaps q controlling interest in
our elections. For long time past
they have exhibited peaceful, almost
submissive, spirit, rarely committing
any graver offence than pilferipg ,ex-
posed tritles but suddenly they have
changed their conduct. and for months
past the courts have been burdened
with Investigations or their crimes
investigations that come to naught, for
these people have no regard for the
sanctity of an oath, and perjure them
selves by wholesale. They have intro
duced into our Christian city all the
barbarous practices of their native land
they do not hesitate to hatch conspi-
racies, abduct and assassinate, and,
what is worse. they employ an organ
lied gang of bravos to slay their ene-
mics or rival, and gauge the reward ac-
cording to the punishment that may be
inflicted upon them. a Chinanan can
be paid to assassinatc, even with the
death penalty staring him in the face
and can coolly stipuate for the price OF
his neck to be paid to his relatives in
case he is hung.
Although cowardiy race, when pit.
ted man against man in mortal fight
vet do they display the most extraordi
nary stolidity and Indifference whcr
execution is about to be done upoi
them. In their own country line o.
so criminals, condemned to be decapi
tated, will sink upon their knees with
out coercion, bend their heads forward
so as to expose their necks, and stoical
ly await the stroke of the exccutionerj
sword. They hear the dull. heav!
thud at one end of the line. and see th'
ghastly head roll upon the pavement
without shudder. Sometimes the ex
ecutioncr stops midway in the line t.
resharpen his sword-they listen with
out a tremor, and as he approache
them closely and their turn comes mex
they adjust their necks more conve
niently for the stroke. There is nothin;
about this of the spirit that sometime
actuates Caucasian criminal "to di
game'-it is simply british stolidiry.-
Creatures like these once reused to tn
commission of crime are eminent.
dangerous in community, for til
death that threatens them from the Law
has no terrors to restrain them. 1t
said they have carried their barbarou
practices to such an extent in this cit
, as to offer large rewards for the head
of their enemies. What can be don
with such people9 They are soulles'
constituencies, devilish. Their vii
passions, long kept in restraint fror
: submission to the moral influence G
) the white man, are now breaking fort
: in barbaric fury--they openly defy oil
laws, and with brazen insolence insul
our civilization. Let us exhaust all tn
resources of law to restrain them, an
if they fail, let us advise them to re
turn home. ...
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-02
THE TENURE.OF.OFFICE.

A substitute for the tenure Of Office
act passed the Senate on the oath. The
following extract from the proceedings
states how: .-a... ..a.
Mr.. Trumbull, from the Committee
OH Judiciary, reported substitute for
the bill repeating the tenure of-office.
Mr.. Grimes said he would not vote
for it.
Mr.. Davis moved substitute abso-
lutely repeating the tenure-of- Office law,
but the President declared it out of
order.
Mr.. Morton said the report of the
committee preserved the shadow rather
than the substance of the tenure-of-
office act. 1t was merely bad photo
graph of dead body. He would not
vote for it.
Mr.. Harlan argued in favor of the cx-
tee was then addopted as substitute
for the pending bill. Yeas 81, nays Is.
Brownlow voted yea; Fowler nay.
Mr.. Trumbull briefly explained the
bill as reported from the Judiciary
Committee. .....
1t was designed, he said, to remove
any obstacle which the tenure-of-office
act, unchanged, might throw in the way
of the President in reforming the pub
lie service, and at the same time to pre-
serve the principle which some Sena-
tors thought a constitutional principle
underlying the tenure-of.o .office act.
The bill then passed.
The following are the main features
of the substitute: ....
The President is to have power to re-
move Cabinet and other civil officers
during the session of the Senate with
out giving reason, providing the Senate
| fill the vacancies; and during the re-
cess of the Senate may suspend and ap-
point to office until the end of the next
session. Within thirty days Of the
commencement of the session he shall
report these suspensions to the Senate,
and if that body by a direct affirmative
vote refuse to concur, then the suspend
cd officers shall be reinstated. If the
matter be simply passed over, the officer
shall not be reinstated.
In the House, on the 25th, the SEN
ate's amendment to the tenure Of office
act was taken up. Mr.. Logan moved
an amendment declaring that all offices
except those of Judges of the United
States Courts, appointed by the Prcsi-
dent and confirmed by the Senate be.
fore the 4th of March, 1869. shall be.
come vacant on the 30th of June, 1863
He appealed to the friends of the Prcsi.
dent to stand by the law or adopt his
amendment. I'D t.''"..-
The Senate amendment, was then re-
ferred, including Logan's amendment
to the Judiciary Committee, by yeas 95
nays IS. Only ten Democrats voted ir
the negative. At 4.30 p. m. the House
adjourned.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-02
Terrible Punishment.

A Coolie on plantation on the north
coast of Peru, was denied some request
of his, and in revenge he at night took
a butcher knife and murdered seven
persons-the proprietor, the wife, hel
aged mother and four defenseless little
children. In the morning, when every
one was found weltering in their blood
the public indignation ran to such a
pitch that the Chinaman was taken out
into the public square, tied to an iron
post and saturated with turpentine.-
Then, in full view of all the Cinnamon
he was burned up alive at his fiery post