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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-06-25

THE 'tPEoPLEs FAvoRITE'' STILL TRIUMPHANT
LIFE IN THE SOUTH YET-The piedmont Life In
surance Company proves there is life in our sec
ton yet, and has set an example of &C tiyity and
progress-wh will lead to success if properly
appreciated.
This Company has succeeded beyond all pre-
cedent, and far exceeds the hopes of its origina
tors; it is doing stamount fbusiness con.
Quoting its affairs prudently making cautious
selections Of first class lives and, in short, de-
serves as fully the confidence of the American
people as any company on this continent.
Itsprompt payment of losses specially commend
it to patronage; in no case has it avaiei itself
oftime granted by policy for payment of loss,
but waving the same, has paid at once in all ca
ses, and proved not only its justice and sovency,
but its generosity to patrons.
We should be proud ofsuch an institution, and
the whole South should rally to 1.-THE Piedmont"
and hasten it to thepostion it is destined to reach
the foremost place among American Life Com
panies.
We understand that this Company is receiving
about Sl0O, 600 new premiums month with rap
id increase in business, and are pleased again to
call attention to the following voluntary COM
mendatons of "The Piedmont, from worthy
Virginia gentlemen, on referring to loss of our
former esteemed citizen, Charles Ste5bins, Esq.
J,,,o
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-06-25

GURVEYING AND ENGINEERING
~ INSTRUMENTS,
TRANSITS, LEVELS, SURVEYING COMPASS
ES, DRAWING INSTRUMENTS,
in cases or separate pieces,
CHAINS,
LEVELING RODS, TAPE LINES, &C.
HYDRoMETERS, THERMOMETERS,
for Distllers. Also full assortment of GAU-
GERS INSTRUMENTS.
Repairing in. all branches of our business
promptly attended to.
F. W. & R. KING,
226 Baltimore, Street,
apr9 '69-ly. Baltimore, Md.
DAVID BRUCE coxppcr,orrn
WHOLESALE DEALER
ORANGES, LEMONS, RAZSZNS, FIGS,
DATES; PRUNEs, JEZLZEs,
sARDINES &c.
1870 West Pratt Street,
BALTIMORE.
apr9 '69-ly
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-06-25

WILLIAM wHooLEY, Superintendent.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09
Railway Consolidation.

At meeting Of the leading officers of the
Pennsylvania Central and Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago Railroad Companies
held on Friday last in Philadelphia, arrange.
ments were made whereby TIE latter Com,
pany passes under the management of and
is consolidated with the former corporation
Negotiations for tho consolidation of these
great railway arteries have been pending
many months, and it is given out that the
final agreement reached affords the liveiiest
satisfaction to the managers of both roads
By the consolidation effected, the Pittsburg
Fort Wayne and Chicago and Pittsburg
Cincinnati and st. Louis Roads are consoli
dated with the Pennsylvania Central, which
will have control of more than thousand
miles of railway, and property approxima
ting three hundred millions Of dollars This
movement is one of vast Importance and be
tokens the shrewdness of those at the head
of the gigantic corporation of our State
The consolidation will afford almost direct
connection with the roads leading to the Pa
cifc Coast now being constructed, and gives
the Central Company new and vast fields
for profit from freight and passenger traffic
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09
Grants Policy,

There is much said in the newspapers as
to the policy that will govern the new Pre-
sident. They talk as though this policy was
q sealed book, and that Grant, though re.
markably reticent had never opened his
mouth on the subject. They forget, by this
exhibit of ignorance, very important fact
in the history of the late Presidential cam
paign, where they overlook the declaration
of the General.in Chief of the Army made as
early as May last and universally printed at
the time. We regard this declaration as all
in the way of policy" that the honest,
patriotic people of the country desire. We
reprint it in order that it may be re read:
If elected to the Office of President of
the United States, it will be my endeavor to
administer all the laws in good faith, with
economy, and with the view of giving peace,
quiet, and protection everywhere. In times
like the present. it is impossible, or at least
eminently improper, to lay down q policy to
be adhered to, right or wrong, through an
administration of four years. New political
issues, not foreseen, are constantly arising
the views of the pubic-on old ones are con.
stantly changing, and purely administra-
tive officer should always be left free to ex.
ecute the will Of the people. l always have
respected that will, and always shall. Peace
and universal prosperity-its sequence
with economy of administration, will Tighten
the burden Of taxation while it constantly
reduces the national debt. Let us have
peacen
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09
BEsEYIIlES.

At last Free Masonry is permitted in
Austria.
The Car is having locomotives built to
run on ice.
An Irish woman voted at the recent elec
tion III Dublin.
80 cents dozen is what the Mormons
have to pay for eggs.
Nitro glycerine is used in torpedoes now
in the oil regions.
The salary Of the Governor of Illinois is
but $1,000 year.
A Wisconsin woman has taken out patent
on a cook stove.
An exchange says "a woman may dress in
silk and yet be a lady"
1t is said that L. w. Jerome has gone TO
Europe to import jockeys.
Coal and wood are very scarce in the
North western counties of Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wales are stopping III Den.
mark, visiting Mrs. WIS papa.
A school for the training of pugilists and
prize fighters exists in New York.
The school fund of Minnesota now amounts
to s2,03l 900.
Judge Norton, of Texas, is accompanied
oh SAiSuis ~ Suoiu Va So'aiiy'
Thirty thousand florida oranges are sold
in Charleston, 5. c., every week.
New Haven, Conn, has erected this sea.
son three million dollars worth of buildings
A Mr.. Rice, of West Mortified, Mass. has
patent for an "improved device for pre-.
venting hens from scratching"
One man in Marathon county, Wisconsin,
has killed fifteen bears the present season,
and he is not the only bea! slayer il the
county either.
A Mormon emissary is now in Winonn,
Minnesota, on proselytng mission, with
! the especial object OF enticing young women
| to go to Utah.
A pumpkin pie, nine feet in diameter, was
exhibited at recent fair in Portsmouth,
| N. Ii.
The pet bear on Boston Common killed
anG breakfasted on one of the deer last Sun.
day morning.
! Clam digging is the occupation of one
| hundred and fifty men at Ipswich, Mass
! during the winter months.
The rates of telegraphing have been re-
duced fifty per cent. throughout Canada
The new capitol Of the State of New York
at Albany, is to cost about five million Gol.
| lars.
Steamed bcefsteaks are popular in some
restaurants now where steamed oysters were
once the rage.
The present Emperor of the French was
born in the house which is now the Hotel
| Rothschild.
A poultry riddle maker asks: "Why is a
hen immortal 7" and answers, because her
! son never SETS"
Robert Bonner has his horses fed from
boxes on the floor, because he believes nature
intended them to have their food on Level
with their feet.
A rival to Capt. Kyd has sprung up in
person of Frank Reno, who is reported to
have buried some place 100000 of the pro-
ducts of his robberies, and he died and gave
no sign of the whereabouts of these spoils
The Mormons, in twenty years, have built
up Sc towns, 100 churches and i20 school
houses, quite equal to those of the Other
States. During that period, the emigration
from Europe has been $4,000, and from the
old States, $4,000.
Mrs. Augusta Dickens, said to be sister
in'law of Charles Dickens, the great move
Est, committed suicide in Chicago on Christ
las day. Mrs. Dickens wac a widow, and
reported 20 be INDECENT.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09

The convention Of colored people at Pitts
burg, on the 81st ult., adopted memorial
10 the Legislature, asking that impartial
school privilege be secured to the colored
children Of Pennsylvania. The memorial
sets forth that the separate schools now pro.
yided for colored children are generally in
ferior in every respect, and confined entirely
to the lower grades of instruction. The
memorialists add;
ave only ask that colored children be
admitted with white children impartially
into the common school privileges OF the
State, and in every instance where they are
forced to be educated in separate schools
that such schools be as excellent rs those
provided for other children, and that they
be q: least respectable.
I'VE ask this as fathers whom posterty
will hold responsible; we ask 1t as loyal
citizens of the State, as having been soldiers
of the nation, and not so much on the grounds
of our taxation and wealth as because OF our
manhood"
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09

HEARTH AND HONE is a weekly illustrated Agri'
cultural and Fireside Journal Of sixteen handsome
pages devoted to the interests Of Farmers Gardners
Fruit. rowors, and Florists. Edited by Mr.. Donald
q. MITCHELL assisted by large corps Of practical
Agricultursts. The Freside Department edited
by Harriet Beecher Stowe, assisted by Mrs. Mary E
Dodge, with Grace Greenwood, Madame lie Vert
and other able contributors. Terms for 1869 Sin
gle copies 81, invariably in advance; copies $40
5 copies SIS. Any one sending us $40 for club ei
Ii copies all at tmc), will receive copy free.
Aspecincn copy of the first number cent free. Ad-
dress Pettengill, Bates Co, Publishers, 81 Park
Row, Now York.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09
TERMS FOR 1899
KendinI Railroad.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ia, lse'

MONDAY, DECEMBE Ia, 1865
CREAT TRUNK LINE from the North and
VI North.W est for Phadeiphia, New York, Road
ing, Pottsylle, Tamaqua Ashland, Shamokin Leba'
anon Allentown, Easton, Ephrata LitiL, Luncaster,
Columbia 30, &c.
Trains leave Harrisburg for New-York, az fol-
lows AT 3 so, $50 and $40 A. NJ. and IA 40 noon,
and 2.Oj and l0. so y. NJ connecting with similar
Trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad and arriving
at New York at II 90 A. M, 1920 noon, $50, 7.Or
1895 ?. N. and 6.l5 n. III. respectively. sleeping
Cars accompanying the ) ~ A. NJ. and lO.JV T. NJ
trains without change.
Leave Harrisburg for Reading, Pot;syile, Tama-
qua, Minersville, Ashland, shamokin, Pine Grove,
Allentown and Philadelphia at 10 A. NJ and 200
and 4 10 p NJ, stopping at Lebanon and principal
way stations the 4lO p IN. making connections for
Philade yhia and Columbia only. For Pottsyille,
SchuykilI Haven and Auburn, via Schuylkill and
Susqueharna Railroad leave Harrisburg at $50 P M
Returning Leave New. York ut 800 a. m, 100
Noon and 10 and 500 p. m, Philadelphia at s. D
n. and s. 80 p. nj Sleeping cars accompanying
the 90 u. N. and 10 and 800 P, In. trains with
out change,
Way Passenger Train leaves Philadelphia at 2 50
n. m, connecting with similar train Eust Penna
Rairoad, returning from Reading Mt 635 p. M stop
ping at all Stations Pottsvilie at T30, 10 q, IN
and 2.i5 D. III; Shamokin rs ii M Ashland Mt I .eC
a m, u 80 p. M Tamaqua ut $50 a. III. and 20
p. HI. FOR Philadelphia.
Leave Pottsville via schuykill and Susquehannu
Railroad at T.lOa for Harrisburg, and II 80 III
for Pine/Grove and fremont.
Heading Accomm odation Train leaves Reading o
T.S0 A. II, returning from Philadelphia at 5.45
p NJ.
Pottstown Accommodation Train Leaves Potts
town at 9 As A, NJ, returning leaves Philadephia
at 400 T. N.
Columbia Railroad Trains leave Seading nt zoe
A. M, and 6,l5 ?, ii. for Ephrata, Litiz, Laneas-
ter, Columbia, 40.
Perkomen Rail Road Trains leave Perkiomen
Junction at e.l5 A. NJ. and $50 P. NJ. Returning
Leave Skippaek al 1. 10 A NJ and IL As p. NJ,
Meeting with similar trains on Heading Rail Road;
On Sundays Leave New York at 90 p M, Pha.
dephia {. .O0 A. M, and 3.l5 NJ, the 500 q. n.
train running only to Reading, Pottsyile 90 m
Harrisburg, $50 a IN, and 4.l0 and 10. so m. and
Heading at e5, 800 and 7l5 a. III, for Harrisburg
at II 30 and 73l a. m. for New York, and at 4.2i
p. m. fer Philadelphia.
Communication, Mileage, Season, School and Ex
esrsion Tickets, at reduced rates to and from all
points.
baggage checked through leo Pounds Baggage
allowed each Passenger.
q. A. NICOLLS,
General SUPERINTENDENT
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09
NexysDnpcr DIRECTORY,

G.P. RowELL Co., tho New York Advertising
Agents, are about issuing a complete American
Newspaper Directory. 1t is compilation much
needed since nothing Of the kind having any claims
to completeness has ever been published.
Messrs. Howell & Co. have spared no pains or ex.
pense to make the forthcoming work complete.
We understand the book will be handsome octave
volume of about 800 pages, bound in dark CLOTH and
sold for Five Dollars per copy
As tho publishers are Advertising Agents their
Issuing a work containing much information, usu-
ally iealously guarded by those in that business,
shows that they arc confident of their ability to be Of
service to advertisers, they would not SO readily
place in their hands the of enabling every one
to communicate direct with publishers 1t they SO
desire.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09

TEE INCOME TAx.--When first imposed,
the income tax embraced 100000 persons.
When the exemption was extended to $1,000,
the number was reduced to 100000. These
'rich men"-for any man, with economical
habits, is rich" whose clear income exceeds
$1,000 contribute 3O,O0O,O 900 year to the
support of the Government. If the theory
proclaimed during the Presidential election
of equal taxation upon the money value of
everything" should obtain, the burthens of
the rich would bo materially lessened, and
those of the poor materially increased.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09

TIE FISH QuEsrIoN.-Th Pennsylvania
Railroad Company and the Pennsylvania
Canal Company, having failed to comply
with the law requiring the owners of dams
in the susquehanna to go change and alter
these structures, SO as to allow the passage
of shad and other fish up the stream, were
indicted at q recent term of the Dauphin
County Court. The case was argued by able
counsel on both sides, two weeks ago, before
Judge Pearson, and it is expected the Judge
will give his decision during the present
month. AS this is a case in which the people
along the Susquehanna and its tributaries
have deep interest, we hope the decision
Of Judge Pearson may be in their favor. Let
us have the shad.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09

TwITCHELL CoNvICTED.-The trial o.
George II. Twitchell for the murder of his
mother in law, Mrs. Hill, which had been be-
fore the Court of Quarter Sessions, of Phila
delphia, for two weeks, was brought to q
close on Friday night last, by ver'lic. OF
guilty of murder in the first degree. The
case was ably managed throughout Oh both
sides. The jury went out at fifteen minutes
to nine O'Clock in the evening, and returned
AT twenty minutes after nine, being absent
only 35 minutes. When the verdict was an
turned up his eyes,-that was all.
The trial of Mrs. Twitchell us an accessory
will no doubt speedily take place. The two
term law will nccessitate this, if she is to bt
tried at all.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09
W. e. YoUyG. q. T. ISRAEL
SUNBURY MARKET,

Sd st. NEXT DOOR TO KEYSTONE HOUSE.
TIME subscribers beg leave TO call the attention of
i the public 10 the fact that they have started a
Market for all kinds of Country Produce, Vegeta-
bles, &c. and have also made arrangements to fur
nish in Season all kinds of q ame, Fish, &c. Native
and foreign fruits nuts, &c, always hand, whole
sale and retail.
All kinds of Canned Fruits, Vegetables, Pickles
Sauces, Catsups, &c. Call and see for yourselves
as defy competition either in assortment or prices
YOUNG d ISRAEL.
sunbury January O. 1869
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09

TIE AMNEsTY.-Snce the issue of the
Presidents proclamation, friends OF the
prominent rebels yet absent from the country
begin to call the wanderers home. Mr.. John
G. Breckinridge who has SO long refused to
DO entreated, is expected to return at once
Ex Sccretry Thompson, ex- Senator Mason
aud Shcridan's Jubal Early, are also coming
Kentucky is thought to be pining for @
chance to send Mr.. Breckinrdge back to the
Senate. Certainly ne would be the most fit,
ting representative of her political position
and hopes now, as he was throughout the
war.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09

The Miners Journal, of Pottsville, has been
enlarged by the addition cf one column TO
each page, and the engtheniug of the col
umns. 1t has now ten columns to the page
and is the largest weekly in the State
With this enlargement it has entered upon
tho Forty fifth Volume, and the Fortieth
since it came into the hands of the present
senior editor, Benz Bannan, Esl. 1t is an
aoIe paper and contains large amount of
reading matter.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09
Notice in ISankruptcy.

fINlilS is to give notice, that tho 18th day Of
l. December, A. D. 1868, a warrant in Bankrupt.
cy was issued against the estate Of William Haupt
of Milton, in the county of Northumberland, and
State of Pennsylvania who has been adjudged a
bankrupt on his own petition that the payment Of
any debts and delivery of any property belonging
to such Bankrupt, to him or his use and the trans
fer Of any property by him forbidden by law
that meeting OF the creditors Of the said Bankrupt
to prove their debts, and to choose or As
sgnees of his estate, will be held ut Court o
bankruptcy to be holden at Sunbury, Northumber'
land county Pa, before John ). Detwiler, Register
the 9th day Of February, A d. 1859, at CLOCK
A. NJ. 4. ID. GREENA WALT,
Deputy United States Marshal, (as MessengerJ
Western District of Pennsylvania,
January g. l869-lt
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09

COAL on THE DEcIIHE-At the coal sale
In New York, last week, it appears that
stove coal ras disposed OF at auction at
about one dollar and half ton less than
"as received at a similar sale or the 18th OF
.AGt month.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09
TO THE PATRONS OF THE "AMBR1-
CAM"

By an arrangement entered into some
time since the connection of the undersign-
ed With the AMERICAN, as one OF the editors
aud publishers, terminated on the lst inst.
Having sold his interest in the concern TO
Mr. f. Wilvcrt he will continue as publisher
of the paper. The books and accounts Of
the late firm of Masser, Wilvert & Engle
are in the hands of Mr.. Wilvert, who is
authorized to make settlements of the same.
It is not without regret that this step has
been taken on the part of the undersigned
During the three years that he has been con-
nected with the paper his intercourse with
its patrons has been of the most friendly
character, and he takes this opportunity of
thanking them for the many favors received
at their hands, while acting rs one of the
editors and in q business capacity. The
many acts of kindness shown him will ever
be gratefully remembered.
n. S. ENGLE.
As the spirit of improvement is abroad,
and progress the watchword, some of our
contemporaries and neighbors, with COM
nendable degree Of enterprise, have intro
duced new presses, type and other materials
in their establishments, adding to the gene
raj appearance and character of their jour
mails. The AMERICAN always having been
progressive paper, and in position and char
acter, second to none in this section Of
country, it was hardly to be expected that
it would lag behind its contemporaries, in o
community rife with the spirit of improve
ment In accordance with these views, the
AMERICAN will appear, on or about the ist
of April, in an entire new dress, and in tone,
character and interest, will be worthy Of
itself, and tie patronage of moral and in
telligent people. The publisher also, at the
same time, contemplates making extensive
improvements in the jobbing department of
the Office, by the introduction of new type,
presses and other machinery. To accom-
plish this, it will require considerable sum
Of money, and the publisher must, therefore,
in some measure depend on the numerous
unsettled accounts of the late firm for funds
to accomplish his purpose, and trusts that
his friends and patrons will promptly aid
him in his enterprise by prompt remittance.
Mr.. Engle having disposed of his interest
and retired from the firm, the AMERICAN
will, hereafter, be conducted by the under
signed, as publisher, who is authorized to
settle and collect whatever amounts may be
due Mr.. Engle, in the late firm of Masser,
Wilvert & Engle.
EMIL WILVERT
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Dissolution OF Partnership.

Dissolution Of Partnership.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the partnership
IN heretofore existing between MasssT, Wilvsrt
a Engle, in the publication of the SuSDuRY AhERI-
CAN, dissolved by mutual consent on the lst
day of January 1869, Mr.. Enge having disposed
of his interest in the said firm to Mr. Emil Wlysrt,
tho business will hereafter bo carried on under the
firm name of Masser & Wivert, by whom all unset
tied accounts Of tho late firm will he settled.
ii. B, MASSER,
EMIL WILVERT,
N S. ENGLE.
sunbury, January Q, 1867