LEWISBURG CHRONICLE AND WEST BRANCH FARMER
The Farmer.
Corwspondsnee of the Iswisbm-g Chronicle.
Union County Agricultural Meeting.
Pursuant to previous notice, an Agricul
tural Meeting was convened in the Court
House in New Berlin, on Tuesday evening,
Feb. 25, lol, waa organized by call
ing Col. Thilip Ruhl, of Buffalo, to the
chair; and appointed Jacob Beaver, of
Beaver, Maj. Jolm Gundy,of East Buffalo,
and Samuel Wilson, Esq., of New Berlin
Vice Presidents; and Samuel Weirick,
Esq., of New Berlin, and James Kelly, of
Lewisburg, Secretaries.
The object of the Meeting was stated,
by Mr. Wciriok, to be, to make prelimina
ry arrangements to organize aCounty Agri
cultural Society, auxiliary to the State
Society, recently formed for the promotion
of agricultural science, in Pennsylvania.
He referred to the recommendations of the
President, and Governor, in their late an
nual messages, and the He port of the Six
perintendent of Common Schools, and
urged the importance of the prompt and
cordial co-operation of the farming com.
muniry throughout the Commonwealth
He stated, among other things that a State
Agricultural Society had been formed as
early as the year 1787 and again another
in is;04 both of which had been sucereu
to die out for the want of proper attention
on the part of their most interested in the
subject ; but that now, circumstances were
highly favorable fur the promotion of State
and County Agricultural bocioties, upon
a substantial and permanent foundation
and eminently calculated to enhance the
rcncral prosperity
S. C. Wilt, Esq., of Hartley, was then
introduced, and addressed the meeting,
for about an hour, in a speech of much
interest and practical value, enforcing by
cog.ut arguments and apposite illustra
tions, derived from reading and his own
experience during the past ten years, the
value of bonk firming; and the great im
portance of applying scientific principles to
practical agriculture. Mr. W's. remarks
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were listened to with close attention, and
when he concluded, received the heariy
applause of the audience.
Mr. Weirick then offered the following
preamble and resolutions, which were
adopted :
Whereas, Agriculture is of great im
portance, not only to those who cultivate
the soil, but to the entire community ; and
whereas, the General and State Govern'nts
have recently directed attention to this
subject with a view to the adoption of
suitable measure to deveh.pe and improve
the agricultural resources of the country,
and spread scientific and practical informa
tion among the people ; therefore be it
Rcrolvtd That we recommend that a
County Agricultural Meeting 1 held in
the Court House at N. w Berlin on the fir.-t
Wednesday of the next May Court (May
Cist) f.T the purpos- of firming a County
Agricultural Society, auxiliary to the j
State Agricultural Society recently formed
at llarriburg.
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the President then appointed
On motion
the following committee of arrangements
and correspondence with reference to the
contemplated meeting at the May Court,
and its object.
Hartley S. C. Wilt, Eq.
Jvuffalo .Ti.hn A. Vanvalzah, Esq.
Kast KutTalo Mai. J"hn "undy.
West Uuffalo David Kleckner.
Union I.-aac l'yer.
Kelly John Kling.
Lewisburg J. F. Linn, E.q.
Mifiliuburg J. A. Anspach.
"I'enns Col. II. C Ever.
Chapman Abraham Zieglcr.
Perry S.iniiid Shadle.
Washington Henry Hilbish.
Centre J-din Swrngb'.
'cntrevillc Jiicob Kciehhy.
Heaver Jacob Heaver.
West Heaver A. K. Middleswartb.
Limestone John Hebe r, Jr.
M iddlecreck I aniel Zi ber.
New Herlin Samuel Wilson, Eq.
White Deer Jacob McCurley, Esq.
Ou motion, Hesolved that the thanks of
this meeting be tendered to Mr. Wilt for
bis able ai.d interesting address ; and he
is hereby respectfully invited to address
the meeting at the May Court.
Resolved that these proceedings be
signed by the officers, and published in all
the newspapers in this county.
Tor tha Lewisturg Chronicle.
Mr. Editor : From my observation of
the nature of the soil of the region watered
by the HufTalo, Cbillisquaque, and Turbut j
creeks, I am inclined to the belie-i mai no
part of our State is better adapted to good
farming than it is. And yet, there are
many portions of the State where better
crops are raised. The only reason is, that
most of our farmers " do as their fathers
did," and never think about improving in
any particular. They scout the idea that
farming is an art, which may be improved
ns much as any branch of mechanics. They
think that Adam knew all about farming ;
whereas, Agriculture is a science in which
ns many JUcovtriei can be made as iu tho
Geography of our globe.
Some seem to think that farming
can be done anyway, no matterhow. This
is a great mistake. Farming is a business
iu which there is constantly something to
be learned ; there is but one wy to farm
it rijht, and that is not to be blundered
i.pon. And the true reason why eo many
J.iMiiii? nitm-d f poorly, is that ihey
trample under their feet those laws of the
natural world which have been established
by the Architect of Nature, and in obedi
ence to which alone the result sought is to
be obtained ; and the consequence is, that
they have to suffer the penalty affixed.
And " their foolith heart is so darkened,"
that they lay it all to "bad luck." Never
were men so unlucky. Deluded men ! As
well might they expect to hit the mark by
firing at random, as by aiming directly at
it.
Let me then advise all fanners, young
and old, the coming season, to look upon
their business as the moat honorable of all
arts, and to learn something in it. Read
agricultural articlea try some experiment
talk about seeds, soils, breeds of cattle,
times of sowing and reaping, Agricultural
Fairs,Societies, &c. and above all, think,
think! think.! CO-LABOllER.
We extract from the last Patent
Office Report, a few answers to circulars
requesting information as to " varieties
difference in weight and time of ripening
the enemies and diseases soils, and
manures best adapted to"
Wheat.
J. J. Thomas, of Macedon, Wayne Co.,
N. Y., writes as follows : ' The best va
riety lor this region is the Soules wheat.
The average yield this year has been 18
bushels per acre. The Mediterranean is
peculiarly udapled to wet lands, and hut
litile liable to attacks of the Hessian fly;
but the flour is uMially regarded as of an
inferior quality ; this variety has yielded
about 12 bushels per acre. The Soules
wheat requires a dry soil : hence the Med
iterranean will flourish where the Soules
is not adapted to the soil. The White
Flint is but liule cultivated ; hns yielded
only about 12 bushels per acre."
Myron Adams, if Et Bloomfield, On
tario Co., NT. V.. says : " Wheat is our
principal crop. Tne kinds mostly culti-
vated are White Flint and Soules. The
Soules wheat is a variety lately introduced,
and is every jcar lecomiiig more and
more popular. It requires earlier sowing
and more seed than the Flint, ns il does
not tiller or spread from the root like the
last named variety ; it is not as hardy, but
on good lucd, under good cultivation, and
with favorable seasons, it will produce more
than any other kind cultivated in this re
gion. 1 lie great objection to it is its lia
bility to waste by shelling in harvesting.
It ahould be cut before it is fully ripe.
The White Flint is a variety long known
and cultivated in western New ork. It
is very hardy, with a small, wiry straw,
and short head, usut-.lly well filltd. It
produces well under almost any treatment,
will bear much exposure to bad weather,
hnd may be kept long in the field after
Inrvest witiiout shelling
yields well ac-
cording to the amount of straw. Tho
berry is whiter, and makes whiter flour
and more to the bushel, than any o' her
kind with which I am acquainted. Our
wheat weighs from 5S to Cll lbs. to the
bushel, and on the best wheat land, in
favorable seasons, the yield is from 3'J to
Ull bushels per acre. Mach ) grown,
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culture, where from 6 to 15 bushels is
ca!!ed a f.iir crop. The amount of wheat
per acre is increasing under improved
culture and better implements constantly
introduced among us, and also through the
stimulus which Agricultural Societies af
ford." ' In Oswego county," S. Severance
write-; " wheat culture is nearly aban
doned, although when the county was new
conaiJerab'e was grown. Weevils and
heavy snows in winter are very destructive
to this crop. Seven-eighths of the flour
consume! in this county is from Western
wheat.'' If our correspondent had said,
that the p-culiar earthy salts demanded by
nature to form good crops of this grain
had become measurably exhausted in the
soil cf that county, he would have hit the
nail c n the head. Seventy-five years ago,
Albany county produced an average of 25
bushels per acre now the average is only
7 bushels. Columbia county has fallen
eitr from 20 to 6 bushels.and other counties
in like ratio.
" To prevent rust and weevil," Joseph
II. Merrick, of Delaware Co., N. Y.,
says, " early sowing is indispensable.
Lime.ahes, and gypsum nro the fertilizers
most relied upon for w heat in this section.''
Joseph M.Nes-bit.of L'nion Co. Pa.,writes
as follows : " Trcvious to 1920, the Red
ChafT was extensively cultivated, and es
teemed one of our best varieties. About
that time a new variety called the Blue.
Stem was introduced, which on trial was
found superior to the above, and we have
now cultivated it almost exclusively for
near twenty years. We have in the mean
time tried several other kinds of both
White and Ked wheat, to test their charac
ter ; but have uniformly found them de
ficient in some important property, and
have abandoned them as inferior to the
Blue Stem. In 1845, we harvested from
33 acres, an average of 36J bushels per
acre. Several acres could hove been se
lected, the yield of which would have ex
ceeded 40 bushels to the acre. We con
sider 25 bushels a fair average for the
best wheat lands, and with proper cultiva
tion we think they can lie made to yield
that. The best soils are river bottoms and
limestone formations. Quuntily cf Sttd.
A lew )tai ago, lj bushels wa consid
ered amply sufficient, but now we are
obliged to bow 1J bushels at least, and
some farmers sow 2 bushels. We consid
er the latter quantity too much. The
necessity for thicker sowing is in part ow
ing to the use of threshing machines, by
which a portion of the seed is broken and
the vitality destroyed ; and also to the in
crease of predatory insects in long cultiva
ted soils. Early sowing is tho best pre
ventive against the Hessian fly. We pre
fer to sow from 18th to 25th September ;
il later than the 25ih, wc run more risk
from winter killing, and if we escape this,
are pretty sure to be caught by the rust or
mildew in harvest. '
William Price, of Chester Co., Pa.,
says : "The Mediterranean wheat ripens
earliest, about the 1st of July. It requires
early sowing, and is seldom injured by the
fly. Mddew or rust is produced by the
bursting of the straw in the process of rip
ening, supposed to be caused by a super
abundance of sap, which the plant can ro
absorb or properly discharge. It there
fore issues and evaporates, leaving a sedi
ment or rust adhering to the straw, which
prematurely dies, and the grain becomes
shriveled or light. A clayey soil is best
adapted to wheat, and when lime is not an
ingredient in the soil.il should be judicious
ly applied."
In Germantown, Pa., George Blight in
forms us, that the Mediterranean is pre
ferred. It ripens in June, and thereby es
capes the wet weather of July ; yields
about 20 bushels per acre. Soil, sandy
loam with clay sub-soil. Barnyard ma
nure is applied, about CO loads to the acre,
and ploughed in.
In Juniata Co., Pa., the White Flint is
most cultivaU d, and ripens from July 1st
to 10th. Soil, limestone; weight of grain,
GO to 01 lbs. Authority Stewart Tur-
bclt, of Port Royal.
K. C. Holmes, Cape May, N. J., says :
" The Washington Bald is, perhaps, the
j most productive, the Mediterranean the
most certain and heaviest 58 lbs. average
weight per bushel. The fly, rust, and
smut are very destructive. Barnyard ma
nure, with lime, will produce the Targest
crops.''
W. P. Morgin, of Princess Ann Co.,
Va., says : "There is but a small portion
of our land adapted to the cultivation o!
wheat, and until the last 15 years very
little was made ; a few farmers sowed
enough for a "harvest home.'' Since then
there has been exported in a single year
from the county, 20,000 bushels. Hut for
three years past the crops of wheat have
been on the decline, both in quantity and
quality. The Early White and Mediter
ranean are the varieties preferred.''
II. B- Jones, of Drownsburg, Va., says:
" Of all the varieties cultivated in this vi
cinity, the Mediterranean is most to be re
lied on ; weighs from 60 to 04 lbs. per
bushel. The Blue Stem is a good red
wheat, and weighs about 60 lbs. The
New York White Flint is highly esteemed
by some ; average yield ubout 10 bushels
per acre."
State Lunatic Asylum.
A meeting (if the Board of Trustees ol
the State Lunatic Asylum, was held at
Cover!; 's Hotel, last Saturday evening,
lor the purpose of organizing an acting
Board. The result was as follows :
President Dr. Luther Riley.
Superintendent of the Asylum. John
Curwen of Philadelphia, w ho was for many
years the assistant cf Dr. Kirkbride, ii
Pennsylvania Hospital.
Treasurer. John White.
Secretary. Aaron Bombaugh.
The Board consists of tho following
named gentlemen, as nominated by the
Governor and confirmed in the Senate :
Dr. Luther Riley, Dr. J. K- Mitchell, Dr.
Jesse R. Burden, Dr. Roberts, Dr. Ruth
erford, Dr. D. Campbell, Dr. Kirkbride,
Aaron Bombaugh, lion. Joseph Konig
macher. The Superintendant has appointed Wm.
D- Haymaker as Steward of the Asylum.
What Railroads do for the Land.
The Wheeling Times says that the
land along the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
in Virginia, has increased in the average
300 per cent., and the amount of land now
being prepared for cultivation is greater
than ever cultivated before. A farm in
West Zmesville which had been offered
for $12,000, has since the railroad was lo
cated along its borders, been sold for $20,
000. In Newark, O., a tavern stand which
had rented for $100, on tho completion of
the railrcad, rented for $1,800.
Population of Pennsylvania. Accord
ing to a statement published by the Suer
intendent of the Census in the National In
telligencer, Pennsylvania has a population
of 2, 341,201. This is about 20,000 more
than has generally been allowed her, and
indicates an increase, in ten years, of 617,
171 or nearly thirty-six per cent. She
will gain one member of Congress, while
New York will lose one, and Ohio will
only retain her present number. None of
the old States have increased in any thing
like the ratio of Pennsylvania. The state
ment in the Intelligencer makes the popu
lation of the Union 20.067,720 free, and
3,070,734 slaves; total 23,138,454. Penn
sylvania contains more than one tenth of
the whole population. The returns from
many of the States in the Intelligencer are
only estimated, and the aggregate is there
fore not perfectly correct. We will pub
lish the returns in full when they are completed.
li ntiNim
H. O. EICEOE, Editor.
O. N. WOBDEN, Publisher.
At ft, Ml euh in adTanre, $1,75 in three months, t-P"ld
within the year, and $M) at the end of the year.
Agents in Philadelphia V B I'almer and E W Carr.
Wednesday Morning, March 5.
A DVERTIZE !
Eiorutoro. A'imintratorv Public
Officers. CitT and Country Merchant, Manufacturer!!.
Mechanic. Klines Men ail wlio wioh to procure ur to
dispose of lir.yttiiiit; would do well to five notice of the
fame through the "Lncixburg ninmiclt." This pKT had
a nood ami inereaomp circulation in a community contai
ning: as larce a proportion of actirr. inlvent priKiuxr,
consumer!, and dealers, as an; other in the State.
Raj If any of our readers, here or else
where, can fpare us the Chronicle ot Jan.
1, Jan. S, Jan. 15, or Jan. 2, they thall
be paid fur the same, and will oblige not
ouly us, but also many others anxious to
procure all of Chamberlin's Journal.
Also wanted, two of No. 331, August
3, 1S50
t&" The Editor having been absent at
Court last week, and being engaged in
more profitable employ at present, has
been unable to attend to the issue of this
paper.
BiQjf On motion of A. Jordan, Esq.,
Henry M. Dye, of Lewisburg, having
completed his term f study with G. F.
Miller, Esq., was, last week, admitted a
Member of the Har of Union county.
J. Woods Hrown, Esq., of Milton, was
also admitted to practice in Union county.
BioT" We have to record another warn
ing against robbing the printers. On the
20th ult., as Rev. Mr. Dosh was on his
way to the Halt. M. E. Conference, (and
also to his own wedding see our Marriage
Notices,) he was robbed of his valise, while
the stage was charing borses in Mil-
j ton. .oou fitter, however, ttie tniet was
detected, as we are infi.rnied; while in t lie
very act of devouring a splendid cake he
Lad found in the valise, and which, doubt
less, was intended for the printers. The
thief was a stranger named Jesse" Lewis,
and was bound over to the April Term of
Northumberland Court.
JSfThe Bloomsburg Dt mocrat observes
that "Everything in Pennsylvania appears
to be going on in a manner generally satis
factory to all parties, and parts of parties."
There is much worthy of thought in this
truth. Within our memory at least, there
Las been no time when there was as little
political excitement or ill feeling among
the American masses, as at present. It
is true, new and impurtuut measures of
public policy yearly arise, and demand dis
cussion and settlement there are very
many more voters to engage in all contro
versies the population is more dense, and
therefore susceptible of greater excite
ments railroads and telegraphs give op
portunity for strong and oft-repeated agita
tion ; and yet, there is a marked moderation
or absence of all partizan and personal
warfares. Great and absorbing National
epaestions arc at stake; but increasing in
telligence, and the alternate triumphs of
parties their fjuadrcuiiial disruption and
re-uuion upon new men vr new issues
have conspired to make the people and
their officers better acquainted with each
other's views, more charitable for differ
ences of opinion, and more united and
harmonious in action. Freedom from party
trammels Las also become so universal, that
in no State in the Union can a dominant
party uow carry all its points by party drill
merely.
Tho Executive officers of our State and
Nation co-operate without fiietion with Le
gislative bodies of the opposing party, and
enjoy freedom from censure and abuse as
much as, or more than, any of their prede
cessors. A marked change in the character of the
Periodical Press, is also evident. An In
dependent Newspaper, 20 or 30 years ago,
could hardly be found; and the columns
of the party journals were rank with false
and personal aspersions. Now, the Inde
pendent press is superior to the mere Party
press. The 'Picayune' of New Orleans,
the 'Globe' of Washington, the 'Sun' of
Baltimore, the 'Ledger' and the 'Bulletin'
of Philadelphia, the 'Sun' and the 'Herald'
of New York, (and indeed the 'Tribune,'
although a party paper, 13 an independent
one,) arc at this day combined with the
equally uutrammclcd and impartial Lite
rary and Religious press by far the most
powerful in their influence on the public
mind. The least ultra party papers are
better (supported, and have greater infiu
nire, than the more unscrupulous: but the
Independent press everywhere receives the
best (because unbought) support, and ob
tains far the widest circulation.
fcs?" The jYrw Yurie Sun makes merry
over the numerous ''Union meetings" held
in that Xew World Babel, and states that
not one of those engaged in them, was
ever known to part with U. S. Stocks for
a mill less than the highest figure, even
when the "bleeding Union" was (by their
accounts) at its last gasp, or hung trem
bling on the issue of a chase after a run
away "boy I"
SST Reg Mr. Peacock's pardon, friend
C, but Major Longbow assures us it was
stolen from his Works, vol. ixxx. pp.
91050.
B. The llarrisburg Telegraph states
that a largo number of arks and rafts have
! already pacd there on the way to market.
UT-1 Won Jen never cew." W lern from
he New Berlin "Time" tnd other ource, that
tn alarming rumor is prevalent in that region, to
wil, that a highly respected farmer in Old Buffalo
has a milch cow ! thai said cow talks !! and that
she has declared that this our world is coming to
nought some time next June "!
Thai' nothing. That benevolent eow should
t e communicative of counsel as well as of cream
iu matteis of moment as well as in milk need
not alarm anv one. Why, at Washington, there
have been at least a dozen mules, gified with
etch, who for two seasons past (and their pro
genitors many years before them) have prophes
ied, day and night. Dissolution ! Dissolution !! so
sure as certain of tlieirdmandswere not complied
with. They failed of lh ir olject : yel (although
many dames in pantaloons in vaiious parts of the
country were incontinently frightened) the Union
still enis'.s, anj grows stronger wiih age.
Should this cm nib of consolation not spatter
the tenors causid I.y this new form of 'Rochester
Knocking,' there i a constiiuiiorial remedy left
to l!,e desponding fii nJ of the World. I.el the
landlords and other ditinteietlrd patriots at the
Central HeaJ of i'oaer, call a Mass Meeting of
the people, to assemble in 'tremendous' numbers,
and in ibcir nmjesiy solemnly resolve that thry
aro the true friends of the WoilJ thai llieWorlJ
is a very good norU that it has co t much time
and labor that it is perfectly O K. in every par
ticularand that any cow who dares to say one
woid agin it. is a wery naughty old cow. If that
would uol put a etop to ail agitation, vce might
begin to despair of the gloiious fabiic but it ia
certainly worthy of consideration; and if theTVmti
coincides in the opinion, e leave it to name the
day of next Court week to be devoted to the pro
tection of ihe World against the parricidal hoofs
and horns of that prophetic, red-mouthed, fanatic,
wooly-headed, "lean kiue" of Buffalo Valley.
We once had an "imp" w ho thought it not
worth while to have his dilapidated bose repaired,
aa he believed the end of lin.e was just at hand.
A very good rc aton : and if any one object to
confuming the time of the Court at the expense
of suitors and tax payers for the purpose of hold
inn a WorlJ meeting, we would ask him. of what
cnnf rmenee are me!es and bounds the laws of
i
meum and rutirn In this munJane sphere.when
it is to soon to be tuuffi d out like a candle.on the
authority of that cow ! Our woice is still for a
loud World Meeting, with all its compromises
I'.s laws and its institutions, and confusion to the
l ined or uuaJiuned wbo opens its ruoulh to doubt
their perpetuity or discuss their right or policy !
Scott in Old Berks.
Agreeable to a call feigned by Twelve
Hundred eitizf ns of Herks county, Pa.,
friends of Gen. Scott for nest President,
a public meeting was held at the Court
House iu the City of Heading, Feb. 2"d,
and a large number of officers appointed.
Tho following are among the Resolutions
adopted :
K.-solved That GEN L INFIELD
SCOTT, ha, to a greater degree thun tiny
liviiii! man, secured the confidence and
gratitude of the people of the United States,
as well as the respect and admiration ol
the civilized world.
Resolved That the proposition by the
Lnion County Meeting for two Scott
Mass Conventions on the 20ih day of Au
gust next, at Philadelphia and Pittsburg,
meets our coidial and unqualified approba
tion ; the former to he composed of Ihe
counties east, and the hitter of those west
f the Allegheny mountain, and embraced
in ti e l?th, la h, 2Uth, 2lst, '22 J, 5J3J,
and 25'h Coiigre.-sit mil Districts. Such a
movement will he attended with the most
bel.tficial results, and in a great measure
connect the nomination .ind election ol the
illustrious Herri and Statesman to the
Presidency in 1850, wi li the approaching
S;ate election in October next.
R si lvcd That we stigoes' to the Whig
members of the Slate Leg'ulature, the pro
priety nnd expediency of recommending
Gen. 5coTr,as the choice of Pennsylvania,
for the Presidential candidate in 1832.
subject to the decision of a National Con
vention ; and to recommend the time and
place of said Convention.
ftffif" In our Farmers' Corner, will be
found evidence that the Agricultural in
terest is waking up in Union county at
last. We hope it will gain additional
strength from that new step. A gentle
man present at the meeting, says it was
extremely interesting, and much more
profitable than the political gatherings and
useless harangues which exhaust the pa
tience, and destroy the righ's, of suitors
and witnesses.'
Saf Foreign News to the 15th ult., ad
vise us of the defeat of President Bona
part in the effort to give him a large sum
of money as a "dotation." The majority
against it in the Assembly, was 102.
The Papal excitement in England contin
ues. Permission to introduce a bill of
pains and penalties against certain Papal
aggressions, was allowed in Parliament by
a majority of 332.
fca" Nothing of importance from llar
risburg. On Friday last, the Legislature
adjourned over to Monday, to spend the
interim in accepting proffered visits to
Baltimore and Washington, where they
were generously and handsomely treated.
Gov. Johnston, declining the pleasure,
improved the opportunity to pay a filial
visit to his aged father, in Westmoreland
county.
The Annual County Statement will
be found on our next page. It will be
seen that the Collectors have been prompt
and efficient, h aving but about $200 due
State, and $1,030 County, prior to '50.
Lewisburg exhibits, again, the honorable
position of all paid up so does our neigh
bor Kelly Tp., and East Buffalo and Buf
falo arc not far behind.
tF Ira Say re ia appointed P. M. at
Chapman, in place of D. E. Bender, re
signed. New Post Office :n Union county, Pa.
Kratzerville, H. Reiser, Post Master. 1
US' The Yankee Blade has the "Bache
lor's Lament" in ite columns without any
credit to the 'Lewisburg Chronicle,' where
it appeared as original over a year ago.
jaji, The Board of Revenue Commis
sioners is now in session at llarrisburg
Gen. Bickel, (State Trcxsurer,) President
Ex-Off., and J. M. Forster, Clerk.
The Lewistown Gazette states that
the Juniata Canal was in navigable order
Wednesday last.
UuThe following are the Resolutions
adopted at the Democratic meeting held in
New Berlin last week. We copy from the
Union Times:
Resolved, 1. That the S:anding Commit
ter be requested to publish a call to the Do
mocrac v of Union county, to meet in their
..i. I ttl-iiu.: ,,f rticoliiiTr on SittiiriltHi thi
,iUv.o v. .7 -
III k ni l k lo t-li'cl Dolc'ratt s !o meet in
County Conventional ISew ISerhn.on Won-
clav the 12th d ty of M iv, to make choice
of IMeoa.es to represent them in the Judi-
e,;,l Convention to be held at Hirnsburg
, the lib of June mxt.
2 I hat we h ive turn and undiminished
conl.dence ,n the talents, uitegnty arid na-
tno'iMi. ol the Hon, Lewis Cu,s and pledge
hi,,,, in advance, our rnort cord.ul and en-
erge.ie su; port as t'.e Democratic candidate
(or the Presidency m 1652
3. That the Compromise 15.11 of tho late
u, .-. j , o - -
session ol Uontiress, is me uesi compromise
that could be made under the then existing
excite. nent upon the vvxci question of sla
very, and that we will, in good faith, stand
by it.nnd show to our brethien of the Smith
that all the provisions t f the Constitution
to the very letter shall and wiil be enfor
ced, 4. That we will frown down all agita
tors and agitations that is calculated lu di
vide and distract the councils, endanger
the success of the Democratic party, an d
detrov the harmony of the confederacy.
5 That G. n's Cass, II jusn n.and Foote,
jnd the lion's Buchanan. Walker, Doug
Ins, and W oodbury, as Democrats as na
tiotml men as rut n w h have sustained
liiis Union in every conflict, aie worthy the
entire ennti Jence of the great national De
mocratic party, and whichever ef them
may be the choice of thit party for the
Piesidency in '52, around his slanJard we
w ill rally w ith a zeal and an energy that
iil disenthral the Democratic party from
the malion influence cf faction, and restore
it nain to power; that we may have an
administration that will know no North or
South, Ivisl West, but one country our
w ho!e country will be the object of its care.
G. That in Col. Win. Biglei the Democ
racy of Union county have full and ab.ding
confidence, nod hereby rcitera'e their pre
vious asservations of regard for his hones
ty and tale nts, and recommend his unani
mous nomination as the next Democratic
candidate for Governor on first ballot.
7. That in the election ol Rich'd Brod
head to the honorable and distinguished
position of U. S. Senator, the Democracy
of Pennsylvania have secured the services
of n gentleman, a scholar, and statesman.
8. That this meeting recommend that
the Delegate Meetings be continued open
from 2 till 5 o'clock.
U. S. CONGRESS.
Saturday, Mirch 1. The bill abolishing
constructive mileage was adopted by the
Senate, and the remainder of the day and
niht. up to twelve o'clock, was spent in
debat'iig the river and harbor bill.
In the Ilour-e of Representatives a pro
position to appoint a committee of investig
ation relative to the charges made against
Mr. Webster, was rejected by an over
whelming vote. The amendments of the
Senate to ihe navy pension bill were con
curred in. The amendments of the Senate
to the postoffice appropriation bill were ta
ken up, and some rejected and others
arireed to. The navy appropriation bill
w as taken up in commitee of the whole and
was passed at the evening session. Mr.
Potter reported the Senate amendments to
the cheap postage Bill, with some amend
ments, and they were concurred in by the
House. The additional amendments go to
the Senate for concurrence. The House
was also in session until after midnight.
A conspiracy to rob and murder a weal
thy old man, named Rush, and his two
daughters, living about three miles from
Ilamsburgjast week, was timely detected,
and two negroes and a white man who at
tempted to rush into the house, were arres
ted by a constable and Wm. Colder Jr.,
who were waiting for the offenders. Mr.
Rush was then very feeble, and has since
died. The offenders were committed.
We see it stated that John B. Gough
has obtained Three Thousand names to
the Temperance pledge, in Pittsburg.
The police of Philadelphia ate acting
effectively in breaking up the rowdy prac
lices of firing guns at the house where
marriages have been celebrated.
Carlisle was settled 100 years ago.
A London journnl styles J. J. Audubon,
" the greatest ornithologist who ever
lived.''
John Jordon, one of the first settlers on
the Sinnemahoning, last winter shot an
Elk which weighed 600 lbs., was 7 years
old, and had horns 4 feet 2 inches long,
with five prongs to each.
The Editors of the Lycoming Gazette
have had " a good supper," and hopo to
have another.
Jack M'Avoy and Thos. Davis.eon fined
in the Sunbury Jail for assault and bat
tery, broke out on Monday night a week,
and escaped. They left a scrawl behind
which proved that larniu had never hurt
them. Sheriff Covert offers $15 reward
for the re delivery of the beautiful pair of
birds.
Mrs. Partington asks very indignantly,
if the bills before Congress are not counter
feit, why should there be such difficulty in
passing them.
John Hughes, Catholic BishnpTXTt"
biahop, ar.d prospective Cardinal, '
jectured may be lh next Pope. je
believe a nnlive of Wales, and 3o v B
ago was a gardener in Frederick r'
Two men were fn zen to dea'h in
nebago county Wisconsin, the first "!"
in February. e
The Camden Wert Jewyman gic,
account ef twelve mammoth hrv r n.
by Mr. Jos
. Lippincott. of that .;..:.
They were 15 months old, and the .
" e ... : -"'KlIV.
gregate weight 5,541 pounds, or a frac: ic
short r f 462 pounds each. " Q
Amasia Mitchell, of Scott coun'v
aim, uio) nn ine i ri u I., in h:i
'JO
year. lie served s
n nnnicnn ,.,i
Bendict Arnold: mw him tf(r
the ship Vulture ; witnerd thr i xe, ,,. 8
C i .1 - - I .1 0
oi anuie, me py, anu i rie surit-Ldur
Cornwallis, the hr tish General.
Iherrench will d:.;iiay at th-P.i.i:
; .: - . .-I.. 1 .
: tiou an riiuriiiutisj i;ui uernn'.er
. ... a T. . . r
will..
. uui a uiw, iiuir ii.-i3ui:s 01 (,r
j height rnav sit inside f if. and cut rim,.,
! from a r(J,;mi lMe a ar(i , diniril.tl.r
Y(jrk r .
I ncrurTIi ,;, ,, jn g(, TJ
Church, was very d, .trurl.ve. t
;J , ,inrR f), pn ly rf, fup,
j (. wV .
: .j ovf.f
j of "
, ok9, d(.V(lt,f, , ,he Eili,ClpaI v,ri . ,p "
! the city. The fire i, the lurge.t t . b j
hcfe f b ""
Cincinnati and Ceveland Oiiio, nrr n
united by railroads, 265 nnl s .;i:t. fne
trntue distance wi.l be nmd in ti t- sliII
lime in not more than fuurlun huur-.
Senator Dawaon, in his seat in Congress
on Saturday last, stated that the Pub' c
debt of the United Stntes is One Hundred
Millions of Dollars. The private deb's of
her citizens to Foreign M.inuf.ie'urers anj
Capitalists probably cxceeJs that sum.
A Bridge is to hui.'t over the Susrw.
h ii.na lit Tunkhatinock.
A Hungarian, named Krause, hns a',.
veitied a Tuwrrcf II i'ji I o n. err," ;,
come off at 'I rip'cr Hal', and ai -nrtuti f,
tbnt he will sing, on tilt- iic.-usion, m th.r"v
different languages tt once.
Clair County will b represent! j ji, .j,e
World's Fair. T J. Rlake has ytt si, f.
ped to the great Exhibition a case i.I'i j.
tools, of hi own mantifactuie, winch, -feel
confident, wiil enmj e"e wita auvtiu
of the kin J there exhibited.
The alarm of fire on Friday nuiiis,
was caused by the burning of a s'rihe m
(aysipor, be'.onissnt! loJfi Lonm.
The engines were on the grour.'l in a verv
hort time, nn i succeeded iu sav.r. i f
adjoining property ; but the s uLm- &
burned to the ground. This was a ;.b
ihe work cf an incendiary. Iu;..cr.s
Standard.
Roston, Ftb. i.
Charles G. Davis, who had been ui.Jer
examination for several dayi. on a char;?
of aiiiing in the escape of the fuijit.ve ir.v
ilrack, was this morning d scl.ireJ, ihe
Commissioners deciding that tiere was not
sufficient evidence to hold him for trial.
During the whole year 150, the lirthi
n England were 503,567 ; the deas
309 679 : excess ef births 223.3. Dur
ing the same period 2",0.43 enrgmnts
left the ports of the United Kingdom- The
number of births and deaths in Ireland ar,i
Scotland can not be asccrtaineJ, e-xci pt by
the census which is to le taktn this ur.
The St. Charles Hotel. a! New Orlians. ia
positively to be rebuilt. The former esei
sre to take it at $50,000 F'r ")'in'
The eti mated cost is from SiCS.l'PO tn
$230,000 ; but this excludes the don.e at i
collonnnde, which the Orleanois say ihey
must have. Additional stock wiil have to
accomplish this object.
Effects of Temperance Fn Birming
ham alone, out of i.25, 000 suh-cribeJ N
working men for t hp purchase of Iree-hoMs,
not less than X20,tHli, it is calculated, has
been saved from the taverns and beer
shops.
Fugitive Slaves. It is said that, w'lhii
a few divf, s many as one hundred fugi
tive slaves who have been living securely
in Boston for a year or two, have fled from
the city.
The boy who "licked" a molasses burtl
is teaching a ihrashing machine to box.
Mr. Wm. B. Leas, of Shirley township.
Huntinudon county.butchered a hog on the
29th ult., which when dressed, weighel
77 lbs. The hog was of Chester county
breed and was about two years old-
An expedition in search of Or. Lfichart,
the Australasian traveler, from whom n
account has been received for an uousa:
!y long period, was in December las', pf
paring lo start from Singapore, intended !
explore the coast of New Holland, beyo&i
Van Dieman's Land.
Dy Rev. Tho's Bowmn, 20th ult., Re J B
C Dosh. of tha Baltimore Conference, snil -I'
Hissab B. daughter of Jeremiah TsJlmao, of
Lvcomine; eoumv.
In the M. E. C hurch Williamjport, 2d int 1J
Iiev il U Dill, Kev. CmuK Macht. .Missio
nary to I'aliijrnia, an Miss KiTi P. daughter
of Tbos V Lloyd, of vVilliamport.
By Kev J U Anspa.-h. on 1 lih '
Shickleb of Buirah' and ' M" A"
Hacck of Wm BulTl. tn ,3,b JoB
Vajomk and Mis J"," "
Northumberland. On 13th ult, Sisrn Goon
,.... and Miss Bsssaos, both of
White Deer. OnSOih ult-. Das lit KassiBa
of BulWo and Miss Scaa Roxi of Kelly
.u.. it K Haas of Milton and Mist SabiI
t-Mi eic of Kelly.
By Kev E M Lone. 27th alt, Jauks Ruasim
and Mii-s Sarah J. Wilbilm, both of Milton.
In Muncy. 13th ult. by Kev C A Hewitt. G
Woodlit of Wolf Tp sail Miss Abitta Jos
of Muncy.
On the 25th utt, by Rev A Chrisman, Lro
Mc8si5A, of the Lock Haven Democrat, and
Mis Mabt As Cocts, of Huntingdon.
DiED :
In Union Tp, 25th ult. Catharine, sgftl ia
year, and on the 27th alt. Mary, aged 6
daughters of Philip Smith. ,
In Milton, 26th ult., Michael Richard. "S"
about 74 year. In Lock Haven, lsth -
child of W H Marr. Iu Muncy, Htn ' JT
Cruse, aged 74 yean. In Lower Augusta,
ult Peter Shrants, in hi 85th year. ,
In Plymouth. RiehlanJ Co, O. Ntb uli.J
33 years, Wm. S. Thompson, Ut of Ui
Slow Thompson, of Light Street, Col i