LEWISBURG CHRONICLE & WEST BRANCH FARMER. Every lumberniau as much expects to pick up in flesh and health the first few day of hi arrival ou the ground, m he expects to go, and also as miioh expects to sicken as sojn ad lie returns to town. I have j seen a great many men in my day, but I f never saw as fine specimens of j.crfcct. health and extreme robustness as iu these eons of the f rst on their return. In the name of physiological law, I ask what it I ceans, and how it is, that these men, thus j espwd to sav-h extreme of both wet and cold eombinsd, should never take the lightest cold, whereas persons surrounded if itli al! the protective and comforts iui rgiuablc, should so often take it, and be so .i'ton crippled by it ? What physiological principles are L?re involved ? Here are results which oVmard Analysis effects, by r.ccrtaining the causes of which, we can incalculably promote our own and families' Lealtli that greater earthly good. Another cl:.as of exactly nw-ordant facts occurs in public land surveyors. Luciu? Lyon, for ten years surveyor-general of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, and from six to nine months of motof those years en gaged m active service, with a corps of men tinder him, in a recent dinner con versation nt Detroit, bis head-quarters, made these sweeping declarations : that neither be nor any of his men, in all that time, ever had a cold, or were unable, for one hour, to perform those vigorous exer tions required by surveying; r,nl vet, he added, with great emphasis, ' I never knew .nc of these men to rcniiiiu in town three days without contracting a cold, and being more cr less disabled and this is equally iiniU" is 1 true with myself. What the cause eannot ray, but such arj the facts.' These surveyors undergo even greater hardships and exposures than New l-'ngland lumber men ; for, instead of laving a log shanty to go to, they sleep in tents, and often on or in the fnoirf mid that too when every rap of clothes on thera is wringing wet. 1!.'Y must run straight lines, and hence r.re rften obliged to cross marshes and f renms, and wads up to their arms iu mud and writer, or snow-water, and never think of changing garments, for they have no change; but down with a big tree, cnt a couple of logs for the back of their fire, nnd roll one top of the other, then the smaller oues and top f x the fire proper; cook their supper, tramp down the snow, pitch their tent, eat, retire, their tent open to the thorough passage of winter blasts, and yet no colls '. la the name of all physiological law, how can we accouut for this sleeping in wet clothes, iu cold weath er, and on the snow, only a teut over their heads, and a Cre at their feet, outside, near its entrance and ye' tierer take cold? where as we think even getting our feet damp in siues a coIJ. What is it in their regimen which counteracts this cold-tj:kng tenueu cy? for that counteracting power must le immense. Cue contra class of faois aids us in ma king a correct summary of these striking results, namely, that persons who protect themselves the most, take the most colds Thus, did you ever see a family of chil dren where the mother took the utmost care not to let them go out, except in the pleasantest weather, and all muffled up at that, their rooms particularly warm aud comfortable, and the greatest possible pa rade made over them, but were frequently taking cold ? Hera is the greatest cart and the most colds : there the greatest ex posure and fewest ills. Who takes cold in the parts constantly exposed ? Expo pure hardens and fortifies the system, a tha inside of the hand or the cole of the foot become hardened by use. Petting the system makes it delicate. The bare arm will blister in a hot sun in an hour ; expose it like the band, continually, and it will resist the influence of the sus in like manner. It is. equally true relative to exposure to wet and cold. Most undoubtedly, good health is ffce great heater of the system t f course in conjunction with food and thereby be comes its great protector against oolds. And in this way, nothing but breath ami food can, by any possibility, warm the sys U-m. Neither clothes nor fire can evr do it ; for the former can not generate heat, but only retard its escape, and the latter can not possibly be kept at a temperature .is high as that of the body without well nigh suffocating us, and acts only on tin principle of clothes, namely, that of re tarding the escape of heat ; for generating it within us it never can, nor even heat up the surface of the body, because the latter is always warmer than the warmest rooms. But freb air Contains that oxygen which, combining with the carbon supplied by fod, becomes the fuel of the system, which is more and still more abundant the c ller the weather, because then the air . ia tb-j more condensed, that is, contains the more of this oxygen for this bulk, It ii the. cold air iuhaled by these lumber men and surveyors which protects them against colds, even when wet. But that air is just as good on our farms as in the woods, and in the winter about as full of oxygen In city and country. Of course, then, city people can keep themselves from colds by jutt inhaling it abundantly. This implies vigorous exercise, which they rare ly take in sufficient quantities ; yet their great error b too warm rooms. And this is probably the greatest error of civilised life, especially when taken in conjunction with excessive eating. In fact, this error does cot consist absolutely in over-eating or under-breathing, bat in the relative ex cess of food as compared with breathing. They might eat all they now do, and dou- lie on that, with impunity, if they breathed as much relatively. Or they might breathe os little as now if they ate aa little in com' pariaon ; but eating so much, together with breathing so little this is the grand breed- er of colds, and they of nearly all the firms of disease and causes of premature d-ath in civilized life. In one other way does over-eating con tribute to ewlda by withdrawing the vital energies from the skin to the stomach, in order to enable the latter to discharge its load ; yet this is another branch of our subject. The influence of cold air on the skin direct, is also most bracing and beneficial, whereas that of warm air is most enerva ting; but this, too, is another phase of the great principle we would now prove and rivet, namely, that fresh air is the great protector against colds, and theroby against ad forms of disease and premature death. Ve close by this obvious inference, that all should sleep in well ventilated rooms. Of course, not only should no fires ever be pariuittcd in sleeping apartments, but they should be thoroughly ventilated during the day, and also at night. Sleep with your windows open. Nor, if well covered, will sleeping in a draft hurt even the delicate, provided they become inured to it gradual ly. To keep your children from taking col l, hoist their windows at night, and also by day. Delicate as I am, I never re- tire without opening one or more windows, however cold the weather, and prefer to bleep in a current. This will be strange doctrine to many, but besides being based on correct physiological principles, it will bear t-hc test of experiment, which we hope our readers will give it, and the more o the more delicate they are. American I'hnvo!. Jour. Cornstalks. If short of long provender for your cat tle, have your cornstalks cut into inch or half-juch lengths, and steam them, and a bushel will be a good feed for a cow or an ox without hay. We have seen them prepared in a very simple way a neighbor of ours bad an oblong tight box made, which had a top to it ; be filled this box with cut stalks, poured over them a pot of boiling water, shut down the. lid, put a weight upon it, and thus cooked them with the steam. By the time the water became milk warm the stalks were sufficiently warm to be fed to the cattle. In the portion allotted for his milch cows he had bran or mill feed mixed, and iu this way be managed to keep his stock al ways in thriving condition, with very little use of hay or fodder. American Farmer. I'liU'ARATIOXS for the Kosscth Re- m rTioN. The City Councils of Philadel phia- are rupidly perlectmg their arrange ments (or the reception of Kossuth, who ill puiiivply arrive on Wednesday next. A larne fttHging it being erected in the S.jna re, from which Kossuth will address tin- citizen. The exterior of the lull of Independence has been decorated with evrrreen, which has been formed into a five pointed star on each window, and gracefully festooned along the front of the building. On Saturday, a large painting aa plxred in front of the Hotel of K. li. Jon, No. 77 Dock street, representing Kossuth under the protecting wing ol Turkey, while Russia and Austria are at tempting to secure him. What the picture ack in beauty it makes up in force, and it will arrest the attention of all. In front of tho "Head Quarters," Library street.a miserable daub of a painting has been placed, intended to represent the landing of Kossuth at Castle Garden, New York. Conspicuous; upon the picture, is the motto, 'Nothing is difficult to him who wil!e.' In the course of to day, we expect to see other elctrsnt specimens of art erected. Philad. Daily News, Monday last. A N"w Disease. The Paris correspon dent of the St. Louis Republican, says (hat terrible and singular disease has ust bro k-n out in Gatlicia, which defies all the efforts of the medical faculty lo explain or cure. It is n epidemic, and has received ihe name of the sleeping fever. The victim i suddenly seized without any warwwg. with an irresistible desire to sleep; nnd iiis sleep lasting without interruption, four. live.and sometimes eignioays.aurmg wmcn time, the sleeper gives no sign of suffering. When he finally awakes, lever commences !! from sixteeen to twenty hours, and ends in death. Io or inree emineni French physicians have just leu lor roiana, in order to study tnis new uisease. We are pleased to see that Kossuth de lines beina dragged about from one theatre and plare of amusement lo another, lo be Mnved ofr a a card oy managers ana oiher. for their own pecuniary benefit lbs relusal to sit for his portrait to specu latinjj duguerreotypists, who were among the first to beset him on his arrival in this country, evince on his part a higher self respect thn is usually shown by most dis inuished personages. Arthui's Gazette. The New York Tribune stales that a - V af -jlAik ..II Ivam tm mnnnsibie Loan Vuniniuico win tro wi- Ctnized in that city lonnwnn. -ano me uhscriDtions to a Hungarian in at ion a Un in sums of ?iuu ana over, win oe A,aa.An -II 1 publicly called for; while contributions, n iHr.rer or smaller amounts, in accor dmre with the nlan outlined in Gov. Kos- uil.'s speech, will find persons here duly authorized by Gov. K. to receive Ihem." Komh in Philadelphia The New York Tribune understands, that in Phila- nVlDhia he will accept no entertainments, but a id made a single address to the Peo ple in one ofibe largest halls of the city, W (MUM, H. C. HICKOK, Editor. O. V. WORDEN, Printer. At$1,nihindTancr, $1.74 in tbiw month $2 paid within the year, and iiO at thr rod of the jrar. Agents is Philadelphia V B Palmer and E W Carr. Ijewisburff, Pa. toconcsban fllorning.Dftcmber 2V51 ADVERTIZE ! Exeratnrs. Administrator, Pnblie Officers. City and Country Merchant. Manutarlurers, Mechanic, Business Men all who wish to procure or to dispose of anything would do well to Rire notice of the same through the "LswUlmrg ChnHidr." This paper has s good and increasing circulation in a community contai- niug as large a proportion of attire, solvent producers, consumers, ana aeaiers, aa any other in the state. of The first of January, we agree with Maj. Freas, of the Gcrmantown Tele., is the most appropriate time t) commence a subscription to a newspaper and we ex pect a large accession of names at that time to our subscription list. Indeed, we think that every Reader, who it not now a Subscriber, should promptly send in hit or her name. fThe Editor has been sort o' lucky, and sort o' not lucky, lately. On return ing from Court, Saturday evening, he was greeted with a " donation" of a fine, fat goose, from our enterprising up-street neighbor, Mr. D. S. K. But, Conrt called him off to New Berlin, again, Monday morning, and, in consequence, he can " do the honors" to the bird by proxy, only. This is worse than not being able to talk Dutch to an Aaronsburg editor, is u't it ? BiTke Lecture appointed for last eve ning was postponed for one week, by rea son of the failure of the Sexton (from sickness) to open the house. The Lecture may be expected on Tuesday evening next in the house of the Baptist church. Rev. 11. W.Dickinson, lecturer. Subject Books : their Uses. We hope to seo a growing interest in these efforts to combine instruction with amusement, and that gentlemen who make these gratuitous efforts will have large and growing audiences to hear them. WsTThe cut of the brick Cabinet Ware house recently erected in town, will receive general attention. We love to 6ee such unmistakcable evidences of prosperity among the mechanics of our Borough They indicate Worth and Thrift. And who knows but some day " after Christ mas" perhaps, or in some "good time coming" far hence there may be found a printer in Lewisburg able to have a house of his own, and who shall be prospered almost as well aa other mechanics who knows? Let as live and hope, for such events have happened in other places. ftaThe Union County Courts were or ganized last week under the newly elected J udges Messrs. Wilson, Wittcnmyer, and Marshall. Judge Wilson presides with his accustomed courtesy and impartiality, and (we are assured by gentlemen who were his friends and others who were his opponents in the late contest) with increased efficiency and decision in the despatch of business. Judges Wittenmyer and Mar shall are both gentlemen of established character, whose capacity and thorough knowledge of the affairs of the county well qualify them for the posts they occupy. There is a heavy Trial List, and last week was chiefly occupied with some interesting criminal cases, to the exclusion of miscel laneous business. Up to yesterday, many causes had been disposed of, and by hold ing night sessions, refusing to yield the Court Boom for extraneous purposes, and " keeping Christmas" by keeping to their work, the Court have performed and will perform its duty satisfactorily to the people. French Republic, abolished! The telegraphic account, in another col umn, proves that Napoleon II., like Napo leon I., has used the charmed word Republic to make himself a Monarch. lie has skil fully employed the powers conferred upon him by blind admiration of the name, to entrench himself, behind the bayonets of his troops, on a throne. The regular elec tion for President was to have taken place in May next, under the Constitution. Whether the Election ordered for this month will be held valid, and its choice acquiesced in, remains to he seen. Gran ting universal suffrage as Napoleon does, will obtain for him (when the votes of those thus admitted are added to the votes of the Royalists at heart) without doubt, a majority of the votes. Elected Presi dent for ten years by a violent and uncon stitutional act, he will need to take but a step or two more to restore Monarchy in its most burdensome form. Should it hap pen, however, that there is enough virtue and intelligence in the people to elect some true Republican to the office, a sort of Re public may yet exist in France. Wc con fess our fears rather than our hopes pre vail in this matter. The senseless choice of the present Presidential plotting despot, and the tame submission of an excitable people to unblushing usurpations, are poor indications of any well-informed or relia ble Public Sentiment and Virtue, without which a Republic is but a mockery of pure Liberty Bbars. Mr. John Koser, an old hun ter, of Bufialoe township, took fonr bears from a cave in the Bufialoe mountain, a few weeks ago. i-To-day (Wednesday) ia Bank day Northumberland Thursday being in Christmas-day. Colds, Wet Feet, &C. ' J"swEnglish papers say, the Submarine There is no subject more often intro Telegraph it working well, but the rates ; duccd at the present season, than that appear to be high. Messages both from j of colds " the bad cold " of the careful London and Liverpool have been transmit mother, " the prevailing influenza" of the ed on the same day to Paris, Ilavre, Vi , more fastidious, ana " this infernal horse- enna, Trieste, Hamburgh and Ostend, and j distemper that's about," of Mr. Plain- in one instance a communication was for- spoken. Commencing on our first page, warded to Cracow, te be dispatched thence will be found a chapter on the topic, writ- by mail to Odessa. . ten in quite a positive manner, and sug- The rates ar,for a message of 20 words: gestingseveral interesting thoughts, "foun- ! ded On facts." , . lhe arguments in favor of temnerance ,.,,. ,1 in eating, and or inhaling pure, cold air, ' ... as mucn as possible, can not be and are 4 . . j, . . . not controverted by any school in medicine or any close observer. But the apparent proposition that wet! clothing, and more especially wet feet, are not injurious to the system, is so contrary to common opinions and common sense, A. . ' A , , . L. that we must suggest several qualifications , AA , , to the statement of the writer of the ar- tide quoted. It may be true of the par ticular classes referred to, bnt is not true of all men, women, and chiidrea, in other stations of life. As a general thing, wet, damp, cold feet, are an unfailing index or i.eet,.re.n..1,g,cx Ur a source ot decaying bealtb, and often i . cause speedy death. The exceptions are . , 1 , . , , in the ease of those who from ivfuncu are , . .... . J , , . subjected, with bare fset, to cold and wet, ' , , , ' , . . as much as others hand, are tbu. hardened; and to .those who survive these rigors, and never favor their feet, such exposures may . , ' . . ' , ' seem comparatively of no injury. Bo also the hardy man who by moderate but con- j tinuous labor excites hie blood to a beat 1 which sends to every extremity of the ' system the genial glow of health, does not while in that condition expose himself to colds,(unlcss over-heated and over-exposed) and can endure changes of temperature and long continued exposures to dangerous influences, which to persons unfitted by laborious cierciso for each trials, would be injurious if not fatal. It ia a universal rule, that the hardier nnd mum robust a people are, the better they can sustain the I fury of the elements : yet their being able to sustain, year after year, what de stroys others, is no proof that it may not be injurious even te them. health, may be exposed to wet and storm, I , , ., . . . . . ! riU'J I .... . Ill llll U UUMl . mvuj 1 y - who, when still, and when the system be comes cool, would suffer from the very in fluences which before were not at all hurt ful. The observation cf manv will enn firm this assertion by numerous instances in proof. Warm springs never freeze, nor docs water in rapid motion : and so likewise warm blood blood in healthful, regular circulation to every extremity of the sys tem will keep away " the cold." Stag nant or languid waters are conquered by frosts, and the indolent blood of persons who take too much food and too little reg ular exercise, invites disease and death in stead of resisting them. "Keep the head cool, and tte f 't warm," is the voice of all rhvsicians and tht firilivs-fl wnrM An it tf nnfiiinrrit '. . , , . . , savage, however he may expose ht head and body, takes pains always to elerp with his feet to the fire, and feels safe from dan ger on the score of health. So the lum berman and the surveyor, however much they may have invigorated the ystert and i- j .l u i.t m A. vi i hold his office for ten years and to be snp enhvencd the healthy flow of their blood , . .. - , , A-,, X . , i , ' ported by a Lonneil of State aud two by exercise, still seek to have their feet ; ' . dry and warm when they are not in motion, and find that when they are thus protected, the whole system works well. I l" T tu .- f ; tion is to take place during the present Ihe proportion of persons so circum-; , 8 , stanced that wet feet are not injurious to m"th' "d het 1 rw,dfn W0"9 bW them, is very small indeed ; and it is on-1 ,he,U f the He says he has ly where the feet are hardened and fitted ! beD taMti ,Bt0 his PreCBl Mitnd9' J! by exercise, that it is ever safe to permit ,s cert,iB lBU TBierl' nd them to become or remain wet. To the ! otne?te, the PP" . .,; , ., . , ,. 1 mand his arrest and impeachment on the great proportion of the male population, i , . , , - , the women and children of our land, it is j 2d ,Bst ' ,nd wwe ImL9t ,B lhe f a matter of first importance that the feet mov,n8 ' ,he B,at,er' heB thc "nd, th"r be kept warm and dry; and especially I P?"1 fr'ends were C0B' that theyneverpern.it themselves tosit'VCed to where they were down, motionless, with feet In such a eon- i cl"' confinod- hen,?er .... , , , , ., , i of the Assembly have attempted to meet dition. As we before stated, while the ! . . , J , , , ,. ,, , . , J officially, they have been ordered to disperse blood is in active motion from exercise of : , J ... , , , , l- l ar..i. v . 1 and arrested if they refused. Iwo nun any kind which effects that object, there , , , , , , i-x.i j . ... . . . . dred members have been arrested. Many is little danger: but without that, there is , . , , , , , . 1 ,,, , ... . , had subsequently been released, but all immense loss of health and life created. ; . , , 1 , , .. . KT .- , , , , . ; the leaders of the Opposition were in pn- ant to men, women and children as per fectly water-proof shoes or boots : and with warm feet, lungs' inhaling pure air, and the blood manufacturing from a stom ach not overloaded with gross food, con- stant exercise and a clear conscience will guarantee to every healthy constitution a ; long life and a happy one. "Peck & Bliss, i'hilad., have pub-: lished a 20 cts. History of Kossuth and j the Hungarian War, embracing also a History of Hungary in general, and of : other officers distinguished in the late con test. It is apparently a candid compilation, i and increases our admiration of Kossuth and the Magyars. The rivalries and ha treds of many of the Generals, however, and the national and sectional antipathies of the Magyars and other tribes who should Troops have besn placed in the houses of make common cause in a contest with the ! ex-officers of the Assembly, who were gigantic nations which surround them, j exempted from arrest. Among others, serve rather to dampen our hopes of Hun- M. Dupin. The full rigor of martial gary's Independence. The fate of Poland, j law had been proclaimed against all par torn and convulsed and consumed by I sons concerned in erecting barricadea or internal broils and degradation of races, who maybe found at ihem, and a large seems more likely to be the fate of Hun- Dur be been shot up 'to Thursday franca 7 19 ! centimes to 66 el from Paris to Krichton. Cheltenham, Coe- entry, oior..tr. x.-w Market, .w- ! wirh. Oxford. Pnrlaraouth. Mouthanis- . . From Pur4 to Chest'T. Rlinhurir. fllaimw, H,.i,h.i, liwpo-i. Mnche,t. r, I y11'' N,ti'h"a ""flWd:(0 03 31 This additional facility for obtaining news, is seen in the Telegraphic despatches in this week's Chronicle. rI . Sun bcrt k Lkii Railroad. Amass , . . . . , meeting of the citnens of the City and ., . " .. . , ,. .,1V , county oi l onaaeipnia win oa ntiu iu iue saloon of the Chinese Museum, on Friday evening, January 2d, 1852, at 7 o'clock, to mature measure to secure the early eommencemeat and completion of the . ,0 ., , , , . ... v t i. . ..J connect Philadelphia with the Lakes, ana ... , - thus bring to oar commercial emporium a , .Z . i . hT lne immense trade of that vast in- , , , . i land country, now almost entirely monop- oW fc . f rf JaA . We h Union counfT wiU , . , be represented, postscript ! THE CAPITOL ON FIRE! A despatch dated Washington, Dec. 24, 8 o'clock and SO minutes A. M., reads I "The L Capitol is on lire, and burning rapidly. The scarcity of water will prob ably cause destruction of building." Piiiiad., Dec. 22, A. M. J , ... i fax, we have lntrlligenae from I'sriii to the evening of Thursday the 4th inst., which is full of the most exciting interest. The affairs of Franco have reached the long expected crisis the bubble Ropublic ' nM lant 0n M"Jy. Ui I-, i resident ljouia apoieon, scizea me reins of Government, dissolved the As sembly b) Proclamation, declared the City to be in a state of siege, arrested the leaders of the Opposition, ami appealed to the people. The preparations on the part of President for this movement, were per fected with considerable skill and secrecy. Everything was consummated before the Assembly had the least idea of the Presi dent's intention. During Monday night, an entire new Ministry was formed. At day light ou Tuesday morning, the Presi dent's proclamation was found posted everywhere thronghoat the city, in which . ' 6 ... he ordered the dispersion of the Assembly, the restoration of universal suffrage, and also proposing a new system of govern ment, lie proposes the i est art election by the people and army of a President, to Ileuses of the Legislature. Pending the election, the Executive power is to remain I .1 v l . r a. t : j A ptl. .1 the Assembly are said to have given in their adhesion to the President, and tele graphic despatches from the departments state that the President's demonstration has been bailed with the utmost enthusiasm. Subsequently, however, the report waa contradicted, and cn the strength of the contradiction numerous barricades were erected in different quarters of Paris, but were speedily broken down by Vho troops, At one of th!se. two Members of the As- semblr.occupvins trominent rdaccs amontf the populace, were killed in the conflict. On Thursday, a section of the Assembly continued to meet, and decreed the depo sition of the President and his impeach ment for high treason. The meeting, 'however, was .disnersed bv the troona. rrom ,o Frum Caris to Ifen-i, From Paris to London. rrom eri t. Rirmimrham. The advices from London on Friday, do not materially vary the prospects, but new elements were constantly arising. Five thousand troops had been fired upon from the Bou.'cvards, houses, Ac, and after a brisk contest the troops came off victorious. Strasburg and Rheims are re ported to have risen, but the report has not been confirmed. Gen. Castelland hud sent aid from Lyons to assist the President in carrying out his plans. Some other Gen eral had also fnt aid from other portions of France. One Lundred French refugees had left England for Paris. The morning papers have a despatch from Washington, on pretty good authori ty, stating that all or nearly all the Am bassadors of the European powers repre senting monarchies in the Old World, have had several consultations as to the proper course to be pursued in consequence of the projected public reception of Kos suth by the President and Congress on his arrival in that city, and that some go so far as to be favorable to a union with the Russian and Austriau ministers in a withdrawal from Washington and a threat to demand their passports, for the insult thereby given to their several governments. Even if this was true, what of it ? The only representative of a foreign despot who has denounced Kossuth, is the Pope's Arch bishop, Mr. Hughes. The steamer Georgia arrived at New York yesterday. She brings $3,000,000 in gold dust the largest amount ever bro't at one time. News not important. New Orleans, Dee. 19. We have ad vices from the city of Mexico to the 10th ult. A terrible storm Lad occurred at Mazatlan, doing immense damage to pro perty, and causing the loss rf many ves sels and lives. The Cholera ha-1 disap peared from the Iowgs along the coast. Five English vessels of w;ir had appeared off Vera Cruz, the abject of their visit not known. SIX DAYS LATER! N'tw York, Dec. 23, 5, P. M. The American steamship Baltic reached our dock at 4 P. M. to-day with Liverpool dates to the 10th inst. The latest accounts from Paris represent that all was comparatively quiet, both in that City and Departments, and Louis Na poleon remains omnipotent. A report prevailed that Prince de Joinville had gone to raise the standard of revolt iu Belgium. Several outbreaks were promptly repressed. Nobs & sXotionB. aV-l anything ynu man wntdr 1 news SEsrr trhut ana wm'd drpoe tf ete-Zlw sstof jmw wint to svjf- 0Phr leteif yt htr lat MmT' Ft mre rmpltrimtnt Sf-Ar aim wfosvn aWArfiKirr safes . ns hrlf ADVERTISE in tk " Ltvisbarf Chronicle." Leicester Peters, confined in the jail of Bradford county, charged with the murder of Edwin S. Pomeroy, by stubbing htm with a pocket knife, at Columbia X Roads, on the evening of the lOih of August last, and awaiting his trial at the present session of the Court, commit'ed suicide on Ihe 3-J inst., by severing the femiral artery in the left thigh, with a case knife. We are glad to see in the report of the Secretary of War that he propose to re mount two of thesis companies of Lighi Artillery, which were dismounted lasi spring on account of the failure of the ap propriation. We trunt that this will soon be accomplished, and that these two at least may soon be in their lormer state of discipline and usefulness. Albany, Dec. 14. The river is frozen over, and persons are crossing on the ice. An immense amount of produce is detained here in consequence. The bargo Indiana is frozen in the basin with ten tons of powder, destined for Baltimore. Mestrs. Hancock & Foley, have had, for sonw lime past, a Patent Revolving Dye in operation, for the manuiacture ol Rail Road Spikes, and are now making spikes fur the Central Rail Kuad, and also for the State Road, which are pronounced the best yet manufactured in this country. It is quite a novelty to see the machine in motion, and worth while a visit to the "Rough & Ready Iron Works," Danville. Among the fashionable novelties getting up in New York, for the holidays, are "French Crying Cables," that is dolls, that make a noi.e like an intant crying! There is no need of the tham article. Washington, Dec. 16. We learn thai Dr. Jackson ha sounded Mr. Clay's chest, and gives it as his opinion that repose and good nursing will soon put right gain Mr. Foote has announced that he will leave on Saturday next for Mississippi. Cleveland, Dec. 14. The weather is intensely cold here to-day, and navigation suspended. Louisville, De. 13. The Legislature of Kentucky, at Frankfort, jesterday, elected the Hon. John B. Thompson, Whig, 'J. S. Senator lor six yeurs, from the 4lb of March next, in place of Mr. Underwood. Baltimore, Dec. 14 The German Evangelical Church, corner of Eutaw and Camden streets, was destroyed by tire this morning, and also Ihe large lumber yard immediately adjoining. The loss will amount to about f '25,000, on which there was but a small insursnce. Dr.Mills, the dentist, who hsa been con fined in the Dauphin county prison for the last three jears, by sentence of the Court of Quarter Sessions for two attempts to procure abortion, has been discharged from confinement, the time having elapsed for which he was sentenced. It will be re membered that Ihe Supreme Court rever sed the judgme';; in the seduction case, with I.-, for him to he held for a new trial ; but it appears to have been consid ered best all round lo let him escape with the punishment he has already received, especially as his health appears to have been, somewhat affected. The Sunbury Gazette recommends to the detnocracy of Pennsylvania, the oi MaMr Gen. Wm. 11. Kate, for Commissioner. . . practical man, .J one who is every way qual.fied todh.r., the duties of said office. Ve have bn? acquainted with the General for a , 7 of years, and we confidently Uhev, ihTi our public works, under his care and tu pervision. would be economically nrtl (or. Besides, Old Northumberland has a claim on the Democracy ol Peonsvlvsnia. ior oer iniegriiy to the tfue democratic cause, and with such a man as Ihe General lo stand at our helm we feel proud in pre senting our claims." The New York Advor.te ha, fc0iSfed the name of Henry Clay for if p,lde cy, "subject lo the w.ll of the People What has become of the "Susquehanna River Ra lroad project of wb.ch we have heard so much said last summer T Ha it been filed away among the thin, that mere I or is it yet a living idea ? We aM that road, with Railroads on every aide of us; we are jetting as it were out of the world, and we are io-ting t arl every day Lt ua at least keep tit idea alive, it n ay at length come to something f Onion Star. It appears by the Chambersburg papers that Mr.. Lewis Deuig, mho committed sui. cide by drowning himself near that place, a short time since, and who was County Treasurer, is a defaulter to ihe county u, amount of from 2.500 lo 94,000. Some rascals have been quite boiity engaged in stealing Urrkies and chickens during the past week in our borough. We have just read an account of a fellow ho was pep;iered with buckshot near Harris, burg while in the very act of steabng rur kies. The nocturnal depredators of this place had better suspend operation, or they might meet with a similar reception; certain we know that sundry guns are well charted and waiting for thrm. Left. Madam Ford made her s'av among us quite brief. She wa well pa". tron:zed by the verdant of ihe (own, but the nofce in last werk's Standard inspired her wi'.h disut, and she lelt in a hurrv Ilol!i(!nvburg Siandard. Now it ihe time to take the papers. The long winter evening afford ample time for then perusal. Miss Camilla Scott, daughter of Gen. Scott, was married at Washington, on tbe 9;h, to Goold H'jj t. Esq , of New York. A subscription of 20X00 has been nUed in lhe $:a;e of Ohio for the purpose of erecting an Agricultural College. The editor of the Carli.Ve Democrat ia about to commence the p.olicanon o( a biack list. Don't believe it will do any good. Buyer. A man who ia mean enough to refuse lo pay for his paper, isju-i mean enough lo co'irt the md of notoriety such a I uiiiiciiti'iii uld give linn. Thousands oi triurned t'aliforniaos will prohauly recollect I tie firm of Priest, Lee &. Co. at tfaciamenio. They established one of lhe first trading houses at thai place, belore ihe town was laid out. Two year ago the firm became embarrassed in con sequence of heavy losses. At l hat time Barton Ler, one of tbe partners, was the wealthiest mi.n in Sacrarr.entu, his proper ty b-ii.2 esimad at $1,500,001). The Sacramento 1 r.mscnp: says that Mr. Lee is engaged as a house carpeuier at the Sandwich islands. In the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, lately, a woman tecovered $1 400 of the city of Lowell, lor damages sustained by falling, in consequence of the slippery siaie of the side walk. t'ol. H. R Wright, or Wilkeslarre, is at Washington preparing to contest the seat of Hon. Henry M. Fuller. A Thanksgiving Gift. The wife of Mr. Wm. Mitchell, of Falmouth. Me., pre sented to hsr husband on Thanksgiving day three children two sons and oae daughter. The mother and children are doing well. Standing water is unwholesome, so is a standing debt. Mr. Clay first took his seat in the Sen ate lorty-tive vears auo. MROAl Ma second appearance there was in 1810- He served but one term in each body, and after 1910, begun his career in the House of Representatives. An old lady in Mercer county Fa., ia the mother of two Governors. Her name is Mrs. Bigter. Everything worthy of a name, from a baby to a steam vessel, is now named after the great Hungarian, Kossuth. Washington, Dec. 17. It is understood the Hon. Henry Clay sent his resignation, to the Kentucky Legislature, yesterday. Baltimore, Dec. 19. The House of Mr. Seikes, situated a few miles fiom ibis city. was burnt on Wednesday evening, and his wife and daughter perished in the flames. They are supposed lo have been previously murdered, as two suspicious persons were seen to leave tbe premises jusl previous te the breaking out of the fire. Much excite ment prevails in the vicinity of the occur rence. The First Presbyterian Church of Elizs bethtown, New Jersey, which wss built during the Revolutionary War. is beisg entirely remodelled. A. W. S.Howay and C. C. Northap,tw genteel looking young men, have bees arrested in lloton, charged with swindling boarding bouse keepers. The CooperstowD (N. Y.) Joornsf hss raised the (lag of the Hon. William L Marcy for the Presidency. Mrs.Marv Shearer.wifeof John Shearer, living near York, Pa., wae burneJ death, a few days ago, by her clothes tak ing fire. Gen. Wool has been nossieaied for the Presidency by a meeting at Troy. The Montgomery county papers pnbhsa the proceedings of a meeting of the -mocracy of that county, in relation duties on iron. The resolutions fcsw modification of the prefsnl tanfl, not as principle, bul in detail. December has been psetty eo.d lb nd olmott brought oa derghinfr
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