LEWISBUKG CHRONICLE & WEST BRANCH FARMER.
tj'niy hi the face that I held my breath .
with, fear. Sho saw it; mod, clasping j
lor bosom, she turned her face toward '
From th PennTTnia Farm Joonuu.
Influence of the Boon.
It has been written that Error is in all
heaven, with all her passions working into cases a worse enemy to Science than Igno-
prajer in it, till it grew grand, aud almost ranee; and as the Journal justly claims to
beautiful. I see her face now ; I could be an adrocate of Truth and Knowledge,
paint it at a dash, if I were a painter ; I you will indulge me in a few brief hits at
could stick it in the mist here as plain and one of the most obvious popular delusions
palpable as life. Wherever 1 look, I see of the times. There is no error too absurd
it ; it repeats itself, like masks in a fany to be combatted, nor too insignificant to bo
dance, wherever my eye turns. The pearly ! overthrown.
tear that glistens so gricefully in her eye It was once almost universally believed
wss opon dutv, looking like a rain-drop and still credited by many, that the Moon,
upon a leaf with the sun Llasing on it, . not content with her proper and pre-or(krcd
all but the innocenoy. An itnpressivo J functions, keeps watch upon the Earth for
moment she stood, wrapt in a seeming ag- the purpose cf regulating the growth of
ony of supplication ; then the face came cabbage and other matter of equal or even
expejfii
FOREIGN
NEWS.
down again from its high pitch to the tono
of pity. She hesitated; admirably the
hesitation was done; she trembled, the
6aint sank in the woman ; she Lout her
greater importance. These things she is
supposed to effect by her changes.
As mere sciolists, standing at the thres
hold of the Temple, let us humbly inquire
head upon my shoulders, and soiled out J what these changes are. It is taught by
till I shuddered. Then 6he roused her-! the vast eoience of Astronomy, that since
self, dashed the tears out of her eyes, and j the first dawn of creation, the Moon har
spoke quick, and almost passionately :
titer changed ; that she has looked down
"'Brother Ashleigh, the Doctor urged 0n the transient and varying fortunes of
this engagement: housed ail his art of mankind, with the same unpitying faoe
persuasion, all his power, upon your noble j " since the morning stars first sang togeth
cor.iidcncc; and he abused your trust, i er for joy." No man ever has seen, and
Tt'hile he seemed only to answer your no man ever shall see, but one half of her
wishes, Le in fact started them in your surface and that for ever the Mine ha!.
fellings. I know it must have been so, or Thus she rolls on, in her boundless path-
you could not hare been so horribly do- j way, equi-distant, undiminished and un-
ceived.'" i changeable.
"Well?" said I, turning my horso Cut she doe change, says the untutored
square acrrss tlia road, and clutching him observer of the heavens. Sometimes si
10
I is full, sometimes half, sometimes quarter,
r v f rirt art it
"Well, then she dropped her he-id ajriu, ' and sometimes not at all. No, Sir ! She
and fi'va:.'! really convulsed with grief. ; ia elways, and ever Ehall be, till the
Tier tears rained upon my shoulder, and ' Power that created, shall ancreate. Though
p' or, pipr, runic J cousin ! r:y good I the Moon presents always the same face to
'Mv ;
angel cc.:-:': ! my heart's sister !' seemed i the Earth, she permits the Sun to shine
to wrench her very life out in thu utter-1 on every side of her, by turns. And as
ance. A rennient's silence, a strong shud-1 the Sun can illumine but one half at a
der, and it came. Turning quickiy from time, it follows that we do not always be
Interesting News.
. New York, Jan. 2. The Cunard steam
ship Africa, arrived at this port this
morning, from Liverpool direct, having
sailed thence on the 20th of December,
and bringing advices one week later than
the last received.
SPAIN.
By this arrival we have the gratifying
news that the Queen of Spain has yield
ed to the petitions from America, and has
pardoned all the prisoners captured in
Cuba during the lute ill fated expedition
against that island.
The 3Iadrid Gazette publishes the cor
respondence between Secretary Webster
and Calderon De La Barca, the Spanish
Minister at Washington, in reference to
the Lopez prisoners, and adds that " Her
Majesty, desirous to give the American
President and Government a testimony of
her friendly disposition, has thought fit,
by a spontaneous act of the Koyal clemen
cy, to pardon all the prisoners engaged in
the late expedition apainsf Cuba ; that
her Majesty considers it an event of the
highest importance for both countries, that
the negotiation relative to rare subjects,
have terminated iu so satisfactory a man
ner, that she fully approves of the con
duct of her Minister at Washington, and
concedes him the Grand Cross of Charles
the Third. "
Sonor Labordo, the fugitive Spanish
Consul from New Orleans, was to leavo
on the 10th ult., for Havana, and thence
in a ship of war forXew Orleans.
FRANCE.
All is quiet iu France now, the Presi
dent, with the army at his back, having
completely succeeded thus far ia his usur
me, ehe st-M droopipgly, while sho said. ( hold the " lighted" portion of her, or the J pation. The attention of the public was
in the doefst tones of grief and shame : j whole of it. This makes the apparent chiefly directed towards the forthcoming
Her beauty led him into sin, and he m.ut
find simo one to marry her, for he was
himself tnjaged, and could not ; an J, with
a bound, she dashed down the hillside, and
was hid from me in the thicket."
"Ashleigh!"
" Doctor!"
I believe I did up as much hard swear
ing as might serve a pirale for a voyage,
difference in her surface. Yet she is all ! election, when Louis Napoleon would,
there, and for ever full, to him who could
choose the point of his observations.
' We bear men of sense, and occasionally
without doubt, be elected, though not with
out considerable opposition. The result
of the election would not be known before
learned men, speak of the next change of j the libth or 29 th of December. At the
Moon, and prophecy " a spell of weather "! latest accounts the Departments and all
or something else as a consequence. Wlien
dors if change ? (I allude to its apparent
mutations.) Does it jump suddenly from
in the next thirty seconds. I saw the one quarter to anothor ? Or does it vary
wretch's picture now as plainly as Ash- j aSi much one instant as another, gradually,
leigh did, awhile before, and there seemed i cc.nftavily, and eternally ? Most nndoubt
to me but one word in English profane J edly th" latter. Then how can its varia
enough to name it by, that word was ; tions aff.'et the weather, the garden-truck,
It was an oath to me fur years 'the fence-rails, the shinjrles on the roof.
the inauure on the grass, the apples in the
cellar, the dinner in the jiot, and multifa
rious other little things, more yesterday
than to-morrow?
A believer in "signs" is always satis
fiVd, if they hold good once in two cr three
t:uies ; w hereas, there should be no varia
tions, if thsy be, in reality, laws of Na
ture. For laws of Nature are imperative
and inevitable, and whosoever outrages
-? .1 v .11 nr .1 i.
I ulih ei mem suaii suner me penally
j pre-ordt red by the Great Creator. Yet
; there laws of moonshine are verified or
; fail, alternately. They could not reason-
Nancr.
after.
When I looked round next my friend
was just in Eight. I waited for him, and
when ho joined me, he was bumming a
hymn tune, long metre, very solemnly.
" Have you any mora refreshing enter-
tainmcnt for me, Mr. Ashleigh ?" said 1 ; 1
"there is a relish about -that last tit-bit
that gives me an appetite. Why, what a '
gem of a gipsy we have among us ! That .
girl ought not to be thrown away upon
trifles ; she is fit to plot for a kingdom.
Among the fools and scoundrels of the
great world, she would make a figure.
t I . .! ... . mmt-.m . h. . . . . I. . .. . I i
... ti ,uuu.ui,uJji
I'm curious."
tainkiDg of any kind for au bour. Mv! . ? J ,
But says the man of "signs," the Moon
affects tLe tides, and therefore it must in-
and sour-
.1...
1 , . ...... i.u'ufc. Ainu 19 IUQ Hir( VI luirii.1, v,v
.nl Rto.-rl fiMll. lil-n f"" U-vtatnmtpstceaiiTicrvaamiTCOWCTOtliUna
passed the night in a very quiet sort of moat.tub, cr0ut-barrcK and cream-
. . . i
stupor. I he mero meeiiamsm oi me
mind carries on one's lifo pretty well,
you know ; and, in the moruing, I sim
ply told Elizabeth that Nancy mast not
be invited to our wedding. That was all.
And I never said a word about it t her
till last week, when she urged me for lay
reason for the request."
"And what did Elizaboth say, Ash
loigh, after you told her ? "
" She held her breath till my story was
finished, and sat astonished and speech
less till I left her to recover herself. An
bour after she came to me and said :
" George, I have poured out my thanks
to Heaven, and come to bless you, that
you did r.ot in any manner mention this to
nic before our marriage; fori never could
have fulfilled my engagement with you,
with that horrible pit opened up between
us. Aain the promise is fulfilled to sue,
" Upcn all thy glory there shall be a
deicuce."
TLj solution is easy. Nancy had
pots. Beciuse Dr. Quack-Donkey's Magi
cal Pain Extractor will draw a bile to a
I head, it dors not necessarily follow that it
can draw a load of wood, equal to a yoke
of oxen jet the one sequence is about
as rational as the other. By a great na
tural law, called gravitation, the Moon and
Sun attract the waters of the earth in a
different degree, according to their posi
tions, with a certainty that would admit
perhaps of mathematical calculation for
millions of ages into the Future. And
with equal certainty and precision, would
every other real influence be left.
Two years ago, I hired a man to gather
apples. Ho very gravely assured me they
would rot in a short time, if taken then,
because it was the wrong sign. I requested
him to procesd with his work as diligent
ly as possible, that tho apples might all be
picked, before the aign came right. In
spite of my skeptical audacity, they lasted
longer and better thau I ever knew them
to last before. What a most incontroverti-
wikc-L'i un with a surprise, to find the
liev-r ad Mr. Ashleigh, a splendid prea- b!e proof of the "sign," if somebody else
eher,i TCr.'-::iau of rank and fortune, in I had gathered their apples at the same time,
love Tvith I.-..- ;
to Nncv, tiut
a s: irit. . s, d."
hir avkiuti:!:'.'
t)i i.TtiJT .I--! t
i r cousin . poor in abense,
:.k all the pity out of it;
!: Lcuty, unconscious of
: .u thu uiaruet, and sta-s;ioac-j,
sacrifice, anl du
ty. To i.'j i;;iiiirm:aed,aiid, in some soue,
d Nf;:nd;d, hy so simple a sheep of the
fl'.;-k, was almost incredible, but it was
not the less certain. And counting upon
Mr. Ashlcigh's softness, by the mxae rule
which had already misjudged Elizabeth,
her plot was adjusted, with great skill to
the case, and as well executed.
But, the devil would be only a fool in
heaven, and would fail to ui&ke the angels
misunderstand each other, whatever other
succeM his villanies might meet with ; for
the faith of a pure heart " tries the
spirits," and discerns vital truth by its
own instincts.
Ki fetcr-bur;-, Ya., hlave hire is exorbi
tantly l"gh feuiuks commauding from
tiO to 950, and malts from $100 to $150.
aiid loft them !
If a certain quarter must produce rain
or scow, or clear weather, as unavoidable
result, why docs not one sort of weather
pervade the whole earth at the same time ?
For certainly, at the same instant, a sign
of the Moon will prevail equally iu Terra
del Fuego, and in Kamsebatka, in Green
land and in Borneo. And as these quar
ters must occur within seven days of each
other, no "spell of weather" can com
mence mora than three and a half days
from any chanae. And I know, Sir, be
lievers aie willing to conclude even greater
vaiiitiuus.
When we reflect that the Globe we in
habit is but an atom a grain of dust in
the stnpeudous systems of which it is a
portion, wc shall be forced to believe, that
the va.-a and infinite worlds that surround
us have more important functions than
the control of the humbU destinies of
Eurlh and her feeble children.
Davld Tagcaei,
Franco were represented to be in a state
of the utmost tranquility. It is fully be
lieved that Russia and Prussia are strain
ing every nerve to sustain Louis Napoleon
in his usurpation. Appearances indicate
that Louis Napoleon's majority would be
greater than it was iu 1S48. A majority
of the garrison of Metz had voted against
Louis Napoleon, as had also the students
of the Ecole Polytechnique, among them
the Prince de Polignac.
The President had a grand levee at the
Elysee, on the 17th of December, at which
all the Foreign Ministers were present, ex
cept the American.
The President takes an active part in
the preparation of the New Constitution.
The Consultative Commission had nearly
determined upon the leading points.
Gen. Cavaignac has been offered his
liberty, but ho refused to leave his prison
unless his fellow prisoners could do the
same, so he remains in confinement, the
severe restriction which he and the other
prisoners at first suffered, having been in
a measure relaxed. They now dine and !
exercise together.
Victor Huco had successfully escaped
m i. , aatO CM S 1MB
been ordered.
The government has declared 34 out of
the 6G departments in a state of siege, on
account of disaffection. Yet the govern
ment reports the news from the depart
ments as favorable.
It is affirmed that the total number of
Frenchmen killed in Paris and the depart
ment in carrying out Napoleon'scot. d'etaf,
are not less than 2000.
The French papers contain accounts of
open insurrection in the several depart
raents, attended with considerable loss of
lives. Ia one case' the the insurgents
numbered 1600, and in another C000, but
they were overpowered, aud CO or 70 in
surgents killed in one engagement.
Louis Napoleon has ordered an expendi
ture of 2,000,000 francs for the purchase
and demolition of houses situated between
the Louvre and the Tuillerics, and levelling
the ground between the two places.
Mr. Rives, the American Minister, con
tinues to show the disapprobation of our
Government at Louis Napoleon's conduct,
by not attending his receptions. He is
the only diplomat who absents himself.
ENGLAND.
The London papers have voluminous
comments on President Fillmore's annual
message to Congress, mainly in opposition
and ridicule of his view in favor of a Pro
tective Tariff. His arguments on this
subject are unfavorably contrasted with
those of Hon. Robert J. Walker, who is
still continuing to advocate Free Trade in
England.
The returns of the Bank of England
show an increase of more than half a mil
lion sterling in the circulation of notes as
compared with the corresponding period
last year. The bullion held at the begin
ning of December was upwards of sixteen
millions sterling.
The yacht America purchased last sum
mer by Lord Blaquiere, for four thousand
guineas, is reported to have so much fallen
in his lordship's estimation, that that gal
lant officer would not refuse an offer of!
The next expedition to the Arctie re
gions, in isaZJin search of Sir John
Franklin, and tie missing crews of the
Erebus and Terr, discovery ships, will
be made aa efficient as possible.
In addition, She Pioneer and Intrepid,
employed in the recent expedition, the
Phoenix, a much larger steamer of 260
horse power, has been ordered to be fitted
out for the Polar Seas.
ATTSTRfA.
... . a TttTEHTTZT! '.
A lot Of prisoners from Hungary, men f mrw.Cityuil Country Merchant, Manufacturer
and women, were brought to lenna on j r,y,hin!t-w.uM do wn hit. of th.
Imshtrg Cjirnnitle.
H. O. HICZOK, Editor. O. H. WOKDEW , FrinMr.
Atil,Mtabina.lTanc, $1,7 In threa month, 2pi
within tba year, and $2,50 at the and of the yt.
Agent ia Philadelphia V B Palmer and K W Carr.
IsCtrisbitrff, Ma,
Wednesday, January 7, 1852.
-Fjerutcm, Administrator!", Public
the 10th ult. They included Kossuth's
sisters and some Hungarian nobles. Aus
tria cherishes the idea of striking a severe
blow against the commerce of England,
apparently hoping to unite the chief con
tinental countries in a prohibitive system.
In Austria and Hungary discontent is
hourly increasing.
At Yienna great anxiety is felt for news
from the United States, respecting the re
ception of Kossuth.
In Germany the press is forbidden to
record thu events which occur iu France,
in a manner adverse to M. Bonaparte.
ITALY.
There is increased uneasiness in diplo
matic quarters respecting the movements
of Austrian troopi near the Po, who have
order to advance upon Home. It is also
said that Prince Schwartzenburg asks the
Sardinian government to receive an Aus
trian garrison in a Piedmontese fortress.
INDIA.
The overland mail has arrived with dates
from Bombay to the 16th November.
Dost Mahomed was flying, and Sir C,
tl.roiiL-h the Lr.wubura 0iroiiclc." TllK ipr hM
a suod and increaAin circulation In a community mutai
niug aa large a proportion of actirc, aolvcnt producer,
onaumera, and dealer, aw any other in the State.
aAn enthusiastic meeting, imposing
in numbers and character, was held in
Philadelphia on Saturday lart, to deriw way and naana
to farniah anbatantial aid to llunary. Jndge Kane, of
the U. 8. BtrW Court, presided, and on taking the chair
made a apeech of remarkable point and eloquence, eauts-
We see in a Southern paper, that Hardy
Louis Muller, a freo man of color, sen
tenced to death at New Orleans, for iho
murder of another free negro, soon after
hia conviction, attempted suicide, and cut
himsell Iriuhilutlv. II niml nt k..
We continue to furnish the Chronicle,
and either
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for one year, for 83,50, Cash in advance.
A single copy of either Magaz;ne is S3.
JrirThe Third of the Lewisburg Course
of Lectures will be delivered in the meet
ing house of the Baptist Church on
Tuesday cveuius next. Subject, " Chiv
alry."
B?"The Illinois Whig State Convention
I have appointed Delegates to the National
Convention, and instructed them to vote
as a unit. A correspondent of the N. Y.
Tribune, says the Delegates are all for
Scott.
Jg?Tbe ice on the West Branch broke
up on Thursday morning last, and on
the North Branch at Danville about noon.
j A large amount of loose loj", and other
; lumber has passed down the West Branch,
' , , , v.-- -Ko hd lfcd th. 1 . -- ..owaswu
'rlbbrpuiaV V y daily, in the fear
Kouuth; and proin by aquotation from an edition of Ol bein Hung, Until week before last ,W hen
Vattei' taw of Nation, ninety two year, old, that inter- he died, in consequence of disease produced
national law Jutine more than Kowuth nek, and that oy ,ne a?.on, f,e endured lentjl.na Ki
.omplianc. with hi, r-.ue.t can no, gi Ju,, oau- of j offendere,!
oSc-nce to any government; and even if it dkl, there ia . . "w twgro
noaafctyin o.warJlc." A Irtter from Koaauth wa read; i girl, a Iave, sentenced (O death for the
and ipeeebe were mad by CoL Win. p. small, br. EMer, , murder of her father, on a plantation be-
andotber. Strong rcauluUon. were aylopUand efieicnt i (W fiew O.lean. is now in 8Ucfl terrible
rrangnu to ure auUtaaU! -a.i and conru
for Koasuth and bw earn. (! i "u0'" "
Similar mating hai al been held in narrUkurjr, will (lie belore many week.
Pottsrille, I'ituton, and other piwa, with aalutary aud I - , .
er.ic.able rcttlu. Tu mordent, are in cb.rinS John ton i.fficml trrrrl Will expire
contrast to the conrw of the Uoiueof RaprenUUv at , on the third Tll'xfnv, (ihe imh) of J inu
Wafhinston.wbigb baa not yat found uffldent patriotism . ary next. Je ttj ,lttc l'ltlshurif lirs fu-
. i :t ;..,. nf . rr, : J B
uu p,,-.,. - -- ; lur. rtuvnee.
tious minority to pan the resolution inviting hntsutn i
Sir. Liny s hwlih h snd to be rapidly
filling, lie WH8 murh www on U'etlnea
oSy and Thursday- O i Thundav Gov.
Kostulli, BCeotnp: ni'"d oy (irn. Cass, ea'Ied
to the Capital. Pot one, the Senate ha proved to Le tho
truest exponent of the popular acntimtnt
We
i I
cuiinpiou , - , . jeL , .
J0Who'll defend the Moon?
will welcome to our columns
rif tlia mwer fif tlip Afrvin in retilatinT
agricultural and other operations supposed w'" "'.n- wier"r "
c it - i t x. Hev. JitiM ltiwin, of Mount Carniel, III ,
iu uu ui-ucu V) ..-SBa - : j, ; KrFKt ,j,rr on Blount ol the at.
' v.rnoAilino imlumM rrTjre(! tlin wav. If. . i t r? :.. r v- .
t -- f j- - , h'ui -c (i tier will, l - rii; uuwru. iti i.
he is correct in his opinion, some of our J dings can be heard from hirn, aHhuuh
people waste much time and take unncccs- friends have Itf-en writteo to in ail tiirec
sary pains and trouble. ' os"- Hi po"r mother, now on the bor-
. tiers of the grave, would lie jjwttly r(..
tfOSome papers are busy manufacturing ; heved to hear Irom him. Mos' of his ref.i
OfEcers for Gov.Bigler, but whether he w ill : lives think him deceased. Newspaper
compensate them fur their trouble remains generally please copy
Campbell's forces on the frontier had taken I causing great losses to lumberman on Pine
MivLuu, and driven the enemy to the
bills.
Later from France.
The Atlantic reached New York on the
4:h iust.
LreeK, ivettle Lreefc, ana elsewhere. .Sev
eral boats were carried down the North
ISrauch.
Errata. In tho article of P. Q. in
our last, two errors occurred, which those
TKn ..Wt;nr.as.iir.1ir rJoA ,w V. i interested will v lease correct. In the
- . . f...... - - - j
poleon's troops-had passed off without : paragraph second before the "Perpetual
auy outbreaks, and at Paris, up to Monday
2i!d ult., the returns wero for Louis Napo
leon 2,000,000 opposed to him, 600,000.
It was thought Louis Napoleon's majority
would be 7,000,000 1
The despotic powers are not all so cordial
in their greetings of the new Usurper, as
it was anticipated they would be.
The Railroad Sleeting.
A meeting of the citizens was held last
evening at the Chinese Museum, to provide
measures for the construction of a railroad
to connect Philadelphia with the Lakes.
Gen. George Cadwalader was chosen
President, and forty-two Yice-Presidents,
and fourteen Secretaries, were appointed.
The following preamble and resolutions
were adopted :
Whereas, The trade of the great Lakes,
at present equal to the whole foreign com
merce of the United States, is destined,
from the vast, luxuriant, and improving
countries which are drained by their wa
ters, to constant and indefinite enlarge
ment :
And, whereas, A line of Railways from
Philadelphia, through the State of Penn
sylvania to the city of Erie, would combine
the shortest possible route from the Lakes
to the Atlantic, with the best and most
capacious rV --
and enable this metropolis to appropriate
the chief portion of the opulent trade
wntcn lies westward rrom the pvr vt Erie :
And, whereas, the highest inducements
are offered for the extension of existing
railways to Lake Erie, in the cheapness of
such an undertaking, and the munificent
wealth of those portions of our State,
through which it will pass ;
And, whereas, a Company is organized,
under a Charter which authorises a rail
way from Sunbury to Erie, and the strong
est reasons exist, with reference to the trade
from the West, the trade from the Lakes,
and the trade from the iutcrmcdiate re
gion, for prompt and efficient action ;
And, whereas, a continuous chain of
railways to Lake Eric, can be secured by
the expenditure of six millions of dollars,
of which at least one-third is pledged, and
win no aouot oe subscribed along tne line
of the Road and in the county of Erie ;
therefore,
Resolved, That this meeting urgently
recommend to the citizens of Philadelphia
to make subscriptions to the stock of the
Sunbury and Erio Railroad Company, to
such an amount as will enable the corpora
tion to place the work under contract with
out delay, so as to complete a railway con
nexion from this city to Lake Erie, within
the shortest possible period.
Resolved, That a Committee of 300 be
appointed by the Chairman of this meet- I
iug, to procure the necessary subscriptions
frein persons and corporations in the city
and county of Philadelphia.
Resolved, That this meeting recommend
to the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Compa
ny the procurement of a law which will
authorize them to pay interest on subscrip
tions, and charge the same to the cost of
construction, until so much of the road be
finished and in use as will justify the dee
laration of dividends- from the profits
thereof. Philad. Sun, Jan. 3.
Almanac" table, in the sentence, "Thus if
a year commences on Sunday, and be a
common year, its Dominical letter, will be
iV," tho word -1 should take the place of
V. And in the secoud line before the
Almanac, "read any day of any month"
; &c, instead of "and day."
JtsJ-Lewisburg is not wont to claim
any fame iu the matter of enormous swine
nevertheless, ?ir. uirton had one
slaughtered on' New Year's day, which
weighed 592 lbe. The "procession"whieh
accompained the idol of the honr from his
abode to the place of execution, was the
most solemn and numerous we have seen
for some time ; and so intent were the
masses in gazing on the sausages in pers
pective, and in guessing the amount of
clean fat and bones waddling before them,
that for the nonce ladies and other pedes
trians were all compelled to clear the way
for a big hog and its sattclites.
Scn.Toseph J. Lewis, Esq., one of the
counsel engaged in the recent trial for
treason in Philadelphia, delivered a lecture
in West Chester a few days ago, in review
of the incidents, evidence, &c, connected
ttilu i lie mat. iiv liusuu vtibu bu aiu-
ination of some of the provisions of the
Fugitive Slave Law, maintaining that
orcemen aws oi
tho land, the Fugitive Slave Law imposes
uo penalty upoa tlioao who refuse to assist
in the reclamation ot fugitive slaves. Ho
deprecated agitation on this question said
it was productive of no good, ic.
ISF"Mr. A. Cummings, of Lcwisburg,
is now the Agent, fur the counties of
Union, Northumberland, Montour, Col
umbia, Lycoming, Clinton and Centre, of
the " Mechanics' Union Association,''
whose objeet and mode of reaching it are
stated in their advertisement in the last
coluniu of page fourth of this paper. There
arc between 50 and 00 patrons of the
Association in this town, one of whom has
drawn 85 per week when laid by with
sickness, and another is now in the receipt
of 2 per week. The plan has this ad
vantage over secret benevolent associations
there are no unnecessary expenditures
about it, and each member shares in the
profits of tho Association (which were over
S200O the past month.)
to be seen. We are inclined to think that
Col. William Biglcr, and not the Editor
cf any Bunkum Democratic Illuminator,
will be the Governor of Pennsylvania.
JiA N. E. snow storm commenced at
3 yesterday morning, and continued uui
last evening. The snow is near 15 in.
deep, with good prospects fur sleighing.
OciT" We are muck disappointed by fail
ing to get news from llarrisburg yesterday.
Two apprentice ran away from the ser
vice nf J.ihn Uussell, file? manufacturer at
Sing Sinir- They escaped into Connecti
cut, ntid Mr. R isell brought a complain
hef ire Commissioner Inoersoll for their
'return'' under the fugi'ive slave law. lie
f., ' proved that their servici-s were due him,
'l . : i ...i : a .u i
plied. They rre accordingly surren
dered. A!b. Jour.
D'-tih of Jenny Lind's M ither. Thi
sad in'eiligerce tns received bv the ("arm-
.i r u . .i o i u?t. 1 tie consequence w, mat jiiss ijinu
Ihe fault was not in the cusqueuanua but i . .
........... . vull r.i.l oive her conteini-I.Ved ene nl
n the I bULn j ruree concert m New York.bol hnsten,
KirOver 100 Members of Congress I by the next steamer, fur her now desolate
t i : .1 ... :.. U'.... home
uave juiueu iu uu juuvcuieui. iu
;ivc Kos
suth a Congressional Diuuer, which is to
be enjoyed to-day.
For the Ltwisborg Chronicle.
Assweb to Enigma, in lust Curumctu
Kep in at night. R.
Historical Enigma.
I am conja-e. of Z3 l tier.
My 1 19 10 7 was an early King of R.rr.e.
My 19 1 3 19 21 a an Indian Cliirtlain.
My 3 12 11 23 16 a. a H.iman I'onaul.
My 33 a !ia 13 IU -4 1J..W
.My 15 19 20 4 was a ole!'ra:eJ l'hykiari.
My 14 10 IS 2 wa a Kin? in Uriel.
.My 10 12 6 1 1 a 10 9 1 12. tue.Muwof tragedy.
My 11 4 6 2 U "as a King ol Mmednii.
My whole is one of the Sovereigns of Europe.
C. V.
News anD Notions.
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9fh'ir WhU jfou would lin J
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The Lafayette (Indiana) Journal learns
by a letter from a commercial house in
Toledo (in Ohio) that there is now in
store in that port about 125,000 bushels
KortLuniberlani!, Dec.
of wheat, and 50.000 bushels of corn.
three thousand guineas for her. She is At Sandusky and Cleveland, there is in
ltRecent intelligence from California
indicates no change in the gold market,
except the usual suspension of operations
on aecount of cold weather, which had
driven mmy from the mines. More at
tention was paid to agricultural and travel
ing improvements. The U higsand Dem
ocrats were marshalling for tho Presiden
tial election. 1 1 Hand Hall, one af the
Commissioners of Land Titles, had arrived.
It? A young gontleman now in Paris,
writes to his father who resides in this vil-
Iage,that he has found but one person who
disapproves the late acts of Louis Napoleon
The people dreaded a sanguinary struggle
between the President and the Assembly,
and are glad of peace and security, on al
most any terms. He states that the city
is perfectly tranquil, and business of all
kinds proceeding uninterrupted.
The Erie Rail Koad Company have de
clared a stock dividend of lour per cent lor
ihesix month ending the 31st ol Dec.
Archibald Dixon w.ib elected U. S. Sen
ator, on Tuesday last, in place of Hon.
Henry Clay, resigued. The seventh and
last ballot stood : Dixon "1 ; Gutiirie.49 ;
scatierinj:, 5. Mr. Dixon is the late de
leated tVhig Candidate fur Governor.
visited the town of Dover, after the coiiT
pletion of the submarine telegraph, he was
saluted hy the discharge ol a thirty-two
pound Jinn, which was tired by a spark
communicated from the magnetic batterv
at Calais.
Death of Marshal Soult. This venera
ble man, who commenced his militarv
career in 1785, when he was but 18 years
old, died on the 20:h of November, at the
advanced age of 82 years.
At the session of the Court of Common
Picas in Dedham, (Mass.,) District Attor
ney Wilkinson made a presentment from
the Grand Jury, of three witnesses named
Thomas Megue, Charles Fisher and and
Joseph Burk, summoned to testily on a
liquor case in Canton. W hen questioned
by the Grand Jury they gave evasive an
swers. To an inouirv as to what kind nf
liquors he bought at the ahop in question,
one witness replied that he had called it
"camphene." The Court gave them a
reprimand, fined them 10 and costs, and
ordered that their witue.-s fees be not al
lowed. At Chapel Till, (X. C), according to
the American Almanac, there was but 39
We learn thnt the cars on the Water
town V R une Railroad have been last for
some iias, and the tond has not beer
bruken out. At Pierponi Manor, cars nh
ca'.lle have been detained and ihty can't
l'c on. The nw from Pulaski, down to
Wa'eriown and Ojidensbnrj, is frmn three
to four f el on a level. It will average a
loot here, and it has been falling all day.
The cars eontnue to run with great
nrtiuiptness. Oswego Journal.
rVrw f-afrciso f'tv tfoiiKD. The Bos
ton HeruIJ ajys that a large number or
ihr-ir citizens "uere regaled on Saturday
afternoon with tiie spectacle of some fifteen
or twenty young ladies in the Bloomer
cos'ume skating on Back Bay. The ladies
proved tnenr.selves to be most excellent and
graeeiul skaters, not one f them catching
a fall.
The telegraph suit so long pending be
tween Messrs. Morse and Bain has at
length been brought to a final settlement
by ihe latter disposing to Morse his entire
right for the sum of 33,000, to be paid ia
lock of the Morse Company Boston
Post.
Galusha A. Grow, successor of Mr.
Wilmot, is said to be the youngest Member
in Congress, being only 2? years of age.
Ri'evon years ago he quit raiting down the
Tunkhannock creek and hunting in the
hills ol Lenox (the Berks of Susquehanna
comity; and entered Amherst College,
w here he won a good position. He subse-
VnutMirtfonle itfd& Viy HRkr
an a compromise randidate.upon whom the
party could and did unite. Mr. Grow ia
a man of promising abilities, but not of a
strong physical constitution.
The first commencement for conferring
degrees in the "Female Medica! College.of
Pa..'' look place at the Musical Fund Hall,
i niiadeiphia, on i uesday, the 30tb ult.
The editor ol Ihe Evening Bulletin says ;
'We understand that a class of about forty
has been in attendance upon ihe lectures
of this flourishing instiiution, snd that
eight ladies will receive the degree of M.
D., at the ensuing commencement.''
JuJije King, Judge Parsons, Jude
Campbell, Judje Findley and Jude Chan
man have all opened offices in Philadelphia,
and commenced the practice of law again.
Judge Bell has resumed the law practice
in v est Chester.
Two thousand gal'ons of Yankee rurr
and hall a pint of brandy was spilled in
the sewer, on the corner of JIain and Mill
town streets-, at Calais, Me., on Tuesday r
in Ihe presence of a multitude oi persona.
Mr. John Peck, of Weakley countv,
Tenn., was murdered on ihe l?ih ult.. by
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the rest (3261 being r'ecorded as -cloudv.'' ,' " C h'a laves' who "ere e'. "
There is probably no other locality in the j S!ied hov"'S n.ined the deed.
Union, or in Europe, whert; there are so ''he store of John Kennedy, of Lewis-
many cloudy days. There were 1 94 j 'own, was entered on Sunday night weak,,
clear days according to the same work, at J"" rifled of a number of valuable papers.
Green Lake, Wisconsin, in 1950- At''ne burghirs bored a hole through the
Cincinnati, in 1850, we had 143 clear ! shutter, and with ihe aid of gome instru
days, 171 variable, 51 cloudy, which is j n'"nt, supposed to have been a saddler'
below the UMial number of clear days. I a 'he bolt was pushed back, and thu
The sham fight at Trenton on the 26th,
passed oir with usual spirit, the Hessians,
as usual being discomfited. Amon the
km , !'t , .
men t-iiirntice yecureu. 1 ne oesK wa
carried off to an nnlinished building or
Ihey left
the opposite side of the si reef.
o o : ii . ...
officers present were adjutant llavs aa Gen. i od'. T" n o es on ,ore'n oaoks. h'c
Sullivan. Col.B. McCormiek a. Aid . ,n "y "'V no doubt overlooked.
i now en route tu u acunerrancan.
more about 3UO.00O bushels wheat.
Br.Ex-Censul Owen, has published in
the National Intelligencer, s vigorous and
plausible defence of his conduct during
the troubles at Havanna. lie claims to
have done everything possible for the
Americans captured in arms,and introduces
a letter, specially thanking him, from Mr.
.lunhuiec
Gen. Washington, of Newark, and Col.
Win. W'hitehead as Commander of the
Hessians, from lizabethtown. The fight
ing was followed by a dinner, over which
all parties forget their assumed enmities.
A party of seventeen gentlemen started.
during the snow storm on Tuesday (23,)
from Buffalo lo Cincinnati and intermediate
points. Belore reaching Erie it was dis
covered that one of the oassenuers was
closing hi eyes in (he sleep of death. . He
was lafcen into a tavern on the road, and
by proper restoratives brought lo conscious
ness. Un inviting Ihe driver of the sleigh
into the bouse, he made do reply, and up
on examination, he was found lo be stone
dead, having been froien by the extreme
The inauguration of Gov. Bigler will1
take place oo Tuesday, the 20th of Janua
ry. Great preparations are making lor
this latter event, and quite a number of
Volunteer Companies, from Philadelphia
and elsewhere, have signified their inten
tion to be present.
The Case of Catharine N. Forrest for
divorce, on the ground of adultery, is in
progress of trial ia the Supreme Court of
New York City. Mr. F. denies the charge
of adultery on his part, and sets up in hi
answer that the plaintiff has been cuillv of
adultery. The evidence on the trial gives
rather shocking developments of high lifa
in New York, and compromises the mor
ality of many ethers beside the paitiee
direeily interested.