LEWIS BURG CH-EONICLE 1 Jo H. C. flICKOK, Editor- 0. N. WORDEN, Pbixter. VW s aw " LEWISBURG CHRONICLE AaT inumllT VABILY JOCBVaL, AwUet on FRIDAY morning at Leuisburg. Union county, Pennsylvania. rUJOL f,l,M V Tr' c1' actually In tlnnn ai js -aid within three month; $1,04 if paid within a year ; V0 If not paid bafbratha yar axpiraa ; 6 eanta for -a-il aumbsr. Subscription tor six months or lM, to V paid la advaaca. lMaeontiuuanoe optional with, tiio rufelaiber, exospt when the year is paid up. J.J i 1 1 lull hsndsooMly inserted at SO aant par aaa waak. l four weeks, IS a year; two sonar, a air alz months. 7 fur a year, ilarcantila adwtiee- saeata, not azeaadinf ona fourth of a aoluma, (10 a year. JOB WORK and aaanal odTertiaement to ba paid lor ha haadad In or delivered. OoMMioiTion soliciud on all nojaeta of general inte- tast not within toe ran, or party or sectarian aoaian. AU letter moat aoma post-paid, accompanied by tba raal addrees of tha writar, to renin attanlion. SeT-Tho talatiag exelusiTely to tba Editorial Department, to ba di aeeted te Uamtr C Oickok. Esq-, Mdtfor and thoa oa amsinese to o. N. woaoav, nausw. OFFICE (for the present) io Beaver s block on N. 3d 8u, first floor, 4lh door from corner. LEWISBURG, UNION COUNTY, PENN., FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1853. Independent Journals. We Lave received three free-breathing Newspapers tach established upon the ruin of Party paper recently issued opon the principle of the old motto Hat ihall tba PUSS tba Paoru'i Rism mtlaUia, VJuawed by Influence, and uabribed by Gala ; Hare Patriot TROTH bar glorious prrapu arav, Pledged u Kauoion, Lisutt, and law."1 They are the Independent Frets, by J. W. Barrett, Williamsport ; the Lackawanna Jltradd, by C. E. Lathrop, Scranton ; the Weekly Ledger, by J. ROBBWS, Schuylkill Haven. -Firm hands and honest hearts will ensure their conductors that success which we heartily invoke fur them. fCorreepoadence of the Lewiaburt Chronicle, j Maquoketa, Iowa, May 3, 1853. Since February, when I wrote you last, I have been traveling nearly all the time through Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. I find that the emigration this spring, to all of these States, will doublo that of any previous year. Hundreds of families from Pennsylvania have already reached reached their destination, in this, (Jackson) coun ty, and thousands more are coming. The emigration from Pennsylvania to this county, is principally from Mcroer county. Those coming in are generally well pleased with the change, and will write back flat tering accounts to their friends. This county is one of the best in Iowa, and is now quite thickly settled. Yesterday and the day previous, will be remembered here as being quite an era in the history of Iowa. A large and very enthusiastic meeting was held for the purpose of devi sing ways and means to build a railroad from Sabala, oa the Mississippi, to Cedar Rapids, on Cedar river a distance of about 80 miles. The stock is already nearly all taken and pledged, and there is no doubt but that the road will be "put right through." This county, though offering good in ducements to emigrants, does not favorably compare with that portion of Illinois lying south of Rock river particularly Fulton, Knox, Warren, and M Donongh counties. The eastern portion of it is quite broken and rough, and timber is very scarce ; add ed to this, there is no coal nearer than Bock Island a distance of 100 miles, by land and water. The western part of the county is better adapted to agricultural pursuits, being more level, and better sup plied with timber. Iowa is filling up fast, and with the right kind of people; but though one ef the best of the Western States it never can compare with Illinois, either in point of agricultural resources and wealth, or for population or mineral stores. I have traveled through all the Western States and Territories, and no one of them can or ever will equal Illinois. I Lave, after looking over the whole western country, " pitched my tent" near Spoon river, in Fulton county, being fully satis fied that it is the best country in the West Let me say, confidentially, to your readers, to look through Fulton county, before purchasing elsewhere, and if they are not satisfied, and do not find what I say true to the letter, why publish me in the Chron icle as having falsely represented the facts. Your truly, Oakland. from the Northern counties of the State, would undoubtedly find its way over this route, to say nothing of considerable freight that would find its way to either terminus. The importance of this road can not be questioned, and it is to be hoped that cap italists will give it their early attention. The wealthy farmers of the fertile Tallies through which the road would pass could alone build it, but when the importance of it is fairly understood, they can enlist the aid of plenty of capitalists from abroad. Bollidaysburg Standard. Selected for the Chroaisl. ENIGMA. Pew letter are needfol to fire you my name, and Tt their rt half a whole aw may proclaim ; Three-fourths of them arer will aaU to yomr mind A spontaneous, Implacable fee to mankind 8o strong the resmblancet I scarce can refrain Prom Inflicting oa on ail the brnis and psla Which, for ralut received, to the other we owe, And which it is promised that I ahaU bestow. With Adam I left Men's limit of Same, I sapported young Era thro her axil and shame; Oft Urnes the stout stead into battl I'T spurred, Oft la the Mascaras my measure i heard, And oft, whan the timid from trouble wou'.d flee, They betake them fur aid to my partner and ma. Oa fatal erent on my name throw a shad : Lo I the greatest of chief, by my weakness betrayed (Many centuries eloca) unto Death was consigned, And my standing ia low in th ayes of mankind. Tel boldly I trod Cfrro Gordo's dread heifht. And, with all my fellows who marched from tha flght (Erery man of th army can prove this narration) Receirrd from brare Win-Srld a bright decoration. North AmeiiceB at. at. S. THE ST0RT OF JOHN USE. Bkxivuz, Huron Co. O. May 10. This is a great country M eat up with Railroads that a man can scarcely pick out a farm. I can hear the can on four different roads from my bouse one runs within twenty rods from my door. - We give about 600 Whig majority in this county; the Whigs of Ohio make strong calculations on electing their Gov ernor, next fall I hope they may. Respectfully, Ac. M. P. We fear that migrating from Union county hasn't cored Mica.: he remains a most incor rigible Whig?) ' New Railroad Project. A chatter is granted for a railroad from Lewisburg through Center eonnty to con nect with the Pennsylvania Railroad at the mouth of Spruce Creek. Sueh a road would be a great public convenience ; it would pay well from the time it was fin ished, and would be one of the most profi table ia the State when the numerous reads contemplated along the Susquehanna are completed. All the travel to the West BT MRS. H. C. CON ANT. "There we a man, though some did count htm mad, Tba mora h cast away th more ha had." Ssstast. Thus did the Gulden Dreamer state a problem in life, of which very taw find tha true practical Solution. Increase, gaiu, in some form or other, is the object of all men. Nor is this in itself a vicious pro pensity. Far from it. It is the very core of human progress, the grand condition of the ultimate perfectibility of the race. And yeof those wLo gi e freest play to this tendency, who live but to obey the law of gain, the greater number grow continually poorer: and at the last find themselves miserable, and destitute, and naked, and in lack of all things. Ezpeiience is said to be a great preacher. If this be true, she must have had very inapt pupils. From the foundation of the world, she has been preaching the same lesson about this law of eain, in other words, the true way to become rub. And yet it is only here and there one, who seems ever to get the lesson by heart; and these few are by all the others accouuted the dunces ia the school. The story of one of these plodding beads shall form the illustration of our principle. John Lee was an orphan. He lost his father at an age too early for remembrance. For him, that father had lived only in the tender and beautiful reflection of his moth er's heart, true, to her latest hour, to tho memory of first affection. Perhaps the paternal influence thus transmitted entered no less really, if less consciously, into the formation of the boy's character. Ihe beatified father spoke through the saintly mother, and the voice bad in it less of earth than of heaven. John's childhood was full of sweet promise to such a mother To fair, though by no means remarkable, mental gifts, were united moral traits, in which she fondly traced the image of his lost father: a straitforward, single-hearted earnestness in whatever seemed to him right cause, blended with an honesty to wards himself and a candor towards others not always found in such connexion. As the Bible was the mother's book of un questioning reference, so was it with the son. As prayer was the element in which the mother lived, so was it from infancy a sweet, familiar practice with the child. But alas ! scarcely had he reached the age of twelve, when this guardian angel was taken from him. She died suddenly, al most without warning. John was sum moned from the school play-ground, to receive her last farewell. Stunned and bewildered by the sudden shock, the whole scene passed him like a wild dream. One moment alone engraved itself upon bis memory. As he knelt by her bedside, the dying mother, laying her cold, damp hand upon his head, and raising her eyes to wards heaven, uttered these words: "I ask not for him long life, or honor, or earthly riches. Make him rich in faith, heir of the promises 1 With thee I trust him. Into thy hands I commend my spirit 1" She fell back upon the pillow, and John Lee was motherless. Not that he realised, at the time, the full import of this prayer. Like an unexplained oracle, it fastened itself upon his memory, till gradually un folding its hidden sense, it became the key note of his character and life. After his mother's death, John fonnd so path of thornless roses. The little property she had left behind served for his support and schooling a few months longer; and then, without a relative from whom he could claim sueoor and guidance ne was east npon the world, and was expee ted to look out for himself. For a boy thus situated, there was not much choice. The place of shop-boy with a grocer in a neighboring village being offered him, be at once accepted it. This man, like most others in bis line of business at the time, depended for bis chief gains npon the sale of ardent spirits. John had never taken any thought about this traffio, and accor dingly dealt out the fire-water to his mas ter's customers without compunotion, tho' not without inward distrust. But after being thus engaged a few weeks, he one day witnessed a scene which stirred all .the latent springs of his nature. A young woman entered the grocery, carrying in her arms an infant perhaps six months old and leading by the hand another child of some three years. All were poorly and scantily dressed; and their thin, .wan faces betokened pinching poverty. There was a wild light in the mother's large black eye, which made John recoil, as she swept past him towards the owner of the shop. Yet the tones of her voice when she spoke and something in her manner, betrayed a character and breeding superior to her present position. "I have come," said she, addressing the grocer who stood behind the counter, to beg you once moro not to furnish my husband with liquor. It is poison to him, and death to us. Surely you would not let him have it, if you realised our misery. I have dragged these children along, though hardly able to come myself in order that you may see something of it for yourself. Look at them I Poor rag ged, starved little ones I Can you believe they are my childreu, Marietta Orav' children 7 But this is not the worst I" She took off the hood of the elder child, and showed a large purple lump ou its temple. "There!" she continued more wildly than before, "that's from a blow given by its own father I by Robert Stan hope 1 And be now lies at home drunk ! But how did he get the means ? I know but too well. Last night, the .only com fortable article of dress I bad left, my blanket shawl, was torn from these babes as they lay asleep, and 6old to make their father a brute. O, Mr. Stone, you can not, now you know how it is, yon cannot have the heart" here her voice broke down in passionate sobs and tears. " I haven't sold him any liquor this month," replied the grocer; "if he got euy lass uight, Ho got If somewtterv Vv sides here." The woman instantly recovered her self possession, brushed away her tears, and with a contemptuous smile, pointed toward a corner where her quick eye had detected the missing article. " Well, come now," said the grocer in great confusion, which he tried to cover by a laugh, " it is'nt my fault, if he did get it here. If he has a mind to come here and buy liquor, it's bis lookout, not mine. My lookout is to get my honest pay." " You will not promise me, then 1" as ked the woman. " Upon my word and honor, I can't," was the reply. " It's asking too much. I must make a living, you see. Every body must take care of Number One. Let your husband take care of Number One, and he'll do well enongh." " And will you tell me," said she, " how I am to take care of Number One 1" "I'll tell you one thing," cried he angrily, "I wont take no earte in my own store ; so clear out in quick time. You better be spry!" added be, advancing to wards her with a threatening gesture. She looked at him steadily for a moment then lifting ber hand solemnly towards heaven, she prayed, in accents which frose John Lee's young blood : " 0 God, hear! avenge!" Without another word,she seised the hand of her little girl and left the shop. John followed her. The woman walked a few rods with sur prising energy; then suddenly sinking down on a atone by the road-side, seemed ready to faint. Both children began at the same time to cry piteously. When John came up to the forlorn group he tried to speak ; but there was such a swelling in liis tnroat that he could not utter a sound. Quickly, though with trembling fingers, he unbuttoned his shirt-collar, and drew out a black ribbon from which hung suspended a two-shilling piece. Slipping off the coin, ho again fastened the ribbon round his neck. Then holding out the money towards the woman, he asked in a husky voice: Will this do you any good? It's all I have!" "God bless yon! yes, it will keep my children one week from starvation," she answered, grasping it in her thin hand. She started op as if to go instantly in quest of food : thensnddenly stopping and turn ing around, she asked : "Was it a keepsake V "Yea!" replied John, bis eyes filling with tears, "from mj mother." "And where ia your mother V "She is dead!" "And youx father?" "He died when I was a baby; they are both gone!" said John looking upwards. "Poor orphan! I will not rob you," exclaimed -the woman, reaching back the money, while her voice grew tremulous through loving self-denial and sacrifice, Christains were, like their Lord, to make the world rich. He looked again at the bit of silver in his hand. It seemed to him the symbol of all that was mercenary and her large, dark eyes became soft with and selfish. For this, men forgot that moisture. they were men. For this, they wrung " 0 no, no indeed! my mother would tears of blood from their fellow-men, and tell me to give it to you," said John, ruined their own souls. " Yet even this Then, unable to keep down bis struggling vile trash," said he to himself, "can take heart a moment longer, he turned from the mark pf the ctoks I May it not then her, and ran with all his might towards be turned from a curse into a blessing ? his master's house. Surely it has been a blessing to me this 8he looked after him till he was out of day. Henceforth, let all my gains bear sight, then crossed the street and entered this transforming mark 1" A tear was a baker's shop. The man was well known glistening on the coin, as ho dropped it to her; and after receiving the change for thoughtfully into his leathern purse. a shilling's worth of bread, she could not I cannot say that the reflections of his refrain from relatiog what had just hap- affectionate little wife took so high or so pened. "I wish," she added, "you would wide a range. But her heart was no less mark the piece and keep it awhile. If 1 1 full. Tenderly had ahe laid down the can possibly save another shilling, I want wearied little sleeper on her own pillow. to take it back, and restore to the poor With a mother's skilful hand, she had child his mother's keepsake." removed its miserable clothing, and substi- But the baker, too, had a heart. I tutcd a snowy nightgown, often worn by will mark it," said he, "and hand it to her lost Willie. The trundle-bed was wheel- the boy the next time he goes by ; I know ed out once more. The seft warm blankets, him by sight. But you are entirely wel- the white quilt, the little pillow-cases, come to the bread." were again taken from " Willie a drawer,' He laid the other shilling: before her ud carefully aired before the fire. All on the counter. Then openicg a door at the important peparations being at length the back end of the room, he called Lis completed, the poor infant, who, two hours wife, a pleasant looking little woman, and before, had lacked needful food, was laid repeated the tale to her. like something precious into the downy "Why, you don't say so!" she replied, resting place. During the wholo time, wiping her gentle, blue eyes as he finish- the child had never stirred from its deep ed. "But come now, Mrs. Stanhope," sleep. She now gave a comfortable stretch, she added, " walk right out here and have turned her head, in a way to throw her a cup of tea. The teakettle ia boiling this soft flaxen curls ever the pillow, and again minute." sunk into a quiet slumber. When the The tea was made, the tea-table quickly baker came in from his shop at ten o'clock spread with the best the house afforded, he found his wife fast asleep kneeling by and the famished mother and children sat the trundle-bed, her bead close to that of down with these kind-hearted people, to the little stranger, and one tiny hand the first comfortable meal they had enjoy- clasped in her own. ed for weeks. Orphan boy ! thy two-shilling piece, After tea, the baker's wife coaxed the warm from thy Teart, has already made eldest child into her lap, and gained her many rich. Has it made thee rich also? entire confidence by the gift of a ginger- Not yet, but in part. Bat-it's safely laiV bread lamb. But even this wonder of art by" for thee, at interest such as" usurar could not long keep open the eyelids of never drew : marked both on earth and in tho weary child. Her hands sunk down heaven, with the MASK or THE csos) ! and she fell fast asleep, still grasping her I Macedonian. now treasure. n uua weiu , Bio, a TTIrr,t earltl. a lww1 Aid til Irinrl wnm&n. niinff ilnn fnnrilvl O on the curly head that lay against her bo- " to11? in, iU m.l . l l t irf m.. , Halifax Nova Scotian. It solves the long som, "that she has a look like my Willie! mooted qaestioa of who pushed bJ uur i.ujuk i uuw ess bus warn a oilier i jue bridge. bF to ... . Dupp. .... . t nmmmWt wneB m w tt Khwlt Qf w, .uu u,e, """"J' once seeing a fight between two bullocks. "I am so lonesome! I find I don't get t St Jthnn . T ... over missing my little boy. It , would .be LQt Uye aon . a All Anm f7ifr A nni K Aa .... In, lammslt I O f flsj a VAX VWUiiVI IrV U UOI 1UMI uia 1A UUUiC bed close to mine, where I could reach out in the night to see if she wss covered up, and feel her little head on the 'pillow and hear her breathinc in her ulapn. T will take the very best care of her," she hih wooden bride' the n-nd r"liDg ' i .L k a! lL J- J at at. continued pleadingly, seeing the mother ' ",""" sueweaut a:a .l. . r td entirely destroyed. It was one S ml age at the time. It happened in this wise Close by the school-house a very un pretending edifice it was ran a deep and narrow river. Across it had been thrown " May God in heaven reward you I" bright summer day I remember it as if arrived, and a frolicsome, romping, fun loving company of lads were let loose for an hour's recreation. The land on the opposite side of the river was owned by different persons and farmed by them, re she exclaimed at length, with a burst of ikwer! JfJ-f om had tears. " Yes, I will leave her thankfully till I can turn over some plan for getting along. Live as 1 have done, I can no longer." She nrirjted a soft kin on tha child's brow, nressed the hand of her kind fri.nd spely. The bellowing and roaring of and stole noeleMlv out of th.rnom two bulls, that had broken out of their she passed down the outer steps, she .u ensures on each side of the river, and 6tillsad,butitwasnotthesadneeaofdes- were PPhing eh other along the pair. There was a warmth about her highway, at a rate which would cause them heart, a hope in her soul, such aa she had Jo meet about the centre of this high bridge, not known for many a long day ; a warmth beneath n'ch"t mo thirty feeVran a of hope, kindled by the breath of human ueeP uu "". kindness. God has not yet forsaken us! bank8 attention. said she to herself. "Blessings on that The more dann of M gathered near pood woman! Blessinon her kind hus- lM wage, lining me xence, to see the band! Blessinpson that dear ornhan bov ! fiSbt nd 1,8 wero not disappointed Aye, and blessings too on that hard and NeMer nwer PProohed the proud, cruel man 1 I recall my curse. He is Pwin cbaUnte en other, and Ba roorer.more wretched than II" Thus st never produced two fiercer looking m.in and nravinxr. with fresh trust in brute8 tnU th0M describe. They Providence, she bent hex eteps towards tor8 tha roncd wiUl their --4ej her wretched home. kneeled down Of8""1" tfjing to The baker marked the eoin, aa he had gre erltt w,ltt e,r boni "J promised. For so simple a job, it oc- nea ineir B"e aeroe,7 ine copied him a long time. As he scraped nnobservedly by each other, for the r.A .,.,. .lnwrl, ;tK hi. t-mlnife. bridge obstructed their view. Pros- many thoughts rose unbidden in his mind. J, " they simultaneously ascended the Preeminent above all others was that of respective abutments, they came in full BrrieiiK r mw. Thu hard, eieht of one another. The roar was mu- hearted grocer, that drunken father ! But tual and actually tremendous. Every ur once outrootthat onoevil prinoiple from chin sprang into the field and ran; but their bosoms, and all this blight and mis- gathering courage in finding we were not ery would be turned to joy. Then a pang pursued, we hastily retraced eur steps, and struck across his heart, at the remember- there they were, both of them front, their ance of his own life. The serene content- horns locked together, fighting at bulU only mt with which he had enioved his han- an JujU 1 It seemed to be an even match. py lot, unmindful, to so great a degree, of Now one would press back bis opponent a the wretchedness of his brothers and sis- few paces, and his adversary would be .rofhumanitv. seemed to him hateful pressed back in turn. The struggle was v : . ; Um .nlfUbnesj. Unconseionalv. he had hard, was long, was tavage. m.rV.d on the coin the fiirure of a cross. The began to wneet in anotner mo- Thia now caught his eye, aa he waa about ment they were faced at right angles with to lay aside the money. A new scene rose tho old bridge, which shook, and creaked, before his mind. His thonghte ran baok nd rooxea again wiin xneir tnunping ana eighteen hundred years, to a time when tne ettecta or tncir iemwe swue. He who waa rich, for our sakea became It was the work of a single moment 1 . a 1 W a tl t T itMr.thatwethroiifhhis novertv might one of the beeate t never coma ten wdiou be made rich. The idea flashed upon him of them did it one of them, however, as as by a light form hmen, that it was I if eonaeioua or tnis pr-won, maw - . perate, a terrible lunge forward. He pressed his antagonist back back there was bnt another step of plank behind him behind him and nothing back still fur ther he waa pressed, and over he went Such a sight I never saw never again shall see a bull off a bridge, falling at least thirty feet, over and over. He turned once or twice, probably I thought he turned over fifty times, there seemed so many horns, and feet, and tails flying through the air but down he went, the water was deep, and he disappeared. The other bull didn't laugh, merely be cause bulla, I suppose, can not. But ire laughed. There he stood, looking directly down into the abyss below, into whioh he had hurled his unlucky foe. He stood, however, but a moment, as if frightened at the prospect before him. He commenced to step backward back back with his head in the same pugnacious attitude as when in combat back another step, and over he too went on the opposite side of the bridge, performing just aa many and exactly as ludicrous somersets as his ad versary had done a minute before. It beat all I ever aaw. In about five minutes both bulla were seen, their tails trailing in the sandy drip ping wet, and scratching up the steep, gravelly banks, each on his own side of the river. "Them are hulls wont never fight no more V sail a boy behind me. I turned around : it was "red-haired Bob," as we used to call him, and every hair on Bob'a naked head looked aa if it waa in spasms. But Bobby was right. There are two political parties in Nova Scotia ; I wish they had aeen that fight as I saw it that is all I have to aay for the present Hereditary Feature.. The author of the work entitled "Re cords of Creation," mentions some ourious facta under this branch of his subject. A peculiar thickness of the under lip has been hereditary to tSe Imperial House of llapsburg ever since the marriage,' aome centuries ago, with the Polish family of Jagelon, whence it came. In our own royal family, a certain fulness ef the lower and lateral parte of the face is conspicuous in the portraits of the whole series of sov ereigns, from George I. to Victoria, and has been equally marked in other mem bers of the family - T ! of sba Ducal House ef Gordon have long been remarkable for a peculiarly elegant confor mation of the neck. The Claekmannan- shire Braces, who are descended from a common stock with the famous Robert Brace of Scotland, are said to have that strongly-marked form of the cheek-bones and jaws which appears on the coins of that heroic monarch, as it did in his actual face when his bones were disinterred at Dunfermline, about thirty years ago. The prevalent tallness of the people of Potsdam, many of whom are descendod from the gigantic guards of Fedoriok I. ; the Spanish features observable in the people of the county of Galway, in which, some centuries ago, some Spanish settle menu were made; and the hereditary beauty of the women of Prague, are well known facts, which have frequently attract ed the attention of chronologists. The burgesses of Rome (the most invariable portion of every population) exhibit, at the present day, precisely the same type of face and form as their ancestors, whose busts may be seen carved in relief on the ancient sarcophagi; and the Jewish physiognomies, portrayed upon the sepul chral monuments of Egypt, are identical with those whieh may be observed among modern Jews in the etreets of any of our great cities. Badness of Pride. When the Buehess of Buckingham found herself dying, she sent for Austis, the herald, and settled all the pomp of her funeral eeremony. She was afraid of dy ing before the preparations were ready. " Why, she asked, won't they send the canopy for me to see ? Let them send it, even though the tassels are not finished." And then ahe exacted, as Horace Walpole affirms, a vow from her ladies, that, if she should become insensible, they would not sit down in her room till she was dead. Funeral honors appear, indeed, to have been her fancy ; for when her only eon died, she sent messengers to her friends, telling them, that, if they wished to see him lie in state, ahe would admit them by the baek stairs. 8uoh was the delicacy of her maternal sorrow. But there was one match in pride and insolence, for Katharine, Duchess of Buckingham ; this was Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. Upon the death of the young Duke of Buckingham, his mother endeavored to borrow the triumphal ear that bad carried the remains of Marlbo rough to the grave. "No," replied the widowed Duchess of Marlborough, "the ear that has carried the Duke of Marlbo rough's body shall never be frofaaed hj VOLUME X. NO. 6. Whols Nuhbxk, 474. any other." "I have seat to the nderttv ker," was the Duchess of Buckingham's rejoinder, "and he has ngaged to saake a Utter one for 20." The old Court House, in Iancaster, is now in the course of demolition. Tha town clock, which has been running for three quarters of a century lias been taken down. It waa put up in 1788, at a cost of 560. 8ince that time the clock las) been cleaned but twice, and, with the ex ception of new weight ropes, has never cost the county one eent for repairs. When taken down everybody was astonished to find that there had been scarcely any per ceptible wear in any part of it. The aaas clock, with some slight improvements, is to be placed in the Court House when erected, and ia expected to run and keep good time for another century. Lancaster county was erected May 10 1729, and the first Court held in a house built of logs, in Coneatoga township, about 7 miles south-west of the city. The boil ding cost the county 7 in the eurrenej of those days, the pound beingfthen equal to $2.63 2-3 of the present currency. Court continued to be held there antil tba August Term, 1730, when it wss removed to the "borohgh of Lancaster," and a Court House waa erected in the Public . Square. This building was not entirely completed until 1738, and was destroyed by fire one evening in the summer (bar vest time) ot 1783. Preparations were immediately made by the Commissioners for the erection of a new building, which was commenced shortly after. A difficulty arose relative to the she, one party being in favor of Centre Square, an other preferring the purchase of a full lot at the corner of North Queen and Orange) atreets, oa which there were then but a few small buildings. The Centre Square par ty prevailed, and the new building was erected occupied by the old one. It waa first used in 1786, and has been occupied for Court purposes ever since. The pres ent sessions of the Court are held in Fnla toa Hall. Berk t SckuyOcia Journal. Fatal Fracas. Two brothers named Gideon Creaajy and Gotlieb Creaaley, residing in Greenwich, township, Berks county, got into a quarrel about soma domestic grievances, oa tha 30th of April last, in the coarse of whioh Gotlieb is said to have struck his brother Gideon on the head with a rake, inflicting a serious wound on the right ear from th) effects of which he died on the 6th tvX, An inquest was summoned on the body bj one of the local magistrates. The report states, (we quote from the document) that " Gitian Crasly git a wound in his head about 3 inches over the right ear, 8 inches) . tib (deep) and 1 quetor rout, and die oat the 9 May, 1853, at 10 o'clock in the fore noon, and is 31 yar oL" We learn further that the deceased was in the habit of abusing and ill-treating hie wife, and that on the morning of tha on . currence one of these domestio squabbles occurred, when the wife of the deceased fled to the residence of her brother-in-law livings near by, and appealed to him for protection. This led to the quarrel he tween the brothers, the unfortunate result of which is stated above. Berks & Schuyl kill Journal. A Slave Case. Aa effort waa mad some days since, by two men from Virgin, is, to secure the person of Robert Thomas, a fugitive slave, who has resided in Trenton N. J., for the last twenty fivo yean. Th agent for the alleged owner of Thomas, called npon James Ewing, Esq., who had been appointed Commissioner under the) law, and required his aid in the premises. Mr. Ewing declined to act, on the ground that he bad never accepted tho appoint ment Robert Thomas took the midnight line for New York, and got safe into Canada. He had accumulated about two thousand dollars' worth of property. Charles Lee has recovered a verdict la the Circuit Court at Morriaville, Maduoa county, N. Y., of flOOO against the Koch. ester snd Syracuse Railroad Company foe personal injuries caused by an acoident oa the railroad in October last. It is said that the company offered to settle the chins before trial by the payment of 96000. bat the plaintiff refused to accept the amount. The question, who owns Lake hGchi- gan ? baa sprung up in tha Illinois courts. The persona owning land along tho skais of the Lake, claim to own to tho middle of the Lake, while a Railroad Company-thai wishes to run a road along the shore, elaiaa that all outside high water mark belongs to the State. Persons who have got foreign silver eoia stowed away in shot bags and old stooUag, bad better be potting it in eirtnisiioa, for aa soon as the new silver coin gets eft, H will not be worth what it now ia, tfeept M old silver. By lettac it on no it Tin soon And it. way to tha JTmt, whar. too. of it are being sjohoiop.
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