Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1850-12-18

DohiuSOIVS AcC. IA IlOt OCCURRED n
Baltimore stree, between FIRE rowdes, dur.
ing which man named Joseph Goodman.
was shot and dangerously wounded.
li!ile boy named Patrick Farrell, was
burned TO death yesterday morning b, his
clothes taking fire.
Jenny Lind lief, here in the FIVE O'Clock
train for Washington, where she sings to.
morrow night.
Hon. d. F. Miller, Wing member OF
Congress from Iowa, is lying dangerously
III at the residence Of his brother. iE-law in
Piltsburg.
Gen. J. ID. Mears has been elected Gov
ernor Of South Carolina BY The Legislature.
The sugar crop in Texas will no, ..eld
as much as las: year, owing 10 drought
the quality, however, Is much better.
Canal navigation al U,ira, n. y, 4.
closed, and there is said 10 be good sleigh.
ing in that vicinity.
Texas having now approved the Texas
Boundary Bill as passed By Congress,
measures will be speedily taken 10 organize
the Territory OF New Mexico.
The Presidents Message was Sc, in typo
in the Office of the New York Tribune in
35 minutes after ii was received and in Is
more was circulating on the street.
A Good Rule.-Every subscriber to
paper should make i, an unfalIina. ruie to
pay his dues regularly once year. They
are then paid without being felt, but when
they are left 10 accumulate tor years. they
amount 10 q sum that is not 80 willingly
paid.
Congress appropriated one million one
one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars
to defray the expenses of taking the census.
Henry Bibb, fugitive slave, is going 10
START a newspaper at Sandwich. Canada
West, TO be called the Voice Of the Fu-
gi,ives."
The York and Cumberland railroad will
be ready for the cars in few DAYS. Th!,
road connects Harrisburg with York.
The population Of Harrisburg is s,l73;
in ls4O it was $3.50. Increase in ten
years 2,lg3.
A Scot, Meeting was held in Allentown
last Tuesday evening. The friends ofthe
Old Hero are beginning 10 move in his
favor in every part OF the country.
Notice according 10 Law has already
been gwen of eighteen applications TO the
next Pennsylvania Legislature for bank
charters, renewals and increase Of capita,
making an aggregate capital Of four mill
ions nine hundred thousand dollars.
Ir the Housh,on PHI Colliery, near Sur.
derland. England, the property Of Lord
Durham, an explosion occurred few weeks
since. while one hundred and thirty men
were in the mine. Twenty six were killed,
and many others were severely burned.
A wagon can run without sreasing. and
business can be done without advertising
-bu, il is slow work.
Millard Fillmore, is nominated for lhe
Presidency by the Virgiaia Free Press.
The Allentown Iron works, in Lehigh
county, Penn. were closed on the 5lh OF
November and all the workmen discharged.
These furnaces have made as much as ten
thousand tons OF iron in one year and in
that time consumed 10000 tons Of anhra.
cite coal, $4,000 tons Of ore, and $4,000
ions Of limestone.
Presidential Recepion.-The Presiden,
of The United States having recently esIab
lished himself with his family in the Presi
Dental Mansion, was formally visited on
Friday, 29;h ult., by the members Of his
Cabinet and the Corps Dipiomaiique, with
their respective families.
The Boston Traveller says that within
week over one hundred intentions Of mar.
riage we're issued from the Registers office
all owing TO The influence Of cold nights.
W no would be miserable, shivering bach
elor just now J
A Great Hen Convention or Fair has
been holding at Boston. At the closing
sale of fowls on Friday. one Cochin China
cock brought $50. There were pure aud
beautiful Cochin Chinas, Java and other
fowls.
Since Mayor Gilpin entered upon The
duties Of his office, not yet two months, he
has Joined fifteen couple in the bonds Of
ma,rimony. This is sufficient, we lhlns.
TO prove him friend to d" Union"
The Fugitive Slave Law will not be dis.
turbed the present session. Washington
letter writer's are of opinion that repeal
would not be supported by more than one.
third of the representatives.
The intelligence from France is, that the
Presidents message has been extremely
well received, save in few quarters. The
proposition for calling 10000 men has been
variously received.
The Washington National Monumen, IS
now eighty feet from the surface Of the
ground, and it is expected 10 be two fer:
higher before the close Of the season.
The appraisers Of the personal estate Of
the lale Mr.. McDonough. the deceased
millionaire oil New Orleans. valued his en-.
tire wardrobe at thirty dollars!
Messrs. Corcoran s. Riggs have rendered
$4,000 and valuable lot Of ground to
the city of Washington toward erecting a
House Of Refuge.
The Government OF Prussia has prohib-
tied the dispatch Of private messages by
electric telegraph throughout its dominlon'