Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1850-09-18
Neuos & Notions.

number i66 are colored.-i Middleiown
Emporium.
According TO rumor. Barnum is to have
,4een Victoria and lie. biOiuS .or exhib-
.,on after Jenny Lind.
"D,snify of the PreSs"-editorial put
6pos Of a circus clown and CT Roback"-
not Roorback -''lhe Aslrologcr.'
The jackson Democrat, heretofore pub
eshed in Bedford, Will hereafter be issued
at McConncl>5uts, the seat Of Justice OF
the new county oi Fulton, and iis tile
changed To lha! OF The Futon Democrat.
The people Of Virginia have at length
realized the fact that that State Is iaiiipg
behind her sister States in the race ol pro-
rress, and in view "i the approaching con-
,eniion TO reform the State Constitution
nre already discussing various measures
calculated 10 retrieve In some MEASURE what
Ihey have lost, ard restore The Old DomIn-
ION 10 something like her former position in
lhe sisterhood OF States.
The lay Of The Swedish Nightingale,
lsays a coiemporary) is golden eggs.
Speaking without thinking is like shoot
il2 without iukins aim.
The interest Of an old debt is often paid
ia bad language.
Law is ike a sieve; you may see thro
II. bu, ,ou must Le considerably reduced
tslore you can ge, through II.
Some Of the New Jersey papers recon-
mend the mex, L. gislalure of that Sta'e. to
pass a law prohibiting the circulation o
Pennsy lvanId reilei notes.
Messrs. Munscl, White & Son, OF New
Orleans, who have been Gen. lay'oi
agents for twenty years. assert that he
leaves 10 bank stock and other property,
the sum Of $500, ,G00-,ha' he never gave
n noe in his lis i.e and died without ov-
ing liar.
A NEST distressing catastrophe occurred
On the Is h ut. in Lynniield. Mass. 4 pic
party gong on board arse ilal-bol-
toned row boat for an excursion on lake,
we're capsized and fourteen of the number
drowned
Hon. Henry II. SIbev has been re cleo
ted delegate TO Congress from Minnesota
Territory by a large minority.
The Washington Republic unceslhe
return Of John o. Sargent. one OF us ioun-
ders, to the editorial department. Mr.llaii.
rumor says, is TO have foreign appoint.
ILent.
The steamer georgia on her late trIp
from Havana, brought IA less Than l..
il6,cOO sesars.
Washington, SEPT. IL The Sena'c to-
LAY confirmed the appointment Of A. Hi.
Stuart, as Secretary OF the ln'erior.
Capt. Davis. of Missouri, now in the
General Land Office. has received The ap.
poin,meu, Of Chief Clerk in the War De-
rartmen,.
Cincinnati, Sent. Tive learn that
during n Ere a, Independence. on the I'd
lns,., fifteen kegs oi po~de exploded. XII
lDg A. II. kean, and damaging number
OF buildings, including the new school house
aud the Presbyterian church.
A, New Bedford, Mrs. Arnold has given
So 900 toward The foundation Of Sailors
Home.
Isaac Hi, Tovanda Indian, in foot
race e: IIariand. New York. ran ten miles
~ fiity-,ighi minues and thirty Two sec
Unds
Father Matthew WAS received and enter.
'aincd By the city auihorlles al Nashville,
on his arrival there.
We understand that Mr.. Grant gave an
exhibition of the Calcium light at Washing
iou, on Monday night a-neek. The com
mI,tce on Commerce, of the Senate. have
10 contemplation a proposition 10 test his
Ugh, in Iish'-hQpse. II it should be thus
successfully tried, j, will be one Of The most
useful invent ons. 10 maratime point Of
view, which has been given to the country
since the time of Fulton Phila. News.
The Savannah river rose "a feet above
low water mark on the 26ih ult., doing
much damage TO the crops about Augusta.
On the next day i, fell six feet.
Bicknelrs Repo,er describes new coun.
terfeit Of the notes of the Bank Of Middle
town Pa, denomination 50, letter b. The
engraving il good, and bears close re
sembance to the genuine. 10 the coun
'erfeii, the period after "dema mand." and the
comma after Dlniorlh,' are omitted.
The vote for the admission OF California
comprised 81 Wings. SO Dempcrats-i50
Against, 10 Wings, &C Democrats-56.
We notice prosecution and conviction
IN Bucks county for a violation of the small
uote law.
There's volume in the flag borne alolt
by lad al temperance ce.ebratIon-
"ATs right uhen daddy's sober -
The Eas,ou Argus is-and The peo ,le Of
Northampton county are said 10 be-slrong
against the Elective Judiciary.
At Goshen, n. Y. on the 9Th inst, the
ease of Roberts vs. Davis, was disposed of.
bya verde, for The complainant of S2,250.
Washington, Sept 10 Information has
been received here by telegraph from
Charleston, stating that the people in that
city are furious al the passage Of the Ter
riiorial bills.