Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-02-11

vania have Jus, published their Toll Sheer
for the year 1852. 1t differs but Iiuie
from that of last year, except in the rates
OF toll charged upon emigrant passengers.
These are To be charged at the rate OF 81
each from Philadelphia to Piitsburg, or
less than one-lhlrd OF a cent per mile, while
the cars conveying them are 10 pass, toll
free. This will afford Inducements for en-
igran,s TO pass through Pennsy lvania, and
still further west, instead OF occupying tho
large unsettled tracts in the western par, OF
this Slate. Ohcr passengers will De
charged two cents per mile, us heretofore.
pen of II hogs, weighing in ,he aygre.
gate So92 pounds-an average Of 478
ench-were slaughtered IN Wuaweh.
Gloucester county, N. j., last week.
Conradlcred.-The report of the death
Of the m1,her of X ,ssu,h, and The repor,
Of the restoration OF his estate 10 Coua,
Ba'thyany.
The New York Express states ,ha.
there are al present lss9 indoor paupers
at the Alm, House. TINS IS a great in
crease on the general number o; inmates
Of this institution, besides outdoor paupers,
who numter about SIX thousand.
Wheeling. Feb. 6.-The river is now
in hae navigable order, and business is
very active.
New York, Feb. 9-Mrs. Ca,har;ne
Sinclair has concluded an engagement
with The manager OF The Chestnut Street
Theatre, in Philadeipha. and will shortly
appear there. Il is Iumored that she ip-
tends visiting Europe.
. Christian Kietfer, Wing, was elected
! Mayor of Lancaster city. on Thursday
last, BY l59 majority-the first Wing
: mayor ever elected in that city. The Cass
, vote is said 10 have been cast for him.
On Monday morning last, a 6re des.
'royed The boiler factory and .mi,hery of
> James Dennng. in Harrisburg. the gro.
cery and iron store Of J. L. e.. Ehy, also
damaged. DenHing not insured.
Ga Tuesday last, man by the nam.
, OF Patrick Callahan. employed in getting
out luaiter for Rolhrock s. Weaver, of
beileiOnie. had his skull so badly fractured
! by tree falling on him. that he dicd in
twenty hours AFTER ii happened. Two
oxen were Killed bv the falling Of the same
tree.
The Railroad across the f.,hmus os
Panaml is nov virtually completed, there
remaining only about three miles to finish.
The work was commenced about eighteen
months ago. and will probably cost in the
vicinity Of 81 100000.
Within The last few days two very aged
persons have died in Philadelphia. The
FIRST was Mr. Calhoun, aged i0l years
and Mrs Margaret Straham. 90 years old
"Old Bu Lon" Benton is out with a stiff
letter on Missouri. He says. "ihe Go,hs
must be driven from the capi,al''-in other
words, the anti Benlon men mus, be driven
from the party.
NIen who nre prompt in their business
affairs, are generally so IN every depart
ment of lie. You never know them to be
late at church. to the polls, OF to pay he
printers. Promp,ness in every thing
characterizes them.
An ingenious Yankee has invented wha,
he calls The 'the uiiice-seekers suspenders."
lie says they cro~s three dlfferen, ways,
and chlnge sides just as easy Now is q
capital time to Introduce them, i, being 50
near aEo;hes Presidential ",ussle.'
The man who had to lower his shirt
collar TO pass under the Wheeling bridge,
arrived ia CINCINNATI last week. He was
iabo'rng under slight attack Of collary
morbus.
| TIE South Car olnian savs,ho2's lard is
the bes, thing that he can G4.d to mix the
dough he gives 10 his hens. r.. says that
one cut of this fat as large a walnut
will set hen to layIag issHe3iaseiy after
she has been broken up from setting, and
that, by feeding them with the ia, occasio-
nalty, the hens continue lay ing through the
whole winter.
Yankee historian says that Mr.. Web
ster, when boy, first read the U. s.
Consltui Oh printed on a cotton handker
chief. 10 which Souherner replies. that
If Mr.. Webster acquired the Constitution
from the cotton manufactures in early life,
he sacrificed it to them in afier life.
The Lynchburg (va.) Republican SAYS,
that various indications within its notice,
leads II TO the belief that Georgia and Ala-
bama will 60 for Mr.. Buchanan.
| The Wing Members Of The State Leeis.
lature have addressed letter to Goye,ncs
Johnston, in which they testify m The
strongest manner 10 the fidelity and ability
with which he administered the affairs of
Pennsylvania while he oceuPeJ the Gu.
bernatorial chair. II IS signed by every
Whig member Of fhe S~nals and House.
and is OF The most cordial and complimen.
tary character.
One million in gold reached New York
IN the steamship Cherokee, from Calfor.
MIA. few Days ago.
Washington city appears to be filing
up her "magn!6cent distances." Accor.
ding to the Republic. 453 buildings wers
erected in that city during 1851.
Partisan Society is very much amused
with the maOuSCrlpt pe ~ aoo r., ,~ h;.L -.