Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-02-04
Correspondents Of the Lewisburg Chronicle.
HARRISBURG, Feb. ], 1888.


HARRISBURG, Feb. !, 1858.
The Senate to-day passed the House
Bill granting JOHN BoudHNER, OF Center
county, Revolutionary soldier an annuity
of go per year.
Mr.. SL1FER presented petition from
Union county to prevent the killing of
game in that county in certain seasons.
Mr. CRABB from Committee on Banks
reported with amendments the bill to in
corporate the Lewisburg Savings Institu-
tion.
: Mr.. SLIFER, from the Committee on
Railroads, reported as committed, the bill
te incorporate the Chambersburg y Pitts
burg Railroad Company. Also, from same
committee, as committed, the supplement
to the act Incorporating the Williamsport
& Elmira Railroad Company.
Mr.. HESTER, (same) as committed, the
supplement to the bill incorporating the
Ca,tawissa, Wi!liamsport & Erie Railroad
Company.
Mr.: MCAsL1N submitted the preamble
and resolutions, now before TIE U. S. ScE-
ate, relative to the Monroe doctrine Of for
eign colonizing of this continent, aud to
Cuba. Laid on the table, under the rule.
The Senate unanimously confirmed the
following nominations BY the Governor for
Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital.
Doctor Thos. s. Kirkbridge Of Philada.,
F. A. Muhlenberg of Lancaster, and Jo-
seph Henderson of Mifflin.
The substitution Of the Sunbury & Erie
Road by the House, in place of the reso-
luton recommending Congress to grant a
tract of land to aid the Lake Superior
Railroad, was non-concurred in, unani-
mously, by the Senate. Mr.. BUCKALEw
had opposed the original resolution but
inassuch as it proposed to grant lands to
aid in opening and selling public lands, it
was in a measure a National work, and
was therefore much more worthy of aid
than purely private company like the
Sunbury & Erie Road. Mr. DARsIE re.
marked that he did not desire to throw any
obstacle in the way of the Sunbury & Erie
Road, but the substitution was very sim
gular one, and many in the House had
voted under misapprehensioD.
The bill to grant Railroad privileges to
the Pennsylvania Coal Company was taken
up, debated, and made the order for this
day week.
In the House, over 20 bills were passed
on the private calendar-among them, a
section Of an act to lay out a State Road
from Limestone in Montour county to
Milton.
The ice is frozen over the river, yet a
man was drowned, to-day, in attempting
to cross. He was skating, fell into an air
hole, and was seen no more. The man
was unknown-supposed about 20 years Of
age. He was seen BY several on shore,
but none dared venture to his aid.
A momcntary reflection as Of flames
against the clouds, about ten o'clock this
evening, caused an alarm Of fire. The
llum;ned clouds were in a sou,h-casttrly
direction j. was not the aurora borealis,
but what it was have not learned-it
looked as if a FIRE was raging in that direc-
in a very shor. time the light
entirely disappeared.
Jcns Ii. BEERYuILL, Esq, last evening
gave lecture before the Harrisburg
Institute" on the Dignity of Labor" "a
manly, thoughtful, wcll-deliverod essay on
Tie utility and the nobility of excrtion in
the various departments of life's great
household. The audience was large, and
we'll pleased. QUI.