Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-02-04
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Correspondence Of the Chronicle.
HARRISBURG, Jan. 26. 1858.


HARRISBURG, Jan. 26, 1858.
TIE Senate to-day passed bill extending
for one year the provisions of the act to
graduate lands on which money is due tie
Commonwealth.
Two petitions were presented for chang
ing the plac. of holding elections in West
Buffalo township.
The bill to give the Governor power to
appoint the State Librarian, and providing
for certain reforms, was taken up, discus
scd by Messrs. kunkle and Buckalew, tie
first provision negatived, and tLen referred
back to the Committee Oh the Library
In the House, an afternoon session was
held, and passed some thirty bills Among
them the Bill to Incorporate the O1d Eel
lows Association of New Berlin. The bill
TO incorporate the Harrisburg Mechanics
Savings Bank, passed second reading 45
to 81. The bill to extend the charter Of
the Carlisle Opposite Bank also passed sec
ond reading, IS to 5S. The bill to incer-
porate the Board Of Colportage of the Syn
od Of Pit,sburg, - to e.
THURSDAY, Jan. p.
Last night was severely, keeuly cold,
and the poor-;he poor, were .'pitied by
thousands Hundreds Of those who piticd,
caD Do little or nothing to relieve more
hundreds who can relieve, had rather pam
per their appetite and pride, even though
they thereby shorten life and fewer hun
dreds still do more or less to relieve the
distressed
The Governor had party last night,
and is to fnish the job this evening The
Harrisburg people have quite notion to
have E.-us;on" erected or purchased
for the use Of His Excellenay the Govern
or What Eject their efforts will have up
on the Senators and Representatives,, re-
mains TO be seen. Ii would be equivalent
10 an addition Of 300 to $500 to the Gov
ernor's salary, for "suitaLlc furniture
and incidental expenses " would have to
be provided in addition, ct courss, and the
whole cost would be doubled and treLlcd-
In Senate, to-day, the chief subject Of
general interest was L call, made II the
motion O, Mr. kunkel, upon Gov. Biglcr,
for the reasons for granting 4 rcquisition
to the Governor of Maryland for citizen
of this State, OF the charge Of ~ offence
not known as such TO our laws. 1t a;-
pears that the man is without doubt free
man, and tina. be was arrested first by a
mob, and afterwards by habcus corpus, SO
tha, he escaped the "teudcr mercies " Of
Maryland The resolution was supported
by Me.srs. kunkel, Evans, Darsie, aud
Hamilton, opposed wholly by Mr., Bucka-
lew, and in part by Messrs. Crabb and
O'Neill. 1t finally passed in an altered
form BY vote of u to IL. 1t was stated
that when Gov Bigler found out his error
he promptly rcc;ifed il, by a telegraph
dispatch, as far as be was able The discus
sion called out the Senator from D.uPhin
whose remarks were full Of earncs;ness anC
the spirit of patriotism, and evinced pow
ers of expression Of the very first order,
The "Grea. California Gr;sly Bear
has taken his departure. "The papers
have the following Bear Story" descE;p
tive of his young grisly majesty:
"This specimen of the California Grisly
or Terrible Bear of the Rocky Mountains
only two years old, yet measuring the er
ormous dimensions Of four feet and hal
in height, eight feet and half in length
and weighing 1900, is probably destine
to be the largest individual Of its specie
Of which We have any account. And wha
is most remarkable, is its perfect subjectio
to its keepers, who are enabled to enter i
cage and make it perform many singuli
feats. This is, We believe, the first il
stance Of such control over the Grisly {
Polar Bear, for, whether mid their rati,
soltudes, floating upon fields of ice on II
Polar Seas, ranging the wilds Of Caiforn
or Sonora, or confined in the cages Of N
nagesles, they have been the same ferc
restless and uuiameable creature, the DIRE;
alike OF showmeu and hunters. This 81
einen was captured at the foot Of the Rocl
Aouatains when cub, and a, the e1per
of the lives of tvo mon re ,.-,,, ,e 6
concerned in the capture; for, being p,
sued BY the dan, two Of them were ov
:.kee asd instantly dss;soyed, though