Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-03-25
VOLUME IX.--NO. 46.
WHOLE NUMBER. acc.
COrre,2cnienco Of tho Lev iburx Chr.uir,..
HARRISBURG, March L

! bAshi>DtHI, udfcu IL.
In tie Senate, the Public Printing Bill
was taken up, the House amendments non.
ccncurrad in, and passed finally. The pub.
lac letting to take place on the last dsy Of
;he present month.
! Slr. Slifr read in place bill to incor.
porlte Sclinsgrove into borough. Also,
ore to Incorporate the Selinsgrove Bridge
Company.
Eseaiag. TIE bill to incorporate the
I Odd Fellows Hall Association of aihi.u.
burg, Union county, passed Senate.
Ii the House, the bill 10 abolis., capital
punishment was after long discussion
postponed for the present, 40 to IL.
The Ant;-Liquor bill was taken up, re-
ported, and postponed for the present.
Tie aci relating to the taxing Of real es-
tate was also postponed.
The bill to erect dwelling for the res.
idence Of the Governor Of the Common.
wealth, was taken up, discussed and re-
Jectea BY vote o: II TO SIS.
SATURDAY, March II.
III Ike ,SsaGte, Mr.. Krnkcl called up
Senate bill to incorporate the Milton Gem.
etry association, and submitted an amend
nient to reduce tie width Of Green street,
in Churehviile, Northumberland county;
which was agreed to.
On motion Of Mr. Slifer, Senate passcd
bill to Incorporate Christ's Evangelical Lu-
tlieran Church Of Lewisburs, Pennsylvania,
Jonathan Spyker, John Gundy, Levi
Stem. John King and Wm. C. Painter,
Trustees and relative to certain drains
il Selin>srove.
The Maine Liquor Law petitions are SO
far greatly in favor Of such law. The
following is the copy of an original pcti-
ton, which gives the subject a new aspect.
A special exemption of all the old soakers
who want AL stores and public houses"
open to preserve their liberties, would
probably require grea. many sheets:
To the Senate L House of Representive
Of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg.
The petition Of tie Subscriber Humbly
showith that he has been iufornd that .
bill Is bcf1ur your Uonorabel Body for A
Law to prohibet the Manufacturing and
Sale of Spiratous Lyqwor in this Common
welth. Now if your HoncrabeI Body
should pass such Law your petitioner
Humhls a.s nEatia sfs s.ol1kaepers ; @ and keepers
Publick houses shall have Liberty to sell
to Your Petitioner SO long as be shall not
get 1ntockacated or in other words Drunk
he has had Liberty and has used it for
more than sixty years without Consulting
u Doctor er any other t,mIerce man that
Cant use 1t without Getting Drunk and
hope your Honerabele Boydy will pass 10
law TO take away my Rights and Liberty
But | have 40 objection for all those Son.
neys and other tina. have petitioned your
iionoraoel Boly shall have Law to stop
them if they Cant Keep Sober without, but
| liumJley pray that you will pass now
law to punish Nee becaus others get
Drunk-from you're Humbel Seryent
and luaser Democrat --t.f
GARDNER FURNEss.
TUESDAY, March Is.
In the evening. Judge CONRAD lectured
before the "Iustitate" in Wyeth's Hall,
to crowded. and delighted audience.
Subject the proper objects Of American
ambition. The lecturers argumen. was,
tia. internal, solid, compact, universal
happiness and virtue Vas the true glory Of
a nation, and not its extent, its Numbers,
its power, or its blcoi-stsined annals, ead
tiiat koae-Aome, with al its delights aYi
its ennobling associations, was essential to
the establishment, perpe,uity, and true
glory Of nations. Ii would DO good to
have bis lecture in print.
(Senatc.) WEDNESDAY, March 16.
Gov. Biylcr announced that he had
signed the recent acts relative to Public
Printing %
The Philadelphia & Baltimore Central
Railroad bill passed finally.
Eogse.-T.sc bill 70 regulate raanrfactu-
ring corporations in this Commonwealth,
was passed Inally.
The bin to Incorporate the u. E. Church,
aud tie Water Company of Lcwisburg,
passed finally, with a large number Of
private bills.
la the afternoon, the bill to authcriz,
Philadelphia City to subscribe to and con-
plete to and complete the Hcmpfcli Rail-
road (from Greeusbury to Whceling) was
taken up-tho Pistsbarg Proviso voted
Louu by 2s to -, and passed finally.
THURSDAY, March II.
IA TIE Senate, the bill to appoint State
Agricultural Chemist, was defeated by a
large vote on 6n.l reading. (Thc manner
in which the funds Of the State AZ. Soc
have been spent, has created, in the minds
of many Senators, distrust which CON-
strains them to withhold any further Leg
islative aid in the way Of money!
MONDAY, March q,