Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-04-07

suo oheSotioa III respect W iuihois- A"s
general allegations are pointless, but when
they specified a fact, the friends Of Di,isior
proceeded to investigate it. IL appear.
John Swineford had at Harrisburg what
be passed off as an affidavit of Adam j
Miller, school teacher, that man named
Yoder came into his school and got several
childrens' names to q Division. This Mr..
Miller WIS sent for, and declares upon oath
that he never made an oath before John
Swineford IS to Division or any other
matter:
Another argument to prove there are
not over 5000 petitioners, is, that "The
Division feeling is confined to Lewisburg,
Selinsgrove, Penns, Washington, Chap
man, East Buffalo, Kelly, and White
Deer,-2l62-they have also obtained in
the neighborhood Of 800 signers from the
remaining districts Of the county, which
will give them total of 2462." But they
forgot to add Buffalo with 200, Mifflin-
burg and West Buffalo with nearly 200,
Uuion and jackson with 100, Middle
creek, Middleburg, and Perry, with 200
more. There are full 900, instead Of 300,
in the remaining districts"
They state that the whole vcts for Di-
vision last fall was only 1888. 1t was said
at the time to be l649.
They state "tbat it plainly appears
from the memorial that Selinsgrove and
Lewisburg are to be the County Seats in
case of a division" This is wholly .
false statement-neither the petitions, the
memorial, nor the bill before the Lsgisls-
,ure, contain any such admission or regula-
ton. The county seats are to be fixed BY
the people of the counties respectively, BY
vote.
They argue that the seat of Justice once
"was iocated at Miflinburg, the very heart
and center of Buffaloe valley" This is
not correct. The courts were to be held
there until permanent site was selected
and Court House built, by the provisions
Of the act Incorporating the county.
Itis evident, that, with the sparse pop.
ula,icn and poor roads and few carriages
of forty years ago, the Bufaloe Valley
people would not like to 60 over to Mid.
dlecreek valley, nor would the Middlecreek
population be suited with county seat on
Butfaloe creek. Middleburg and Selins.
grove preferred New Berlin or Centreville
to Mif1inburg or Lewisburg, and the latter
preferred New Berlin or Centreville to
Middleburg or Selinsgrove. As a compro-
mise, Penns Creek was decided upon By
the two Commissioners appointed by the
Governor-dlviding the evil aud the diffic-
ulty between the extremes. Nor, how
ever, there are wealth, population and bu-
siness sufficient to make two counties, in
neither of which would there be very
many who would have to cross the hills,
that thousands have for forty years The
10000 Of 1912 must be near 10000 in
1854.
The lst (secret) memorial stated that
the Court House was built by private
subscriptions" The I'd memorial denied
it, and referred to Sec 10 of Act - March,
1913, erecting Union County, which says,
"the County Commissioners are hereby
authorized to ASSESS, LEVY, and COLLECT,
sum sufficient to defray the expenses" of
''co~rt house, .jail, and Offices for tue safe
keeping Of the records" Sc. The las:
New Berlin memorial AYERS that ..the pre-
sent court house and the ground on which
it stands, WAS not paid for by taxation,
except $500, but was raised by private
subscription, from the citizens Of New
Berlin and its vicinity, as affidavits in the
hands Of MrSimonton will show" (Why
not publish those affdavits, SO that they
may be investigatedO We infer that it
is admitted the County paid for the Jail,
Fireproof, and $3.50 on the Court House.
Is it probable that the handful of people
around NewBerlin 40 years ago could have
erected such buildings by contributions,
when they now are unable and unwilling
to rebuild them? They evince commen-
dable spirit in Offering $4,000 towards a
Seminary to supply the loss OF their Book
establishment but it looks as if they
deemed Seminary of more importance to
them than Court House, or that they hope
to get new buildings by taxation!
The whole memorial proceeds upon
the Intentionally false assumption tha,
Selinsgrove and Lcwisburg must be the
new county seats. This is designed to
prejudice the Legislature, and all the
other probable competitors, against those
towns. 1t seeks to create and arouse all
the narrow, ignorant, soulless, and petty
jcalousies possible against Lewisburg in
particular, and to magnify New Berlin.
We quote scmewha. largely from this
branch of their TRADE, as not only quite
to those acquainted with the two
towns thus contrasted, but also fac simile