Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-07-21
SENATOR'S WADE AND NORRIS Wade

gard to Southern chivalry than II there
never was such thing in the world,
Senator Norris, from New Hampshire
who i, serving his last term in the Senate
said to him the other day, when discussing
the Nebraska question, in company with q
number Of Southern Senators
Would you, Mr.. Wade, if. called upon
by the U. S. Marshal to asss. in catching
afugitive slave, obey the order? ?
NO, said Mr.. Wade, I'D see him in--
IN Jericho first
That, said Mr.. Norris triumphsntly tc
his Southern friends, is an evidence how
little regard is paid to the laws by these
Abolition Wings
WELL said Wade, 'Mr Norris, would
you help to catch negro, if you SAW him
running OFF,
Certainly, l would said Mr.. Norris,
with some little trepidation.
Says Wade, turning to Scnator Dixon,
Of Kentucky, 'wculd. you, sir, if called
upon to arrest run ,way negro, obey the
command
no, sir said Dixon, frankly, ia see
him first
'Well,' said Wade, in his dry way, Il
do not wonder, when you can get so many
Northern men, like the gentleman from
New Hampshire to Go it far you. - Ohto
Journal
TBenjamin Franklin mentioned
above-is one OF Natures nnblemer !; and
it is truly said :" he has Eea Watt (bccn
weighcd) and not found wanting" From
a speech Of Senator Seward, it seems that
in his younger days Mr. Wade earned his
tread by the use Of his pick axe and shovel
u the public WORKS. Such man, winning
his way 10 the Senate, wouh, never act
the dog for the ''lunt =, Of ncn:
FAILURE az CATHOLIC PArFRs With
in the last few weeks three Il nnn Ca,ho,
lie papers have been forced to discontinue
their publication, tor wan: Of ~ufiicieut sup
port. The .S+yheci .fth~ Uu1,y, pub
Hshed at St. Louis, led Fl III this series
of failures the Buffalo .Srn'tn| followed,
and the \ ~ York B"1yt came next.-
In all oc those cases the complaint WIS the
samG-they were starved cut. The editor
# the .Ss,ninsi, which was the accredited
organ of the Catholics IN Buffalo ha, pub
lished statement showing that he lost
s47 per week in publishing the paper
The reason given for the distnniinuancc
of the .NhrpLc,", namely, no one would
take it, is We think, highly creli'ablc t"
the good taste of the Catholics Of St Louis
II, violent i.nur :iaiioas Inl opprobiou>
cpithets have done them much more inju
~ than COOL. The n Y. Frce"tras Jour-
nal tried to come out seml-wcckly, but
has got lack to 4 weekly.
THE CAT SrEcIES.-"My ,oa, h"w ma
ny species of cl's are there ~ give.
81 thought, Gu>sy, they were only two
the domestic and the wild cat II tell
YOU there is five. Don't yer suppose !
knows, old lady - 81 dare say but be
little more respectful, and name them
"Wcll, there's wild cats and tame Gals. -
"But that makes only two "Jcst you
wait, old lady, till get through, won't
yer? Amt there catfish aud cat-a line
and cat-a-wampus ?" "And you may add
another species to your list said the
mother of this hopeful, "when you father
returns look out for cat-o-ninc-tails.'
We have been furnished with a potato
stalk that measures feet inches. Its
specimen of young America. 1t had
nothing to its roots, no ancestral attach
ments beneath the soil, no potatoes. 1t
hadn't time to attend to that part of the
business. Its motto was "upand be doing
IL IL cOuiu nave DOIue Tvs o"n W. lSit, Ite
wner would have engrAf,el peaches in
it.-Bloon,fela advocate.
DR.. Duff states that on leaving New
York, unsolicited and unsuggestcd by him.
bills on England to the amount of s2O,
900 for the mission buildings in Calcutta
were put into his hands. During his alb
sence, Glasgow had raised about $4,000
for the same object, so that they had Glas
gov and New York shaking hand.
over Calcutta and the Ganges
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Ig- Atlanta, Ga, is a specimen Of the
beneficial effects of Railroads on towns
Nine years ago it was in the woods, but
now, by four Railroads running into it, il
has a population of eight or nine thou
sand. 1t is said that there are now foul
hundred houses going up. They even
talk of making it the capital Of the State,
instead Of Milledgeville, the old capital.
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A masculine and feminine specimen
Of the genus "fool, recently drove out to
a pond near Abingdon, Mass, and after
divesting themselves of their outward gar
meuts, lashed themselves together, and