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Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-12-28
L HE KAN s AS WAR
Correspondence Of New York Tribune.

LEAvENwORTH, Dec. 4, 1855.
/ The excitement is subsiding. The
country is safe Missouri can't whip the
s.nigger-thieves" and "Aboltionists" of
Lawrence after all. Border-Rufian cour-
age and Platte county omnipotence are
quoted below par. The "Saxons" of Law
rence-the descendants of the Gurths-
have actually had the audacity to stand
/ their ground before Iyanhoe's descendants
the "Normans" Of Missouri. Let the
Richmond Eran,iner look to its theory.
If Northerners are of the lineage of Gurth
and the Southeners of the house of Ivan
hoe, this invasion of Kansas is lamcnta-
Bile proof of the degeneracy Of the race
who "came in with the Conqueror."
Up to the present hour, (l2 o'clock,
noon,) we have received rather gratifying
news from Lawrence. 1t is as late as
yesterday Tuesday, at 10 A. M. At
that time, two companies of Missourians
exclusively, numbering over 800 men,
were encamped at Franklin, five miles be-
low Lawrence. A body Of $50 were at
Lecompton, and several hundreds we're re-
ported to be stationed at Osawkee.
Free-State men are arriving at Lawrence
every hour They are we'll armed at the
"Yankee Town." well drilled, and COM
mrnded by experienced officers. Col. Jas.
II. Lane is the leader of the Free-State
forces, and his career in Mexico is guar
anty that be will make desperate charge
at the Missourians if the slightest provo
cation is given.
They were discussing points of law at
10 A. NJ. yesterday. Col. Lane sent an
official message to the Missouri invaders
that after 4 P. NJ. be would not be respon-
sible for the conduct of his men. 1t was
rumored that the "cowardly Yankees" in
tend to send a peremptory message to the
Missourians, ordering them to leave Kan
sas Immediately or prepare to fight at
once. If any collision ensues there will
be desperate slaughter of Missourians.
The conduct of the Missourians con.
trasts most ludicrously with their talk be-
fore they left here. I heard many of
them talk about "the Abolitionists," as if
We were a gang Of cotton-6eld negroes,
whom it was only necessary to crack a
whip at to bring into subjection. They
have already found, suspect, that man
may be s"wooly-he without having
the spirit Of slave.
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an aspect as that Of the worn out soils Of
Maryland and Virginia, ha, been thus
most completely renovated, and will now
produce sixty bushels Of corn to the acre,
and other crops in proportion. And John
L. Yeomans, Of Toland county, informs rs
that he, in 1851, raised forty bushels Of
buckwheat on two and half acres Of pas
ture ground, thirty years in pasture and
considered as worn out, by merely plough
ing it twice, first in the spring of 1851,
and then again on the lst of July, and
sowing it with two bushels of buckwheat,
and that upon the same ground we'll
ploughed and manured, and put in corn in
1852 he realized 232 bushels of corn IN
the cars, whose grains when shelled we're
equal to about l20 bushels of corn, an sx-
pertinent equally worthy of remembrance.
(See Ag Rep. 1850, p. 800, $3.50, 377;
1851, p. 170-s7; 1852, p. l62-7)
These six States, to wit, Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,, Con-
necticut and Rhode Island are usually
styled "The New England States" be-
cause their first settlers came from Eng
land, CID England, in Europe. And our
last census, the census of 1850, shows that
the chief grain crops of these States arc
corn and..oats-that they now cultivate but
little wheat, rye, buckvheat and barley,
less as a general matter than they did when
the census Of 1910 was taken, and that
they cultivate corn and and oats, and grow
large amount of grass and hay, princi-
pally to feed and fa.ten their cattle and
sheep, for they are making the raising Of
cattle and sheep, and the productions of
the dairy and wool their leading agricul-
tural business.
In my next communication, 1 will give
you similar sketch of the rotation Of
crops adopted in the Middle Safes.
MoNToUR.
Northumberland Co., Pa, 1855.
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ICE HOUSES.

There are few farms, Of any size, but
which will afford facilities for gathering .
crop of ice during the winter; or, perhaps
more properly..speaking, where the occu-
pants Of which cannot obtain in the vicin.
ity sufficient to fill good sized ice-house.
There are also few structures about
farm, that will prove more valuable to a
farmer, as q matter Of interest, and to his
family as a matter Of luxury, than an
abundance of ice in the warm season. A
house will cost, when its real value is con-
sidered, very triaing amount, as it can
be constructed mostly by the labor cor-
nected with the farm, with the help Of q
carpenter; and the filling of it is done at
4 season when the duties of the farm arc
light. All ce-houses, and especially small
ones, are better constructed under ground.
There should be a wooden framework,
with double boarding all round, and with
a space Of some six or eight inches be-
tween, filled with tan, or cut straw we'll
packed in; there should also be double
roof, admitting the free circulation Of air
between them, as we'll as a double door.
Clean straw should be put in the bottom
and along the sides, when filling with ice.
The ice would keep much better if sawed
in blocks Of one size and packed as bricks
are piled. None but pure, solid ice should
be taken, if it can be obtained and the
lower the temperature is when cut, tho
longer the ice will keep. Even as FAM
lily comfort, no farmer should be without
an ice house, and once having 1.-THE would
find il indispensable.-GermantoGa Tele-
qraph
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repudiated him in a Legislative caucus,
and recommended another man. Who
that man was, we learn by the Balance,
which copies from the u S. Gazette the
following paragraph:
ave have taken some pains to enable
ourselves to answer with correctness vari-
Gus enquiries of correspondents respecting
the real existence of such man as Simon
Snyder, surnamed by the revolutionists
CIodhopper, who is said to have fallen in
love with the gubernatorial chair of Penn.
sylvania, and is now endeavoring to pro-
cure it for his own accommodation. Many
seem to suppose that the name of Simon
Snyder, Clodhopper, is merely fictitious,
and has been used by the revolutionists as
John Doe and Richard Roe are used by
the lawyers, merely to grace their process.
After diligent enquiry We are enabled to
state that this opinion is erroneous. There
actually is in Pennsylvania a man of the
name of Simon Snyder, and he has really
taken it into his head to be governor. We
can further state that some of the knowing
ones among the revolutionists are offering
considerable bets that he rW be governor"
Such is the language in April. In Oc-
tober of the same year,
1t is stated in the T. S. Gazette that
the price of shaving S"yaerites has risen
to one dollar, in consequence of the extreme
length of their faces. In Philadelphia,
where majority Of 100 was claimed for
Snyder, there is majority of POI for
Mkean. There are also majorities for
Mkean in the folwing counties, viz: Del
aware 59l, Lancaster 1900, Montgomery
437, Chester 400. In the two latter coun-
ties, majorities had been claimed for Sny-
der, and Lancaster was set off even
Alas poor Duaue-alas. poor Simon
Disappointment was as common in those
days as in ours. The federals helped eject
M'Kean. But, for three terms after that,
the reality of the existence of SIMON
SNYDER, elected by humping majorities,
could be determined by an investigation of
the "gubernatorial chair Of Penn'a," with
which the mystic "Clodhopper" had "falleu
in love and an independent County,
embracing the home of his manhood and
his grave, perpetuates his memory.
PRICES OF PRODUcE-The Balance
gives the following "Prices Current at
Hudson, n. Y, Saturday March l6, 1905:
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HUDSON, June 4, 1S05.-At Lisbon.
latest dates, flour was at II dolls. so cents
dull, with the probability of falling"
1t seems from the above, that the prices
of breads.uAs and provisions we're higher,
half century ago, than to-day; also that
the foreign market was probably proper
tionally as important, then, as it is now.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-12-28

TRUSTING INNocENcE.-A backwoods-
man, who had never seen pair of sugar
tongs, being invited to tea party, reques-
ted person who unhappily sat near him
to give some information respecting its
use. "1t is very ingenious instrument" /"
said the cruel wag "which has been lately
invented for the purpose of blowing the
nose. 1t is now in use in genteel society,
and it is expected that the disgusting GUS
tom Of using the fingers will be altogether
abolished" The sugar dish was handed
around, the unfortunate "lion' seized the
tougs, and the polite part Of the assembly
we're scandalized at the outre application
of the instrument and the terrible explo.
sion which followed.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-12-28
File of Newspapers, Fifty Years Old.

We own a bound volume of I" The
BALANCE and Columbian Repository" a
weekly journal, in quarto form, published
at the city of Hudson, N. Y, A. d. 1905,
at 81 per year in advance. 1t is violent
Federal paper, edited by Harry Croswell,
who deceased not long since as Rev. H.
Croswell, D. D., of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church. 1t was in this Office that Ed
win Croswell, of the Albany Argus, gradu-
ated-here, that he imbibed bis Democra-
cy, or Republicanism, as the opponents of
the Federals called themselves. 1t is an
interesting and able journal; behind those
of the present day in the amount of its
reading, and the freshness of its intelli-
gence; but imbued with a composed and
digni6ed spirit unlike those of our feverish
times while many of its anecdotes are,
if not word for word, at least idea for idea,
those passing through our newspapers.
All papers in those days had their motto:
that of the Balance was
"Hai, sacred polty, by freedom reared
Hail, sacred freedom, when BY law restrained!'
Br,TrH.
PARTIzAN Observation-Disclosures
ding the virulence of the personal and po-
litical attacks of The Balance against Mr..
Jefferson and his administration-andn not
withstanding its constant denunciations of
the Jacobins" for removing Federalists
from Post Offices and other stations-it
looks little singular to see that Of the
list of Agents for the Balance more than
half arc Post Masters and Printers, and
thsse among the best Post Offices and lar
gest towns in the Union! At this day,
for an Opposition newspaper to be publish
ing Post Masters at good" Offices as their
Agents, would be very rare occurrence,
and almost sure to result in the dismissal
of the P. NJ. and for one Printer to act as
Agent for another, as they then did, would
seem to be singular indeed.-In these re-
spects, there is not as much good feeling
as there was Fifty years ago.
FIRST NOTICE OF SIMON SNYpER.-Al.
though Thomas M'Kean had twice been
elected Governor of Pennsylvania by the
Republican party, yet about 1905 the
rsabers Of the Legislature Of that party
--e. - ~ -s.----- - I
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-12-28
Hollow Horn Disease,

a writer in the Boston Cultivstor gives
the following as the symptoms of, and
remedy for, the hollow horn disease:
"The symptoms are dropping of the
head and ears, lying down, turning the
head over the back, towards the should
ers, as if pain in the head. This l think
is spinal disease, affecting the brain and
horns. Cure.-Take large table spoon
ful of sulphur, and lard sufficient when
warm to make it soft like paste, pour it on
the top Of the head at the root Of the horns;
take shovel or fat piece of iron, heat it,
aud bold it over the head so as to let in
fresh air and warm the top of the head, as
much as the beast will bear; repeat once
in two or three days, aud bore holes on
the under side, two or three inches from
the head, so as to let in fresh air, and let
the putrid matter ou. if any is collected.
| have never known this to fail if taken
before too far gone. l have cured ono
COW when the top of the head was 50 full
of matter tha, opened place above the
ear which discharged more than half
pint. This was in the summer, the COW
was fattened in the fall and killed; tho
head was all right, excepting a place at
the roots of the horns abou: as large as o
small spoon bowl"
PLANT FROM THE Bssr-A Virginia
farmer, in sending some fine corn to tho
Agricultural Office at Washington, says:
al have for twenty years saved for the seed
the top car Of the stalks tha, bear two and
three ears apiece, and have in this manner
improved the corn" This corn is said to
make fine, white meal, and most nu,ri-
tious bread, which is much relishedbyall who
have par:aken of it. The method adopted
il worth The ai'eLtion Of cur friends hers
q Paan.ylvanis.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-12-28
THE FARM:
The G0rden...The Orchard.
From the Dollar Nsvspsperl
New England Rotations In Crops.

Believing that knowledge Of the differ
ent rotations Of crops, in our various States,
will be interesting, and, if rightly studied
and applied, very useful in practice, allow
me to call your attention to .be following
sketch Of the New England rotations the
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-12-28

EATING AND DRINKINa.-"If you
wish," said Sydney Smith, "for anything
like happiness in the ifth act of life, ca,
and drink about one.half what you could
cat and drink. Did I tell you my calcu-
lation about eating and drinking? Hav-
ing ascertaiucd the weight of what could
live upon, SO as to preserve health and
strength, and what did live upon, found
that, between ten and seventy years Of
age, l had eaten and drunk forty four
horse wagon loads Of meat and drink more
than would have preserved me in life and
health! The value of this mass of nour-
ishment l considered to be worth $1,000.
1t occurred to me that 1 must, by my vo-
racity, have starved to death fully hun
dred persons"
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Gbe ltwisburg Gbronifle.
FRIDAY, DEC. IS, 1855.


One hundred years ago. Perhaps no
person now living, has any personal recol-
lection of the events, recorded in history,
which transpired century gone by. The
few whose ages exceed a hundred, recollect
little if anything except events of pri-
vate nature. Yet there were some matters
of stirring interest, in 1855.
A war ragged between France and Great
Britain-(a very different state of feeling
from that now existing between those two
great nations)-in 1855, and was carried
on mostly on this continent. The French
had chain of colonies to the north and
west of the English colonies. That year,
the English Gen. Monckton conquered
Nova Scotia, and Sir VIM. johnson defeat
ed the French under Dieskau. The Eng
lish failed, however, in their expeditions
against Crown Point and Niagara, and in
particular was the year saddened by the
defeat of Gen. Braddock in his memorable
expedition against Fort Du Quesne (uow
Pittsburg) On that occasion, the good
qualities of WASHINGTON became most
prominent, and had the naughty English
General taken the modest advice of the
"Virginia Buckskin," he would have
doubtless captured Pittsburg, and des-
troyed the French aud Indian power on
that frontier, instead of finding an Union
ored and almost unmarked grave in the
forest.
The same year, a war existed between
the republic of Holland and piratical Al
giers.
In 1855, also, terrible earthquakes pre-
vailed. Quito in South America, was de-
stroyed, April 2Sth; and on the 1st of
November, the city of Lisbon in Portugal
was fairly shaken to the earth and buried
by q tremendous wave from the sea, SO that
$4,000 persons are estimated to have per-
ished. An interesting account of this
earthquake may be found in Harper's Mag
azine, of a recent date.
In 1755 died Mosheim, the ecclesiastical
historian; and Montesquieu, the elegant
writer.
In 1855, were born Gilbert Stuart, the
painter; John Flaxman, the sculptor; Sa-
rah Siddons, the actress; aud VIM. Brad
ford, U. S. attorney general.
In l.55, the frs: attempt at settlement
by Connecticut was made in Wyoming;
renewed in 1868.
From 1850 to 1855, it is stated, various
attempts we're made to settle on Penns
creek, now in Snyder county; and Arthur
Buchanan and others did settle at Lewis
town in Miflin county but they were all
subsequently driven away by hostile Indi
ans. That year, was sorrowful one for
the whites in Pennsylvania, and the from
tiers of all the Colonies. The sufferings
and deaths, from Indian warfare, in that
year, in our vicinity and elsewhere, would
be an impressive contrast, if properly ex-
hibited, to the quiet and happiness that
time in its roll of one huEdred years now
sees exhibited on every hand.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-12-28
Written Hand Bills in Advertising.

The Sunbury american, says, We still
observe occasionally, written hand-bills
stuck up, advertising the sale Of persona,
property. That such things should exist
in this age of progress and general intelli-
gence, is indeed surprising. In the early
settlements, when Printing Presses were
few and far between" there was some e1-
cuse for written hand-bills. Before the
art of printing was discovered, written
news sheets were distributed among the
people. Yet who would think Of dissent
mating news at this day, iu sheets of manu-
script? And yet one is but little more
absurd than the other. No man who has
sufficient capacity to understand his own
interests, will fail to advertise his sales or
his business in the newspapers, and by
printed bills, and no Executor, Admins
traitor or Guardian should be held inexcu-
sable in law for neglect of duty, who failed
to do so.
The object Of advertising is, Of course to
give notoriety and to attract attention.
Now, on an average, three-fourths of those
even who can read writing, can not do so
with facility, and would therefore pass q
written bill without attempting to read it,
and of the other fourth not one in FIVE
would take the trouble This is not the
case with printed bills. The display lines
of the leading articles strike the sight, so
that "he who runs may read" and
whether one is inclined to or not, his
attention is involuntarily attracted, and
the object of the advertisement is accom-
plished. But it is idle to argue the sub
ject. Every business man knows and feels
the truth Of what We have said-and acts
accordingly.
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to recover the arms stolen, and to protect
the arsenal from further plunder. Atchi-
son, it is said, is encamped with some 25
men, about fifteen miles from Lawrence,
waiting for reeuforcemen.s. There is
report aHoat that Shannon is much agita.
ted, and is trying to advise the Missouri
ans to go home-having at last Convinced
himself that this is the only way to avoid
a collision. He is obliged, however, to
advise with Atchison and Stringfellow, and
they. l believe, require the Lawrence men
to surrender their arms. This they con-
slider as equivalent to laying down their
lives, and of course they will not consent.
Negotiation and compromise thus far have
been fruitless 1t is thought that the cri-
sis in Kansas affairs has come at last the
fight is expected to begin to-day or TO-
morrow, and If so it must be bloody one,
for the Lawrence men will fight with no
expectation of quarter. 1t is thought by
the Free-State men here that the Missou-
rians will attack this city, whether success
full or not at Lawrence; they have avowed
the destruction Of the Register press and
may throw it into the river, as they did
the RarkriNe Luminary.
"Possibly Col. Sumner, in endeavoring
to retake the arms stolen from the arsenal
may bring about collision between the
United States and the border ruffians.
"Iu the present condition Of the public
mind trife may turn the strife into quite
different channel from that anticipated
by those who originated it. To give you
an idea of the excitement in this place l
need only state that business is entirely
suspended, and groups Of men are on the
streets talking about the war, as if ter
rible calamity was impending which can
not be averted."
-~---N-~~>>~~--
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-02
Personal Intelligence.


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schpavc Toledo Ohio Endge Ohio Decor stein and
son. Richmond Va Decor Cuntaings, Portland. Ma
kRusse. y. y. A.; Nathaniel Pearce, bsldnoro Hon
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Hernid Marine CorresnondoSce.

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Totally lost the worth Breakers Island OH 9Th
Nov She wae good vessel be onrnr Ysre1h M aaa
vay rsriJ Insured IN Ihlnoel piiG Tor SIS 0cD.
sspp Cnsry, which rot Ashore OiIornep Point n fav
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fhe n not seriously dauaaed-
scrp cungnEs, rsrtsr, i,om Georgetown, SC sor
tta oayis end head rails 18th gale lost toreop mad
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kus,sniug any osmaps.
Nosfse to Mariners.
ccfrAss waiiTgE.
following lftsr nom lie of ~ Uyerpool
romraea nIltsc has Ger received ~ Thomas Court
SEQ s,aoi4ry the Liverpool Under rler.' Associa
~ Lovrp CrAxnyRs Easr, Soy. ~ 1856.
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