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Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-12-26

A Musical Convention.

Nessrs Editors :-Profs. johnson and
Frost have expressed desire to hold
musical convention in our town, provided
we raise them hundred dollars. They
propose holding it some time in the month
of January next, which makes it necessary
to have the required amount subscribed as
early as possible. Most of US are acquaint-
ed with the modus operGndi at these con-
ventions, but for the benefit Of those who
are not, and with the hope Of awakening
an interest and engaging the assistance
of many in our own town, neighboring
towns and the surrounding country, | will
briefly state it. The company, consisting
of Prois. johnson and Frost, Miss White
house and Miss Rawson. meet the mem
bers Of the Convention, say at nine O'Clock
A. 81. aud sing until twelve-meet again
in the afternoon and also in the evening
thus making three sessions per day and
each three hours in length, for four or five
consecutive days. Concerts are then Civ
en- for defraying the expenses, and the
overplus, If there be any, is taken care of
by the Professor himself. The advanta-
yes growing out Of such practice under in
s,ructorS of so great emiutnce, is surprls-
ing.-to the truth of which we have the
testimony of the people of Danville. Mum
CIV, and of whatever town this company
have visited. We therefore earnestly i'm
plore the material, as well as active exer-
tiuns of our towns people in behalf OF the
enterprise. The reward will be great;
the standard Of a most sacreG and refining
science elevated. and we may then have
music in our Churches bef,ting their more
than ordinary elegance. The time fixed
upon is, in business point of view. dull
season Of the year, and is especially con-
venient for ladies' and gentlemen living in
the country. We urge you, then, to call
on Mr.. Jos. l.. ioder, who has one list OF
names numbering twenty five. and there
will be other papers soliciting subscriP-
tions circulated through the town. We
shall expect, indeed We have the promise
of about thirty names from Mifflinburg.-
Our Selinsgrove friends have already man
ifested readiness to join Us. Shall we
not have a hundred names in Lewisburg?
That alone, at dollar each, would secure
US the Convention. v.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-12-26
ODE .Br J. G. WHITTIER.
Sumo a. tie Esser Co Mass.) Agricultural F1u

NknU a Tie Es>tI -"
One morning, at The first sad Fan,
Poor Adam and his bride
Sat ir the shade of Eden's wall
But on the outer side.
They hear the air above them famed,
A light step IN the sward,
And, 10 ! they saw before them s'aha
The angel of the Lord |!
Behind them, smiling in the morn,
Their forfeit Garden lay;
Before Them, wild with roc. and thorn,
The desert stretched away.
She, blushing IN her fg-leaf suit
For the chaste garb of old;
He. signing DER his bitter irail,
For Eden's grapes OF gold.
"Arise!" he said. ..why look behind.
When Hope IS all before,
And patient hand and willing mind
Your loss may YET restore
81 leave you with a spell whose power
Can make the desert giai,
And call around y"u fruit and hower
AS fair as Eden had.
al clothe your hand with power to lIft
The curse from of your s"il;
Your very doom shall seem gift,
Your loss a gam, through TuiL.
Go, cheerful as yon hummins bees,
To labor as 10 play
And cleaning over Eden'S trees
The angel passed away.
The pilgrims of the world went iorIh,
Obedienl Ia the word,
And found, where'er they ulled the earth,
A garden OF the L"rd!
Once more, oh white winged angel, stand
Where man still pines and grieves,
And lead through Ton, I" Elen-and,
New Adams and new EYES,
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-12-26

John Fl. Mears, the companion OF the
late DIR. Gardiner in his frauds on the
United States, since he obtained his por-
ton Of that plunder, has been wauderer
and lost and squandered all his money
At length he became trathcker in small
wares, and took his goods from one place
TO another in the various trains and wag'
ons that 20 through Mexico. A few weeks
ago, he was accompanying one OF these
trains from Nieves to Monterey, and on
their way it was attacked by the savages,
and Mears with his family and several
other persons were murdered.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-12-26
MASONIC.

At the last regular meeting of Charity
Lodge No. l44, Of A. Y. NJ, the following
off ,ers were elected to serve during the
ensuing Masonic year:
Rev. r. A. Fink, W. NJ.
j. W. Pennington. S. w.
G. Y. Mclaughlin, J. W.
Theo. lcTaddin, Secretary,
T. II. Fisher, Treasurer.
nay- rhe members of the Lodge are re
quested to meet in their Hall on Saturday.
the 9th inst, at o'clock. P. NJ, when
the officers elect will be inaugurated.
THO. McFADDIN, Sec.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-12-26

We are informed by the author that the
first edl,ion land as the work is not stereo
typed, the only edition which will be
prin,ed) of the History OF the West Branch
Valley is already more than half exhaus-
ted, consequently persons who wish to Sc
cure a copy of this truly valuable work.
had better do so soon.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-12-26

Hickman's maj. 81 again
Zach year, an "American" ran Oh
enough votes to elect Hickmau.)
In Oct 1856, for Prothonufary OF
Union county, Roush had 235 votes in
White Deer township, and just 235 maj.
in the county.
In Nov. following, Fremont had 331
votes in Lewisburg, and just 337 maj. in
Union county.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-12-26

The best and most conclusive reason
for an effect that we ever remember to have
heard, was given by a zone idea Dutch
man, in reply to friend who remarked,
"Why, Hans, you have the most feminine
cast of countenance haze ever seen. =
'Oh, yaw," was the reply. 81 know the
reason for dat-,nu mofke7. ,cds a tcOasdR.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-12-26

ia. Galligan, young Irishman ar
rived in New York three years ago with
$4,000 given to him by his father. A
d.y or two since he drowned himself, and
Is cents of his last dollar were found On
his person. The res. had been dissiPsted.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-12-26

C0INCIDENCEs.-In the election in the
Chester and Delaware district for Congress
in 1854, in Delaware county,
Hickman, Dem, had 1869 votes.
Broomall, Wing, 1882
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-12-26

The editor OF the Sunbury american has
been visiting our town, and i'll his paper OF
the 10Th inst. gives the following favorable
notice of one Of the institutions" .. Lew
Isnnrr
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-12-26
~Vs177. E"1 -4e VII
II Won't let us Alone,

"You let II alone, and ii viii let you
alone" said liquor dealer, when urged
to abandon the traffic. But this is not 80.
There are thousands who let liquor alone,
and yet suffer imneasurable evils in coz
sequence Of its use By others In proof
Of this, what an array Of startling facts
might be aiduced, Mrs d. is lady Of
education aud accomplishments. The first
few wears Of Ter married life were pleas
ant, prosperous and happy. She had
kind and afcctiouste husband, and an in-
terestiug and lovely family of children.
But - the worm Of the stilf' invaded that
happy freside, and spread desolation and
misery over that circle The husband and
father acquired an appetite for strong
drink The habit increased, his business
was neglected, his property wasted, and he
became loathsome drunkard. Things
grew worse, ill Mrs. D. vas reduced To
utter poverty, aud ber husband was sent
TO prison for az offence committed while
in drunken spree. Now observe, Mrs.
d. and her children Let liquor alone, but IL
did not let them 0lone. So of host of
tax payers. II has been shown beyond al
reasonable doubt that three-four;hs Of tho
criminal prosecutions aud seven sighths of
the entire paupcrism in the land, may be
xr.,aod hf thraa
fourths of the expense Of the whole sys-
TEN of criminal Jurisprudence, the cost OF
our jails, penitsnriari.s, and prisons o.
every description, are fairly to be put down
to the Use aud abuse of iiquor. If liquor
would let those alone who let IL alone, how
much suffering would be saved How
many wives and children now desolate and
wretched, would be cheerful aud happy,
1t is wisdom then to put under the ban Of
prescription an enemy that has wrought
so much mischief, desolated so many fire.
sides, and has no: one redeemlBg feature
to save it from universal reprobation.
FASHIONABLE Music" What's that?
It's music. Well, that's artificial, too
its seisntifc-they say it's done by rule.
Jist look at that ar gal at the piany
Gosh tew snakes First comes little
German thunder-good airth and seas,
Rba, crash 1t seems as If shed bang
the instrument I'll yen sTIscIes TarurT
guess she's vexed at somebody, aud is peg
ging into the piany jist out o spite. Now
comes singin' see what faces she makes
how she stretches her mouth open Ike
barn door, snd turns up the white Of her
eye like duck in thunder She's in mu-
sical ecstsey. is that gal; she feels good all
over; her soul is going out along with that
music O, its divine, and she's an angel,
I'd fell in love with her; but as | am I
map, at least what's left of NE, I'd jist as
soon fall ia love With one that's ieetle,
jist a leetle more Of woman, and leetle
less Of an angel Bat, halo. what under
the sum, she about? Why, her voice is
goin' down her own throat, to gain strength,
aud here it CONES out as deep toned mans,
while that dandy felier along side of her
is singin' what they call fssetter. They
We actually changed voices. That gal
sugs Ike man, and that scrcamer ike a
woman. This is science; this is taste;
this is fashion; but hang me if its na-
tur' "--Som Stick.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-12-26

ULTIMATE SUcCESS OF THE REPUBLI-
CAN pARTY.-'. do not predict the times
or seasons when ons or other of the con-
tending political elements shall prevail. I
know this, that this State, this nation and
this earth arc to be the abode aDd happy
home If Free Meu Its hills and It's VAL
leys are to be the fields of Free LaboT,
Free Thought, and Free Suffrage. That
consummation will come when society is
prepared for it. My labors are devoted
to that preparation. | leave others to
cling to obsolete traditions and perish with
them if they must; but, in politics as in
religion, desire to be with that portion
of nv fellow men who hold fast to the
truth with hope aud confidence, enduring
through all trials, to its complete and eter-
nal triumph" Se,card.
ON THE DEviL's SIDE, Now We
heard an aneclote, the other day, Of the
Hon. r. Tsomts, which as the newspapers
say of anything particularly rich, is so,
good to be lost ?"' The Senator was then
Representative-an old line Whig Rep
resentative-who was doing battle man
fully, against the old line Democracy !
Well, be chanced one day to meet his
friend George Pierce, now Bishop, and se
cas,ed him Familiarity as follows: "Friend
George,it strikes ne that you and are en-
gagged in pretty much the same calling
You are fighting tie DevH aud am fight
lug the Democrats :" The Senator has
since gone osor to the other side = 90.
Citizen.
ACHILD's CoMPRoaIsE. A c'ergyu
who mad been staying for some time at
the house of frlead OF ours, ca going
AWAY called to him little Eddy, the four-
yssr. old son Of the hos,, aad asked What
he should give him for present. EDDY,
sho hsd great respect for the "clcth,
thought it was his duty to suggest some
thius Of religious nature SO he answer
ed hesi,atingly: "i-l-i--think | sho'd
like a Testament, and ksow should
Ike 3 .qSirt,y %
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that could be said of the old Federal party was,
that il was stand-st1l party The worst that il
proposed was to keep things as they were. Il
never attempted to go backward. The party
which we have to encounter is, on the other hand,
q party which seeks TO turn our whole system
topsy. turvy. Not only have al the old democratic
ideas been carefully rooted out, but tares Of the
worst sort have been sown in their place. The
great question of our national policy now is-and
the shareholders freely syow it-Shall the country
be ruled to suit the theories and supposed interests
of 300, 900 shareholders, the name Of Democracy
being employed to extend slaveholdiDg and crush
out free labor; or shall we have democratic gov
eminent in fact as well IS in name-a government
not disposed to exat capital over labor shareholders
over freemen, or the minority over the majority
These are the great questions Of the day, and as
these questions are now for the first time distinctly
presented, the Republican party is the first party
organized since the times of the Revolution from
which free labor, free men and the laboring ma
jorty could reasonably expect any fair and square
and hearty support. The old Democratic party, and
still more the modern Democratic party, have al
ways had too large saveholdng element to make
it reasonable to expect from them any other than
substantially slayehOlding policy. The old Fed
erM party and the late Wing party, beside their
share of this slaveholding leayen, included also an
arstOcraticO commercial element still more hostile,
if possible, TO liberty and equality than the slave
holders themselves. The pretended Democratic
party Of this nation has from first to last been con-
trolled and used by small body of large landed
propretor', bearing in that respect strong re-
semblance to the English Tory party. The old
Federal and late Wing party, by its combination
of Southern landed aristocracy with a CONNER
cia and manufacturing aristocracy at the North,
has strongly resembled the English Wing party.
The Republican party is purged of both these
elements. Both shareholders and capitalists un-
able to control us and to manage US, have gone
over to the pretended Democratic party and left the
great middle class of the nation to shift for ITSELF
1t is that great middle class of Industrious, inte
gent men, Republicans by principle and Republ-
cans by position that constitute the Republican
party, forming now the sole but strong barrier
against the total failure of our Republican expert
ment
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are fully understood there or il they be other than
little ones, they are misunderstood. We know
we shall have the virtue Of Magnanimity -four
ished in our face. But Magnsnimity, though q
virtue of an excellent temper may be put to pur-
poses for which it was never meant, and, as Gene
raj Casss sword was at Hull's Surrender, 1t may
be run into the ground. We would not counsel
retaliation with the South. We would not for
example, urge Massachusetts, to make it felony,
punishable with five years imprisonment, for Car
Gilman TO commence suit at law in the United
States Court for that District though this would be
but tit for tat for the legislation after Mr. Hoars mis-
sion. Nor should we advise New-York, because our
colored citizens are illegally imprisoned and vii
lanousy sold into lifelong Slavery by the barba-
rous laws of the seabOard Slave States, to enact
that every Careliniap, on arriving in the State,
should be imprisoned until he was ready to return,
ard then, if unable to pay the fees provided BY law,
be sent to the penitentiary for life; and yet this
were reasonable compared with the statutes of
those barbarous communities. But, we SUBJ
NIT, when the suspicion even of any Northern
feeling is enough to drive clergymen and pro-
fessors from the South, when men are not suf-
fered to live there who wish to vote for Free
State candidate. and when the whole region is
shut against all Northern speakers, on all sub
ects, who have not the mark Of the Beast in their
foreheads--we submit we say, that we at the
North might at least forego suing for the egotsti-
cal platitudes of Mr.. Benton, or the hatulent I'M
pertinencies of Mr.. Simms Have We not bores
enough of our own If they wish to come, let
them come. Let Brooks or Douglas have hear
ing, if they demand it, without mOlestation; but
let it be on their own responsibility and without
entreaty or cOuntenance Of ours.
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TIE ALbanp Atlas saw ft in harsh terms to accuse

The AUanu atlas saw 6t in harsh terms to accuse
TIE TRIBUNE of Systematically incorporating
the main issue involved in the late Presidential can
yass, and which it says has been "setted by the
ELECTION of Buchanan" We replied, calmly and
earnestly, showing that what The atlas now COM
meuds as "leaving the settlement of the Slavery
"question to the People of the Territories" was
exactly what it had long denounced and opposed as
surrenderDg those Territories to Slavery. Tie At
las declined to take issue with US on this point, but
insisted that We had lodged the issue by it pre-.
sented. Thereupcn we cited evidence at length to
show that the passage .f the Nebraska bill, and the
election of Buchanan subsequent, did not leave the
settlement Of the Slavery question to the People o.
the Territories, bu. in fact foreclosed j. sgains,
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Some important news from Kansas will be found
ON another page. Several Of the Free-State pris-
oners confined at Tecumseh have made good their
escape; they are pursued, however, and may be
retaken. On the other hand, Hays the murderer
of Buffum, whose arrest by Gov. Geary after he
had been released ON bail was the cause of the re-
cent quarrel between that functionary and Judge
Lecoupte, has once more been set at liberty by the
Judge, in defiance of the Governor. 1t is said that
the latter submits quietly to this nes demonstration
on the part of Lecompte. He is also about to lose
his assistant in the arrest of Hays as Col. Titus,
the great Border-Rufiau leader, who rendered that
service to the Governor, is about to leave Kansas
for the more congenial fields of Nicaragua. free
passage from ST. Louis is promised to whoever
wishes TO take service under Walker. Gov. Geary
has been denounced at meeting of Border Ruffians,
ut whch Mr.. Surveyor General Calhoun occupied
the chair. The occasion for this seems to have
been found in GeaIy's dispute with Lecompte aud
Donulds,p aid in the fact that several Pro Slavery
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Mr.. Buchanan says in his speech to the students
Of Franklin College, that bis Administration Is to
put an end to sectional parties and restore peace to
the country So we recollect that Mr. Pierce
began bis Presidential career by declaring that he
should resist oil attempts to reopen the Slavery
agitation; soon after which, by bribery aud intim-
datiop, he forced the Nebraska bill through CoG-
gress. From an old politician like Mr. Buchanan.
such professions are not worth much, especially
when we consider that he voted TO restrain the lib
eIty Of The press by excluding from the mais puS-
Hcations suspected of Anti Slavery tendencies, and
that be wrote the Ostend Manifesto. The people
will have much more confidence in him when hs
really has set bis foot on the neck Of hGbusterism
ard strsngled il, and when b. has shut up Slavery
within ts apcisnt limits. ard made ita propasators
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GREAT FIRE AT SYRACUSE.

from The Daily Standard, syracuse, nov 10 1901
UrRpNe's PATENT CHAMPION SAFES.
o,s If HEARINGS FiREPRooF SAFES, sold BY D. s. 4 ;
- V1e 90 RS civ passed through the ordeal OF recent
r,rs, Wsid Of this city aud its contents came out
% ~ order as the following certificate numPnantly
proves "SALINA, Nov Is, 1885,
"me..u sGs P. GEsR, Agents, or to all whom 1t may
Th L, certify tbA the Safe OF S. C. HERRING Co.,
tib vas bought OF you October IT, burned the sres
,.h orcnyred here on the morning of the 9th inst and
81, t . underwent and resisted the most intense heat and
NOT removed until the afternoon OF the 2th having re-
bs ere los hours and brought the contents in
d Of preservation and the paper which this is writ
fen ~ ms part OF the contents Of said safe r,
Purchasers are invited to call upon the subscroers exam
Inc snd compare the HERsNG's fAESI ohA"rioN WIN
Wilder, and other patented Safes for sale
"H'ei " StLAs c. HERRING L Co,
Green Block corner Water and Pine sts, aud
No Murray-st.. one door from Broadway
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To Advertisers.

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Nkwpurk daily Gtibm,ts
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1856.
TO CORRESPeNDENTS.

No notice be taken Of anonymous Communcstns Wh
intended for insertion be authenticated by the
and address Of the weI-no necessarily for pubisa
ton, but guaranty of his good faith.
We cannot undertake TO return rejected Communications
Subscriber sending remtnces frequently omit
ton the Of the PostOfice and very equsnAy the
Of the State to which their paper be sent.
vAys mention the Of the Post Office and STATE.
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There was ruuor las. night that the Arago wa
off TIE coast but at latest adviees from Sand!
Hook she had not been seen.