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Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22
A Preachers Speech.

Upon the reception, at Waltham,
of the news of Mr.. BANKS election as
Speaker, general illumination was
made the parents, wife and sisters Of
Mr.. Banks were greeted with cheers;
and Rev. Mr.. FOSTER addressed the
crowd as follows:]
/ thank you, friends and fellow cit
liens, for calling me up, even in the.
small hours of Saturday night, to join
my congratulations with yours over
this days glorious work. Tonight we
may say with emphatic exultation,
"Now is the winter of our discomfort
made glorious summer by this son of"
Massachusetts,. To-day witnesses the
first backward turn of the ponderous
wheel Of Oppression that has so long
threatened to roll over and crush the
spirit of Freedom through the entire
North. Now has the old fire-ship of
Slavery stranded on the firm Banks
of New England. To-day, for the first
time in many years do we witness the
out-stretched arm of Almighty Power
staying the desolating tide of Wrong
while the voice from above proclaims
Thus far shalt thou come, but no far
ther, and here shall thy proud waves
be stayed. We celebrate here and
now the most glorious triumph the
spirit of Liberty in our country has
achieved since the days of Lexington
and Bunker Hill and Saratoga and
Yorktown.
All honor to those noble men who
have achieved this triumph! All honor
to the worthy son of Massachusetts,
who is doing his share in straighten-
ing up and stiffening the backbone
of the North, which had become so
dropping under the soft nursing of
Webster and Everett and Fillmore &
Co. This days work seals the freedom
of Kansas, AND SAVES THE UNION.
Now let Congress and the people
regulate Kansas affairs, and secure to
Freedom her inheritance there and
then, when we have advanced N. p.
Banks to still higher post, or put
some other statesman into the Presid-
ential chair, with Congress to back him
up in a thoroughly anti-slavery cons
truction of our noble Constitution, we
will LET SLAVERY SLIDE! Then may
We soon Proclaim Liberty throughout
the land, and to all the inhabitants
thereof" and thus FOR EVER "sToP THIS
SLAVERY AGIrATlON."
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22
Converts. Miss Bunkley's Book.

Some weeks ago We called the attention
of our readers to the subject of converts,
and we were grati6ed to fud that our re-
marks and suggestions met with q most
favorable reception, and we're very exteu'
sively circulated through the means of
other journals, religious and secular. We
have waited patiently for some movement
in our State legislatures toward embody-
ing in laws the undoubtcd sentiment of
the people on this subject; but We have
waited in vain. Our Legislators are as
much afraid of responsibility as the Chi
nese, and they shrink from the very acts
which, if performed. would give them the
popularity for which they sigh. There is
but little manliness among our public men.
They seek to be only the unthinking, ire
sponsible indices of party. They hope
that their official conduct may be satisfac-
torily negative, and that at the next can
vass there will be no wrong-.hat is, inde-
pendent-action to charge them with.
They do not aspire to lead the public
mind they only hope to follow it, and,
like the timid apostle, they follow afar of,
keeping a relative position, which will
warrant them to hurrah for victory, while
it will give them good start in retreat.
More than anything else they dread to
meet the cry Of persecution. BY the
threat of this the great American party
has already been everawed, and the re.
formers whom the mighty surge Of Amer
icau feeling lifted into public place have
found the fiery patriotism that glowed SO
fiercely in the couucil-room, damped and
chilled almost to extinction in the ungeni-
al region Of legislative publicity. The
Americans, the Protestauts, the freemen
of the country must try again. Men who
can do nothing in public assemblies have
no business there. Let them return to
the quiet walks of domestic life, which
many of them are we'll calculated to pur-
sue with advantage to themselves and the
community. The times require other
men in public places-men who fear God,
and only God.
Having appealed in vain to our legisla-
tors, we now appeal to the people. Is it
your will, men of America, that women
shall be held in slavery, the worst of all
slavery, by foreign priests, in your very
midst! There are scattered over our
country hundreds of strongly walled and
barred houses, into which young women
are artfully inveigled, and from which they
| are not permitted to depart. In these pla:
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22

STRANGE OPTICAL INsTRUMENr.-
There has lately been exhibited in Paris.
huge coneave mirror, an instrument of
startling species of optical magic. On
standing close to it, it presents nothing
but monstrous dissection of your pbysi-
ognomy. On retiring couple of feet, it
gives your face and figure in true propor-
tions, but reversed, the head downward.
But retire still further, at the distance Of
five or six feet from the mirror, and behold
you see yourself, not refection-it does
not strike you as rehection-tut your
veritable self, standing between you and
the mirror. The effect is appalling, from
the idea it suggests of something superuat-
ural: SO striking indeed is the exhibition,
that men of the strongest nerve will shrink
involuntarily at the FIRST view.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22
Add &c years, to Dec. 1855 &c
1855

1919
As the 33d Congress closed 4th March, 1855,
the 34th must begin on the lst Monday OF
Dec. 1855"
But then Congress DID NOT "begin
on the 1st Monday Of Dec. l1S9," for
"Gen. Washington was inducted into
the Office of President, on the Both Of
April, 1889, in the presence Of Cong
ress. 29th Sept. 1889, the lst session
ADJOURNED. And the SECOND session
began sth Jan. 1870. Every session
occupying year only, there appears
clearly an overlapping or an extension
of time, somewhere in the time past.
Having sent our difficulty" to Mr..
GREELEY, he explains it thus
WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. %, sc.
EDs. .CHRoNIcLE-You are as wrong as can
be. The Ist Congress commenced in 1883,
and closed 1th March, 1871. The lid COM
menced Dec. 1891 /; the XXXINth of course
opened Dec. 1855, as it should, and will close
in March, 1857. Where is the dfiiculryi
Yours, HonAcE GREELEY.
1t appears, then, that the 1st Cong
ress extended from April (instead of
Dec.) 1889, to March, 1871. The
apparent error was the opening of the
first two sessions nearly year earlier
than the 3d-Dec. '91-since which
that is the uniform month for opening.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22
Dinner at the Old Homestead.

This is said to be pretty hard old
world and some say this is pretty hard
old winter. Perhaps it's SO, but let one
under the plea Of cousinship, or good
looks, or friendship, or very remarkable
talkativensss, be bidden to an annual re.
union dinner at the Old Farm Homestead,
and he will believe there is one bright
green spot in it, any way. A pleasant,
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22

1t is stated that the capital invested in
the oyster trade Of Baltimore amounts to
$4,000, 600, and that FIVE hundred vessels
and fifteen thousand men are employed in
it. There is an ordinance there prohibi-
ting the sale of oysters during the sum-
mer, which has driven sl,G00,000 Of the
capital to Philadelphia aud New York.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22

Out West, the publications a man must
have to render him eligible to Office are
fever and ague, a pork-house, hogshead
Of whiskey, bowie knife, seventeen
grown up sons, military brother-in-law,
and plenty Of dog-leg tobacco.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22

In Philadelphia there is an establish
ment for the manufacture of paper bags,
for druggists, coufectioncrs and other dea-
lers, with machinery driven by steam. 1t
produces 10000 bags of various sizes per
day, and consumes nearly one ton and
half of paper per week.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22
Good Moral Habits.

Lord John Russell has lately deliv-
cred an address in Exeter Hall, Lon
don, and we make the following ex-
tract from the full report of it in the
London Times:
Young men in these days, and for
aught we know in all ages, expect to
have moral and religious progress
made not only easy, but plcasurable,
triumphant and ingeniOus-digniiied
with theories and sweetened with in
diligence. They want royal road
to improvements wide road, pleas
ant road, and not very tedious. So
LordRussell does not hesitate to warn
them, and gives them the stern old
advice that the only way is to be
found in good habits. Bad habits
and vicious inclinatiOns, in one form
or another, are the real obstacles to
progress, and they are powerful ones.
Strong restraint is necessary to sub
due them, and that restraint is to be
found only in morality and a good
teacher. Good moral habits are the
very sinews Of the frame, whether
that be the frame of one mind or of
all society. They "ro tho fbros that
make the muscles, that forms our sol
id consistency, that gives US working
power, and make US true men. All
the talk in the world goes for nothing
if it does not end in good moral hab-
its, the want of which is sure to make
a clever man a fool, wise reforms nu-
gatory, and a great nation profigate
and corrupt.
Let Heaven send good harvests I;
let our cities resound with the hum
of factories and the traffic of streets; let
earth be covered with railways, and the
ocean with our ships; but let the salt Of
life be wanting-let luxury spoil the rich
and intemperance degrade the poor let
the moral sense be once blunted by bad
habits, and then all that should have been
for our wealth becomes occasion for failing,
and harvests, cities, factories, railways,
ships, arts, science, everything on which
We were lately boastipg ourselves, passes
over like a traitor to the camp of destruc-
tion, and obstructs that moral and politi-
cal progress of which it seems to be the
chief means. immortality, whether public
or private, is the one source of mischief,
and Lord John Russell has read good
lesson to self. .Aattering and self.indulgent
generation, when he points out that no.
thing is to be done, and no progress made,
without good moral habits. Whether all
the young men who heard him last night
thought this any more than so much SER
monizing we know not, but if they live
long enough they will find it all true, to
their pleasure or their cost.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22

" You say, Mr.. Springles, that Mr. Jay
cocks was your tutor. Does the Court un-
derstand from that, that you received your
education from him p
''No sir. BY tutor l mean that he
learned NE to play on the French horn.
lie taught me to toot-hence call him
tutor"
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22
Anecdote of a Chaplain.

Henry Clay Dean, the presen. Chaplain
to the United States Senate, was some
years ago a resident of North Western
Virginia. While preaching one day at q
church situated few miles from Fair
mount, he was annoyed by the irattention
of his congregation as manifested in turn
ing their heads to see every body who
came in. ''Brethren," said be, "it is
very difficult to preach when thus inter-
ruPted. Now Do you listen to me, and I,
will tell you the name of every man as ho
enters the church" OF course this re-
mark attracted universal attention. Pre-
seutly some one entered. s'Brother Scat
ter6eld" called out the preacher, while
the "brother" was asionisbed beyond mea-
sure, and endeavored in vain to guess what
Was the matter. Another came in "Bro-
ther Joseph Miller" bawled the preacher
with like result and SO on perhaps in
other cases. Ater a while, the congrega-
ton were amazed at hearing their preacher
call out, in loud voice "a little old
man, with blue coat and white hat on!
Don't know who be is, you look for your
selves"
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22

According to official reports, published
in the beginning of 1855, the capital of
France with population of 100000
souls, has only forty-six churches, or ono
church to 2G 900 inhabitants.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22

4 corpulent bachelor friend of ours,
had both his ears frozen, last night, while
in bed-snoozing away in his selfish lone
illness. If such a warning does not terrify
him into matrimonial speculations, we hope
he may never thaw out when lie freezes
agaiu.-.KI Wisconsin.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22
THIRTY-FIVE.
THE rEARs OF A MANS LIFE ARB THREE
BY Mp. WILLIS.

Oh. weary heart thou art half way home!
We stand on life's meridian height
As far from childhocd's morning come,
As To the graves forgetful night.
Give Youth and Hope parting tear
Youth started with us at the PROV
Hope promised but to bring US here,
And Reason takes the guidance now:
One backward look-the last-the last
One silent tear-for Youth is past!
Who goes with Hope and Passion back!
Who comes with me and Memory on!
Oh lonely looks the downward track
JOYS music hushei-Iiope's roses gonel
To Pleasure and her giddy troupe
Farewell. without 3 sigh or tear!
But heart gives way, and spirits droop.
To think that Love may leave Us here!
Have We no charm when Youth is flown
Midway to death left sad and lonei
Yet. stay!-as 'twere a twilight star
That sends its thread across the wave,
see a Frightening light from far
Steal down a path beyond the grave!
And now, bless God its golden line
Comes DER and lights my shadowy way.
And shows the dear hand clasped in mine!
But, Esti what those sweet voices say:
The better lands in sight,
And by its Christening light
All Love from Life's midway is driven,
Save her whose clssped hand will bring thee on to eav
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22

Messrs.COmst & Cassidy have united
the Albany Argus, and the Albany Atlas,
into one paper. These papers were the
organs of the Hard and Soft (Iunker and
Barnburner) sections Of the Democratic
rarty.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22

n letter from Yadkin county, North
Carolina, says, I" The Yadlin river is fro-
zen entirely across, which has no. been
the case before for twenty years
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22
q he Gbroniele,
FRIDAY, FEB. 22, 1856.
The difficulty" Laid.

Some weeks since, We referred to
the fact that the first Congress under
the American Constitution commenc-
ed its first session in the Spring of
1889; adjourned 29th Sept. that year;
and second session commenced Sth of
Jan. 1890 Following from this star
f;pr noint nc folloWS-
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22

A party Of Belgian emigrants located
about 20 miles north of Green Bay, Wis,
have been suffering severely from exposure
and lack of supplies. The people of Green
Bay sent delegation to their relief with
provisions.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22

PATS IDEA OF A CHEAP NEWSPAPER.
"A gentleman visiting his estates in Ire
land, was standing in a field noticing work
that was being done, when he overheard
Paddy telling Pat Of some terrible intelli-
gence from the seat of war. The news
seemed so very astounding that Pa. couldn't
quite make up his mind to swallow the
whole of 1t without some further authori-
ty; so he inquiries,
"An' faith, where did ye get hold Of the
intelligence %
"Ocb, " said his companion, "and didn't
rade it in the chape newspaper that's
prented in the town"
"An' dye behave wha. ye see in the
ehape prents p inquired Pat.
Gan why shouldn't ye behave that as
well as any other? it's a gentleman as
prents it,
/" Because" said Pat, "by my faith, I
don't think they can afford to spake the
truth for the money ~
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22
ting point, as follows

it would seem that the present is
the ID instead of the 1st session of the
34th Congress. A correspondent says
this is "the half century question over
again" and raps us as follows:
Mn. CHRONICLE: Your seeming difficulty
about whether this is the lst or I'd session of
the 3ith Congress, is singular. taking into
consideration the acknowledged learning of
the typographical corps of the US. in the l9th
century. As the lst session of the Isl Con-
eress begun on the Ist Monday Of Dec. 1883,
so the lst session of the 3lth must begin on
the lst Monday of Dec. 1855. Thus:
Dec. l7s9
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-02-22

principles and processes which they have
adopted, he will be safe IN following their
example. Ohi0 Earmer.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-11-27

GEARY AND LECOMPTE.-A serious difficulty
and the Governor, from a conflict OF jurisdic
tion in which we fear the Governor though
right, has oversteped tne bounds Of his legiti-
mate authority. Itappears man named Hays,
in one of the forays for robbery, was men,
Der of gang that stole the horses Of poor
inoffensiEe squatter, and a cripple, named
Buffum. Buffum protested against the out
rage, when Hays deliberately shot him dead.
The Governor at the time was in the vicinity
and investigated the facts on the spot and was
satisfied it was. most cruel, unprovoked muir
der. Hays was arrested and imprisoned, but
he seems to have been a favorite Of Sheriff
Jones and Marshal Donaldson. After his ex-
animation and commitment and after the grand
jury had found true bill against him for
murder, a writ Of hab2as corpus was sued
out before Judge Lccomptc, and after two eX-
aminations he was admitted to bail in $4,000
bonds, Sheriff Jones becoming his surety
On hearing of this proceeding, Geary ordered
the U. S. Marshal to re-arrest Hays, but he
refused to obey the Governor; who then com
manded Titus to make the arrest with the
military under his command; which order was
promptly obeyed and Hays was confined. a
serious quarrel between the chief justice and
the Governor is the consequence. 1t has eX-
cited great deal of feeling among the people
as well as between the parties, and the inhabi-
tants are ranging themselves into two factions,
one sustaining the Governor and the other
the Judge. The affair has been referred to the
President, and each Of the disputants declares
his determination to resign if not sustained
at Washington. 1t is evident the Governor
as executive, had no power to correct the pro-
ceedings Of the judiciary, however outrageous
the act Of the Judge might have been. 1t
will be an embarrassingquestion for the Presi-
dent, and it will probably array the two fac
tions in the territory in violent discussions
again. Marshal Donaldson has resigned his
office, as it was impossible to serve two mas
ters Hays lawyers are taking measures to
get an order for his release through Lecompte
but Geary declares he will hold him in custody
the military. The Governor is evidently o.
the "OId Hickory" school, and "takes the re-
spohsibility."
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-11-27
Another Magical City.

The city Of Superior, at the head of Lake
Superlor, is another Of those magical creations
Of the energy and enterprise of our country
men. Two years ago the site Of the town
was a wilderness and the land was entered at
government prices; it was then approached
only by the bark canoe Of tie Indians; two
years ago the first tree was cut and the first
log cabin erected. Now the site of Superior
is laid IF ointo lots and is selling at prices that
indicate value OF more than two millions, for
what cost only few thousand in 1854. 1t is
nova town Of 1900 inhabitants. its streets
filled with busy labor and active trade
Warehouses and docks are being built and
some of the finest steamers on the Lax s,
come ffeighted with merchandise and emf
grants to its wharf The United States gov
eminent during the past year have construct
ed wagon road at cost of 100000 from
Superior to st. Paul. and railroad will be
commenced this winter, from Superior city to
the st. Croix river, sixteen miles Below st.
Paul, for which liberal grant Of land has al
ready been made, and which is to be complet-
looking at the Map it will be seen that the
location of this city is at a point $50
miles west of Chicago, at the head Of an in
land sea that projects far beyond any other
naYigable communication with the Atlantic
into the rich plains of the Northwest, fro m
which it will draw all their future products to
be shipped, perhaps, direct from this new city
to every part of tie g,obe. If Chicago can
trade with Europe and China, an enlargement
of the Saulte Sainte Marie Canal will open the
commerce of the world to Lake Superior; and
reviewing what we have witnessed within the
last ten years; of the wonderful achievements
ofenterprise, and which are but indcatives
of still greater wonders, it seems hardly safe
to permit the Imagination, with free wings, to
rise and contemplate what busy scenes will be
passing twenty years hence, on this broad
Lake whose borders have been from creation
so silent and solitary. With mineral riches
Observation-Disclosures inexhaustible and inval-
uabfe-with forests of the finest timber, I'M
broken and accessible to ocean navigation;
and a range Of productive country Of bound
less extent tributary Its navigation, a few
years will behold its shores filled with an active
population, inspired with the highest mental
and physical energies which its salubrious and
braeing atmosphere like the elixir of life, i'm
parts to all who breathe it.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-11-27

PANAMA. The Journal of Commerce says
rumors from Washington indicates two plans
as occupying the consideration Of the govern
ment-one of which proposes an absolute pur-
chase of strip of territory traversed by the
railway, giving verge enough for the operations
and conveniences incident to the working and
protection of the road, and including the ports
OF Aspinwall and Panama at its two extremi
ties; and the other provides only for the exer-
else of municipal jurisdiction by the United
States over the same extent Of territory, the
paramount sovereignty still continuing to vest
in the government of New Granada. This
modified dominion, with privileges limited to
the maintenance of such an amount Of physi-
cal force and to such employment of power
only as are requisite for the security and en-
couragement of commerce, would be less like
ly to alarm British sensibility, than the abso-
lutte acquisition by this country of the gate
way Of the oceans.'' There is nothing in our
engagements contracted with Great Britain,
to preclude US from acquiring a footing in
New Granada.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-11-27

JEFFERsoN's OPINION OF jackson. The
following is extracted from the life and. works
presume this opinion would have been chang
ed had the author lived to the close Of jack
sons administration:
az feel much alarmed at the prospect Of
seeing Gen jackson, President. He is one Of
the most unfit men | know of for such a
place. He has had very little respect for laws
or Constitutions, and is, in fact, an able mill
tary chief. His passions are terrible. When
was President of the Senate he was a Sena-
tor and he could never speak on account Of
the rashness of his feelings. l have seen him
attempt it repeatedly, and as often choke with
rage. His passions are no doubt cooler now
he has been much tried since knew him, but
he is dangerous man."