Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-05-01
Miscellaneous News Items.

MlSCtiiuIlCUtlS NtWS ittlilS,
Branson Murray, in letter to the
Praiiriie Farmer, published in Illinois, pre-
poses to be one Of hundred subscribers
to fund of fifty thousand dollars, to be
awarded as a premium for perfected
Steam Plough, suited to farm use, and ca
pable of performing the labor at an ex-
pense Of money not greater than the aver
age cost Of performing the same work an
der the present system.
The returned fllibusters, on board the
Tennessee, give doleful account Of their
sufferipgs in Nicaragua, and represent as
utterly hopeless any attempt now to re-
open communication with Gen. Walker
One Of his ships exploded and killed fifty
mon.
The Prairie Adrocate is the only paper
in Stark county, Illinois. 1t started as a
neutral sheet, but says in its issue of 2Sth
March last, The late decision Of the
Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case, has
aroused the Indignation of the free people
- ,----~ more than anv other nntrao oa
since repeal OF the Missouri Compromise. F."
The LeaRer (the Roman Catholic paper
Of st Louis)-Col. Benton-the slave
dealers-and the FFV's in ST LOUIS, all
'fused" with the national democracy" at
the late election but the Germans, most
of the business men, and the Yankees,
"fused' with the Republicans.
WILLIAMsPoRT ABROAD. We are
pleased to learn that john W. Heisley,
Esq, a native of William>port, and lately
practicing law here, has been elected City
Attorney, of Cleveland Ohio.
SUMMERS HEALTH-Letters received
from England state that Charles Summers
health has been greatly improved by his
sea voyage, and that he now looks for a
complete restoration to his former hale es-
tate. This, is, indeed, good news
The St. Louis LateRigencer (American)
comedies the profound significance of the
triumph of the Emancipationists there, and
predicts that it will be permanent Also
it asserts that Emancipation will be car
ried in the State before many years.
Gov. Pollock has accepted an invitation
to deliver the annual address before the
alumni of Jefferson College, Canonsburg,
at the commencement in July next Gov.
Pollock was at one time student at that
Institution.
If you would dumb founder a national
politician, ask him if he has heard Of the
ST. Louis election? Such response to
Judge Taney's "decision," astounds them
and the Border Ruaians in Kansas :: like
a clap Of thunder in clear sky -
A. I. Harrison, son of the Hon. John
Scott Harrison, and grand son of the
late Gen. Harrison, has been appointed
second lieutenant in the 9th regiment, L.
S. infantry.
Sr. LOUIS, April l6-The County
Court House, a, Lincoln, Illinois, contain
ing the records of Logan county, WAS en-
tirely destroyed by FIRE on Tuesday night
last.
There are about seven million pores in
the body of man of ordinary size. If
these were Joined lengthwise, tube would
be formed twenty-eight miles long.
The people in the proposed new county
of Douglas, Illinois voted to reject the
honor of having tue name of a traitor to
freedom imposed upon them.
Mr.. Buchanan favors the Hard Shells
in his New York appointments (Which the
Soft Shell. don't like, but what can the
poor fellows do? y
The amount of lands granted to Mime
sofa under the recent act Of Congress, for
railroad purposes, is estimated at 4,416,-
600 acres.
Mrs. Robert Jobnson, Of Newark, has
died of the National Hotel disease. Her
daughter, likewise attacked, is on fair
way Of recovery.
Striugfsliow has left the .Sqaafter .Sov-
ereign. He says it did not pay expenses.
Changes from Catholicism to Protest
auism, ere increasing il Germany.