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Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-11

A Capitalist" in the country, some
months ago, sent $40, 700 to a friend in
the city to invest in "good endorsed busi-
ness paper" 1t was done. The whole
amount matured during the month Of Oc-
tober. In all, there were about twenty
notes, and every single one was protested.
All the names as makers and endorsers
save one Gan endorser) had either failed
or suspended. One note out of the whole
batch, after going to protest, was taken
up BY the endorssr York Iadepen-
dent
VIM. c. Rhodes, editor and printer of
the Elmira Gazette, is elected State Pri-
son Inspector of New York. He is na-
tive of Danville, Pa, where his father
John Rhodes, resides [If the Democracy
had nominated Will for the Treasury or
some other paying Office, well but to put
him to boss State Prison birds, is no very
fat "take," and no very great compliment
no howl
KANSAS BOGUS BANKs.-During the
debate on the banking articles of the Kan
sas bogus constitution, it came out that
in making up bank at Lecompton last
summer, it was necessary, in accordance
with the charter, to exhibit cash capital
of $4,000. While the Governor counted
one bag at time, the other was carried
out and brought in again, and this was
done until S50,000 were counted and cer-
titicates obtained
A British clergyman, in a recent dis
course, mentioned as illustrative of tho
extent of the slaughter in India, that a
family Of his acquaintance had lost twen-
ty-two relatives within six weeks; and
that, out of thirteen of a family party
which met last year at St Andrews, only
one is now living-twelve have gone out
to India and fallen victims to the mutiny.
The Locofoco Legislature of Missouri
refused to charter University for the
Methodist Church, North whereupon a
Mass Meeting at Jefferson City, the Capt.
tai, endorsed the project, and Col. Garden
hire made capital point blank Auti-Sla-
very speech. Missouri is becoming FREQ
Soil.
Noah Seward, Esq, of Caroline county,
Md, has this fall made one hundred and
thirty gallons of molasses, (equal, it is
said, to the best New Orleans syrup from
one acre of the Chinese sugar cane, after
cutting and shocking considerable por.
ton for fodder
Loring Crocket, Of Barnstable, Mass,
raised this season, on one stalk, and conse.
quently from one bean, LOG pods, which
yielded 453 beans. This is doing pretty
we'll for one bean. Who can beat it?
EYE.OPENERs-The hard times. Hun.
dreds are being convinced of the folly Of
voting the Locofoco, Free Trade ticket, by
the stomach argument, who could never
be reached by sound logical reasoning.
NEW YoRK, Dec 4.-The Post of this
evening learns that Professor Morse has
retired from the direction Of the Transatlan.
tic Telegraph Co. His motives for tho
step have not transpired.
There are now over S20, ,O00, 900 in the
New York Banks, and over 81 ,000, 900 in
the Sub -Treasury-Of specie
Wearing clean flannel next the skin, is
one Of the best means of guarding against
sudden changes Of weather.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-11
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The present administration came into
power with surplus Of twenty millions
of dollars in the Treasury. We venture
the prediction that, when Mr.. Buchanan
closes his term, tho government will be
more than fifty millions Of dollars in debt
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-11

hents in Chicago have declined 90 per
cent, on an average. There is graceful
Welding to this necessity, almost every.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-11


MAcs.-Tbere are in the Philadelphia
Directory, 1884 names beginning with
Nc. This intimates a pretty full repre-
sentation from "The Emerald Isle"
There are doubtless ten times that num-
ber who are not heads of families and so
are not put in the Directory.
CoFFEE.-Dr Caron, of Paris, has been
experimenting on coffee as beverage, and
arrives at the conclusion that most of the
nervous diseases, which are so prevalent,
arise from the use of coffee rih milk or
cream-alone, or with sugar, it seems not
always to be injurious. "The astriDgent
properties of the coffee, hinder the diges-
ton Of the milk" He has cured many
cases Of nervousness, head ache, and hys-
terical affections, BY interdicting the use
Of coffee.
Mr. KIScAID. Letters from our towns
man, Rev. Z. Kincaid, have been received
from him, dated at Malta. He was pur-
suing "the overland route" to Calcutta,
with a large number of British officers
among his fellow passengers.
GEOGRAPHY.-We advise our young
friends to improve their winter evenings
by acquiring this delightful and highly
important accomplishment. Just make it
rule, when you see place mentioned
in the papers,to look 1t out on the map. A
better knowledge of Geography may be
gained thus, than in any other way; and
at the same time make the study recrea-
tion. When one reads of Delhi, or Gavin
pore, or Nicaragua or Topeka, and has no
idea where the place is, his ideas are mis-
erably obscure. -
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-11

neA.A friend in Nashville states that
Gen. Haskell's mental and bodily health
has been restored and he is again at large.
Also that his mental arrangement ives
not caused by intemrerance, as stated in
the chronicle, but was hereditary disease,
developed by too much headwork
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-11
0-Another of the small band who as

B0-Another of the small band who as
semble6 in Editorial Convention at Dan
vile in August last, has closed his earthly
career. REUBEN W. WEAVER, Esq. Ed
itor of the bloomsbury Star Of the North,
died at his home on the ID inst. of con-
sumption, aged 80 years. He was man
of more than ordinary ability-of unsuli
ed character-and, although strait par
tizau, conducted apaper which elected the
respect of all An only child, his aged
parents and young wife indeed may mourn
his early departure, but his connection
with the Nj. +. Church in later years was
proof of his preparation for the great
change.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-11

OF WHAT IT WAS CoMPosED-The
Convention in Kansas which has rested
from laboring to make new Slave State,
had this partial and ominous composition.
Kentucky "raised" 10 Of its members,
Georgia 9, Virginia s, Tennessee 5, South
Carolina 2, North Carolina 2, Alabama 2,
Missouri 2. Total from Slave States, 49,
From Pennsylvania there were 4, from
Ohio 5, from Illinois l, from Massachu-
sets l, from New York l, and from
Michigan 1-eleven in all from Free
States. These men before uniting upon
their unholy work, were politically 90
Democrats, 9 State Rights or Pro-Slavery
-3S, to % Wings. Now they classify
themselves thus: 81 Democrats, 16 State
Rights, Pro Slavery, &c-53, to I Wings
[Southern] NOT a Republican, American,
or Free State man among hem-emphati-
ically "National Democratic" crew..
Of the 60 Members, % voted to adopt the
Constitution, and by carrying it around
others up to So were Obtained-the renal
ming 5 being Clerks, ...Occupations {:
81 farmers, Is lawyers, 8 merchants, 6
hard-up printers &c, 4 physicians, 8 me-
chanics, l surveyor, 'Nimrod of Kansas
l 'clerk of Oxford election and Catholic
priest-Pat niece, the Irish Chaplain, a
Wing formerly but now true Democrat,
whose comical prayers doubtless saved the
concern from moral putrefaetion By all
accounts, more scurvy set of moral and
political reprobates never fused.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-11

Look out for dead limbs, suckers and
sprouts on your fruit trees. 1t will, on
the whole, pay we'll if you cut all those of
this season. Then spade the ground well
under the trees, and give the trees a good
mulching Of coarse manure. Thus, with
the exception Of . good washing, your
spring work for your standard trees will
be mainly done in advance
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-11

sT-The Muncy Luminary, in view Of
the fact that printers can not reduce their
hands or "retrench" their expenses to
" keep dorm with the times" very prop.
erly urges the craft to live up to the reso-
lutions of the Danville Convention, and
stop giving general credits for papers after
the 1st Jan. 1858.
Others of our exchanges announce
positively that they will not send papers
on trust after 1st Jan. 1858.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-11

sS-A youngstcr about four years old,
was recently honored with his first suit of
pants. Parading backwards and forwards
before the domicile of his mother with as
long strides as his short legs would allow,
gentleman neighbor asked him seriously
"Who are your" ga MAN" was the
composed reply of the toddliDg youth.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-11


UNFAIR AND UNMANLY.-We Learn by
more than one of our Illinois exchanges,
that some of the farmers there will not pay
their debts with the produce which they
have in abundance, because they think the
prices are too low This is rank dishon-
esty. These men exacted high prices when
the market ruled high and why should
they not sell by the same rule when prices
happen to be iOw9 Thus, Western men
drain the East of money to build Rail
roads, &c, and also run in debt to the
Eas. for Goods, and then wont pay with
their products unless they can get more
than they are worth This ruins hun
dreds Of merchants in the West, whose
non pay ymcnts break up others in the East
owing to the avarico and want of COM
mon honesty of such mis-named "far-
mers" Should Eastern merchants and
capitalists hereafter refuse to advance their
means or their credit to the West, they
will in the long run benefit themselves
and also the solvent and debt paying men
of the West-and the effect would be good
all around. (By the way, We see it stated
that wheat can be imported from the Black
Sea cheaper than it can be brought by
Railroad from Chicago. We hope it may
be that tho bread-monopolizers shall be
obliged to eat it all themselves, and the
world get along without them or the pro-
duce thew hoard which belongs to others. I
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-11

A SIMPLE REMEDY.-A writer in the
Baltimore Sun, who has been afflicted se-
verely in his family by that appalling dis
ease, Bronchitis, has found relief from the
following remedy: Take honey in the
comb, squeeze it out and dilute it with
little water, and wet the lips and mouth
occasionally with it. 1t has never been
known to fail, in cases where children had
throats 30 swollen as to be unable to
swallow.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-11

awe have been far outstripped BY
States to whom nature has been far less
bountiful 1t is painful to consider what
might haze been, under other circumstan.
ces, the amount of general wealth in Vir-
ginia."
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-11

EI The Jersey Shore papers are good
preachers-some times. The FedeNe has
Rev. j. A. Kclly's sermon in full, deliv-
cred before the Baptist church, and an
extended notice of Rev. J. Merehead's be.
fore the NJ, L. Church; and the RepubH-
can has Rev. j. Stevens, before the Pres
byterian church. The three were Thanks.
giving sermons.
The Kanzas news., 1857-11-28
Master Pryor on Gov. Walker.


Master Pryor, of the Richmond South,
IS greatly exercised oycr the defeat of the
nice little Democratic frauds at Oxford pre-
einct, and IN McGee county. by which that
party was to have the control of the Kanzas
Legislature Master Pryor thinks Walker
has it IN contemplation to throw off his al
legiance to the Democratic Administration,
and place himself at the head of party at
the North against which the Administration
would be pogerless- We quote
Governor Walker, like Bacon, is not
content tto go out IN a snuff He has
mounted the horse of preferment He has
determined not to dismount without strug-
gle. He thinks he holds the Administra-
ton by the throat. If they sustain him,
the consequences viii be disastrous to the
South. If they do not, he passes to the
camp of the Free Sellers, aud heads the re-
lentless enemies of the Democratic party in
their deadly assaults. But he has done his
worst; and as soon as his treachery shall
have been avowed, by an act of open def
ance, he will cease to be dangerous. It is
only when pretending to represent the Dem
ocratic party that we dread the effect of his
maehinations.''
We shall have more talk like this, and
about other well known Democrats, too.
when the fight gets into the United States
Senate Chicago Press.
The Kanzas news., 1857-11-28

The New York Herald has adyices from
Honduras to October 9th. The surveying
corps of the projected Inter-Oceanie Rail
road had reached Comoyagua, point mid
way between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
The survey had thus far proved satisfactory,
and the party of engineers were in good
health and capital spirits.
At Omeo the authorities were Warlike,
and were making preparations to repel an
apprehended attack from Walkers filibust-
ers and British man-of-war was daily
expected to arrive, to aid in the defence o.
the town.
The Kanzas news., 1857-11-28
OREGON.


We take the following important and in
teresting information from San Francisco
paper: as. rs ,.a.-
1.-The Convention to frame State Con-
stitution for Oregon, now in session at Sa-
lem, was slowly progressing in its labors at
last accounts, butits acts were not distin-
guished by harmony of feeling and action.
The slavery question, which it was thought
would be so quietly disposed of, from the
supposed overwhelming preponderance of
the Anti-Slavery sentiment, is the cause of
no little discord, and instead of receiving
guidance from Constitutions that have stood
the test of years, some of the members of
the Convention show decided inclination
to shut their eyes to precedent, and frame a
document at once original, progressive and
startling. Among the Improvements sug-
gested in jurisprudence is the abolition of
grand juries, and the establishment of an
extremely limited number of courts of justice.
1--WE are informed by gentleman recent
ly arrived from Oregon, that there is pos
sibility that the Constitution will not be
adopted when submitted to a vote of tie
people, There are full two thousand Pro-
Slavery votes in the Territory which will
be east against it for its Anti-Slavery clause.
to which may be added the votes of those
who are opposed to the formation of State
Government at present, and such as may
not relish its eccentric provisions.
The Kanzas news., 1857-11-28
Later From the Mormons.

" -NONe o.
The Secretary of War received to-day
despatch from Fort Leavenworth. stating
that intelligence had been received, thai
the Mormons we're calling into Salt Lake
City all their forces from the surrounding
country, and were organizing to resist the
q. S. troops.
Orders had been sent to Gen. Harney tc
remain at Fort Leavenworth for the present
In case the Mormons resist our troops
another large force under the command o.
Gen. Harney win be Immediately ordered
to Utah.
Omaha City, Nebraska, has been desig-
mated by the Secretary of the Treaury as
the point for the depositing of the pubic
funds.
The Kanzas news., 1857-11-28
Persons of ssAfrican Extraction's no
Citizens of the u. 8.

Citizens of the u. s.
The Providence (R. 1. Journal ehroni-
cles the following application of the Dred
Scott decision by the Washington officials
s.Thomas Rowland, a very respectable
colored man, stevedore, of this city, has
decided to try his fortune in Liberia. His
wife and daughter accompany him; the
latter proposes to engage in teaching, for
which she has qualified herself in our pub
lie schools. Mr.. Rowland applied, through
notary, to the State Department at Wash
ington, and the application was sent back
with the following answer, without date OF
signature the officials seeming to regard it
as an insult that man born on the Ameri-
can soil, citizen and voter of one of the
States of the confederacy, should have the
presumption to ask for a certificate of ma
tionality: 1
'.Mr. Martin must certainly be aware
that passports are not issued to persons of
African extraction. Such persons are not
deemed citizens of the United States. See
the case of Dred Scott recently decided by
the Supreme Court a,
The Kanzas news., 1857-11-28
Free Schools.

We commend the following remarks
from the Leavenworth Times, on the i'm
portance of Free Schools, to our readers
We are sorry 10 see that there is such a
lukewarm feeling in this portion of Kan
zas in regard 10 matter of so much i'm
portance:
'.Let those of our citizens who look to the
permanent we'll l-being of the city and Ter
ritory, bear in mind the necessity of hav-
ing free schools.
s'Society is worth but little unless it shall
care for and educate, or provide the means
of educating, every child in it. Mind is
the great gift of God. 1t is the one power
winch can alone make earth happy home,
and a Joyous pathway TO a higher and bet
ter one. Mind, the common mind, then,
should not be, must not be, neglected, and
will not be, if the community values order
or stability and progress fright.
Democracy, in its modern and Just sense,
means right care for the people, the whole
people. Yet what are those men worth,
what care they for the masses, who preach
this popular theory and lip forth its popu-
lar words, and yet do nothing to educate,
VI W prepare IOr Tue ouuCatiOH, VI Tue yOuIH
growing up in our midst. We want action ;
the putting of the hand to the plow in real
earnest; steady, resolved purpose which
shall consider mind neglected as the big
gest curse which may befan an individual
or affiict society.
cit is a good thing to talk of wealth and
to have ito point to fine buildings and
all that; but before these, and above these,
let us have universal education-men and
women who know how to think and to
reason. Still let no one suppose that the
common mind, if well or properly instruc-
ted, would war against any material inter
est. When so instructed, it will build up
that interest. 1t will, indeed, defend every
interest, material, moral, social; it viii i'm
part vigor to virtue it will infuse living
power to faith, life to patriotism, energy
and scope to every feeling and every prin-
ciple which shall make prosperity general
OF establish a right manhood in the individ-
ual or the State.
'Let US, then, have free schools, and
make them the best. Let us unite for this
end party and sect. Let us spend freely in
its behalf, and labor as if one heart and one
will influenced ALL
The Kanzas news., 1857-11-28
HOTEL.
c ARV EY II Q U 8 &,

Nos. 146. 14S, $50. I52, ia, and 1o6
KASZAS AVENUE, AND.
AZ, "a, as, 4s, so and 90
FOURTH STREET, TOPEKA, KASzAs.
G. C. FUTILE, Proprietor.
THIS HOTEL is fitted up in good style, with
L comfortable quarters, at 81 per week, 81 per
day, or so cts. for single meal. The Post Office
and Stage offices Kept in the Office of this
tablishment and in the building are the offices of
Lawyers, Doctors, Land Brokers, SURVEYORS, O
Printing Establishment, Intelligence Office, seve-
raj Stores. including Clothing, Fancy Goods, Per
fumery, DC, all for the accommodation of the pub
lie, but more particularly for the guests of the
Garyey House. a trial from the travelling public
Is respectfully solicited. novl
The Kanzas news., 1857-11-28
C. V. KRID GE,
GENERA LAND AGENT.

Agent of the Emporia Town Company.
TOWN SHARES bought and sold-Lots dona-
L ted to persons putting certain amount of i'm
provements on them. Declaratory statements for
Pre-Emptors made out, and all business in relation
to presumption promptly attended to. Claims
bought and sold. Claimants desiring to sell their
claims, by registering them at my Office, will be
furnished with purchasers. Land Warrants dis
posed of, and investments made for capitalists in
any part of the Territory Legal instruments,
Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts, Conveyances, Co
partnerships, Notes, DC, de-, carefully drawn up.
OFFIcE-At the store of Hornsby & Flick, direct
" opposite the Emporia Hotel, Emporia, Kanzas.
iuIy4-3m
The Kanzas news., 1857-11-28
Judge Lecompte.

The notorious Judge Lecompte has writ
ten letter in reply to the "Connecticut
Memoriatists.'' The Leavenworth Times
thus speaks of it:
"It is a weak affair 1t has neither vigo1
of style nor pith in its Statements while
really it eyades, or fails to meet tie point
made by those memorialists.
One essential fact Judge Lecompte over
looks wholly, and that is, that there may be
moral as well as legal perjury. Let my Lord
Coke's definition alone govern, and the big
demnation. 1t does not govern, and should
not. Society and history bring another test
"a moral one; and thus infamy is made to
attach to the names of these corrupt men
who abuse the confidence or betray the
rights of their fellows. sds
1t is in this sense that the isConnecticut
memorialists" speak of "bribed and per-
jured judges" referring to Judges Leeompte
and Cato, and the question is, whether the
charge so made is true. We think it is,
and, what is more, we think we can prove it.
The despot who thralls the common mind,
and binds its viii, is, admittedly, the basest
foe of his race. He is hated, as the Just
ruler is honored, the enlightened world over
Recall before any crowd the memory of a
Cahgula or JeGries, and it will be received
with burning Kisses mention the name of
Fabius or Mansfield, and it will rouse
the heartiest cheers. II. right here, if the
despot is the basest of men, then the officers
created by him to enforce his tyrannical
edlcts are akin with him in villainy and
crime. This is especially true of his Judg
es; and when they become his minions,
they are 'sbribed and perjured d''-e'bribed''
through the Offices aud emoluments received
at his hands, and ''perjured'' to humanity
and before God IN employing their power to
crush out human liberty.
The general principle is clear, and if so,
1t follows, as matter of course, that a par
~ which is tyrannical, which, through its
leader, becomes despotic and corrupt, is
guilty. in degree. of these high erimes.-
Now that Gen. Pierce and his Administra-
ton did labor to force slavery upon Kanzas,
that all their power exerted for this end, no
honest and intelligent man win dispute
That Judges Lecompte and Cato received
ONCE, and used its authority, to sustain this
policy. harrassing the honest, imprisoning
OF falling to protect the weak and wronged,
that they toiled steadily and boldly to
crush out free speech and the liberties of a
majority of the freemen of Kanzas, by an
outrageous and internal judicial tyranny,
are liked historical facts And if SO, what
higher crimes could they have perpetrated?
What baser bribery" or blacker .'periu-
y could they have committed against Heav-
en- or humanity?
Away, then, with all special pleasi Down
Win the cold and barren technics of the
I's' pr'us! The wrong done here is the
usePest wrong man may do; and Judges
who have dared to accept Office to uphold OF
Pefpetuate injustice, or who, when in Office,
nave dared to chain mind or fetter conscience,
80 check free speech or the right action of
,reemen, to limit the liberty of the citizen
C9 .% oPPress him by unjust decisions, are
orloed and perjured," and viii stand thus
Judgment.
The Kanzas news., 1857-11-28

WARS THE PoL1r1cs?-Rev. Mr.. Manier
pastor of the Methodist Church, at Cairo,
States that he asked Mr. Douglas to contrib
ute to the erection of Methodist Church al
that place, when the s'little giant inquired
what the politics of the Church were. The
pastor told him it was Christian, not po-
litical Church Mr.. Douglas cut the inter
view short by abruptly remarking that he
gave nothing to any Church, without first
knowing its political character"
The Kanzas news., 1857-11-28

We noticed few weeks since, that the
Columbia Post Office had been removed
to this place, and Mr.. III. W. Flick appoint
ed as Postmaster. Mr.. Flick has entered
upon the duties of his office. The Post
Office is at present in his store, where the
independent Office has been kept.
The Kanzas news., 1857-11-28

We understand that Mr.. Spencer, who
lives at the crossing of the Neosho, about
two miles from town, is preparing for burn
ing kiln of brick next season. 1t viii no
doubt be paying operation, and is much
needed here. Success to it.