Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-25
important from Kansas!

ST LOUIS, Dee 22-A letter received
by the Democrat, dated LecomptOn, 10th
inst, states that Gen. Lane was shot q,
Lccompton, by 4 Government official,
whose name is not given, on the evening
Of the 18th The att.ir grew out of a
political discussion, and much excitement
has been occasioncl by it.
a despatch from Brownsville, dated
TINS morning, says that Major Russell,
Capt Van. Nleet and George n Sanders
passed down the river, last evening, en-
route for Washington. They left Leayerr-
worth on the 10Th inst.
Mr. Stanton is still acting Governor.
apparently with the appreciation of Gen.
Denver, who had arrived there.
Gen Harvey has dispatched two com
panies Of cavalry, upon Stauton's rc1uisi,
tiou, to Fort Scott, to suppres: rebellion
at that place, where several lives had been
sacrificed. Cen lIarncy has also posted
troops at poniphau, Ajchcson, kickapoo,
Lcaycuworth, Lawrence and hccompton.
1t was thought that the legitimate vote Oh
Tuesday, the day Of election, would be
very small, but many Missouriaus were
said to be going into the Territory to vote,
which, taken in connection with Govern
or Stanton removal, may cause blO0lshed
at the polls.
s59~The foregoing is the latest we have
from kansas-except contradiction OF
the rumor Of Lanes murder. We sup
pose there is no Telegraph leading into
Kansas but next week We shall have re-
liable information.
sly~Two millle-aged women, Mrs.
Gcnbcr and Mrs. Ream, residing on ahy
road in Mannheim Tp. five miles from Ian
caster, were found at noon Of 10Th Dec.
with their skulls broken. Two sweeps,
one 4 white or light muatto and the other
a negro, had been seen going that way a
short time before noon, and were after
wards caught aud committed to Jail, with
the money upon them idcntilied as taken
from the house. The two women had
been left alone by the husband of one Of
them. The murder was most cold blood
cd and created fearful excitement.
GOVERNMENT SHINrLAsTERs. - Mr.
Buchanan has no sooner delivered himself
Of the annual party TRADE against paper
money aud against Banks, than his friends
in Congress are pushing through Twenty
Millions Of paper money in the shape Of
Treasury Notes. They will have issued
Fifty Millions of their ''trash" in two
years, for the next Republican Admins
tratiou to redeem. Great is the hard mo
ney and antiBauk party.
"DoG EAT DOG. One of the "iicrcc
Democracic' in Congress has proposed to
expcl Bcrnheisal, the Mormon Delegate in
Congress who was Marshall at Buchan.
ans Inauguration, on account of his Dem.
ocratic brethren in Utah practicing ''squat.
ter sovrcignty as they understand it."
WeolaesRay, Dec 1G-It is confidently
asserted that Gov. Walker today resigned
the Govcrnorship of Kansas. Also that
the Administration have sent some secret
emissaries to Kansas.
The House to-day entered their splendid
new Hall, which Mr.. Cox (Dcm. of Ohio
dedicated with telling speech against the
attempted Lccompton usurpation.
Walker has landed at Nicaragua, under
the very guns sent to "watch' him, as ca.
silly as he escaped" at New Orleans.
Jefferson Davis expresses the opinion
that the South ought to secede at once
from the Union if Kansas comes in as a
free State, even if she comes in with the
sanction Of her own people. Jeff. Davis
was a member Of Pierce's cabinet, though
Just as much Of disunionist as Wm Lloyd
Garrison.
It is stated that Gov. Floyd, Secretary
If War, will not ratify the sale of Fort
Ripley, whereby some of the best lands in
Minnesota was knocked off to "good Dem
,crats' at .tour cents an acre. We hope
lie will veto the fraud, as it deserves. 4
Onc Of the Members of the late Bogus !
Convention in Kansas, has since died of q,
elirium tremens. Another, Henderson, [
as cleft suddenly" 1t is thought by
lany that Calhoun and all his crew will
ct be driven out, as the Tories were by 4
he Wings before the Revolution. d
The President las nominated Nathan :;
iifTord, Of Maine, as Associate Justice of =
he Supreme Court Of the L. S. to ill the G
acancy occlsiOncd by the resignation of !,
udgc Curtis. b
The nomin alton of Vim. \. Richardson E,
) Governor of Nebraska, in place of Mark d d
7. lard, resigned, was confirmed by the 9,
euate. u, ~
In Congress, Mr.. Grow has already ie
ven notice Of his intention to introduce
Homestead bill. He is bent upon seeu-
ng free homes for all, and he certainly "