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Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18
Destruction of Game.

In common with many others, We have
often deprecated the destruction Of the
harmless little birds that abound in such
numbers in our vicinity, by persons who
appear to have no other object in viev
than mere amusement. These creatures,
besides being both beautiful and cheerful,
are also beneficial, because they destroy
large numbers of insects and worms, Lich
would otherwise do more harm to trees,
grass and grain. We are pleased to no.
,ice that the late Legislature took meas.
ures for preventing this disgracefUl pEac.
tice, by enaeting law making it penal
~ to shoot all kinds of insectiverous birds,
together with other game at certain sea-
sons. This act is eminently just, and will
be approved by almost the entire coumu-
nifty. We give below an extract from the
bill, viz:
That from and after the passage Of this
act, it shall not be lawful for auy person
within this commonwealth to shoot, kill
or in any way trap or destroy any blue
birds, swallow, martin, or other iu.ectiv-
erous bird, at any season of the year, un-
der the penalty.
No person shall, at any tine, vilfully
destroy the eggs or nests of any birds
mentioned in the different sections of this
act, under a penalty of two dollars for
each and every offence.
The possession by any person Of any of
the game and birds mentioned, sLot or
otherwise destroyed out of season, shall be
priinaa tlcia evidence to convict.
Any person offending against any of
the provisions of this act and being there
of convicted before any alderman or JUS
tice of the peace aforesaid, or by the oath
or affirmation Of Que or more witnesses,
shall for every such offence forfeit the fue
or fines attached to the same, one half to
the use of the county in which the COM
plaint is made, and the other half to tho
use of the informer; and if the offender
shall refuse to pay the said forfeiture, be
shall be committed to the Jail of the pro-
per county, for every such offence, for the
space of two days, without bail or main-
prise : ProVided hotrerer, that such con-
vic;ion be made within sixty days after
the committing of the offence.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18

managed, almost miraeulously, to eject
his escape, and reached the bank, nearly
exhausted the mother aud her children
we're seen no more alive. The most pro-
found sensation at oLce perva1ed that en-.
tire community. The most active meas
ures were at once taken to recover the
bodies, and up to 0 o'clock A. NJ, four
had been taken out. The eight children
were of various ages, ranging FROM infan-
cy to seventeen years Of age. The family
was one much beloved 10 that community,
and the sad fate that has swept them
thus into eternity will cause many tears.
Other houses we're also swept away, but
We hear Of no more lives being lost
Chicugo Press.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18
&" 54 40, or FIGHT :"

/ The Democracy and their Slave Trade
allies are just now shifting their fists in
the air, and waxing wroth about Wal
with Great Britain, on account of repor
ted outrages by British cruisers in the
Gulf of Mexico. They compare these with
the British claim prior to 1872, and en-
dcavor to get up war spirit to divert at
tention from their other pro-slavery
schemes.
/ Now, the claim of England, prior to
1872, was that she had right to search
any foreign vessel and take from them any
of the crcr who might once have been
subjects of her crown, on the plea, "Oncc
a subject, always subject" Her pres
ent claim is only to board and examine
vessels, which have any suspicious ap-
pearance of being engaged in the slave
trade-a trade which is declared to be
piracy by England and the U. S, but
which has lately been carried on with
Cuba, under the U. S. flag, in most fla
gitipus, active, and insulting manner. The
outcry of the rounded birds in this at
tempt to put down wholesale murder, has
greatly exaggerated the facts, and the
charge that one Of our men had been
killed, is not proved, and is believed to be
wholly false. Some of the British officers
may have been drunk and insolent, and
overdonc their duty or exceeded their in
structions-commou errors among all na.
tions, which the British government will
be as ready to rectify as our own. But
We trust they will not give up the duty,
under the law of nations, to punish piracy
under any disguise and we hope our Gov
be sacred shield to cover the bloodiest
and basest and most sordid of the organi-
zed forms of outraging humanity-the
coast.wise slave trade.
"Fyiy jour Forty or Fight This
was the Democratic war-cry in lS44, and
hundreds were fools enough to believe and
be misled by it. But no sooner did "De-
mocracy" get into power at Washington
--.James buchanan, Secretary of State
than the whole party "came down." yorc
mp hay of Oregon down to 49) TO the
British, and ACCEPTED instead the British
Free Trade Tart. No danger, then, of
.James Buchanan going into war with
his British friends-.frst, because it would
expose the slave property (the darling
of his cye) to escape, capture, or insurrec.
tion-and, second, war would cut off
from England her best trading ally, and
stimulate .he Manufactures of America
into an activity which would act as, and
result in, permanent Protective Tariff.
-7his rar cry is cridently Locotoco elec-
tionceriHg humbuy, to divert the public
eve from Kansas.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18
A Mother and 8 Children Drowned.

The Spring of 1858 has been one of
the most remarkable. For a period Of
nearly two months the rain fall has only
been briefly intermittcd. We have now
to record most painful and hear.-rending
casualty, caused by one Of the sudden
freshets that have of late been so disas-
trous, at Roscoe, niucty-threc miles from
this city, on the Rock River, five miles
this side of Beloit, on the Beloit and Mad.
ison Branch of the G. & C. U. r. r..
The lamen.able fate Of the Ilsley family
will attach as melancholy interest to the
spot on which they perished as invests
the "Notch" of the White mountains, as
sociating it for ever with the unfortunate
Willcys.
A special telegraphic dispatch informs
US that about dawn yesterday morning
freshet came rushing with great violence
down rayine, through which, in ordina-
ry seasons, flows an Insignificant brook, a
tributary to the Rock River. Upon the
bank stood the two story frame dwelling
occupied by a much esteemed clergymen,
Rev. Horatio Ilsley, a Congregational
pastor, recently of Maine. From some
cause, either by the undermining of the 7
bank, or the dwelling being reached by
the angry food, it was overturned and
carried away. Its inmates, the clergy I
man, his wife and their eight children
we're in their beds when they were swept
into the raging torreut. The father alone .
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18

JAMES X. KELLY, grandson Of the
celebrated Col. John Kelly Of Union Co.,
is nominated for Congress by one branch
of the Democratic party in Oregon. Qf
he is on the anti-slavsry ticket, hope he'll
beat t'other Democratic candidate two to
one, and the Republican candidate beat
them both out Of sisht.)
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18

Pursuant to an act OF the last Legisla.
ture of Maryland, an election was held
throughout the State on the 26th ult., on
the question of the call of . Convention to
amend the State Constitution. There was
much opposition to this movement, prin.
cipally on the ground that it was antici.
pating the period prescribed by the exis-
ting Constitution. The vote seems to have
been a meesre one but as far as received,
it sums up a majority Of over 1000 against
the proposed convention.
THE SEX OF EGGs.-According to Mon.
sieur Geniu, French sacant, the sex Of
eggs can be distinguished. All eggs con.
tanning the germs Of males have wrinkles
on their smaller end, while female eggs
are equally smooth at both extremities.
Catharine Bronx, young lady Of AL.
bany, aged fourteen years, took a small
dose Of arsenic, recently, for the purpose
Of bcautifying hcr complexion, and on
Sunday morning was arrayed in shroud
for the grave.
UNloN.-The "Associate" and "Asso-
ciatc Reformed Presbyterian Synods (Se-
ceder and Union) have formally united at
Pittsburg, and these two branches will
hcnceforth be one body.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18

sA-We learn by letter from VIM. G.
Waring in the Germaatown Telegraph,
that the buildings for the Farmers High
School, near Boalsburg, are going up, and
that contributions of implements, seeds,
plants, books, &C., are being received.
The Trustees meet on the 10th inst, and
the election, by the county societies, Of
three Trustees, occurs on the 1st Sept.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18

Col. FREMoNT's arrival at his home in
Mariposa county was celebrated by impo-
sing demonstrations on the part of the in
habitants. Aside from political issues and
the controversy respecting mining powers,
there is no doubt of Fremont's personal
popularity among those who know him
best.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18
West Branch Lumber Trade.

Perhaps no branch of industry felt moro
severely than the lumber manufacturing
interest the force of the late financial re-
vulsion. About all the lumber manuflc-
factured from last years logs is already in
the city markets, as the following figures,
taken from the books of the Collectors
office, showing the number of feet for
which clearances have already been issued
this year, at Williamsport and Lock Ha-
ven, will demonstrate
Amount cleared a william>port ;feeD Isaa5,s0I
Amount cleared at Lock Haven >,JlJ,utD
To which add amount shipped by railroad l.gu:'o
Making = total Of eJ,I5isuD
To avoid calamitous results to them
selves hereafter, the lumber manufacturers
of this region have, with eommendable
prudence, made arrangements to materi-
ally contract their operations the present
year. The following reliable figures, Civ
ing the amount of stock in the West
Branch booms in the years 1856, 1857,
and 1858. will show pretty clearly the
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18

A WEATHER PROPHECY the
smallest cloud you can see, and watch it
closely if it increases you may be sure
there is gathering of electric and watery
matters that will fall, somewhere, in a
shower; but if the cloud decreases, and
melts away in size, it shows state Of the
air most likely to be followed by fine open
weather
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18
Burglaries.

Several unsuccessful attempts at house
and cellar robberies have been made in
Lewisburg within fortnight. In one
case a room was partly entered, when the
invader saw sparks and heard the barrel
Of Il revolver exploding twice, in mena
cling manner aud close proximity, and
thought it best to 60 in an awful hurry
In Williamsport, four houses were entered
in one night. Money and food seem to
be the only objects sought by the bur.
glars. Doubtless, many are suffering for
the necessaries of life, but this very par.
tial, unjust, dishonest, and dangerous
way of getting them, is neither the mos;
honorable, pleasant, sure or safe.
To guard against such intruders, be
careful that your cellar doors and win
dows are strong and are closed tight-also
that your ground and chamber windows
are in the same condition. Inside buttons
on doors are the surest, as professional
BURGERS often have pinchers with which
to turn keys left inside, or pick locks.
Search your house thoroughly before dark,
and then watch it narrowly, to see that
no one conceals himself or herself within
for midnight hunt.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18

4 Buchanan Victory, at last st!-Thc
municipal election in Washington city re-
suited in the success Of the Lecomptonites.
Every clerk, workman, and employee Of
the National Government was required to
vote that ticket, and, like dogs and slaves,
they submitted to the decree.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18

A SIGN-I. has been limited in more
than one quarter that Gov. PACKER is to
be punished for refusing to bow down and
worship the Lccompton god. At the late
Democratic meeting Of Monroe county Pa.
the banner Dem. county Of the State
a long string of resolutions was adopted,
complimcntipg and endorsing Buchanan,
Bigler, their Congressman, Senator and
Representatives, not a ,oord about Goc.
Packer, These resolutions were reported
by James ii. Walton, who has or is to
have an office in the Philad mint. "Straws
show
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18

WHAT MAKES A BusuEI. follow.
ing table of the number of various arti.
cles to bushel, We find in a newspaper.
Prcserve-for it may often be of interest to
readers: Wheat, sixty pounds. Corn,
shelled, fifty-six pounds, Corn, on the
cob,seventy pounds. ye,Gfty-six pounds.
Irish Potatoes, sixty pounds. Sweet
Potatoes, fifty pounds. Onions, fifty-scv-
en- Iounds. Bran, twenty pounds. Clo-
yer seed, sixty pounds. Timothy seed,
'Or'y'hve pounds. Flax-seed, forty five
POUNDS Blue Grass-sccd, fourteen pounds.
neans' sixty pounds. Dried Peaches,
thirty-thrcc pounds.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18
THE CHRONICLE.
MONDAY. JUNE II. 1855.
Militia Law.

The question has been raised, whether
the new Militia Law goes into effect this
year? We suppose not, as in this county,
and probably in most others, the Commits
siouers bad issued their Assessment Books
before the law was signed, or at least be.
fore it was known (and indeed we do not
know as the Pamphlet Laws are yet issued.
We are informed the Law was never ro"hy
road hsfo-o tho House, where 1t passed as
joke. Under the circumstances it would
be well for "thc milingtary" and the ''rest
of mankind to take time to know all the
requirements Of the law and then, if it
survives another Legislature, to take hold
of it with full knowledge of what it is,
and with ample time to carry it out faith
fully. Those who expect to pocket 81, 80
q day for training .frolics, had better be
sure that they will get the money before
they spend that or their time.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18
of the contraction {:

The decrease of stock from last year
amounts to twenty y-ive million feet, or
nearly one half-and something more than
half from that Of 1856. The shipments
during the next gear will probably fall
considerably below one half what they
we're for the last, for the reason that be-
side the very small stock to be Gu; there
is nothing remaining, as we have before
stated, of the product of last season
We trust that the present year may be
productive of a change for the better in
prices in the city market.-H HiiiiamVort
Gdyeye
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18

The Washington Republic notes tho
fact that of twenty-three Private Bills
agreed to in the House on Fridly last
twenty y-one were in favor of the Southern
parties. Almost everything from the
North was killed, the objection of single
member being sufficient for that purpose.
The "retired physician" is Oliver +.
Brown, (his assumed name is DIR. H.
James and two years ago he was poor
printer in Vermont. He has made SooeO
out Of bis "sands of life
A woman was caugh. stealing some
ribbon in dry goods shopin Portsmouth,
N. H., and was punished by being expos
ed to all the dry goods clerks in the city
that they might watch her in future
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18

WM. IL. Ii. DAVIS, Esq, the new Edi-
tor of the DoylcstOwn Democrat, the lead
ing Democratic paper in Bucks county, in
his introductory says: "The doctrine re-
Gently advocated, as set forth in the first
section of the seventh article of the Le-
compton Constitution, shat the right of
property in slaves is before and higher
than any constitutional sanction y is 50
new and strange to me, and SO foreign to
the Democratic creed, as we understand it
in Pennsylvania, that l am not willing
to give my adherence to it, but will oppose
the incorporation of any such hcresy into
our platform. II this be true, the action
Of those States, which have abolished sla-
very since the adoption of the Federal Con-
stitution, must be condemned as wrong
and our forefathers, who founded the gov.
ernment, are directly arraigncd for not
understanding the work of their own
hands, and stand convicted of violating its
fundamental principles" True, but the
Administration of James Buchanan stands
pledged to force that doctrine down not
only upon Kansas but upon the whole
country.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18
Forney's Prediction.

In late number Of the Philad. Press,
Col FoRNEY says:
at begius to be more than manifest,
that scarcely anybody can be elected to
Congress, from this corner Of the conti-
nent, who voted for Lecompton. The
brand is on the brow of every one who did
the deed, and, like the "scarlet letter." it
can not be obiiterated, while, unlike the
"scarlct letter." it is seen of all men.
Now, it may be pleasing thing to power
to see the LecomptOnites renominated, but
it is a much more important thing to the
Democrats to put nobody forward who
will kill other candidates by the contact.
If the Lecompton congressman want vim
dication, they should 60 to the Treasury
for it. There are not votes enough for
them in the North, and that's the long
and short of it."
TIE SUPREME JUDGEsHIP
The signs of the times point to the in
eyitable defeat of William A. Porter, a
candidate for the Supreme Court. 1t only
rests with the Opposition to place in nom-
ination a person Of the highest character
and qualifications, to unite, and elect him
by an overwhelming majority. This is ac-
knowledged by the Democrats themselves.
a correspondent of the Press, who has
been over the Western part of the State,
writes:
"The signs everywhere in the West in
dicate that if Hon. VIM. \. Porter is Op-
posed by lawyer of good reputation, and
running upon principles antagonistic to the
anti Democratic platform laid down BY the
late Harrisburg Convention, he will be
beaten out Of sight this fall, and his chan.
ces of political resurrection will be delay.
ed to the time appointed for Gabriel to
blow his horn 20
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18

HE BOOMERANG.-IhIS curious wea-
pom, peculiar to the natives of Australia,
has often proved puzzler to men Of sci.
ence. 1t is a piece of carved wood nearly
in the form of crescent, from thirty 20
forty inches long, pointed at both ends,
and the corner quite sharp. The mode Of
using it is as singular as the weapon itself.
Ask black to throw it SO as to let it fall
at his feet, and away it goes full forty
yards before him, skimming along the
surface at three or four feet from the
ground, when it will suddenly rise in the
air forty or sixty feet, describing curve
and finally dropping at the feet of the
thrower. During its course it revolves
with great rapidity on a pivot, with q
whizzing noise 1t is wonderful SO barbl.
rous people have invented so singular
weapon, which sets laws of progression at
defiance. 1t is very dangerous for a Eu-
ropeau to try to project it at any object,
as it may return and strike himself. In
any natives hand it is formidable wea-
pom, striking without the protector being
seen. 1t was invented to strike the Kan
garoo, which is killed by it with certainty.
ra-Very like this "Boomerang' are
the efforts Of Shareholders to strengthen
slavery-but their throws ultimately re-
bound, and instead of killing 'Kangaroos'
they wound and will kill themselves. The
free trade policy, inaugurated by the South
to cripple free labor at the North, tends
to drive thousands of freemen to the West,
to build up new States which are hostile
10 tho necnliar institution
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-18

" III IS sad tnat one Ol lNt tulluIS OF llc
Lewisburg Chronicle, soon after he went 10
learn the printing business, went 10 see
preachers daughter. The next time he at
tended meeting, he was considerably aston
ished at hearing the minister announce as hIs
text, my daughter is grievOusly tormented
with a DerH.
The venerable joke, above, was some
months since ventilated by DR., john, of
the Bloomsburg Republican, who probably
thought we were as good natured and as
indurated as any of the fraternity, and SO
he set it afOat again and pitched 1t at us.
1t has been travelling alone long time,
and last week came to Us in Corning
(N. " Democrat We both forget all
about the occurrence, (Which we don't
deny probably our minds we're other
wise occupied, and we did not pay good
enough attention to the sermoD;f but to the
truth of the following We are willing to
affirm on a copy of the Lecompton Con-
stitution before DR.. Sands-of- Life himself:
When the Editor of the Bloomsbury
Republican first undertook to kill or cure
on the reformed plan, he occasionally at
tended church. The first preacher he
heard on his circuit, enlarged upon the
text, aye are all physicians Of no ualue >
and the next declaimed against 'many
physicians, who nothing bcttered but ra-
ther grew uorse." The Pale mon incon-
tinently quit physicing and took to print
ing-such a double dose was too much
for nm enlirhtened conscience
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-25

RosIHSince our review of Thursday the market for
all grades has ruled quiet and prices remain unchanged
There but few vessels port and buyers find some
difficulty in shipping, in consequence OF which the ansac'
tons have been meagre In Pale notice sales OF only
few small lots at prices ranging 81 Sc y bbl, in
qualy-the latter figure being paid for bright article.
In Nos and nothing worthy of report has been done that
we Of and refer to table for quotations
stock light For the Common article the market remains
about the previously reported the arrivals contn-
ne quite light and there is only small stock held here
We quote sales for week follows Thursday 200 bb
at 10 for large Friday 500 do at 81 10 for mixed sizes
Saturday. 500 do at 81 10 for large Monday $50 do. at
same price and Tuesday, 900 do at 81 l2 for large size
the close 81 10 is offered, and sellers holding at
higher prices.
TAR-s in moderate enquiry, and the receipts for some
time past have been confined to few small lots. Only %
bbs received this week, and taken at 81 60 per bbl
BEEF CATTLE &C-Durng the week just ended no beeves
have been brought market and in the absence Of receipts
the stock remaining in butchers hands exceedingly small
We note brisk demand and good article would sell read
w. We quote at 81 % 1b. for grass atted, in
quality SHEEP hav brought in slowly for weeks
past former arrivals have become pretty much worked
of: in demand at 81 IS 81 p each.
BARRELs-In the market for empty Spirits Turpentnee
barrels We have change worthy of note to make The
arrivals continue light and note but very few offering
SALE in consequence of which the transactions have been
limited For second hand there moderate enquiry, but
in the absence stock the sales have been confined to
parcels at prices ranging within quoationscash and time
New nominal at 81 for town-made.
CorToNThe market for this article has ruled inactive
and the transactions have limited for several weeks
past sellers generally having held at figures too Tar above
the views buyers There been but little received here
however and there is only small quantity on Market
One lot Of IS bales mddng sold on Friday last at cents