Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-10-08
Reply Of Mr.. PrOSS.
NELLY TowSsHIP, Sept. rs, ls5

NELLY TowSsHIP, Sept 2s, 1853.
/ o. y. WoHnES, Chairman Of the Standing
! Committee of Union County.
SlR-YourS Of the eth is received, in
/ which YOU ask me whether | will exert my
/ influence, if elected County Commissioner, to
| have County Bridge constructed across
/ Bufaoe Creek, at or near the borough OF
/ LewisbuTg, and whether | will If elected
/ Commissioner favor the building Of the Court
, HuuSs steps, al the expense Of the county
/ In reply to all your inquiries, | will say
/ that never was spoken to by any person or
: persons r-foIe NY "o...".,.sa, reanastei
/ since, To favor The construction OF the Bridge
spoken OF, or of the Court House steps. And
/ in the present embarrassed condition Of the
finances Of the county, deem 1t imPrudent
for the county 10 build any bridge or bridges,
/ or expend any more money Tor bridge pUrpu-
/ SeS, except to keep them in repair that are
/ already built. 10 regard TO the Court House
. steps, | think their construction part of the
/ building itself, and consequently the expense
must be borne by the building committee of
, ihnSe who signed the bands. and not by The
7 county.
II the people Of the county should see prop
er to favor me with their votes sufficient 10
. elect me, | should do what is in my power 10
retrench and reduce the COUNTY expenses as
much as practicable. JAMES PROSS.
THE BRIDGE.
/ We are authorized By Col. Slifer, Wm.
Frick, and others who are supposed to be
interested in the Bridge, to say, that they
never had any understanding with Mr..
Pross, before or siUce the nomination,
about the Bridge, aud have not aud do not
expect or hope to secure its erection at the
/ County expense.
nen. Look at it-Jacob Hummel, Esq
presen; County Commissioner, lives on the
direct road where the Bridge is SPOKEN Of,
aud would use it much more, and his pro-
perty would be more benefited by it, than
! Mr.. Pross, whose place is not so directly
on the road: whose property is much less,
and who does not come to town as often.
Mr.. PRoss nominated Esq. HuMMEL for
Commissioner in convention at Mittilnburg
three years ago, and worked and voted for
Esq. llummel and SO did Messrs Frick,
Sifer, Moore, Shelter, Schreyer, and all
the gentlemen who are now .'suspic0ned"
because they are also friends of Mr.. Pross.
No one then circulated the absurd story
that Esq. Hummel was "got up by PrOss,
Frck, Slifer x Co., on purpose to get
Bridge" there: and yet, Esq. Hummel
might then have been charged with it just
as properly, and with just as much truth
and plausibility, as Mr.. Pross now is. The
truth is, neither Mr.. Pross, Esq. Hummel,
or any other man expects County Bridge
theIe, and Mr.. Pross would no more pros
ttute his Office to that end than did his
neighbor, Esq Hummel. Even if he
should desire it, he can only petition for
it; whether Commissioner or not. The
Grand Jury first or3r Bridge built
then the Court confirm it-and the Com
missioners hare to build it, whether they
desire it or not. Whether Pross, Meyer,
or Weidensaul is elected Commissioner,
therefore, will not affect the building of
the bridge an iota. The Commissioners
all opposed the building of the late bridge
to accommodate dozen families in Hart
ley but they had to build it, against their
own convictions OF ght and expediency.
THE STEPS.
The last Locofoco humbug to divide the
Wings is, that the "Boudholders now want
to saddle the building of ru,-stuue or mar
bic steps to the Court House, at an ex-
pense of thousands of dollars, on the Coun-
ty." We believe this charge also to be
wholly false-a base lie,-got up for poll.
teal effect We have never heard of any
such plan. We conversed with several of
the most prominent and influential Of the
gentlemen signing the bond, all of whom
declare they have no wish or desire to avoid
that last act in 'fnishiug' the work as the
bond and the law require. We are author
lied BY Esq, LINCOLN to say for himself
and We believe also for Commissioner
RULE-that they are infexibly opposed to
any such burden being rolled upon the
county. Mr. PRoss. comedies in their
view: so that oar Commissioners are "all
right on the Steps question"
Esq. Hummel, the retiring Commits
sioner, is himself one Of the Bond Hold.
ers, and. if an enemy were jealous and
stubborn enough, he might have accused
him, when running, Of desire to shift
that Court House cost-be it less or
more-from himself upon the county.
But we do not believe Esq. Hummel de-
sired to do, or would do, any such thing
he would live up to his word to "fnish'
the Cour. House and SO would the 9TH
er gentlemen, his associates on the obli-
CATION. He would do just as Mr.. Pross
pledges himself 10 do; and every one who .
knows Mr.. Pross knows him to be an up
rirb' 4 fair md nc tirr, man nc IT,