Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-05-21


points-all personal disscnslOns-and, like
their fathers Of the Revolution, stand firm
to the great cause. QUIT YOU LIKE MEN
BE STRONG.
Chicago, May lS.-A fire occurred
this morning in Wells street, between
Van Buren, and Jackson. The buildings
consumed we're Of little value, but there
was a distressing loss of lie. Nine per
sons are known to have perishcd, and
three others are missing.
The State Of Texas has turned her Pen
itentiary into cotton factory and employs
al! the convicts in spinning and wearing.
The establishment turns out from 10000
to 10000 yards of cloth per week, and
pays profit to the State.
b. I. Crouch, Sr, of the VI +. Church,
South, died utter ono hours sickness at
Louisville, few days ago, lie had been
an active minister for forty years.
The Methodist Episcopal Conference,
convened at New York on Wednesday,
passed resolutions declaring slavery ga sin
for the extinction Of which all wise meas
urcs should be TAKEN
The Chicago Democrat says that labor
ers in that city are not likely to get more
than six shi!lings day during the CON-
ing season, and that hundreds arc there
now out of employment.
The Choctaw HerrlH, of the 26th of
March, says: The Legislature adjourned
on last Monday night, after being in ses-
sion eight days. They did great deal
Of work in that time. Some very impor
tant laws were passed.
COMING! Coming The School Di-
rectors of the Fourth Ward in New York
city, are all Democrats and mostly Irish
men. This set of men have prohibited
the reading of the Bible in the schools of
that ward. This is the work of the
friends of Popery-shut away the Bible.
George ". Brazie, a student in the
University at Ann Arbor, Mich, recently
died in drunken spree-beer and whis-
key being the liquors he drank.
The Missouri Legislature ordered the
purchase of Bibles for public institution,
to be of "St. James version" This is the
first instance Of Legislative interference
with "versions' ih Amcrica-old "Kiag"
James transformed into "Saint" by act
of Legislature!
! Orville Gardner, the converted pugilist,
has been set up in the shoe business by
/ his friends in New York.
I The Louisville Journal says that the
! difference between the two great parties
in respect to Kansas may be briefly sta
ted One of them demands the submis-
! sion Of the Lecompton Constitution to the
people, and the other the submission Of
the people to the Lecompton Constitution.
Twelve thousand persons have joined
the Methodist churches in New Jersey
within the last six months.
! The "Reaper" suit between Mccormick
and Nanny, was decided in favor of Man
ny, by the Supreme Court at Washington.
/ One hundred aud eighty-eight mem
bcrs were received into Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher's church, one Sunday morning in
Brooklyn.
The Wilmington delaware State) Jour
nal heartily opposes the English Kansas
Bill. A little work would make Della
/ ware Free State.
The President has received authentic
information that a large body of Indians,
of various hostile tribes, are collected on
the head waters of the Red River.
y negro boy, only eleven years old, who
confessed to the burning of Col. Bailey's
residence, in Sury county, Virginia, has
been sentcaced to be huog.
The Kansas land sales, By order of the
President, have been postponed from July
to October. The postpouemept was asked
by the people of Kansas.
Simon Bernard, tried as an accomplce
with Orsini in the late most atrocious to
murder Louis Napoleon, was acquitted.
Eight persons were killed, and l20 woun-
ded, by that diabolical attempt.
ST. PAUL polls over 1000 votes on the
Railroad Loan question-nearly ali for
borrowing, of course. We hope equal
alacrity will be cvinced in the question of
paying.
PREFERS DEATH--Loefner, the Gin.
ciDnati murderer, whose sentence has been
commuted to imprisonment for life, is
greatly dissatisfied because be is not to be
hung.
1t is believed, says the Albany Journal
that the Queen Of England is about to
carry ou: her often expressed wish to Wis.