Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-04-02
Freedom, national; Slavery, sectional!
35th COngress...lSt Session

informally agreed upon as time to take
up tho Kansas Lccompton bill in the
House, under the skillful management Of
Mr. Stephens of Ga, whose party consan-
&, Unity with Mr.. Speaker Orr, Of s. C.,
will give that side many advantages Oh
points Of order. 1t will require two
thirds vote to consider it out of order, but
many of the opponents are willing to take
IL up and have it decided as soon rs possi-
Bic. Both parties appear to be confident
of success. A caucus Of some of the Dem.
ocrat;o members, pro and con, was held,
and q committee Of ten from each branch
appointed to devise some means Of getting
Kansas admitted under the Lecompton
skeleton, $50 as to give Buchanan the
shadow Of succcss) The committee, how.
eret, failed to agree.
Col Harris, of ILL.,, the leader Of the
Anti-Lccompton Democrats in the House,
j. is said is far gone with consumption,y yet
will ask his friends to be carried into the
House, that he may give his dying testi-
mony, by vote, against that internal out
rage.
The reason of Gen. Camerons "pairing
off, with Jefferson Davis, Of Miss, on the
Lecompton vote in the U. S. Senate, was
Davis aud his family were formerly poll
tical and are now els9nal friends Of Cam
erou, Davis is confined to his room by o
very dangerous disorder, yet he was deter
mined to go TO the Senate and vote unless
some one on the other side would also stay
away. The family appealed to Gen Cam
eron as a personal favor, and the General
could not deny the ladies, in matter where
the result could not be changed.
LocoroCo FnAUDs.-John Miller, late
Post Master at Philad. it is proved received
"prescnt" of S23, 900 from the late Bank
of Pennsylvania, for his "services"in sell
ing their real estate to the U. S. Govern
ment for Post Office at an exorbitant
price.
The House, (at Washington was Off
cially Informed in response to resolution,
that the Secretary of War has set aside
and annm2cd the sale Of the Military Res
ervaiion at Fort Ripley, the lands having
been sold at from one to twenty cents IN
acre to Locofoco officers Mr.. Floyd is
entitled to credit for this act, if he did at
first connive at the corrupt sale.
The Ma'teson investigating committee
have declared they have no power in the
case, and are discharged.
.ods ::s sE ssssas q: 'st S1sf e sH
aDrIn the House at Washington,
Tuesday last, Mr. Sandidge of la, I.nidy
Of Pa, and "thc degenerate son of no.
BE sire Of Ky, spoke in .t,ror of forcing
Lecompton upon Kansas. Walbridge of
Mich, Davis Of Nd, Campbell of O.,
Underwood of Ky, Harlan of O., aud
Hoard of n. Y, spoke against that fraud
and wrong.
s@-"It is said"-sata, ogain-tbat the
U. s. forces are to be moved from Kansas
TO Utah, soon. Gen. Johnson's forces
have suffered considerably from cold. and
from dcsertions to the enemy. He snys
the Mormous arc fortifying, and he ex.
poets some bloody work. Congress will
probably raise five new regiments Of vol
unteers, but no moro standing army.
MORE SNEERs.-U. S. Senator Ham,
moud, Of South Carolina, who recently in
sepecch at Washington characterized oil
rorkiny people as the "nrudsils of soeie.y,"
h himself the son of butcher-tbe blood
Of . "mudsill" is in his veins. As Saxo
says:
Depend upon it, my snothsh friend
Your family threat you can't ascend
Without eod Tcasou to apTrchcrd
You may fni it waxcd at the ether end
by Come pl.tvian vocation"
"One renegade is worse than ten Turks"
This uammord's father was poor Yum.
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KANsAs.-Calhouu, and most of the
other active Border Ruflians, being in
Washington or Missouri, aud Gov Denver
not attempting to enforce any of the OBJ
noxious bogus laus, there is quiet in
Kansas.
Unfortunately y, there is not entire unan-
Unity on questions of moment among the
Free State men. A large number stand
BY the Topeka Constitution, and wish to
put in in force. Another portion wish a
nev Convention aud Constitution md q
email portion think they might accept of
the Lecompton fraud, and then forthwith
revolutionize under it, and eject Slavery
and Border Rufian rule together.
Nearly 5000 votes were polled for Del.
egaics to the new Constitutional Conven-
sion, which it is said will forthwith frame
Constitution upon the basis Of tha.
formed at Topeka, ,and for which i. is hoped
all may ultimately agree
Gen. Lane is organizing the militia, un.
der the net Of the Territorial Legislature.
There is, however, general calm, which
may portend an awful storm.