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Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-09-10

A PROPER MAN FOR THE OFFICE
ThePennsylvanian says that at meet.
ing of Loco Focos in Carbon county,
Col. A. G.. WooDHEAD presided.
They could not find better material
for President Of Loco Foco meeting,
any where in the State.
The New DOUGLAS PAPEP.-The
new paper to he started in New York
CITY, to advocate the claims of Sena-
tor Douglas to the Presidency, is to
be called the PsEss. and will be edited
hY G.n. Saunders.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-09-10

BArrIsrs IN ANERIcA.-The Baptist Alma
nae for 1859. reports the following statistics
of the Regular or Associated branch of that
in ,he limited States.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-09-10

Two Catholic priests have been holding
protractcd meeting in Bellefonte.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-09-10

Majority against proposition, S,0Ix.
Now, therefore, we do hereby proclaim the
result of the said election to be, that for"Pro-
position Accepted" there we're cast one thou
sand seven hundred and eghty-eisht votes.
and that for "Proposiiion Rejected. there were
cast eleven thousand three hundred votes, and
a majority of the votes cast being for "Propo-
.iton Rejected" it is deemed aud held that
the people OF Kansas do not desire admission
the conditions set forth in said proposition.
J. w. DENVER.
HUGH S. WALSH, Board of
A. G. DAVIS, Commissioners.
q. W. DEITZLER.
C. w. Babcock, Esq, is absent from the
Terrllory.l
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-09-10
MONDAY. SEPT. 6, IS5S.

ES- See Letter from Orator Bur.
LEIGH on our last page.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-09-10

against
The people of Kansas arc not fools
or knaves. A little salt upon their
tails" in the form of liberal land
grants, did not catch them in the net
prepared by the Pro-Slavery Demo
cracy for their benefit nor did the
Presidential threat that they should
remain Slave Territory an indefinite
length of time unless they became
Slave State, appal them into submis-
sion. They have de6cd the threats, and
spurned the brides, just as their Fa-
theirs did in '76. They will not ac-
cept the lands and springs and min
erals WITH Slavery in the careful
language of Gov. Denver and others,
"the people Of Kansas do NOT desire
admission into the Union WITH SAID
[LECoMPToN SLAvE] CONSTITUTION
under the CONDITIONS set forth in said
proposition" They did not say they
do not desire admission but they did
say, as they have TWICE before said
by honest votes, that they DO desire
admission, as FREE STATE, under
either the Topeka or Leavenworth
Constitution.
The Kansas papers state that
their whole vote was not polled, some
of the election districts not being
fully organized-there being a great
rain and high waters, which made
the travelling excessively bad-yet
there was an intense desire to rebuke
and for ever settle" the Slave Power
Tyranny; and some, in the effort to
pass swollen streams to exercise the
precious right Of suffrage, lost their
lives!
Thus, again, Gas at every honest
election) have the harrassed and op-
pressed people Of Kansas demonstra-
ted that they held Liberty to be their
greatest earthly boon. Will the Pro-
Slavery Democracy-Pharaoh-like-
again deny their prayer for Freedom?
will they restore their rights to out
ragged Kansas? ? or will they again
use their power to keep her people in
chains ? That question, We think,
will be determined by the results Of
the elections in the Northern States.
If the friends of the Administration
be sustained, Slavery will dare to en-
force her insolent claims even TO the
extreme of Dissolution of the Union.
If the friends of Free American La
Dor and of No-Slavery Extension, be
triumphant, LIBERTY willalso triumph,
and the Demon Of Oppression be
checked in its ravages.
1The Richmond South says that Mr.. Blu.
chanan is the only candidate whom the SoUrH'
ras PEOPLE could hope to elect President IN !,
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-09-10

Returns from Powhattan rejected. there
beng no such township knOwn-3 for, %
against.
tParis township rejected for want of Judges
certificate-l32 against.
tkansas Falls precinct rejected. the Judges
names being all in the same handwrilng-37
against.
The Kanzas news., 1858-09-04
The Fight at Mariposa.

The Mercer Mining Company attempted,
in July, to prevent the quartz mining opera
tions of Col. Fremont, who now resides
with his family, attending to the interests
in his past claims, in Bear Valley Mariposa
county. They besieged party of the Col
onel's miners, in quartz mine; and sent a
committee coolly demanding of the Colonel
that he should close up his mines and aban-
don his property. The Col. replied to the
call of this committee:
81 hold the property by law, by long oc-
cupation, and even by mining regulations.
The demand you make upon me is contrary
to all my sense of justice and what is due to
my own honor. You say you wish to avert
bloodshed. II it comes, the citizens of this
county need no assurance from me that it
win not be of my provoking. Outrageous
and beyond precedent as this attack is,
viii confne myself to the right of self
defense. which the law gives to citizens who
have their lives and property attacked"
The Governor was appealed to, and he
wrote to the ringleaders of the mob: ''Col
Fremont is entitled to the peaceable posses
sion of his property, and, if necessary, force
must be used to secure this to him. and
called out the militia accordingly. The
mob dispersed.
The Kanzas news., 1858-09-04
In Bed With a Rattiesnake.

We have frequently heard of snakes Wis
iting houses, and of their sometimes having
been found in and under beds, but we do
not recollect ever having heard of as remark
able an escape from an awful death from a
snake as the following, related to US by Mr..
I. w. Bliss, who was present when it oc-
Cured: About five weeks ago two children
of Mr.. Jacob Shell, living about three and a
half miles from Washington-the one aged
nine and the other four-becoming weary
from the excessive heat, lay down on the
bed shortly after dinner, and were soon fast
asleep. Sometime during the afternoon Mr..
Shell and our informant, who had been at
work in the field, were compelled to seek the
house for shelter from heavy shower
They had scarcely entered when Mrs. Shell
went to the bed TO replace some of the COW
ering which had become displaced, when
the horrible sight met her eyes, the head Of
a huge rahlesnake projecting from 6etsoee,a the
children, and its body in close proximity to
theirs. Mrs. S. was of course much fright
ened, and there is not much doubt but that
it would have terminated fatally to at least
one of the children, had it not been for the
providential arrival of the two men, who
with more presence of mind, quietly remov-
ed them from either side of the bed at the
same time. without alarming the snake, thus
saving their lives. His ''snakeship" was
unceremoniOusly dispatched. 1t proved to
be very large one, with six rattles on Its
tail. How it got there is mystery.-Pe-
oria Union, I5th.
The Kanzas news., 1858-09-04
Hoofs of Young Horses.

We saw recently an instance of the Ill
effects resulting from the neglect to shorten
the excessively long hoofs of young horses.
A colt, with unusually long hoofs, had in
his play stepped upon some hard substance
and broken off the front part of the hoof
of one foot to the quick. The accident
was attended with some bleeding and ex-
cessiye lameness, the poor fellow being I'M
willing to put his foot to the ground. Ten
minutes would have saved the animal much
pain, and the owner might have had the
profit of three months growth, instead OF
having it arrested for that period.
But the occasional breaking on OF part OF
the hoof is but tFifie when compared with
other mischiefs resulting from the same
cause. When the toe is too long, the strain
on the fetlock joint is greatly increased,
and permanent injury to the suspenssry hg-
ament of the foot often follows. Your horses
frequently have windgalls and other evi-
dences of sprains, before they are put to
work, and In ninety cases out of hum
dred these are where shortening the toe has
been neglected. On some graVelly and sto-
ny lands and hard roads. the hoofs viii
wear fast enough, as nature evidently intend
ed it should; but if horses are kept on good
smooth turf, their feet must be kept short
By artificial means Ohio Farmer.
The Kanzas news., 1858-09-04
Oh PRINTING.

The Office of TaE KAxsAs NKws is furnished
with . complete assortment Of the newest styles
Of Type. Borders. Flourishes. Cut, Cards, Fancy
Papers, Colored Inks, Bronze, 6c. enabling the
proprietor to print CIncuIARs cARDs. CEkrrsicArEs
OF SrocK, DEEps, Pos1EEss and all other kinds Of
jos PRINTrNG, in = manner unsurpassed IN she
country. Particular attention paid to printing
all kinds of Blanks. Orders for work promptly
attended to when accompanied with Casa. "Ex-
cELsIoR" is our motto
Blank Warranty and Mortgage Deeds. Bonds.
Executions, Summons, Subpehas, Attachments,
RecogniEances, etc., constantly on hand.
The Kanzas news., 1858-09-04
The Atlantic Telegraph and the I'm
port Trade.

The effect of the Atlantic telegraph on
trade is now being discussed in all its pros
and cons. We have heard an importer ar
que that it would be injurious to men in his
business, because country traders, he said,
would order their goods In smaller quanti-
ties than they now do, and importers would
give smaller orders to manufacturers; and
the manufacturers would be guided in like
manner as to the increased or reduced pro-
duction of their wares; and on all hands q
small peddling business would usurp the
now existing modes of trade. The same
injurious effect, he said, followed the intro
duction of ocean steamers. Prior to that
era the importers gave large orders to the
manufacturers, calculated for half years
or a years consumption; and the traders
gave large orders to the importers on the
same basis; and business was done on a
wholesale scale. When the fast steamers
came into vogue, the small traders commen-
ced to lay in goods for two or three months
only, and the importer was, consequently,
restricted to his orders, and the manufactur-
er in his production. This is claimed to be
considerable injury to trade, and it is to
be presumed that when the time between
the order and the delivery of the goods is
reduced to one half of what it has been the
evil will increase to proportionate extent.
There is some sense in the argument, mix
ed, however, with good deal of fallacy.-
If business be done henceforth on smaller
scale it will also be done on safer one
The aggregate amount, however, viii be as
large. If a trader lays in only months
stock, he will pay for it in cash or in notes
at ten or fifteen days. 1t will bring into
play the system of ''short credits and long
frien Is" Besides, it viii have the effect of
placing men of small capital on something
like an equality with rich and long estab-
lished firms. The smaller the orders the
smaller the risks, and the less capital for the
business. So that, even to the importers,
the Atlantic telegraph will prove blessing
rather than curse.-NeW York Herald
The Kanzas news., 1858-09-04

have possessed themselves of the entire State
Government. Mark the prediction.
To your posts, then, Free Sellers Be
fearless, be yigilant. Let no man in Mis-
souri, henceforth vote blindly. Assure your
selves that every township is canvassed
with tract, and paper, and speech. Unite
the labor of police, colporteur and mission
ary in your own person, and the time will
not be far distant when you viii be the
mighty arms of a great party, whose very
gesture here in the Valley of the West shall
give command TO the whole nation.
The Kanzas news., 1858-09-04
a New Type-settsng Machine.

Mr.. Greeley. good judge from his prac.
tical knowledge Of the subject, thus de-
scribes it:
Type-setting is work which an old type
setter can hardly be convinced viii ever
be executed by machinery; yet the machine
Of Ar. Timothy Alden, now on exhibition
in Centre street. threatens to do it. Its dis
tribution is parely automatic. proceeding
simultaneously with the composition, and
requiring little over sight or aid. One per-
son does all the work of composing, issti-
fying, &C., at speed which IS said to be
three or four times that of swift compos-
itor, at an old fashioned sease, I" ani We So
no reason why the execution should Be 9TH
er than frst-rase. The cost of the machine,
which must Be some $500 to $500. may
impede its general adoption; but If il does su
It promises, It must ultimately make is Eays
unless supplanted By better og cheaper
rival.
The Kanzas news., 1858-09-04

A DIRTY Box FULL OF DIAMoSDs.-In
Aliens Indian Mail, writer, dating from
Lucknow, says:
Yesterday (April 81. in a small corner
was discovered dirty box, after an hours
digging and when opened behold coilec-
ton of rubles. diamonds, pearls, &C.. of the
value of 100, 600 rupees. The soil of Luck
now is mint of money"
The Kanzas news., 1858-09-04

Texas u. s. SKNAToR.-The Louisville
.JoarEsaI processes to have advices from Aus
tin, Texas, that Gov. Runnels viii probably
appoint the Hon. Matt Ward as u. s. Sens
tor. to ell the vacancy occasioned By the
death of Gen. ]. Pinknsy Henderson.
The Kanzas news., 1858-09-04

We may seek costly furniture for our
homes, fanciful ornaments for our mantle
pieces, and rich carpets for our floors; but,
alter the absolute neeessaries for home,
books are at once the cheapest, and certain
iy the most useful and abiding embellish-
mentS
The Kanzas news., 1858-09-04

Maj. Holton, mail agen. between ST. Louis
and Keokuk for the past Eve years, has Just
been dismissed, It is stated, because he Is >
Douglas Democrat.
The Kanzas news., 1858-09-04

A Southern league has been established
in Montgomery, Ala. having in view the
establishment of Southern republic.
The Kanzas news., 1858-09-04
Mr.. Buchanan's Expenses for one Year

The official report of the last quarter of
Mr.. Buchanan's first year, after anunusual
delay, is before the country. The first is-
cal year of the present Administration end
ed on the 3Oth of June, and we have the
official figures of the Receipts and Expen-
ditures. As the public accounts are made
up. the Treasury notes ordered by Congress
are included in the "receipts," but no one
will require to he told that they do not form
any part of the legitimate revenue. The
aggregate of Treasury notes issued between
January and July, under the act authoriz-
ing $4,000, 900, is S23, ,716 800, showing
that the Treasury re-issued S3,716, ,3OO.-
The reissues have, however, been paid In
for public dues; and so that account is square.
The actual receipts of the year-the fiscal
year, from June 30th, 1857, to June 30th,
eli
The Kanzas news., 1858-09-04

Earn your own bread and 80 how ssssk
it viii Be.
The Kanzas news., 1858-09-04
sA,l1,377 %

From these figures there is no escape
The Buchanan Administration has, In its
first year, spent double its income GIN
cinaoti Commercial.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-11-23
Cnh, i1heTrnne2

1t is known to our readers, that at the
late elections in New York, Pennsylvania
New Jersey. Indiana, &c, the Republi
cans. relying upon the integrity and good
faith of several men who had formerly
been Democrats, elected them to Congress
This they did upon the full belief that they
were honest men and could be trusted to
carry out Il cir earnest professions. The
Republican party being founded upon prin-
| ciple, and not a mere spoils party, scram-
bling for the Offices of the country, were
perfectly willing to forego the offices them
selves, where Democrats, whom they be-
lieved to be honest, profassed to be with
them in principle. and desired the offices.
Acting on this liberal policy. they elected
some ten or twelve of these Democrats.
against the united opposition of the Ad-
miristration and the Democratic party.
We are now told by the Administration
papers. that we have been deceived by
these men--that they will now support the
Administration in all it's measures, and
that through their aid the Democratic
party, although defeated by the people as
they-the p@ple-supposed, will, through
these men be able to control the next Con
gressl Can this be true? We confess we
don't believe it, yet the thing is possible
We know that the leaders of Lecompton-
ism will do anything for office. Decep-
Lion of the people for the sake of their
votes on false pretenses, is their trade
But we did not suppose that these men
were Of that stripe, and that their pra-
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-11-23

zing Affect in this direction than the cult
vatiofof sentiments--of habits eyen--oi
gratitude. .fot~ seyors -begtoEedssA We hess
ali received many favots, Let us, then ibe
t,uly thankful.s het.us al make y day
&c. real tIanEsgiyipgs : The Lord says:
'inasmuch al ys did it to one ofthe least
Of these ye did It unto me-" And as we
can't give anything to Him. let US dc it
through the persons of those to whom a
turkey would be unattainable in any other
way. Dent let anybody specially neglect
their prayers, but If, through genuine acts
of kindness in visiting the afflicted. and
making glad the homes Of the destitute,
they should happen to-have less time for
formal ceremonies, we don't believe the
backsliding will be fatal.
But we must beg tke pardon of our read
ers. We little thought when we COM
menced to per. ia photographic notice of the
day that it would end so. But what is
writ is writ. .l
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-11-23

slavery as il a7fsted in hiA.Aag when every
person admitteh it to be an eYitsandlooked
sSorwsEa, to its spesAs. ,ermink ktiop. s4ld lie
s.trembled for Eisc country whsnle reflected
that God was just dthat hi4 justice could
not sleep forever" {Butwhal wouldbe his
feelings, and with What words Of burning
power would he utter them, il he could re-
turn and witness his degenerate couEtry.
men, not only repudiating his sentiments
in regard 10 those already enslaved, but
deliberately conspiring to re.enslave the
thousands who have been freed by theii.
masters, and most of them by their own
fathers? ,r,tsci .CsS, y
Surely the belief in the existence of
God, and the retributions Of justice must
be giving way in the minds OF men, and
that utter madness which proceeds. de-
truction, is assuming CONTROL over their
actions 1t is impossible that men can
plot such schemes, until they have 6rsl
destroyed in themselves the powerof spir-
itual perception. and blotted from theiI
Souls the iasJ remaIus Of cUnsoience. And
when this is done the basis on which so
ciety rests is removed, and freedom be-
comes an impossibliity. Evil must NEE
it's reward. ell In5 sti %
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-11-23
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Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-11-23
Lynch Law im TxemtuIcIxy.

Four men were confined in the Green's
berg Jail on charge of murder, whose
names were Elias Scrags, w. D. Thomr-
son, s. Despano and George Hunter. AT
the time they were first incarcerated,
several weeks ago, large mob collected
for the purpose of lynching them. but was
deferred at that time, and left, threatening
to return at some other time to complete
their purpose. 9s,t a.
According to arrangement, a few days
and the surrounding country. met and
marched to the Jail, which was strong
stone building, and with sledges and rams
battered down the doors. To avoid falling
into the hands ofthe infuriated mob, Scrags
cut his throat while they were break
ing into his cell. When the mob obtained
access to him he was in the last agonies
OF death, in which condition he was seized
and dragged into the street and there
died.
The other three were bound on horses
and carried to Campbellsville. twelve miles
distant, and there amidst the prolestations
of the men that they were innocent, and
the yeliings of the mob, Thompson and
Despano were hung. Hunter, perhaps in
hopes of saving his life, agreed to make a
confession, which he did by duplicating
five other white men and one negro. Hun
ter was then spared for the time. until
those whom lie implicated could be arres-
ted. The scene. rs described by an eye
witness and who juslihes the transaction,
in a communication to the Louisville
Journal" from which we condense the
facts above. is most horrible.
| How far from stste OF savageism is u
community which can tolerate and even
sanction such internal brutality? Deeply
and hopelessly lost AS the wretch must BE-,
who can imbrue his hands in his brother $
blood in ordinary murder. yet is he nc
more personally guilty than the actors and
abettors in such scene as this, and I'll
demoralizing and brutalizing effect of one
such exhibition upon society, will do more
| to dissolve the ties of social order and lei
loose the demon of anarchy, than score
of uiders.
Here were men. charged with the crime
Of murder to De sure. but protesting tbeiI
innocence and safely kept from injurins
society il even disposed to do so. If one
set Of men may take them untried and un
condemned, and with ferocily of whicl
to death in open daylight, what is to re
strain their friends from avenging thei
death, and others theirs to infinity. 1t il
clear that the existence of society in sucl
a stale of demoniacal passion. is wholly
impossible. These scenes are becoming
fearfully frequent, and if not soon sup
pressed will be past suppression.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-11-23
ChfVHIrY


We give, in another article, brief ac-
count of several men being taken from a
Jail in Kentucky, by mob and hung.
Since that article was written, we learn
from late papers. the particulars of another
jail scene. William Haley was confined
in the Jail in Rockcastle, in that State, and
securely fastened to the wall with iron
chains and coffles. While in this condi-
,ion. and wholly unable TO evade the al
tack, Mr.. Moore came to tie open win
dow, and pointing his gun through the
grating, deliberately shot him. Haley was
living when the account was written, i'm
mediately after the act, but there was no
hope of his recovery. f
Chivalry means tD sell babies, whip wo-
men, and murder prisoners! Are we not
taught daily. that the superior races have
II perfect right to do as they please with
the inferior? But an auctioneer is surely
superior to baby. then why not sell il? A
hurley slave driver mus, be superior to a
woman; then why not fog her? A val
liant son of ehivalry, with musket in his
hands, is doubtless superior to poor
wretch chained in prison; why not then
shoot him. Isn't chivslry an institution?