Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1859-12-16


JAMES S. ROLLINS, who came within
two or three hundred votes of being Gov
ernor Of Missouri in 1857, made a speech
at late "Whig" meeting in Lexington,
Mo-, which expressed the preference of
Missouri for Edward Bates for President,
in which be declared his intention to sup
port the Republican nominee, even though
it should be Joshua r. Giddings. Mr.. Rol-
Inns is STAKEHOLDER, and one of the most
popular, capable and influential men in
Missouri.
Gen. George Washington Dixon, for
merly Duke Of 1ucatan, and now Earl Of
Poydras Market, New Orleans, was cow
hided in said market on the 4th instant,
by woman, who insisted that be had
twice insul;ed her 10 the market aforesaid
The woman went at him like q tigress,
aud, after he had received few licks, he
glllantly got out ot the way, making neither
resistance nor subsequent complaint.
THOMAS CoRwIy, twenty years
ago, took his sea. in the L. s House of
Representatives as member from the
same District now represented by him.
There is not member of the House, with
him, who was there when he first took his
seat In less than a generation, there
has been an entire change, with single
exception.
Gerrit Smiths wife, by the consent of
her husbands physician, visited him at
Utica, on Tuesday last So nearly restor-
ed to mental and bodily health is this gen.
tleman, that his family look to reunion
of ali its members at PeterborO', Oh Christ
mas day.
y BLACK CANDIDATE-Someo Of the
LOcofocO papers speak of Judge Black fer
the Presidency. These editors had better
look out, or they will put some of their
party who are so fearful of everything
black, into ''conniptions."
Fish are killed in Holland, when taken,
BY thrustiug sharp needle in the head or
tail. The flesh is said TO be superior in
flavor and frmness to those suffered to die
in lingering tOrtures.
The Registry Law of New York, altho'
imperfect In some respects, acted as such
a check upon illegal voting at the recent
election, that the Baltimore papers demand
one for that city.
Mrs. Miller died suddenly in St. Louis,
recently. Her husband had eloped with
another Ran's wife, and she died of ex-
cessive grief at the circumstances of her
desertion.
Late dates from the coast Of Africa state
that the American ship Memphis, with
sever hundred slaves, had escaped all tho
cruizers and put to sea. Tweuty-six ves-
sells were expected on the coast for eargoes
of slaves for the United States.
A law of Virginia gives the postmaster
and justice Of the peace right to decide
whether mail matter is inceDdiary, burn
it, and commit the person who may desire
to have received it, to Jail-oveIriding
the U. S. Post Office laws, in effect.
Brown said, he "raiter be accompanied
to the gallows by dozen Of slave children
md their good old slave mother, than by
my of those who approved Of the euslavs-
noHt Of their fe!lOw-mcn."
Nine churches are to be sold in Cinciu.
latti, Ohio, i'll few days, for nOn-payment
If taxes.
Edward Lytton Bulwer, the prolific
writer, says he only writes three hours
lay, but then be makes a business Of it.
A young man was arrested in Virginia
! few days ago for whistling Yankee
Doodle
The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago
Railroad has "gone in" to Receivers
hand.
Col. Colt, Of Hartford, has presented >
hundred Of bis pistols to Garabaldi.