Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1859-03-25

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the Basement of the Presbyterian Church.
Parents aud the public generally are cor
daily invited to attend. Exercises to
commence at a qulrter before I. Music
By the Choir March %, 1859.
rer-The appointment Of Rev. S.Wolf,at
Yark, announced in our last, was an error,
he took no appointment this year. Mr..
- kremer is appointed for York. John
Kramer, Agent for Union Seminary.
m. From Tuesday to Thursday of this
wack, the judges of this county held an
Argument Court in town, and We learn
accom- pli,Led much business. To-day a
similar Court is appointed for Snyder
county.
Ane,hCr HrTa5lical In iae 1. 3. senate.
Tie Revolution has begun 10 operate in
Now jersey. JOHN &. Ten EfcK-sail
to be i crp.ble and worthy man-is cho,
sen to represent her in the National coun-
cils, wee Wm. Wight, Dem. The vote iu
Legislature s;ooi-JuIse Ten Eyck, u ;
Nraom lDcm.) 81 Stockton (Am) ) /;
Wn-At, 3-.c4yius Ten E!cA = maj.
over all.
I.r TT. BEuru AT railroad meeting
llst werk in S-.iusgroye, a majority took
ground ia favor Of commencing the pro-
posed Ra.lroad at Northumberland u Sun
bury, thus eating of Lewisbarg and
Union county entirely. jack Cummings
and I.avyer Simpson were the leaders ia
this wIrt4re upon our county, Their
Times saws we Do not van, ;he Road. \
respectable minority Gnclujiug |. Cute
lius) dissen'el. Cummings went to Ilar-
fisburs to oppose tls bill. We hope,
however, tia. it may pass, although the
session Is 81 far advanced that it may fail.
III, lano,ial S!srn of ihc S2riaG o. l>l9.
las b-,n uuc)mmouly severe, ant accom-
panied by high water in many of the riy-
crs, caused much destruction. The West
Branch is SAID to have been higher than it
has been since 1917, and brought down
quite aqu4uti,y Of RATS. The eastern
shore CT the river has been sadly wasted
By the high wind and water.
On Friday evening Of last week, the
wind blew i gale from the south west with
such force as to take off the tin roof and
rafters from the west wing Of the main ed.
iiice Of the University at Lewisburg, com
pletcly throwing them over to the north
east side. This was about : o'clock, when
the students were in their rooms. Hap
ply, although all were considerably
startled, 10 one was injured. Que room
was pretty well filed with rubbish,
which fell between two students. The
injury done is supposed to amount to $500
or 500 Workmen are alrcady repairing
the damage Two large pine trees on the
campus were blown down, and considerable
damage done to fences in some parts of
East BufTaloo township, near the river.
In Kelly township, part of the shingle
roof of Adam Rogers barn was removed and
Messrs. Alexander, Shafer, and others,
suffered from the uprOoting Of apple trees
AID the destruction Of fences.
About sixty feet of the shingle roof of
the west span of the Milton Bridge was
taken off.
The Union Seminary building, at New
Berlin, lost about one hundred feet Of its
TN roof.
We have learned that barns we're un-
rooted and other damage done in Mosers
Valley.
The C,arks Ferry Bridge was more.than
Lalf destroyed, taking our Telegraph line
along with it, We read that boat will
supply the place OF the Bridge for the
present.
E3-Thc Grand Jury in the Sickles case
had not returned True Bill at last dates,
although it is expected daily Mr.. But
terworth, his alleged accOmplice, is dis
charged
The President has decided NOT to call
an extra session Of Congress, it being Ger
tain that if he should the Republicans
would gain the crgauizliion. No matter
what suffers, the President would rather
anything else than lower House of Re
rubIcaus.
FROM HARRISBURG.
E-y-AIr. WagoLselicr has introduced
lao tie Assembly another bill to supply
lsw.sturg with water. We trust that
Ns'sTs. Wasonsoller aud Gregg will per-
mt the people Of Lswisburg to see the bill
'''i' 'loy urge its passage. We notice
lo petition in 1t, favor
y Jlii passed requiring the Overseers Of
lie Poor cf this borough to give bail.
1t IS thought by some the Legislature
VIII aaJ9urn within tao weeks.
Nike Walsh, leader Of the rowdy Dem.