Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1859-12-09
One Free Virginia Paper.

The Daily hteH.yeacer, Of Wheeling,
Va, is a very respectable looking and
spirited sheet, copy Of which, for last
Friday morning, We have received. 1t
contains no slave advertisements. We
clip from it the following items, exhibit
ing at once the depotism and the quaking
amidst the Slave Power:
"French Espionage established on the Bal
,imore and ONO Road .-ClllZenS taken out
OF the cars by the military, and thrown into
prison for their opinions!-Three passengers
by the Western train were taken out Of the
ears on arrival OF the train, by the military.
and imprisoned, under the following circum-
stances. The parties were merchants from
Cincinnati, who had started for Baltimore.
At Grafton they were heard TO express them
selves quite freely relative TO Brown, express
ing sympathy for him and for has family.
The conversation was heard by spy"
"Citzens from abroad, travelling through
this state, have DO rights that Gov.Wise feels
himself bound to respect. He wrestS from
them their constitutional privileges as abso-
lutely as if he were despot dei grdtda, m
stead of being petty usurper.
"What Tacitus wrote of Domitian is appli-
cable now to the deSpotism which reigns IN
this State The professors Of learning having
been expelled, and every liberal arr banishet,
lest at ything honorable should confront HIM,
he though, that he had abolished the voice Of
the Roman people, The liberty o. the Senate,
and the conscience Of the human race. R@GL
IN, toe hare siren a great proct Of PGtienes;
and as the old times saw the extreme Ia hber-
ty, so all freedom Of speaking and hearing
being taken away by prosecutions, 'rs nor see
tie ertr,me Of siIreTy.'"
"Southrrn Legislatures are everywhere
called on by plantation presses 10 make >trin-
gent Jaws against Northern pedlars and Irav-
cling agents of every description. We Sug-
sest that these Legislatures be also petlIiOned
10 enact laws for the abolition of peoples
shadows. SO that the chIvalry may hot be in
danger of being unnecessarily scared on that
account
a. gentleman from Baltimore who was on
his way South for his health, was subjected 10
such suspicion aud scrutiny in passing
through the interior of Virginia that he gave
up the trip"
The Orangeburg Is. c. S0uttron says
Since Friday last. no less than four indivIdu
>,
nity. have been ordered to leave the village
Of Orangeburs, and told that they would have
10 abide the consequences Of remaining after
the expiration of a time specified
The Piedmont Volunteers are quartered at
the Wood>de House. The town constable,
wagsish fellow, raised an immense light on
mountain top, Tuesday night, and fired sew
cral shots. Immediately afterwards the
mountain snake hunters we're aroused by he
ScntnelS. Some of them rushed out OF the
house dressed in an old muSket, a chew of
dng-lc. tobacco, and shirt; others came out
with their rel wamuses at half mast while
some refused 10 move peg. The roll was
called and those who knew their names and
dli not answer to them were afterwards put
in the guard house, as was the constable, for
starting The alarm. Those passengers who
are aroused from their slumbers and oStied
about by these monstrcSitIes will be amply
repaid by a sight Of the intruicrS.'
a blind girl and her sister, now stopping
at the Mcclure House, were driven from Mar
tInSbnrg the other day, because they could
give no account Of themselves
s9~And Mr. Ellington, Mem Der elect
to the Legislature at Richmond, had to
get certificate from the Railroad Agent
at Wheeling, Recommending him as a
proper person to travel through the State
to the city where his duty lies as the le-
gal representative of his county,l.