Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1859-04-29
JOHN W. FoRNEY. Chairman.


LEAvENwoRTH, April 25.-Advices
from Utah, received by the overland Mail,
represent affairs in the country as wearing
a very threatening aspect and seem clearly
to argue the impossibllity of the Federal
Courts administering justice. Judge Cra-
deubaugh discharged the Grand Jury,
they refusing to find any bills and using
every other means TO screen the parties
accused OF murder. There is Il serious
misunderstanding between Gov. Cummin .
and Gen Johnston.
MEMPHIS, April 22.-Intelligencc has
been received from Lake Providence,
Louisiana, that two boats were swept into
the Crcvasse, near that place, on Satur-
day night, by which thirty lives were lost.
The coal boats belonged to J. J.. Hyatt, of
Louisville, and contained 1900 bushels
of coal. Several new and disastrous
breaks in the Leyee are reported below
Lake Providence.
BosToN, April 25.-A full bench of
the Supreme Court, this morning, deliver
ed an opinion, multiplying the opinion of
Judge Shaw, to the effect that the selling
of liquor is common nuisance, and that
any one had ri ght to destroy it. The
decision rendered this morning acknow.
ledges that property in liquor can only be
taken and destroyed by the process of the
law.
The Richmond Enquirer, the old Dem
ocratic paper of Virginia, has cautioned
Mr.. Letcher, theDemocratic candidate for
Governor, against endorsing the Buchan.
an administration, in his speeches. Poor
old Buck has he fallen SO low that none
will do him reverence?
Col. W. w Seaton, one of the editors
of the National Intelligencer, with few
of his friends, on Wednesday night last,
celebrated his golden wedding, having
been married fifty years, for about which
time he has been connected with the In.
telligencr.
A Nebraska paper says that Slavery is
already established in the Pixies Peak re-
gion-that the Mexicans are there with
poems, and that Southeruers are on their
way there with slaves, from every South.
ern State.
BALTIMORE, April 22.-Rev. II. V.
Johns, Rector of the Emmanuel Episcopal
Church, and brother of the Assistant
Bishop of Virginia, died at six clock this
morning. Mr.. Johns was prominent
minister of the Episcopal Church.
A dreadful explosion occurred in the
Bright-hope coal-pits, in Chesterfield coun-
ty, Va, on Wednesday. There were
nine men in the shaft at the tme-four
whites and five negroes Of whom, it is
supposed, were instantly killed.
The whole family of DR.. Junkin, Pres
ideut of Washington College Va, inclu-
ding the Doctor himself, were all poison
ed by slave, few days since, with arse
mic. They all recovered, however, as the
dose was SO large as to act as an emetic
The Port Gibson Miss ReoeWc gives
an account Of the death of Sarah Holly,
free woman of color She was the widow
Of Christopher Holly. At the time of her
death Sarah owned thousand acres of
land and thirty slaves
Mr.. Letcher, the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Virginia, is dangerously
sick, and has given up his canvass Of the |
State.
The steamer St. Nicholas exploded on
the 10Th inst, near Memphis, when 50 .
persons were killed or are missing.
In Michigan the Republican majority
at the late State election is between l5,-
900 and 10000.