Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-09-14
Correspondence Of the Star Chron!cisl
To the Oil Editorial Pine Table.
TowANDA, Sept. 8, 1860.

A day in Bradford county, during the
session Of the Courts over which WILMOI
presides with so much ease, enabled Us tC
greet hundreds Of old time acquaintance
and friends A tremendous contest was
wAging for Prothono;ary, which caused a
poll OF 800 votes In Canton, POI IN Leroy
(nearly the full vote of those townships
&c, for the Republican candidates. The
Convention. in the evening, found the 81
Delegates ''crammed ike pick led herring
in the Court room Underneath which are
County Offices and Jail, as in Lewisburg)
from .: O'Clock until near midnight, sur
rounded by an eager, attentive multitude.
The convention vas fair specimen Of the
equality wrought by pure republican usa-
ges. The presiding officer was judge
Of horse flesh and an exhorter, associated
with lawyers and publicans, merchants and
woodchoppers; here Baptist minister is
delegate, there Presbyterian deacon, and
wonder Methodist elder testifes as chair
man Of delegate election under contest,
and his course is unanimousl y sustained.
An intellectual, resolute, thorough set Of
Yankees they appeared as We worked a
passage" to view them il the face-just
the men to raise 1000 or 5000 honest ma
jority for Freedoms candidates. Henry
W Tracy and Dr.. Charles I. Bliss-men
Of the first rank In intellect and charac-
ter-were nominated for the Assembly
A Hanson Spaiding, of Athens, Sheriff
Nathan c. Elsbree, Of Windham, Register
x Recorder These were formery Wings,
and the remaining nominees were DemOc-
rats of the old school. L. y. Goodrich
the able, sasacious and perseyering editor
Of the Reporter was chosen TOR Protho-
notary, and well deserves the honor. The
Col. Allen NJ kean, has held
the Office twelve years, and gallantly and
led in the cause Of truth many
years before, emerging with host OF per-
sonal friends from a minority to glorious
majority His party having now chosen
to reward another worthy member, Allen
VI Kean's old foes We're tempting him to
turn his back upon his tried party friends
and play into their hands as a disorganizer
II this vital contest. We trust he will do
Is he would be done by-stand to Goodrich .
Is the latter stood to NJ kean when in the
,ame relation-adjust his long standing if
lot complicated accounts, satisfactorily
md then, vi hat office that he desires can
lot ALLLN NJ KtAN get in Old Bradford:
This county is one Of the greatest
n the State, and contains about as many
arms as the largest and oldest. The farms
re increasing in value steadily, and the
ggregate wealth enlarging. There are
cry many Of the real pioneer" living in
be enjoyment of their well earned homes
men who battled successfully with wild
casts and ruder nature 50, 40, 80, 60 or
0 years since. Perhaps there are 1000
r 5000 men in this county living on soil
hey or their fathers redeemed from the
and it is among such men
nat thousands of copies of Greeley's and
ther Republican papers are circulated,
eekly, and read with avidity by men, wo-
len and children Of all classes.
The natives Of this region are generally ,
tall, athletic set of msn-capable of hol- ,
ing an srsunsa. On almost any subject,