Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-02-17


tee of the Senate on Saturday, that h
received between four and five thousan
dollars from Mr.. Wendell in 1856 for tn
purpose of organizing third party il
Pennsylvania preceding the Gubernatoria
and Presidential elections, which the DE
mocracy regarded as imperatively necessa
ry to secure the State for Mr. Buchanan
That money was applied to the object
This fact establishes that the public mon
ey derived from printing and other job
aud assessments in departments, was usee
to start the Fillmore movement on prac
teal basis, which was afterward rendered
formidable by contributions from New
York, through whichsthe side. door opera
tions were managed and Mr.. Fremont de
feated. Movements are now on foot to re-
peat this game next Fall, but with lee:
prospect of success-C0r. Tribune.
! 1t is further shown that some of the
proceeds of the Post Office Blank Print
ing-which is given out at the discretion
of the President and his Sccretaries-was
paid to sustain the Fillmore paper in Buff
falo City, owned by Mr.. Jewett, and
"used' by the Locofocos to divide the
Opposition and slip in Buchanan.-The
constitutional Union" bantling that is
now attempted to be born, will be nnrscd
by pap from the Locofoco National Treas
ury bottles, or it will die
An Agent of the Douglas party in ILL.,
nois is said to be at Washington, with
100000, to be expended in securing the
nomination of Judge Douglas at Charles
ton. The agent will proceed to Charleston
| in few days to make his arrangements.
Report saJs that two million copies of
Douglas recent Senate speech are being
circulated One hundred thousand copies
will be printed in superior style. A large
central committee is actively employed in
Washington in preparing the way for Sc
curing the nomination of Douglas.
When Mr. Casey, late Treasurer of the
United States, died, Secretary Cobb an
nounced the fact to the President, who
said, as the appointment was in his de-
partment, he would not interfere, and de-
sired him to fill the vacancy. See. Cobb
accordingly indicated Mr.. Randolph, Chief
Clerk, who had been in the office thirty
wears. v hen the President was notified
of the selection, be instantly refused to
confirm it. Yet Sec. Cobb is still Sccre,
tary of the Treasury.
Henry A. Elmundson of Virginia who
made the assault upon the Hon. Mr. HEX
man, at Washington, few days since, is
a large, gross man, coarse in manners and
person. 1t is stated that in April, 1856,
he was so dis gracefully intoxicated on the
floor of the House of Representatives, that
he had to be carried out by bis friends
Ex.Gov. Thomas has arrived, and will
enter on the duties of the Patent Office
Immediately. Mr.. Bishop, his predcces-
sor, has returned to Connecticut.
Emancipation Of Russian Slaves.
In German paper we find an article
dated St. Petersburg, Dec 4, which we
translate
"In Stardub, village Of the district Of
Kaschiru, a very remarkable event has
taken place. The proprietor of the village,
Herr Nicolai Turgeniew, has entered into
a voluntary contract with the serls on his
estate for their emancipation. The village
has an area of 562 desstatines "a Russian
term of land mcasure) of land, aud pop
u.ation of Isl males, SO that there are to /
each male 8 l.l9 dcsstatines. BY the eff
feet of this contract, the proprietor relin-
quishes to the community or parish third
part of the soil, that is to say lS7! dess,a-
tines, and reserves to himself two thirds.
The dwellings of the peasants, with the
land apper,aining to them, become the en-
tire property Of the occupants. The peas
ants bind themselves to pay the capitatiou
taxes and all subsistiug imposts. The
homesteads can only pass to an heir, who
shall come under the same obligations as
ais predecessor, and purchase the consent
of his co-heirs, nor can they be sold, ez
.ept to peasants Of the same village. The
and not pertaining to tie several dwell
Dgs belongs to the community. The
binds itself to pay bonus of
| APO silver roubles. Tho popular Herr
rurgeniew formally declares, at the end oi
he contract, that the peasants are at liber
y to withdraw from the arrangement as
soon as the negotiations between the gov
and the nobility shall offer them
more favorable conditions. The civil au-
horties of the village, on their part, en-
,age not to infict corporal punishment,
md only to sentence offenders to fines,
labor and imprisonment"
JACOB BARKER, an old and esteemed
,itizen at New Orleans, at the Pilgrim
Celebration in that city, in alluding to the
Southern bluster about disunion, tod some
unpleasant truths to his Southern breth-
EN-. He said