Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-06-15

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hitherto been October, February, March
and April.
Porter's Spiri, of the Times, states tha,
an exciting cock IL ght is TO come of al
Washington between two celebrated game
cocks of the Spanish breed, named Gen
eral Coucha" and GENERA. Ortega" Tue
first belongs to the Hon. j. Is. Floyd,
Secretary of War, and the last to Vice
President John e. Breckeuridge The
stakes are 500 and sl,Uc0 Think Of
that-;he Vice Presiden; and Secretary
Of War getting up cock E sht. Surely,
Summers grand and eloquent speech On
the "BarLarisal Of .Siarery," was as time
ly as b0id.
The Democrats Of the North were gross
IL insu.ted at Charleston. Before they
went, the papers a, Charleston announced
that the doors Of respectable private hou-
ses would be closed against them. When
they got in Convention, because they would
lot surrender everything-even homer
the South deserted them, and then charg-
ed them With being only band OF rob
bers. Possibly they were afraid to resent
it, for fear of being served as Whitney
was: he invented the cotton gin for them,
they put him in prison for it.
An HEROIC GRoUPE 1t is supposed
that the Southern Convention at Rich
mond, vii, await the issue %. tue Northern
Convention at Baltimore, (shoGld the lat
ter have heart enough to assembly, before
they proceed to act. But suppose the ad-
iourned convention at Baltimore should
determine TO await the issue at Richmond,
" hat then! As Puf says il the Critic,
"Theres situation f.r you +. there's an
heroic group. We have them a; a dead
lock-for each is afraid to let 60 first"
The Elmira P-ess says that there is al
elderly lady residing IL that place who
has in her possession the remaius of her
own wedding cake, which she has preserv-
Sd for over forty years. 1t was wrapped
up In the same piece of paper that was put
around 1t to dream by" on tie night OF
her wedding.
There is county in the State Of Penn
sylyania in which We find the sources of
three great rivers. Ohe flows or empties
into the Gulf Of ST. Layreuce, one into
the Chesapeake Bay, and the other into
the Gulf of Mexico. Will some Of our
school boys give Us the name Of the
county?
A ADIFFERENCE.-At Dallas Ala. court,
on the 2iib ult-, Robert RiDggold, charg-
ed with stealing a slave, was found gull
ty and sentenced to the penitensiary for
ten years. At the same time and place,
NJ Mullen plead guilty to mans!augh-
ter in the second degree, apd was seu-
fenced TO six months Imprisonment in
the county Jail and fue of $500.
On SPRINGs.-The .Scieatifc Ameri-
can says the oil springs are probably the
result Of the decomposition Of vegetable
earth. 1t is not likely any of them are
inexhaustible, and their extent will no
doubt vary like that of coal beds aud other
geological deposits.
The African Baptist Church in Angus
ia, Ga, owns Its minister The ccugre-
CATION bought him from his former mas
ter. The members of the church, who are
mostly if lot all slaves themselves, contri-
butte thousand dollars year for the sup
port Of their "chattel' pastor aud family
1t is stated ty one of our exchanges
that Democrat being asked to give some
hing towards detraying the expenses of .
the new exploring expedition to the
North Pole, declined on the grounds |
hat it was sectional" and he "knew 10
\ orih."
A new kind of leather has made its
appearance in market. 1t is made from
he skin of the monsters found in the riv-
IT ST. Lawrence. From the skin of the
white whale can be made superior kid,
ole leather, harness leather, and black
eaiher for boots.
The japanese "colored gentlemen" re-
eiys great attentions in their trips to the
Northern cities. They are made an excuse
or much waste Of money, drunkenness,
nd gluttony, for the sake Of getting a lit
lie useless trade with them aud introducing
he vices of ''civiliZl;ion."
A TEXAS DIvISE.-A Texas paper says
bat Rev. K. F. Thompson, a native miss
onary in that State, is "breaking himself
f the habit of swearing, and reads the
scriptures quite Iaently."
James Werden, a native Of Rhode Is
and, died recently at Grafton, Rensselaer,
ounty, N, Y, aged one hundred and
RsUty years. i