Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1861-06-25
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Morris, Tioga Co, Pa, June Il.

WHEELING, June 20.-The Virginia
State Convention elected today Trauk p
Picrpon, Governor Of the State DaL.el
Paisley, Lieutenant Governor; aud Nessrs
Lamb, Paxton, Van Wiukia, Harrison
AID Lazear, Governor Council. The
Lew Governor was iuaUgurated this after
noon, and the city is in blaze Of excite
meut tonight The event is being cele.
brated with saIutes, fire works, etc.
LANE, Ogle Co, ILL.,, June l9-T D.
Burke, rabid Secessionist, was hung here
to-day by the citizens, from the third stO-
~ Of an Clubhouse building. He was
charged with having caused the des,ruc-
tive fires here on the 9Th Of this mouth,
aud in December last, aud his guilt Was
established. |. was also known that be
had planned the burning Of all the tusi.
ness par. of the town.
Some OF the snallfry Breckenridge pa
peTs Of this State still continue to mix up
politics with the Siave-hJ.drrs' Rebellion,
and show their hyeua-like teeth on Al! &C.
ca.ions. They are hardly worth noticing,
because it is ali the stock that these poor
devils have to trade upon, and even that.
will be soon used up. |; is better, there
fore, to let them alone iu their waIlowiugs
in the little dirty poo. tia, surrounds them.
PousrWe Journai
Lieut. John II Derby, better known as
"John Pbeuix," died receu;ly in an in.
sane asylum. lie was o native Of Massa-
chuseit-, graduated at West Point in 1912,
aud served honoraby in Mexico, where
his peculiar humor as q writer Was first
developed.
The Editor Of the Solinssrove -'I'mc.
says any one who calls him Scccssloa-;
is "a ID liar" We dent know about
Sccessionism, bu. any one who reads his
paper will naturally come 10 the conc.n-
SION that if the editor is not SecessioDisi,
be must be fool.-Le'risor~a Ga-eHe.
Brevet- Brigaiier- G eneTalJuo. Garland,
of the United States army, departed this
life in peace, in the city of New York, in
the sixty. ninth year Of his age. he was
born in the Stale of Nirginia, aud died a
true patriot, having served bis country
aud well. Next to Lieut.. Gen.
sral Scot, he had eeen more service than
any other officer 10 our army.
If old John Brown was now alive, be
might be useful as scout. As Byron
'ays Of the fallen Napoleon, remembering
v oscov-
20 for tie veteran heat, .hs; were wa,tci'7
A gentleman accounts for The devotion
f Gen. Leslie Coomb. to the Union hy
he fac, tha. his wife is q Rhode Island
Y1nu.
The Southern p.persscy ,ha;the .'orih is
ivcu 10 isms-tha'. when one gives out,
mother succeeds. We taye iast taken up
n old ism, tha, had a grea. Ira some
lightly years asO-patrio'i'm.
Ia ru. c;gat-cornered, cat'y-cornered
Oom c cat sits in each corner, seven ca.s
re besore each cat, aud cat sits on every
ats tail. How many are there il tie
pom?
Red noses are lighthouses 20 warn voya-
ers on the sea os life OF the coast of Ma
ga, Jamaica, Santa Cruz, Holland, aud
her dangerous highways Of death.
A despatch from Hsge.s,own states tha;
,e Confederate pickets had returned to ,
arper's Ferry, and were using the harsh .
It measures toward the union men there. ,
QUESTION FOR NATURALIsTs.-Wherc
i'll the next "National Dem mocratic Con-
,u,ion" be held1-at Charleston or New
rieans7