Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1861-04-30


possible secret Secession emissaries, are
teiDg formed in Philadelphia aud other
cities and towns.
Rev. Messrs J. Fl. Grier, S. ". Price,
J. Anderson helly, and J. Sanks, With
Drs. Davidson and Lyman, aud H. c.
UIman, Esq, addressed meeting in Jer-
sey Shore. avosiug their willingness to
take the field for the hono1 and defence Of
their country if need be.
st the Race Street Lutheran church Of
Philadelphia, Rev. Mr.. Ssiss, pastor, one
hundred aud fifty ladies are patri0tically a,
work making clothing for the soldiers
They are located in the lecture room, and
are D., coLfned to the ladies Of the
Church.
Mr.. Kroin, cf SInbury, c,pturei a
salmon at that place that weighed IL!
pounds, end Nr. Boyd caught another
weighing 9 pounds.
A horrible calamity occurred at tie oil
veil of Little K MyIick, 90 the Buchanau
Flats, near Franklin, Pa, on Wednesday
a vein Of oil was tapped, and a spout
thrown up 200 feet in height, A crowd
collected TO see it, when the oil took FIRE,
and an explosion took place, killing four
persons instantly, whose bodies were con-
sumed in the flames. Thirteen were dead
at four o'clock p NJ, on Thursday, and
ten vcve Pot expected to live tweuty-four
hours. Thirtyfour persons in all are
known to have been burnt, and as there
were many strangers present, it Was sup
posed more have peIished.
\ volunteer mea..ng 10 Selinsgrove
was called BY the efforts Of Maj. John
Cummings ani addressed BY 4. c. Simp-
son, and others. Several soldiers were
enlisted in Snyder county, are il the COM
rany Of o;har counties.
The Reading, Allentown and Po,is.own
companies-from cid Pennsylvauis-Eere
the frs, to respond to the President. call.
Massachusetts cane rex,-then New Y ork.
Capt jarrett Of Lock Haven, snd Capt,
Bosser: Of Mil Hall, have taken their
companie. to Harrisburg-we suppose,
have been accepted.
Gen. Harvey, Of Lnrerre county, it i.
said, has raised a whole company Of his
former students in Wyoming Seminary,
Kingston.
The Ladies (ani other citizens of Sun
bury have won much praise from TIE Sol
diers by their alscri.y and bounty il
furnishing refreshments to several Of the
companies rh-siny through that borough
f.oIa the North and the Wes, Branch.
James Bird Harding (uepbew Of the
james Bird who ''f1ugh. aud tled a, Erie
is captain Of the Wyoming County Com.
paoy, formed At TuDkhsnaock
John II. Price is Seconi Lieu,eaans
in the Rife company from WilIiamspo.t
In Philadelphia, on Thursiay, Bishop
Wood raised the American flag over the
dome of the new Catholic Cathedral in
Logan Sq1are-the heigh: being $50 feet.
George Pifer enlisted With tie Belle
fonta Fencitles.
OF the Nori-,owu Companies, one nan
was sbo, dead BY some Misunderstanding
or mistake, aud another committed suicide,
while il ,bs camp a. PerJJviile, Opposite
Havre DC Grace
George NJ DePui is among the Wood
ward Guards. Wiliiamspor'.
Bs-iies the two CompsDies sent from
Wil.iamsp0rt, an Irish and a German
is being orgaoiz ,1-a.so the
.Pscker Light Guards"-sud some sharp
shooting "LycomiDg Rangers" from the /
The American Eagle is said TO have !
done duty over Camp Curtin, aud also 8,
one oI two points on the West Braneh-a
specimen Of that bird having been soaring /
over the soldiers on parade, cheering them !
with the omen.
\ meeting il Northumberland to raise
q volunteer company was addressed by
Rev. Mr.. Dickson and David T.gear,, E,q.
Sbsmokin sen: down 70 Harrisburg, On
Monday lest, company numbering one
hundred aud ten men, COMMANDED BY
Captain SiroIse. A meeting was held by
the citizens for the purpose Of raising
'un3s for the company, snI aiding those
Eho leave families, FIR support