Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1861-03-01
Political Items.

Of Philad., was last week grossly iosulted,
and driven ou. Of Norfolk, for having con-
fessed, IN reply to the question, that he
voted for Lincoln-at the same time de.
nying that he was an Aboli'ionist. Mr..
Hallowell Helped raise $4,000 to aid
Norfolk when 1t was swept with the yel-
low fever.
LIBERTY IN DANGER.-The Southern
Literary Messenger, issued a, Richmond,
shows the object of the Disunionisss.
One of these is to abolish universal white
suffrage, By making a property quali6ea-
ton necessary for the franchise-in word
to drive out its poor citizens, Secessionists
or not, aud 20 re-erect feudai system on
this continent.
Charles Jared Ingersol is the man who
said she would have been Tory if be had
lived in the Revolution" and deemed the
name reproach Accordingly, We end
him active D the recent Breckinridge mee-
ting in Phiiad., which, while feebly decla-
ring for the Union, denounced its friends
and apolog.zed for its enemies.
/ The Secessiouists take the Federal Gov
eruments Notifications by force, capture
lis revenue cutters by force, drive away its
transport ships, seize its arsenals, arms
and ammunition By force, and then cry
aloud abou. the atrociousness of the idea
Of the employment Of force between the
Federal Government and themselves!
/ The Baltimore San, a rabid secession
paper, openly confesses tha, the sole pur-
pose Of the South Carolina Rebellion vas
to break the Republican party into pieces,
and that the failure Of tue Border Slave
States to side with South Carolina and 20
GU. Of the Union has blown up, not the
Republicans, but the Cotton States.
/ Pennsylvania has been called upon to
endorse U. S. paper to the amount Of near.
ly Three Millions Of Dollars-it being tho
National Surplus Revenue deposited with
this State 10 1886. Should the General
Government not redeem this, it will be 90
much aided to our State Debt to please
and build up Slavery.
Jas c. Lutrell, q Union man, and run
as such, was elected Mayor Of Knoxville,
Tenn, Gu Saturday last. The Knoxville
Wing says that majority Of the people Of
Tennessee do not favor secession, but will,
"a, all hazards and to the last extremity"
vote to remain in the Union and under the
Constitution.
Mr.. Mallory, of Florida, in Withdrawing
from the Senate, was kind enough to say:
awe do no, seek to conquer you" lThat's
clever in Florida, which can hardly keep
down her alligato.s. 1t cost millions for
Us to capture Billy Bowlegs and bis squaws
to protect Florida ]
While the South and the Democracy
are trying to make it believed that tho
'whi;e niggers" of the North are starving
for bread, it has been ascertaiued on .
count that Tcenty thousand men in
Pi;;sburs have full work, and none idle
tha. want to WORK.
Lincoln has 81 ,5s1 more Of the Popu.
ular vote, and more Electors, than Blu.
chanan had. buchanan had 460, ,s65 maj.
over Fremont. Lincoln has 49l ,634 maj.
over Douglas, |, ,009, ,G51 over Breckinridge,
and l l,256, ,919 over Bell.
Dr. Alexander Jones, Of that infamous
sheet the New York Herald, confesses be
informed the Charleston people that the
Star Of the West was on its way. In any
other country, such treaehercus act Wild
subject him to the fate Of spy or traitor.
The California Assembly have expugued
from their records the former vote Of cen
sure against the late Senator Brodsrick
for his stand against the Kansas Abomi-
nations. "Ie build the tombs Of the
prophets" &c.
PRoFIrABLE.-St. Charles, the largest,
most fashionable hotel in New Orleans,
which every Winter averaged from five to
eigh! hundred Northern boarders, has ut
this time but thirteen guests north Of Ma
son and Dixou's hne
Some say the present is the second
"W Whiskey Insurrec,iou" in the United
States, for half the Secessionists are drunk
as fools. Take away their grog, aud the
Insane rebellion would soon subside.
rroyidenco Journal to Kansas is, Snow,
young sister State, don't you 60 and Sc
cede before We have chance to spend .
few millions on you"
The Charleston Mercury remarks that
on Saturday an officer Of Fort Sumter
called and subscribed for the Mercury to
be mailed to him q; the Fort for the ncIs
three months.
A Rhode Island Congressman says he
is keeping close watch that all the other
States do not slip out of the Union, and
leave Rhode Island to pay the National
debt.
For. Gibson, in Arkansas, which the
Cherokee Indians "took,' had been deseE-
ted for three or four years, and was there
fore ''easy to take"
Charlie. T. James, of Rhode Island, who
bad contracted for some arms to the South
since SECESSION has declined to furnish
materials to iujure his own country.
The sympa,hizers with South Carolins
are now called the "Rattlesnake Democra-
c,.p and the Bell-clarpers to the Secess-
ionis,s are the "Copperheads."
Before the election, ten Of the fftees
Congressman from Virginia issued Sc
cession address-fve addressed the people
:, e,-or Of thn JTninn