Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1864-04-05
Harrisburg Correspondence.
IuuRspAY EVENING, March 81

The morning session of the Senate was
prclrac'ed to a very late hour by the
''ameudmarrs" of the Copperheads to the
Till allowing Soldiers to vote. The bill
bad been most carefully and laborlously
prepared by Senator Johnson, and was as
complete and carefully guarded as could
well be But those who had voted
against allowing the Soldiers any chance
to vote, pow dId the next thing TO it
they undertook to hamper and hinder the
b.li in every possible manner they could,
al the while rrai,iug up the soldier, aud
protesting II desire 10 'lmprove' bill
they der,sted OHc or two propositions
we're acc pied by the friends of the
soldiers voting, but ten or dozen were
vo,ed dyau as supeIhIous, deceptive, or
unnecessary. BY extendiug the hour Of
adj ,urnr,,ut, i vote Was rcached-when
al the '.lI .mocra's" but two-kinsey and
VI Sherry yutlng for 1t with all the Repub-
bean Scuators-SOied dJIina the bill to
regulate the soldiers votes. (Of course,
Ciymer 4 Co. are true frieLds of the
Soldiers y
The Pupils of the Pennsylvania Insti-
tute ftr the Instruction Of the blind, gave
an Exhibition in the Hall Of the House,
which was crowded 10 OVERT wing.
FRIDAY, April l.
IN Senate, tlis morning, Mr Connell
gave an elaborate aud convincing argument
for the Lss4l Tender Interest Bill, the
faal passage Of Which was postponed at
rbc rcqaas, Of the Opposition.
The bill to purchase new Executive
Mansion, p.s,ed-ouIy voting against
1t. remember, a few years ago, the
mansion at present used wa, eu!og,zsd as
Just the thing for the Governors of this
great aud gel orous Commonwealrh; and
ihe owucr just happened to want TO get
I'd # II, ii was deemed very Opportune to
buy i st that elegant mansion aud furni.
ture-mcfeiy Ara-bi'e in price-and
then the Governor could live comfortably,
ike gentleman, &c. Now We are told
It Is a miserable ilttle thing, in a bad
ueigh borhood, water in the cellar, and
the Governor won't have it anyhow. And
jus! now, too, the death Of Wells Coveriy
tarows Ii, elegant mansion on Front street
iuto Market, and il we don't purchase it
we shall for ever lose the chance-and it
will not cost over $25, ,00O-"only iear's
cost apiece" as one Senator figured it out.
1t was, however, hiuted that as "this
great aud gel-lorious State" prospers,
some ful defect will soon be found in
this new, elegant, perfect mansion, and
then an xtcutre Whitehouse "worthy
OF the dignity of the station" will have to
be built. (Not long siuce, as worthy and
dign fed Governors as cur later incum-
beuts, hired their own houses or boarded,
jns. as other "public servants" did, and
were ccu'en, with $1,000 ayear) Extrav- /.
agaDce and corruptiou-eveu in this hour
Of our country's a-ony-seem not to ahate
that insiai5us advance which has SO often |
wrought the ruin of Republics.
The House made an All FOOLS Day of .
it by a sub,imely BuDcumbeish PROPOSE
ton to raise the pay of soldiers to one
hundred dollars per month. 1t was a
broad farce, and | neither know nor care
" lat shape it assumed at the end.
Another foolish performance was indul-
ged in by several hundred famiiies-they
moved out of one house into "another of
The same SOFT" at great expense, sacrifice,
TOLL aud ssfering. To get rid of one
vii and fnl ont an0ther-to avoid one
BAD Deighbor and get along side another
to quarrel with one landlord and hire
# another, they lose wages, costs and
emper, and 80 times out Of hundred
re as dissatisfied with the new as with
he old place. When will common people
ealize FrankliL's saying that ",hrce
emovcs are as bad as FIRE ~ These
nnull migrations, Oike the birds) are
gss,oiul, and nurture discontented and
wandering disposition. w.
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