Union County Star And Lewisburg Chronicle

Notes up the River.
In Williamsport, found the Gazette (of venerable memory) has been quietly asleep for some weeks, leaving young Democrat to prescribe all the local political poison dealt out in Lycoming county. A consolidation of the two concerns would be a good thing all around. The Cops here are laboring under the delusion that Judge Wallis will eat up Moshanner as Senator candidate without the trouble of salting!
Capron & Kinsloe are running the Union Bulletin vigorously, printing, on a power press, not only their own work, but also Mr. Volkmar's Zeitung, and 2300 copies of the Sendbote, a German Baptist paper for which Volkmar sets the type--the editor is A. Henrich, pastor of three small churches, north of town, composed of very industrious foreign-born farmers.
Jersey Shore.--The railway from here up Pine Creek to the N. Y. & Erie, is in preparatory progress, and as soon as there can be more workmen easily obtained is likely to put Jersey Shore on the advance. There is considerable wealth and business energy here, and building going on, but the narrowness of the main street detracts from the merits of what might be much better displayed. Their Herald is a very respectable sheet, apparently supported well, but, in trying to be "neutral," runs against a great many snags on each shore. If it were "independent," it would have fairer sailing. Posterity will wonder how two fair-minded young men, of ordinary powers of body and soul, could be neutral in such a contest as this! Met Mr. J B. Manley, our candidate for Assembly from this county--a plain, sensible, gray haired man, (and boasts a little of having Rev. Benj. B. Hamlin for a son-in-law.) He was in East Tennessee when the war first raged there, and left, he says, when they began to hang better men than himself! Hope he will call on a good many of the Unionists of Union and Snyder counties, before election day. Mr. Hughes' defeat, as candidate for Senator, is not altogether relished by his friends, but Mr. Shriner's nomination is quite acceptable, and party are anxious to see and hear him.
Called on a young lady, well known and loved in L., who has not been able to walk in over two years, and who, while suffering much, her pastor says is "patient as an angel." She so enjoys the treasures of well-laden memory and well-trained reflection, the power of reading and conversation, and the pure love of self-sacrificing friends, that a well man might be tempted to desire to become an invalid--probably, for a very short time only.
Lock Haven.--There is a large accumulation of people, money and boards in this place--very much scattered, however, so that grading, paving streets and side-walks will be very expensive indeed whenever the people get so agreed that they can commence improvements at any particular place. As it is, almost everything (especially on a rainy day) looks shabby, and unfinished--indicating a floating population, and great inequality of wealth--some superior buildings, and many very poor ones. Another great disadvantage is the liability of the whole town to inundations, from which they may often suffer, as they have in the past. The water not long since rose to the windows of the house where I slept, and in 1847 my kind land lady said a child died in the house she then lived in, and for burial was taken away from the upper rooms in a boat. The possibility of such events is a serious drawback to any one staying in the town over night: he can hardly sleep well on knowing he might find himself in a stationary ark before morning: and then there must be more ague where water lies around so loose. The railway to Erie is finished, and but for the scarcity of rolling stock (needed by the Government) would have been used before this: the formal opening is promised in the early part of October. An old engine blew up recently, above here, killing three persons. A small portion only of the road to Milesburg is not finished, but I am told soon will be, and then the new route--Lock Haven to Tyrone--will take thousands who would otherwise travel by Sunbury and Marysville for Pittsburg. Thus it will be seen that Lock Haven is an important railway and business point, despite its unfortunate lowness of site. There is a great superfluity of lager beer shops in town, which mar its moral wholesomeness, but most of the religious denominations appear to have a fair start in the way of houses of worship. The Baptists have bought the dryest lot in town for building upon, but now occupy Strayer's Hall. The Northumberland Association, however, was very kindly entertained in the house of the M. E. Church, Tuesday to Thursday. Geo. M. Spraut was chosen Moderator; Jos. P. Tustin, Assistant Clerk; Robert Dunbar, Treasurer. Baptisms reported, 127--new gain, 36. Of the 22 church letters read, all breathed the most patriotic spirit--except the letter, from a divided church, which gave an unintelligible fling against "political preaching."
Measures were recommended for the occupancy of the fields opening on the railway towards Warren and Milesburg, and for the establishment of a family paper for the 40,000 members of the denomination in this State. The 45th session is to be held in Danville, 2d Wednesday in Sept. 1865.