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II. C. IIICKOK, Editor.
0. N. WORDEX, Printer.
LEWISBURR CIII10NICLE,costlJ proportion than our large couu-
ties are.
43 HDEH1I1K1T FaHlLT JOrllSlt,
Uiutd on FX ID A Y rr.t-.. at LcicUburg, Tbe ,arSe lck townships of Hartley,
Luton county, renmilrama.
TTR V.T.-Sl.r.Oror T,-mr.rnrnu.h actually in advance
f 1.75, if paid within three months: $'.1.00 if paid within a j
year; sijo if not paid bfurelhe year expires: 4 cent
liti;!l nnmbn-i. Subscriptions fir nix month or !?.. lo '
he paid in advance. Discontinuances optional witli the
Putliher. exvpt when the yw in paid up.
auvcbvissiigyth hn'itneiT iniu'ru-d at ftti cent. per;vuuuiy ccai-, wmcu was cucc iters, auU
square, one week, $1 fwitr we.-fe. $o a rear: two squares, ; . . . -n . i .1 1 1 e 1
$t form mouths. $7 fur a year. Mercantile ndcrti,- Hiaj I'D again Still taHCS the lead Of her
nents. not exceeding one r.mrui 01 a niluma, Jlu a ye-ir.
job wo::k an.
i.l casual advertisements to be paid for
tSiSSrSTtrfi .u.,jt.of eennr.1 into-
wren, of the wriier, t.. rewire at tuition. ..-ti..,
loiauni ririuNUMT in inr r.'iniinu li'raniuniv. ui wr ui
rwtu to tu-niT iiiocoit. k,.. tditur-and those on
OFFICE (for lhe present) in Beaver's block
on N. 3d St first llunr, 4th iluur from corner.
Census of Union County Tendency
of Population and Business.
The question of Division which most of
all now interests the reflecting portion of
the citizens of Union county, is one which
can not be rightly decided without look
into our condition in the future, as w
our present convenience. And a com
ison of our past advances will aid m
ally in judging of our fu'ure progress. "Let
us then look at the last two records of the
CLXSl'S OF LXIOX COUXTY.
IS IO. 130. Ininase
SOUTH SlllE.
Itr.er.nd
V t Beaver
1629 )
1218 I
S!72
HSS
Oil
S702
lo29
1239
233
Renter and
(niervil;e
hn man
MiJillrcicik
Pennt and
tilin.f,roe
I'erry
Wabbington
1931
281
209
1279
li.-il
113.-1
4S2
7.7
11)1
1441
190
158
176
2C3
4i
792
79
11010
lllol
15.19
970
1007 1
Pi7
1152 )
2139
8:u
2012
7.33
751
1537
BurTtlno
Kat UulT.iloa
West Kutfatna
Limestone (un)
Union
Hartley
Kelly
Lewishurg
MifH.iihur
Ni ISeiliit
White liter
1318
:ico
1630
lsur,
7S8
1220
7(i4
C79
I'.'&S
11759
11010
S5
I3H33
I24:)t
20Gt
1111
2i769 C2bl
3.)!;
re t.l 1 I?i, fr Hist-
)t(.
" j
153 '
'',J-
jl tuia t'J ... v . , --
rict contributed as Pillows
Chapman
W'a buigton
Venn an.l
Silineioe
Uiiion (a)
209
104
4S2
100
895
T.it DulT!oe
I.evir.Uur 5
Kelly
White Deer
46
It.i
1171
The 9 Rirrr Districts, compriMtig ab-uit
. . . e , . r.., ..-r
claftuiVoS the ctunu-:
vui. un 1 u.. t j nr-rr-
increased in ten years
tt&vo
The remaining Districts increased
1133
The River Districts ci'mcd most by 1227
In other words, the it.crease of pnpula-
tion al.n" the River lias been 2 to 1 or
over 100 par cent. greater than that of
the back country. This is not owing to any :
snperiority in climate or population, but
to the River aud the Canal causes which
will always give thc River Districts decided sister counties." (Aud we know of no ; ' e wish to rpoas as temieriy oi mo ueau . uutj m(jre potont remc(iics ar0 nceJe(J.
advantage. ' " sister county" which, with the people's us our sonie of 'J Pcrmif- But wc . Thc cautery must go even deeper. Every-
Thevwhantaje of the Hirer Ditr'-U ' purse strings open, stop bhort of 850,000 (cannot Lc,P BV!nS ,Lat tiiesc tvr0 'ounZ ; where, among all the teachers of the peo
must not o!j continue, but thy will I or 5100,000 for county buildings ) First ft;nl!'ks WTr t( to have been extreme-1 p,C) tbcrc Js necd of mon carnest incuct.
increatol. In addition to the River and ; ascertain the amount of taxes levied for b' s'1. aJ y n '"eans to hay,e merited, j tion of f.,ith poor buman nature wan(s a
the Canal, a Railwat will crc long in ' Juils and Court Houses in Dauphin, York, l,J tutlr w-rtunes, the sympathy ex-fc t iu lbe ron bibway of nfe , bul.
spite of evory unworthy obstacle com-:
-
plcte a "three-fold cord torty miles along
the easterly border of Union couutv. And j
while its advantages will be felt "by the
whole population aud by the Farmers i
.... -1 i
f Ur.7 fr 1 ir rrcatest increase
-r...l...; ..,,1 l,n Mtablishmcnts
will be in the immediate viciuity ol tae
Railway.
The "history of Public Improvements
I'ublic lmprovcmcn,s
.''" :il71nW
rvervwhere shows
- i..tion m towns aiooii lueu
j .
1 . , ,;; of
i,unno v. ii....fcv. 1
nrotrress in townships or rural districts, i
. " .- . c,j t,f
ii. a nrnar v . .. . it . . . . .11 . uuv vuw
t. c.-i t, moWn-i
town, aremor benefited by Highways I
Wf":a ZSft tn arrrieultu-
lilt) lunmij a jj V '
xuv iueie.u b o
ral products, creatmg increase ot
r l.U
causes an addition of one farm to another,
by which (in many cases) the redundant
population have been removed into towns,
or migrated to cheaper lands at thc West
In the licht of these facts, it is obvious
that while in years gone by New Berlin i arrangements for a Railroad to Cincinnati j high repute. The popular literature of the
may have been comparatively central fori upon a line of survey oniy C31 miles in (day, such at least as i3 found in many
county purposes, it is so no loDger. While j length. She will also connect with Lou- j weekly newspapers at the East, but cspeci
the sparse population and tho roads of that 1 isville by a lino cf COO miles. The shor- jally in those which circulate amoug factory
day caused that location to be submitted test Baltimore line with Cincinnati is, we i operatives, almost entirely ignores the
to, the necessity no longer exists. Public 1 believe C80 miles. Charleston will thus great fact that life is a battle manfully to
improvements havc csuscl changes which ! attract a large proportion of the provisions j bo fought, and not a romantic tragedy,
ruuat be heeded for their direct and una- ! and manufactures of thc Ohio Valley, and to be finished sccnically, by a broken-heart
voidable influence. New Berlin was never ! in the next wir we shall have regiments lor suicide, at the first rebuff. All thc
a busincst point, and is not now thc center
of population. The Tallies North audSouth
of it Middlccrcek and Buffaloe, with
the other allies leading into them have
now a population sufiicicutly large and
wealthy for all county purposes ; and an
organization small and compact as these
would be, we firmly believe would be less
j Center, and Beaver, Lave not increased
f liioT : ,,iv,.vW,7i flinti tlm sm.lU !.
for triors Vmp T?i-rlin ami ilj ruiiillv
Au.l
j Miflliuburg allhoU''ll deprived of tile
! 0 i t
V-. 11-,.1'n " Vi U C
'"" V'v 1 "") """""b 1 '" v viuuij
contributed thousands annually to the
, The construction of the Lcwisburc.Cen-
-
tor & Spruce Creek Railroad, seems quite
as probable as anv undetermined work of
that nature. Its tendency would be to
benefit all of L nion and Center counties,
but more particularly IIartky,MiHi;iiburg,
the Utiffalocs, and Lewisburg. Its result
would be to throw the center of population
ami business still further to the noHh and
east of New Berlin.
Every portion of Union county New
more prosperous YinJbll, at the mouth
of Dry Valley, which imparts to New Ber -
; ueriin pcrnaps escei.tcd is more or less j "u" " ie ouier was . striUmg fact is seen of the crcatcst rracti
e . . ... Lu.. ...,i t . n :i . , . . . .
ell as uourisuiug. ijut iiie points 01 notable ! l" b1' "-m n luiuuu) , cai weakness. Jut alas ! it is not always
r,ar. I progress arc, undoubtedly, (.iiinlwiiei'e '""J1""1 ",L qnno uuusuai m cultivated right, hlse we should not be-
ateri- tte Trevortou Coal Company arc throwing . recovery alter ot.ier modes ot treatment, bold so many poor hearts shrinking from
a Bridge over the Susquehanna, to reach iluc London MmuuI Tuna directed at-; life, at the very first disappointment, as if
the Canal SJiii-yroi-e, which cow puts on 1 tcntion to this remedy fur rheumatism in ; never before had hearts been wronged, or
lhe dignity of a Borough, and was never j and we would state, that it may an- j the Tempter whispered suicide nnrebuked
! liu all the life it has apart from the busi-1 Walt s Kctro-pcet. 1 art I'l, l&ol, pages o( , has not been commensurate. Or rather,
jness forced there as our county scat J!l,lli where one patient was effectually i perhaps, we should say, religious instruc
; I.' it iJ,iy, which advances with the surs cured by lemon juice, after calchiem, ca!-j tion has not kept pace with mental culture.
; pace it Las for ten years past, nud yearly 0!ll(1 ana" "I'iutn u;id been tried in vain, : Mothers have failed to teach their daugh
; develops new and more strong resources , ilu l'ie ;hcr where lemon juice failed, J ters faiih, faith in their own capacity to
jaud White Deer Mills with its superior ,an'1 tlie raticnt was cured with opium, and , ' 8urmount sorrow.faith inGod helping them
j water-power, at the north-east corner of calomel pills, taken along with the draughts bravely to combat misfortune. The plain,
itheconntv. .' of tho aectato of potssh and nitre in a j humble, trusting reliaion of tho Bast ccn-
It is evident to every observing mind,
. th:it the Public Buildings at New Berlin
1 will not long answer fur county purposes,
j New buildings, sowirKrre.uiust be erected.
I The pecuniary benefits of the seat of jus-
: tiec to such a place as New Berlin, are not ;
suffleientlv tn-eat to iustifv her corJo in
constructing proper edifices at their private
expense.
She has not the public spirit,
:r.v.r,n .1,0 ..!.;!;.,- c t , An
I They m,l be erected by taxation, or by
! the l'er.nlc in other Towns.
i It is true, as we arc told, that there arc
,b
cltiz. ns of Now TS.
citizens of Jnw itorim oinuiatina """"o11
the county and trying to soothe the people
with the pretence, We do n't want any
new bniMins all a mistake one of old
lltt oirculutin.T l"cu
Israel's tricks,
tic. It is true that while
.1 citizen ot jew.iiTiin .ur.otiieiius worsci
a citizen ot iNewlii run .lr.ijtiteiius worsen
- - . . . .. . .
for New Berlin interests, and offered 50
as bis s',ar. of contribution toward that
.. 1 ..... .1., -..t;.
oioect : tUL .nr. 1.-. uia uuc niitu tuu v-i-
! orial for the Su:r copied in the inside of
.,. e .1 r
nils paper, nor iorgc tue nanus ot ciiiseua
there referred to ; nor was he one of the ,
Caucus which nominated thc New Berlin
can j;j..tc f,)r Commitsioner. Let not the
F,,0plc be lulled into sleep; thj Slur told
the truth : aud Bf!uif their Commissioner
i3 elected, they hope soon to bavc Grand
Jurors who will direct, and Commissioners (
wuo will construct, at the public cost, new :
County Buildings, equal to those of our
Lancaster, Berks, Chester,
stcr, Montgomery,
i. . . . i.a
&., and run that hazard it you choose.
V,Tc have spoken plainly in this arti- '"c3 anl 3gci!. havc endured, with silent j
clo, as wo aro wont to do ; and we trust fortitude, similiar disappointments of the
wc bave readers who in their moments 0feart- Nor docs thcir appsnr to have
pnlm anil unbiased reflection will appreciate
flm f..r of ibr fnofs r.resnnfrrl. i
ror the Lewiiturs chronicle.
The EJitor of the " l'.-olyterian. 7J.m- I
,f(fr frnm l!lC Wasbington Kc
. . . . , .. ... . ,
mont' ana consequently win. approbation,
tumns. lroiu weeK to wecK, aooui tuencccs-
f y-n nv.Tnil3 v. v m-inriiJ,. an& '
ii-n.'v v --b b -j t -.-
. . .1 r . t 1.
J J '
rf our church organs, as
. Yk -"on merchants, to a
lot liv trnrl.l 11 inlfrfstjt A las. JOT IUe SUO- .
it me-servinff r.0 lev ell ma? lie SJT,
1 J4 -
ti am anti-sUivcry, but not an
ABOLITIONIST."
Charleston Enterprise.
If Georgia bo the Empire State of thc
.South, Charleston is the Boston of that
1 ...
section. She has recently completed her
; of Illinois, Ohio and Indiana volunteers
j coming down to defend the outlet of their
trade at Charleston, as their fathers did at
New Orleans : and when abolitionists come
to set free the negroes, that wear thc goods,
cat thc bacon, and work thc mules of the
North West, tho volunteers will rise up
and aid in their expulsion, upon thc plai-
LEWISBURG, UNION
nest and niost inevitable reason, hecawe it
will be their interest to Jo so."
Lemon Juice for Acute Rheumatism.
The treatment of acute rheumatism with
i.-mon juice, as recommended in the .Vi
nt,j,c American, more than a year ago
naving uecn sutecssiuiiy practiced in J - .u -
rope, baa been tried here, and found to be
a very cuectuai remcay. ur. i. if. L.ee,
ot tins city, lias communicated ins expe-;
rionec with it to the New York Journal of
Mtnu-inc. ue cites two cases, one a male
!. . .
;an" tue ot"CT a "-male, who uad hecn sub-
ijL'ct to severe rheumatism for a number
j J'ears and wno were often troubled with
i "cute pains, severe swellings, ana could
CuJ no effectual remedy, lie gave the
j I01""" ju'"c fwni fresh lemous, iu quan -
j tities of a table spoonful to twice the quan-
' ti!J f cold water, with a little sugar every
j l'r. The effect of lemon juice was al -
' most instantaneous ; in ten days the worst,
,swcr i' one person and not lor another.
1 Tucre are two cases recorded in Braith-
, camphor mixture. bciealtjic American,
..
SaiCidM-JUffltaksa Sympathy.
ice suieiue en two young ieuiaies, in
ono of the New England States, has crea-
ted an unusual excitement amon?; the
newspapers oi tnat region
The journals,
: m fluest"n come to us with column upon
,co,umn ' narratives, speculations, anu
comments on the occurrence.
lhe lllSIO-
;r 01 mo erring creatures
, tbtir childhood ; their pel
is rehearsed from
personal appearance
::H minutely
described: the disappointed'
attuclimcnt wfcieh led to the catastrophe is
j '
j espaliated n ful'j ; their letters are pub-
: li-c'3 i ,hoir T'X-eedir.gs on the day of the
.u'cido elaborately depicted ; in short, no -
,a ""-, oie-
.
t r In ir..i vii.Tntid r. r nrniwn o Dior!.!. I aiTtl.
-j ....... ....... -
. - -j
lthy. Nt amid all this excitement, is a
word uitcrel about the folly and crime of.
suicide. Had it been the design of the
- c -i
New England press to render sclf-destruc-1
1 1 nn rorniiti: ic. t he eoiirsp. followed in this!
- - -- m .
'unce wouiu nave uccu exac.y ,
moit l'roI,cr t0 t1-
Surely this is not right ! There is dan-
.rr. 1110 T lllUS 01 awakcninS j
, sympathy to such a degree for suicides, ;
hat the horror which the crime should j
awaxen is i .rgoucn, to me ruin or weak-
winded porsous.
T tragedy afford
Tho victims ia this vc- i
an illustration of this.
ricn m tue.. ue....... u .j,
. T 1 . 1. .. 1 1 '11..........,!.
rnna n thniic-itiii! rl t.itni na in nil fntin
1,i:i-u iuj Vilu,Ju" "-i7VO
bese two girls, to aggravato peculiarly
their fate. On the contrary, the neglect
of tteir overa scems to have been attend-
, - , mnrtif..in2 concomitants than
!Js nsnaI in huch Je6CrtioDl wbilc in one
instances it is by no means clear
fc attentions of the young man had
-
V, ; , ,.. ' -
jcreatiy tear, nau its onirin in a moroiu
. . 1-. 1 1 .1 1 r
-
sentimentality, encouraged uy tne tone oi
goc; in a Jfor 6uiciJos.
iTbcsc girg we of .
if t .:i.:i:. v.; i ,u t of
luuuau ci:uciu.i.by. bumvuivu ni.u ttuw v.
proper fortitude, and possibly attended
with a scarcely acknowledged belief that
suicide would make them heroines in the
eyes of lovers as well as of the public.
We blame not only editors and news-
'mongers, bat authors, and some even of
heroines, in tho fictions that fill tho jour
nals in question, are deluged in woes,
which rise, by climax, to some grand cat
astrophe, that is painted sentimentally as
the only proper conclusion. Not one of
them conquers sorrow, by learning, from it,
, that trouble is for discipline, and that the
j worst disaster vanishes like a specter,
COUNTY, PENN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1853.
when courageously faced down. There is
no teaching of faith in this popular litera
ture. Its lessons arc all of morbid des
pair. Even authors of lush rcnute. we
rcp(at) Lavo coutribatci to disseminate
- : tUis dark and hopeless philosophy. Much
wo adlu;re Hawthorne's genius, we
,can not but censure Lim foremost of all;
' for ilarm nc has done, and is Mill do-
; u , ciact proportion to his siill as
an art,t. The self-chosen fate of Zunobia,
jn uj Blithcdale Romance," is but a
; more dramatic version of the very suicide
under consideration. The bauirhtv beau
of' ty, who had lost faith in all thinas. is bnt
1 a tinseled tragedy queen, where these poor
j g,r,,( to whom faith and courage were
; equally wanting, are humbler imitators in
' the same line.
J One thing is certain. Suicides among
, females are becoming alarmingly frequent
! j the New Englantl States. Just where
tho intellect is cultivated the most the
in the ear. We fear that, with all this
j intellectual progress, the moral advance
i tury is too often despised now in the land
j even of the Puritans. New beliefs, which
arc tru!y no beliefs, but only a skepticism
questioning of all things, have supplanted
the all-relying, all-trusting beliefs of other
days. We could almost say that there is
no Iongcr aDy fa;th among all the pretcn-
jc.j tilMia ot thc ,g0. A haTlgutj j,
j iu scif uas SUpplantcd a child-like trust in
.OT..(.n nnd l.onon hon ilmt f,;la .11
fai ani tho sufferers seek a relief from
! despair iu death,
Vp.t la U thh to tc vunected f An ob-
j vjous way t j,egin rcforri,t fven if 0
iioua way to ucgiu re
j mor0) is ,0 c(ase mak;r
ciJe3- TJie hcro;c are
1 anj row stronff," not
ing heroines of sui-
are those "who suffer
fc ,
1 grow strong," not those who weakly
ay aolxn tbc burtll,n ri;c.
11 M K M. V
i .1 i .. .
imng comparatively to uic.
ining comparatively 10 uic. 11 13 an in-
T. ....
Cuitl;lv har(1 thD to ;TC on nneompiai,,.
injv. Thcre aro ,.,- thousands of fe-
1.., .11 -: 1- 1 j -t.. 1.
iuuie, it uter tuia wiue jnuu, wno uavc
bornc, in meek silencC) tLe wcigDt of dis.
. ji 1 .-n 1 . .... .
cppoiniea iove,wno are sua bearing it, wno
wiH bear it to their waves. Yet we never
hear eulogies on tlv-ir heroism. No editor
calls on the public to sympathize with
them. Few authors make such brave and
tru(J wonjen thcir lhemc A1, ouf
and admiration is sought to be aroused in
be;
behalf of those who deserve it not, because
what thcir sufferings entitle them to, they
sacrifice bv their want of heroism.
wark against the wild ocean around it.
. . . -
Of
lKtH lt cannot maintain tne struggle, it
must have filith to fan bact nponj or au
Hag j is iost. Tbe Mor3ue at Paris, is a
da;jv proof that a w;tb no faith Lave
. . . .
no resource uuv iu buwwu. a nti.uuucun.
A large Story. Some traveler in
Mexico relates the following whopper :
"I was consoled by watching the beau
tiul horses, mostly high stepping Craxca
corcs. They were prancing along, looking
as conceited as any man, and twice as
handsome. I had been positively assured
that they teach thc m to raise up thcir fore-
lees immensely hich which they almost
- , , .. - ., - ., .
all do by putting on them magnifying
spectacles when young, by which means
the stones on thc road are made to appear
large blocks in the way, and they lift up
thcir legs in order to step over them, and
so acquire the habit 1 dare say you laugh
incredulously, but I tell you what was
told me for a fact ; and I am furthur in
formed that thLi is also practised in South
America.
8Table-talk, or knocking, sometimes
leads to embarrassing results, as is proved
by thc following gossip, current at Berlin.
A party met the other night and formed a
chain, and when the fluid was in movement,
a married lady present put the question
" II ow many children have If "
Tap, tap, tap, tap or four, replied the
table.
" True ; wonderful!" exclaimed tbe la
dy, and all the others.
Presently her husband came in, and
asked the same question.
Tap, tap, or two, was the answer.
The effect produced by this may be bet
ter conceived than described. This might
be termed " scandalous table talk."
CHR
Tbe Orphans.
i ia tiKLisi ati.
Mj chaise the Tillage Inn did gain,
Juat aa tba fun'f laat Mtting ray
Tipped with refuhraU gold the vaaa
Of tbe old church jron the wajf.
Aerobe Um way I attest aped.
The time Ull aupper to beguile
In moraliting o'er the dead
That mouldered tsand that ancient alia.
There many a natt'ring atone I elewrtf.
O'er th'-ae who once bad wealth noeseatd;
And many a fcumMc, green grate ahowcd.
Where want, and toil, and pain did rtat.
A faded beech ita shadow brown
Threw o'er a (rare where aorrow tpt ;
On whieb, thuich sceree wUh grafts ijrgrown.
Two ragged children eat, and,weut.
A piece of bread between tbtm lay.
Which neither wnrd inelioed to Uka,
And yet, to want eecmed earn a ray,
lt made my aweUieg heart u ache.
My little children, let me know
Wbj yon in ruch d.strvea appear,
And vhj t,.u wasteful from yuu throw
That tittul, which many a heart would cheer.1
Tbe little boy in accent aweet,
Replied, whilst teara each ctker chajod,
"Lafly, we're not enough toeat,
Aud if wa bad we would aot waste
"But sister Mary' naughty grown,
And will not eat, wbate'er I say.
Though sure 1 am Uiie bread's her ewtt,
for she has tasted none.fo day.
Indeed." the wan, starred Mary said,
Till Henry eats, I'll eat no more,
for yesteidny 1 bad some bread,
W hile he's bad none since day before."
My heart did swell, my bosom beaee,
I felt as though deprired of speech;
I silent sst upon the grate,
And pressed a clay-cold band of each.
With looks that told a tale of we.
And voice that spoke a grateful heart,
The sl.ivriug buy did near me draw,
Aud thus their tale of wo impart.
Before our father went away,
Enticed by bsd nK-n oVr tiw sea,
Sirter and I did naught but ply
We liec'd beside yon old ash tree.
u But then poor mother ttid so cry.
An.l looked m changed, 1 ennjKt tell ;
She told us thu sue soon must Uie,
And bade us love each other well.
w?he said tiiatwhen the wars were o'er,
Perchance our father we misbt see,
But if we never saw him more,
That God oar father then would be.
"She kissed us both, and then she died.
And we no more a mother bare;
Ucre many a day we've sat and cried.
Together on poor mother's grave.
Bnt when oar rather earns not here.
We thought if we could find tbe sea,
We should be sure to meet him there,
And once again should happy be.
" We hand in hand, went aaanj a mile,
And asked our way of all we met,
And some did sign, and some did smile.
And we of some did victuals get,
But when we reached the era, and found
Twas one wide water round us spread,
We said that father sure was drovvM! -. .
ssssa cried, and wished we both were dead.
M So we came back to mother's grave,
And only long with her to be,
ror Ooody, when this bread she gave,
Said lather died beyond the sea.
H Then since no parents have we here,
We'll go and search tor God around ;
Say, ladj, can jou Ull us where
This God, our Father, may be found?
ITe lives in heaven, mother said,
And Goody says that another's there;
Then if she knows we need bis aid,
I think perhaps she'll tend bin here."'
I clasped lbe prattlers to my breaet,
Sajring' "Come both, and live with me:
I'll feed you, clothe you, give yon rest.
And wiU your second mother be.
And God will be your rather still ;
Twas He, in merry, sent me here,
To teach yon to obey his will ;
Yoar steps to guide, your hearts to cheer
from the New York Working "armee.
Farmer's Club, American InstiUta.
The Chairman stated the subject of the
day to be " The benefits of Railroads to
Agriculture."
Mr. Solon Robinson Sir, I proposed
this question, and hoped to see hero those
who are far more capablo than I am to
render justice to its great importance
however, for want of a better, I will begin.
I have tried to convince farmers of the
immense value of this rapid communica
tion to the farmer that it was thcir sal-,
vation. Thc first effect has been to bring
beef cattle 1000 miles to our market In a
week. Game, poultry, come the same dis
tance in 43 hours. The oxen come as the
market requires, notice of which goes by
telegraph for the number required. The
cost per ox is about 10 or $12, whereas,
on foot, as of old, the oxen travel with loss
of flesh and heavy expense on the road,
from CO to 70 days before they reach New
York. Strange that many farmers do not
understand this. Sometimes our city would
starve without this railroad supply. Last
spring all the chief articles within striking
distance were exhausted; now we rarely
have on hand 100 head of oxen at a time.
Some cattle are shipped from Chicago to
Buffalo some from Indiana go by cars to
Cleveland on Lake Erio, thence by cars to
Dunkirk and to Buffalo, thence the greater
part come by the Hudson River. Last
week there came in a drove of cattle raised
by the Cherokee Indians, marked with
their hieroglyphics. An Illinois drover
had bought them, fed them a while, and
then brought them here by railroad, &c.
Look at the map and see what a walk that
drove must have had to reach New York
without the steam and railroad I Oxen
can travel only about 10 or 12 miles a day.
And our milk for the morning coffee was
milked last night, and drawn from Chat
ham Four Corners, 130 miles distant from
our city. Some years ago it was proposed
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to Mr. R. L- Stevens, to have a freight
train on his road, but he thought one car
only wonld be used, and that would not
pay. Now look there is a blackberry
train ! AH this intercommunication is a
great fertilizer all sorts of people are
brought to a knowledge of each other, and
a knowledge of the business of their own
country and the world. Tho birds used
to have the blackberries all to themselves
nobody wanted the onc-thousandih part
of them. I say nothing of the whortle
berries which now come by rail, and are
on tho tables of everybody. And the
lands near thc railroads are growing more
valuable every day, and they are in course
of cultivation aud improvement, aud with
out the railroads they would not have been
reached this century, and hardly that
The benefits go with the roads. One im
proves tbe other with a rapidity which re
sembles that of the trains which gl.de
through thc lauds.
Mr. Judd observed that he was not'esr-
tain that there exists much much opposi-1 the subject of tbe day. JS was intimate
tion to our railroads among our farmers, ! acquainted with 5ratjons of th
nothing near as much as lucre is iu this:rie Railroad, at the tetaiuag of it.
city to the Broadway Railroad. Some far- i l bat on the line from Piernjont to Ceshea
mers aro interested in their opposition, j 'a Orange Co., about 80 miles from New
but at large, the farmers Lave subscribed! York, the farmers had been promised by
liberally for railroads. IMauy have tried ! the company, payment for thoir lands taken
to get the roads to go through their own
farms.
Prof. J. J. Mipes. This subject has
been treated so ably by Mr. Solon Robin
son, that I can hardly add to it anvthinc:
important; however. I can state that be-
sides their immense utility iu thc transpor-!
tation of cattle, they now carry from our
cities into the heart of our couutry very
large amounts of the fertilizers guauo,
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ashes, bones of animais from Ciucinnati,
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nuu particularly, common salt, lor manure. I s-aaiw, f
All these are spread by our railroads far j farmct douiWv I.t-Nr7a
and wide, which would have remained at' Iast adopte-This pot J.'1'1,''8 a
home for want of freight trains. Iu New of iVr:rutaDce.b,lmCal ,
Jersey we have twt railroads, both of ith" ' '"ienZ' . , ,?
which are .till opposed by many. Aito'-'Vjr1
tbe stock being owned bv farmers, it is j r-ab'sh 00 tlfeedrngoT
chiefly owned by Wall-street and Europe- ! f oi'fnewahrguex -an
capitalists. Our Hudson River R.il-1 Vo'uiice Caa-Maine Farmer.
road was opposed by almost every farmer' 8 "'ve and -on
its line. The cost of frcighf by ,he! ,
roads is rapidly diminishing. Soou we tv? of te Philadelphia
shall have suitable pieces of ship timber' of 'ba. ;pU"g Agriculture, Dr.
t. j - .i r m , 1 1, i ,W:ue of 4 a bunch of aarir
shaped in the Green Mountain, (to render; nas ws;.pura t., . . , , . f
u sssvteptsrraoie; Drought to our ship-yards miik hus4 aniMmz wne wuicn,
by railroads. The naturallyW-cd pieces! their opera,. ielJe4
are already scarce. Blauchard has set his knowledgcd to .ves.dVrlts,e?C,,
remarkable inventive genius to work. He ; heiieve that milk i-oi'V tesu'-1.t3 aTOr
can now take the timber green in the j tho railroads, an d yet l",,
mountains, of eight inches (or larger if. laS quarts of milk pays atriyvXi -required,
as for futtocks, for large timbers,' (-ixt "1 while a man commutes the"
only require large curvature) squtre, bend j Mllie distance for about as mfty cents,
it to the desired curve, stay it there, and ' Our railroads will be doubled ia tea
send it by railroad to the ship-yards, years.
Hitherto, a tree containing only a few nat- "r Scott, of Staten Island. Without
urally curved pieces has been valued at; railroads many vegetables of a somewhat
$-5. A great saving of expense and a- hardy character can come considerable dis
superior strength in ship frames will be j tances to market, but the tender and deli
tho direct result. cate kinds can not ; among these are lettu-
Tbe cost of freight by the railroads of, cos. Now as to fruits; the rail brings
Belgium, is much less than with us, al-' them first from tbc south and last from
though their roads are more expensively ! the north, and generally in good condition,
built than our own. When first coostruo-j We have the Guest peaches of the South,
ted, thcir prices for both passengers and ' as fresh and perfect as from the next vil
freight, were greater than those of this j lagc aQd then they come cheap to our peo
country, but the increased amount of bu- p'c- When no sales on be effected in
siness consequent upon a reduction of rates : our market, they go to another. Without
has enabled them to declare larger divi-! the rapid transportation of steam, thu
dends than the average of American roads I could not be done, the fruit would spoil
roads during the same time. Gardens a hundred miles distant are a
The fruit trade of the Camden and Am- good as those of ten miles only.
boy railroad is much larger than is gene-
rally supposed. Two years since the sta
tion Time contained an estimate of the
amount of fruit consumed in Great Britain
during a year, giving the amount imported
from the continent in baskets, quintals,
ic., all these I reduced to thc sixe of peach i
bankets, and tiiut die amount vf peuclir
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Ambtiu Ji-iUrwul in a tinlc tceec '( :
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greater than Otc total amount of fruit ron-
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turned in Great Britain in one. veur. The
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freight for one day at an average of 8 i
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cents per basket for peach baskets was I
81100.
Niuctv thousand baokets of straw-
berries were sent over the Courtlaud street
ferry from New Jersey in a biugle day.
Blackberries and whcrtlebc.ios arc re
ceived by the car load, and add materially
to the health of the million' occupying
New York and its.environs. But yester
day I observed at Jersey City, 7 large cars
laden with milk, aud a siiniiur quantity is
brought by that road each day. There are
many milk dealers who employ a large
amount of capital in the salo aud purchase
of this article. Railroads will soon render j
tue wuu.o oi luoumoutn county capaoieoi
being used as a maiket garden, atd in this
free coil where one horse can draw a plow
as easily as two elsewhere, this busiuess
may bo pursued with high profit, and the j
amount of land that may be so used is equal
in extent to almost all the market gardens
now suplying the great city.
Charcoal dust thrown .off at each trip
from thc spark catchers of thc locomotive,
once so neglected, is now in great demand
"ilnlnlralorNXetlre.
tfi'f Administration baring been
1X0 m onUrrsignM ia in
MXG, dcresd, late iT
MoMoijr. notice berety-.
Vlimm1 to m1 estate to
Lcavand those having
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mL 'suis'rator.
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for the eompoat heap, anil eagerly"
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p"j sTinnca wiuiuig or' more pu
barrel. . --' v"l :" w ' " --i
Railroads carry thousands of farmers la
faira, when they give and take away
It now ledge;, where thy leave feeds and take 1
away others, where we hare seen a farmer
with a hundred packages of choice nwedsf
in his pockets intendad for a farm afar off,
wLera a farmer may learn that the hybrid '
of some farms when, brought intaeumpar."
ion with the purersorts, make him ashamed '
to have cultivated such fRched carrots,
parsnips, beets, 4ri where he sees and .
buys farm implapebta of superior value,
where a machine feaper capable of doing
the work of a doxen men in a day nay be -
procured, and where he Icarna many pre
ciouifesawna at to the niacagettcnt of hia iT
farm. AH these but for railrjCisaoulJ
be of much slower adoption. V ' ' ff '
Thaddeus Selleck, of Greenwich, f? oLf '
was not able to attend, hut desires UtsTaee- '
retary to give a, few remarks from him 0. I
. 'or the road, and-abo fencing the sides of
the road ; bat the company falling, lat
many unpaid and many farms n&fenced. .
This created a strong opposition on the
part of the fArmerij.who being anfiia aadj ,
i "fenced were much annoyed bjt
tnoa their furms. and .damage to their
Ku,t lrcC9 ss' 1 Pr?. ,, ;Hej na
since been satisfied by Piano styfe, 1
soon as that road w
IELD, Lewishrue.
.'edthe rnvieel of u Soak tar the "
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! "orkby thatroadory of P V-
! !'. net. nf tmnV . aUCd in tht
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A Miss Flaherty, of Hammersmith,
has made a bequest of nearly 39,000 to
Lorl Brougham, u out of respect and ad
miration for bis unequilled abilities, pub
lic condurt and principles." Truly a mo-
t respect
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The Journal Commerce sirs that the
irro.'ctriean.I tinntwt ahnw.e w i.Tf h crrinn
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I'al.ipp. ftntlrini.Tine rich lirrd&id
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struck t hem as with a tight and more than
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iuii(;ings are icit m an nnutitie.I state en I
upon otner.t nppoar ominous words " irt
showing conclusively that iheir ripccta-
I tious of gain havc been frustrated.
GnEExocnn's Group. Tha Washing
ton Union says that thc figures are col-is-
sal, and tho grouping is highly artistic
A ctvii.i'd man is represented as clothing
a savage, while a lovely woman hover
nigh nursing an infant in her arms, and
fricndiy watch-dog stands as a sentinel.
Tte rtrafi,JffS of ";hc InJian el,;ef M h.
kneel f.vfrpnwe-red to the earth, are de
picted witj great force.
An apothecary's boy was lately sent to' ;
Wve at ore bourn a bx cf pills, and at "
another six live fowls. Confused n theji
way, he left the pills where tbe fowls should
have goDe, and tho fowls at thepiil place.
The folks who received the fowls were as
tonished at rcuding tbo directions Swat
,ow 000 U tottn "
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