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H. C- HICKOK, Editob.
0. N. WORDEN, Printeb.
1 The Lewisburg Chronicle.
Inutd oh Friday Mriny, at IsaiJurtj,
Vuiom enunty. Penntylcani'l.
rflII(-f i.so per )'. for r.h actnally In iJimm:
a? -j if pal., witoie three m oth. : $ i,0:i if pvl within a
year: m U"not fait hef 're the (mi .-lairee ; 5 eta. fnr
tw Mid in adranca. Am rt.l patron prncunne one or
nvire new pwmni. oai ni np i.n"mt , ' n. ....
blnuelf and tba saw palroae (fur oam rear unlv,) earb ia
m.,rVnaiirnni..h.iii.aTh-chronicle aii -(.
AoTSRrinarrn han4oi
I'iiatl.tinJrno.'sl
aquare oae we... cant
a MT Two aaiiarea.it 1
f.r eit aiomh'. $7 fa- a year.
ml .-.(.-.fin aim. ffinrth n a
ei'.awn, 10 a sear. Halt qnM. a hair price. Yi-arlr j
aJrertnemenn amler naif a eql.ro. SO cent- prrline Is ,
UnaiUaloare l.nariinar. 16breier. 12 nonoarcil.
Dieenntiaiianeea optional with the 1'uMi.her. when all i
aura ere not pant: ao.l Interest on all a.-rr.unte due.
CommonicaUoiaolrite.lonto.l(fnfmlinteij
B't ithia the ran of par- or neunan ennr Alii
MareanMIe adrtuemetlT not riorautng ne luann m a
lattara B. ew pml-a.l. armmranieii ey we n -
rtara.. ar tha wnter. t-. rwte atlentwa. aThoae
raiatinf eielu.i-l to the Kditorial Ivprtment. to I
directed to Ha'aT '. Iff . q . B.oi and tUse OB
ba.iaaai natterf WON. n'aaim, VUtiAer.
Tha MAGN'KTIC Ttil.rXIRAPJI U loratrd hi theoBee
rJf lha t'arortiev. rM arrans m-m. an- inaua
to obtain j
fro tbe K-t in alrance or tna nal'a.
noonttt w'fi h- arc empte inntertal fSr avrt
kinde nf JOS PBIRTIN G, bh will be e-coted with
ueatnea. and ilc-patrh and on rraxinahle terma.
..0l oa Market &iuare, north aide, arcoud atorjr, Si
4our above tha Tut OtS- e.
O. If. WORDEN, Proprietor.
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FEBUCARY 3, 1S54.
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Another " Crisis." A new sett
Millerites are about to "agitate" by start
ing a paper called the WrliP Crisit-
BTwo ot the most eminent preacnors
. I r- :m t I C I . i ri r.f the I ,in crmirri f in tl a I Or:
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Independent order, died reccntly-Ralpb :
Wardtaw ..f Kditiburrr. and William Jav
of Bath. Both were of a "good old age." i
Fat Salaries. The Town Council of
New Berlin, have ordered that the Burgess
..!.. tr. rm;ri.iE..lrr .nrt
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the councilmen f3 per annum, irticA tia,
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ftftf he increased durwj their continuance ,
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t&-We observe by a 'aule,jn Gasttc
e at . . .1 . t t -M..n -:n !
of 21st ult. that Jacob L. Mktzoer will
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keep the "Waukcgan House from Stli ;
March next and that JolIS GEKTZKL is,
about to start a Temperance Paper in ;
that flourishing Western city.
B.Tbe party of seven fromU lute Ih-er
Jhlls in this county, who left for Austra- i
lia, has reached its destination. TIutc '
are Messrs. JoS.W. Hoffman, throe of the
Caldwell... and three whose names we '
do not recollect.
.Emigration to California U such a
common occurrence now, that we hardly
hear of the departing until lliey are gone.
Mcssr.'i. John Jones, 1st, Win. II. i-ilshy, ,
and Abbot G Walls left Lewishura on
Monday last, to take tlie overiauj route.
Much success attend them !
ICT It ia stated that the Committee of faim. The frlfnj, ( , Road then went to
Reception of the Pennsylvania Training I iw and were about to compel the full execn
Rcboor for Idiotic and Feeble Minded tion of the fair and legal obligation. When
Children, will be glad to receive into their
school, a few pupils, provision for whose
education bas been made by the Legisla
ture. Paronts who a- afflicted with this
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Class ot ciiiiurcii euuuiu .i.vu w nu
portant matter at once.
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A No. of the Snieca C'jnn'yCoiirier
(N. Y.) before us, contains the Picniiuin ;
List and Regulations for a Winter Fair
to be held by the CouCy Agricultural So-1
ciety on tbe 2d inst About SI GO are to
, , , . y c j '
be awarded for Grain, Flour, Grass Seed:
and Roots, Butter, Fat Cattle, Sheep, .
Hogs, and Poultry. J
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tSTlhe American JftniM M'tnorinl-
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Vol. XIII. commences under the bdito-l
rial care of Rev. J. Lansing Burrows, 118
Arch St. PL Had
It is a neat monthly of
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32 pages, (pnee ) and devoted to the .
current history and statistics of the dcno-
rn.nation, with portraits engTa!? of,
bu.ld.ngs kc Records of this description .
T..o.o W .uj uC.,o..Ua..ou. j
ItwWe are indebted to some unknown ,
band for a copy of Thr Lycoming Gazette
for 1823 thirty years ago published by i
Tunison Coryell, at Williamsport It is !
sot half the sice of the Chronicle 82 per '
year rampant for Shulzc for Governor.
It bas 23 advertisements, from which it '
would appear that Muncy or Pcnnsborough ;
I was the greatest place for business in the
i county. The " Moral Society of Jersey
Shore" advertise a runaway pair, each of
whom left a companion and four children.
Ready Pay.
A Book establishment in New York,
(Publisher! of tbe Musical Ilevicic) adver
tiacd in last week's Chronicle a Wholesale ,
and Retail business on the Ready Pay
system a system everywhere becoming
more popular, because it is just. No ones
wouia saner by it, as a general rule, bat
those who never pay, and whose deficiency j
is made np by extra price on those who
Oo pay.
"A number of Merchants in Perry
county, Pa., have recently held a public!
.meeting to consider this subject, and I
have appointed a County Meeting for next
'Court Week. Jk business community
ltnaei gpaa a Byroad, mUuli aave
prmnpt Tfaymtnta.
KtSuWe hear a great deal about the rich
soil and productiveness of come of the
Western States. A friend "out" West,
gives us the following account of ONE
article "being raised" tbere.which we must
confess beats "the East" all hollow :
Pete bas just seated Limsolf at the
Opposite Side Ot tbe tabic. tO SUave. Hear !
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something more red tbau
bite, and wore
wuite tbau black, and suppose it under;
etC S t.Uff DOSe, tllCU lUppntK It to be hair,
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uu ou will uavc a uaguerreuy rc suw
.Bj'1a47l ufurcSaid " .
.lunwii.. . .
n.:M Ihir
JUUUQ M UV XTOvia
Qvef f;re Jt710n, &o!lar$ Worth of
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property UaS DICH CCSTOVCU DV I ire, in
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thc (Jttf of CW I OrK ttlonC, tOlMtR (CO
iri - e
monliis. This is an enormous amount of;
property to be lost wasted ; it is more
tban tbe wbole lity can gain in a year;
and, ultimately and remotely, the loss
must affect every individual in the wbole
couutry.
sv-Tbaf. Pi M;i1in.nf Tinll nn.,
,0i' ,ui1't U ""dour", Dulling and
Store in New York, FlRR proof at least
s0 far fire proof that a lire breakins out in
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one building, could in DD cases out of 100
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be prevented from extending into a wide
spread conflagration.
I tat rjiiroik.
ParalleL
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AIB raiTEi : ror somr time pn.si(ciiizens
f other parts of c.r Township, where the,
have no berirr lan.l and work no harder than
wr have bcen 6iing ""re mony for their
I proutice, anu saving time wnen iraning anu
traveling all because they had better high'
waJ's to Pu ,u auJ fro at a11 seasons. Many
-f "r neigiibors determiDcl to see if we could
not enjny equal brnefits, by KSving a good
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rnnd thrfini.li niir n,rt nf the T,...-n . K i n
! road thronsh onr Dan of the Townshir. m 1
8o we went , w . anJ . h . j
necessary legal auihorily for its construction,
w,lni"" "Ppo"""- coniraci .or tne
same was madc,and our Supervisors endorsed
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ihe company for one-fifieeinh part of the cost,
Bu( af-.er ,hat some political tricksters wem
wiln falsehood and drce-piion 10 other parts
of the Township, and stirred np opposition ;
' ili.n ik went in a Hnna.ri.nr ..f .m viefne
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with a long story (and it is thought something
tIw) 41)d induced hi. , fly f,,,,,, carrying
, h.s agreement, and said as a test ihat the ,
people would elect for next Supervisor an
enemy of the Road. They put up aa enemy
of the Road, but ihe people b.-a! h,m awfully
, at tne bailot-sor. (.sent year tne uepuuiators
' got up a Whig on the regular ticket who was
plcleed aaiuM the Road ; but our Township,
though a Whit; Township, ilrfeated him ) In
the face of all this, ihe old Supervisor, still
' influenced by the enemies of ihe Road and Ihe
: demagogues, refused again to fulfil his own
contract, (ailtioun tnus endorsed oy tne peo
ple and pronounced cntistit
1 Supreme Cmrt.) anil allium
airreed lo build the Road had besun it in food
at la convinced tbat the law would be put
in iiirrit ine neiitiniient nnnervisor nerifirmpo
his part of the contract, and ihe work has husband, or son, or friend, brought borne
progressed with as few interruptions as such a corpse ; but who have never seen a most
works generally meet. But now the conspir ! idirect fulfilment of their dreams, or per-ators-having
failed in their dark schemes-, . dkd and beeQ buried . lbe
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cry tiui inai mc ouiti wisur is unircu. anu aic
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lrln a, B ..t nr hnnitrerl rrnnllara tit Ihe
m.hi. , ., ,h-ir ,i, ,h, r,j
and to destroy the good credit of the Township,
by petty prosecutions of some of its leading ,
friends men whose lives have been above
reproach. New the question arises, who is to
he blamed for all this public disturbance loss
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pauit the ,riflig,Corrupt, weak-minded
Supervisor, of the conspirators who banded
l'gether to trample on the law and induce him
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to violate his oath ! FARMER.
That denends unon circumstances. '
Th . . R , i,. ni.i th.t
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jf (. oath.breaUing Supervisor believed a
Divi6ion of Union wnntj woM U , good
M for ,Le u ougbt to g0 ,
pemtcnlilirj ,nd tbe eon.pirator8 0Ught
tQ le upon tbe Coun, y Trca8ury.
But if the conspirators were in favor of a
Division, then they onght to go to the
Penitentiary, and the Supervisor should
be elected County Commissioner. Our
private " opinion " for which, however,
e do not expect to draw 8100 from the
County Treasury is, that the oath-violat-
ing Supervisor and the conspirators arc
" about six of one and half a doscn of the
other," and should bo " tarred with the
same stick " and tent where there is no
highway beyond an Indian war-path or a
deer-lick trail. Pkisteb.
A Sister's Infixekce. " I was drank
once," said a young man to ns the other
day," and I shall never forget it In
company with several jovial fellows, I was
induced to drink pretty freely, and by tbe
time I got home, I knew scarcely where I
was or what I was doing. I was put to
bed, and how long I laid there I do not
know; but when I awoke, my sister was
sitting beside the bed engaged in sewine.
Tbe moment her eyes fell on my face, she
burst into a flood of tears, and wept as if
her heart would break. Overwhelmed
with shame for my conduct, I then formed
a resolution that I would never get drunk
again; I hv adberad to it, eoi jteia to
kweeetr
LEWISBURG, UNION
Far th. Lewtabarg Chronic!.
Dreams.
In your lost paper is related an instance
of an a 'mot coincidence of a dream with a
reality : I ray " almost," for, at the time
the agonize 1 wife believed and asserted
tbat her husband was dead, he was atitl
Vnf flna nrl.i;ti-,1 fnlfilm.f.
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of a dream will doubtless be claimed, for
years to come, aa a strong " proof that
there is something in dreams."
And I
admit that there it something in dreams,
while I deny that there is anything super-."' aiKanr in is (ncanewaj, ai
Mtural about them, or that in themselves j rnoon. Judge Jordaw , during his few
tbey should excite any alarm. T's'"" t0 thi Court' m,(le ,nch dln
My belief is that the voicing mind V ot tbe Trial List, that Judge Bors
main fwl f,r tlrfp to l oa and tbst bas '' eP new business to
broken rest and disordered nerves or sto- do. uicu drptched in a manner
math give dreams an unpleasant turn.
Recently, the writer read an account of
a revival of religion in childhood's borne.
not seen for many years. Sleep stole npon
me gently and sweetly, while dwelling in
memory upon the happy scenes and loved
' comnanions and relicious Drivileeos of life's
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aunny side ' and when lost to conscious-
ness, the same thoughts occupied my mind,
old joys were renewed, scenes arose which
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u : t : :-e.j :M kj-
and iu spirit At other times I have:ft,fr theJ were to,CB- Thrce witnesses
retired, harassed and depressed, and my j from Elk county, testified that this man
dreams had a corresponding hue. ASTe" tbt county on Saturday and
In the caee noticed last week, n doubt
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knowledge of all the facts would show
that the unfortunate man was not a habit-
u ( traveler, and that bis companion h: d
fn JuTircd strone fear for bis aafetr while
coming home iu ibe co!d season along the
w
SKiiewhat exposed route where a serious
a .ident happened but a few nigl.U before.
iiXiieeiiiif: his return, how naitt at under
lbc circurr,st.nces tbat she ahouU not
only think of all these dancers, bnt that
htr anxiously-excited brain should reveal
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is scusiDiuty in me mosi vioieni manner.
If at ibe very moment lite husband waa
thrown from his scat he had died, and the
iteat luc self-same moment saw bun ceau
I.ne iWr. .'f.mil.l nlr. (ho ilrum nn
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additional importance, except as an accid-
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, . .urcestful nnm.
her in a lottery.
If any person could observe bis or her
dreams, even upon subjects of every day
moineiit, with which the waking mind is
most familiar, then see how many of them
are fumiled, (without taking into conside -
ration .he thousands of such imaginations
tint pass through the brain or which the
orstu oy impto- D ".- - -vv....v.
tituiional by the ' ness.) he or .he will wonder, not at an
ghihosewhohadloccarfW coincidence, but rather that
waking mind retains little or uo conscious -
there are not mvre coincidences.
I have known persons, whoso love for
de absent was uncommonly strong, and
-i. ;.-,ei,M i.,ri ri;n.,J Je.m..
wi.oi... ovvni ...w .vwu.
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objects of their extreme solicitude.
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And
if foreshadowed disasters thmld overtake
them, their waking fears and anticipations
of evils to which all are exposed, would
be far more numerous than the fulGled
j,,,;,,,,. An(j vet jot moruls often
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"believe in dreams if one prove true,
while thousands are disproved by f.icts!
Wcro a man to tell the truth under oath
but once in a hundred times, we should
prouounce him a notorious liar. Apply
the same test to dreams, and instead of
k: a:,a .. !. .r rtt .t..
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ruuiu fc uioscu ttsiuv aia tuc wuiavviiuus
rf the FatLer of Lies.
our waki fu rf .
rf fearsC0!)scien(!C -t with
fc d hcavenfirm Wief tat God ig
indeed our Father; that lie doeth all
things well ; that we may commit all we
have and arc into His kind care by tem
perance and exercise preserve our health,
and keep our nervous system strong ; and
we shall have bnt little trouble from dreams,
but they will be sweet and refreshing, and
He that "giveth his beloved, sleep," will
also make even our dreamt a source of
consolation and of enjoyment.
R CAPER.
Murderers or a Slave, sentenced
to be IIuko. Our readers will recollect
tho particulars of a horrible case in South
Carolina, in which two men, named Tho.
Mottey and Wm. Blacklcdje hunted down
a runaway slave with bloodhounds, and
then put him to death by tbe most pro
longed and cruel tortures. These fiend
were brought before tbe Court of Appeal
at Charleston, on Monday last, and after
tbe motion for a new trial bad been dis
missed, were sentenced by Judge O'Neal,
to be bang on Friday tbe 3d of March next.
WiLMi9GT09, (Del.) Jan. 21st. Two
Slaves, belonging to Rev. Mr. Pollock,
Pastor of tbe Hanover Street Presbyterian
Church, of this city, (a mother and her
child J succeeded in making their escape
by means of the " Ueto-twa ntbeadtM
a feir Btm aiaca. "
COUNTY, PENN., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1854
Letter rrom Center County.
Ad old patron ia Center county, remitting
us the cash for a conple of new subscriptions
with his own. fills aphis shrt with the follow
ing tlm rf innni I .nal inl11iv.nf:
; from neishhorins counties ia always acctpia-
j ble. . Chrmirfr.
BELLEfOHTF, Jan. 25, 1854i
" . . InOreiS
"O'ning much interest at present in oia
i enw- nB ou" weeK however,
ilwoskt great many to the seat of jus-
,,ce. But ,or want ot Busmen tne Jurors
j lmighljr creditable to hie Honor, and with
general satisucnon to tne people.
Siuel Freeman Ayres, the yonng man
j who w" "nested in Clinton county, about .
three mooths 6. on uspic'oa of having!
, of ,B0 Png that stole ibrce horses j
near Une Urove on tbe night ot tne 1st or
w""! MU ""'i uu "
! "cquittcd. Three or four witnesses from
, Clearfield county most positively testified
l.t L. t .1. - .1 - - :.l
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tbe uorsei in that count r on the mornini?
Batnraay n,g"1 na on nnoay morning,
i nd e afternoon, the same, time that
",e mn ,D1 horse9 wr ,n Clearfield Co.
Tue ,ri' 'Cited quite an interest, and
ur"ue"1 seiuer a large crown 01 people.
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1M Joun8 man w ,u" very ro-
DU" appearance, red Uair, with a cn,
dark eJe nd ,ook,!d f be might be a
fc" j"b- ucsu.
I Tbe County Temperance 8ociey m:t in
j ,he Court House on Monday evening, and
w" Vu7 weII attended. Ihe noble
rhamnlnna in tkMnae in tMa r.r.e.. .e.
a. . a, . . .
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. ,ookinS f" th expectations high for
; the r,y Pg of he Maine Law. The
v-i-.-.u.
tOSI SUUd IU UODt Of IH battlCW Old
wler. must ten a lavoraoie result, so lar
as she is concerned.
The County Agricultural Society met at
j ln ' P'w i uesdsy evening, whicB,
,,rora lne "P1" n""t"co ny tnose pres-
t, promises to bean incalculable benefit to
tbe fa"";"g interesU of ihe county. After
the Socie,y djonrned, the Overseers of the
1 others from the different
townships and boroughs in the county, met;
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Honae.pass.n,; almost unanimously,
'esolulion. in favor of the mcure, which
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j "to eficc . , ,.
My fce tliei .lnS tbe I.m
; liOwisourg, wnw cpruce ureejt
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prospect of its being put through.
Wishing you success, and an increasing
list of good paying subscribers to your ex
cellent Chronicle, I remain Yours Truly.
Tbe Prairie Fire and tbe Rut Fire.
ar aav. oa ricaroxT.
The prairie fire ! at midnight hour
The traveler hears it roaring by
A form of terror and of power.
That walks the earth and licks the sky.
The wild deer, on his grassy bed,
Wakes from his drram of breaking day.
Listens, and lifts his antlered head,
tSnuns the hoi blast, and tounds away.
Where that destroying angel goes,
Borne on the wings of autumn's wind,
fie leaves no grass, no prairie rose.
And all is scorched and black behind.
But when Spring comes, a flowery belt
Across ihe prairie's bosom thrown.
Shows ns that where his foot was fell.
The angel dropped a jeweled zone.
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But there's a fire, along whose track
Spring never scatters flowers in bloom,
No joys e'er follow all is black
As midnight ia a hopeless tomb.
Alike upon the low and high
Falls this strange fire; it feeds and plays
On beauty's cheek, in wisdom's rye.
And melts down manhood in ita blaze.
In youth and sge its power is anch
Blossom and fruit alike are burned ;
And every virtue by its touch
Is shriveled and to ashes turned.
Quench, holy Father ! by Thy power.
By love and law, with spring and well.
With stream aad cistern, flood and shower,
In mercy quench this fire from hell.
Tbe Erie QuesUon, in Congress.
(rmpas4aBtafUia Pablie Msar.
Washington, Jan. 25, 1854.
For several days past we have bad tbe
Erie troubles discussed in Committee of
the Whole, nntil flon. James Gamble,
of Pennsylvania, at last settled that ques
tion by a faithful expose ef tbe faets in the
premises. He showed, in the first place,
that tho Franklin Canal Company never
bad a charter for sueh a read as tbey built;
that tbey were merely permitted to lay raila
along their tow-path, from Franklin to
some place near Erie; that, instead of that,
they censtrueted a road irom tna unio
State line to Erie, to connect with a rail
road constructed from Erie, East or North
east to the New York State line, and that
those railroad comnaaie entered into a con
tract with tbs authorities of th borough of
Erie, by wbidt Ikej eKttred tbe petastiob
to enter tbe borough limit on conditio a
that tbey should facilitate the trade of tbe
harbor of Erie. These conditions were not biasing furnace.
complied with ; tbe road were located at But they are not harmed. For whea
too great a distance from the harbor, and i the un get behind them, they stand forth
no facilities eitended to tbe trade of tbe .against the sky, large, full, bold and un
borough or hsrbor. ' consumed. They are tbe last sights that
Besides all this, tbe Erie and North-; die out of tbe heavens, aa uight deepens
eastern railroad had six feet gauge and the
Franklin and Eric road bad four feet ton
)nehe. m bmk of . '
the iron-h ,nd thns gecn,;,,- a, lea8t the
benent of a station to Erie. As the New
York railroad gauge was wider than that
of the Franklin Company's road, a break
of gauge must have occurred somewhere,
either in New York or Ohio; hence, neither
passengers nor freighters were losers by it ;
though if the break occurred elsewhere, tbe
people at Erie would be losers.
When the Legislature of Pcnnfylvania
her j,W wnicll WM 4 fat
8 inches, tbe Franklin Railroad Company,
aod ,he North-easternCompany's Railroads
wero made of the same gauge, (4 feet 10
inches) so as to carry passengers and good
through Erie, without stopping, to Buffalo,
which was now substituted as tbe stop
ping place. This arrangement was sot
made for the general good of the trading
or traveling public, but for tbe benefit of
the stock and bond holders of said com
panies exclusively, and with a view to
benefit Buffalo. No uniformity of gauge
was secured, for the gauge of the New
York Central Railroad, is 4 feet 8i inches,
(the same as that of the Central Railroad
of Pennsylvania,) and the New York and
Erie Railroad gauge is 6 feet.
The remark, of Mr. Ga.mbl CTe
ustcnea 10 witn roucn auenuon, ana luejj, oci.nr, suc.a iu. 10 iue
v. w -
duct ot rennsytvaaia, tell at once barm lea
1 10 ,ofl ground.
Mr. Gamble denrecatcd
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tbe nn,9fu proceeding of the mob: but
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Tory conclusively snowea tbat the company
gun,7 of pat proTOeation, and mani-
! fest injugticc l0 the borough. Tbe whole
franklin and JSne road, is a Irand on the
state, ana on me norougn or r.rie in par
ticnlar. According to tbo opinion of the
best lawyers here in Congress, the case was
never oue for interference on the part of
the feder,i ,,,0,;,!,;., g4 ,n iuc, inter.
fereoce u cIctr,, wnfu.
Observm.
HGs FEOH nY WINDOWS
. UboAki v
rll7Slra n.r-
r(m 8treet 0f red Louses, a back
landscape, or such a noble sheet of
water as always awaits rnv eyes irom my
miominiiSmniM
,hou.,lt8 wbicb ,prin-up.
tbing to look upon the lite of the .trcet.
The poor, tbe worse tban poor, tha degra
faiet ft... jir: "
i mul oliiTrjtvtn risa i'lacsKlA Vw.tAliif1stiBitifi
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i all these are human beings as much aa the
hearty, the prosperous, the gay, and san
guine throng among whom they mix.
Questions of life and early destiny are
painful, and draw nut the weary thoughts
through many a maxe of questionings, from
which they return without a sheaf, or a
flower, and more in doubt tban ever. I
do not love the front windows.
But there lies New York Bay, spread
wide abroad from my back window. I
sit in my window, and my thoughts fly
over it just as 1 daily see the gulls do, and
bathe in it just as they dip down and come
up unwet. I walk on it, I hover over it
I go all about its rim beginning with tbe
far Jersey shore, right serosa from the Bat
tery down to Staten Island, and round
again to my window. I have grear times
with those blue hills in the distance ; moody
fellows sometimes tbey sulk, and darken
themselves, and bide in a smoky obscure,
so that whether they be clouds, or moun
tains, or only a forest, yon can hardly tell.
Peradvcnture, the very next day they have
dusted themselves, and swept down all the
films, and stand right np to your eye, frank,
apparent, and not ashamed of your gaze.
Always the first tbiog is to see what the
hills are about. To see the sun go down
over these bills is a sight to make one's
soul cry ont to God. What else on earth
is done, as tbe sun performs bis work ?
His highway is without an obstruction.
He fills the whole heavens with light from
his clusters ss if it wero a goblet He I lamp, I should land in toe wedding group,
casts forth his brightness npoo th earth ! Should I overleap that one, and go on to
as if he were set to sow it with seed, and j the chamber from which the next shines,
spread it doable-handed, profuse, prodigal, 'there is a child dying, a mother wailing,
inexhaustible. In tbe morning he sends! Should I strike through tbo shell to the
sheaves of light, as first fruits of his com- j living kernel, in one place, crime would
ing, long before tba sun-rising, and on spring up disclosed; another line would
retiring ha leaves his way full of freitt for ; reveal vices of nnimagined grossness.
tbe evening to glean. Stars that come I y to myself, as I look forth, there a
timidlv oat to asa what ho does, catch the ' mother sing her child to sleep ; there a
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inspiration, and toemseiv. grow gooa .o
kind, sending forth a blessing to all tUt
look for their coming.
These bias bills know afl these things,
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ana gam no l in tne soiar uouua uuiy uiua
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in tho deep flushed with as many fabu
lous colors as tbey. Before the sun goes
oowm,yo can hardly look at them, aa th
basy ajawsspsiere, feoek through with ia-
tense gold, flames about theat, and only
lets them be seen dimly as if standing in a
and darkens.
! Bat before tbe light forsakes the horizon
yon are already cleansed of life's daily
grime and dust. That great round boriiou
it is whatever your imagination requires
i it to be. It is a' scba kjlUgg tbe earth,
1 Or it is a lucid rampart, battlement of
transparent stones, or it it an ocean full of
purple islands, whose near waters are crim-
son taking orango line as they recede,
then sapphire, amid whit and grey, and
earned up toward the vault with spangled
blue and black. Upon such a ground as
this nature set up and take down her
temple of clouds with wondrously facile 'every whisper of the Universe goes. Over
architecture. There is no footstep left the great city God watches. It is neither
along that horitou, and no visible band. ! tangled nor confused to bins. Iu atone
But can any one look and not know tbat j and brick are transparent as crystal to bis
there is aa enshrined spirit there? Is it j piercing gaze. Yea, the silenee of tbe soul
not from ont of such passes as these that ! is audible. Tbe secret Hitects of the heart
angels come to guard our night watch?, are before him. Tbe Lord shall watch the
From those cliffs are there no slumherless city, and when all other keeper fail, He
eyes that gate after us ? j shall keep it H. IK Beeeher, UticX. ?.
But there are some hours in which we Jndrpeiulint.
feel called to pierce these outgnards of:
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T- l .w .. i ' i ' 1 1 mc tim " eonvicUd ia the
winch tbe sun himself borrows bis light, r, . e . . , . - .
. , , . , ... 6 1 v-urt of Oyer and Terminer of the mat
as the moon fills itself from his bewm . r . ,nm,n .... .. .
j Why should we stand upon, this side of.
the entrance, falling down, like poor Mercv
n Pilgrim' Progress, before the gate ?
Thought may enter, f.ith J,; but the
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soui 10 ner nioonugs.
Ten thousand stars stand mrklv now
1 af
in the heavens. Ten thousand sparkling
I v., . .. . '. . 8
; smrs are in irom oencailt ana rocx tbetn-
selves in the trembling waters. Yonder,
j too, lie that great city with a thousand
snimng eyes, croucbed down, but alwavs
j - - -
watching, always murmuring, night and
day, like soma huge, muttering behemoth,
waiung .or i prey m mereeos oy tne sea
shore.
One who had lived within ound of the
aur. up-u iog isiauu soutn snore, wouiu
think, if be sat for the first time ly my
w.ndow, in tbe night, and heard the dull,
low, mtifflod roar of the city, tbat he was
close upon the ocean. If I shut my eyes,
I can hear iu this aound the sullen plunge
of Niagara aa it came through the night-
air to my room ia tbe hotel. Nor dors the
resemblance cease with tbe sound. It -is
the united roll of single wheels, crushing
and jarring through all the streets of the
vast city that form it. be; just as it is
the singing ot .ingle drop, ,n the choir
r t Ti i i i ,
of waves tbst makes the thunder of the
ocean.
Morning, noon, night and midnight, yon
still have the continuous roar; distant and
soft when the wind sets towards the west;
nesr snd rushing right towards yon when
th winrla ar frnm th. ...1 T?'it ll.oe.
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is a rest from New York. From midnight
of Saturday till thrce o'clock of Monday
morning, the Sabbath charms and hallows
the air. The city sleeps like a laboring
man after his toil. It ia very impressive
to stand upon a radiant Sabbath morning
and feel tbe hush and solitude. Silence
alwaya speaks of God. The gilded cross
on the spire of Trinity, catching the earli-
est glow, shines like a star, a if, like that
of Bethlehem, it would lead men to where
tbe Savior dwelt
But on other days nothing can quiet the J
great voice 01 me city, au oay ana an
night it sounds on.
Then, there ar the deep measured
strokes of the ponderous fire-hell, answered j
and echoed from bell to bell all over the
city. Now and then a beam of light j
shoots np upon the sky, and the city glows
in its conflagration. Usuilly, Gres would '
come and go unknown except t lookers on, I
were it not for the bells. Tbey are smoth- j ning, of Valley Tp, Montour Co., recently
ered before they can break out j engaged ia hunting rabbits, when Manaicg,
One sits at night snd looks out on tbat supposing he saw a rabbit, en approaching
mysterious space, marked to the eye only tbe spot, to his asUiishmcnt, found he ha4
by lights, gleaming singly, or ia files-, and jabot a bullet bole through Mr. WvIIivcr'a
imagines what scenes are transpiring be- at, catting off some hairs, without injur
fore him. Should I pierce to that distant ing tbe head.
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, a w,f. wail, for footstep, which one were
mnsre, but which are long, will tread
.down her jov, like trampled flowers; here
..J . ...1 ,1a.,p ainrlr ; tnfirfl
. wnua, ns r-- - -- , -
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the poor and failing seamstress draws the
.kJ Wekin .rill dron her into
botiekasafaasae. Ia that great shadow are
in working griA ud thaorM, aad joys;
VOLUME X -NO. 44.
Wholi Nuhbib, 512.
crimes nod erncltics; virtues and aeerel
heroism ; there is patienoe, end faith, aa4
hope ; there are laughfng fcces, and frit.'
lous hearts, tearleu joys ; there, too, are
devout hearts, deep meditations, holy aapi
rations. Good and evil angels fly athwart
that rock of smoke and vapor, on emode
of frraee and aaiscbirf. Up through that
pathless air are passing every hour scone
of departing souls. And yet I pie aeon
J tbe certainty and perceive aothlog. I
i know, ton, that there ere in tbe depths of
:you ohsoure city sharp outcries, eager iaa
j prorations, piercing shriek and lifs-strtg'
glen; but I hear not a lis ef the am. f
, know that the tremendoae Ihanw of Lift
ia playing in every aet, from beginning to
exit, and I, tbe solitary spectator, stttiag
j here, can tee nothing, bat essuredly I know
that it is all passing there.
But there i aa eye from which darkaeof
bide nothing. There is aa ear to whiefc
Vear Ynrl- T. OR T V. tfu.
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j nu ia w . e Ufo
i timi griknte.j.
j Kmn fc, Ukencareof
Ly Le Meales, the Dainierreotvpist Ther
intend to teach him their
art gratia, and
i wlltin hu bha.ll have rjeftotna rwrf.ft Im it
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! "DlCh be Can travel through the COOntfT.
Mr A J Stewart has namhaaed Metnv.
' To)J pwtlse ideitU
gri)Unjs heretofore known as Niblo' Gar-
j i :tj... .i . r. .
ucn, ... uwiuun iu. Auewre
ae.lt
nolei Tk. j:nirinn,
l on 0. we 279 feet Mrl the Mine
;on c,b stMt . .j.
street is 200 feet. The consideration
money named in tie deed is Five Handxeel
thousand hilars, which was the snm paid,
anJ not 530,000, m heretofore stoted. It
not tL, fi4Cf) Mr Siewart intends
: to re lurtve j,;, hfe t,-,, trom fa
wrner of Jjroad vay and Chamber street,
p.
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1 Louisville, Jan. S3. The mail from
, Santa Fe arrived at Independence on Sat
J urJy morning, having made the trip ia
;''0' Bus'ines there was very
j M JmXrdmm baI 1m0
, . Camancbc., who bad ber i. cap.
tivity. She was captured by them while
on her way to California from Texas. Her
husband and others were killed. Her suf
ferings are described as being very great,
and of the most revolting character. Sao
reports tbat the Indians Lave another
-
white woman in captivity,
Thorns Handy side Perkins, in his
j 80,11 J- died recently ia Boston. Ho ,
WM merchant of great wealth, and baa "
PeBt mny thousands of dollars for bene-
oleBt P"1?0 When a b-jy of Svyears,h
Pme bf the men killed by the British
Jat ,na 'Boton Massacre, and remembered
itbe Dlody deed with inters to tbe last.
He often boasted of having spent a night at
Moant V.-rnon, aad being lighted to bed
by Gen. Washington.
Possibly no single line in tha language
so conveys the idea of height as tbe words
in italics in these six hues of Tennyson oa
"The Eagle:"
"He clasps the crag with hooked hands.
Close to ihe san, in lone'y lands.
Kinged with the azure world, he stands.
The nmnklrj tea bentnth him enmls.
He watches from his mountains walls.
And like a thunderbolt be falls.
SS.Tbo's J. WeJIiver and Philip Man-
CHILD'S BVESIZG PRAYER.
riTn?.m! now the day is past.
On thy child thy Messing cast;
esr thy pillow, baud is hand.
Keep thy guardian acgel band:
And, throughout tbe darkling night,
B ess be with a cheerful light.
Let me rise at run again.
Free from every thoueU of pain ;
Pressing, tbrocgh life's thorny way.
Keep me. Father! day by day.
F.ith takes God at his word, aad d
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np,nBiw for the whole of aalwtion.
he u
d tbrefjra h9eomaet
he u h
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! mM.e -nd -i ! An -rnr. ha mi-, sir-
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If joe " gH iatoaisnted, let be
I wi& " deSgbk'