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BY 0. N. WORDKX & J. K. CORNELIUS.
II. C. 1IICK0K, COKKK.-I'OXMXG Editok.
thp at feujislinro, Union (Conntp, prmnigliicaia.
TWELFTH YEAR WHOLE NUMBER, G03.
$1.50 per Year, always in Advance.
. , . . anJ Eltnira : and while developing tlio re- the next five years will exhibit a material low, uiud-bcspattered stage rocked up and
Ll)v 2,rUlf'Jj VljlUUHll. sources of a very important portion of the j diminution in the population of the State brought to, and the well-conditioned Hon'
I KIIttY, XOV.
i State, has brought us into eonuectiou with outside of the cities of New-York aud Ruf
Wcstcra New York and the whole Lake j f.ilo, and perhaps Oswego. How this will
! couutry. The Sunbury A F.rie road is iu j tell upon the representation of the Stale,
' progress, and is bound to be completed ; j and upon its position iu the Union, will be
and such, too, is the case with the North seen upon the examination of gome facta
Pennsylvania road. The Franklin road j that we derive from one of her city journ
has again been opened and relaid ; and j als. From IS 10 to 1851 the total increase
of the State was t,0,00, of which Ncw-
Frogress of Despotism.
Jane Jobnsoa recently petitioned Judge
Kane for the release of l'assmoro William
son, testifying that Williamson did not
then Lave and never had the custody of her
person or of her children, and could not here we are promised another line of com
then and never could have delivered up her municatiou with tho West, of which the j York and Ruffalo gave 300,000, and the
er her children, to her former master, or to Cnnnclsville road, and others already made, reniaiuder of the State 301,000; und Bot
any one else. Judge Kane refused to will constitute important links. The Le- j withstanding this increase, the State loat
entertain the petition, in a long, pettifog- banon and the l'ittston and Rloomsburg one member of Congress. At tho next
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Cine oniuion, iu vvnieu lie aavauccu me. roaus are opening up iiupujiaut jtuiuuiis n-viwu, imai m.jiu....'u u u wu.;u
senliuieut, that mastcis may hike s'.ces of the K.istcrn section of the State, while
throwjh rcnniyhnnut, and that sueb slaves the great AHegheuy Valley toad, the Con
do nut thereby become free. A monstrous nellavillo aud IleuiplielJ roads, and va-
deciaion, which if regarded would prostrat.;
State Sovreignty at the foot of a U.S. Cir
cuit Judge. And Williamson remains in
prison fur simply telling a woman and her
children that by the laws of Pennsylvania
as well as the law of God, they were free !
But, TUE END WILL COME 1
Let Mammon Ir.M, while Mamm'-n ran.
The b.'wsl and b-'ii-n-f lifine Vnn ;
It Muim.n m--fc. wlnl.- Malum- n Jar-,
Ttie u-ri and wnllii.a: of d .-.mr :
TM IM 11J- imc it -an n 't
r!.ain h'l Ri'J Wi.ur.r-s Iihvc lli.ir dt,
Siatrry it--t If mut la aw:.v.
And b a tale of jet-lcrd-.''
The Empire Stat3----rennsylvania.
Fruin tic Ikilal. N. rtli Am. ri. ar.
Under the apportionment of Represent
atives at the organisation of the l.'i.i n,tlie
first place was assigned to Virginia with 10
members, while Pennsylvania aud Ma.-sa- if they had been among the Rocky Moun
chusetts hal 8 each, and New York but G. tains, and those already made prove to be
a;.i iv lio 1, nt tlio r.rwnriors of other and more im-
in u -3 .1
'-' -'' nortant ones about to be constructed. To
rious others, aro doing the same in the
West.
Our neighbors, on all sides, are, as we
have said, seeking to pass through the
State, and thus while Baltimore is labor
ing to establish a communication with the
; Lakes, Northern New York seeks to com
: pletu lines of road that w ill bring the Lak-
es iu connection with Pennsylvania, aud
' Kasteru New Yolk is doing the samo on
! her side of the State. Already the Jersey
Central Railroad Las added greatly to the
value of property on the Lehigh, and has
caused the construction of other roads lea
ding through the northern coalfields, giv
ing life to regions that but a fcw years
siuee were but little more thought of than
Virginia
Peiiii) Ivanla
Maxmchil.wtta
New Vtitk
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10
IT
:;l , the making of the Reading Road we have
will be greater by at least fifteen percent.,
and unless she gain nearly 800,000 the
must lose more than one member at the
next apportionment. That her whole in
crease will be greatly short of half a mil
lion wo fully believe, and should such
prove to be the case she must fall from her
present repres' utation of 33 to one of 31.
Directly the reverse of all this is what
is being done in our State. While New
York is breaking down all her interior
towns and cities, we arc uot ouly building
up those that exist, but we are creating
new ones ; aud others must of necessity be
created on the various lines of road now iu
course of construction. Each of these
becomes a market for the produce of the
him strong and hearty, "good morning, i Ki.lwanoek and Raurv, who have now j acres occupied by each crop oa their
mv bov," he holds down his head and de- about two hunJrtd an-l xew.n'y fiiie acres ; grounds.
posits tho answer in Lis bosom, as if it j aetually occupied with thcJr nurseries. ! fr .n.m'""a!"'1 0tmm'
iface came shuffling out from the grated
t - .m.m i;t-u nar f...i ,.t.l ' . -.... !,;., .,1 t , TKpa urp nnt nil In nnn rontt'runtia rtArf
buiuii iu viic vaiiuuuj line au uiti'ibu ut ncic a ' J miivty luiu, aw j - - - . - q j ywrlnf ihmha
spider, opeued tho staee coach door and able to fly. Like death, be visits every j of ground, but are comprised in four prin- ; Mwii'viiuia mri b4,akk.
let out the hungry passengers. They were ' house, and his burden grows higher as he 1 cipal detached portions, of hfty to a Lun- ! f.cu nuuun,2aKMiti
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always nunirry wueu tnev coi mere, ior , proceeds, no aoca not cuulk papers as ura k. wra, i '"k "o catu "o. , u,r o
to.
t
breakfast was just ready for southern en.i
grants, and diuuer for nor!h'-rn; but then
they do now, over the gate and under the For extent aud perfection combined, there ewi.
fence, but decently and demurely places ; ia nr.ue m America that nearly approaches , h...
the laudlord was njt an old spider, but a j it fjlded and damp into the band of some- j this establishment, and we Lave not been ! Z"nlBa.,
very jovial, pleasant sort of man, who body commissioned to receive it Rut Le ! able to ascertain from satisfactory sources, ! "r "oort,to4.
made everybody feel as much at Lome as don't "ring," for there is nothing to liug j that there is any in Europe although j Sut"r',1'
he was, and noti.uig more, borne like could in all tue town, except tbe cnurcn bell, ; mere may pssiniy ce a greater nuniDer
be imagined ; and so, very well to do did j that the Doctor brought Lome iu his "cut- of Lands cmpliyed in some Luropcan nnr-
Country GvalJtioaa
at ta
tit
he get, at two shillings a meal.
ter" one day, from L'tica or somewhere series, where labor Li cheap and economy
So much for the old village, for here thereaway.
we are just cow passing an orchard, and j His rounds are soon made : wcanwbile,
there, with a broader pliylactary of tan j a sorry sori of horse an editor's horse,
bark, is the priutiug office, whence was j you know is blowing a solitary oat
issuod weekly iu olden times, the Llack , (the last survivor of a very large family)
A'tVer Gcizt tte. Tho office, a low, white j about a largo manger. Pretty soon, Re
building, once tenanted by a lawyer, who , iuantc is led forth,' aud a pair of taddle
had gone up to a higher court than any bags, distended to tbe suffocating point, is
they have organized yet on earth, stood brought out, followed by the Mercury and
noxt the church. So thev were, for once, no devil, with bis pockets plethoric with
side by side, the pulpit and thejpress ; dongh-nuts, (what has become of that old-
and nobodv Las learned to turn out such fashioned twisted luxury ?) and a tin horn
enginery from forgo and foundry, even to
this day. We enter; there is ink on the
door, the print of five small fingers. In
cline your ear, delicate reader, it is the
Quince Trees.
not studied. There is probably not a single Quinrg
Ellwangcr and Rarry had in regular j Orchard in Pennsylvania. We have aev
cmploy at the time of our visit ever one er chanced to see in any part of the Stata
hundred bands. In the spring they have quince trees, excepting in soma obscure)
two or three Lundred. Being in the midst corner of the field or garden, entirely neg
of the budding season, they have sixteen lected, never pruned, manured or cultiyat-
active b udders at work, with boys to tie ; ed. A stranger aware of the fact tha
after them, and other hands t precede
them iu prepiring the stocks. These,add
ed to such as were occupied in proving the
good quinces always sell readily in Phila
delphia market, and at a comparative!
higher price than other fruit, knowing also
buds, aud in removing the ligatures, ' that hundreds of barrels, perhaps thou-
i v 1. I ' - - - . i r it
sau'js, mru vruugut uers ior saic in tue iaia
of the year from north and east of us, would,
suppose our soil not adapted to quinea
amounted to about tixty in all, connected
tethered to a button-hole by a bit of green with this department of operations. The
string. It is with a sort of sheepish ! buds are all cut by the proprietors them-
iinportancc that be mounts by the aid of selves, and every pains taken to secure the , culture. This is not the case. There is
tho proprietor, and wends bis way, as they greatest accuracy throughout this mam- no fruit winch, in PennsyIvania,woulJ pay
were fond of saying, "out in the country,"
moth establishment about twenty-five j better than the quince, if properly culti-
thousand buds are inserted daily ; and vated. They produce abundantly, corn
eight persons are required in connection ' into profit in about three years after plan-
with the persons who cut the buds, to rc-, ngi are Hardy, require ,but littie atten-
dt-vWt! Not he who wears but one boot, .
vicinity, and thus offers inducements not i and is disagreeably redolent of briinstoue, as if the little village was not positively
ouly to the farmers there already to remain but the begrimmed urchin iu shirt sleeves, ; lost iu the very bosom of it.
but for others to come from abroad : thus. ' iust crcetiinn through the broken pickets i And so ho went bis horn resounding
while New York is dimiuishii.c the attrac-' of tho orchard fence, with apples iu each through the solitude, aud Lo as Lai py as : move the leaves from them on tbe spot. I ion, can be placed chser together than
tion of bcr farms, wc arc building up our , hand, and one in his mouth, followed in ! a knight fresh from a tournamout. Aud They employ twenty-five horses. Dur- j most other fruit trees, the fruit is mora
tcwns.and increasing the attractions of our bis flight by something bearing a striking 1 that was the "N. E. W. S.", tbe XE H'.V ing all tbe early part of the season, these j easily picked, and will better bear trana
lands, the uecessaryDconsequeuce of which resemblauco to a brick-bat. j of those old days. Rut what there was in were all required in cultivating the rows ; portation. An idea is Tery prevalent that
must be a rapidly increasing population. ! Rut here we are. The walls are cob-1 the Gazelle, aud who they were that read I at present only eighteen are needed fur j they do better on low moist ground. Tbia
is a mintage, originating irom ine uci mat
Io the following table we give the total bocn in(lelitcj fr tuc cutructinn of that From S40 tj ls50 our iU(.roase wa3 ! webed and dusty : tho windows are cur- it, mut bo passed over iu the silence, like this purpose.
numbers of which the House Las recently ,0 cattawissa,William.-p..rt & Elmira for ! jou.OOO, or thirty-one per ccnt,with again ' tained with newspapers; a very dim lau-j that, that uow, alas 1 Langs like a great We observed tin-jk fields, of thirty or tbey will thrive iu such situations when
been compased, and the shares allotted to tU!lt t0 Lebanon.and for tho one now in pro- I f . r r.,.oa i ,i, ! urn t, a rrmi th-.A ,f li.rht. Click. ! wWu- nv.r ib mt of them tin- firesf. fortv acres each, out of the man which i other trees will not. The quince will d
each of the five principal States
1-0 1-1-. io
Total rnmhr -11
of whit-h
Tirffinla l.al 21 !' "
NVw V..rk 4-1 .. S I
li.iin"lTwn(a 1 2.
M..arlu-tU 1 1 '
Ohio H -1
It thus appears, thrit in the House of
nearly the same number of members. New
York has in twenty years lost 7, and this
State 3, while Ohio has pained 2, and that
Pennsylvania during the period gained
pteadi'y on her northern ueighbor.
cess of construction, ly whkh this c'y etjt Jeewuittl perioJ, it must iuevitaLly be ! cliok j the footsteps of type, and there in j aud loveliest, aud best. Voyttja ChUf. j constituded their establishment, which , well on high dry ground as the pear
j alone would be regarded as large for an j lree- io ao h justice, u saou.a recervo
An Eventful HUtory. entire nursery. A block of ninety thousand j every fall a good coat of barnyard man nr.
The llmt Jvurnu! says, it may not le (in,0O0j cherry trees, one year from the ! wt" 'n ,ne tar'c should be cleansed
generally known, that James SulkU'A.n ,u,j( was especially noticed for its beauti-1 occasionally with the lye mixtnre, as re
K.NuWLts, has become a preacher of the j fi growth, most of the trees being already commended for other fruit trees, and at
Gospel. Ilia life has been an eventful ab0ut five feet hicb, and as even alone the I tention should be given to pruning all ds-
win De connected witn untury and tne ; much rcate, auJ we s-uall filJ oum.lves the corner is tho editor, publisher, pror ri
j whole Susquehanna valley. To the Penu- grta(y ;a frrpr ;f h J(J nfjt proVe suffii;il.nt 1 ctor) all(l printer, "setting up" an editori
. sylvania Central Railroad we are indebted j ,0 give ns ,wo additiuaj mcnibers 0f Con. j al frdIU a very queer old case. Click,
f.r the Ilemptield and the Rroad Top j gre.? gboulJ k du so auJ 6houJ tLe , citk . there's a pale young man busy with
roads, and for that pr, jected from Tyrone I cour of aff - Xi!W Yn . ,..,,: Ba 1 "death." D-i-e-d. and so be eoes slowly on
ay, mroiign a pan l tne Mate
to Ridgew
that Las until recently been almost as
much shut out fir m communication with
the world as the Nebraska territory. Each
step is but the preparation for a new aud
we may, the
Takinir the last period, while IVnnsvl- greater one. Look where
yania gained 1, New York lost 1, aud Ohio same picture meets our view, and wh. re,
remaiued stationary. ; l,ut a fw Jears 'lllCe our ,a,; wa9 "Im.-st
What, then, will be the course in future entirely destitute of communications, we
years! To enable, us to answer tins ques- "' "u uiiujjsa-iiu..;iuii. m..
tion. it is necessary that we inquire into the lapse of a second future period of fivo years ,
causes of the rapid increase of New ork, only, we sball he in possession oi a sys'.cui gratiuI1 ,.quaIj peru;lp3 we luigllt gay supc. Wonderful decorations . they are upon
as compared with ourselves, and how far "'at win give to every county in u a more ( rijrj t0 lUl)ia tf any p,ir.iim of the Utlion tho walls ; what marvelous borders, to tho
those causes now exist in relation to cither perfect power of communication with eve- j sucll aUractions as will secure tbat un- j handbills; what wonderful "Selims" that
State. V Part of thc Ur'ion. nnrt1'' f0UtL' flst I der the census of 1870, now only fifteen 1 man with a short coat and long whip,
New York was admirably situated. The . aa d west, than is enjoyed by any similar ; ycM3 j;tautj sLe wiij uke Iu,r r,lace jQ tLe I could hardly bold ; what "great sales" of
Hudson cut the Allegheny range efmoun- extent of country iu any portion of the j L-Iiion a3 b(.ing nQt on, ,hij A',,s,0Hej but : small articles ; what gay coaches, riding !
tains, and to enable her to afford to a large Union. If our readers doubt this.lct them j ,he Eml,;re ?tatp Tj thoso who may fot.j 0D ,b0 top of a cloud, the four in hand all ,
portion of her population thc advantages take up a map of the State and satisfy j disposf;J to doubt that such will prove to ruuning away, and tho "nine inside" as !
tf cheap transportation, it was required themselves, as they may, of the fact. Lc ,bc we woulJ tbe di : ffierry as r,UDch. j
only tbat she should make the Eric Canal Ihc shortest line of communication be-; of furui:jllin an ansW,r t0 tLe ful. j Rut not a picture of a railroad, er a
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it has begun, thc representations under tbe 1 s tho' he were aetually following the bier,
census of 1800 will stand 31 to 37, giving ' Rut then a death was a very rare thing,
a difference of ouly 4 against 10 under the ' very rare in tho village, and 'reund iu the
cpiisiio nf lsilO nn.l st ..n.Ir tl.nt . f l".il ! woods, and it wxs worth Dondcrim; over. ,
With each succeeding year, the differ-' True, everybody knew it already, but it , "wu Crst s:iW I'it"-Le was a teat!l- numbered at least one million. They must
enco of the growth must, we think.bccome ' must go into the paper, nevertheless, for ! L'r of locution, iu the good city of Glas- be worth, at market prices, more than ten
more manifest. Tho craud difficulty with there was somebody or other, that had gow, w aero noi a
tops as if they had been sheared. A half njed wood or crowded branches, so as to-
acre of seedling pears had as fine a growth 'Te free access to the sun and air, and
one, and he is closing it in the best pos-
i t t .- .
siliic way, as a iaptiai j rcact.t r.
' Many years ago," says au English wri- as aDy we have ever seen, although they ! wake a good symmetrical bead.
Uae of tne best manures for tne quince
tree is salt, which should be strewn over
here not a few of Lis stripling pu- thousand dollars. Two hundred thousand tlie ground every spring in the proportion
c J y if y t a . ... . . - r . l . i a tl :
us has been to obtain roads, Lut that is Rone out into the"Gcnesee country," that P"s w" learueu uom nis isons to cou- were plcked out rom tnem early la 6um. ui two or turco tj-aary. to cacti .r. aD...
new happily in course of bein" rapidly loved tLe Lying, and so tLe paper must front and adlress a publie audience, arc ' mer without any sensible diminution cf . L" been fully tried, and found to increase
surmounted : and the State is bound, as ' follow him away there, if it could, that he D0W to he fl)unJ a!ao"S reverend fath- their numbers. As nearly as we could t! lauriance of the foliage and quality
e think, to present attractions for immi-! might mourn the dead. ; eis oi tue ciicic.i. a ears eiapseo, auu we estimate, there were at least two hundred lue " " 13 lue spwimi manu ior
agaiu saw una iu i.onuou at tue ueigui ot thousand Xoncay Jirt two feet or more in la,a tn:e aua buouii never oe ouiiucu.
his literary fame; when, after a long trial height, and covering many acres. ' The quince may be planted in row ten
;jle, he Lad won for Limse.f a 1 Xbcir ornamental department is
and strug
renown as a dramatic writer only inf.rier Vry arge scale.
tLrougfi a country as favorably situated for tween tLe Last and t est, lies through
the purpose as any f similar extent per- ; Pennsylvania, and no road can be made
haps in the world. The canal brought with that will not furnish a local trade that will
it, both manufactures and trade. Towns pay tho cost of construction. In this lies
grew up, and were enabled to make their the difference between our roads and those
respective shares of railrotd from Albany of New York. The latter depend to a great
to Ruffalo, and next branches were made extent on the distant trade, and must be
in every direction, opening up nearly all come more dependent upon it from year
the counties throughout much more than to year ss her interior towns and cities de
half the State. The city grew, and nest cline, and with the diminution nf the way
lowing question : If Penns) lvania,almos'. reaper, or a steamboat. A strango old
office in those days.
Rut there in a further corner stands a
square frame of heavy timber, like a huge
loom. It is a loom, such as gfiey wot
totally unprovided with roads, has steadi
ly gained ou New York for twenty years
past, is she not bound to gain upon her with
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or is about to be, as well supplied with j tliunglt on : it is the old 'Ramage Press." ; 1"m at tbu "S of the Irish Mission,
roads as New York herself? I Its huge lever, its lazy platen, its ponder- ,n Lotl"au UolJ l''"'. catechising,
Refore closing we may be allowed to add ! y'P", it great ink ball., its creak- a,lJ "strnetiog the wild Irish of the Cow-
a word about our neighbors it, Ohio. It ap, croanine mechanism-there it stands S" V l"'"' l"""u'"'
to that of the great aulhors f the seven- ft in length of glass propagating houses
teenth century, and been proclaimed by : seven acres in roses and about half an
universal suffrage as the only man worthy acrB densely planted with dahlias. They
to be . uratur of the house tf Shakspeare. have a very rare collection of the celebrat-
Aud there we tLought Le would certainly ed new California tree, the WttUagtoniii
sit down for lifu after a career so distin- yyantea, being no less than five thousand
finished, anl muse upon the past and the nue young plants of this tree, grown from
futun; upon tii.i classic banks of the Avon. SPed collected in California, and which
epartment is on a 1;ct aPa", wnicn win give lour Hundred
They have five hundred , tr'es l" tuc cre- Two buhcls to a tree.
and 51,50 per bushel, which is a low esti
mate, will make a return of over S12001
to the acre.
The orange or apple quince is the most
profitable yaricty. arn Juurnal fur Oe
tuler. Pennsylvania Farm School.
The Pennsylvania Farm School has been
Hut instead of this, he bad entered a new , were procured by gathering such as the ' definitely located by the Board of Trustee
field, and started upon a new life ; and af
ter several years of further interval we sn
squirrels Lad thrown down in their depre
dations. A year ago, these plants sold for
a guinea each at only one dollar now,
in Centre County, on the land donated for
the purpose by General Iuvix. We had
hoped ere this to hare had the minutes of
tiitikt In? iriflim tho r..ii.llwrmn nfmanv nf ' in all its rudeness, tje creatcst
came tbe Erie railroad, giving two routes ; trade there must be increased dilticulty in i our that -()r ,o he i tlis cr aDy ptbcr ago.
tbrougn tne State ; anu men nraueii' .i were maintaining toe uistauv uuc. wur roaus,
again made, and the result was, that, at on tho coutrary, must become less depen
tbe last census, nearly every county in the dent with every year, and the less their
State had already been placed within a few dependence on the distant trade, the more
hours' distance of its capital city. : cheaply will they be able to carry the pro-
With us, it was fir otherwise. While ; ducts of distant laruls. The great Ligh
our neighbors could readily and cheaply 1 way of tho Union is destined to be through
latest triumph of li wLic!i they had but lately learncd.wbile thousand exotic grapes of fine gro
. pair of tin sock-, th'? 'tene w"u reverence to his eloq-n nt j glle Their co;ection uf beariD!; .
specimen
tl... r.rr;i. .l tl.r......l,.,t . . I cts swung un bv a wire above tho dimrv 1 Psitinn, and seemed proud of their .es unen,il!,.d in this conntrT
lidentbeIieftbatthetiuiehadarrivedwhen''nEinet "ing each a "brief candle," t countryman. And now, the tnl of tLis ( ihvy Lave ve ,0 si, thousand, most of
she might contest with Pennsylvania the 1 wcre ho Castor and Pullox of the place. '"""rt0 eventful history' is, that Mr. , wLich are handsomely trained pyramids,
second place iu the Union. Tho actual ! Iu the corncr in t!'o dark", stood a solitary ! Knowles, having become an old man, but j coniprising about four hundred sorts,
enumeration of her people, however, dis-! kpg of i,lk; nnt grcat wa7 off. fl,ur reams stl" aD,m:,,Cl1 Wltli 11 the ftrvor oJ j In such an immense establishment, oar
polled this illusion, and brought with it I o( very SyUh blue paper, but then the j evincing all the talent of Lis early days, is reader8 wil, naturaiy s,lrp0se thcre mn,t
the mortifying fact that while Pennsylva- proprietor was "passing rich" at less than ! iVl,,"'g himself wholly and eiitirely aud be , great deal of C(,ufUSIon and much bad
torty pounds a year. It is publication BO u"v BUU HKUK""l3,J fc growth and bad cultivation. Rut the re-
day, and editor, pale apprentice, and dingy ! 10 Uic ovmtio and taDorious, nut uai
devil are in au active state of unrest. The hjwed work of an evangelist; and, as a
editor writes, and says "we," and "our ' preacher, theological writer, lecturer, and
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turn the mountains, wc were retire lu , eut.sj u .w , . nia obtain(,d 0De more mcmLer, Ohio had
scale them, and to do tLis in defiance of a ; intentionally, doing all that lies in her f jr ,be fiffl f;mc ;a hw h hecnme
federal policy that had, time and again, j power to secure that such shall be thc case ' The cause fif .Ms .
destroyed almost all thc men among us j in the shortest possible period. For years Ua mMe . tj
who had exerted themselves for the devel- past, the whole efforts of that State have ; . roaJs f . ,o f, h fc
onment of th" creat mineral resources of i been given to building up her one great t ' . , . . , and then the printer sets type, and then i
the State. The consequrnco of this was, city, at the cost of sacrificing all her other lanjs'of tlie West while diminishing the ! tUo P"hlisher looks over the "form," aud I rant wherever they may be found."
tbat at the date of thc last census.the only j interests. If the city desired to have a ! , ,',, ,n,i .u,r.tt t. then the pressman places it on tbe press. ' - - -
einirle line of railroad that crossed the State ' mint, the representatives of the State wil- , , . 1 i I and then "comes the tui? of war." Tt 5 THE FARM :
here was a space twenty feet square worth ; the meeting for publication, with descrip.
a valuable farm. i tion of the property and it advantages
Iu their grape house, tbey have ocr ten : over other places in different sections, alid
wth fo offered on favorable terms. The trustees
have no doubt acted for the best, and hav
ing before them all the data for a correct
decision, which the public as yet have not.
it is only fair to presume that the location
in Centre county under all the circuia
stauccs was thc most desirable.
We think tbe farmers in this section of
the State Lave very unwisely allowed thia
opportunity to slip by them. The very
liberal offer in our late number of $10K
verse is true in a striking degree. An ex-
was the one leading from Trenton to U il- ; lingly shut their eyes to the fact that the ! irjn or ghc coaeg ,ier furnaccilj aud witb pull and repeat, pull again and again re
mington, and all tbe remaining ones, j cotton antl woolen mills of the State were abund;in'ce f)f ,-uei t0 furnish stm ,0 Jrive ! peat, and tbe "inside" comes off, sheet af
exclusive of those within the coal region being closed. If thc city desired to have j milja acJ tius make a market fur hcr ter sheet, with the gravity of so many tle-
and intended as feeders for the Leading . large appropriations for steamships, the ; fjod and hcr woo) jh(, arpears jn Conres4 1 phants; tho candles get briefer and dim
railroad and Schuylkill aud 1 cnnsylvania representatives of the State were ready to : nj . ,,,..,, ,c , ,.., ,i,, .us t, I mi r, but the two hundred
canals, consisieu o. 'J i sacnuce uic interests o. .ue ..ou-p.ouuciog j ,t.n. on a (,!Sfant markct fr the sale
Columbia, Reading and Norristowr.. Sc- ; counties for the accomplishment of that , of her auJ Ler wLeat and fof iU
veral others had been partly constructed, gnat object. If the city desired to secure puri!Ua.e of tba clu,biDg for jier men, wo
but tbe companies bad failed, and the 1 for itself the Inkcrage of the products of mpn an1 cbildren) alld the iron with which
roads Sid been in a great degree abando- ' Canadian lands, the scnatoji of tLe State ; ,naj;e bcr rc,aj3
red. There, then, only five years since, j were ready to close their cfes to the fact j ,hc next'eensus, Ohio will, we think,
existed no single road by which men could . that the reciprocity treaty must greatly takc a . ;q tb(j e,cntation
... t tmnat u-itliir. fl... St:... : .linuni.h tho rfiltm nf till, lnnrta r.f V.nr. I . . ...
ttuu, y - tbaIl tbat sbc now occupies and if so. it
cellent system appears to pervade tbe j was not seconded, or met iu a proper spirit,
whole : and as many have remarked. thfT ! and till the nropressive spirit of the iimM
readers" he has two hundred and fifty . teacher, is on the alert, in every way, to are reraarkbly successful in all tbey nn- : requires the establishment of another Farm
reclaim tlie vicious and instruct the igno- j(.-,t frfini ,hA ,,. j,
plurts to their vast plantations of large j out many of the advantages which would
' , and thrifty fruit trees. Indeed there seems , have resulted from its location here. This,
to be a sort of maeio in all their atten rts . however, is eomnarativ. lv a small m-.ttr.i-
.TIC :ar'''""r1.!iC0r.ar! j Rt propagation, so rarely are there any j the main thing being to establish tha
Th Larct PJ.tr.Prw in thTvi. iT . i mJ tfce r!'ehf f, tnu-
' The reason of this remarkable success i
It has been some years since Rochester , . .... tUtmL,x. .xnerirnca and know-
c .
and when thc Judges of our Supreme Court j 1 ork, and must produce a heavy drain,
had to meet in this city, four out of five j both of population and of wealth, from
of them were obliged to go ou.-ide of the its interior counties. If the one great city
State, two of them coming here Ly way of builds palaces, the representatives of the
New York, and two by Ra'.tiiuoro. j S'atc find in tbat great fact abundant con-
.. .- -.t.i. . . i v r .1.. f :i l 1
in tne time mat dm s.nee ciapseu, now- ( soiat.ou . . u.mo o. .utaUU ...tages, : y()ui)g ha,f gjn ce
ever, mere uas conic a iota, cuange "over towus auu cu.e-s.
f
the spirit of our dream ;" aud, instead of , Asa Dccessary consequence of this course
being obliged to go tutside of the State ' of policy, the interior of tbe State is rap-
ourselves, all of our neighbors arc seeking idly declining in both wealth and popula-
to make their way through it. The Con- : tion, as is t-hown by the late census.
tral road has given us a line to the Ohio, IWhestcrand Albany, Troy and Lockport,
and made Pittsburg the center of a great j Auburn and Syracuse, but rccer.'iy so rap
! will afford strong evidence that the same
policy which has sent Yirgiuia from the
first place to the fifth, is now in full ope
: ration, not only iu regard to New York, an
1 old State, but also to Ohio, one yet so
but a single reprcscutive ou the floor of
Congress.
The Old Village Printing Office.
BY B. f. TAYLOR.
their ground.
The cost of conducting tLis establish
ment must of course be very great al
tLongh we have no definite information
But the old village had no "hotels ;"
network of roads, by which our State has . idly advancinc, have become stationary, or i only two houses of entertainment. Oue
been rendered one of the most important nearly so; aud as the causes that have pro-1 was "up street," and that was an inn;
channels of communication between tbe duced this state of tLinirs must operate '. So-and So's inn; the other was "down
East and We t. The R. adina line Las 1 fi. m year to vear with anrnienird force. ! street." and that was a ttaco Lous, th: now a day order, but very meek is Le in-; ration tf one of the
t-ccntxtcud'.-l . .V'.irii-j.V.'ilJiaasj -rt, il mar, wc thilik, fair'y be averted, that tag hftjv. b?rc, 3S:s a dsy, tbe yel i deed ; aud when tbe 'Squire ajeaks out ti whklt it; hr.e alluled,
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- j j fi,,;te nas oecomc tue uvaauuuticia tor nuiax.es . . 4, ...
ed and l.tiieth is 3 ..... ledge of the requisites fr every ope-
off at last, and they all, editor, publisher, ; 10 America. Iroiu only a lew acres in , . n fJccent foi rfduced t()
printer, and pressman, get into the same "icm, us iue, u.u . ..;
coat and beneath the same hat, and leave Jears ainc, tUo """"ics within ten miles
thc devil to fold up tho sapers and sweep ,,f tl,a ci,J n,,w covcrat lca3tuac thousand
out the office. " " densely planted acres.
Where then were your compound lev-1 The cost aud annual product cf tLcse
ers, your glittering cylinders, your faith-' nurscrita may be reckoned with some de
ful rollers, your panting furnaces, your Srcn- "C accuracy, by taking as the basis of
press, iustinct with life aud energy, tbat! calculation the estimates of several intelli-
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jarred on like a cnanot over whole high. p nursprjmcu u .pt- - this artiole, that they must amount to fifty
najs m nuuc ;i'ci iu au uuui : it uere : j
were thc busy "jours" and the editorial j 1 average from two to three hundred do!
corps Where the steamers and the i 1 irs the expenses varying from fifty to
railway trains and the telegraphs, panting, : seventy-five per cent, of this amount. It
and shrieking and flashing, to transmit ! would of course be greatly controlled by
that paper's contents to the world's dim, j the kind f f tries raised, the proportion of
cloudy ends? ornamentals, Ac, but still more by the
The morning comes, and the inky imp : judgment, energy, aud skill exercised by
of yesterday, indulges in a clean face; his j tbe manager for under the direction of
unkempt locks are out of snarl ; he is i some, the cost exceeds the profits, and the
transformed into a Mercury. Forth he ! Lutiuess consequently soon conies to an end.
goes, packages of papers beneath each
sun this inquiry, but to give to our readers
where in tbe State, so as to be open to pu
pils from every section.
The selection tf Cii.viu rs B. Tatco a
Principal of the School, we tLiuk has
the best condition by subsoiling and con- j been most fortunate. II at ing Lad larg
stunt tillage. A weed is a great rarity on 1 experience as a teacher, filled a prominent
position in our legislature, being a practi
cal farmer, author, and uf well acknow
ledged scientific reputation and ability, tho
warmest wishes of the early fiiends of tho
arm, in Lis capacity of carricr-boy. He
is none of your brisk, pert fellows, of the
on thc subject, wo should judge from tha , Farm School, we hope and believe, will
estimates mentioned in th early part of be realized.
We shall give thc earliest information
thousand annually. Their sales miv be i about the rpcningof the school, which wiil
estimated from thc same date, remember- ' proballv be ''ie coming spring f'arn
ing tbit none are more successful.and that Juiirnul f-r (A iJ-r.
probably no nursery is letter managed for
pecuniary success. 1 When nu ass is g.,inS to bray, he al-
There arc several other nurseries at "J S""1 l7 fifing Lis tail, and h
Rochester, of large size, which we were t extended Lor:jon;a!!y as long as
unable to visit-am one; which thosj of II. ! his song lasts. To msuro silence, tb.-rc-K.
Hooker A Co., Fkost & Co., add S. f 're, yu Lave only to tie a lar?e stone to
MoiTJKW, are widely celebrated, each 'he end of his tail, so tbat bo can col
iwnr;n;n wr litirA riCWD . tlfi ,rtnil rJ.SClf.
But it is not our present ol ject to pur- . , , n . n : . -
... ..... ' hundred acres ur nioro. Several t:.urnDce comr-aDies in New
the results of a few hours personal olscr- Since writing the foregoing, Kliwanger or '- UD
tstablishtnents to A Rarry have, at our request, furnuhed ve
-Lainclf, that uf . the Mlowing stat?ic:nt ?f tie nua.hr 'A. JJL'1 ul r"
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