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Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-05-28
Elk. Gov. Briggs-John Q. Adams.

IA friend has sent us late Address Of
Gov. Briggs, delivered at Providence, from
which We clip the following, on the sub
ject of ''Fcmalc Influence" 1t is pleas
ing incident, and pleasantly told.1
alt is delightful to me always to meet,
on such occasions as this, so many females
Wherever women go, you may look fol
something good ; to whatever they give
their countenance and support, you may
depend upon itthat success is to be looked
for. Whenever they give their support
to institutions of this kind, by coming out
and listening to lectures, by giving their
aid, their support, their example, and their
presence, it augurs favorably for the cause.
Now let me tell you, my female friends,
that you have greater part to perform, in
this business of educating children, than
anybody else. I remember twelve or fif-
teen years ago, left Washington three or
four weeks, during the Spring; while at
home, !, for the first time, possessed my
self of the letters of Mr.. Adams mother,
and read them with exceeding interest. l
remember an expression in one of the let
tcrs, addressed to Aer son, while yet a
boy of twelve years old, in Europe; says
she-M would rather see you laid in your
grave, than that you should grow up a
profane and graccless boy" After 1 re-
turned to Washington I went over to Mr..
Adams seat, one day, and said I-"Mr
Adams, have found out who made you"
'What do you mean |" said he. said,
81 have been reading the letters of your
mother!" lfI had named that dear name
to some little boy, who had been for many
weeks away from his dear mother, his
eye would not have flashed more brightly,
or his face glowed more quickly, than the
eye and face of that venerable old m an
when pronounced the name of his moth
er. He started up, in his peculiar manner,
and cmpha.icaily said-"Yes! Mr.. Briggs,
all that is good in INC I owe to my mother"
0, what testimony was that, from this
venerable man, to his mother, who had in
his remembrance all the scenes of his
manhood ! "All that is good in ME l owe
to my mothcrv Mother think of this
when your bright eyed little boy is about
you! Mothers make the first impression
upon the minds of their children, and those
will be the last to be cfaccd."
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Choice of a Business

One Of the greatest difficulties young
man encounters in his "tecns," (and some
times the matter is postponed to later
period, is the selection Of business for
himself Few persons but have natural
bias for some particular kind Of occupation,
and tho we would be far from counseling
that a young man or boy should, in all
cases, be allowed to pursue the bent Of
his own inclinations, or suffered to please
himself only in the choice Of his occupa-
ton, still there is often much wisdom in
parents studying the disposition Of their
children, and thereby being able, if expe-
dicnt, to second rather than oppose the
"turu" Of their minds,
The chief difficulties with parents, of.
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Volume VII, Number 9.
Whole Number---373.


to the pecuniary losses to individuals, and
of course to the country at large, romdis-
eases and mortality among other domestic
animals, attributable to causes generally
overlooked, and in most instances readily
removable, through the adoption of prop
or means to secure ventilation, drainage
and cleanliness.
As one actual occurrence will go farther
than fifty unbacked assertions to establish
any important fact, We will refer to case
which we find in the last edition { (l85 j. Of
the '.Farmers& Planters Encyclopedias"
1t is there stated under the head Of Venti-
htion-a a long and deeply interesting
a ticle-that farmer had a large number
of sheep housed to feed on Mango! Wurt-
zeil, great number Of them s;ckened and
died, killed as he supposed by the food
supplied to them. A veterinary surgeon
who was consulted, and who happened to
be well informed upon the subjects of the
benefits of ventilation, pointed out the
remedy better circulation of fresh air
among the over-crowded sheep fold, after
the adoption of which there were no more
deaths, and the sheep throye well.
One of the greatest safeguards against
the generation of noxious airs from putre-
fication, is dryness. For, without the
presence of certain degree Of moisture,
no decomposition can take place. Sufh-
cient dryness can generally be secured by
additions of straw and litter from time to
time. Dryness about the manure heaps
may, by some, be thought to prevent that
proper stage of decomposition necessary to
bring it into the bes. state to exert its fer
tilizing action. This, is topic which may
perhaps be taken up separately on some
other occasion. Meanwhile, we recommend
as an essential point for the preserva-
tion of health, especially in the latter part
of summer and in autumn, the most per-
feet removal of all stagnant ponds Of water
from the vicinity Of places where horses or
any kind Of farm stock are accustomed to
be kept
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-05-28

/ tentlmeS Is prlue. lney iOTSet W ihcasur'
their Importance in the community by tho
humble beginnings, and the years Of Labor
and economy, by which it has been secur
ed. They desire still higher advancement
for their children, but unfortunately ne
glect to school them in the principle Of
industry and application, the only sure
means to attain that object. The son, per
haps, inherits all the business qualities OF
his father, and would make an excellent
salesman or first rate mechanic, but a
very poor doctor or an ordinary lawyer.
Hence, by his education for the latter, he
loses the chances Of both, and becomes
good for nothing in either situation. We
are glad, however, to perceive that grad
ual though decided change is working in
this false pride of American parents. And
it is to be hoped that in few years our
country will be highly distinguished for
the superior excellence of its mechanics,
and the enterprising character of its bu-
siness men, as it is now remarkable for the
great number Of professional young men
with which it is over-fooded.
Another difficulty lies with the young
men themselves. Among the many mis-
taken notions they entertain, none is more
common than an exaggerated estimate of
their own abilities. A young man ima-
gines himself an orator, and straightway
betakes himself to the ministry or law
He is ashamed of an humble though hon
est occupation-he aims at something more
honorable. Alas ! how many valuable
life has either been entirely lost or shame
fully perverted by that same word honor i!
This self-esteem is laudable enough in its
place, but when it leads its possessors into
extravagant notions of themselves and an
inferior opinion of others, it becomes in
tolerable. Young men are apt to view their
elders and themselves with just such a
istortion-trades and business for their
fathers-professions for themselves. We
would by no means be understood as un-
derrating the learned professions. Far
from it !; no one holds them in higher esti-
nation. But we would have every young
man choose an occupation suited to his na-
tural taste and abilities, and not according
to the foolish notion that trade is disre-
putable, or that the mere distinction of
professional title makes the man better or
more worthy Of respect The mechanic
and the lawyer or the doctor stand on the
same broad platform in this country, and
the one may render himself as worthy of
respect and eminence as the othsr. Our
government is no respecter Of persons.
Miners jour.
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Replanting.

Mr.. FREAs: Permit me to urge upon
my brother farmers the propriety of filing
up or replanting those spaces in their
eorn6eld, and other plantations, which
have been left vacant by the destruction
of the original planting. For this purpose
| often have recourse to potatoes, beets,
cabbages, and turnips; all of which grow
well, and make good crop, if put in pro-
perly and in season. 1t is often the case
that gr,at injury is effected in the
cornfeld by the ravages of the cut-worm !;
and whenever this is experienced, the far
mer should at once introduce some plant
which will most readily supply the place.
As the soil of cornields is generally we'll
prepared and rich, there is no danger of
most vegetables falling when introduced
into vacant spots. Potatoes are commonly
resorted to for this purpose, though I think
them less profitable than turnips. Beans
answer well, especially the later varieties,
and so do English turnips. These make
Il fne winter feed for sheep, and are of
value if fed off i'll the fail. Large crops of
these turnips are often raised even in fields
where the corn had not been seriously in
jured by the worm. If sowed in June or
July, just before rain, they will come
rapidly, and as they grow late-long after
the harvesting of the corn has been effect
cd-they generally have time enough, and
though they may not be altogether SO
large as those produced in open fields, and
by themselves, they will nevertheless be
sound, and of excellent quality and favor.
A late writer asserts that he has known
one hundred and fifty bushels of sound
turnips, fit for marketing, raised from
one acre in this manner, and where the
hills of corn were all occupied by corn
plants, and these of robust size. Eighty
bushels l think the largest yield l ever
knew under such circumstances. Now
supposing this to be the maximum prod
uction, and allowing the turnips to be
worth one shilling bushcl for sheep
which am confident is q moderate estim-
ate-wc have crop, worth thirteen dol
lars and triac over, almost gratis. The
cost of the seed and the sowing will not
exceed three shillings, if a proper time is
selected; and as to harvesting the cost is
indeed mere triae. The tops, if fed to
the milch cows, will more than pay this.
Equally, or nearly equally profitable re-
suits attend the the planting of rutabsgas,
eabbages, and Swcdes. Every inch Of pre-
pared soil should produce something Of
value. A PRAcTIcAL FARME2
Bald Eagle Farm, April %, 1851.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-05-28
A Belle of 0lden Times,

The following picture of a belle in New
York, in 1850, is copied from new novel
entitled "The Young PATRON :"
Look now through the doorway whic h
partly reveals the mysteries of half acre
kitchen, and tell me what you see. I do
not want to know about the mountain of
freshly fried cookies on the hearth, or the
long row of pale and unbaked mince pies
on the dresser, or the depth of that Shad-
rach-looking oven, glowing with uncom-
mon heat for reception, but rather-ah,
yes, see her now-crimping with white
fingers the edge of the 42d pie, and turn
ing around with face bewitching in its
unconscious beauty, to give laughing
word to little brother on the floor. That
round snowy arm, upraised in playful me-
mace, those soft blue eyes, those glittering
teeth revealed by "chirrups," and that
brown glossy hair, scarcely kept by force
from curling, are part and parcel of sweet
little Jessia Van Corlear. The golden
beams Of the wintry sun, streaming thro'
the window, are bathing her beautiful
form in light and casting her moving
shadows on the floor, thrice strange and
wondrous to the little learned there. But
Jessie has another sunlight emanating
from within, the perpetual product of a
joyous and innocent heart, gliding and
permeating all things with his beams
She made for happy thoughts
For playful wit and laughter,
Singing on the hill alone,
And echo singing AFTER
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-05-28
Sabbath Evening at Home.


When Sabbath bells have ceased their sound,
And the hours OF day are passed.
And twilight draws its curtain round,
And shadows gather fast
There is one spot, and one alone,
Round which our hearts most cling,
And fondest memories. one by one,
Their choicest treasures bring.
That spot is HOME: its sacred walls
Admit 10 discord then:
Nor crowded marts. nor festive halls,
Nor gaycst hauDts Of men,
Can know a joy 50 sweet and pure
None such 10 them is given;
Might joys like these for aye endure,
This earth were quite heaven.
I've wandered far 'mong other bowers
Than those my childhnOl knew.
With hope Of gathering lairer flowers
Than in those gardens grew:
Yet in the cold worlds earnest thronSS-
Mid its din AMI stormy s,rife-
Affection turns to scenes and songs
OF my young, joyous life.
Homes well-loved grouT-its Sabbath song,
Its tones I seem 10 Lear;
Though borne tedious way along,
They come distinct and clear.
O. Sabbath night, o, treasured bone.
Fond pride Of Mcmory's tTiin--
Bright thoughts Of We. whcrcer roam,
shall bring my youth again.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-05-28
The Return of Spring.

Dear as the dove whose waiting wing
The green leaf ransomcd from the main,
Thy genial glow, returning spring
Comes to Our shores again
For thou hast been wandercr long,
On many fair and foreign strand,
In balm and beauty. sun and song,
Passing from land To land.
Thou brfng'st the blossom to the bee,
10 earth role Of emerald dye,
The leuict to the naked tree,
And rainbow in the sky.
] feel thy bicst, benign control,
The pulses Of my youth restore:
Opeuing the spring Of sense and soul
To love and JOY once more.
will not people thy green bowers,
With sorrows $ pale and spectre hand,
Or blend with time the faded flowers
OF mcmory's distant land;
For thou vert surely never given
To bring regret fiom pleasures gone,
But like an angel sent from heaven
To soOthe creations grOan.
Then, while the groves thy gafiands twine,
Thy spirit breathes in flower and tree,
Nv heart shall kindle at thy shrine,
And wors hip God in thee;
Aud in some calm. sequestcred spot.
While listening TO thy choral strain,
Past l:riefs shall he while forgot,
Aud pleasure bloom again.
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Il is said there is not one resident white
man in the Republic Of Liberia. They are
a we'll governed and prosperous people ;
and ys:. some christian republicans say
that tns v'asAS arc Nv. ... ....,
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iOc hn0 OIL orr Gable---

From John s. Taylor, 120, Nassau St,
New York:
Letters from the Bacwoos and the Airondar in New
- cents.
Rattes # the W. ldensc and Life If Paul Jorcf,
engravings. BY the same author. % cts
From the Am. Bapt. Publication Socie-
tv, us Arch St. Philad'a.
The Serpent Uncoilcl or full length Picture Of Uni
yersaiisT. By Western Layulan.' 20 cents
Rev s Remington's "Eeasons for being Baptist
G.c,s.
No. l. of Scripture Series, for the Sal tn School" by
Teacher. "a cts.
From Raymond NJ. Wells, Athens, Pa.
Annual Catalogue containing Engravings DcscrT-
tions Prices of ricul;urs Machinery Farming In
pcmens &c. manufactured at the Albany Agricultural
WORKS. and for sale at Athens, Bradford Co, Pa
Such an establishment is desirable in
Pennsylvania, with a depository in each
county.
minutes General nfcrence o the Christian Church
held at Marion, n Y, Oct leJO j. L. LeeZe BOOK Ast-
O., y. % St, Phiiad.
We learn from this publication that that
denomination have resolved to found " An
tioch College," when $4,000 are obtain
ed, but to raise one s100, 900 for it in all.
We are told it will probably be located in
the State of Ohio.
A gentleman in town has favored US
with copy of the celebrated London
Punch" but We find little in it which Will
amuse readers born and bred this side of
the "salt pond"
Messrs. Tails & Co.'S agent for "Jose-
phus,' the "History of England" &c, Is
prompt in the delivery of that work.
The Sullivan County Democrat" by
Meylert & Forster, has made its appearance,
on a large sheet with new type, and in its
execution and editorial ability would do
honor to some larger ounties.-From the
same quarter, we have aquantity of Amer
lean Sugar, as good as any imported.
With her lumber, coal, iron, &c, Sullivan
is bound to 90 ahead, provided she gets
that plank road an able article respecting
which we placed on our first page, Qast
week.
We are honored with Mammoth Hum
bug Pictorial Brother Jonathan for 1881,
with a very laudatory puff, printed, at
taehed to it, and which We find some of
our Typo friends have copied. 1t is long
time since we have considered these enor-
nous wood-cuts worth recommendation,
especially as their letter press, and the ad-
vertisements which they are intended to
publish in this way at the cost of purchas-
ers, are of very questionable tendency
"Mother Goose" Or the "House that Jack
lult," are much better presents for chill
dren ; and for grown people, some of the
Magazines are far preferable.
"The National Monument" is a new
quarto, issued by j. c. Picket, Washing
ton City, at 81 per year. The profits Of
the work are all to 60 towards the compile
ton of the National Monument at Wash
ington, and every subscribers name to be
recorded in connection with ii. 1t is a
good National journal.
The Magazines for this month-al-
though all protesting vast superiority to
all prior and all cotemporary issues-are
really less interesting than common Cen
tlemen and lady contributors !. are you dull,
or are your readers all dull, that they think
You need wakening?
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-05-28

B-The farmers say that they have de-
monstrated beyond cavil, that larger
quantity of white corn is grown to an
acre than yellow. The price Of white corn
in foreign markets is higher than yellow at
the present time.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-05-28

SS-The first paper printed west of the
Alleghenics, still exists-the Pttsbury
Gazette-established in 17S6, by Edward
Scull. The widow Of Mr.. Scull still lives,
and reads the paper her husband started
sixty-fve years ago; and her grandson,
Edward Scull with James Oglc has recently
started the " Scmetsct [Pa.l Whig"
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-05-28
s@~ The late session of our Legislature
.losed the terms of service of eleven State

closed the terms of service Of eleven Stat
Senators, as follows:
Dis. l. William A. Crabb, Wing.
3 Peleg B. Savery, Whig.
T. H. Jones Brooke, Whig.
I. Joseph Konigmacher, Wing.
" Daniel Slime, Wing.
A. Robert NJ. Frick, Wing.
16. J. j. Cunningham, Wing.
81. Isaac Hugus, Dem.
% Maxwell MCaslin, Dem.
2s George V. Lawrence, Wing.
%. Timothy Ives, Dem.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-05-28

There is exhibiting in Boston an elegant
saddle. the closh par; Of which was most
superbly worked with beads by . youu.
Indian girl only fifteen years Of age. I, -
intended for the Worlds Fair.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-05-28
pa.T The annexed paragraph contains ar

s@YThe annexed paragraph contains an
important truth. We give it as We find it,
without any knowledge of the author:
'Intermission from labor and duty is
only allowed as relaxation, preparation
for renewed exertion. When extended
beyond this legitimate purpose it is idle
ness. We should all practise upon the
principle of Arnauld, bishop Of Angers,
who being importuned to lose a day for
pleasure, at time when he stood in no
need of recreation, said, Il will willingly
do it, if you can find day in which l am
not bishop.'"-
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-05-28

Gold is an idol worshiped everywhere
without temple, and by all classes with
out ono bypocrile.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-05-28

REGULATION AT TREvORToN-We
learn that the company at Trevorton, Nor
thumberland Co, allow no liquor to be
sold at the stores about their works, and
discharge any man in their employ who is
found drunk. The Hotels sell liquor, but
close their bars on the Sabbath The con-
sequence is, good order prevails, and the
effects are beneficial in more than pecu-
mary sense, to both employers and Ia
borers. Efforts of this character have done
and are doing much to advance the cause
Of Temperance and Human Happiness.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-05-28

RVThe "Western Star" of Milwaukee
(Oregon,) has begun to shine forth will
the motto
"Far as the breeze can bear the blIovs foam
Survey our empire and behold our bome'
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-05-28

s11Thc number of packages received
at the Chrystal Palace, Hyde Park, up to
the 10Th ult., was as follows: From
France 267S United States SG3
Prussia 1913 Austria 5Gf
Belgium 923 India AS
Canada 343, Prussia $50, China and Spain
each 226, Holland 225, Tunis 2O2, Swift
zerland l45, Saxony l42 W urtemburg 1873,
Hamburg ll3, Portugal 105-and other
countries make up total of 9,595.
England, France, Prussia and Belgium
outrank.the United States in the nuuJey
Of articles then prepared for exhibition, and
Americans writing subsequently agree that
our nation is behind several others in the
display thus far. Should the close of the
Fair make our infcriority ''fxed f.ct," it
will have two good effects-frst, to render
a merited rcbuke to that sanctimonious and
disgusting national braggadocia, which to
well-bred foreigners is So universally appa-
rent; and, second, to stimulate all our ad-
mittcd skill and energy, to surpass the Old
World, at the succeeding Worlds Fair, to
be held on cur own shores. If We are not
the greatest, richest, most skilful and most
polished people under the sun, a knowledge
of the fact may harm nothing except our
national vanity and puffed-up ignorance.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-05-28

BYRON ON EDIToRs.-" With all my
follics, l never was guilty of stopping his
paper, or preventing the payment of an
editors bill, because the editor happened
to displease me-" Byron was MT quite
bad enough for that.