Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-07-23


! The good ones. after every action, closes
iii- volume and ascrnis with it To God;
The other keeps bis dreadful jaybook open
TIL sunset, that may repent which doing,
The record of the action fades awuy,
And leaves line Of white across the page"
MISERY IN IRELAND The Galway
papers, says the London Times, are full of
most deplorable accounts of wholesale
evictions, or rather determinations, in that
miserable country. The tenantry are
turned out of the cottages by scores at i
time. As many as 203 men, women and
children, have been driven upon the roads
and bitches by way of one days work, and
have now no Resource but to beg their
bread in desolate places, or to bury their
grlefs, in many instances for ever, within
the walls of the union workhouse. Land
agents direct the operation. The work is
done by large force of police and SOL
dlery. Under the protection of the latter,
"the Crowbar Brigade" advances to the
township, takes possession Of the houses,
such as they are, and, with few turns Of
the crowbar, few pulls at rope, brings
down the roof, and leaves nothing but
tottcring chimney, if even that. The sun
that rose on 4 village sets on desert; the
police return to their barracks, and the
people are nowhere to be found, or are
vainly watching from some friendly covert
for the chance Of crouching once more
under their ruined homes. What to the
Irish heart is more painful than even the
large amount and stern method of destruc-
tIon,i that the authors this time are Saxon
strangers. 1t Is wealthy London company
that Is invading the quiet retreats of Con-
ncmara, and robbing primitive peasautry
Of Its last hold on the earth. The Law
Life ssurance Company having advanced
we believe G240,0UO, on the Martin es-
tates, has now become the purchaser under
the Encumbered Estates Act, and is adopt
ing these summary but usual measures to
secure the forfeited pledge. That gentle
men, many Of wLom have never set foot
IN Ireland, and who are wealthy enough
to lend !. quarter of million of moner.
should exact the last penny FROM a
wretchea peasantry who had no hand or
voice IN the transaction which gave them
new masters, seems utterly iutolcrable to
the native Irish reason. All money!
lenders are hated except when tEey are
wanted, and the relative, or rather the
utter dlsproportion, between the exacter
and his victims, in this instance, Raises
these deeds to climax of atroeity.
GRACE GREENWOOD, who sailed il the
Atlantic for Liverpool, with Madame j en-
ny Lind Goidsmidt and husband, writes
thus Of the Swedish Nightingale, in let
ter to the g National Era -
" For the first few days of our voyage.
she seemed slngu!arly shy and reserved
| have seen her sit hour after hour by her
self, III some uufrequented part Of the yes
sci, lOokln. out over the sea. often Won
dercd If her thoughts were then busy with
the memories of her glorious career-if
she were living over her pas. triumphs,
the countless times when the cold quiet OF
the highest heaven Of fashion broke into
thundcrs Of acclamation above her, and
came down in rain of flowers at her feet
Was 1t of those perishable wreaths, placed
on her brow amid the glare and tumult of
the great world, she mused--or of that la
ter crowning OF her womauhood when soft
IL and silently her brow received from
Gods own hand the chrism of u holy and
enduring love? Was it the happy, loving
wife, or the great world-renow artist.,
who dreamed there alone, looking out over
the sea-"
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