Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-08-27
Genius at a Discount,

Dropping in upon a friend yesterday
morning, our attention was attracted by
pile of hand-bills lying upon his table
sorgeously displayed i'll large type anu
small type, with "pioturs tue match,' the
purport of which were to notify our citi-
zens that an agent was in town from whom
they could procure in due time " ,corL;s o,
tatense interest," containing exciting rev,
Citations Of city life" horrible murders" /"
the I" vieissitrles and hardships of prof
lisate lite,' and wound up by saying that
the several works are " elegantly illustra-
ted with splendid engravings," all for the
low price Of II! cents.
The parties so highly favored as to re-
ceiyc copy of the circular, were particu-
larly requested, in note at the bottom, to
preserve the same until called for =; and, III
order that they might the better under
stand how very Important it was for them
to be at home if they intended to secure
copies of these highly valuable publica-
tons, without which no family library can
be complete-are modestly informed, that
" tie agent ,eW call JHt O,,ee" As Is the
above were not enough to secure purcha-
sers, we are unblushingly told that the
work is by the author of Washington
and his Generals" Legends of Mexico"
"Jesus and the Poor" Sc.
Since the introduction and sale in this
country of the works of Eugene Sue and
Paul De Kock, we have been ovcrrun by
a species of domestic manufacture similar
in its character, only the more pernieious
because the field Of circulation has been
almost without limit, and like the swarms
of locusts that visited the Egyptians, net
4 house has escaped the scourge.
Of the blessings Of literature and the
benign influences of the press, oceans of
ink have been expended in heralding, and
VIC think the time has arrived, when We
may begin to say something about the
curses it inflicts, by scattering throughout
our borders-undcr the guise of "awful
disclosures" " thrilling adventures" and
every variety Of "myste-ies'-a moral
plague as certainly destructive to the bet
ter and nobler part of man, as the so-called
physical inlliction, with which the human
race is sometimes visited.
If the cholera, or any other equally de-
;tructivc malady, was at our doors, our
ears would be greeted with daily proclaim
ltions, from the Sanativc Committee, to
cleanse and purify but if a moral evil is
10 be met and overcome, the proneness is
,ather to court the calamity than to destroy
t.
If VIC are to be inflicted by this unoea-
sing food of moral palsy, widening, and
and Strengthening as it goes,
poured out upon us through the agency of
he city press, and sanctifcd by the name
If the Author of Washington and his
(not Headley,) it becomes the
.ountry press to use its influence against
t, and, for one, we shall ever esteem it a
,art Of cur duty to caution this eommuni-
y, as we'll as every other, where. our voice
nay be heard, against its influences, under
shatsoevcr disguise it may come:
And in all kindness We would council
his AMI all similaragents, TO SO far reduce
he number of their calls IS may be neces-
ary to omit them altogether Wzkes-
Barrc Telegraph.
The !Soathera Press, the great radical
lavery joalual, even unto the dissolution
f the Union, in The following expresses
sentiment both humane and considcrate
rhich even the faint nt-hearted conservative
oarnals would not dare venture. 1t is in
,yor of prohibiting by law the separation
f slave families. Although the argu-
rents advanced to support the recommen
alton are cold aud calculating in charac-
If, all who have observed the workings of