Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-05-14

neiehbor patron OF rank, and superior
intelligence teaches them no lesson SO
quickly, as that their brethren of the
globe are unequal to them, are to be left
to their cattle and the goad.
There are English farmers indeed, who
are men in earnest, who read the papers,
and who keep the current of the years
intelligence, but such men are the excep-
tions. In New England, with the school
upon every third hill side, and the self
regulating, free-acting church, to watch
every valley with week day quiet, and to
wake every valley with Sabbath sound, the
men become, as a class, bold, intelligent,
and honest actors, who would make again,
as they have made before, terrible army
of defence and who would fnd reasons
for their actions as strong as their armies.
Franks grandfather has silver hair, bur
is still hale, erect, and strong. H,s Gress
is homcy, but neat. Being thorou gh
going Protectionist, he has no fancy for
the gewgaws Of foreign importation, and
makes it point to appear always in the
village church, and on all great occasions,
in sober suit Of homespun. He has no
pride of appearance, and he needs none.
He is known as Squire throughout
the township; and no important measure
can Pass the board of Sclcctmen without
the 'Squire's approval and this from no
blind subserviency to his opinion, because
his farm is large, and he is reckoned
"'forc- handed" but because there is a
confidence in his judgment.
( lie isjealous of none Of the prcrogatives
Of the country parson, or OF the school
master, or of the village doctor; and
although the latter is testy politician Of
the opposite party, it does not at all i'm
pair the 'Squire's faith in his calomel he
suffers all his Radicals p, with the same
equanimity that he suffers his rhubarb.
The day laborers Of the neighborhood
and the small farmers consider the 'Squire's
note Of hand for their savings, better than
the best bonds Of city origin and they
, seek his advice in all matters of litigation
! He is Justice Of the Peace, as the title
of Squire in a New England village
implies ; and many are the country court,
2 that we peep upon, with Frank, from the
I great dining-room.
, The defendant always seems to you, in
= these important Gases, especially if his
beard is rather long, an extraordinary
# ruffan, to whom Jack Sheppard would
. have been comparatively innocent boy.
D You watch curiously the old gentleman,
sitting in his big arm chair, with his
q spectacles in their silver case at his elbow,
4 and his snuff-box in hand, listening atten
lively to some grevious complaint You
r sec him ponder deeply-with pinch Of
: snuff to aid his judgment-and you
=. listen with intense admiration, as he gives
loud preparatory "ahem,' and clear.
away the intricacies of the case with 8
sweep of that strong practical sense which
distinguishes the New England farmer
getting at the very hinge Of the matter,
without any consciousness of his own pre-.
cision, and satisfying the defendant by the
clearness of his talk, as much as by tn.
leniency of his Judgment.
His lands lie along those swelling hill:
which in southern New England, carry
the chain of the White and Green noun
tains, in gentle undulations, to the border:
of the sea- He farms some fifteen hundred
acres-'suitably divided as the ole
school agriculturists sly. into woodland
pasture, and tillage" The farm bouse,
large, irreguiarly built mansion of wood
stands upon shelf If the hills Iookln:
southward, ana is shaded by century oil,
oaks. The barns and ou..-bulldings ar
grouped in d brown phalanx, little {
the nofthward Of the dwelling. Betwecl
them high timber gate opens upon ib'
scattered pasture lands Of the hilla; oppo
site to this, and across the farm yard
which is the lounsing place Of scores o
red-necked turkeys, and of ma'roniy hens
lie clucking to their callow brood, ano'he
ID swinging gate of similar dimensions open
70 upon the wide meadow land, which rot,
of with heavy ground swell" along til
re valley of a mountain river. A vetera
of oak stands sentinel at the brown meadow
to gate, its trunk all SCARED with the ruthles
al cuts Of new ground axes, and the limb
r. grnished in summer time with th
ey crooked suaths Of murderous lookin
of sc,thes The road passe, n stones 'hro'
w awav, but there i, little "rrave' to be seer
,ir and every chance passer will 'nevnabl
in come under the range Of The kltche
,e; windows. and be studied carefully by VI
le .fnur DAIRY maid TO sHV nothing Ot III