New-York daily tribune., 1853-12-28
ANOTHER MODEL TOWN.

IT, ne Editor Of TAsK. y Tribune.
SIR: This morning as was looking the columns
Of pepar have been wont TO do for years letter
nom one Cf your correspondents styling Oxford the Naz
areth of Chenang6 County reminded me OF the old adage
that good fruit tree s known by the clubs IN and about
it. And TO show you how well we deserve that appena,
ton allow to give you little Of IFS past history and
present prospects The village lies upon the banks OF the
beautiful Chenongo which winds its way through one OF
the richest and mosi charming valleys in the Empire State
Tie pure and sparkling waters from the surrounding hills
and play at almost every door There is scarcely
house upon which the painter brush has not done its
duty and the trees shrubs and flowers about beSpeak the
tasie of those within Our walks mostly laid with
stone, many Of which, Brosd6ay, might not be
ashamed We have six churches the Oldest Of which Is TO
give place in the spring and tasteful one, at an
expense Of $500 Two District schools where, under
their different able teachers between two and three hun
dred pupils commencing their education, which viii be
continued in spacious Academy. We not without
the lash Of the rolling water wheel the smoke from
tall chimneys Of the manufactures Within the present
season LemuehBolles Co have established factory in
which made probably the best hoe and chsel II this
country The produce of this valley is borne TO market
On the Chenango Canal and Of citizens did more
than any other 10 secure its constructions and among
the many responsible offices that he has ably filed Is the
second in the State With an unblemshed character at
home and abroad he has numbered his three and
ten years and il is the wish Of ell who know him that he
may long be paredto honor and bless the home OF bus
choice.
The engineers were here yesterday, looking out ths
route for the Utica and Binghamton Railroad, and there
i fair prospect that this work will be constructed at an
n Ecwn has been settled little over fifty years and
among s first citizens were number of highly educated
and gifted men, and the place has received the impress Of
then character The first frame building erected
Academy and now the fourth which is to e very large
and beautiful being constructed in which will be Al the
Improvements OF the present day AZ the opening Of the
new Academy building viii be opened boarding house
for Young ladies and another for young gentlemen under
the immediate supervision of the Principal, Merit G..
MCCoon who formerly for many years at the head Of
this institution and is widely known as uncommonly
successful teacher. Within the walls Of these different
buildings the youth of the place have early mbbei love
of learning. Our present Governor was formerly pupil
here and probably there is town in the STATE of the
size thai largely represented among teachers in the
pulpit at the bar in the Senate at foreign Courts ths
Nazareth Of ChenaDgO Co. And that Mr Riddle 81 which
our nehbor in Preston is proud, be, too. with his
brother and sisters, edudated here.
OF tEose gentlemen who have done much FOX their
place and their generation some OF them are not others
with yet though their locks syered and
their s-rhss become unsteady still trust that they
may tGry yet many DAYS and enjoy the abundance or
their rich harvest Their woqhy of their sres
We have alWaye had men who a. the bar and
30 II is now, and from their nnber We could select one,
whose talents energy generosity end integrity Of char
scter alone would DO much toward redeeming q
Iioce ihsn this Our principal business are
upright, moral. chuEch going, sabbath kepng men,
Neither they wholly asleep to reforms OF the day
Last sammer in two hours, they obtained fifty subscriber
10 the Cayuga Chief ard az the fall election, they gave
over forty ms0rty for r. L. Baldwin, Maine Law VIII z.
although the town Is strongly Dgmocrsc and for this
resgt we largely indebted 70 you. Your paper eKer
in this vicinity vastly iufuence than any other,
slhOuG thing for citizens 20 be subscribers
fer tnd fadtrs TOO Of six, eight ten and even twelve
papers asd periodicals.. We reading. thinking.
sober minded people and being ile given % fashion
fsudy dil lay sometimes not TO be appreciated
Or, il IA tIuh, what nei-hbOr ssys ID IN are
The 0Ler cRttrs IN Chclango County blessed above the
.nHen oi oi msn a9d my they lous retain their ens
ale I,sion i,ms respectfully, CLARA
osfofd pse. 20 IL,