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Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-04-29
Blind Robert.

One day met little boy in the street,
who was going along very slowly, feeling
his way by the houses and the fences; and
L knew that he was blind. If he had had
eyes to see with, he would have been run
ming and Jumping about, or driving hoop,
or tossing ball, like the other boys in the
street. l pitied him. 1t seemed so hard
for the little fellow to 60 about in the dark
all the time, never to see the sun, or any
Of the pretty things in the world-ncver
to see even the faces of parents and
brothers and sisters. So l stopped to talk
with him. He told me that his name was
Robert that his father was sick at home,
and that his mother had to take in wash
Ing, and work very hard to get living.
All the other children had some kind of
work to do but as he could not see to
work, he was sent after clothes for his
mother to wash! l asked him if be did
not feel bad because he was blind. He
looked very thoughtful and solemn for a
moment, and then he smiled-smi!ed Just
as think the angels smile in heaven, and
said, Sometimes 1 think it hard to creep
about so. Sometimes l want to look at
the bright sun that warns me-and at the
sweet birds that sing for me-and at the
flowers that feel so soft when touch them
But God made me blind, and l know that
it is best for me and l am so glad that he
did not make deaf and dumb, too. l am
SO glad that he gave me good mother,
and Sunday school to go to, instead of
making me one of the heathen children,
that pray to snakes and idols"
But Robert, if you could see, you
could help your mother more" ! said
this without thinking, and was sorry as
soon as l said it, for the little boys smile
went right away, and tears filed bis blind
eyes, and ran down his pale cheeks.
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RECOGNITION OF LIBERIA.-The New
York Courier complains Of the refusal Of
the United States to recognize the inde.
peneence of Liberia, and says, FIVE mon
aachies have now recognised the iadepen-
dence Of Liberia, and our own Republic
still refuses. Great Britain, France, Prus-
sia, Brazil, and as We are informed by the
late Nonroyian advices, Belgium, have
successively admitted the young African
commonwealth into the family of nations;
while the United States, which ought to
have peculiar regard for her honor and in
terests, persists in denying her claims and
treating her with cold neglect. This IS
not matter of philanthropic interest alone;
it is one of practical commercial import
ance. The continuance Of the present
policy of our Government towards Liberia
will soon begin to tell most mischievously
upon all our business relations with West.
ern Africa
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-04-29
A New System 6f TIedicine.

TThe Carlisle Democrat reports the fol
lcwing case, tried at the last Cumberland
Quarter Sessions ::
Commonwealth u.s. DIR. Waggoner-This
was very amusing case, the Doctor being
Indicted for obtaining money under false
pretenses, by the following "cute" strata
gem in the healing art, played of upon
his patient. He told his patient, who was
a consumptive, evidently pretty far gone,
that he could, by invoking the assistance
Of the Holy Spirit and three private inter-
views, cure him, or he (the DOCTOR would
have no share with God, which the patient
was credulous enough to believe, and gran
ted the doctor the first interview, where
upon the doctor asked for black thread,
measured the sick mans arm and side, then
requested some salt and bread and small
piece of the gentleman's old shirt tail,
which were all produced, when the doctor
in manner very sanetimonious, or to use
the expression made use of by the old
dutch witness, in the way which st. Paul
US would have done had he been upon
earth, stitched the penacea in the waist
band of the mans breeches, and told him
now to produce every cent of money be
had in the world, which modest request
was also complied with, the doctor dolib-
erately selecting first two dollar note,
then five, telling his patient that FIVE
dollar note was better than two, aud
then selected two gold dollars and some
silver, amounting in all to twelve dollars
and twenty-five cents, asking bis very du-
tiful patient to make choice between these
two propositions, "to continue in bad,
health, or wish the selected money to pass
out of his sight' Health was of course
wished for, and the doctor pocketed the
dust to get it out of the mans sight; and
to do this more efectually he thought it
advisable to leave for parts unknown. This
arrant old william escaped upon legal
grounds. The Court telling the jury in
their charge that the offence as laid and
proved did not come within the Act of
Assembly, and that in this land Of liberty
a man had perfect right to make choice
of any one of the various systems of med;-
cine now practised, and that if he was
gullible enough to adopt the salt, bread,
and shirt tail system, he ought to pay for
it. The jury brought in verdict of not
guilty and defendant to pay the cost Of .
prosecution.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-04-29

MAzEpPA.-Voltaire, in bis history Of
Charles XII, says =" Mazeppa was .
Polish nobleman, born in the Palatinate
'of Podolia. He was educated as q page
TO jean Casimer, at whose court he ae-
quired some knowledge of the Bellies Let
tres. An intrigue which he had with the
wife of a Polish Palatine having been dis
covered, the husband had him tied naked
on a wild horse, which was then let loose.
The horse, who came from Ukraine, went
back thither, carrying with him Mazeppa,
half dead from hunger and fatigue. Some
peasants took care Of him he remained
with them long time, and distinguished
himself in several excursions against the
Tartars. His superior information made
him highly respected amongst the Cos
sacks; and his fame which was daily in
ereasing, induced the Gar to create him
a Prince Of the Ukraine"
Such is the historical fact which fur.
nished Lord Byron with the subject Of his
poem, with this title.
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From the National Era
Washington's Character ana influence
ROME, Feb. %, 1858.

ROME, Feb. %, 1858.
Never, in my own country, do | remem
Der to have felt such emotion as l feel to
day, in strange, foreign land, on th'
anniversary of the birth Of our beloved
and vcncrated Washington. In this love
ly but degenerate cline, the glory ofwhost
past is but gorgeous pail, cnveloping
but not hiding the death and decay of it:
present, surrounded by people powerless.
hopeless, indolent, and oppressed, but with
the despairiog soul of great possibilities
looking from their eyes, like some forgot
ten prisoners gazing mournfully through
strong dungeon bars-here, breathing the
close and heavy air of civil and religious
desporism, do feel what he was, and all
he did for us, for freedom, and for God !;
and my heart glows with fervid gratitude
to Heaven for the immeasurable riches of
that great gift, not to us alone, but to the
world, to the ages, Of a pure, heroic life,
embodying, defending. and enthroning,
among men, the eternal principles of JUS
tice and freedom.
When l find the character and career
of Washington studied here, by the few
yet faithful to the forlorn hope of Italian
freedom-when l see his name bring the
unaccustomed light to eyes heavy with
watching and mournful with disappoint-
ment-when 1 hear that name spoken
with deep reverence by lips that have
sworn devotion, to the death, to Ia IJerta
del popolo, then realize, as never before,
the universally Of his greatness and the
quickening immortality Of his memory.
l believe that, though God has sent land
yet may send leaders as pure and true as
our Washington-gifted with more of the
electric element Of genius-shining with
more splendid qualities of heroism, that
he has been and will be the secret soul Of
every popular uprising against oppression
every noble political revolution; for
his grand endcavor was sanctioned and
sanctifed by complete and pre-eminent
success he attained to the very height
and crown of his heroic undertaking, and
there he stands, for all time, boldly re-
lieved against heaven, the terror of tyran-
ny, the strength and inspiration and ex-
ample of the oppressed-the bold rebuker
of kingly wrong, the stern vindicator Of
the peoples right-the rebel triumphant
the soldier olive-crowncd, the patriot
with clean and empty hands. Such is the
far-rraching depth, the eternal vitality Of
one great, heroic life, sending its roots
abroad into all lands, and lacing together
continents and nations in bonds of unseen !
but inestructible sympathy-such the far
weight Of one mighty purpose
gloriouslyaccomplished, (which, ,amid treach-
erous straits of defeat and despair, of per-
iious shores Of rock -seted power, anchors
safe against leagued tempests, the great
hope Of the world.-GRAcE GREENWOOD. /
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tween two of the logs, and left exposed t.
profane eyes the mysteries of the lodg
room. Actuated by that laudable spiri
of inquiry to which she was fairly entitled
! by virtue of her lineal descent from th'
first woman mentioned in Scripture, mem
ber of the family helped herself to the OBJ
servatory thus created one evening, and
treated herself to view, gratis, of the sub
lime exhibitions Of the Cat that time) great
and glorious handmaid's exercises
Attempting to descend from her sublime
height, she fell, and received a serious
wound. She confessed, at once, the means
of her injury, and lived many years after
wards: but, to her dying day, nothing
could induce her to disclose the mysteries
she had discovered. She could "kccp a
secret" for she did.
OF man whose life had been anything
but " fearing God and regarding man." it
is related that when he died, a clock which
had long been silent commenced striking
with fearful rapidity, and continued for
some time-a chicken cock crew at tre-
mendous rate-and the ghost of negro
boy who had been suddenly missed, rose
behind his bed
A settler here during the Revolution,
was suspected of being Tory, and went
off to one Of the Carolinas, where he pro-
we'd his character by an outrage against
some one who had frieds in Paxton. Af.
ter the war, he had the assurance to ap-
pear in the Paxton Westinghouse of
Sabbath-day. The congregation generally
had too much regard for the day to exhibit
any disrcspect towards him. The Wing
blood of Capt c., however, could not
brook the indignity. He retired from the
room, provided himself with tough grape
wine, and as the congregation took to
their horses Carriages there were few if
any in those days. Capt. c. mounted his
nag, gave chase to the Tory, and down
the hill they went, but at every jump of
their horses the stalwart arms of the Cap
tain dealt his heaviest blows upon the
back of the Tory, who ultimately escaped
only by the superior speed Of his horse,
but in plight only equalled by John
Gilpin. The chastisement was the cause
Of as much merriment as any incident pre-
served in the unwritten annals of Paxton.
QUI.
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Heaven.
(lUI.

Oh. heaven is nearer than p,ortals think,
Whom thry io..k with trembling dread
Al the misty future that stretches On
t----- 49, sii-ne irvuic 81 the ttcuu
'Tis no lone isle in n boundless main,
No brilliant but distant shore,
Where the lovely ones who are called ayay
Must 60 to return no more.
No; heaven is near US the mighty veil
OF mortality blinds the eye,
That We See not the angel bands
On the shores of eternity.
Yet oft. in the hours Of holy thought
To the thirsting soul Is given
That power 10 pierce through the mist Of scaso
10 the besutrous scenes of heaven.
Then very near seem its pearly gatcs
And swcctly its harpings fall:
Till the soul is restless to soar away,
And longs for the angel call.
know, when the silver chord is looseJ,
When the veil is rent away,
Not long aud dark shall the passage b
To the realms Of endless day.
The eye that shuts in a dying hour,
Will open the next in bliss;
The welcome will sound in a hcavcaly world,
Ere the farewell is hushcd in this.
We Pass from the clasp Of mourning friends,
To the arms of the loved and lost:
And those smiling faces will greet us then
Winch on earth We have valued most.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-04-29

lay, there was nothing to be found bu
pieces of an old coat intertwined with small
roots, few brass buttons and milestone,
which led item to believe he had beer
foully dealt with. His skull was very
small, Tut had no scars upon it, and the
smaller bones of the body had decayed
away. The inhabitants about there re-
member no one having been missed from
among them and think he must have been
stranger. A robbery occurred on the
turnpike opposite the place about fifteen
years ago, and one Of the party who were
attacked and shot at, said he returned the
fire of the robbers, and was certain he hit
one, but he was supposed to have died of
his wound in Cattawissa.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-04-29
Counting in the Backwoods.

Travellers encounter strange adventures
and find out more about a country in 4
brief tour than its inhabitants ever knew.
Madame Pulsky, for example, gives us Il
piece of information about love in the
backwoods which will probably astonish
the backwoodsmon themselves. She writes:
"Soon after the arrival of Ujhazy on
the banks of the Thompson River, when
he and his party had hardly pitched their
tent, young backwoodsman came on
horseback up to them, and said, (Which
is the daughter of the Hungarian Gcner-
cral miss Ujhazy, who spoke English,
asked him what be wanted ?-sI reckon
it's time for me to marry was the reply !;
and came to propose to you The young
lady began to laugh, but her novel suiter
declared that he was in full earnest; that
he did not live far of, and that he would
assist her father in every way. But when
he saw that his proposal was not accepted,
he rode off to his business, without having
alighted from his horse during the CONVEX
sation. The Hungarians afterwards learned
that in the backwoods not much time is
wasted in courting young ladies, Or paying
them attention before marriage. The pion-
Ger visits neighbor who has grown-up
daughters, and esks, 'How do you do ?
places himself on chair before the CHM
ney, chews, spits in the fire, and utters not
another word after while he takes his
leave, and when he has paid couple of
such taciturn calls, he says to the young
lady, reckon should marry YOU The
answer is commonly, Il have no objection
The couple, without further ceremony,
proceed to the justice Of the peace and
make their declaration, and when the
Methodist Missionary happens to come in
their neighborhood, the civil marriage is
solemnized religiously."
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-04-29

/. DISTRESSING ACCIDENr.-On Wednes.
day last timber raft STAYED on Hugh's
Rock, above NcC2lls' Ferry, in the Sus-
quehanna river, and was literally torn to
pieces. There were eight Or nine persons
on the raft at the time of the accident, all
of whom were in imminent danger, and
two of whom were drowned. They were
both young men, named John B. Bituer
and - Zook, and resided with DR.. A.
Bitner,i in Washington, the former engaged
in the study Of medicine. The sight, at
the time of the accident, is described By
those who witnessed it as having been
most terrific. The bodies of the uufcrtu.
nate young men have not yet been found.
The parents of the former reside in Lock
Haven, Clinton county, Pa, and the moth.
er of the latter in Washington.-Clumbia
NpY.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-04-29

DISTRESSING ScENE-In Boston on
Wednesday,, young woman named Su-
san Moran, with pretty infant at her
breast, was brought into court, and con-
victed Of being common drunkard. A
police officer on Tuesday evening entered
the cellar on Ann street, in which she lives,
and the scene which he witnessed Was re-
voting. The young woman ley upon the
floor, dead drunk, and almost covered with
blood, which had issued from her wrist,
which she had badly cut By thrusting it
through pane of glass in ct Of drunk
enness- The infant lay upon her barred
breast sucking the mothers blood, with
which the child itself was also smearcd.
The court sentenced the woman to two
months in the House Of Industry.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-04-29

TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEALTH-Hcalth
has great deal to do with what the world
calls talent. Take a lawyers life through,
and high health is at least equal to fifty
per cent. more than brain. Enduauce,
chcerfulness, wit, eloquence, attain force
and splendor with health which they never
can approach without it. 1t often hap
pens that the credit awarded to the intel
lect belongs to the digestion. Though l
do not believe that genius and eupopsy
are convertible terms, yet the former can
never rise to its loftiest heights unaided
by the latter.
Again wise man, with great enter
prise before him, first looks round for suit
able instruments wherewith to execute it /;
and he thinks it sll-important to command
these instruments before he begins his la
bour. Health is an indispensable instru-
ment for the best qualities and the highest
finish of all work. Think Of the immense
advantage you would have in suit in
court, if, after weeks or fortnight's
investigation Of facts, you could come in
for the closing argument on the last day,
fresh and elastic, with only so much more
of momentum and fervor for the velocity
and the glow you Lad acquired.
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[Dr Cox's description of Chalmers pro
nuRciation, is not bad i

TDr. Cox's description of Chalmers pro-
nuRciation, is not bad i
"When he began to speak, though
had heard of his Fifeshire accent, or rather
broad Scotch brogue, the sonorous quaint
ness and earuestness of his voice surprised
me. In prayer, l was sometimes mysti-
fed at first by such expressions sounding
as the following:-"O Lard, guide and
a blessed thang ut az, to luve and to sarve
tha; and a bettir thang ut az to san against
tha. o Lard, may ol th Kraschun gras-
ses ba in US and grow, partookoolyrly the
grass Of faith" Bp bettir there, or rather
Jettier, he meant bitter; though, as he
first uttered it, it struck my car and my
soul as terrible or confounding sentiment!
The di sciples of Emmons could scarcely
60 it Some of his expressions, however,
were simple, filial and beautiful, as we'll
as touching in an eminent degree. One
l will quote, as l we'll remember it, in
the main :-"May our luve for tha, our
Master and Lard, ba true and pramative /;
may it ba like that of apowstels and the
Kraschuns of the martyr ages; may wa
sarve tina bakous wa luve tha, and luve
tha bakous wa delight to da tina honour" "
1 give these as the best approximate speci-
mems of his enunciation and his utterance
that can recollect or command-certainly
from no thought or allowance of caricaturc,
and with tender demur lest I should
seem to disparage him with any reader"
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-04-29

A PRETTY INcIpENr.-A journal Of the
south of France mentions a circumstance
connected with thesaving Of the passengers
from Partisan steamer, the boiler Of
which exploded on the Rhone. An in
FAINT was handed from one passenger to
another until it reached small boat
which had come to the aid Of persons on
board but, just as the child was received
by the men in the boat, a larger boat, by
some mismanagement, came violently
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-04-29

PERSONAL effort is the secret of all sue
cess; and personal thought, the secret Of
all true independence. Happy be who
has learned this-the most essential of all
lifc's great lessons. He will never be con-
tent to drag cut worthless existence a.
the petted child Of foolishly doating pa.
rents, or the wealth pampered effeminats
of listless luxury. But nerved to effort
by an inborn fire, he will find his true ell
ement in sphere of restless activity, and
will profit himself and the world by ming
ling with the sons Of toll, assuming the
true dignities of labor, and engaging in
the glorious career Of ennobling aud until
ring action Wil7iamsport Press.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-04-29

VICE PRESIDENT KING, it is said own
ed an estate Of 1000 acres of rich land II /,
Dallas county, Ala, with $50 slaves. Il
is also stated that he has left the bull Of
his property to the poorest Of his rsls ions
thou gh all are comfortably provided for.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-04-29

SKELETON FOUND.-While some work.
men were clearing brush off the route for
the railroad, about mile and half from
Mt. Carmel, they discovered the skeleton
of man, which from its appearance had
been lying there for FIVE Or ten years
After digging up the ground on which !,
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VOLUME IX.--NO. 81.
WHOLE NUMBER, All.

against it, and the smaller one was over
turned. The child was, however, saved
by the circumstance Of having been pla-
ced on cushion, which aoated down the
current, and carried the child to q point
of the shore where some boatmen took it
up. When rescued, it still held an apple
in its hand
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-04-29

G. W Kendall, ESQ.,. Of the N. o Plea
yune. has been appointed and confirmed
as Postmaster Of New Orleans.
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II. C. IIICKOK, EDITOR.
o. N. WORDEN, PRINTER.
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Oh. heaven is nearer than mortals think,
Whom They in.k with n trembling dread
Al the misty future that stretciic. on
t----- sa.. siiene iivuic ticuu.
Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-08-15

MouNr vERNox.-Mr. Isaac F. Shepard, of Bos-
ton, in letters addressed to the Hon. Abbott
Lawrence and Hon. Edward Everett, proposes
plan by which Mount Vernon may be secured to
the people of the United States forever, as their
common property. He estimates the cost of pur-
chase, improving, and repairing, salary Of super
ntendent, and labor, including six per cent fund
of 100000, would amount to cash capital OF
s35O,0OO. This sum he proposes should be raised
by voluntary subscription among the people, and
the estate held by board of trustees composed Of
the President and Vice President of the United
States and Governor of Virginia, c6feiO, aid one
person to be elected by the Legislature of each
State. Messrs. Everett and Lawrence fully con-
cur in the opiion that Mount Vernon ought TO be-
come public property.
A correspondent of the National Tntelligencer,
from Columbus, Ohio, proposes tond the editor of
the Intelligencer vouches for his good aith 'to be
one of two hundred that will pledge themselves to
raise one thousand dollars each, Ono one to give
more or less,) one-half to be paid on the 10th Of
January, 1854, and the balance to be paid us the
parties may agree on; the property and its sacred
remains to be secured by deed to the people of the
limited States'