Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-05-26
For the LeWlsbufk OuS0'
Notes by the Wayside.

I For the Lewisburg Chronicle.
Notes by the Wayside.
MUssER's VALLEY in Union county is
the range Of land at the south side Of Jacks
mountain, extending from Centerville into
Miflin county. Its soil is rather thin at
the east eId, but the limestone appears as
YOU 90 westward, and the Beavers offer a
better reward for agricultural labor. In
the Valley, numbering, coopering, &c, are
much carried on. The people will never
grow rich by raising pork, until they get
better breed of porkers, for such lank,
slab-sided, long-legged land-sharks as met
our view can never 'lay on fat to advant
age.-There arc good farmers and rich
lands in the region between Jacks and
Shade mountain, but it is more broken
than Buffaloe Valley, and not so Produc-
tive. The western extremity-West Bca-
yer township-is nearer Lewlstown than
New Berlin, and does mos: Of Its trading
busines, in that direction.
! No part Of Union county is so thor
oughly German as this extremity. Fru-
gality and industry, honesty and stability,
are eminently characteristic-and from
these virtues, imposed upon by fraud and
falsehood, have demagogues made enemies
to the Railroad and to Division. "Thcy
will double your TAXES p is the alarm
raised. aud for time etfectually. But the
same sterling honesty and strong common
sense which distinguish the Germans, in
the long run will bring the whole matters
properly before them.
On one occasion we stopped at widow
woman's, whose fears were soon aroused
to the highest pitch by seeing my compa,
MON engaged with his sketching pencil
but on being assured that he was only
making Map, she felt relieved" Oh
said she, g thought he was one Of the
men who puts the taxes on the peoples :
Very sociable was she thereafter. Nc
boy or girl could express more qualification
than she did when announcing that "Bat
talon was coming They were going
to have Railroad: she had opposed the
Derrstown Railroad, but she liked this
because it would make her richer-[ gooe
honest soul IA little negro boy cam'
along, .--r. hn- chimney and stnln so."'
dollars she might have had him caught
but she "pitied the poor little niger so
that she let him 60, (aud laug he'd at hi:
smartness on one side Of her mouth whil'
lamsnting her loss on the other. )-Sh'
"hated tho English because she could no
understand them," 1.-THE true reason, by
the-by, for much of the hatred or want O
!. love that exists in the human bosom IL
very many cases.]-And she wanted t.
hear something talked about beside be
own neighborhood. But she didn't wan
any of these new religions that were get
ting about the old was good enough. w
, prescribed good school-teachers and news
papers to satisfy her underlined longing
for more enlarged knowledge-but tha
awoke the ''laid' ghost Of TAXATION, anc
We made no further progress in that quar-
ter.-In the same place we met a man who
in reply to our "broken" German, I'D
mill NIGHT psrstebe Der Dentsfb," wa
very greatly exercised on our behalf, an'
repeatedly expressed his astonishmen
that man of mature years and appareu
, intelligence couldn't "make q Dutcl
speech in the German language HI
could mt understand it there was some
thing wrong about it and We exchanged
farewells with an additional hope on hi
part that We might yet live to talk Dutcl
as it is spoken in Beaver. Gle SHOULD
take trip to Paris, and travel with tn
, Yankee who wrote home that Paris is
pretty large village: but, only think. hal
a million people who can't talk word o
Englishr')
4 Working on the roads in Center ant
Franklin townships. Schools in operation
at Beavertown and Mt. Pleasant. Grai1
uniformly backward, an immense surface
covered with it, and but slightly winter
killed, especially Of that drilled in. Th
best field was on side-hill fronting th'
south, between Beavertown and Middle
burg Fruit promises extremely well.
The old Ceuterville election district i
now Center township, running from Jack
mountain to near Middle creek. The re
maindcr of old Center township-the soutl
side, embracing Middleburg and Beave
Furnaces in the new township o
Franklin. MIpDLEBURa appears JUS
now to be the most lively Of any Of GU
) inland towns.
, "KLAPpERDALE Valley" We had neve
visited until this trip. 1t is narrow, bu
= extremely fertile, and stretches from Sci
insgrove along the south side Of Shad
r mountain to the Juniata. Some Of tn
5 best farms and most attractive houses an
capacious barns in the county, are here t
l. el EorrDupc tho only town II