Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-12-01
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lsdi,orial Correspondence of Lewisburg Chronicle
PITTsBURG, Nov. IA, 1891.
Dec. l, 1854.

Editorial Correspondence OF Lewisourg Chronieie.
PITTsBURa, Nov IA, 1854.
In that dark night ride here, 1 encoun-
tered DR.. WM. ELDER in the train, and
be became at once the centre Of charmed
circle, that made the trip one Of memora-
bic interest. From dark, till cur arrival
at 2 o'clock in the morning, his rare con-
versational powers, and genial vivaeity,
furnished feast of reason and flow of
soul, high carnival Of fact and philoso'
ply, fun and sentiment, that put sleep to
flight, and provoked bursts Of laughter
that drowned out the shrek and thunder
of the train-and sometimes too a truant
tear would start, whether or no." If
nobody will take umbrage, l may whisper
10 your ear con6deutially, that that 200
miles Of night-ride was less tedious by
half than the nine miles from Derrstown
to Youngstown on court week.
purposed jotting down column or
two Of the racy /" table talk" thus thrown
iu my way, with delineations Of character
such as be only can give-especially Pc
euliarly original analyst. of Henry Clay
but find now that | might as well attempt
to catch and crystalize the fitting shadows
Of a grain-6eld. Will it not surprise you
IN learn that his Elizabeth Barton" was
rejected by nearly all the leading maya
zines of the day, as lacking in interest! and
he was about publishing it in the newspa-
pers, when Sartain" got his eye on it,
and secured it at once. "Gcn. Ogle"
met with similar fate, till Putnam"
reluctantly took it, under stipulation that
they might scissor it up to suit themselves.
So much for publishers opinions. Mrs.
Stoves "Uncle Toms Cabin" also was
rejected by every house to which offered,
including Jewett & Co., Of Boston. But
Mrs. Jewett read it, aud importuned her
husband so strongly to publish it, that be
ut styieMed, and-cleared fifty thousand
dollars BY the operation!
As intimated in the preface to his Pc
riscopics" "a book lately published the
Dr. has subjects on hand for other similar
delineations-among them the character
of = child-but greatly dislikes the idea
of being considered in this way writer
of fiction. He says the ogle and Barton
sketches are rrae, as true as he could make
them, and he prefers that they should be
received as such. Gen. Ogle's widow is
still living, and sent him word that he
could not have said more or less, justly,
and that she and the DR.. were probably
the only persons who fully understood and
appreciated him.
SPENCER House, Cincinnati,
November 90, 1854.
Arrived here for breakfast on the 18th
via Canton, Crest!ine and Columbus-hav.
ing made the $40 miles from Pittsburgh
in the dark-except SO at the other, aud
20 miles at this end of the route-and
getting over part Of the road at the rate
Of Is miles in % minutes, and we would
have liked it better if they had put on the
steam a 'leetle' faster yet. I have reason
to believe that this is the place it passes
for, yet in coming through between two
days, it is difficult to realize that have
actually got out Of the old Keystone.
can tell you much about Ohio, for didn't
Gee 1t, and what I did see Just above here,
on the line Of the road, is no great shakes
to the eyes Of West Brancher. l am
told however there is some rich land in
the South Western part of the State, but
that owing to the drought there are whole
counties in which the corn crop will not
average ten bushels to the acre.
This beautiful and we'll built city, with
It's costly public buildings, and hotels,
s'0fe' and private dwellings: mostly Of
handsome cut stone, is built on an ellipti.
cal plot Of ground, about three miles BY
two, with a bend Of the Ohio on the
SOUTH o., and a 'emi-circular range of high
bulls on the north, crowned by Lane Sem.
mary and other edi6cc.. The aourisbinp
towns Of Newport and Coviugton arc op-
le''fe on the Kentucky bank Of the Ohio,