Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-09-08

many cases, poor men or small capitalists
rather than bear the expense of going from
below the Narrows with their witnesse
year after year, suffered losses and imposi
tions-for Justice would have cost NOR
than it was worth in money. We in Ju
niata now have but three regular Terms o
Court year, and one Orphans Court, am
our Courts have not averaged more thai
four days each Term, (four Terms year,
for the last fifteen years; and it is seldom
that suit is on our docket, undisposed Of
one year, where the parties push them OF
for trial, and the expenses to the litigant
are reduced one half Before the Division
we had but few County Bridges; now VI
can have them all through our county, ant
pass over the creeks on county bridge!
built by taxation.
We had about twenty years struggling
for our separation before We accomplished
it; the last ten years of that time, every
measure was resorted to in the election Of
our Legislative officers, by one portion tc
get, and by the other to stop, Division.
These statements are correct to the bes!
of my recollection and knowled &c.
Truly yours, &c.
Mr.. O. N. Wordeu.
[w-The foregoing letter is from an
aged and highly respected citizen OF Juni-
alta, who has held several Offices in the
County, but who on account Of personal
considerations desires US not to publish his
namc.-The following is from the Editor
of the DanriNe Democrat, who resided in
that town some years previous to as well
as since the division of old Columbia j
"Democrat" Office,
DANvILLE, Aug %, 1854.
O.NWorden, ,Esq.-Dear Sir: In answer
to your inquiries relative to the division of
Columbia county, the cost Of public build
ings, expenses Of sustaining separate
county organization, &C., l will give you
all the information in my power.
The public buildings belonging to Co.
lumbia county, consisting of Court house,
Jail, &c., at the time the seat of justice
was removed from Danville to Rloopsburg,
we're sold, at public auction, and purchased
for the use Of the Borough, at very low
price, viz. about sl,75O These buildings,
upon the organization of the county Of
Montour, were repaired and fitted up, by
the Borough Of Dauville, at cost of some
$4,000, besides the original purchase mo-
ney, and conveyed to the County, free of
any charge to the county. These buildings
are sufficient for the wants Of our county,
The taxes Of that portion of Columbia
county, now comprising Montour, have
been less, since the organization, than the
average rates for TIE ten years preceding
that event. My own recollection is, that
every year during the ten years preceding
the organizatie of Montour county, the
county rates were higher than they have
been ary one year in Montour county, since
Its erection. I of course speak without
reference to the tax books, but am certain
that the county taxes have been less since
the separate organization, than the average
for the ten years preceding.
There is no desire on the part Of any
considerable portion of our people to be
re-annexcd to Columbia county. On the
contrary, all are well satisfied with the
and would resist remuneration
with as much earnestness as they ever
fought against the removal Of the seat Of
justice. Some of the same persons, who
from personal and political considerations
always favored the Bloomsbury interest
that interest in tue whole Of cid Columbia
being the predominant one-still, for the
same reasons, adhere to bloomsbury; but
the mass are not with them.
As to the fourth question, | can only
answer that the general interests Of Mon
tour county have certainly not been injured
by the division, and l do not believe that
the general interests Of Columbia have
suffered any. Socially, the people of the
two counties have been bcnefited--thcre is
certainly better state Of feeling between
the two, now, than existed for years before.
PecuIiarily, as l said before, think nei-
ther has been injured-Montour certainly
benefited. Morally, perhaps, the only effect
that can be attributed directly to division
o. the organization of the new county, is,
the moral influence which results from the
facility afforded for Furnishing small often.
ces. The dread Of the prison and the
Court may, aud doubtless does, exert an
influence in the Borough Of Danville, as
many of the smaller offences would 60
if the expense and trouble Of
were much increased by dist
ance. Very resp'ly, Yours &c.
CHARLES Cook.
b..
0- A YANKEE TOWNSHIP IN IowA.-The
Rev. Joseph Grinnell, late of New York
city, with . number Of New England
people, has purchased thirty or forty