Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-01-13
ASHlSBERR slIG G.iish8
JANUARY -, 1854.
From Wisconsin.
Correspondence Of the Lewi'burg Chronicle
MADISON, Wis, Jan. ,, 1854


Mn. EpIroR: \ new year has begun
the old one has been shot cut " with due
ceremony and appropriateness (O-the
printers have a hoiiiday-and | Will sit
down and let your sensiele readers for all
are sensible who take the "Chronicle, V
and pay for it, know that am alive and
kicking.
Ga the morning of the 2Sth ult., l
and friend SToUr set out from Monroe,
the capital Of Greene county, for this place.
Now, if you ever Travelled in Western
stage coach--if L rough box set on wheels,
with two unplaned, uncushioned boards
with perpendicular backs, of tie same ma
terial for seats, is entitled to the name, the
interior filled to oyciaowing with band
boxes, garden seeds, pillow cases, and nu-
merous other receptacles for articles of
domestic economy, presided over by one
ancient matron, O. "strong- minded wo-
man, entitled to one half Of said box for
personal convenience, with a holy fear OF
damage being done to her "pets," while
her tongue runs with tif;y per cent more
velocity than the motive power, Ga brace
Of antedil luy4u, hTqpcl.uiriac, aYa5J,
hip-shot, lal;erhjawsd crow belts,) III
stiling INTO the hearts Of bcr auditory tn
the present ease S and myself religious
abhorrence of the " marriage institution
as the forerunner of an human evils, aud
the ultimate cause of that great event when
ments melted with farvent heat" "-tumbled
over such roads as only Wisconsin can
boast of-chuck, plunge, orer!! smash b.
get up, rub your Sims, and try 1t again
If you have, then 'phansy my pheIinks,
The road, for the most part, lies over
high, rolling pralric, inter,Persed with low
swamps, or stouyhs as tn y are called here,
unbridged, unpsvcd, and undrained, and
we're but recently frozen hard enough TO
carry team, leaving them most awfuly
rough, over which our 'eehicte rolled, tum
bled, and plunged, to the utter discom-
future Of our "Womans Rights com-
panion, and the great mu,ilation of her
best bonnet, baud box and dry goods Yet
our march was much more enviable than !
those who passed before US, ere the ground
had frozen. Had Mrs. Steve described
the nocturnal ah of the Senator and Eliza
in Wisconsin-d-prved of the benefit of
corduroys "-instead of ONO, her sym
pathy could have been better appreciated.
Here, in the muddy season, the approach
of the stage is indicated by rear guard of
anxious-looking, mud-bedragged passen-
gers, each carrying rail, to speed the ship
in cases Of emergency This has been
remarked by participa,or to be railhard
travelling. But, Railroads are now being
made in the State, and travellers will soon
be deprived Of the felicity of riding in the
stage,
The road, after leaving Monroe about
ten miles, lay over u high ridge, affording
beautiful prospect of the country. The
Blue Mounds--the nearest approximation
to mountain In Wiscunsin-was seen at
q distance. These Mounds are covered
with ever green trees, spruce, hemlock &c,
contrasting very beautifully with the dull
bazy appearance Of the other timber lands.
DR.. LOCKE, by barometrical observation,
has ascertained it to be one thousand feet
above the Wisconsin river at Helena The
country is farther diversified by the Platte
and Sinsinawa Mounds, but Of less magni-
tude. -t s- rs-
In various portions of this State, ancient
hills, embankments, and Notifications are
found, which show them clearly to have
been the work of powerful people inhab-
iting here long before the discovery, by
Columbus, of this continent From Lap. I
hams History Of Wisconsin, l take the .
following. Ii