Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-12-08
Editorial Correspondence of Lcwisburg Chronicle
ELMIRA, N. Y, Nov. 25, 1854.

Editorial Correspondence of Lewisburg Chronicle
ELMIRA, n Y, Nov. %, 1854.
Fairly cornered again, Left Cincinnati
at 7 o'clock A. NJ, yesterday, and arrived
here at o'clock A. NJ, to-day-64O mile:
in % hours, including stoppages; and run
ming on the N. Y & Z. last night, for a
number Of miles, at the rate Of mile in
50 seconds by the watch to make up fol
lost time, occasioned by stopping at sta
tion somewhere near Olean to take off a
baggage car, whose axles had become toe
hot to run further with safety-an exhile.
rating and delightful rate of speed that
becomes perfectly fascinating. Tumbled
into bed for q brief snoose, expecting tc
take the morning accommodation train fol
Williamsport, but; through blunder Of
my landlord, missed it, and must therefore
lie back for the mail train this evening
much to my regret, for l had hoped my
first trip over the Wiiliamsport & Elmira
Road would be in daylight, to see and en-
joy the wild mountain scenery through
which it passes.
This fourishing city Of 10000 iLhabi-
tants lies on both sides of the Chemung
river, in the heart of beautiful alluvial
fat, three to Eve miles in diameter, that
opens out among the mountains like smi-
ling Eden in the wilderness; traversed by
the river from west 10 east, and north and
south by the railroads. The town is of
ancient origin, yet such an impulse has
been given to it by the various railroads
eentefipg here, that it strikingly resembles,
in its business and buildings, the fresh and
stirring cities that spring up as by magic
along western waters. The mammoth ho-
tells, and some stores, are of brick, but the
greater proportion of the buildings, inclu
ding the Court House, are frame, painted
white giving to the place frail and per-
ishable aspect very unlike the solidity of
your own, and many other thriving Penn
sylvania villages.
Found my way up stairs into the dimin-
utive Court room, long enough to scan and
analyse the faces and heads Of the judge
and jury, and limbs of the law, and witness
their efforts to embarrass an unlettered
witness with subtle interrogatories as to
tho scientific operations of hot water in
steam boiler-and then magnanimously
left As quietly as l came, in order not to
diseoncert the "Coort" with the knowledge
that . "chiel' from Dutchdom was
"amang them, takin' notes" The Judge
might readily pass for a twin brother of
Maxwell MCaslin of your State Senate;
and the legal fraternity, though of " assor-
ted sizes, " evidently comprise some A. No.
1 material-though the Yankee dialect
Of several twanged unpleasansly on my
ear, snd couldn't help but wish they
would learn to speak good English, as we
do In the lower parts of Union and Nor
thumberland countiesl Yaw, mynhcer,
eel is recht' Ich shpeeks der english fust
rate! The most notable thing to my eye,
was the operation Of the recent New York
rule which requires the laryers to stand up
while examining a witness; the latter
meanwhile comfortably seated in a cush.
'oned arm chair on the same platform with
the judge, between him and the jury; and
except when worried by twisty idea,
pitched at him in a crooked way-look-
ing down upon the foe as Independent and
essey as wood sawyer. The consequence
I" that the "frogs" as well as the " bows"
can come ID Tor share of the fun; and if
the latter gai. victory, i. is Mt because
the ~it"e's' sbins give out first
Next dropped into the Republican Office
70 LOOK over the exchanges in the vain
.ops OF getting news from somewhere bear
nome. Spent a pleasant half hour with
'0e eenslemanly local and the publisher
-'oe latter a Pesnsylvauian-in the cour,e
% winch they beggetfOr some information
- 'ems precise whereabouts of your fam
e.o village BY first marking on skeleton
1a''foad map, the exact sites Of the Cross
.. s.' Snokstown, Milton, &c., 1 was ena-
sIed by . regular system of triappul.,iop.
'0''d,sase the approximate locality Of that
remarkable borough, which, as Derrs.
'0"n' is known far and wide to hundreds