Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-09-14
An Epistle of "John," not the Divine.

portance, (although his hearers arc "dull
of apprehension,') and prophcsies that
he "will make some of our friends in Lew
isburg scold." This JonN, We learn, is
Miflinburs pill-makcr, who by strange
hallucination imagines himself farmer,
and flourishes over two columns of "Opi-
Mons upon the proper selection Of Coun-
ty Seat" We wadcd through tall
and don't feel at all alarmed about it
After long eulogy upon his own wonder
full intelligence! and impartiality!! JOHN
announces his awful decision to be that he
will vote for Mlflinburg for three reasons ::
l. He thinks county buildings should
be as near the centre as possible, and all
of Jacks mountain and all the Hartley and
BufIaloe and White Deer mountains,
with no inhabitants, should be taken into
the account as much as the river section of
which every acre is tillable. Union county
is triangle, Of which White Deer, Kelly,
Lewisburg, Buffaloe, East Buffaloe and
Union form..the east side, and these six
Districts contain nearly 500 more voters
than the remaining districts running back
to that narrow point on Penns creek.
Along this east line, which is far most po-
pulous, and to which all the waters and
nearly every road tends, Lewisburg is
certainly the central point, as to territory,
population, and business, and the latter
arc more important matters than mere ter
ritory. All know that majority of the
people Of Union county could reach Lew
isburg quicker, and easier, than they could
Miiflinburg; and the former being nearest
the centre of the clioie population, would
of course cause least mileage to jurors and
witnesses. "The greatest good of the
greatest number" must govern, and not
the many along the River line be in convc-
nienced to accommodate the few in the ex-
treme western point.
2. Lewisburg is a great place of busi-
ness, has great many visitors, and will
therefore be most exposed to "dysentery,
fux, measles, small pox, yellow fever, ash
attic cholera" &c, &c. That We are more
peculiarly liable to diseases than our up
valley rival, is not true in regard to the
past, and We do not believe will be in the
future. The argument is, that mere size
and activity, expose to contagious diseases
not necessarily so, JOnN. The health Of
a place Gas of a person) depends measur-
ably upon location, and the care and clean
illness and temperance observed. Our
town is high, with wide streets, on roll
ing land, with current of air, from the
surrounding mountains and along the
trough of the river, almost constantly STIR
ring. If Miffiiuburs has anything better,
We do not know it.
Indeed, the larger place is, the more
numerous and uniform and efficient are
the measures generally taken to preserve
and restore health, and to prevent conta-
giOn. Portsmouth now suffers much more,
in proportion to size, than the large city
of Norfolk by its side. New Orleans has
every year ten times proportionally more
deaths than New York. The yellow
foyer was last year in the great city of
Philadelphia: it is now in Baltimore but
it creates no public alarm and the deaths
were not and are not one tenth as numer-
GUS as in the little towns of Gosport aud
Portsmouth. The ravages Of cholera at
Columbia, Pa, last year, were far more
terrible than they we're in the City of Lon
don itself. At Sandusky, Ohio, few
years ago, the cholera was more destruc-
tive, iu proportion, than in any other city.
The mortality in Sugar valley, referred to
last week, has rarely been equalled. Oc-
casionally we know Of disease raging on
the hills, and in our vallies, more fatally,
among families, than in any of the towns
within our knowledge. We refer to the
decease of all but one in Mr.. Davis family,
Bufaloe township, and to the death of Mr..
Bachmau, his wife, and two grown sons,
in Kelly township, year or two since, as
proofs that mere numbers do not necessa-
rily create greater proportionate mortali-
ty. eve are informed, this week, of the
dcceasc Of a mother, daughter, and neigh
Dor who waited upon them, recently, in
White Deer Valley, all from dysentery.)
strikes wherever and whenever he
is commissioned: his agents may lurk
arounda farmers dwelling, at crossroads,
in the rural hamlet, in the largo borough,
or the crowded city, alike. The frightful
picture JOHN draws of Lewisburg, will ter
rify few if any sensible persons here as
elsewhere, changers stand thick on every
hand to bear US to the tomb" but any
special appropriation to this town, our
neighbors through the county know to be
gratuitous.
3. But, besides being large and -four
ishing, JOHN says, "Lewisburg has an in
tcrest apart, and in great measure at va
rance from. the rest of the county''-as