Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-07-13
For the Lewisburg Chronicle.
Notes on the Wing-N0. ".
ALLABOUT, July 3, IS55.
MOVING MANIA

One thought is ever in my mind when
passing through some Of the excessively
thriving" towns of Southern New York,
and that is, "Is this apparent prosperity
real and AealAfMs" ?" Fifty or hundred
shanties, plank houses half finished, Or
elegant mansions, are erected every year
in A, 3, c, sc.
The mansions are generally well built,
and permanent but are they not on a
scale too extensive for the means of our
people! A corresponding style of living,
will require greater outlays, and annual
expenses, than any honest business affords
to even large class of its participants (;
and We have not, and 1 hope never will
have, rich aristocracy able to live and
flourish without some kind of personal
employment.
And the shanties and plank shells which
start up like toad-stools, what are they !?
Too often, mere temporary abodes-make-
shifts-passing place, for broken down,
discontented, migratory, or do-less men,
who follow every iguus-fatuus. abou:
growing places" in new Eldorados /;
having no stability, they wander over the
earth, dragging worn-out family with
them, and dying as they began-penDyless,
and comparatively useless. Many of them
are men Of good morals, good manners,
good minds, good education, good hearts /;
but want of thoughtful and self-denying
perseverance, makes them their own poor
est friends. The first year past, the first
depression Of business, the first repetition
of that cver-new cry Of " hard times" the
first intelligence Of higher wages, better
health, or less cost of living, in some
Fogtown, will start up focks of these un-
easy spirits, and away they go to the newly
discovered promised land, sacrificing any
thing they may have done to secure a
permanent home, and relinquishing their
certainty for half dozen uncertainties.
The other day saw very honest man
and good mechanic who had removed serea-
teen times in sirteen years, and was again
about to be d" off," full of hope of making
good living and alightiug within a
fourishing village In 16 years, IS
removals! Let us here sit down and seal
late" little. In these eighteen removals
counting the time in hunting up a new
place, preparing to remove, removing, and
getting ready to renew his work-he
must have lost month tour!' Eigh-
teen months is one and half gears Of
clear loss. He can earn so per day.
Say 800 working days in year. The
$50 days would have brought him S675-
enough to have bought him a snug house,
and by using his leisure hours and other
opportunities, he could have improved it
with fruit and flowers indefinitely. But
this is not all. The sacrifices made in
compulsory buying and selling, in fitting
and reftting,th expenses of removals, the
increased sickness and other disadvantages
attendant upon each new location to him.
self and family-these would at least
double The above sum and the man has
at least lost, in addition to the comforts
and home-happiness of his family, $1,000
to $500 in property. During the same
time he has also paid $500 to $1,000 in
rent, which is also all gone and his Wig
orous arms have seen their best days.
And what has he gainede Alas ! moth
ing He is no better, or healthier, or
happier, or richer man in any particular
except in some useless branches of knowl.
edge taught in the very hard and excess
lively "dear school" of Experience.
Give me the place that grows surely, if
slowly; whose houses are permanent, fixed
abodes, designed for rational comfort by
those who earn and enjoy an honest living;
whose mechanics, laboring men, and all
others " settle down" determined to earn
and to keep pleasant home for themselves
and for their families.
TAME CROW.
st. James speaks Of all creatures being
tanned by man. I recently observed a fine
coal-black crow doing good service for
gardener in field containing as we'll corn
as divers other vegetables. He was quite
docile, and accompanied the plowing, hoe
ing, and wedding of his master with
highly praisc-vorthy industry and zeal
worthy of the cause-removing grub
worms and all similar infesters Of garden
prosperity. He touched no corn, but
was somewhat bellicose towards anything
else of the winged kind.
MUSICAL THREE DAYS MEETING.
Among the grand old woods of Sus-
quehauna county, are many who have a
soul for music, and are endeayoring to