Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-06-15

ed and able communication from our Cit
liens "Many," in regard to the health oi
our people generally, and especially those
living along "Cherry Alley" The facts
therein set forth are of a startling charac'
ter, and show plainly, that our Town
Council have been guilty ola great wrong,
and ought to be arraignod before the pub.
lie, and made to show cause why the sen,
tencc of political death should not be
forthwith pronounced upon them for
what right have they to devote their time
and attention mainly to the fixing of one
or two streets each year! Why not fix
all the streets and alleys at once, in q
single year ? What if it did cost fifteen
or twenty thousand dollars to do it ! Who
cares for expense, when health is at Jco-
pardy :? But no, this would not answer
their purpose, for they know very well,
that if they were to pursue that course,
that the work would soon all be done and
that the people would find they had no
further use for them, and then their fat
salari;es would be stopped, and they would
not sit at their ease, aud smoke their
Havanas at the publio's expense, but wo'd
have to buy their own TOBACCO, or do with
out it so we need not hope for any such
reform.
know of more than forty places in
town, that needs fixing very much be-
sides the people living in the vicinity of
each are willing and anxious TO have it
done not ouly SO, but | have no doubt
they would be willing to affirm that their
respective locality is in worse condition
than any place in town; and they would
be willing, too, to sign petition setting
forth their grievances if they thought it
would DO any good but then, others have
tried that !; and still things remain the
same. 1t is altogether too provoking to
have cur wishes thus disregarded,by those
who are indebted to US for their elevation
to place and power. But SO it is, ana has
been, for more than thirty years. would
suggest to "Many," as the only chance |
see, of changing this state Of things, to
meet together and hold an indignation
meeting, and pass lot of resolutions that
would come down Oh the Council and that
JooJy that does their leveling, like a
of brick. 1t seems to me, that
would bring them to their feelings, if any
thing would. What say you ? shall we
try the experiment Should you con
clude on this course, please let me know
in time, for | have on hand any quan-
ti,y of indignation all ready for the occa-
sicn, and / think | can manifest it in 4
way that will Do honor to the whole party.
Yours iu trouble, ONE. ,
P. Since writing the above, I have
thought the matter over more cooi.y, and .
as natural consequence, have came to
a different conclusion. | now see plainly
that the whole difficulty has arisen from
a mistake on the part of nature, in hav-
ing two hills SO near the centre Of large
and fourishing town like this with a
hollow between them, right where "Cherry
Alley" is located, and that, too, withou.
sufficient fall to carry off the water freely,
that would naturally collect there. Now
if these two hills, had been made, with
out any hollow between them, CHERRY
Alley would have been high and dry,and
the present difficulty entirely cbviated.
Not only so, but if water had been so
that it would have run up
hill. rs well as down, (when it vas desira-
bic to have it do so,) then we could have
had as many of these hills and holIows,
$50 beautiful in the eyes Of some folks as
we chose and, still, drain them all com
pletely, without any reference TO fall. In
either case it is plain, that the cause OF
complaint could not have existed single
hour beyond our pleasure. l know, many
people think Nature never makes any mis-
.akes. But feel confident, they cannot
rail to see, from what has already been
aid, that there is at least, some reason, to
loubt the correctness of such position.
But the greatest mistake of all, consists in
50 forming the human nose, that We never
;an smell any thing offensive or disagrea-
bic, SO long as it is on our own premises;
nor, until it gets into the public Street, or
ALLEY, when it suddenly becomes ex-
,eedingly obnoxious, and even dangerous,
IS source of contagion and disease. Now
it is a we'll known fact, to "many" citizens
from other parts of the town, who have
visited the said ally, that number of trib-
utaries, emanating, to all appearance, from
with n the Enclosures of suudry persons in
The vicinity, smell quite as bad, if not
worse, than the alley itself /; and they fur
ther think it could hardly be expected
that pure stream would flow from an i'm
pure fountain. 1t is source Of regret to
.smany" outsiders, that those insiders can
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