Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-05-18
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Correspondence of the Lewisburg ChrUnicle.l
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PuILAD., Monday, May ii.
DEAR Severe and pro-
tracted sickness in my family, has prevent
ed my writing to you for the last two
weeks, notwithstanding there were few
things wanted to say. At present, the
market is fat-"nothing stirring" save
now and then the booming of the Siege
guns at Sebastopol, which is as eagerly
listened for as "latest news from Mexico"
was wont to be, while our volunteers we're
sweltering on its plains.
New York has had her Anniversary
week" and swallowed more "reports" than
could easily be digested in year but our
Quaker borough has been as still as frog
pond the while, although "Sam" has
fought and won another battle.
And bye and bye it will be much stillerj
from every Indications "deserted village
for almost every third person you meet is
"going to Europe"
The frightful loss of life during last
summer and fall, has no effect; and deli
cate women and timid girls, and effermi-
nate youths and sober fathers, are scram-
bling for berths on crowded steamers .
fa:tering themselves that the little disa-
greements of the voyage will be of only
fortnights duration, and then well, we
don't envy the fashionable traveller his
pleasures.
The present season would 60 good
ways toward equipping the English and
French armies, if the respective govern
ments would impose a moderate tourists
tax in addition to the present passport
system.
heard our present Mayor once assert
in public speech, that the close con:mu-
nication between the old and new
world, brought about by steam, was one of
the greatest curses which had ever fallen
on America. thought Linn fool at
the time-in fact he was not very sober
but there was more truth than poetry in
the assertion.
As long as hordes of Americans visi.
Europe every year, and become familiariz-
ed with-not her miseries but her follies;
not her lanes and alleys, but her "sights"
and celebrities, and return home with
profound reverence for the wisdom and
polish they have seen abroad with refined
tastes in art and manufactures, and with a
irmer conviction that the people Of Europe
as far as they hare seen, are as free and
as happy as We are here and this is the
conclusion of nine out Of every ten what
is the effect? Why, if they want pic
ture, it must be ordered abroad, the man
who has worn French boot, or the lady
a French bonnet, can never descend to
wear anything else Paper without Paris
stamp or the Eng lish water mark, is not
fit to write on, and l know gentlemen and
ladies who use visiting cards that would
disgrace our meanest cngravers, but they
we're done in Paris! Is it any wonder
that specie is shipped by millions and ma
nufacturers starving? In the first place
ours is brought into competition with the
unpaid labor of Europe and then the
foreign mania will admit nothing into COM
notition with its yitiated and unatural
taste and so will it remain while people
turn their backs on the most magnificent
country in the world, and give the pro.
ducts of every other land the preference
before our own.
1regrcs that the Chronicle fell into the
same error that "Anglo American" did in
regard to . sentence occurring in one OF
my letters There can be nothing further
from the truth, than your construction