Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-08-08


every one who takes trip "stoue's 5
~ row" from home TO write their travels,
~hy may not We, Messrs El;tors, narrate
the incidents attendant upon trip all the
way to Phils,, going and returning by the
Catawissa road too! (By-the-by, this
same road has ts,n greatly abused; but
even its curves shaped like the letter U,
its bridges thrown high enough to link
mountaius together, and its tunnels, where
We have understood tons OF rock sometimes
f.ll, can be batter borne than tn, snail's
pace or pcs.if,rous. air OF P.oiet Boat
The route on tie mountains, among some
Of the widest, grandest scenery, is truly
delightful, aus. there is certain feeling
of seculi y in knowing that everything is
still new aud well constructed, bu: defend
Us from ride over this road after the ef-
fec,s produced by time aud the weather
AR iiscernible on lis mortar and timber.
The last lime We visited Pailada. every
body in and about our usua! stopping place
the Merchants Hotel seemed half
asleep, as they had been kept awake the
greater part Of the nisht before with the
music aud committees attendant upon the
arrival of thu Hon. Mr.. Buchanan, "a
great deal Of unnecessary trouble, We
thought, Oh account of fussy old bach
eior, who with his aris,ocratic tastes, ard
habits, aud manners, formed in freign
courts, we trust viii never be the Presi
dent OF great, growing, republican
country Ike America. In the present
crisis Of aaIirs. in our humble udgmeht,
wc neel ne,o man-some one ike thr
young V;rsinian, Col. George Washing.
ton. IL had proved himself a good sur
veyor, end With almost az much energy
aud travory az Fremont, had tracked til,
wilds anl faced tue dangers of the forest.
Bat politics apart, on arriving at the city,
we put up for tie first time at the Nj.
Vernon House, considering that when bu-
-iness is to be attended to, dining at tie
good old fashioned hours Of twelve and
Jue, Is an important item in the saving Of
time. NJ. Barrett, the proprietor, is
gentlemanIy and pica,an, man, and during
vnr short stay We observed that everything
possible was done for the comfort and
pien-urc Of his guests. The servants
we're particularly obliging and attentive;
the boun'ifdi board supplied with every
,ielicacy Of the season, aud then there
was that absence Of fern aud ceremony
so ikscme to people of plain, country
habits, like ourselves.
And now, as is usually the case with
~oman, we are coming TO the subject
which induced Us to write this letter, aud
hat vas to spcsl os the interest aud sym
pathy manifested fo- the sufferers in the
iate accident On the North Penra. Raj.
road. At the Mt. Vernon House aioue,
Nr. Barrett. had succeeded in raising,
from the boarlcrs and yisiiers at the
House,) One Hundeed Dollars for the
honrh. of these poor Roman Catholic
children. At many of the windows, We
saw exhibited colored pictures of the
wrecks Of the cars, burning, with mangled
human bodies protruding, bu, We are told
that all description fails to give an idea
cf the horrors of the scene The details
of that accident were enough to wiring
The HARDEST heart. Among other ins,an.
ces was one that Interested US greatly,
that of a poor girl, a dressmaker, who
was the only child and sole support of
widowed mother She vas anxious TO 90
or .he excursion, but the mother feared
an accident. "Oh m ,ther," said she, Z" |
am 50 weary being all the time in the
city, and never getting a breath of fresh
country air, do let ME 60" Here we
would just pause to remark how forcibly
&c we're s:Tuc6 With the contrast between
city and cruntry children. The former
sport in he long. gloomy hall Of the ho-
tel, or on the dry, dusty povement, and
as we watched The cluster Of little heads,
looking from the windows into the close,
narrow streets. in search Of amusement,
10 wonder We thought Of the breezy hills
aud nurnuIing streams, beside which the |
children of our own favored village may
play. But to return 10 what We were
saying about the poor dressmaker. After
some farther persuasion, aud especially as
tho clargy" were going, the mother was
induced 10 give btr consent. The only /
say the distracted parent could afterwards
identify her remains, was by the clorhing
ner dan yhtcr had taken so much pains 10
prepare. Her head was taken clean off .
and burned. Nearly all the sufferers are
wrotchedly poor. Many of them have
lost les or an arm some OF them both
legs and arms, and great many have
been deprivec of both ears. We were
ia to reari that the tide Of Indignation
al IS