Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-11-20

and have our houses furnished up, ant
our stores beauti6ed; and our wives shal
have lots Of money to buy new dresses
and cartes Uane on the jewellers; and ou
older children shall make the tour of Eu
rope, and acquire manners, and taste fo
dressing, and sufficient French to damI
everything American in polite terms, an.
vote politics and religion, humbugs!
But, for all that, there is long wintel
before US, and gaunt faces begin to NEE
one in the streets, even now. Lack-lustrt
eyes are ever and anon peering into ones
face, and bony hands extended for helI
at every corner, and tugging at dOorbells
all day long. But it is not "honest pow
erty." 1t smells of lager bier and whis
key, and savors Of St. Msry's and Small
streets.
Philanthropy is hard at work. Dear,
good women, are making coats and gar
ments, and the men are contributing to
buy -four and coal, and forming themselves
into ward committees to visit and distri.
butte charities, and the poor are being pet.
ted and spoiled, and fitted up for regular
pauper habits. The money spent, in one
winter, in this way, would build aud eDdow
a workhOuse large enough to employ every
vagrant in our streets in such way as to
provide themselves with every comfort ;
at the same time drawing them from temp
tation, and offering an opportunity for
christianity to COW the seeds Of virtue and
happiness hereafter.
The times seem to operate badly with
those who get up public sports and enter
tainments for the winter season. The
Opera has had to seek warmer cline.
The Theatre is not drawing, at 25 cents
admission. The Lectures are thinly at
tended-even Lola Montez holds forth to
THU houses, and Ward Beecher was afraid
to toe the mark the other night, lest be
should meet but beggarly account of
empty boxes.
The stockholders of the Bank of Penn
sylvaDia held meeting to-day, in a good
deal of confusion and the Directors seem
to think that the amount of defalcation is
not all known yet. At the same time, Mr.
S.Austin Allibone publishes a card asking
for suspension Of public opinion until
Thomas Allibone (the Europe-visiting late
President) returns, and his affairs can be
MISUNDERSTANDING at the same time
the idea of his having "absconded" But
public opinion wont suspend" and no
outside pressure can force it.
You see by the papers that we have
been able to get up little killing affair
Of our Own, and are for the time somewhat
Independent of New York. l refer to the
Carter murder, at the St. Lawrence. Pub.
lie opinion don't know what to decide on
in regard to it. l have had good deal
of business intercourse with Smith, before
now, and always supposed him little
"queer," but better natured man never
met. l think it likely be had serious
causes for his rash act. At any rate be is
safe during the hard times.
You have also noted the demise of Mrs.
DR.. Rush, aud seen some of the sickly
complainings Of those who sentimentalize
over patrons and patronesses of art and
taste. An aspirant for fame, she bought
it by keeping il her retinue troop of
hirelings and ninnys who imagined them.
selves honored by her notice, but were only
her tools, and who mourn not SO much for
her as for her reunions. Not eminent for
those gentler virtues which are the only
ornaments that can add lustre to woman,
she was worldling in every sense of the
term. Yours, SHF.
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