Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-02
ICorrrsponirnce Of the STAR Chronieiel
To Our Old Editorial Pine Table.


/ whose waters are used, in their descent OF
ID or 20 miles each, in propeilins machl-
nery for one or two hundred mills aud
factories of various kinds. The first grls'-
mill IN this region was erected IN lio9,
and the first cotton factory 10 1903. An
immense sum OF money is now invested
in domestic manufactures. The country
is dotted with little villages, and filed with
thriving farmors, q1ietly bu, sys'emaii-
cally becoming rich, and swelling the pop
ulation Of Oueida county to over 100, ,OO0.
Coming northward to the plain Of the Mo-
hawk, the view Of the City of Utica from
the head of its wide, principal avenue,
(Genesee street is rarely exceilei. The
most Of my teens were spent here, and |
looked for many changes. The most strl-
king object in the former FIRST sight OF the
place, is missing-,hc tall, white, solid
spire of the earliest Presbyterian Church
edilice, which was one of the most grace
ful aud elevated | haye yet seen, 40 longer
catches the first and the last rays of the
sun. The house was gni,ed by young
fireman, (literwards hung for arson, hav-
ing first confessed this deed,) that he
might see a magnificent spectacle. In It's
stead is another ed.fce, of darker color,
aud not as imposing in Appearance, The
city has probably doubled III twenty years,
and contains 80, coo inhabitants. tarri-
ed on buiit-up, popular street, where
were open fields and commons, "out of the
city," when l was lad. Ny former
dwelling places | found, unal;ered-but
only one old Ieghbor was to be meta
good Welch woman, who had buried her
honest husband and FIVE of the eight chill
dren-lovely girls aud lively ladS-Wiih
whom | FIRST sought company when an ut
ter stranger. (Geutl,, beautiful WINI-
FRED, surely heaven is your home, aftce
the agonziog trials you here endured
The sweet, suiT ring smile still reigns su-
preme over the wrinkles of time on your
kind mothers f4cc-"but;" said she, SO
mournfuliy, "Ah. my heart is sad and
broke."D
Rev. DR.. Dewitt, Of Harrisburg, in a
lecture before his church, Impressed me
with the remark, that, as general rule,
he did not ask how people die}, bu; how
they Ecca-,heir youth generally deter
mined the character of their mature life
and their old age. Thus found it here
With very few old acquantances was re-
cogni,iOn mutual OF fellow apprentices,
one, a younger when was an older, is
now Post Master, and accords me honor
as an aid in his learning the cart Of let-
ters." Many are of good standing and
inhuence-some Of "no reputation"-and
others have, in sorrow and shame, closed
at noon, lives, whose pleasant mornings
were stained by dissipation and uDgddly
license Many business stands remain
unchanged-their signs as lifeliko as ones
own face in aglass-while others are swept
away, men and buildings, and all around
them seems confused and unreal. The
city appears to have considerable manu-
featuring and trading enterprise spe-
cially prosperous at present-but with
much substantial, comfortable elegance in
private residences, aud proiuson Of trees
and shrubbery. In the midst of all its
noise and stir, | could but recall the time
of dsmay aud desolatiou, when, standing
on the Genesee street ridge-the very
center of the city, in broad day, during
the primal sweep of the Asiatic Cholera,
in lS32-lookirg up and down that great
thoroughfare l could see no human being
The State Lunatic Asylum on the north
west of the city, is beautiful stone struc-
ture, $50 feet long, the centre iG and the
wings 40 feet wide, and was intended to
accommodate 1000 patients. The usual
view of visitors is limited to the first floor,
one wing of which is occupied by the male
and the other by the female patients who
are most healthy and nearest cured. Some
of these were disposed to be sociable, some
we're reading or sewing, others walked to /
and fro as if chaiing in confinement, aud /
some seemed somewhat annoyed by being
looked at, keeping their eyes fixed on the /
paintings, &C., upon the walls, or some /
other objects than their visitors, who were
passing along the same hall, on each side
If which their private rooms are ranged.
There are ample walks and pleasure grounds I
within the enclosure, outside Of the build
pg, where the females especially seem
,uite interested but they had, after all
heir careful and attractive surroundings,
md clean, neat apartments, an unsatisled,
melancholy air that should make one daily
hank G God for reason as well as other bless.
Dgs. Among the managers of the Asy-
um is one (Dr. Cray from BellefoDte, Pa,
A. Andrews & Son, on Catharine stee',
lear the Genesee canal Bridge, ars l-rgely