Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-09

time Governor Of the State" Quoting
from memory Of many years gone by, l
am probably not exact as 20 the words, but
would give more for one Of those plates
or other Canal crcckery than for any rus
ty cent which our numismatics are now
half mad over.
WLizziug by rail along this deai-levei
country, contrasts somewhat with what
was esteemed tiP-top ,ra.eliug, by ''pacE-
e;-boats,' 20 and 80 years ago. Those
VINO Travelled sig, eight or tea miles an
hour, thought it fast work, aud looked
with some contempt On respectable clue
boats" which, having more freight aud
fewer horses to change, we're necessarily
slower. Yet that mode cf l0com1t!on had
is advantages AID comforts to peo-e not
il hurry. OF i cool day You could read
or tab At leisure, sleep without aay jir
Of locks on this iong level, or hard ones
anywhere. But, hot days and nights,
what purgalyry what hive for gua's
and musqr,toes. and how tie fever u
ssur" dI. sem to rise visibly along that
mois, bec-liue q. The hallway sought the
same smooth, even route, cast up by Nature
for travel; and the necessary draining,
cutting down the wood for fuel aud letting
in the sun, have made thousands AID
thousands Of acres Of dry land which | used
to see iu dark, dauk sw-mQs, deemed pes
,ilential and worthless. Large farms Of
grazing aud grain land, with fue improve
meuts, and the bum of Industry, now
greet the traveller, where were - lately
,crutby woods fuI. Of the song 0: the frogs
aud the owls. Tie vegetable deposits oi
unknown centuries make soil rich IN al
most every hing required to eater into tie
stomach OF man or beast.
There are many SPRINGS" through this
region which have local celebrity for
medicinal qualities, and tue "Oneita Sui
phur." and the "C.ifiou" in Ontario c1uu-
tv, are known abroad. One Sulphur
Springs" in an open WOODS. think in
Q i>co, my se.iaud other cutaacously an Ct
el urchins were once ex,.li to, on a foot
VOYAGE ; We washed in It's wG:cTs, which
prccipi;ateG a sulpbury color, and had BOT
an odor Of "Araby tle best tut We took
home jugs Of the liquid, Eept 1t IN cool
cellars, drank it peuuriously-and subse-
oleutly thereto were relieved of the severe
ly-tickiiDg propeusi;ies Of the epid.Tuis:
= SYRACUSE is the modern name Tor Salt
Pint" which, with the adjacent Villages
of Gedies, Saliaa, aud Liverpool, must
comprise so, ,0C0 people within circuit Of
ten miles. 1t lies at the south end of
Onondaga Lake. sheet Ct water say two
miles wide by five or SIX long, having Ged-
dcs on its south west, Saliua on the east,
aud Liverpool on its northeast borier-
the latter village having charming lock
from the Railroad under the ray Of a sum-
mer's SUI. Syracuse issaid to be growing
faster than any other interior ely IN the
State. and yies with Utica and Rochester
in the extent OF its travelling ramlfcat!ons.
Its "underground railroad" has "nation-
az reputation uDsurpassed.) The build
ines to be seen in passing are not so sub
stantial and costly as in many cities, but
there is great appearance OF life, and a
population reputed to number $4,000.
You know that SALT is the ''stapIe' Of
Syracuse-"sal,-naking" its speciality.
There are saline springs throughout this
region, but no works except on small
scale a. Mon.ezuma, and on large aud
increasing scale here. The salt water Is
pumped from wells, and Is to 80 gallons
Of it will make bushel Of pure salt, while
so gallons Of sea water are required TO
make - pounds Fine salt is produced
by boiling over bot fires, and coarse salt
by solar evaporation. Frames with low
roofs are made, to roll over the va's or
pans sut tjecied to the suns rays, 10 time
of snow or rain, and on the under side OF
these roofs salt sometimes crysta.lizes and
isremoved. These roofs look like the tents
of an immense army recent storm play
ed havoc, driving them about almost Ilhe
ships without anchors, aud 'sseetenIng
the tea" with fresh-water nowise profitable.
1t is stated that people have here bored
go feet without finding the fossil or rock
salt, but the brine increased in strength.
Tie salt mines of Poland are 80, and
those of Eperies 800 feet deep-so there
may qgite probably be enough salt in this
mine to ''pseserve The Union' from putTe-
faction for thousands of years.
Oaondaga West Hill, little south Of
the City, was formerly the scat Of justice,
which was removed TO and swallowed up ,
and los, sight of in Syracuse, (sfter ''bIg
e .h," TO which your removal from M'ffin-
bnrg to New Berlin, aud from the latter
20 Lewisturg, bore 10 COMPARISON whose
streets cover the thiu-wo wooded "1ood5" SO
lately seen. Between this point and my
boyhood's homo is the observation" for
n t-as