Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-08-17

where af-r of, you may NEE; one who 10
Fastening to wax il tha, path; one may
!ir-er IL the mountains aud think Of it;
one mag toss on the sea and remember IL;
fee; wax il Paradise tba, pressed i, feet
t-rn With thJrns that would deligh. 10 it,
Such i tie magic and beauty Of home.
But ;ha: gate has opened and closed ,xen.
y times day, and SO, to and fro upon
that path mere than Two hundred thousand
pilgrims have goue. Only one in all these
yeaEs Las been borne f.r.L to return no
more forever.
Aud wba: 4 multitude has te,n shell
;eIe! beneath that roof; has enlarged the
circle round the freside; has par,aken Of
the abundance Of basket and store. An
hundred thousand have come, and an hun
Grcl thousand have been taken ty the land
a-l made welcome. And all, over that
path, and al, over that threshold. And
ye; the latter, come 70 look at it, is not
woro. The sun is swinging round to-
wards the 'noou-maTk" they traced on it;
tie 'Do9a-mark' as leg.ble as ever. Hers
vas sp., ulnoied il tie wilderness, only
I l!;t.s while ago; an oak-opepIrg where
deer II ped and hunters built tbeir camp
l-es. Oae man rolled up four cabin walls
aui ;rod al esr;hen hearth one woman
swept tie rough fJor aud car1i.hed the
walls with the humbles. Of aiornings;
one gil trained vines around the li,tls
widows, aud planted fowers BESIDE the
cottage door. This was all, aud this vas
AJme. Aud to this almost. .un3iscsrnsbls
spot, now fee, and hearts made frequent
p griinage. Then did they begin to wear
i-e u-rG0w path be it worn and beau.i-
FL forever then was drawn tha. First
Meridian Of many hearts; that poins
whence they reckon their departure"
and wi.her, wander they eve. SO far, tarry
tLey ever 50 long, they all promise them
s=.ves to return, sooner OF later, this year,
O. the next, s7me time.
People tax a good deal Of the "ui--
sious" they have to perform; of the going
about they Lave TO CO amoDg the hsa;hen
Of C1risteli5u. bu; be who carves ou, 10
the wilderness oue such Home, one such
lay almost bte4.med in tie uiis, Of The
woods, and stays il it and hoDors it, does
more flr his ueigLt5rs, uore for God and
h:s country, more f5r the years to come,
than the moral Saucho Pauzas that e.
forth ty pen or person to 10 knightly ser.
vice, tie Word Is 10, better tor them to
the amount Of one such rarrow path, ore
mare F.rs; Meridian Of Home.
EAiLEoAD P2oGRESs " TIE UNITED
SIATE- The Railway Annual 70, 1859
states tha; in Zine years, or from 1850 to
SO, the railways Of the United States
we increased frcm ,355 to p ,9ii miles
4 length. In this period the Increase in
lie NV Eag'and States amounted 10
? II Per cent, while in eight Of the
Y stern States the increase vss l20I4l
~ cent At the same time, the former
,liuei il ? Fula;iou lG-l2 per cent, and
lie latter II - The total cost Of the
oais, up to Is59, amounted to S3G5, i5I,-
20, Of which large sum it Is supposed
8e-tbiri has been wasted in construction.
There at this time IS coo miles of fu-
.Lsdr9ads il the United States, and abou.
{, 600 under construction r projected, re-
1iriuc $il9, ,O0l, 900 rtheir comp pIeticn.
: Is estimated, however, that many years
lust elsPse before sgfhcien, capital can be
iyeEre! from other objects to carry them
rough. In the meantime, many projec-
! il the spirit Of rivalry TO other roads
III be abandoned. 1t is calculated that
1000 miles of railway are sufficient to
, all the business Of the country a. the
resent time, aud iha, 5000 miles have
zen constructed ip part in rivalry to 9TH
roads, which have proved dead loss to
and IL the main will pass iu-
the hands Of the stockholders.
The average cost Of railways per mile
the New Englaud States has been $50
5 in the Middle States S40,3l9; in
: Southern States SD ,.09; and iu
e Wes;eIu States sac, ,35S. The reason
, gued fcr the chsapuess of eauetrue,ion
railroad. 1t tb. South is that they were
n, On the cash pan. Among the net
rniDcs the Panama shows the large,t
.uras, being $-9,5Gi per mile; and
9so earning the least OF nothing to
.ckbo,3aIs are found il Maine, V,rmont,
ssissiPpi, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, New
*, 6,. Tie list Of di,ii,ni paying
.ds comprises sevsnty-siGbt, among
ich two pay au annual dividend Of 5per
It; nine 10 per cent; two per cent;
5 per cent SIX Psr cent; tbirty6
cent fye Per cent. one per
i. ; cue y per cent; and one ) per
I. The lis; Of delinquent companies on
Ks or bonds amount to ihir:y-;bree.
lei I,-dsi detts OF the American