Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-03-12

DraHcheS,-an then IN me easi, from
the Illinois, the Ohio and lis numerous
triburaries-such as the Tennessee, the
Cumberland, or The meanest OF which,
such as the Sandy River, on the borders
( Of Kentucky-that will in a ireshet,
fret, and roar, and dash, as If II were the
Father of Floods, till it sinks into moth
ing, when embosomed in the greater
stream, and there acknowledges IFS own
ms gnficance. Let him see the "Broad
Horns," the adventurous fiat boats Of
western w uters, on which irail bark! -
the daring backwoodsman salies forth
from the Wabash, or rivers hundreds of
miles above, OH voyage Of Atlantic
distance, with hogs, horses, oxen, and
cattle of all kinds OH board--cOrn, flour,
wheat, all the products of rich West
ern land--and let him see them, too, as
he stems the strong current Of the Mis-
sissippi, as if the wood on which he float
ed, was realising the fable ol'ihe Nymph
of a--goddesses, instead of pines.--
Take the young traveller, where the
clear, silvery waters of the Ohio become
tinged with mud from the Missouri, and
where the currents of the mighty rivers
run apart for miles, as if indignant at the
strange embrace. Ascend with HIM
further, TO St. Louis, where, If he looks
upon the map, he will find that he is "a
bout as near the east as the west, and
that soon, the emigrant, who is borne on
the wave Of population that now beats al
the base of the Rocky Mountains, and
anon will overeap its SUBMITS, will speak
of him as he now speaks OF New Eng
land, as far in the east. And then tell
him, that far West as he is, he is but at
the beginning Of steam nav gation-that
the Mississippi itself is navigable six or
seven hundred miles upward and that
steamboats, have actually gone on the
Missouri two thousand Ole hundred
miles above its mouth, and that they can
go, five hundred miles farther STILL
/ Take him, then, from this land, where
the woodsman is leveliing the forests
every hour across the rich praries Of IL
linois, where civilization is throwing up
towns and villages, pointed with the
| spire of the church, and adorned with
the college and the school, then athwart
the hourishng fields of Indiana, TO Gin
cnnati-wel called "the Queen OF the
West, "a city OF thirty thousand inhab-
itants, with paved streets, numerous
churches, fourishing manufactures and
an intelligent society too-and this in
state with million Of souls in it now,
that has undertaken gigantic public
works-where the fierce savages, even
within the memory of the young men,
made the heats of their parents quake
with fear,-roaning over the forests, as
they did, in unbridled triumph, WELD"
ing the tomahawk in terror, and ringing
the War-hoop, like Demons Of Ven
geance let loose from below! Show
hum our immense inland seas, from Green
Bay to Lake Ontario, not inconsider-
able Oceans, ns,-encompassed with fertile
fields. Show him the public works of
the Empire State, as well as those of
Pennsy sylvania, a,-works, the wonder Of
the world, such as no people in modern
times have ever equalled. And then
introduce him to the busy, humming,
thriving, population Of New England,
from the green mountains Of Vermont, =,
the Switzerland of America, to the
Northern lakes and wide sea-coast of
Maine. Show him the industry, ener-
gy, skill, and ingenuity of these hardy
people, who let not rivulet run nor a
puff of wind blow, without turning it to
some account,-who mingle in every
thing, speculate in every thing, and dare
every thing, wherever cent of money is
to be earned, whose lumber men are
found, not only in the deepest woods Of
the snowy and fearful wilds Of Maine,
throwing up saw mills On the lone water
| falls, and making the woods ring with
their Kissing music, but found, too, on
the banks of the St. Lawrence, and
coming also on mighty RATS of de- al from
every eastern tributary of the wild St.
John, the Meduxnekesg and Aroostook ::
sire ans whose names geographcrs hard
! ly know.
! And then, too, as if this were not e.
nough, they turn their enterprise, and
form companies "to log and lumber
even the Ocmulgee and Oconee of the
State of Georgia,--and on this day they
are actually found in the Floridas, there
planning similar schemes, and as there
are no waterfalls, making steam imPel
their saws. Show him the banks OF the
Penobscot, now studded with superb VII
lages,---jewels Of places, that have
sprung up like magic, the magnificent
military road that lends to the United
States garrison at Houlton, fairy spot
in the wilderness, but approached by as
excellent a road as the United States
can bonst of. Show him the hundreds
and hundreds Of coasters that run uT
every creek and inlet Of tide water, there