Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-04-29
EDITORIAL SUMMARY.

FIRE IN DETRoIT.-We learn from the
steamboats,, that there has been fire in De-
troit which consumed an entire block of build
ings. The particulars we have not learned.
1t broke out on Wednesday evening, and is
said TO have originated in bakery. o.
ANOTHER STEAMBOAT LAID BY.--The De-
troit has been purchased or chartered by the
citizens of Chicago and st. Joseph, to run
between those two places, and upon the lands
and waters thereto lying adjacent. She will
probably follow the example ofthe Pioneer and
Delaware, and " camp OUT in the fall.
For the last two months, the steamboat ar
rivals at Pittsburg have averaged three per
day. At Cincinnati, the average number is
ten per day. 49,
tits reported that the printing for the sew
eral departments of the goverr:..olt at Wash
ington, has been taken from the Globe, and
given to the Georgetown Metropolitan.
Commissioners have appointed to run
the line between Texas and the United States.
Wonder ifthey will have as goodluck as some
commissioners appointed for similar purpose
by our legislature, year or two since, had,
in the prosecution of their duties. The raft
subject Of border song for ages to come, and
generations yet unborn shall tell how the Ohio
wisemen, thrown from their polarity by some
unknown dip, took to their heels, and brought
up in the several wooden bastles of the terri
tory ofMichigan.
PREsEnvEp FIsH, Of New York, has failed.
Good n We thought he was dead and sailed
a good while ago. AT any rate, he must
think hmselfin pickle by this time.
CORNELIUS w. LAWRENCE, Mayor Of New
York, has failed. What does he think of the
treasury order! 1S9
A correspondent of the Manhattan Adver-
tiser halls from Put in Bay, where he says,
he is engaged in making bogats." He says,
these banks ant what they are cracked up
to be, and that the specie is the only true cir
culating medium. s7a =
The steamboat Commodore Perry, enter
ing the harbor at Sandusky, few days since,
was met and run into by the brig Ramsey
Crooks, and was considerably damaged, by
having her larboard wheel-house torn away ),
by the bows of the brig. The heaviest loss
however will be sustained by the brig, which
lost her bowsprit, jib-boom, fgure-head, cut
water and bulwarks forward, and was injured
in her rigging. No blame was attached to Ell
ther party. 49,. ID
The steamboat United States is the first
boat which has reachedE this spring. The
Oliver Newbury has also visited that place.
A gentleman who arrived at Detroit on Fri
day the 18th inst. states that he came direct
from Macinac in sleigh to Fort Gratiot, and
that he crossed Saginaw bay upon the ice,
6 camping out" one night. He states that
the ice is perfectly sound, and very thick.
A board kiln was burned in this place this
week. These board kiln fires are too expen-
sive to be indulged in SO often. 1t takes too
much lumber to build them.
The two steamboats, building at Black Riv-
er are completed and ready tor running. They
are called, the Constellation, and Bunker Hill
The Constellation measures over five hundred
IONS, and the Bunker Hill over four hundred
md fifty. They are said to be well built and
very strong boats, capable Of carrying hea-
w freight, with genteel cabins and accom-
for passengers. They are not ex- n
'ected to be very fast. The architects are
he Messrs. Jones. se asr9
&C. Thrty-six thousand dollars have been
subscribed at Chicago, towards the building
# steamboat, to ply between that place and :
IT. Joseph.
On Saturday week, Henry r. Schoolcraft,
esq. of Detroit, as agent for the General Go
ernment, held council with the principal
len Of the Ottewa tribe of Indians, upon this +
ver. The subject of the consultation was
ne removal of the Indians to the country west
f the Mississippi river. Itis reported that
ley have determined to remove. e0 ~
An appropriation of3O, 900 dollars has been
ade by Congress for the construction Of the !
[onroe Ship Canal 4 rlsa s =
The State Of Connecticut has again gone for
[r. Van Buren. The results may be guessed }
from the comparative strength Of each par
in the Senate--thev are II to Z