Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1838-10-11
TWHoLE No. AS.
ADAY OR TWO UPON LAKE ERIE.
Correspondence 0fMe ". Y. Express.

Correspondence O Tie W Y. Express.
am OH board one Of the convenient, neat,
and elegant steamers that sail OH this broad
aud beautiful lake, covering a space Of water
Of ten thousand square miles. Although lar
from the shore, all around me see the wa
tiers either whiiened with the sails of tho
vessels that are continually on the wing.
moving from port to port, or dnrkened with
the srnoke ascending from the little fleet OF
steamers moving to and fro. The statistics
have been reading tell me that besides sixty
steamboats, now engaged in the regular trade
of the lakes, there are not less than three
hundred and forty or fifty larger vessels; oil
of them sail when the lake Is open, morning,
day, and night, from and to the different ports
on The lake, and all of them, believe, yield
ing their owners profits as large as the larger
yes, els that navigate the ocean. Last year
two hundred and fifty thousand emgrants,
bound from the North TO tho West, were
borne upon these waters. Bubal0 Is the
grand rendezvous of the emigrants. They
assemble themselves there from uil quarters
of the North, East, and South, and from al
most all quarters Of the European world
Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, and Chicago, and
generally the points of steamboat destination
-rolcdo, on the Maumce, 20 miles from De-
troi', being tho last point Of the steamboat
passage. The passengers from Buffalo for
Chicago usually take a water passage TO
Detroit. through Clair, Lake Huron, aud
around Robin Hoods Row, to Chicago, some
thirteen hundred miles Oh. The distance
by land is about GOO miles, over one Of the
worst roads ever made or ever heard of. As
you vulue a whole head and u sound body,
don't go by land.
I, Lake Erie is as beautiful sheet Of water
as was ever poured from the hands OF the
Maker of the Universe. The lake is near
, three hundred miles long, and in it's widest
part more than sixty broad. A little sloop
called the Detroit was upon the lake in I115
the first vessel upon these Western waters.
What q contrast between Lake Erie IN ITI5,
and Lake Erie in 1898 Now fifteen or
twenty large and populous towns are upon
the American shore, and one or two upon the
Canadian shore the one or two, however,
appearing in striking contrast to the larger
number and larger towns on the opposite
A moral aud a political lesson is taught the
traveller, not unlike the one he learns when
travelling upon the Ohio. Upon the one side.
all is life, hustle, commotion, happiness,
equality, aud prosperity. Upon the other, in
tho Queens dominlons, you see. in striking
contrast, the difference between Royalty aud
Republicanism-betwee a people born Ia
The dominions Of a King or Queen aud IN a
+ land where the people are their own sover-
egns.
There are seventeen landing places be-
tween Buffalo and Detroit. Dunkirk, the
first of them, IL but thirteen miles from Bnf-
. salo, q place already Of some no,oriety, aud
soon destined to become still more pros
porous. Van Burcn (alas, mast say agaIr
that man will ape the fashion of giving the
names OF men 10 the names of places) Is l"f
miles further on /; Erie is thirty miles aheat
of Dunkirk one of the oldest towns in Penn
; sylvania. with something short Of 1000 iu'
Iubiants. Ii is the terminating point Of the
Western canal connecting the waters OF tho
lake with Plttsburg and Philadelphia. The
Northumberland and Philadelphia canal also
terminates here. Pittsburg is one hundred
and twenty miles off, and Philadelphia nearly
four hundred. Seventy miles further on you
reach Cleveland, the capital of Cuyahogu
county, at the month OF little creek bearing
; the name OF the county. Cleveland Is one o
the most hourshing towns III either OF tht
t Western States. Yankee enterprise is seer
y there as it is seen in but few even OF our mos
embarrassing towns. In few years il ha
grown with rapdity equalled but by few q
the towns in New York-Butfalo and Roch
ester, perhaps. have gone beyond it, from ,h
advantages of their location. But CieN"'ail
is at least second best. A new and fourlsl
ing town is sprngiDg up just opposite
Cleveland, raised in n spirit OF rivalry, b
- lieve, and called Ohio city. Its fate is III
certain. Cleveland, you rcmemhcr, Is TO
q .le terminus of the OHIO aud Erie cana
y, uniting the lake with the Ohio river, 81
miles in distancc.' There are other towns
=, importance beyond this side Of Detroit: SAT
- dusky busy place upon the American shor,
where railroad is building to Dayton, o
the main canal, which will form another Unio
between the Ohio river and Lake Erie. Am
.hcrsburg upon the Canadian shore, is al In
;, mouth Of the Detroit, and the scene a
: an interesting and fierce fight IN the last wal
Is and more recently Of a @ilarc up" with th
Ca"ada, Royalists and Patriots. Browns
town is hard bv, where the Americans fuugil
=, one of their best battles with brother Joh
Bull. Frcnchtown. too, is not far off, whcr
s,yeu hundred Of the brayest sons oi Ken
A. tucky found their deaths and graves, IN
4, massacre Utmost unhcard Of for inhumani,,
- Their bones literally hay bleachea upon tl'
= earth, and their blood cried from the groun
q for yengcance. The battle of the Thamt
g alterw ards gave them the desired sa'stsc,lo
e. Like Erie abounds in story and Interest,"
III In war II has been famed for the blood she
30 the battles lost, and the victories won on u
he bosom of the lake, aud on its borders.
y. pcace il is distinguished MS kind 0i la.
10 road between the Fast and the far West, u
70 undisturbrd boundary line between III
"s s Maies,ys and our own dominions.
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