Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1838-08-11
MAUMEE CITY EXPRESS.
SATURDAY, AUGUST II, 1888.

u.s. at the foot of the rapids, to witness the ST.
lent but decided manifestations of public favor,
in reference to our city, which from time to
time deyelope themselves. The pressure, with
all its blasting influences, has not prevented us
from increasing the number of our local i'm
provements, and gaining rapidly in public es-
fiuation abroad. While other places, Of far
greater -pretensions to notoriety, complain BIT
serly Of the effects of hard times upon Lake
Commerce, we see daily more steam boats in
our port, and our wharyes and streets present
more Of the hustle Of an active business, than
when the fever of speculation beat its quickest
pulse. Our advertising columns display a
number of heavy establishments, which have
been opened here during the present summer.
Our merchants old and new, with scarcely an ex-
ceptioD, announce the recent arrival Of heavy
stocks Our forwarders, although increased in
number, complain not, Of want Of employ
ment, as may be seen on reference to their ad-
vertisements. Business,t is true, is very hard
with us, as it is elsewhere, but it has not been,
as in many other places, attended with fail
ures, and relinquishments, in consequence
Of the speculations which preceded it. On the
contrary, our city has been continually gaining
ground. We have frequently inquired, why Is
this? An esteemed friend of ours, being asked
this question, few days since, answered, in
substance as follows. Said he, "There are
doubtlessmany prospective reasons,fo with lit
tie else than the hope of obtaining livelihood,
any where until times shall change, we can
hardly suppose that Maumee would be so ge-
nerally selected as location, by the enterpris-
ing emigrant to this portion of the Vest
People who come here now, seek for place
where they can do business, rather than the
atre for speculation. They wish to become
permanent residents, and consequently they
avoid all representations, and see for them
selves. Those who have settled here, have
the belief well grounded In their minds, that
when times change for the better, Maumee
will rank foremost, among the cities of the
West. The conclusion follows naturally
They see Its situation at the head of the navi-
gable waters of river, which for all BUSINESS
purposes, bounds the western extremity of
Lake Erie, and at the virtual termination of
Canal, which together with its contemplative
tributaries, stretches over one of the most fer
tile Soils and extensive territories in the Uni
verse. How can they resist the conclusion
they have formedF" So think we, an in addi-
tion to the answer Of our friend, we would say,
that it should ever be held in remembrance,
that public opinion, did not visit us, when we
were glittering in the sun-beams of anopheme-
raj prosperity. 1t was after all, our daz-
cling neighbors, shorn of their hollow and
empty pretensions, were prostrated, and rem
dered objects Of universal contempt, except to
those, who having drank deeply of the cup of
bitter disappointment, found that their breath
was necessary to help fill the deceitfal trump,
whose dying echoes, had SO long lured the
unsuspecting er,grant; after all this, that Mau-
NEE, became an object worthy ofnotice.
1t was in the midst of pecuniary distress,
when other places Of equal age g. growth, were
daily indicating in their heavy failures, in the
enormous Judgments taken against their citi-
zens, which they could no: meet--and in the
want Of inducements to the few merchants,
which were left to replenish their stocks, the
fallacy upon which all their prospects, hopes,
and desires were founded.
These are facts beyond the reach of contro-
vsrsy, and in view Of them, we say that even
now, although supplied with well filed stores,
and healthy population,- the induce
ments which Maumee affords the emigrant,
prospectively considered, are far greater than
those Of any other city in the West. We Ssy
II too, in no over vaunting spirit, nor to the de-
triment Of any Of our less favored neighbors.-
u nature has not layished her fayors SO pro-
fusely upon those as upon us, we can only re-
gret the i'll directed, and abominable enterprise
which still prevails upon their citizens, to re-
sort 10 every species of intrigue and dlssimmu-
lation, to turn the current Of State Legislation
ii their favor, or to impose upon the credulity
Of emigrants, or even to employ their own
means, in and about adjoining the sepulchre of
their momentary greatness.
Tnz WEATHER. more, and almost
The cnly time since summer set in, have we
been itvored BY q pleasant breeze. Old Sol
hasfor ! few days past been playing at hide and
eook behind the clouds. To speak plainly we