Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-06-19
every man who passes over it must pay
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TON OF THE ERIE CANAL.-The re-
| celqts for canal tolls at Buffalo, in May
1888, were $4,000 ga. The receipts in
the same month this season at Buffalo
and Black Rock, amount to S53,5lOeO.
showing an increase Of S2O,608 SO or ov-
er sixty per cent. There was no collect
or's office at the Rock last wear The
receipts there in May, were S5,485 98.-
AT Bufiato, during the same month 345,-
j023 80.
Politics aside, facts like the above can
nardty iall to convince the most sceptical,
that an immense amount of produce from
the great West will soon pour in upon US,
sufficient to give full employment to the
[canal after lis enlargement, and to demand
the speedy Completion of that noble i'm
provement. The surplus wheat and
! Hour OF Michigan alone, of the last years
crop, IS estimated at two millions of dol
lars. In three months time, her wheat
crop now growing so luxuriantly will be-
gin to come forward, seeking an Eastern
market, and augmented at least four fold
IN the amount of surplus. over that Of
last year. The vast surplus of agricultur-
al products Of Northern PENNSYLVANIA.
Ono, Indiana, Illinois, and the Eastern
/ portion OF Wisconsin, will also pass down
for an outlet through the Erie canal.
1t should be remembered that without
touching British soil or visiting lake So-
perior, our steamboats, and sail craft COL
lect at this point the products of the Earth
and its mineral treasures, of lake coast
of over sixteen hundred miles in extent.
1t should also be borne in mind, that
this 1900 miles of lake coast is only one
inner circle, whose broad periphery is
every where pervaded with 1900 miles of
canals, either made or now In active prog
ress, and 1900 miles Of railroads, ali con-
centrating into one vast and common res
ervoir.
The settlement of this fertile, ard al
most boundless region, has been SO rapid
Tor few years past, that Western New
York and Ohio have been called on to
Iced the many thousands of its hardy i'm
migrants. The tables are now fairly
turned. and instead of being the consum-
ers of Eastern provisions, they will pour
in upon the Erie canal an amount OF
bread stufs. from their rich and wide
spread prairies, that will quite astonish all,
who have not learned to measure prairie
wheat fields by the mile, instead Of corr
pairing them with the stinted and stumpv
acres of the East.
This joyful abundance of the indispens-
; able fruits of the earth cannot fail to give
new impulse to manufactures and
commerce, whose growth and prosperity
will ever be commensurate with their
+ substantial agricultural basis.
/ FUGITIVE SLAvEs.-We understand
! says the Cleveland Observer, a band O
! fugitive slaves, to the number of 80 ar
/ rived recently at Detroit, on their way
S to the land Of freedom. Wonder now they
D got through Ohiol They must have re
r ceived the hospitality of some one. Some
p person must have ventured in face of the
: late act of the ever to be remembered LEG
islature Of Ohio, for 1883, to FEED AM
s betrlend the hungry runaway slaves.
: "REAp1NG THE WH1RLwrND."-
: The Vicksburg Sentinel of the 18th uIt.
contains an account of the destruction b,
: a mob, ofthe Real Estate Bank, at De
! catur, Mississippi. The Banking Hous
/ was set on fire by the assailants, and 10
gether with all the books and papers it con
D tanned, was soon reduced to ashes.-Noth
1t ing whatever was saved from the univer
t, sal wreck. The mob was still in force a
e the latest accounts, and there was grea
S apprehension that their next demonstrate
T. of ian enlightened public opinion" woal
is be upon the persons and property ofthe di
$ rectory.. So it works. Lynch Law i
Y like the horse leech in the Scripture-it
e constant cry is !" Give! Givel" To-da
Is it breaks up an anti-slavery meeting-to
ID morrow it burns public Hall devoted t
rs free discussion-and the next dav, it turn
j. its fury upon Bank and its directory !
Mississippi sowed the wind in her moi
of 1834-she is now reaping the whir
: wind WI our mortben communities l
: ,0arned?
NORTHEASTERN BoUNDARY-Tf
documents laid before The British Parl
:. ment at its last session, relating to Il
% Maine boundary, contain much CORES
pondencc which has not been publisht
E in this country We are happy to ad
tn, as the opinion of distinguished Anne
M lean now in London. who has kind
us forwarded to US a copy of the documer
ed. in question by the Great Western. tn
tx the indications at the Court of ST. Jam'
he are highly favorable to peaceful al
to speedy adjustment of the controversy
led Boston Press and Post.
-, LIGHT HOUSES, on our coast, ha
2 ~ been multiplied from ifty-fve to Two hi
: dred and ffy-four, within the last nil
teen vears.-Boston Press aRd Post.