The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-05
EDITORS CORRESPONDENT

EDITORS CoRREsPoN DENCE.
i New YoRK, Sept. ?, ls45.
u Editor Of the Union:
/ have the pleasure Of informing you that reach
ed this city last night after an absence of nearly
three months On reckoning up the distance trav-
ersed | find il amounts TO about 1900 miles. /
have reason to be thankful that, during this long
and arduous journey, enjoyed comparatively good
health, and reached home in safety.
have been in the city too short a time to get the
hang of things. In lieu of local information, will
give you some particulars appertaining 10 my tran
sit from Louisville to New York
i | reached Cincinnati on the goth uimo, where
remained about day, for passage on small boat
bound to Wheeling, called the "Flnaneer," which
was said to draw less thar two feet of water, and
would certainly reach Wheeling without detention
I by grounding, &c. On leaving in this small craft,
i found her crowded with passengers to her utmost
limits. Every state-room and berth was occupied,
and the cabin floor lined with mattresses 10 accom-
MEDIATE those deprived ofihem. Such a crowd on a
small boat, with excessively hot weather, rendered
a passage on her anything but agreeable.
/ When we set off on the morning OF the 9th,
found her to be very slow boat, making only
about six miles per hour. Her slow progress, with
the liability 10 be stopped every night by dense
fogs, to say nothing of her liability to get aground,
completely dsheartened me; so that, on reaching
Portsmouth, 100 miles above Cincinnati, knowing
the worst part of the river was to be overcome,
left the boat at that place, preierring to stage i
through Ohio to Wheeling, as more certain and
expeditions mode of travelling
| departed from Portsmouth, in the stage, for
Chilicothe, about a. m. on the 18th ult soon at
! ter landing from the boat; distance As miles.
j The Scioto.enters the Ohio at Portsmouth. This
stream rises in the northern part of the State hav-
ing general course to the southeast; being about
200 miles in length. At high stages of water, it is
said to be nayigable for 100 miles
The bottom, or valley of the Scioto contains very
rich land As we passed up through it, we saw the
most splendid fields of Indian corn we had yet met
with In the west.
Indeed, as we passed farm after farm, it seemed
as though we winding our way through a
wilderness of rank and luxuriant Indian
The abundance of the crops of corn and other
grain, the present year, throughout the rich valley
of the Mississippi, is without a precedent. The
wonder there is, not us TO where the people are TO
get "bread siufs," but what earth they to do
with their surplus abundance, Where are they to
find consumers--purchasers of those immense crops
Are the manufacturers to consume 1t for them Not
at ALL They can depend upon other source for
fixing price for it, than in foreign demand II
they are not permitted to exchange it with other ma
tons, through the agency of commerce, for articles
they require for consumption, they must sabmit to
very low prices.
n Think Of farmers in the West toiling the whole
year to raise corn at 10 cents per bushcl, and wheat
at from 40 to As cents! Then raise less" cries the
protected anti commercial man. What check indus
try, and stop the cultivation Of the most fertile soil
God has ever bestowed on man as inheritance Stop
the most healthfu, vrtuous, and independent pur-
suit that man folowed--the dignity and USE
fitness of which before all others. No, stop Il
not, crush it not; rather support and sustain II, as
the mother of prosperity, wealth, and independence.
Rather cut loose the swadding bands of commercial
} restriction, which hamper II on every side. Open
up markets for its rich returns and liberalize
nd III alr II xt,l,I te
canvass of the freely sail to and from distant
ports laden with the rich fruits of the farmers toll
rejoicing they 60 in the prosperity of their trade
and in a nations greatness. Away with the mar
row. minded restriction, which would subject all in.
dustry to the selfish purposes Of exclusive pecunary
, profit of favored few.
The Erie canal, about 800 miles long, joins the
Ohio at Portsmouth. Ii follows the valley Of the
Scioto for short distance above Circleville which
is about 63 miles from the Ohio.
/ Chilicohe, Columbus, and CirceviIe, with other
hourishipg villages and towns, found scattered
along the banks Of the Scioo Columbus, as lie wei
known, is the of government through which the
national road passes II also receives feeder from
the canal It's site, in 1912, was said to be com
pact forest. 1t now contains 1000 inhabitants
The Staie-house is respectable edifce with Gu.
pola LOG feet high, from the top of which there is
fine view Of the surrounding country. The State
prison is located here. The building for the public
offices is 100 feet by 25. In line with the State
n DuluingS ID handsome Onltcu oateS couFt'nouse
On the opposite side of the river is the village o.
81 Franklinton.
Chcothe stands on the west bank Of the Scioto
and is the seat of justice for Ross county. 1t wal
first laid off and settled in 1885, and was for some
time the seat Of the State government II contains
about 5000 inhabitants. II stands central to very
rich district of land, immense fields of the finest In
> dian corn growing around 1t, almost 10 the suburbs
of the town. 1t contains several stores, hot Is &C.
two or three newspapers, an academy, a flourish
: n g..
walk, an oimil wooen-mil a paper-mi, sew
!. era saw-mills and number of large four-mls
. pork Strengthening and packing-houses
1 Many tumuli and remains of Indian antiquities
exist in the neighborhood, one Of which stood or
the present town Site In levelling it, large quaint
. ties of human bones were found
A hill rises abruptly on the southwest side Of thu
town. 1t commands an extensive and very de-
: lightfu prospect of the surrounding country, in
terspersed it is with luxuriant fields green mea
dows, farm-houses, and the meandeIings of the
. river.
= A Macadamized turnpike leads all the way from
Portsmouth to Columbus, 80 miles, via Chillcothe
I, Circlevile, &c.
y This road, eleven miles east of Chilicothe
passes up small gorge in some hills on the north
side of which is seen low sandstone bluff, or cliff
!, thicky wooded at top. At its base is cave, now
, enclosed in front, leaving one door. This was fol
long time the residence Of a hermit On top Of
the low cliff, and directly above the cave, is hewr
:, stone pillar monument-erected, presume, by
: the builders of the road-to his memory, with the
7 following inscription engraven on its front:
"To THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM HEwITr, A HERMIT
4 WHO, FoR Ia YEARS, LIVED IN THIS CAVE,
D WHEN ALL AROUND HIM WAS A Will
pERNEss. He DIED IN 1884,
RI AGED 10 YEARS"
d MIR. M, of Circlcvlle--a felow-passenger in the
STAGE and who had resided in the country from his
0 boyhood-told me that he had seen VIM. Hewitt
1 and conye sed with him respecting his history, &c
a He STATED that he was from New York; that, having
lost his f,her the property left by him fell into dis.
pue between himself and his brothers; that the lat
Ter succeeded in cheating him out of his patrimony
whereupon he became disguised with them and