The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-08-22

tnblished in every town which would employ
fifty or one hundred operatives and bring in
forty or fifty thousand dollars in cash, that a.
mount would be mostly distributed among the
farming community in the neighborhOod for
the products of their farms, and a market
would be found for many articles which would
not bear transportation to distant market
town. Were the tariff fIS42 continued in OPP
Grafton we might well expect to see such re-
suits.
Chicago, next to Buffalo, must be the lar
gest city on the lakes. 1t numbers now H.
600 inhabitants and fourteen years ago it was
scarcely village. The canal connecting the
navigable waters of the Illinois river with
lake Michigan at this place, will soon be com
plcted, and it will then be still more of a bus
mess place than il now is. We left Chicago
in Buffalo boat, and when out of the hnrbor
| counted twenty five sail which had left the
port that morning and more were preparing
to leave. Southport and Racine are two fine
villages in the south eastern part of Wiscon-
sin ten miles apart and each numbering about
three thousand inhabitants. Milwaukee %
miles north of Racine, has about eight ten
thousand inhabitants, and is a furnishing city
The land agency has made it quite place of
business this season The Office is constantly
throngcd with purchasers, and the rage for
procuring lands for settlement was never
greater, On landing however, we met one
man who was disposed to stem the current, un-
der circumstances that were quite surprizing
He was an Englishman with his family and a
load of furniture, who had come over to this
country at an expense of some three hundred
dollars, had spenta few months on Il prairie
farm, become sick of the country and was
now on his return to his native land. Could
he have expected to better his condition by
returning, it would not seem so strange, but to
20 back where he could never own an acre of
land, and must drag out n whole life time in
laboring for others, at rates which would not
allow him to lay by a dollar beyond the supply
of the daily wants of himself and family, ex-
hbitcd love of country bordering on mono.
mania.
| The population of Milwaukee is composed of
people from all parts of the world, and while
there are many good people, and five six
| fine churches well filled with ttentive wor
shippers on the Sabbath, there are still multi
tudcs who pay no regard to the day and make
the streets a scene of noise and confusion.
was informed that three murdcrcrs were lodg-
ed in the Jail, and while was there, the dogs
dug up the remnins of young man in the
skirts ofthc village, who had bullet hole in
his forehead and a rope around his neck. He
was recognized as person who disappeared
on the Sd of July, and the family with whom
he boarded decampcd the next day. Such e.
vents, which would throw the whole commune
ty into fcrment in New England, are hardly
noticed in these new places, where the soce-
| ty is composed of discordant materials, and
the bonds of a common sympathy hardly felt.
| Lake Michigan is a fine sheet ofwater some
three hundred and fifty miles long and sew
enty five miles wide. On the eastern or
! Michigan side the shores for the most part are
! high bluffs of sand and in some places remind
one of the descriptions of the shores of Africa,
along the coast of the Great Desert. In some
| places the bank of bare sand one or two hun
drcd feet high, will stretch along for miles,
without the appearance of tree or shrub, and
even extend back mile or two from the shore
before vegetation commences; but for the
most part the forests commence on the top of
the bluffs. The west shore is lower land, but
almost an unbroken forest. From Milwaukee
to Mackinaw distance of some two hundred
and fifty miles, we pass no village or settle
ment. Occasionally smoke rising from the
forest Indicated that some adventurous pioneer
might be making a clearing, party of In
dams had pitched their camp while they pur-
sued their hunting or fishing in the neigh
borhood. LAUNDERING business is carried on
extensively in the northern part of Michigan,
Uncle Sam furnishing the timber for whoever
| is disposed to take it off without license
This enables the lumberman to sell his stolen
property cheap, which is great accommoda-
ton to the settlers in H., where there is no
pine timber, and all who build anything more
than log houses, must transport the materials
from the lake shore.
While am writing we are passing the
straits of Muckinaw. The old photography
Mchillimackinac is associated with our recol-
lection of spelling schools, and Webster's
spelling book, in which after the long break
Jaw word is spelled, note is added at the bot
tom of the page pronounced mak-in-aw,' and
the test of good speller was to spell the long
word, pronouncng each of the six syllables
independently, and then abridging and com
pressing the whole into mak-in-ar.
The village of Mackinuw, which is an old
Indian trading station, originally settled by
the French, and still inhabited principally by
French, Indians and half breeds, is situated on
n flat noint of land on the south side of an Is