Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-10-02
INDIANA-ITs PHYSICAL ASPECT.
FROM THE CINCINNATI CHRONICLE.

INDIANA-ITs PHYSICAL ASPECT
CINCINNATI CHRONICLE.
The State of INDIANA-next to OMo-is remarkable for
its natural advantages for agriculture and internal trade
Neither Ohio Indiana in surface, SOIL and
climate Tennessee which has all the varieties plants and
atmosphere which range from the cold air of the Cumberland
mountains TO the sunny regions Of the cotton bos the Mis-
sssppi But both Ohio and Indiana have aggregate of
agricultural riches greater than those Of Tennessee Indiana
is inferior Ohio mineral and in lake rade
circumstances which, in addition its fertile SOIL has made
Ohio the first of Western States But Indiana has
markabe features and shall three, interest
ing in their relation Western commerce and the future pre-
gress Of our country.
In the first place, Indiana is grossly msnamed should
have been called the STATE WABASH This is org
nal name like Ohio, but it has claim other grounds
which is almost inevitable The Wabash river in proportion
to its volume, rgates land than almost any other
which be found The Wabash and its tributaries
nearly wo-thrds of all the counties of Indiana OF
lightweight counties in this State less than
waered by the Wabash river In estimating the value of
rivers, it quite consider only, chiefly their
navgabe commercial advantages; but this is very
method estimating their value The greatest
of its power Of irrigation The springs of
the earhas in ancient Syria, in the times of Abraham and
Jacob-will supply water for the OF man and beast
Horses mules, and, in modern times railroads, will supply
the of commercial ntercommuncalon. Blu, nothing
but river and its tributaries sufficiently rrgae and fat
ten the soil for great crops Look the Nile Its value for
shipping boass very little, but its annual overflow creates
the wealth of Egypt SO, look the Wabash, winding its
way from Jay county, the line Posey in the
southwest Look Tippecanoe, EEL Salamone Mississ-
newa and White rivers all tributaries Of the Wabash, fer
tilzng immense extent of country Except the main
branch Of the Wabash these mpactcabe
vgaon Of inestmabe value the soil and production of
the State.
large number of the counties which lie the tributaries
Of the Wabash yet comparatively and unculvated,
but whose population and production in future time be
very great.
OF the remaining counties, the
Ohio nver waters. ......................M
White water.
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Maumee OF the lakes. Observation-Disclosures.
Lake Erie and its tributary, the st. Joseph's.
Thus we see the State of Indiana finely irrigated and
that when reduced proper cultivation, its agricultural pro-
ducton be very great In commercial point of view,
of three hundred miles the Ohio and Of fifty
Lake Michigan afford ample outlets both north and south.
The internal communications which the State requires
those which will at Cincinnati Madison and Evans
ville on the Ohio Michigan city, Lake Erie and
and lines By railroads The public of Indiana
have this and nearly all of these lines have completed
or prepared public works There already in the State
finished, nearly finished, about four hundred miles of
canals and sixty miles Of railroads In the great schemng
Of ls35-67, many other works commenced and
great capital sunk in uess undertakings From that
the State has nearly recovered and the ourhng
towns on the Wabash and the Whitewater and the farmers
of the interior looking forward to connexon with Gin
cinnati, and through Ohio, with the Atlantic coast.
The surface Of Indiana is about 900 square miles,
easily eight millions of people,
On the supposion that fourth part of the State
cultivated Indian corn fourth in wheat and the
naming half left for PASTURE woodland &c., the products Of
brcadstufs would be something like this
Indian Corn .@oOVou,UUo
wheat. ..........,.''' 9o'ooo'o 1871
This looks first little astonishing but il is much under
what the State could easily produce. would feed ton mil
lions of people and leave large surplus
This being the capacity and not much beyond the proba
BILE results of Indiana production behooves the commercial
world to look little into it. There four outlets for In
diana trade, viz Cincinnati, Madison Evansville and Mich
gan city, Cor some point on the lake, The largest part of
the trade Indiana continue to flow to Cncinnaby
reason Of the magnitude capital and centrally Of Cincinnati
and by reason also Of the chain Of works Of
proyement which now connects this city with the whole
northern interior.
The great object of Cincinnati at present, in looking to-
wards the West to strike literally direct ne the heart OF
the Wabash valley In this point of vew the various schemes
for railroad improvements in that direction should be well
sdered by the commercial community here.
We have thrown this irdscye glance at the physical
condition Indiana that our readers may have the most inn
porant facts Immediately before them
Com BEpnooms.--A person accustomed to undress IN
room without e and to seek repose cold bed will not
experience inconvenience in the scverest wea
Their The natural heat Of his body will very speedily render
him comfortably than the individual VINO
sleeps in a heated apartment and in bed thus arthcia'y
warmed and who will be extremely liable to sensation OF
chiness soon the artificial heat dssPaed But ths
is not all the constitution of the former Will he rendered
more robust and less susceptible TO the influence OF amo
spherical yicissitudes than that Of the latter.