New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-06-14
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serious expense and waste. On these works g
/ large number Of men are now employed here.
think was informed that simple Labor received
only IS cents per day, which is lower than should
be at this season. and when almost everything else
I is dear Yet even at this rate this work depnves
the laborers of no chance they otherwise had, and
doubles. diminishes the pressure Of competition
for employment elsewhere. while it adds largely tc
the minor trade and resources of Detroit.
| understand that the Southern Railroad ia much
RIDER and less promising work has been or is to be
sold for s5OOOOO Of State liabilities in order that il
likewise may be pressed onward to completion
Then if the holders Of the disputed bonds Of Michi
gan which the officers entrusted herewith BY the
State sold on time 10 parties who failed TO pay Tor
them, 10 redeem which the State Is willing 10
pay what the present holders actually gave TOR or
advanced upon thom shall decide to accept her
offer. the State debt will be reduced to about Two
Millions Of Dollars and Michigan may and will re
sumo her position among solvent and iaith-keeping
States Heaven speed the time when the Hesslen
Fly and Reputation, the scourge and the shame,
NAV be banished from her soil, 10 be known there
no more for ever
Passing by the new diggin gs Of the Rail
road visited very different sort OF Public Work,
namely, the Fortress which the Federal Govern
rnent has nearly constructed some two miles be
low the compact portion Of the city to command
the passage Of the strait or river. The site seems
well chosen and the fort itself admirably designed
and constructed 10 subserve its purpose But IS 1t
not monstrous that in this Nineteenth Century OF
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out dissenting voice by one Christian nation mere
! y TO provide a means of obstructing the passage
of navigable stream. in the single contingency OF
War with that other Christian nation by which
only can the passage be undertaken 10 our preju-
dice while this same Government obstinatey re-
fuses 10 spend one third the amount TO make ship
Canal around the Sault St Marie as 10 open the
largest sheet of fresh water in the world TO the
Commerce, Enterprise and Industry Of its own
people who now find here most expensive and
perniciou s obstruction TO the westward march Of
Population, Cultivation, Production and Thrift on
our own undoubted soil Still worse have we not
seen the West paraly zed and outraged by repeat
ed vetoes Of bills providing for the most needed
Improvement of Rivers and Lake Harbors by
President who never scruples to recommend and to
sign bills for the construction OF such Forresses as
this We have money enough, Constitutional lati-
tude enough for every work Of present or Prospec'
tive destruction, but none for creation, improve
ment, construction Shall it ever be thus Let
us see and hear what will be propounded at the
Chicago Convention.
OF DETROIT, have hardly time or room left
to speak more directly. The city has obviously
grown rapidly since | saw it before. i rejoice IN
noting that this growth has taken the healthy form
of expansion in every landward direction, instead OF
the too common mode Of accommodating an increas-
ing population by filing up the interstices between
old houses with new ones, and putting one on the
top of another. Nearly all the dwellings stand
beautifully apart each surrounded by its little gar
den or grass and flower plat evincing general fond
ness for shrubbery and the minor poetry Of Nature
Just ut present, the Locust and the Snow ball are in
blossom, giving cheerful look to all around THE
Lilac, l believe. has rarely not at all lowered
here this season. Better even than this. many OF
the streets are thickly set with of young Ma
pies, in some instances two rows on one side OF a
wide avenue. which will in a few years add great
| y to the beauty and comfort of Detroit especially
of its favorite promensdes All around me are
signs Of prosperity and growth, to which the de-
velopment Of the Mineral wealth Of the Lake Su.
perior region has already, though in its infancy
given some impetus, and is destined to give far
more The only counterpoise 10 this is the remove al
| last Winter Of the State Government to township
named Lansing in Ingham Co (some seventy miles
north west of this,l wherein is the confluence Of
the Red Cedar Creek with Grand River, which lat
1 he TO-
below this should like to look in on the yet ma
ked site of the new Capitol but unluckily have not
my pocket compass along with me. The location
ON a corner OF County in township as yet main.
ly in primitive wilderness, remote from natural or
artificial present prospective facilities Of travel
and transportation, created much surprise at first
and some surmises Of lively interest OF the So.
Ions pro TEN. of Michigan in the corner.lots and
quarter sections of the future Capital Yet the site
is pretty central to the whole State not specially
Objectionable on any ground. and the selection
seems to DO pretty generally acquiesced in
Indeed grumbng would avail nothing, since
change can be made only by changing the State
Constitution, which viii hardly be attempted so
success TO Lansing, the new capital OF Michigan
May her beauty and her virtues rival those of Gin
derella the fairy favorite, to whose good fortune
her own bears marvellous resemblance.
Midnight has long passed, and our boat pro-
misses to start for the Sault in the morning SO,
with single fact bearing the policy of our Ca
nal Enlargement l close this too long letter.
There is agent here offering to transport Flour
hence by way of the Wellsnd Canal, Lake Onts.
rio, the ST Lawrence to Montreal. the Railroad,
Lake Chsmplsin and the Chsmplsin Canal, to Al
bsny and New.York for the present charge from
BA5aiO 10 New-York OF course much Of the
Flour which reaches Montreal will never so thence
to our Emporium. VIII New-York City remain
forever blind and stupid 1, it not monstrous that
her weight should still be thrown against the I'm.
provement policy. which is her breath Of life as in
the days Of De Witt Clinton H.G
VIRaISIA.-Mr r X. Meade. who was recently
nominated for Congress in the District made vacant
by the death Of the late Geo. c. Dromgoole desert
ed the Wing party no longer ago than ls44, when
he protested TO be warm friend Of Mr.. CLAY
against the man of Undertook but finally gave
him up when Polk was nominated. He is understood
m hs a Calhoun man or 81 least nr1S so n few