New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-06-24

GREENE C. BRONSON CHARLES II RUGGLEs,
ADDISON GARDINER. FREEBORN g JEWETT,
WILLIAM 7, WRIGHT SAMUEL SAMUEL JONES S6sysov.
CHARLES GRAY, THOMAS 5. JOHNSON
Whigs.
These last, by the constitutional system OF rota-
ton will give place, after one years service to
Justices STRONG, CADY, SHASELASD and HOYT-
and so on-each Supreme Court Justice serving one
wear on the bench of the Court Of Appeals
Upper observation-disclosures ~. Cinir-Lnke
Huron ,Iackinac--the st. Mnry'- the
saul, &c. &c.
Editorial Correspondence.
sAUr STE MARIE. June H. ls47.
LAKE SUPERIOR at last is before me, with the
wild. new wonder.ffaueht region ] have long
wished to visit and whittier my steps now tend
Bat frat let me speak Of the voyage hiiher and the
country Of which have had glimpses on the way
Four dsys' anxious waiting at Detrot-though
not passed in idleness but improved in the bright
ening Of some links in Friendships chain, to say no
thing of the generous cheer and assiduous atten
ton OF the excellent host Of the American, had
caused a number Of US TO chafe with impotence
aud when at length, about 10 o'clock on Tuesday
morning. the good boat Sam Ward named after
one good Wing and commanded by another cast
loose for a trip 10 the Saul there rose general
buzz Of exultation and pleasure from her thronged
decks A day bright and balmy, worthy. like sew
eral preceding it, Of the youth OF Summer, served
70 highten the general enjoyment as we gded up
the Detroit River. Il know Detroit means The
STRAIT but it is swift enough and net too wide for
noble river and why more a strait than the Nj
agaraD
Saying nothing OF the passengers. the cargo Of .
boat for the Saut is the most miscellaneous ina
gnabie. Barrels OF Pork, Beef Flour and every
thing eatable or drnkRble water excepted are
iumbed with bales of the various commodities
priced by white Indians, chests Of tools ion
mining, clearing &c. boats, tents, bedding and
cooking utensils for coasting and exploring horses
oxen and cows for sundry OF the mining locations
chests Of personal ohattels. SC. believe we have
among us some three pr four women who accom-.
pany their husbands to make their future homes on
Lake Superior while sundry chairs and even
Wristbands come at least up to the Saul, and |
guess go beyond it, Thus do the arts and appli
ances of Civilized Life tread close on the heels OF
the receding Red Man
Passing out OF the River or Strait and through the
comparatively small Lake -. Clair we found a
steamboat the Wisconsin, and several sail vessels
hard aground on the St Clair Flats, where as
am informed il is usual to find far larger mum.
Der OF steamboats, aud other vessels in the same
interesting prodcsment These Flats are form
cd by the division OF the waters issuing
from Lake Huron through the ST. Clair River
by two or three low marshy islands forming three
or four channels or branches within and just below
which division the water being wide, has in some
places depth Of only six or eight feet. or some.
thing less than a steamboat will draw if built
stauoh enough for the Lake trade and tolerably
loaded. OF course they generally get aground, as
our smaller boat barely escaped doing, and, there
being tide in the lakes have choice but to re-
main sground until good part of their freight can
be transferred 20 lst.boats termed lighters, which
are on hand here ready 10 be serviceable for
q consideration. Fifty thousand dollars well ap.
piled here would almost certainly dredge out
deep aud wide channel that woad stag dredged as
the current is SO very gentle that it would not move
the ssnd back again. Yet for want OF this $50 goo
vetoed by James X. Polk in the Hsrbor bill the
trade OF the Lakes--thst u.s. the farmers whose
produce and the emigrsnts whose families as well
as the merchant whose goods must traverse the
Lkkes-are put 70 an expense, including that OF
delays probably not less in one year than the en-.
tire cost OF dredging out clear and durable chan
mel Such is one of the many grievances which
have impeed the People of the West to ask their
fellow citizens generally 10 meet them in Conven.
ton at Chicago on the 5,h of next month, there TO
consider the general subject Of River and Harbor
improvement
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generally well wooded. except where settlement
has driven back the forest tor mile or less The
British aide appears highest dryest and most set
tied. part OF 1t has been peopled by white men
tor hisy or sixty years as good part of oar bank
OF the Detroit river and Lake ST Clair has for even
q longer period Our old settlers. however are Of
French origin, are welded to old customs. and not
anxious 70 go ahead They are seldom seen ont
Of their settiements-rhe largest and most sc,;ve
village ON either side for hundred miles ahovs n
troit is Newport, st Clair Co. much .as;c,aa >,
steamboat and shiP-building. Saginaw a ,A.;e,.
laundering village at the bottom OF Saginaw r.
much farther up is larger, but far away from The
steamboat route TO Msckinsc or the Saut
IL was nearly dark when we aoated out OF The
81. Clair river into Lake Huron. heading directly
across that large portion OF ii known as Saginaw
Bay. Our fine day had been extinguished by dark
volumes of cloud threatening rain, bat treating
first TO moderate blow about midnight reserSing
the rain tall near morning and dispensing j, at in
tervals through the following day. thick FOG
shrouded everything beyond few rods from US
through the day, Wednesday, and after holding
on bis course rather slowly till noon, oar Captain
though, it prudsn, to have cast Of the lead A