New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-08-26
Orange County, N. ", and Its Prospects
Towns Crops Port Jervis-The Erie RAIL
road, &c.


Correspondence of The Tribune
MINIsINK Orange Co. Aug % lei7.
DEAR TRIB. Here am l. where have been for
sweek or So in the good old County of Orange
nv beau ideal Of what a country place should be.
Perhaps / m partial but in a somewhat extended
travel through other counties, townships. villages
and hsmlets Of varied pretensions, have not found
any spot in which have experienced more per-
iec,ly lome.like feeling than in this good old place
write In back room fronting las an Hioernian would
saw on ROM ntic piece Of woods OF some extent In
whose painless and intricate abyrnths often md many
lessnrevith fertile fields verdant mesdows purling
hooks and musical trees And even now am thinking
with deep pity of those of you unfortunate as sui 10
BE- chained 10 the stony hot and dusty paVes OF an over
crowded City like New'f tne way sPesAne "a
he Civ hope either that the dog days have Aoated
somewhat of their intensity or that aporuon OF ne al
most constant influx of homeless but (wel may !, be
s NOT tendless strangers from other lands visiting
our hosptable and happy shores have departed ior
r,slons wsy out West where their presence and as
ssnce are really needed 10 bring the vast and ierue
Prries into the condition In which they shall blossom
a. the . n, =,
ofths Cyops hereabous am glad to say, very good
The greatest exception 10 this is Uhect In several
places Il has been found necessary 10 pow up the and
previously sown with this grain Other crops have been
substituted the fields and it IL hoped that fuller
success will attend the endeayor-Grdss has yielded
remarkably well-msny farmers have been Obliged 10
Stack out the crops being 90 abundant that the barns
were quickly filed 20 repleton. The yield, am told
would have been still greater but for the myriad, oil
Gssshoppers nfesting every lot and provoking otter
COMPLAINTS from both the papers and the farmers
vE considerably In some parts Owing 10 inJuacious
Plating on improper soil hardly hall crop Will be
realized In other sections II presents glorious sppear
snoe Incompsrably the hnest field OF which l have
ben cognzsnt Of this grain one oil Ten acres belong
ina 10 friend of mine Mr. r., which bids fair 10 yield
Enough 10 feed the neghborhood, and to spare
Speaking of Corn, / must not forget to mention,
even A II be irrelevant that immediately opposite tnls
he the public road 10 the school OF the District tne
best oits Mind II IL averred land think with truth In
the precincts Stepping In the other day, In the miosl
Of the exercises, | noticed with pleasure new and
doubtless effective improvement-the st1saHaseoas reel
tai al the close OF study of some fine poem Inc Ola
Oasih bucket was well delivered by 30 young voices
- came out on the day OF which speak.-Ihere is
boihing like wholesome discipline for the youtniui
mind and yet teacher of experience and Judgment VIII
preserve n due medium between extremes some Nv
tie Of this kind before dismissal strikes me as
good thing.
Last week some friends and myself went out
10 PokT JERyIs. viewed the improvements the Csnsl
the various accomm odstOns the Railroad works, the
long and tedious Mountain. &c Though II may DO
rather trlte to speak lesrnediy OF we'll known a
plsce yet may be psrdoned for INDUCING At least so
much ~ dozen words
The Canal through the heart of the town gives to the
eye Of stranger an air OF great business-lOs miles
In length Cfrom Honesdale to hngston) II employs ne
cessaTiy large number OF oosts anu nanes' vi inc
80 coal boats. about q hundred pass the foft every
week day each carrying from twenty nve one lowesp
n hundred tons OF Coal Daring my short vist sew
era passed but the average cagoweighl oi Gil Was ~
Os drawn by one horse onysnd that not In the oe''
condition
The land OF tho Port Is valuable. was told by the
Oldest settler gentleman Of sixty (snd who built the
srst house-yes stsndin that for tract the Canal
he would on no sccoun, accept less than hundred
dollars either for building lots or farms Crops
are good tnere-tnc Corn high aud well Oiled out the
Wheat better and entire satisfaction Is visible the
cOantensnce OF every man woman and child a sure
ssn wherever II 10 seen that Couentnent Pesca and
Plsnty 20 hand In hand. There two or three
churches at the Port one Of them new and pretty
The facet view however. OF the whole region round
shout Is on the summit OF PoIEr PKTER a steep halt
mile hill comm anding prospect OF many miles around
% either side until finally the sght oosrueted BY the
narrow. basn-hke rim of the sns~sngank range enclo
sns IN lis hollow the beautiful and highly cultivated
'Fiss II too region contiguous TO FORT 1etus-~oi'
the serpeutne wndings of the Delaware and tee Peci'
Canal i,s dinsy freight within snort distance ~
percepuble In completeness from the highest peak.
The desccn, from the Point 10 ike the gradual an
folding Of panoramic view-but you have 10 time Z
sp and gaze OF down you so over stones dig ana lite
s9eent 70 shster all bones slnews and ner' ana ives
cut large stock Of patience. Ho~betl mere u 10 is
a. the poet would say raptnre In the lonely Eood'
provided they sre not qHe mpenstrableout - 10 IN
rnsiDder Of the sentiment cannot fully agree st iess
On Peter Polnp with their spirit-odrt look upon
IA Time bad bean to /, all sunshine and sol. dew
As uPoa Ia freshness thu cold rime
OF deesy should never fall"
Near Port Jeryis, the ERIE RAILROAD is pro
Eessng 80 rapidly possible Il u being cut tbrougi
aoepth 10 many places Of thirty feet Of solid and g0s
oost IN ccessoie fock Passing along beth the line
u ordinary road and much az 10 finished Of the lin
y N Erie. the numerous and stn constantly arriving
aAnds German and lrsh) 81 work far above. seem q
Plgmies-lt 10 truly an immense undertaking and piu
aproatsble notwithstanding the enormous expenss
u is construction and repair II 10 calculated that 10,
esrs VIII reach Port Jrss BY next all though doubt Il
Bat In view OF such actually happening Il
tme hat some appropriate buildings should be erected
OF least oegun-so central place the Port will ne
oessniy sros rapidly and will derive from the Rosd
esss. louTn AZ.