Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-06-09
SOUTHPORT.

make unfair or cnvlous comparisons between our
selves and our neighbors. We shall barely offer a
few Of the reasons which we have for thinking ia
yorably of the present state and future prospects OF
Southport
y friend at our elbow, an old acquaintance and
a resident in the Territory while as yet it was a
| part OF Michigan, informs MS as follows:
In the month of June, 1895, was passing from
Chicago down the lake. and in conversation with a
Mr.. b from the state Of New York. who gave me
to understand that he was formally authorized
agent Tor an emigratlng association, consisting OF
a large number Of families which had decided on
coming west, aud settling together as a communi-
y, for their own mutual benefit g" hey e decided
upon t,talltg for them here, said he; (our craft
was then about mile from shore, opposite what
IS now the town of Sou:hport) We am, lac
continued, "at no forced growth or wealth sudden
beginning with such advantages as intelligence en-
terprize, industrious habits temperance prnci plies
and unison for mutual benefit will afford.
We shall be thriving community, Of course -
and shortly, as soon on the whole is best those
who come this way will find about the right sort
OF town here 1t was unsettled terrieory, having
neither roads nor dwellings nor farms nor civllz,
ed inhabitants within many miles OF it,"
Those acquainted with the subsequent history OF
the place would Deem the repetition ,J that his O.
ry superfluous. We shall spend no time, and make
no controversy n@ndeavorng TO prove that >osth-
port is greater than some places, and almost as
great as Others nor that the people shades
wiser and better than their ne ghbors. Nor shall
we raise the question whether they are better or
worse off than they would be if theirmumler5 were
twice as great, and their town twice as large. For
| place WHICH aas unocctpted, savage wilderness
only little more than twelve years since, it has no
Cause to he dissatisfied with or ashamed of lis pre-.
sent attanments
As 4aaCket town, uothiag Except better roads
during eartsi the Year, is,wanting 10 make it all
that aconstltuency otconntry population can De,
sire Few articles to be found in any western
market but can readily be obtained here, and at
moderate price. All articles Of farming produce,
or domestic manufacture meet prompt sale and
often at rate high as to astonish and puzzle the
| modest farmer from out back in the coufery Not
| 1 few instances have We known,of tcaufs comisig
! in, the owners OF which were hoping TO get for
wheat, six ard six pence, or seven shlin@s, and
before they had we'll got into town, they were pail
cash, ninety, ninety five cenrs and d dollar Many
loads OF produce within the last few days, to or
| own personal knom' edge have been sold here some
| twenty-five per cent. higher than their owners es-
tinatcd them before their arrival IN town. On the
other hand, eastern goods can be afforded, and are
al very small advance on the price which they
command in Buffalo and Cleveland. West India
good, since the opening of the Illinois canal can
reach this point IN as little tnC, and at as snail
cost as they DO at most OF the business places in
New York and New England Sugar and NO las
coffee and rice etc. can he had here as cheap
as in Boston Albany. Our hot8.s are ,--scyeeA Al
of them, what such houses should be; commodi-
GUS quiet, we'll furnished, and well managed, and
in all respects calculated to give satisfaction to
that portion of the public having occasion tn pat
ronsc them. Those who wish for better fare. or
more prompt and polite attention, than are found at
WhltFy's Temperance House, the Najcra7 Ho-
lei, and others which might name, we should
not hesitate TO call unreasonable. OF STEAMBOATS,,
Our place gets about the same number as Miwdu-
kee; and Of Fropellers, schoonets, and other lake
craft all that there is any occasion for Our light
ming and lightning wires are as good as any on this
side of Lake Michigan. For important news and
business communications, we are as near to New
York as we would be at the upper end of Broad
way; and US near TO the carltei 1T WASN'T gton as
we world be on the opposite shore of the Potomac
The doings 'ofthe Baltimore Convention, for exam.
pie, were communicated to US by telegraph about
six or eight days sooner than they would have
reached us by regular course of mail with the best
speed FHat railroad and steam coald give it, Gu:
landing places at the lake, except in the ere
gales which never fail to occur after the be-
ginning and near the close of navigation, are all
that lake business seems to have occasion for but
the work Demonstrating the harbor is now going
forward with gratifying degree of energy and dis,
patch. Our roads, leading intn the country are
now under process OF repair and improvement
Some OF them, during the past few weeks especial.
ly in the immediate vicinity of the town have been
IN dreadful condition; materially afe ting its
trade with the country by, keeping it back or 4
verting ii 10 other markets Cur men of business
are aware of the influence of good roads upon the
growth of the place and the amount ofits business,
and can web afford the expense of keeping them
IT passabe condition. In the matter of erecting
new buildings making streets, and the like, /
we arc doing much and as fast as the business
and growth of the place required. Quite a num-
Der of buhdinss in the process of erection,
both for public and private.p purposes, are such in
at least, as 10 place, old or rev. need
be ashamed of
Our public school system, as yet, has gene into
operation 10 only very limited extent: nothing
sufficient 10 indicate 10 the cou,mapty its inherent
merits lis theory, however, is cordially adop,ed
by the mass of our citizens and the time is not
distant when our juvenile population will be re-
ceiviag its important benefits.
Our sunday congregations at the different hous,
IS OF worship, are respectable for Runbers and are
regularly entertained and edited by as able preach