The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-04-23
PENN YAM, April 1S, l64s
The Village of Penn Yaa-A Trip to the West--
John A Collier Sc

Penn YAM, April 49, 1913.
The Village of Penn Yaa-A Trip to the Wet
John a. Collier, &c.
The neat village from which ! date this letter
is sixteen miles distant from the line OF the Al
bany and Buffalo railroad. 1t is twenty-five
miles from Canandaigua, Ontario county Penn
Yam is the most important town of Yates county;
it contains about two thousand inhabitants; it is
six miles distant from the west shore of Seneca
Lake, and one mile from the foot OF the Crooked
Lake. beautiful sheet of clear water, twenty
Two miles in length, and from one mile to one
mile and half in BREADTH A canal, eight miles
in length-called the Crooked Lake canal-con-
meets these inland waters, and facilitates in q
great measure, the growth and prosperity OF
these Interior towns. In the growth of wheat
the southwestern portion of this great State is
behind no other portion. Spring has thrown her
green mantle over the face Of nature, and the
forest trees, and the meadows, and the broad
acres which are devoted to the cultivation of the
great staple have received the first touches Of the
pencil OF the great Artist who made nature itself,
and who made il so beautiful ] am nearly four
hundred miles distant from New York, and in my
journey hither passed up the Hudson to Albany
in one OF the many gorgeous steamers that navi-
gate that beautiful river from Albany came by
railway through Schenectady, Utica, Syracuse.
Auburn, Waterloo. and Geneva. The conve-
niencles for travelling seem to be perfect the
trip was exceedingly agreeable the fine steamer
Troy was crowded with merchant princes from
the west, who were returning home from the
American metropolis alter having made their
spring purchases OF goods. Syracuse, which
has recently been created a city, is really plea
SAINT town here are some of the most elegant
hotels In the Union, including the Eagle Hotel,
the Globe Hotel, the Syracuse House, sc. &C.
Here are also great number of private residen-
ces, OF the most costly description. Syracuse
has already been named as the future capital Of
this State, and 1T to that she is entirely
worthy OF an honor so distinguished.
In the cars | was so fortunate as TO meet John
A. Collier, of Albany, who was on his way to
Bath, In Stcuben county, where he Is to make an
argument In an important case before the Circuit
Court. Mr.. Collier is one OF the pure and inde-
pendent men in the wing party, whom the
vile and corrupt Albany clique have found
utterly intractable and ungovernabe. This
CLIQUE has been indlscrmlnate In its de-
nunciations of all the honorable aud just men
who have sternly refused to give their assent to
the audacious and malicious intrigues in which
that decayed faction has been engaged Tor num-
Der of years. Among these excellent and inde-
pendent wings may be numbered with John A.
Collier, Azor Taber, Millard Fillmore, Samuel
Stevens, Hamilton Fish, Joshua A. Spencer, &C.,
Sc. A hundred men of this stamp in this State,
refused to ledge the propriety or the ex-
pediency of the union of the wing party with
the anti-rent faction in 1913.
The Seneca Lake, which IL forty miles In length and
from two to three miles in breadth 10 navigated by
hrst Glars steamboat called the Richard Stsvensn and
commanded by Capt. q. Dskin.