The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-13

breakfast and dinner and at the low charge of Is
cents, they were coed and substantial meals
This road, connecting Lake Enc with Clncin-
rau. and the Ohio river, Is daily diverting,
b. finlo and New York, the travel between the
f. ct AID Wet. project is on foot for conii-
Luous string Of railroad from Sapdusky, right
ihlo eb, IN direct line Southwest, 10 ST. LOUIS.
Tie route rs eminenly practicable, and the project
one 81 he most prt missing OF the day Let the line
tie finished, and there will be no further complaints
ct low water IN the Ohio, and no NOR reports Of
weeks along the Mississippi graveyard between
lauo and = LOUIS. We understand that Oliver
ii. Smith, ot il dlanapolls, Indiana, and number
II 'iteIPisirg Yank. es, have the matter IN hand.
We know Of Lo facilities of communication, of no
.xIedieBtt tbsoIbiDg the trade and travel of the
West, WHICH, 17,ma facie, would enure, so COM
CITY. as this projected railroad front Sandusky to
-. Louis Philadelphia and Bait more are strrtch-
ms then feeiers 10 the West, and New York, TO
hold her undoubied empire over the trade of the
Northwest ieniiory, must neuralize, at once, the
promising. ambition of the Quakers and Baltl-
more ans, by So me such railroad ligament Ct in
itlc' mmun icaiicn with herself, as the projected
line Ia ST. LOUIS.
LAKE ERIE, Steamer OHIO, Oct. lO.-Seven feet
water on the bar OF Sandusky harbor, AS the boat
winds Though the tortuous and shallow channel,
leading Outintothe open sea, the man with the lead,
as he hies the soundinys, cries out, two fathom"
"quaiter less, TWAIN = "hail less, twain !! nine
slacken. Seven feet and halt - The boat
stops and backs water. Eight feetp' The boat
rulls ahead again. "Seven and half scant"
The boat shifts little to the right. eSeven feet D."
The boat pulls back, but II no go, for she has run
aground between the buoys. The bell rings. the
ca tain Genes forward, the pilot in his box
"damns James X. Polk" and swears that, #
Tay lor is elected, the harbor bill will not be vetoed.
The boat continues to struggle tl.she gets off into
deep water, the steam 10 let or, the captain sits
down TO discuss the harbor bill, and the steamer
pulls eastward at fifteen miles an hour.
Lett Sandusky yesterday. at four p M. A LIVELY
breeze during the night RULED the lake sufficiently
owing TO the polite consideration OF the captain
end his officers, toward an invalid, your reporter
finds himself this morning sufficiently revived for
iwentytour hours st sslOn Of the Senate Cap
ain Ludlow, OF the Lake steamer Ohio, deserves
20 be RENE mbered. Among the passengers from
Gu clnhail, " sterday, we've poor widow woman
and five children. BY definitions on the way her
slender finances were exhausted. The passengers
III the cars raised her sum oftwenty dollars. She
Is eOirg East On board the steamer, her poverty
being made known TO the captain, he asked no
furher questiors, but, placing the widow and her
children IN comfortable quarters, told her to keep
her money, Tor that she and her family were free
10 Buffalo, clear saving TO her OF sixteen of the
twenty doll,ls remaining in her possession. In
addition TO this. the passengers on the boat added
some twenty dollars more to the widows trea-
sury.
A fine day for the elections in Ohio and Penn.
sylvanIa. Ford, (whig) will be elected Governor
according to our researches and calculations
thereon. In few hours we expect to have some
returns, 4. c. on reaching Buffalo.
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