New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-06-02
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
~or,h.rn obio-S. W. Pennsylvania, &c.
Idltonal Correspondence.
CnAurAuerE co. n York. May p, ~.

Cleveland Sc. on Pittsburgh and Philadelphia
This time resolved 70 pass through il literally, 10
such manner as to see as much Of 1t rs possible
especially Of Connectcuts famous Western r.
serve. forming the North. Eastern corner Of ONO.
Accordingly, have Just trave ed over the Reserve
ia q zig.zag fashion from Cleveland south eas'erly
10 Warren the eeusr % T rgmoa Conntytteent 9
North. Easterly 70 Kihsman, the northeast town
Of said County, thence north OF east to the ate
Line and by Connesut Lake to Meadvie aud
through the greatest length Of Crawford County,
Pa and portion Of Erie aud Warren Counties 10
10 thus State where the line is crossed by the
Brokenstraw Creek. branch Of the Alegany
Rivera land route of 100 miles
The Western Reserve does honor TO the State
under whose auspices aud by whose sons and
daughters 1t was mainly settled. New Connect
cut is indeed the noblest monument eztant Of the
steady thrift, the practical sagacty, the general
morality Of the Land Of Clocks There are some
spots on its surface where individual cupdty was
permitted in the darker age now passing away.
% monopOlize large tracts OF the untrodden soil
aud hold II out OF settlement for an exorbitant
price-such tracts remaining to this day in many
instances an incubus aud an exception to the gen
eral progress and prosperity. For the most part,
however the land was sold directly by the State :
AGENTS 10 her adventurous sons who had found
themselves forestacd in the possession Of the
homes of their childhood and had thereupon set off
10 battle with fortune in that Western wilderness
which though remote, was still connected with
the old sod by peculiar te-was not, at all events
a and Of strangers, being peopled and to be PEG.
Piled almost entirely from the parent State. Some
thing over half a century has passed since the set
Element of the Reserve was thus began and now
behold IL What O contrast between the clear
ings, the farms, the products, the dwellings and
those of the settlements twice as old in Virginia
and MARYLAND How tidy aud how plentiful are
the school-houses, the places Of worship here,
compared even with those Of Pennsylvania aud
Ohio Glorious New -Eng and thou art the most
conclusive REPUTATION Of the sophistues OF Calhoun
and ElwOOd Fisher-the unanswerabe argument
Tor Free Labor aud Free Soil.
Nature has been kind to the Western Reserve
Much of the land lies very level, and so is apt to
be wet while covered with forest; but clearing
and cultivation quickly overcome this. good
deal but not as much lies gently rolling, or rather
sloping, and is only less fertile than the valleys
and higher levels. The Cuyahoga empty ing INTO
Lake Erie at Cleveland. seems to run manly
through a deep aud not wide valley, whose sides
are often steep the Mahoning and other streams
in the asst W hich find the Ohio through the bea-
yer. run mainly through broad intervaies, skirted
by very modest hills if any. AS whole, the lie
serve could hardly be more fertile without being
less healthy or less uneven IN surface without
serious scarcity of springs and water-power As
It's there is not sufficient water power to saw the
abundant timber OF the remaining forest, and
steam-Mis are rapidly multiplying. They cost
more than water.mills and require more labor TO
run them; but they cut fast and the slabs supply
them with fuel. They are destined to cover this
region
| have seen tracts of more valuable timber,
probably, than any here but l never saw II
whole region So usefully tmbered as this such
miles of tall and portly White Oak never before
passed there is Oak enough about the Aheghe'
MES. and again in Michigan and Illinois but 1t is
poor stuff beside this. Then there Is abundance
of Whitewood each tree like hogshead, with
Cucumber. Chestnut Ash Elm aud Sugar Maple
at intervals-Chestnut and White Ash on the dry,
warm soils. Elm and Black Ash on the cold, wet
grounds; Oak and Maple almost everywhere IL
seems but recently that the inhabitants nave
learned that such timber has marketable qualities
as. indeed very little Of it had until the Ohio
Canal, iercing the Reserve from North to South
the Erie Extension skirtng 1t ON the East with
the Cross Cut from this to that, created for them
unusual facilities for reaching markets both ways
Many tracts which were recently dear at nVe
dollars per acre would now be cheap at twenty
five, if estimated for the timber alone. And this
value is likely 10 increase.
think whoever on the part Of Connecticut es
tabished her Land Office at Warren, and com
menced selling and settling the wilderness from
that point, evnced much Yankee shrewdness.-
There are now many more populous towns on the
Reserve, many better positions tor Trade and
Manufactures, but finer tract of land than that
about Warren is very rarely met with. II IS level
fertile, mellow, beautifully tmbered, and now dry
enoaeh, though doubtless too wet when the sun
shine was first let in upon it. Aside from ITS
proximity to Pittsburgh and the Ohio, doubt
whether more inviting spot on which to begin
settling could now be found on the Reserve II the
whole were SET o0cA INTO us orlglna NAuSihNss'
Whest-growiug was once common on the He
serve, but is through all that portion over
which have travelled. Sheep-rearing has been
popular, but the low prices Of Wool are discoursg
iag aud running out this branch Of industry, and
now Cheese and Butter making is the general hob
BY The high prices OF Dairy products for two
years past have richly rewarded the labor they
demanded. and now stocks OF twenty to fifty
cows are as common as in our Orange or Herkimer
COun.y-probably more SO. Nine ienihs OF all the
cleared land is divided between pasture and now
iag 90 that the Reserve will hardly raise Its own
bread this year What Winter Grain there IS
promises well; Corn is hardly planted YET Oats
and Spring Wheat make no show above ground ;
bat athicker, rsnker, greener growth OF Grass Is
very rarely seen. Better grass land than TINS
whole region as far east as Csttaraugus CreeS' OF
eyea Buffalo, l have never found.
Crossing the line OF Pennsy wanna you hnd
Substantially the same soil and timber, bat unmis
taxable Indications of another breed OF men. The
Irsss is still green aud abundant; but the cattle
are lever and poorer; the clearings are narrower