The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-06-08
About Ottawa. &c.

Mr. TAYIoI, one Of the editors of the Chicago
Journal. and not only clever writer, but a very
clever fellow withal has recently been rustcatnS
IN these parts, and then written long letters home
about what lie had seen aud heard, As all men
Of discernment and taste that visit Ottawa never
fail to do, he fell completely in love with our beau
tiful village and gives vent TO lis admiration in
the following enthusiastic terms:
The scenery around Ottawa i surprisingly
lovely. The long swclls OF prairie, seeming as II
they had sometime been summer sea, ana that
the voice OF Him who walked upon the waters,
had biddtn them grow still and tley obeycd-aud
here and there, crest Of forest toiase-nohio
bluffs north aud south, the one pausug upon the
briuk Of the river the other rising away, utthe dist
ance of mile, crowned with trees, standing like
sentnels upon the battlementS, to guard the
Auburn Of the plain" below; there the stras
Cling shrubbcry revealing the Fox meaudcrmS
along the PLAIN, to pay its stealthy tribute 10 the
Illinois, new-named, and strong from the font 81
its christeung-there the broader waters oi the
Illinois rolling slowly on, rs ii content to image
50 beautiful scene forever and reluctant 10 leave
il: tie village sprinked over the plaIn-spaclous
warehouses, substantial stores, neat and elegant
dwellings, church spires cleaning up INTO the blue
air-the hum from its busy streets rlslng soitenod
aud musical Ia our ears "a we stand upon the tlult
and the packets gliding to and fro, as 10y magic,
over the pain-the splendid acqucduct with lis
columns of stone. bearing the Canal M triumph
four hundred feet along over the channel Of Ma
lures own Electromagnetic Hydraulic basin with
i,s slumbering power TO whirl tho ponierous stone
OF drive the busy wheel, lying there like some
huge mirror for the Genli--the bridge with its
,rells.work Of pOnderuus timters spanning She
Fux-such are the features in the landscape pain
ted upon the eye at single glance, and blended
into one harmonious picture
Mr. Taylor thinks it n shame that Ottawa has
no public school house and so we've told our PEG,
pie more than once and then Mr.. Taylor, speak
ing of our subterraneous jail says, most fifty that
"thc Court house may be regarded as monument
erected by the public to the memory Of those
buried beneath" lie goes on to speak OF our
manufactures, machine shops, warehouse. ex
ports, DC, &c, going largely aud mnut 5ntc
the figures, which it woald not pay to repe$fhere
and then Mr.. Taylor brings his exceedingly well
and accurately got up notice Of Ottawa handsome.
" to q close us follows:
Surrounded by country as beautiful and pro-
ductive a. our western sun shines upon inter.
spersed with groves, enriched with deposiies Of
coal and yeined with streams Of pure water, a soil
which, rs Holmes beautifully saws
Wakes alto life and ulls US al 10 rest
and whose "sof, answer is the growing grain "
and with 4 wealth Of industry and enterprise it
is not TO be wondered that the little settlement,
Of 1882, nestled upon the South bluff, among
whose pioneers is GEoRCE WALLER, Esq. and vet
with less silver upon his hair than in his pocket
the little settlement to which the survivors Of :he
massacre upon Indian Greek, fled for shelter and
assistance should have literally crossed over the
Illinois upon the crystal bridge Of winter, and
spread out like map upon Gods own clearing
beyond. And not 10 be wondered at, il in the
good time coming" when with wake on the
stream aud a cloud on the sky, steamers from be-
low shall round TO at IN Ottawa levee, 1t should
assume an Importance among the inland towns OF
the Prairie State which the horoscope OF its toun,
ders nj yer revealed to them