Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-07-26


Number Of treaties and con-
ventions with foreign pow
ers o 90
Number of light houses and
light boats 372
Expenditures for do $l2,06l $529,265
Area of the first capitol
building, On square fee0 1851
Do present capitol. Gnclu-
ding extension, 45 acres
Lines Of Railroads (in miles) $500
Do Telegraphs $4,000
Number Of post Offices 209 2i,55l
Number Of miles Of post
route .5.642 1852
Amount Of revenue from
post offices SIo4,747 $5,552,o7l
Amount of expenditures in
the p. o. Department 72,o45 5,2l2,95S
Number Of miles, Email
transportation) = 1854, ,42S
Miles Of Railroad $500
Public Libraries 35 694
Number of volumes in do $4,000 2,2ol,6S2
School libraries 10000
Number of volumes in do 2,O0O,oUO
IA short note is here added respecting the
growth of Western trade and commerce, ex-
Sraeted from an address before the Historical
society Of Ohio, by William D. Gallagher, Esq
1850 "A few facts will exhibit, as well as a
volume, the wonderful growth of Western
trade and commerce. Previous to the year
1900, some eight or ten keel boats. of twenty
or twenty-five tons each, performed all the
CARRYING trade between Cincinnati and Pitts
burgh. In 1902. the FIRST government vessel
appeared on Lake Erie, In 1911 the first
steamboat (the 0rleans) was launched at
Pittsburgh. In1s26. the waters of Michigan
were frsl plowed BY the keel Of steamboat
a pleasure trip to Green Bay being planned
and executed in the summer Of this year. In
1882, steamboat first appeared at Chicago
Al the present time, the entire number Of
steamboats, running on the Mississippi and
Ohio, and their tributaries. is more probably
over than under six hundred, the aggregate
tonnage es which is not short Of one hundred
and forty thousand-a larger number ofsteam
boats than England can claim, and greater
steam commercial marine than that employed
by Great Britain and her dependencies In
the department of invention, there have been
wonderful applications of science to arts with
in the last sixty years, The spacious hall of
the Patent Office is ct once the repository and
the prop of American inventive art and genius
Their results are seen in the numerous i'm
provements by which human labor is abridg-
ed
Without going into details, it may be sufi-
cient to say, that many of the applications OF
steam TO locomotion and manufactures, OF
electricity and magnetism to the production
of mechanical motion, to the electrical tele-
graph, to the registration of astronomical phe-
nornena, to the art Of multiplying engravings,
the introduction and improvements among us
Of all the important inventions of the old
world, are strikingIy Indicative of the advance
of this country in the useful arts. The net
work of railroads and telegraph lines by which
this vast country is reticulated have not only
developed its resources, but united emphati-
cally in metallic bonds all parts of the Union.
The hydraulic works of New York. 2hiladel-
phia, and Boston, surpass, in extent and I'M
portance. those of ancient Rome, But we
have not confined our attention to the imme-
date application of science to the useful arts
we have entered the field OF original research
and have enlared the bounds of scientific
knowledge. Sixty years ago. besides the bril-
liant discoveries of F-ankliH in electricity
scarcely anything has been done among us In
the way of original invention. Our men o.
science were content with repeating the ex
peTiments, and diffusing a knowledge of the
discoveries of the SaUdDs of the old world
without attempting to add single new fac
or principal to the existing stock With the
Lass twenty-five or thirty years. remarkable
improvement has taken place in this respect
Our natural history has been explored IN al
IFS branches; our geology has been investiga
ted. with results of the highest interest Il
nractical and theoretical science. Discoveries
have been made in pure chemistry and cleo
tricity. which have received the appreciation
of the world. The advance which has beel
made in meteorology in this country within
the last twenty years. is equal to that mad
during the same period in all the world be
sides In 1898 there was not in the UnIte'
States an instrument with which good oo
seryation of the heavenly bodies could %
v,ada There are now instruments at Wash
ington. Cambridge, and Cincinna15 equal
tboss al The best European obserYatorles; ant
the original discoveries in Astronomy, With
the last Eve years in this country. are amon
the most brilliant of the age. Our knowledg
of the geography and topography OF the Anne
lean continent, has been rapidly extended b
the labor and science of the officers OF tn
United States army, and discoveries OF muc
interest in distant seas have resulted from tn
enterprise Of our navy. In 1907 survey
the coast of the United States was commenc
ed. which. at that time it was supposed n
American was competent to direct The wor
has, however, grown within the last few years
under native superintendent, in imPortanc
and extent, beyond any enterprise of the kin'
ever before attempted. These facts coneiu
siyeIy prove that great advance has beeI
made among us, not only in the application
science to the wants of ordinary life, but
science itself. in its application to satisfy tn
cravings of the immortal mind. In respect t
literature, with the exception of one or tw
spelling books. and other school books of a
inferior character, and some theological treat
ises, of which none but those of Jonathan Ed
wards have any permanent value, and som
works on local history and politics like Hutch
ison.s Massachusetts, Jeffersou's Notes o
Viroiuia.' the 'Fedeyalst,' 'Belnsp's Ne