Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-19

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Room. tene flowers, my child would pass to heaven
Ye look'dnot fG her ye. with your soft eyes,
Q, watchfhl ushGs at Deaths narrow door
Yet have chose, for thy grave, my child,
A bank where lave lain in summer hours,
And thought howlite il would seem like death
To sleep amid sue, loveliness The brook,
Tripping with laughter down the rocky steps
That lead us to th, bed, would still uip on,
Breaking the dreai hush Of the moumer gone
The birds are neve. silent that build here,
Trying TO sing down the more vocal waters
The slope Is beautiful with moss and flowers;
And, far below, seen under arching leaves
Giitters the warm the village spre,
Pointing she living ater thee. And this
Seems like ccmicrt and replacing now
The flowers Mat have mads room ~ thss, I ss
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To bdng tie heart III dom an iDfsns soosi
Hope must give o'sr, and busy aBcy blot
lie images from al the silent rooms
And every sight and sound familiar to her
Undo its sweetest link and so, ai last,
The buntain that, once loosed, must flow forever,
Will hide and waste in silence. When the smile
Seals to her palid lip again, and spring
Wakns it's buds above thee, we will come,
And, standing by thy musc-haunted grave,
Look On each other cheerfuly, and say,
A child that we have loved is gone to heaven,
And ty this gate Of flowers she passd away"
No. 8.
BIDHAMrTos, BRooME Co., On. " JuLY 8, 1851. =
Yesterday, at halfpast four having taken seven
hours look at Owego, took the Eastern mail train
for BIghampton. The distance is about twenty
miles, occupying something like an hour including
brief stops at Campville and Union. This gave
me couple of hours before dark to view this cee-
brated village, which time improved diligently and
with much satisfaction. Binghampton has wide
reputation as village of uncommon beauty and
and am sure that reputation will be
in no danger Of suffering from the test Of personal
observation. It has population of about FIVE
thousand, and is destined to become large town.
It's beautiful location and numerous advantages will make it
grow whether it will Il is situated at the confluence
of two lovely rivers the susquehanna and the Chenango the
great Erie railroad passes through it, and is the terminus Of
the Chensngo canal stretching ninety five miles north to
Utica.
The main body Of the village stands the north bank Of
the susquebanna, which here has westerly course, and the
bright and broad Chenango comes flowing down gracefully
from the NORTH between its high green banks and beneath its
white BRIDGES and passing directly through the village, goes
laughing on in this "ar vale Of Avoca to its joyous
meeting of the waters The canal also passes centrally
through the village and with its bridges and boats adds not
little to the beauty Of the picturesque The business
part of the village the eastern side Of the Chenango and
here also pleasant and many tasteful and neatly
finished dwellings One Of these, which pointed out 70
me. Is the mansion Of the Hon. JOHN A. CoLLIER. Il ha'
both tha canal and river in 'front.' and has commanding and
most deiighsul P-ospsct The pramises little injured
side by the approach Of the railroad and the sta
ton buildings. which within stones throw. The tra
vele however, must pass to the western bank Of the
Chenango, and walk up and down the river for half
three quarters Of nile before he fully appreciate the
tas,e beauty and rural comfort Of the residences Of B;ng
hampton. And if be would enjoy comprehensive view
Of this delightful valley with its grand border stooned with
hills and mountains let him ascend to the top Of the court
house at sunset sunrise, and look out from the cupoa
Binshamp.on is place Of much wealth. in proportion t.
its population and Judging from appearances poverty mus
be an entire stranger within ts borders Liberal
men is given 10 the Of education, is indicated by
their academy ea semnaes, and public schools, and the
society in general said be intelligent and refined The
leading hotel Of the place present 10 the Lewis House.
large snowy wooden building, well arranged and we'll
kepnot quite equal the two principal hotels at Elma,
but still may be called excellent house. Another large
hotel Of brick is progress and will be open The
march Of improvement is visible the whole line Of this
great Erie road and challenges observation at every station
Forty wears ago Bnghampon received fom New York
mail ceek now it receives trains of railroad from the
Empire City three times day. Such facts of the past
sure prognoscs Of the future and probably it may not be
more than fifteen or twenty years before shall have daily
train of cars from New York California That road will
20 through and rapidly, BY somebody. The great empire
spngnR suddenly into life and maturity the Pacific will
demand it. If the road is opened through American
rory il will be through British territory. Our Legislators
ought not to allow themselves 60 sleep this matter;
II thew do they will wake up morning and near the
cars of John Bull whising away through the woods from
Montreal to some place south Of fifty -four forty" the
Pacific to connec, with the British line Of China
Bipehampon has been settled something sixty years.
Il received its from Of its early prominent settlers,
Mr. Bingham, Engishman, who died in 1904, leaving
two daughters These daughters afterwards married
Alexander and Henry Barring, the English bankers Most
of the earlier settlers Of Bipghampon however, came from
New England. This the also with large portion
Of Western New York, which perhaps derives from this
source much Of its Yankee goahesd character, dsen,
from some Of the old Dutch in the North River coun
ties The first white nhsbi,ant Of Bnghampton Cap.
Joseph Leonsrd, from Plymouth, Massachusetts, Then came
Col William Rose from Connecticut; and afterwards the
Whitneys from Columbia county in this State About the
same time colony Of French settled and continued for
years, above this place the Chensngo This French
settlement was visited in 1895 by Talleyrsnd
All settlements have their anecdotes of early hardshps
and privatons In the earlier days Of Bnghampon when
its inhabitants few and its neghbors far off the nearest
white settlement and the mill at Toga forty
miles distant. The Bnshami.es had raised nice wheat
but how to get il ground problem which s6rey puzzled
them solve AT length, however patriotic and salwar
Msor Stow volunteered to work out the question. he