New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-18
sourH-WEsrrRH NEw-YoRK. - The


west all know, is rapidly filing up with inhab-
santa and its forests and praries are being dot
~ all over with clearings and dwellings; but it
= not quite 30 widely known that South Western
Nev.York is experiencing like healthy mo-
vrsntun Along the line OF the Erie Railroad
nav dwellings,, stores shops and other strue-
tures evincs the rapid growth of a section which
that great work has opened to the observation
Of the travelling public. AT HoRNELLsvILLE,
the Erie Road is intersected by the Attica Road,
hereafter to be known as The New.York and
pufalo,' now open hence to Portage, on the
Cspssse River, and soon to be completed. form.
ING . six feet track from Buffalo to this City, 90
miles shorter than the route via Rochester, SYRIA
euse and Albany. Hornellsviile has been vii
LACE some fifty years, yet half its houses are
scarcely year old. and its population has more
than doubled since the census Of 1850 was taken.
ELnrRA is also growing with rspdity and stead
mess, and is evidently destined to be the
chief town Of the South West. When Pennsyl.
,vsaia shall have reached i. with Canal and
Railroad from her more Southerly routes, it
will Do the center of a network Of internal
pass il daily. 1t is already focus of
travel, hating and repairing place for cars and
engines. and the home of large body of Rail-
road employees. A more direct and cheaper &C
cess to the Coal region will give it decided
impulse toward Manufacturing activity, 70
which it will then possess signal advantages. l
has already the largest and most commodious
Hotel in the South West-the Brainard House
BY Pike & Coleman-which only needs the
massage of the Maine Law to place it among the
best in the world.-We have net been westo
Hornellsville, but understand that evidences
ofactivity and thrift are visible thereabonts
The Erie Railroad is not fairly treated by
the Press The fatal accidents upon its since
IFS completion have been fewer than those on
the rival route hence to the Lakes; yet people
hear of an accident happening to-day on the
Erie, to morrow on the Hudson River, Utica and
Schenectady. Utica and Syracuse, Auburn and
Rochester, or Tonawanda Road, and few reflect
that all these form a part of the same line, and
that the casualties on them all should in fairness
be weighed against those on the Erie alone.
Nearly all the accidents on the Erie have re-
suited from the breaking of Rails on short
section OF the Road, wherein iron was used
which has proved brittle, and is to be forthwith
taken up and replaced by better. Thereafter,
we hope to hear of such misfortunes very rarely.
~ The Ohio Statesman, in the course
of general attack on the motives and move
meuts of the friends of the Maine Law, takes
occasion to say that
ooIc ~ III ola iso in
New.York, with HORACE GRsELEY to stock the vo.
cabulary of Teady-made blackguardsm, against all
who hesitate 70 plunge hea6loDg into the enactment
OF the Maine Law, and wish TO inquire into Its pro-
bable effect upon the minds of the people and the
well settled principles of law. Tho tide of agta.
Mon does not seem TO have spread very widely in
New.YOrk, nor 10 there 80 much violence between
opposing parties"
Happily, multitude of Tribunes find lodgment
inOhio, 30 that good many readers of The States
mon--n0 thanks to its Editor will be able to
contrast the above assertions with the facts in the
case We will cheerfully abide their Judgment
as to the "blackguardism" Of The Tribuns's advo-
cacy of the Maine Law. The Statssmas is care
III not to quote anything from our columns In
support OF its CHARGE so that its readers can only
pass upon it intellgently by referring to our col
umns. That reference we most respectfully So
hcit. Most certainly, we have not intended to
use abusive language or harsh personalities In
our advocacy of the Maine Law.
One question, however, is suggested by The
Stasesmam's circular volley, which we will now
ask requesting the public to ponder 1t well be-
fore returning an answer. 1t relates to the OBJ
vious and increasing sympathy between Alcohol
and self.styled Democracy Why is it that In
almost every State where the Maine Law is pc
titioned for, the organs of partisan Democracy
take early and decided ground against the move
menti What is the sympathetic chord which
binds 80 fraternally Democracy and Rum! Is
the fact long ago proclaimed by Mike Walsh
their common devotee) that "Porserhouses
are the chief nurseries Of Democracy instinc-
lively recognized and acted on by the organs OF
the latter II not, what Is the explanation OF this
instructive rally of The Hartford Times, Columbus
Statesman, Albany Argus and Alta &c. &c,
10 tho defense of the imperiied grog-shoPs Can
anybody tell
ST.. PATRICK's DAY.-The weather yea
to-day was most unfavorabls for the grand occasion
Of ths celebration Of St. Patricks Day, but still
tlsSs was vsEy good turnout OF members OF sns
vuieus IrsA Benevolent and Social Societies. Inc
route Of the procession was not gone through with'
- account Of the Storm and the line dismsssed a.
N early hour glad TO seek any place OF shelter from
ths rslt;~ o. of tina nitiless stoTm"