The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-26

Cleveland Cisy-Past, Pressut and Fusure.
lsroT the Cleveland Herald, Nov 10
From an Ably written and interesting sketch. with
the sbove title, n the City Directory to %
issued, compile the following article The sketch
is written BY Dr.. J. g. Newssrry. much Of IL froa
he who should now, for tho arss time visit the
shores Of the great Lstes beholdiDg on every side
the triumphs Of enlightened industry; tho landssaps.
with its wido expAnses of orchard, msado~. saa
waving grain, burdened with tho pisnteous fruits
Of scientific tillsge; thickly studded with city.
village, and farm house; adorned by Temples Of
science, and :hlinss of religion the happy homs q
poSshsd BY the Eses Of dssts Of ao..ias psissss.
whitened by the sails Of argoses, freightsd with ths
products of all lands and olimes every whore SUR
rounded by evidences Of plans matured, OF labour
such one, unconscious that he behels the Of
the most splendid instance OF progress and pros
Perity the world has ever seen, would Do slov -
believe that all man has here done and become. waS
the woIkof but short half century.
And those Of us who have, for longer or shsrtee
period, witnessed the advances Of the sirest portion
OF this favored Fegi0n-to US, even tho history q
the successive changes which have converted, wthiA
little more than Atty years, the silent, forsstolad
solitude where the Cuyahoga mingled its current
with wild waste Of waters, into the mart Of oom-
meIce, the theatre Of busy busting industry, the
seat Of science, the abode Of fashionable wealth; .
city Of thirty thousand souls graoed with al the
embellishments Of art, and rich 10 all the re6nsnsAts
Of good and evil which characterize modern civilixs
uOn- AJl t0l6 partakeoO OF tn0 mArVeiOue We RASnoc
around the gray haired pioneer, rs no relates the
history Of the past, with much the feeling Of chill.
drn listening to some fairy tale. % though the
scenes Of sorrow and prvation and the deeds OF
daring Iarratei, belonged to other sges and other
lands than The artificial so greatly prcpondsr-
stes the natural, in thing that strikes
eye ears; the fabric Of human society IL 80 COM
pete in all its parts the material works OF art 20
elaborate and numerous; find it difficult to CON
vince ourselves that the educated and enlightened
human mind has not been working here for oeAtu-
ries that al its splendid achievements have been
accomplished within the brief space of q life time.
The first landing upon she shores Of Cleveland for
the purposes Of settl ment was In 1876. In July Of
that year, the surveying party Of the Conueosicut
Land Company-in all. fifty two persons : under tho
direction OF General Moses Cleavsland, from whom
the city was named, arrived here job p. Stiles
and his family, and Capt Paine, since of Paassvls,
constituted the whole white po ouston Of Clevel and
during the winter of 1867 Five families win cred
here during the winter of 1918 Three persons
died Of dysentery in 1897 and the same disease,
together with tho ague, prostrated nearly ell the
survivors
Up to 1899, the either subsisted on such broad
stuffs AS their ipge nuity devsed but during that
year n small grist mill was built at the falls of Mil
Creek, come SIX miles southeast of the atty During
the ensaiDg winter the colony the luxury OF
bre id, the grain for which was grouod by them
selves, and converted into flour mt their own mill
The following ia bio exhibits the population OF
Cleveland at different periods Of its history The