The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-06

columns Nor u the amount q manufactured gccds
thus transported small and tho othsr roads which
Gross TIE county are Proatahly employed IN the
Few parts Of the world are more bountifaly
provided with the means Of railway travel aud
transportation than the county OF Middlesex
OF the hfty towns which compose 1t, from
Lowell to Roxborough. there is not, think, mre
than half o dozen which do not have direct commu-
ncaton with all the great places Of the 1ntry; and
the towns excepted are not far renewed from some
line. The Boston and Lowell, the Boston and Fitch.
burg, the Boston and Worcester, the Boston ana
Portland, and the Nashua and Worcester RAILROADS,
the principal Of the great roads that go through
this country in different parts ana there Is large
number OF lesser roads. ali tending TO accoInmpdate
the travelling world and that OF business There are
season ticket passengers on thcse roads 10 anuut
forty Of The towns, and they must psy hundreds OF
thousands Of dollars annually TO the companies,
counting eli that they cause to flow toto their Urea
suries, directly or indirectly. Thousands o. people
have moved ron Boston 10 the Mddlesex since lS43
The consequence has been that increa 4 in the
value of property pointed out and the rapid growth
OF the lower towns IN all the elements " material
prosperity. The Oldest railroad IN the State tast
between Lowell and Boston, Ii q Middesex read,
ana the Boston and Worcester, which was also
carly constructed, is for half its length in the same
county. The Fitcbburg road Is for more than four
fffhs of its fifty miles Middesex affair scarcely
touching any put Middlssex towns until It almost
rescLes to It's northern terminus.
Niddssex II the ice county Of Massachusetts,, II
nor the ice colnirs OF the world leaving Russia out
OF consideration. Here are, with the exception OF
Wenham, ali The most celeorotsd ponds lrom which
ice is tasep In MASSACHUSETTS for expectation. Here
are FRESH Pond. 10 Cambridge and Water,oTn, aud
Spy Pond In West Cambridge, and SPIT Pond, in
Storebam, ana Sandy Pond, in Gfoton, and Mill
fond, in Townsend. ami Long Pond, in Mslrose,
ard WaCe Pond and Asaoeth river, In Concord,
~ famous for tleiriae crops not to speak OF several
theirs yet less celebrated pisces Ice il shipped
fro Charlestown for foreign countries ia great
quantities, and the transportation Of il from the
country towns to the seAbOad forms one OF the sot
toI midsbe items in the business OF some OF our
railroad companies. The returns for 1850 show that
the value of the ice obtained in Mlddlssex an ar
tcle Of merchandise, $4s 600: but this did not
one half the value OF what was that year ga.
tbered in the county, even if we suppose that the
merchandise ice was all returned, whNh probably
was not the Case, for tho amount made for priv ste
use was certainly lot less than that exported Sew
elal more ponds ard streams are low operated 90
than there we're three years ago, and from these
there has BEEN this year, taken Larger amount Of
ice than according to the returns, formed tine entire
MlGdeseX crop OF 1850.
A place Of considerable repute in Middlesex il the
town " Bri htcn the and standing OF which are
probably known to people who would he good deal
p,zzled il you were to question them about Concord
and Lexington 1t is about five miles from ston,
aod was formerly known as Little Ctmbtidse,"
being originally o part OF Cambridge. Some
ive.aLd seventy years since, during the revolu-
tionary war, cattle fair or market WAS there
established, which las ever since continued, and
flnufished 1t il the smithfeld OF New England,
the Beast Exchange the Bourse 1t those whose talk
j. If buOcss, whose love is placed on swine, whose
thoughts are 20 classical as ever to ne Running on
.oden f, eces and who consider fat hogs to be the
most perfect OF all perfect things. Cattle, shee D.
wire and 20 forth are brought to Brighton from
all PARTS Of New England, for sale and for slaughter
ChAsLgs LIE CHAUvE.