Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-08-24
Communications
For the Grant County Herald.
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MONTREAL, Canada, Aug. II. '53.
Mr.. Editor : Such epistles as this, that is,
jottings by the way, are so common an affair,
that I almost despair ofletting you or your
readers find aught new.
That the men who have settled Michigan
Canada, and New York are brave and irwin
chile race, needs no other proof, than 10 pass
through their country and see what they have
done. For man to walk up, battle-ax in hand
to forest of such timber as they have there
to encounter, and expect to exterminate the
host before him--so stately, and so close, rank
and file (; and then when done, to be SO poorly
paid as the crops indicate this season would
truly look discouraging, to contrast the rank
and luxuriant crops I saw in Wisconsin and
Northern Illinois, with those in Michigan and
New York, and see and know the ease with
which the one is cultivated, and then see the
labor here on stumps and stones land white CLAW
soil, with oats 10 to Is inches high, and acres
of corn, yet one to two feet high, (and of that
yellow Yankee kind, the Kentuczianf found.
Their cattle really poor, at this season of the
year, when out west, SO fat and fine, as they
always are. To contrast this, as thunder "a
long, makes me really sorry that men will still
be SO short-sighted as to toll away here for
such poor pay, when there is such a world of
wealth out west for them, and now so easy of
access.
Niagara looks familiar, and as grand as ever:
and as turn to leave it, cannot refrain from
soliloquy, and bid it adieu. Roll on, dash on,
surge, plunge and rage on, and leap into the
tuTbid gulph. The deafening roar. the grand
and majestic plunge, the mighty food,-and all
combined in one thought, as it were, of this
grand display of natures God!
But even this noblest of the Creators hy-
draulics, is to be desecrated by the meddesome
Yankee; for they are now digging Canal from
the head of the Rapids on the New York side.
to be let into the river half-a-mle below the
Falls, making Water Power beyond estimate,
having 200 #. fall; and all the factories, mills
and machinery for this Universal Yankee Ma
ton may here be operated.
find, too, that the Canada Railroad is fast
raising the enormous towers to run a susnan-
sion bridge directly over the present Fllatt
bridge, for the passage of the iron horse 60
you may soon ride over the present bridge in
your coach and the train Of cars come rafting
osuiSo oftA yOui IiSdu VIVID q crash and rlaf-
ter as if old Pluto had Gent commission far
you.
-, Ldss Ontario behaved handsomely this time.
seems satisfactory. , r"'' -
Let me Tel. you, do not go this way when
gong east: that tue ride down that noblest of
rivers, TIE st. Lawrence, and over such ranids
as 5, me long 500, Cedars and Lacaine. is worth
al the expense of the journey; and then, too,
or canada cousins are always pleased to see
US come. Every hotel here is overrun with
tourists, SO much so that so travellers were re-
fused admittance at the Montreal House. where
am staying, within half an hour after nv get-
ting room. The arrivals here are much
more than expected it amounts to thousands
daily. 1t would seem as if all Yankeedom was
on the go; and from all states in the Union.
south America, Mexico, and the West Indies,
are well represented in this melee Of travel.
In ride to-day around Montreal mountain.
IRON which there is a magnificent view in ali
directions for 30 to 40 miles) could not but
observe the amount Of dead property invested
! IN catnedfats, nunneries, converts and priest
factories. icould but wish men would learn
WISDOM, appropriate their. means to the ,acqui-
siuon OF true learning, science, and that which
conduces to the happiness of man as social
creature, and not pile up millions of their la
Dor to pander to pack of priests, in follow
ing chimera Of. the imagination. But SO it
| Is, man will pay more for, and labor harder to
define that OF which he knows little or Moth
ing, than for real good, and useful enioyments.
/ The northern lakes are alive with steam
boats and the country is being chequered with
railroads and lind on inquiry nearly all owned
by men in the States, in fact The YANKEES caT,N
troll Canada politically and commercially
they are the engine of the country.
The weather here for The last xuaal- :,
oppressively hot than have felt this season
Tomorrow we leave for Quebec in SPLENDID
steamers. Mrs. ". enjoys the trip much, but
would not leave the Badger State for any vet
seen. ~
We expect to 90 by Portland in Maine t.
boston, and if see any thing on the Way wor-
my OF telling, may be PIl do SO from New
ioiA yours &c, ]. WARNER.