The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-11-23

| never was SO important work projected; lmpor-
| fant to our Government-important to the world.
| have no pen pencil to shadow forth tthe of
it's advantages, State wise. Nationally, or in IFS
other bearings upon Young America" 1t does
not appear that any man, with common under
standing. could feel Indifferent to this Improvement
It is fact that political creeds great
barrier to the pro perity of State, when that
creed is steadily adhered to without exception, as
the creed of jealous bigot is detrimental TO the
success of free gospel. While the latter is ap-
propriately called bigot, the former is handsome
y styled an Old Fogy! That President Pierce
should suffer his internal improvement motives to
interfere with work that would immortaze his
administration, and. do more to enlghten and
civize the world than even the establishment of
this Republican Government and its influence from
its foundation to the present time, is a matter of
much surprise. True this is strong language, but
| it is strong case-one before which the High
Way of Semiramis or the Great Wall of China
are pignes, when considered as an advantage to
the nations of the earth.
Our citizens are moving in good earnest in the
great work of setting the ball in motion. Already
an exploring party have been sent out with COM
petent engineers, &c. Money and every thing
requisite is freely furnished to carry forward this
work in ts iucipient stages. California will do
her part, and the Road must and viii be built
You will be glad to learn that the great bubble,
on the Pacific coast, has not yet burst. Though
it has often been the subject OF modern prophecy
though many of your seers and sages have
peered over high moons and through brief years,
and beheld the fragments of this gaudy bubble
scattered over the gentle wave of your staid sur
face, while the thousands who had eaid s' let the
golden stream be quick and Violent" would return
and " claim their penny day." yet here we live.
The golden tinge still endures, and your finances
are made easy by the great influx Of the precious
metal to your Golfers. Duration TO US is blooming
as it was to Methuseah when bright little boy.
The giIds our hill tops and smiles on our val
lies. Willie the waving grain extending through
fields illimitabe,' give evidence of prosperity as
well pernanence.
Turn to our city. Is there any evidence of
continued prosperity here? No less than five
hundred brick buildings have been erected and
are in process ofcompetion, during the past year.
| Many of them elegant piles OF brick with gran
lite fronts, lifting their lofty heads if attempting
disdainful look at their ..elder models on the
other side Of the Nevada Mountains. But inn
provements of this kind all evidences of fu
ture greatness that start into being around US.
There are several foundries in the city, togeth-
or with several machine shops where mill irons
are manufactured and sent to different parts of the
| State. Steam boats are built and launched with
as much familiarity as though it '.was nothing
| new" The incessant ciamor of the iron hummer
almost annoying to the dwellers around. betoken
the presence of skill and enterprise that would do
honor to Ohio. Mt only are these cunning artifi-
in iron, but almost every article that is in
among is manufactured; though it can be import
ed much cheaper; yet the imported article bears
the Yankee impress" so indelbly that those who
desire durable one prefer to pay for good arti-
/ Gle! -,-E-s
| But the most encouraging evidences of perma-
nence may b. seen in the public improvements
are under the control of the city Fathers. In
| cry part of the city Improvements going for
ward. Hills are being leveIled, sreets graded End
new ones opened and improved. Protection as
well as improvement obtains some attention. Gas
works already constructed for lighting the city.
md .sPipe layers are s.down in the DUST and
will soon .'let their light shine.' The city is not
the only source of encouragement that anmates
these who purpose to remain here The adyen-
turUus spirit of the age is peopling the wilderness,
penetrating into the sotudes where nature has
held her court urdisturbed for centuries unlocking
| the gates which have kept out the world from in
| tercourse with the teeming countries of the east
torn the veil frem the mysterious, and made patent
the unknown. This spirit will gain new energies
! bv he FIJI of the rasourcoo ,x,b,
our reach. How mean must be that spirit that
will arrest this onward movement of man towards
his destiny. merely to lug along Locofoco dogma.
leaving the worlds commerce. to double the
cape! Who can describe the consequences of that
pernicous and yet foolish creed that fears to
make the government the source of an improve
ment that would throw all enterprises of any and
all governments of the earth into insignfcance and
disparity.
believe that the health of this State exceeds
any new settlements where the tide of emigration
like an overfowing deluge poured into the vales
and covered the hill tops and penetrated the noun
tain forests and created cities in day, and
made unkroken atmosphere to vibrate with the
use of the implements of industry, as though ages
had been improved to civilize and perfect state
Vi hiordi, eoChi anu bcleulnc TedLlon Oh things
California is making out high destiny for herself.
If your older states would keep out ofthe way you
must bestir yourselves
Yours, truly, l.. s. ELY.
e I" Seen the Crystal Palace, Tommy ~
asked little urchin of newsboy.
"Oh, yes, Use been up thar several different
times," replied another newsboy. as they stood in
Nassau street, waiting for the extras come out
"Well. know n that would give $4,000
to see that ar place." -- a