The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-06-29

~ cry Boat and landed at
Portland, the shipping point for Lon;sville.
about two or three miles below Il.
From Louisville we came 10 fh;s c;,v v;sb.
out getting aground, having through abundant
caution escaped with an occasional scraning.
We made the trip in the Alvin Adams, com-
manded by Captain Norton, q vireiniap. and
once pupil in our Lancasterian School.
Louisville they Say, has population Of
about $4,000. IL is a fine city, with large
commerce. But il did not seem to me to be
much larger than Richmond. Ii has not the
appearance Of energy and neatness that dis
tinguish Cincinnati. Louisville has large
trade in hemp and ,obacco, and the pork pack
ing business is carried on there to large ex-
tent. As many advantages as they have for
supplying their city with water, the Louisvil
lians still rely on wells and cisterns. For put>
ting out fires they have cisterns at the corners
of the sire cts. which are supplied with water
by pumping from the wells. A recent vote of
the people decided by 400 majority against
supplying the town with water, and in favor
of retailing liquor! Fhe Louisville canal
passes from above the Falls to Portland, be-
low them. But the canal does not begin high
enough nor go down low enough. The bar at
lts mouth below greatly impedes navigation.
Indlana Is about to construct one on her side
az New Albany, on much better plan, and il
Ter IN her commerce by the activity of her
neighbors.
Cincinnati is one Of the most elegant and
modern looking cities in the Union. There is
as much taste and liberality displayed there as
in any other city. The Burnet House is Der.
haps the most magnificent architectural pile,
devoted to Hotel, in The United States. The
private residences are admirably comfortable
and elegant. There is great degree of en-.
ergy and steady devotion to business evident
among the people. 1t is now however a dull
season. The business houses all close at 5
o'clock in summer. Oflate years an immense
addition has been made to the trade of Gin.
cinnati in native wine produced on the Ohio,
and chiefly manufactured in the city. A Mr..
Longworth is understood to have made mil
lions OF dollars by the wine manufacture.
For suppose fifty miles each side of Cincin
matt, the steep acclivity of the Northern shores
OF the Ohib (which has become an American
Rhine,) is adorned with well cultivated and
fourishing vineyards. While felt pride as
an American, in locking upon SO fine city
as Cincinnati, could not suppress feeling of
sadness when remembered that here was an
inland city built on soil given away when a
forest, by Virginia, which exceeded about four
times the largest city of which she could
boast Cincinnati is said to contain 10000
inhabitants On the opposite side of the
river in Kentucky are Covngton and Newport,
separated by the Licking river. The former
with some $4,000, the latter with about 5000
inhabitants. They are constructing hand
some wire suspension bridge to connect these
two towns. We spent an agreeable evening
at the house of a native Of Henrico county,
who has made fortune in Cincinnati, who
resides in Covington, and at whose hospi,able
ooard the everwefcome guest is entertained
IN the most graceful and generous manner
we found several natives of Richmond there,
and PASSED an agreeable time with them. We
also visited Ex Governor Moorehead, who
lives there, and were strongly impressed with
the strength OF his mind and the clearness and
force OF his reasoning powers. He is decidedly
one of the first men in Kentucky.
The towns OF the West increase with won
derfui rapidity. Yet we strongly suspect
that they stretch little in estimating their
population. Nevertheless, would that our
citizens of Richmond could all see them and
witness the 60 ahead spirit of this Western
world. They would return home determined
to tuin over new leaf-to weed out old 70.
gyIsm altogether, and to put Richmond at
once IN the right track to that position of com.
merciai importance and influence which she
ought TO occupy.
IMPROVEMENTS IN FLoRIDA.-The people
of this vigorous young State are waking up
to the Importance of internal improvements
Meetings have recently been held at Pilatka
and Micanopy, preparatory TO the construction
ofa plank Rad Between those places. The
immense native resources of the State will
never be developed, without the fulflment of
two conditions precedent" The FIRST is the
removal of the Indians; the second, the con-
struction of plank roads. 1t will do to wait,
perhaps, little longer for railroads. Tim
Der for the purpose, of the very best quality,
in most parts of the State, bears only nom
inal price, and indeed is so abundant that it is
a nuisance. Hundreds of thousands of lofty
pines are girdled every year, just to get rid of
their shade to admit of the cultivation of the
soil. 1t is enough to make timber merchant
weep to see such sacrifice. But without
plank roads all the splendid forest trees of
that beautiful region are in a certain sense
The most towering pine or cypress,
if single mile from water course, has no
market value. The surface Of the country in
most parts, is as yet barely scratched with the
semblances of roads, and whore any are found
they consist either Of lines Of coral sand, half
obliterated by the abounding growth of the
low palmetto, or Of dismal paths through
hammocks, where the passage ofloaded trains
is imprac ctcable. All along the valley of the
beautiful st. Johns. stream which might be
whitened by a thousand sails, bearing rich
staples to MARKET everything remains in almost
it's primitive -cuGaition. Nine.tenths Of East
Florida is as YET a desert, for the mere want Of
a few internal improvements. We hope soon
to see them in progress, and new impulse
given to our neig ghboring State.
We entirely coincide with writer in the last
number Of the Florida News, as to the neces.
sity Of the immediate removal of the few re,
naming Indians. They ere fee, but formida.
BILE. especially to scattered settlers. We have
seen. even in Duval County, and within few
miles Of the city ofjacksonville, moro than .
q score offine plantations, which were 10 1889
and suffered 10 90 TO destruction.
Once driven out BY dread Of the savage foe, The
owners have settled elsewhere, and cannot
we'll return. The Writer above alluded 70,
says that hssknows Of persons ins South Caro-.