The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1853-09-16
For the Venture.
G- For the Venture.
Scraps OF Travel.
MAsoNvILLE. Delaware Co., N. Y,l
August Ia, 1858.

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lam now upon al easterly tour visiting
once more "the scenes Of childhood" in
the far famed empire State, having been
absent therefrom more than nine years,
during which limo cities and villages
have arisen here in this seemingly short
time as if by the magic power Of Aladd-
n's lamp, and the changes which have
been wrought by the Characteristic Yam
kee go.ahead-slive principle, have almost
totally transformed the unculivated for
est of pine and hemlock, into rich,
A,utishing, and populous county,
Among the various internal improve
menls with which this State abounds,
perhaps there is none to which she is SO
much indebted for the present amount Of
business, as 10 the N. Y. and &. Railroad,
extending through tract of country 400
miles in extent, and being located so as
to form a connecting line between Two
great ports Of ocean and lake commerce,
il cannot be otherwise than great and
populous thoroughfare. In connection
with this road there is a line of lake
steamers, touching daily a, Dunkirk and
Detroit, forming through line between
New York city and the latter pllce,
where the Michigan Central Railroad
brings il in immediate connection with
Chicago and all The Intermediate points.
The most casual observer cannot but be
impressed with tho fact while standing
on the deck OF one of those powerful lake
boa's, whence no can view our cons
merce and inland navigation, that the
facilities for travel afforded here, are un.
paralIeled in this or any other county, -
The cost Of travel is also as cheap as The
facilities afforded are prompt aud speedy
arrived in Toledo, Tuesday morning, al
6 o'clock, and after breakfast visited Mr.,
Samson, agent Of tile Toledo and De-
lroit line of steamers, who, by the way, is
perfect gentleman, without that pel>
rectly sickening aristocralic ali and mock
pride which SO generally characlerizes
your southern cannl masters, but pos
sessing interest enough in his business to
be affable, courteous and familiar in his
manners. Having time TO spare, he ac-
compauled me to one Of his best furn.
ished boats, bound for Detroit whittier
had a desire to 60, to satisfy curiosity
and in Justice to Mr.. Samson as agent o
the line, ard Capt. Wm. Davis as com.
mander of the Arrow confess tha
never enjoyed ride OF hundred miles
: on the water better in my life. The
) lake was passably rough-just enough ,'
make an ''unsophisticated landsman'
: like myself, 'Iose my ballast, but The
noble steamer ploughed her way in spite
. of winds and waves, and in five hours w
were at Detroit, safely noored at III,
f wharf having made time OF twenty mile
, an hour, which, ! think, is doing well
, and fore being only one dollar. DeIroI
!, is large and furnishing city, and prob
q ably with Chicago, forms the great west
j ern metropolis Of the emigrant world
l There is a very large raj DAD depot here
e which is arranged into compartments o
ticket Offices, and rooms for freight an
e baggage, each room receiving the fielgh
a only which is checked to the station
whose name is written on sign aboV
If the door. The necessity ofthis become
# apparent when you observe the rush {
emigrants, to this depot, gabbling in eve
~ possible tongue, and forming a per(e'
If babel of confusion, remained in d.
l. troi, until 9 o'clock al night, when too
e passage on board the "Niagara," bonn
for Dunkirk, and in rounding out of til
N harbor, we struck with our bow til
boom ofa sloop, and snapped it as easl
as though ii had been pipe clay, ar
comisg very near capsizing The slooP,
say nothing of the close proximity of OF
craft to her hull, which, if we had struc
e, would have been run down without rer
s> edy Now, this acc;d mt was either ii
: result Of sheer carelessness, or wiful al
it malicious design, for we had any amou
is of room 10 have Stunned her, but | a
ID inclined to think that the sloop W
ID anchored in our path, and the officers
ps our boat only wished TO show their a
lg ,hority like the "sable African" VII
Id when asked why he thus whipped
n. dog, replied that he only done it to she
n his authority, and not from any misd
meanor oflhe brute. We enjoyed I
excellent voyage during the lrip--t
II lake was calm, and when we got up
We deck in the morning, the land was e
,ir tirely out of view, and we were splul
). log along at the rate of fifteen miles
" hour, toward Dunkirk, with an occasion
'e sail now and then appearing on Q
e. quarter, which woud soon sink bell
tb the horson on account of the raj
be motion of our craft. Toward noon t
Pennsylvania and N. Y. shore came
view, lit up along the margin W
thriving villages first appearing like sol
waile vapo!, then gradually becomI
s. more distinct until their tall spires WE
IFS plainly visible. The appearance of
do hills, or rather undulating land rlsl
,at gradually from the water, first has
appearance of a white cloud, which