New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-24
Correspondence of the Crescent.

Editors of the Crescent: i arrived here til
evening, and have concluded to lay over'' {,
the night and rest my weary bones. As this
my first trip to Illinois, have enjoyed it We,
much indeed, and am hourly astonished at IL
wonderful improvements Of this comparative
young State. From Alton to this place, di
lance of enc hundred miles, there is one va
and continuous prairie Of the richest soil I evt
saw Immense herds of huge cattle are feedin
along the railway on distant hills and in seclude
valleys, revealing to the traveller, even at raj
road speed, the great wealth of Interior Illino
In these warlike times meat and bread have bs
come articles of great demand. Wheat tina
usually sells at so cents per bushel, is no
commanding 81 so, and pork 10 cents, while
good fat OK will easily bring here, when he
raised at very small expense, S$75. The hem
) and tobacco growers are all getting rich wit
high prices; in fact, every article raised in tn
West now pays the farmer immense yields 70
his labor. Isalt not melancholy thought
Messrs. Editors, when we reflect that all tn
farmers, planters and manufacturers of thi
Union are doing Well-have become rich--excep
the poor sugar planter Cotton still pays re
markedly we'll, breadstuffs have risen, beef ii
s to 10 cents per h., while sugar is down to q
| and molasses to 6 cents!i! And still the North
ern and Western demagogues are crying out fol
repeal Of the small duty of 80 per cent. &C
| valorem on sugars We are their best custom.
ers, We buy their meat and their bread, their
horses and mules, their cloths and machinery
and pay them high prices for all we get, and
still with fratricidal blows they are stabbing us
| to the death.
i am pleased to see that the Secretary Of the
Treasury does not favor the wishes of the small
politicians, but that he is opposed to any repeal
of the tariff on sugars / have discussed this
matter with hundreds of Western men, but have
never met one yet in favor of the repeal of the
tariff on sugars. They take plain, practical
and sensible view of the matter, as good citizens
of our common country, and not as invidious,
short-sighted demagogues ..-...
We passed through Springfield, the capitol Of
this State, to-day. 1t is beautiful place,
situated in the prairie and surrounded by
very rich and beautiful country. In passing
through these wild prairies, am involuntarily
struck with the idea, Sc that it must be a,oftslly
cold here in winter"
I find here some feeling on the Nebraska bill.
Senator Douglas has lost ground in his State
The people here to o man seem to be opposed to
the bill. WEST BATON ROUGE.
49,. .5 CLEVELAND, ONO, May H. 1854.
Editors of the Crescent l arrived here
last evening in the mail boat from Toledo, and
find this delightful place, with population of
10000. | had no idea before left home of the
vast resources of this great western country,
nor did ever dream of such cities on the North
ern Lakes. If you have never sean Western
prairie, take this trip, and you will find scenery
that cannot be equaled in any other part of the
world. From Bloomington to La Sale, dis
,ance of sixty miles, the railroad runs on a
'idge through one vast prairie, dotted with little
sroups of trees just beginning to show their
ollage, while the soft velvet grass is spread out
'efore you like a huge carpet. In the very
middle of these large prairies we passed many a !
quatter who had sown his wheat and planted |
lis corn, without any fence or other enclosure.
Chicago has become great city, with a popu- |
alton Of sixty thousand inhabitants; only a few |
'ears ago it was mere village, scarcely |
inown on the map of the country Its churches
md public buildings are of the very best kind,
md built with great taste and neatness. 1t is
estined to be the great emporium of the North
rest. Already fifty trains of cars leave it every
ay, carrying every kind of produce and manu-
aetures, and returning with crowds of specula-
IFS, emigrants, and Eastern freight l stopped
the fremont House, where was well enter
ilned, and saw crowd of travellers from all
arts of the United States. Chicago certainly
one Of the loveliest, the busiest, the fastest
laces / ever saw. But few loafers or drunken
zen are seen here; all are busy and seem to
ave some employment.
Our boat last evening was loaded with cattle
nd hogs for the New York market; that great
ty now draws upon the entire Northwest for
or supplies; all the wheat, and corn, and pork,
ld every thing else raised in all this region of
'untry, goes direct by railway to New York
lat great London of America. The three great
,ates through which / have just passed consti-
tie the finest body of lands in the world, and
n OF themselves feed all the hungry mouths of
is vast globe. Ohio is the third State in popu-
ton, Indiana the fourth, and Illinois will, at {
g next census, be the fifth State in the Union,
is astonishing what industry and energy can !
ID Will do. You can now travel to any i'm
rtant place in either of these States by rail q
I'D, for mere song, They have not half the @
'alth we have in the South; they have a cold f
d 10y climate to contend against, but they
rmount all obstacles and go ahead. Let q
uisiana emulate this noble example, finish her
liroads SO auspiciously begun, and shake loose
ever the shackles of old fogyism AS said
fore, Cleveland is beautiful place. | write 81
u from the Angler House, a new and elegant 81
adjustment, very like the Battle House, Mo-
e. took ride round town to-day, and am G.
lighted with its public buildings and lovely d
merry The shore gradually rises from the
autltul lake, and then the city is spread out Of
one broad plain, There is water cure es- w
here ofhigh repute This is also said II
be the hot bed of abolitionism As vet /
70 not seen any, or rather have not heard any A
ils IN the cars yesterday, Yankee informed m
that he had invented machine to make m
per out of our bagasse He tells me that it | ~
kes excellent paper, and that he is now send II
out orders to buy up bagasse to use in his h,
is in Philadelphia. You will therefore please
to your sugar making traders that the time | =.
y come when their bagasse will be as valuable
their molasSes, IF il don't God helm II N ond