Demoine courier., 1854-10-05
YHE mEMGEME EGUMEgM-

I off The deck If he has once got his eye
on tho scenery, which meets il on every
side. You might see gentlemen in over
coats, and ladies mutllsd in shawls gazing
around, who, if at home al the same
hour, would all probably have been in
| bed. .ra--r-.~...e
/ All the way from Iowa, bu, especially
in Michigan, northern New York and
Vermont. there were evidences of ex-
cessivo and long continued dry weather.
In all these States we saw a great deal
of corn thai in Iowa think we should
class under the head OF small grain
pola toes liz this region are still green and
growing and farmers hope for a good
crop from the influence OF recent rains in
case the fros. holds of long enough
! Apples also are abundant bu, not large.
In Vermont, near The, head Of Lake
Champlain, we passed along for some
distance by the smoking and blackened
ruins OF forest ihal had recently been
burned almost literally as low as the
earlh's surface. We were told tina, only
a few days before, the passengers were
put in freight cars and shu, up TO take
them through the forest then on fire.
In one instance we saw what seemed 10
be large pile Of railroad ties burning
near the track as quietly and undislurbed
as if they had been SO man, chips
Several villages in this Safe Of consid.
cradle size have been almos. entirely
burned up. The amount of damage
done in Vermont, New Hampshi and
northern New York, in towns aud for
esss, cannot easily be computed. Since
reaching Niagara we have been in a
country full of smoke until the fall Of an
abundant rain about a week since. Ar.
irving at Meredith Village on the 30th Of
| August, we were glad TO be relic we'd Of
The ceaseless CHATTER and ncessant hurry
of railroad travelling, 10 Sc. our feet on
the solid ground, and TO feel that we were
once more among some others but s,ran.
gers, and had time to look around and see
what sort Of world we were in. A
New England village must be curiosity
10 one who has always lived in country
where towns are all laid off by the com.
pass, with streets crossing each other a,
right angles. Some writer has said tina,
the city of Boston was probably laiG of
by following the tracks tina, the cows had
made in their daily ranges for food and
water. IL this supposision be correct i,
is enough 10 say OF the older New En-.
gland villages generally tina, in their
grouni plan they are remarkably good
limitations Of the grea, New England
metropolis. mis- entire want Of plan
gives an almos. endless variety to the
position and appearance Of buildings
Add hills, rocks, trees, and babbling
brooks, with here and there LITTLE
pond, as irregular as possible in It's out,
lines, and you will have state of things
more easy to see than TO describe. Blu,
there is one thing you see every where,
being varied only in size and form, and
that is granite. Granite steps a. the
door, granite posts in the fence, granite in
The lake bottom. granite on the hill top.
the whole country fenced with granite
walls, sometimes four feet thick or more,
and then granite enough left all through
the fields to keep The soil from washing
away. Blu, then this is the granite State.
How do men live aere? just walk into
one OF their large houses and see. Tell
me wha. they don't have which exists
this side of China and then / will tell
! you how they live. IL has been said
that New Hampshire is a good State TO
emgrate from. A good place to take
/ eaP hasDS' JIo"e 40 Whctc pup litnOcT
grows. What would Iowa do wi.hou,
! Grimes; the United States wilhou,
Fierce, or the Free Sod party wilhou,
Hale? And wha. would have become
of the Compromise Of 1850 wi.hou.
Cass and Webster! A man from this
town is the inventor of power press,
selling all over the country at an immense
profit; another, his brother. owns sugar
refinery, and is worth about half mil.
lion dollars; a third OF the same family
is doing large mercantile business in
Galveston, Texas. The lady of the
house where we ara Adopting has ;;ust
placed in my hand skein of mos, beau.
titul silk Of her own manufacture. But
enough of this. Within fifty miles of
US are the White Mountains. There
specimens of granite attract a multitude
Of travellers during the warm weather
Even as late as the present time the sta.