The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-06

fore Judge Greenwood Aldermen Wilson and Simon
son, commenced on Monday Yesterday, James McClus-
tey Henry Frederick for assault and battery with In
tent to k and Patrick ODwyer for simple assault All
pie AIDED not guilty Nicholas Hendrck found guilty,
and Owen Finnegan pleaded guilty to assault and
ba'ery-sentence deferred James Canning for assault
and tunut convicted and sentenced to the county
Tail for twenty 1--WE days.
RambleS I'm the West.
OUR ILLINOIS CORRESPONDENCE.
CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 81, 1854.
Popxiati,S Of the City Hotels architectural Eie
gance-C Causes Of us Prosperity and Astonishing
Growth - HORROR Raitways = Extraordinary
Fact as TO its Commerce Chicago Rirer-D iui-
sion Of the Cify--Ns Inconceniencss- Flatness and
Unheaithiness Of its Siie-Building Materiais-
Chicog0 Stone, its Beauty Insfisutions- Churches
RI. Rec. DIR. Whiiehouse- Manners Of the In
habitants- Typ to Mii,caukie-Cu Medley
on Boa,d-M'hcaukis Bay-Aspect Of The Cny--
Miitcaukie rick-Sue-Soctety--I The Poet Dor
tca,d--PHbic Edifces---B Beautiful Episcopal
Church Roman Catholic Cathedral-Fine altar
and Picture-Nat,ve American Reflections AVID
Sentiment Musical C,ltication- Gcrmans-Re-
turn to Chica 90 Depreciation Of "U'ild Cat"
How many Of your readers have any idea Of the
population, aspect and business of Chicago, or Of
the cause which have created its apparently mush-
room prosperity This city contains seventy
five thousand souls, including q permaue.
ratio Of about 10000 strangers, flowing like sire am
through this point of transit and centre Of distr
BUTTON Thus Chicago has no fewer than $50 hotels,
Ill Of which are constantly crowded, as four to
my discomfort when was placed the first night in
room with three other gents" and was as
sued, as mighty favor, that should have 8 bed
to myself You are quite startled, too, il your
memory carries you back some six or seven Ears,
when Chicago was 9 Western frontier village Of
some 20 900 habitants to see its massive blocks Of
buildings, Of stone and brick vieing with New York
in architectural elegance. and the number Of its
fine private residences, In style betokening the
princely fortunes Of their owners. Ths Gro "a and
hurry Of its business operations are equity q
kosice Of sstonishment, though you know OF course
that these must be the basis Of all the rest tnat sur
plises you.
Is it accident that has created Chicago! IL it .
conspiracy OF acky speculAtorsi No, tins springs OF
this local prosperity the extraordinary local I'D
vantages. There il not particle of accdeat, and
scarcely of human choice, in the whole affair." The
river Chicago, an incoDsiderabie stream, put Of
navigabe depth, here empties into Lake Michigan,
forming the best harbor on the west shore and
southern extremity of the lake-that is, ut the ma
tuyal terminus Of the great northern line of water
communication between the East and West, be-
tween the ports Of Quebec, Boston and New York,
and the vast agricultural regions Of Illinois, Mis-
ecuri, Iowa and Minnesota. Thus young mer.
chant here, member of the largest for Wardiue
house in chicago. told me that the annual Exports
Of grain and -four from this port (ncredible q It
may seem) are greater than from the port OF New
York. The imports Of New York are, Of course,
greaier g she feeds by her home market more than
million Of human mouths, to say nothing Of cattle
In Describing Cumberland, Nd, mentioned its
railroads radiarng like fan into the surrounding
hills, - the elements Of its prosperity. Bot theso
railroads are but Jour, think some ten miles long
only end serve for little else bat the transportation
Cumberland. From Chicago radiate, dire t or by
connections, from ten TO twenty iron roads, extend
ing tn, west and south. and even southeast and
east. from distances varying between ono and three
hundred miles, through the ri hest and most fertile
grain .psodu ing region Of the world tapping the
Ohio the Missouri and tho Nississippi, and laying
seven States, more or less, under tribute. The
great bnlk Of tho produce, chiefly Of tho cereals,
which thus flows into Chicago, makes its exit in
fleets DISABLING veBels and screws rounds toe straits
o: MaekiDac, some seven hundred miles to Detroit,
and through Lake Erie to Buffalo or Dunkirk, where
i y taken up BY the canal and the two great New
York railroads; and, although i'm nense quantities
are sneeted on the way, or drawn off into New
England at Albany and Troy. it is still "a Immense
stnsm when i reaches the great market Of
which New York Attracts 70 itsslf the com.
merce Of the West: It Is q distributing pipe
by which New York supplies the West with goods.
At the marble edices and thronged port Of Chicago
saw symbol, and almost part Of the power and
greatness Of Gotham.
The Chicago river bifurcates within the city, and
INTO sn vS.RR saOs Scsas South 1T s aud
centre in regsrd to business and contains the faest
residences perhaps those along the though
West Chicsgo is springing MP like q marvel, and
ell be the Fifth avenue district in the end. The
communication L. BY drawbndges. which are the
greatest practical Inconvenience Of the place, and
In truth terrible bore. The situation Is fat, you
know, and the Atreets being panked In lieu Of paw
tive sewerage, and ID the cause Of the unheAlthi.
ness OF the city in summer. noticed that all the
beds in the hotels were furnishod with mosquito
bars, pretty sure sgn Of the unwholesome moisture
ment win change all that. There was 1t first
. great deficiency Of building materials In Chi.
cagc. Lumber was scaxce. and there was no
stone 1t ell. But latey tie pineries OF WISCONSIN
and the excellent brick Of Mwaukie, and still more
recently tie discovery Of great, and believe in
exhAustible, quarry or cream colJrod stone, have
IMPLIED the city abundantly. never saw finer
building material than the last mentioned. Il is -
much better than our Connecticut brown Stone -
poeabe, being Light and cheerful, while Il il richer
and lees glitt<riDg than the Vermont marble. Its
nee will make this ore day city Of palaces, ather
than the Garden Ciky--iM present boast.
Chicago has university Cath0lic--but had not
time {, visit It, and number Of ne churches Ooe,
built Of black snd white ct me. gothic, and pic
tuyesque, with spre and butrcsees Is hugely admir-
ed by the citizens. sn % little sectariau In my
architectural tastes that vow have forgot to what
denomination Of Christians Il belongs, though, Of
course, was informed. Another rather pic urssqne
little sGsir, belonging TO the German Lutherans, y
called the Jenny Lind Church, the money 70 build It
having ham 03Ve0 nv At famous eonRBtyoae. st.
Jsmes', new Caxkolic church, ID tho largest
IN imposing she'll q present, lofty. and high
backed, but unfinished. Chicago 70 the soc
Of Roman Catholic bashcp; but the cathedral