Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-07-10
VOL. IT,, NO. 8.

| Correspondence the Tines
Chieass-A Curiesity-Destruciive Freshess-aain,e.
| ssta and Rrsperty-The crsps &c.
ALLIANCE, June 24th, 1856.
Dean TIMEs,-CnIcAeo is voluminous
poly-glott city, situated in an undecided corner
of Lake Michigan. was there Just three
hours. We came on the first faint flush Of
morning dawn, with heaven-rending steam
shrek that ought to have woke up city of
dead men to frightened resurrection. But the
city of the living slept on very quietly notwith-
standing, without taking the least notice of our
arrival AT A. NJ. Chicago was still asleep.
Eighty thousand human noses of every possi-
| bic variety-Grecian, Roman, aquiline and pug
-Greco-pug, Judaic-pug and pug-absolute-
were turned up together in a grand nasalogical
symphony, like 10000 Tritons snoring through
physiological sea shells.
AT 6 A. NJ. Chicago yawned. Night-caps
peered out cautiously into the grey morning
from behing half.ifted window.blinds. ATT
Chicago stared at itself again in the lying
looking-glasses of Vanity. Fair, and life ran
out, reeking in turbid floods, from every garret
and cellar, and street and alley, and pouring
in an overwhelming food along State street.
$4,000 slept together and some there were who
woke not ever. met woman at early dawn
hurrying from Drug Store, with vial, and
crying bitterly. Then knew she ran in vain
and that-husband, child or brother-there was
sleeper sleeping who would never. wake
again.
/ had time, however, to sec squalid wretch
edness creep out Of its nightly hiding place
and Rags and Hunger stink away from the
sleepless argus Of the night-watch, to beg and
be hyperbolically miserable at its old corners-
and when at little after seven took the Mich
igan Southern route, it was with general i'm
preston that Chicago was simply capacio,s
sink-spout for the dirty waters of western emf.
grafton well crusted, thought, with the ac-
cretion Of its shiny spume, and bearded thick
and heavy at its mouth with the filthy dribblings
Of its daily evomition.
1t was raining heavily when we started. In
a few hours the whole country was flooded with
water. The streams in our track were unu-
sually swollen. At Elkhart we found the
bridge fast giving way to the impetuous torrent
and too precarious to permit the passage Of tho
cars Accordingly we had to pass over on foot
and to wait half-hour for the cars from the
next station. The streams in this vicinity are
said to have risen during the late copious rains
five or six feet higher than has been known for
twenty -four years before. Destructive freshets
are careering all over Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Tho Ohio esd Pennsylyania road has suffered
considerably, and am thereby detained two or
three days-on which last circumstance the
public will doubtless feel lively interest.
The tallest and slimest Of ,nortals got on
board the cars somewhere in Michigan. He
was perfect miracle Of long drawn attenua-
ton. He reminded me irresistibly of the Geo
metrical definition of right line, the mere con.
tin'ati0n Of point, having length only,without
depth, breadth or thickness. His legs were
phenomena absolutely painful to witness. He
had faculty Of tangling them around every.
thing and every body, and involving them in
the most distressing complications with persons
and things. How he got into the cars, can't
say, unless somebody kept a spool on purpose
for him and wound him up and spun him off
to suit occasion. ea
A gnarled Hoosier of the scrub species, was
giving the cars dissertation on Minnesota
and property up there. He had been to St.
Paul and stopped one day at the Central. The
amount of information he had collected in that
short space Of time, was incredible. Some Of
his illustrations Of our extravagant prices were
curious. He said that lots were selling on
business streets in St. Paul, for $50! per foot
Toledo next to Cleveland, is the prettiest
town on the Lake shore. 1t lies on smooth
declivity gently sloping to the bank Of the
Maumee river. The streets are clean and
broad and everywhere shaded with avenues Of
trees. But it is too new, wooden and Dutch.
Cleveland is older and better built But il
is chiefly for the wide sweep Of Lake prospect
il commands by its elevated situation, that
prefer it to Toledo. s4-ilr4 .7ar1.sE s1s
! ate strawberries here to-day as large as a
big piece Of chalk. Vegetation is far more
forward in Ohio than in either Illinois or Mich
igan The cereals and grasses in the latter
States are even less advanced than in Mime.
sofa. In Ohio, which has not suffered from
drouth, they are already moving in the mead
ows-winter wheat is in full head. The spring
grains and grasses are stout and luxurianss--
The cherries are nearly ripe and Ohio il hap-
py in its log-hut ga .xSsst ~ lTeJ o.
But the cars are starting. ]. A. w.
The FouarH AT rMIxNrApoLIs.--We learn
thatthe Fourth as this place was celebuted in
handsome manner. The people Of Henni-
pin county are wide awake, and when they
take hold Of an enterprise. they generally push
It to completion sd 70 lsga ese e. xsg
TIE FouRrH At CorTAcE GxovE=-The
citizens Of Southern Minnesota were folly as
patriotic on the Fourth ss those in other pafts
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