Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-04-08

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body calls it great, but few are aware how
great 1t is great, not alone in prairie lands,
| but great in population-great in schools and
| colleges-great in wealth great in cities and
| towns, the marts of an immense traffic-sreat
| in rivers and lakes upon which the steamers
and sailing vessels perform mission Of com
| merce, that throws into the shade all the for
eign trade of the country. We have read the
| statements-we have examined the maps
we have talked with the people from there
but never could we imagine half the reality.
| 1t took the Oriental genius, that had through
/ generations been trained to fiction and fancy,
| to give US the Arabian Nights Entertain
| ments with that remarkable story of Aladdin's
| lamp, which by enchantment produced all
things; it has remained for our dav and our
country to realize more than Aladdin could
| imagine. In the whole history of the race of
| man. from the time that Joshua invaded the
land of Canaan till now, there has been no
such display of a wonder working Providence,
as ii the settlement of this country. And
what there is ahead, who can tell Our IA
theirs thought Washington central location
| for their Capitol; afterwards they talked of
moving it to Cincinnati, and then to st. Louis
| but now thousand miles beyond that, is
the centre of territory, and some day will be
| of population. Westward Westward! is
| the cry; and cities have come up in day by
| the Mississippi, to vie with Boston and dis.
| pute for greatness with New York-and their
| streets have not been paved, before on the
shores of California passes through the ''gold-
en- gate,' commerce that promises shortly to
Guido all that London ever saw. Who knows
or can think what shall be there, when the
Pacific is an American pond, and the East, or
rather the West there, pays us homage
Recently Mr.. r. S. Elliot of ST. Louis, de-
Hyered a iectDra in fhe Rocton Stata Ho,,,o
that was reported for the Post, full of valua-
BILE information, which we regret we cannot
publish, but from which we take some stats.
tics. He divided the West into three divis-
ions In the first the NoRTHwEsT-he in
cluded Michigan Wisconsin, Iowa and Min
nesota These States have connection with
the Atlantic both through the Mississippi and
the st. Lawrence. They have 1856 POP, $50
acres OF land, population Of 1,760 ,OOO and
1904 miles of railroad. Take those remote,
northern States alone, and what an empire
They have $4,000 square miles of territory
more thau England, Wales, Scotland and Ire
land together.
They would make more than thirty-one
just such States as Massachusetts, and would
have all the facilities for agriculture, manu-
tactures and commerce, Il at whole Union
like Massachusetts, possesses, Then compare
the population, that is only 600, 900 less than
New England had at the last census, and in
1860 it is estimated that it will exceed New
England, and not vary much from the total
population of the whole country in l776, and
if it was peopled as densely as Massachusetts,,
| it would have sc, ZOO, 900 people. Nor are
these people scattered far apart in a wilder
ness. There was Detroit, last year having
10000 inhabitants; and Milwakie 10000;
and Chicago, that only had 1900 people, Is
years ago, had So, 900; and there was the
largest corn market in the world, receive g
more tEan 20, 900, 900 bushels OF breadstuffs
from the rich fields around it, and the great
est Lumber market in the country, leaving
Albany and Bangor far in the back ground,
and for internal Improvements it has hun
bred trains of cars arriving daily. Now look
the world over, and where is such physical
progress.
Chicago is in the latitude, end to great ex-
tent, part of the Northwest, though it is in
Illinois, and therefore we name it here, while
it is placed in Mr.. Elliot's division of Central
West, which includes Illinois, Indiana, and
Ohio. They embrace population of nearly
100000 people, have valuation of nearly
fourteen hundred million dollars and have
built 6,529 miles of railroad-or abont the
same as the whole country possessed IN 1850
and they are pushing their improvements as
fast to siey. asany othor section OF the Union
|
| IN 1900, and all of whose value is increasing
! like that of Indiana, that has gone up $500.
100000 in the last fourteen years. In this
division is the city of Cincinnati, that equals
the original Boston, and is the centre of a
system OF trade and manufactures for the
/ ONO valley, and stretches its iron arms to the
! iurtherest extremities of the country. We
used to look upon Cincinnati as Corn and
Pork market, but its manufactures are now
endless in variety and extent-its factories are
all over it, and its workshops pour out a deal
OF stuffs that we will not name. 1t is now
proposed to make slack water steamboat ca
nal, Of the Ohio River for 1000, and the bust
ness will shortly demand it.
Mr.. Elliot gave as the Far Vest Missouri
and kanzas, State and Territory of III 800
square miles of land, or fifteen times as much
as Massachusetts, ard it is a domain whose
helds, before their resources are half devel-
oped, will be the envy and the wonder of the
world. Missouri stunning railroads in every
direction, and one of them goes 10 the iron
mountain where are nine thousand million
tons OF workable iron-enough to freight the
road at 100, 900 tons per day, for three centu-
TteS, and the coal is as extensive as the iron.
There are to be lighted up furnaces that will
furnish the worlu with iron. Look at one of
their cities; in 1910, st. Louis had popua-
ton of l6,O00&a nasty, muddy place, where
people went to die. In fifteen years, she in
creased that 10000 to 125, 900, and her BUSH
ness kept pace with the people, Here is the
statement of her commerce The wharf
"stretches mile and quarter on the Mis-
slssippi, is several hundred feet wide, and
during the season of navigation is crowded
with the products of every cline and SOIL In
1850, there were 100000 barrels of flour
manufactured in st. Souls, and over 40O, 900
received from other places making million
barrels, and equalling the -four trade of Phil
adelphia. About lao, 900 bags of coffee were
received in l855-enough to make a string of
coftee-b BATS fifty miles in length. The hemp,
tobacco pork, lard, wheat, bale rope, -four,
coffee, sugar, and salt, passing through the
hands of st. Louis merchants in 1866, would,
allowing the actual space occupied by each ar
ticle, reach in one grand line from st Louis
to Boston," This, perhaps, is enough, though
there are other statistics that seem more TO-
nance than fact-that we should be glad to
-NeaobuyypOrt Herald.
The INDEPENDENT JUDIcGARY,-The Rich.
mond Wing reveals that Fillmore, when Pres
ident, sent Judge Conklin, United States Dis
trict Judge of New York, to Mexico, to pre-
vent him from giving decision against the
constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave law