The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-06-05
oRREspoNDENCE OF the NoNPAREIL
Nrw Yorx, May Goth, 1858. +


safe in Gotham, after pleasant trip BY the
Lake Shore route, prepared to give you q
desultory account Of our journey hither.
From Chicago to Toledo, we journeyed
without noting either time or places. At the
latter place 'snoise and confusion" reigned
supreme, reminding US Of what beset Gen
CAss, once upon time at C!eveland-with
this difference, that here instead Of being
occasioned by the heat Of political warfare
it was owing to the presence Of large
class of those useful personases, whose self
assumed task is the subduing of heat. The
fremen of the city were undergoing their
customary annual review. There were some
dozen companies in full uniform testing the
quality of oder Machines" Shout after
shout arose as the victory wavered between
the contending companies, reminding US Of
the DAYS when we used to "take the butt, y
Or "stand on forty's hose" Nuf ced.
The roads we travelled to this point were
in much better condition than the New Yorl
Roads. Night travelling on the Cleveland 4
Ere Road is decidedly comfortable, since
the addition of improved night cars, to say
nothing of the saloon, where for an extra
so cents, you can ego to bed" and sleep AZ
comfortable as upon any steamboat.
Passing through Buffalo, we stopped
short time ut Syracuse, which We found
little dull, owing to the fact, that its staple
product, Salt, is just now a drug in the mar
ket. Here, you may say, the world is salt
ed. Cities and fortunes have been built
from the emoluments of this trade. This city
was originally cedar svamp, but through
saline influences, the habitation of frogs
AID lizards, has became the site for large
town, with all the concomitants of wealth,
comfort and elegance. Its streets are broad,
and we'll paved-the walks are generally
single broad fag-stone, and lined with
luxuriant growth of maple and elm. Here
is visible the wealth accumulated from the
Erie Canal, State work that has already cost
more than double what it should have done,
and is now at stand-still, having run the
length of its constitutional rope in taxes,
loans, &c. As the State can no longer "-un
the canal" for want Of authority to raise
means, it is now proposed to dispose of the
same to the N. Y. Central Railroad Com
pany-an association which even now con-
trolls the legislation Of the State, and, with
the additional influence which this canal
would throw into the scale, it would become
a monopoly, not only here, but oil over the
United States. Such an arrangement would
prove detrimental to the best interests of the
West, and it behooves her to enter her en-
phatic protest against its contamination.
Besides Salt, this County produces plas-
ter, lime, and cement, in great abundance,
and the wealth these commodities have
thrown into the lap Of old Onondaga, is
visible in its finely cultivated farms, and
commodious buildings, fruit trees, plank
roads, &c.-all fine to the eye, and telling
Of plenty and of comfort; butthe stone-walls,
cedar stumps, underground drains, and rock
heaps, in every field, show but too plainly
that it has taken almost an age of labor to
bring about her present state of productive
ness and Improvement.
Again, en- route, on the Central Railroad,
We passed in rapid succession fine farms,
pleasant looking houses and beautiful
scenery. As proof of the value set upon
the land, which has cost so much labor, We
need only say that every inch Of it is i'm
proved, even to the narrow strips along the
''right- of-way" of the Railroad, the little
islands in the Mohawk, and the sterile points
and steep sides of every hill. Passing
Rome in the distance, We were soon at the
Sequoit Bridge, the scene of the recent dis
nster, where some nine lives we're lost, and
40 persons wounded, by the breaking down
of the bridge. The structure had been built
three years-the timbers, waier elm, (not
equal to cottonwood) had rotted in the CEN
ire, and thus disguised the fatal trap, so that
upon the cars attempting the usual passage,
The timbers gave way, and three cars, with
their precious freight Of passengers, were
into the chasm beneath. The
only wonder is, that more lives we're not lost.
At Utica, we stopped at Bagg's Hotel,
once world renowned for its well-loaded
ables; but, from experience, we should
low say, that it was in fair way to obtain
he same renown for its bad coffee, poor
bread, and general want of creature COM
'ort.
We rolled into Albany about noon, and
Is we watched the swallows that everywhere
illed the air, our eyes instinctively sought
'or the old gable-ends and pointed roofs of
he ssknickerbockers," where the feathered
inhabitants once held undisputed possession
but in vain; they had given place to stately
bricks, with massive trimmings and imposing
gilt signs. 1t is said that in this city are
born and bred that class of politicians that
Tor years have controlled the Legislation of
The United States. Here is the initiatory
school Of that monopoly lobby, who draw
without stint upon Uncle Sans Golfers they
lake their first lesson behind the box of an
Albany Assembly and graduate with "high
at Washington in the Legion of
'Forty Thieves"
THURLow WEED, is once more at the helm
IF the Journal, and is fighting of that hum
cry crowd that embraced Know Nothingism,
or time-defeating the Republican party
It the last election. Thsy have become
'tarved out, and now seek to hoist themselves
INTO power, by revamping Of parties, mod
'stly attempting to get control of that pow
'rful engine already running, but of the
existence of which they seem to have just
become aware. They are getting desperate,
'ut they cannot have everything their own
Eay. With WEED, l say, let them come
nto the Republican party as il is, on coudi-
ion of their good behaviour; and, if they
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