The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-05-24
superior City.


Superior City is situated on the ex-
treme Western Bay of Lake SUPERIOR
The site Of the city and the land adja-
cent were entered on speculation by a
company of U. 5. Senator'S, composed of
about an equal number Of Democrats and
Republicans, who forgot their political
differences long enough to make good
land job together. Two of the number
were Jesse D. Bright and Vice President !
Breckenridge. The city has been laid
out, and property sold to an amount
much larger than The original Investment,
leaving still in the hands Of the original
proprietors the greater portion of the
| land. The town, though not two years
old, has population of more than two
thousand, and is anticipating large
trade 4 Steamer left Chicago on the
9th inst for that point and was unable
to take half the freight offered to her.
An imaginative correspondent Of Indian
apolis journal, writing fom Superior
City, says:
The wild storm which with day dawn
came is blowing and clustering, spreading
/ a pail of blackness over the sky, making the
/ sea surge and swell, and the old pines peal
their loud anthem in praise TO ''Him who
sitteth upon the circle OF the heavens and
gathereth mp the winds in his fists"
1t is now evening, anu the force and vehe
mence Of the storm is unabat3d. The fierce
ness OF the day kept me at home. 1t mas
everybody. Melancholy and loneliness dwell
! around me.
On the shores of Superior, at its head wa
| ters on a line OF boundary between the new
'Star OF State" just arising to take her place
in the light galaxy Of the old united thirty
one, and the already great State of Wiscon-
sin, in new embryo city of future CONNER
cial greatness, am now writing.
Nature has imbedd d exhaustless wealth in
every hill, gorge, and ravine of this whole
vast region. From the waters of Superior
alone, may be taken thousands of fortunes.
Her pickerel and pike. white fish and lake
herring, trout and slscowct offer inducements
10 The establishment Of fisheries unr,valIed
and uncxcelled in variety. On her hills and
in the valleys pines grow withou. equals IN
size or exceilc ice. Vast sections of fertile
agricultural country now lie unbroken, but
which must ultimately yield equal stores of
wealth to the Industrious husbandman and
add importance 10 the commerce Of Superior,
not now 10 be comprehendcd by the most
able and saDgune mind.
As TO the first mentioned qualities Of our
resources, there has been literal fulfllment
of Jobs idea when he said '.Iron is taken out
of the earth, and brass is molten out OF
stone" The very bottom Of the lake is
doubtless composed OF TIE richest minerals =
, silver, lead copper, and iron. IL is said gold
has been discovered. Certain il is. nothing
comparatively is known of what future dis
coyeries must make us. Neither time nor
, men can exhaust the resources and wealth OF
the country. The whole land opens wide
, her gates TO the emigrant and spreads out
, wealth ut the door of the humbiest miner,
/ mechanic, manufacturer, artisan, and Ia
/ bOrer.
! The unorriug finger OF destiny has mark
: cd Superior as the greatest city of the North
, west. Young, but already commanding the
| eye and attention of commerce and capital
, both upon this and The continent of Europe
We confidently expect this 20 be the empo-
3 rum of region of country extending
, southwest TO the northern limits Of Iowa
\ westward 10 the great coast of the Pacific
: and northward, comprising the fertile val
q leys of the Upper Mississippi, and the Rec
e River of the north, far on through tn,
D Queens possessions, known as the "Sel-
$ kirk Settlement and ''Iludson Bay region
Nothing forbids it, everything tends toward:
@ it.
Thousands accustomed to the soft winter
IA Of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and the com
II try still farther south, arc impressed Will
: the notion that we arc only next door to DIR
b Kane's Arctic region. That ice letters IN,
= perpetual froSts nip us. Not so. Could Vol
= see our women during the bright days o
oar spring months, dashing ont in buttorll!
r array, that idea would vanish into Thin air
: Unquestionably our high northern latltud
d gives us temperature several degrees cold
: or than in the States mentioned; but ever
C the ihtensest cold of our winter, TO me, ha
: been far less appreciable than any eve
n known in miider climates, especially thos
n named. Children sport all day with thci
/. sleds, and men doif their coats and worl;
v mindless Of frost.
IL Throughout the year the air is fresh, col
u and sweet, aud imparts vigor, ruddiness an,
III health unknown To the people living south
re west of Us. Aguo and chills, cholera an,
&c like diseases, have never had victim on til
z lake.
,r Rain fell but once or twice during tn
months of Decembe. January and February
- The snow usually falls at night. and lies al
day cleaning IN intense sunlight. Tn
:, depth this winter has not exceeded four o
- five inches. With the exception of abou
three weeks, there has been but little ice il
! the lake at this point. About the l2.h 0
10 March the ice in the entry gave way, allow
,e ing the complete entrance of boats to t..
- docks. Zee, snow and cold disappeared sim
- ultancouSy, whilst singing birds disporte
II upon thousand boughs. Our nights Oft
n times presen. scenes of magnifcencc beyou
- the power of portrayal in words. The star.
=, themselves radiant in their cold glory. al
beautiful, brt-when, in a twinkiing, the IA
Of greater glory of our Northern Lights flash
M eS upon the vision, startling and gorgeou.
ha alternating between blazing lines Of fir
- rosy red, and long fingers OF incandesccr
- sIlendor, We arc astonished and oycrwhclm
80 ed. 1t looks like a sublime picture of God