Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-08-13
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

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The ROCHESTER NuRsKRIEs-A HIeHLr Guilt
WAITED CoUSTRY-LockPoRr AND THE ERIE Ca
NaL-THE MATERIAL PROGRESS OF WKsrERS
New YoRK-Irs KINKY PoPULATIos-AGRA-
RIANIsM-PoLITIcAL, RELIGIOUS. AND Social |
CHAOS THREATkNED-MoRALIzI AVOIDED.
Editorial Correspondence Of The STAR ~
NO. 81 NIAGARA FALLS, Aug. 2, 1859.
The appearance of the various nurseries one \
approaches Rochester from the east, adds much |
to the presence Of the city, as from the Cen
trail Railroad. They famous horticu ltural es-
Adjustments, and even vet continue to supply the
great West with many of the finest improved
fruits, ornamental trees, &c, now being s much
more widely cultivated than few years since l
saw, bytheby near the city, quite field of tobac-
CO, the plants being hardly larger than ones two
hands, though the stand was faultless. cannot
imagine that the plant can arrive at maturity here
frost destroysit Rochester has now between ~
and So coo inhabitants, and is grand city in the
amount Of business it transacts being the great in
land New York manufac turing city. Its flour mills
and water power are justly celebrated the world
over. In its every attribute IL shows itself place
of recent growth. Nevertheless everything about
| it appears as substantial, al enterprsing The
railroad time table allows us no time in Roches-
ter to observe the citys peculiar features; 30 was
obliged to content myself with such an impression
Of it may obtain by coursing across it upon
the rail. Its thrftiness tells Of the wonderful
thrftness and fertility Of the country tributary Ia
| it in unmistakable language-to one who compre-
hends that effect always follows cause.
On leaving Rochester for Buffalo, the character
| of the country bordering the railroad changes
| much. From Schenectady to that point We
course-except for ten miles next west of Utica
over valleys apparently very level. At Rochester
we enter billy country wherein the railroad is
| constructed with considerable cuts and fills The
care ard skill displayed by its agriculturists
not second to those to those of their fellows below
| Every thing that the ingenuity of man can do to
increase the yield of the soil seems to have been
| done 1t may be that the immediate vicinity Of
| Boston is more highly cultivated; but must
| await my arrival there not long hence to be
WINGED of the fact. By-the-by, the best stock
| have seen in New York, so fur, find between
| Rochester and Niagara.
| Large towns are scattered along the railroad
here-Lockport being the principal in the
amount Of business it transacts, and in the conse-
quent more substantial appearance Of its business
places. The Erie Canal is locked down almost to
| level with the waters Of Lake Erie. That work
| was one of extraordinary difficulty and expense
however necessary. The chain of locks of the
canal there amounts TO one Of the most stupendous
| works Of internal improvement in the United
States AS heavy as it was, il has repaid the State
| thousand-fold, not only in yielding fair inter-
est upon the expenditure, but in practically re-
deeming its finest agricultural region from being
| well nigh bowling wilderness-the condition of
| Western New York at this time being in great
measure the result of the construction Of the Erie
| Canal. That opened a way TO market for wha,
might then be (and has subsequently been) raised
or manufactured In it for consump tion abroad
The dense Wi If the f-;o, I,
will be remembered. could be made to produce
most wonderfully. But, wanting outlets to mar.
ket, their capabiity to produce is Of no avail ia
the cause of civilized progress. This railroad
or rather the line Of magnificent railroads known
rs the New ork Central, has, next to the Erie
canal, been OF most value to Western New York
The two together have worked the most magical
change in its status that ever worked in thirty
| years in that of a country. The Amercanization
of California for ten years threatened to rival the
| rate Of progress of Western New York Though
California still progresses wonderfully. except in
the matter Of magically building up single great
city Western New York far outstrps her rate OF
| progress In everything tending to improve the
| advantages by which man finds himself surround
| ed-agricultural, manufacturing &c its West
ern New lork's) material progress never was and
fancy never will be, equalled, except. it NAV be
By some L nited States northwestern region
In its march in the matter of theoretical idea.
us progress has been quite rapid hut, alas
|, upon the down-hill road to political and as
| truly believe, moral destruction Settled FOR Ia,
most part by New Englanders il has closely fol
lowed the march of its mother country to radical
ism and atheism; rather self-worship, in tn,
belief that il has been setting up some new sort o.
Christian doctrine, or the worship of some new
god who presides over spirtualism, woman ;.
hgnuisn, worlds endism, or hing Of tn,
sort. people who under whatever pretence be
come wiser in their own conceit concerning mat
tiers Of religion, than the Holy Scriptures are o.
course too holy in their own conceit to obey I'M
man laws distasteful to them, ON any account
whatever. II individuals may at will set pa,tic.
uiar Laws at defiance with impunity, the step IN
the end will be that they can set all law at def
ahce when large masses Of the community fancy
SO To do. Western New York is fast prooremip u
10 that stage. Agrarianisn is making strides here
rapidly, in various matters; and II strike me =.
but question Of tIne-when the population be.
comes too crowded-when there will he a vioIen,
struggle not only here, but throughout all the
| North, between those who have property and
| those who have none Political dcmapopIes en-.
| courage the spread Of radicalism (which Is bu,
another name for agrarianism) in their work O,
making ignorant people believe them their hes,
| HiO""'' ""P ny s'eP tncv are leading them 10
believe In eternal justice as well as ompjpo
tence Of popular will for the time being-a more
unsound and dangerous doctrine than which was
never instilled into the heads of men A truly indie
pendent, enlightened and vrtuous people are never
| wrong long. Yet even they may often get wrony
temporarily. prejudiced, subservient and de.
moralized people, being the slaves of demagogues
and others pandering to their passio ns, are a,
rarely right in their judgment upon public affairs
| The people Of Western New York while they
are eminently shrewd in their Judgment OF bust
ness affairs, are as bigoted and wrong beaded in
matters OF politics as those of New England
| They would make their viii in politics and their
cTeeds in religion the law OF the land Tomorrow,
If possible, in defiance of the guarantees by which
| the Constitution Of the United States surrounds
the rights of those who may not agree with them
The time has not come when it will be safe 10
| make the effort but that the time when they will
make the effort is rapidly approac hing, have no
doubt The problem of the duration of our (; ON
eral Government hangs alone upon the power Of