Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-06-02
HoueHroN. MaY 25lh, 1850.

HoueHToN, May 25th, 1860.
Editor Telegr0ph-Soouer than was antici-
pated when / wrote you last, we arc united to
the rest of the world, by daily arriving steam
ers. About the first May navigation was re-
sumed, and the Lady Elgin made two trips to
Sault Ste Marie, before the opening Of the
Canal on the 18th. On Sunday the 18th, FIVE
boats arrived at the "entry," and we, who were
at meeting when the little steamers came up
from thence, and discharged their cargoes had
hard work not TO hear the steam whistles, nor
see through the windows the crowds of strang-
ers, sauntering towards the hotels with their
luggage. But we knew, too, Of the recently ar
rived treasures at the Post Office, and here the
conflict between listening to the sermon and
thinking of letters was terrible
Owing to the bad weather last fall, the artif-
cial channel at the "entry" was not completed
as was expected, consequently the Gen'l Taylor
which asceuded this Lake on the 18th, was the
first large steamer to unload at our wharves.
The excitement caused by her debut was of
course considerable. She was preceded by the
little Princess screaming in her shrillest tone,
both steamers were gay with banners, and as
they neared the town, from stamping mills and
lerry-boats, and saw-mills, aud other steamers,
the horrible shrieks of welcome arose and
when at last human voices Joined in a loud hur-
rah, you would have thought Pandemonium
had broken loose.
To-day the Northern Light" has arrived,
and she too was hailed with the same joyful
demonstrations She is. now unloading at the
Isle Royae wharf just beneath my window ;
and seventeen banners are floating aboTe her
deck. Two of these bear the wOrld-honOred
"stars aud stripes" the others bear the names
of different Lake Superior ports Unruly beeycs,
and patient cows and calves with subdued ex-
preston of face, are being driven ashorei drays
and wheel-barrows wind through seemingly i'm
passable places boxes, and bales, and trunks
are trundled Of, and buuches of onions, and
bundles of rheubarb, and asparagus, fnd their
way into kitchen DOORS and nearly every child
you meet is the smiling possessor Of tooth
some orange. Everybody looks nervous, many
look happy; and old and young-grave and gay,
all seem restless, and ceRteripg as SO many glo-
bules of human quicksilver.
Tonight dancing party is to be given on
board the boat by its officers, to which invita-
tions are now being issued SO of course all the
beaux aud bellies are on the qui UiUe-but alas !!
black clouds are rising in the west, and already
thunder mutters in the distance
Great quantities of lumber aud shingles have
been brought here this spring, and now the saw
and the hammer are heard almost increasingly.
Houses spring up with mushroom rapidity, and
it is we'll they do for hundreds of people have
already arrived this season. and still they come"
1t is predicted that by next fall We shall number
ten thousand Inhabitants, and from present ap-
pearances, this is a low estimate. Hotels and
churches are also being built, new streets are
being graded, and on both sides of Portage
Lake the business-liks activity would delight
any Yankee heart But beyond this prosaic
account of general prosperity, there is little to
tell you.
And yet, when look out upon the hills so
beautiful in their spring attire, am tempted to
perpetrate rhapsody, just as though this re-
newal OF beauty and Of life were not miracle
/ have yearly seen for-wen "a number of
years But speaking Of the hills, lovely as they
look from hence, they are yet lovlier when you
seek their leafy shade. Beautiful streamlets
are leapiDg from their submits, now over lag.
ged rocks where they are dashed to foam, now
ripping gaily between messy banks, aud there
too the trailing arbutus, first flower found b,
pilgrim mothers" lifts its waxen petals to you
view. and greets you with its exquisite fragrance
And there are timid woOd-violets and pal
anemones, aud many other floral beauties, Al
"wasting their sweetness" unless sought by Low
ing eyes,
| Make network Of the dark blue light OF day"
But rapidly those forest hooks are vanishing
before the worlds primeval curse-uOceasi0l
labor aud soon those idle waterfalls shall in'
their dai0ty feet chained to the bread-mill, an'
potatoes and tUrnips shall faunt 10 the home
Of the howers Mo.P.
MORE DIsoLOsuREs. - Mr.. COyode's Com
mittee are on the track OF naturalization fraud
in Pennsylvania in 1856, by which 5000 vote
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