The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-03-10

N. I'll
This beutiful city, having a population o
about $4,000, is situated on both sides OF tn,
Oswego river, at its entrance into Lake Onfa
RIO; with broad streets, lined with shade tree:
from either side. The climate is considered
highly saiubrious, and Of more even tenn
rerature than might be expec ted in that lati
.uoe Inc Oswego river, on whi. h the city is
sl!uated, drains territory of abou, 1000 square
miles, and is the outlet Of eleven lakes, small
IN comparison with the magnificent sheet o
wafer ON which Oswego stands, but still spa.
feet OF available fall on the Os wego river. from
point ten miles south Of the city. The DO.
s&ion OF the town. with its great lake and
Woximl!y TO the densely settled portions o,
canada West, gives it opportunities of an ex.
fensive foreign trade. Unless the winters are
uncommonly severe, the harb Dor seldom freezes
over This gives it an advantage over many
utner lake towns, some of whose harbors do
not open till April or May. The WelIand
naiiroad, which runs along the banks Of the
WeiIand Canal, connecting Lake Erie with
Lake ontario, will aid materially in the
transportation OF freight between the lakes
| lhe storehouses on tfe railroad are SO ar
| ranged that cars from Lake Erie will run i'm to
| the upper story. and discharge grain into the
vessel with shutes or slides, drop it in 70 the
| ON be!oW, without the expense of elevators or
| any other machinery, while upward freight
| VIII De discharged by hydraulic cranes direct
| from the vessel into the cars without the as
ISSUANCE OF manual labor. The Touring mills
/
| sixteen mills in the city, making $500 barrels
OF hour per day, and five mills up the river
! within ten miles of the city, the whole having
an aggregate Of ~ run Of stone, which re-
!uIre, When running to their full extent over
| nlty Thousand bushels of wheat D. + day The
manufacture of starch is said to be conduc ed
upon larger scale in Oswego than any other
nurt OF ne country, perhaps of the world
The corn starch of Oswego has become fa.
nous. The great establishment here has n
lon, OF D ~ Iee ex tending back $50 feet and is
>erininated at each end with fire walls 50 tee,
!lgh lis hoorlng covers an extent of four or
HVe acres, and the aggregate capacitv of it's
watts is = 100000 gallons. Its cutters to convey
tne starch while suspended in water. are more
tnan three miles long. There are fifteen pairs
OK our-stones aud six pairs of large heavy iron
roliers 10 do the crushing and grinding This
establishment has capacity to use COG ,aay bush
els OF corn annually. and to produce GUUO tons
OF starch. This is also the larxest ois u butinr
port OF salt in the u. S, tie exports extend
ing TO nearly all the American and Canadian
po Is on the lakes and Upper St Lawrence
Nast amount OF hydraulic cementis ground
mere. Inc sh pmentS were about 5sSo} bar
rels In 1e3e; average annual sales in the city
about $4,000 barrels price 81 per barrel The
total tonnage of the port is 23 lu5. Some of
the vessels go to Europe, but the most of them
are engaged in the lake trade The Osweco
Canal, about thirty eight miles long. connects
OsWego with the Erie Canal at Syracuse The
tonnage OF property shipped and received at
OsWego ny caral, for le5s, was 725 lt52 A rail-
road connects Oswego with Syracuse on the
New York Central Railroad, distant thirty.
Elk miles. This road main tains semi-annuaI
0i"ldehd OF four per cent. The public schools
OF OsWpgo, one or two of which had an op-
PortunIty OF visiting, are twenty in nun brr
with fifty lone teachers. The entire course of
stnoy Is twelve years from the first entering of
tne PRIMARY school to the time of graduating
at the high schools. There are also during the
winter months what are termed Arithmetic
Schools, for the benefit of those who cannot
attend school in summer. About two hundred
ana nifty pupils are regis tered in these schools
There Is also night school, designed to
accommodate such persons as are so engaged
during the day as to be shut out OF all the day
SCHOOLS. All the schools are entirely free. |
being sustained by general city tax in con-
nection with the fund received from the State
In passing through this great State from
The city OF New ork, up the river and
through the centre to this Northern town
on Lake Ontario, have of course observed
with Il curious eye, the immense and various
changes which have occurred in a quarter of 4 |
century, changes greater and more startling
than those which Rip Van Wlukle beheld n f,er
his slumber of twenty years The same ne. |
ROD mas elap> since last visited New York
but though 1t has made tremendous strides in |
wealth and population, l really cannot see |
any evidence Of as much general comfor, as
exists in the Southern States N York citv i.
more crowded and the houses are more showv
than In former times, but the majority of the
crowd are poor and struggling men, who |
would iar good deal better if the crowd |
were smaller. If there is an upper ten thou
eand.' glittering in wealth and fashion. there
Is an Under hundred thousand, who rise eve. |
ry morning without knowing how they are to |
procure the necessaries of life for that dav
Ihe political changes have been of more IN.
terest than the material. The old class of |
practical, dlgnified staesmen-men OF the DE |
W.T. clinton school-have entirely disap-
peared from New York politics. The poliricaI
sea bears no longer such noble "hearts Of
oak" AS Alexander Hamilton and the lannon's |
party leaders Of that era; it is alive with
SHARKS, In quest OF spoils, the only principle
now known in New York poIitics Puhii,
eminent i'll regard to slavery has undergone
an immense change within the time have in-
dlcated. quarter Of a century ago an aho |
litionist was as rare in New York as now i'm
virginia. am told that they are still rare |
that u.s. mat the number Of men is small who |
aNow themselves in favor of the immediate
abolition OF slavery in the South But the |
SUBJECT has prominence in public interest |
which 1t never had before. A Southern man |
cannot pass through the North however scru- |
puloos In reiralning from obtruding his opin-
ions upon others, without being questioned
IN manner which shows the most peculiar |
and universal interest in the nsutution of
slavery. 1 was anxious to know in return |
what We're the views aud purposes of the |
citizens OF the free States had an op-
OF hearing them from men of
ali politics-Democrats, Old Line Wings and
Republicans. Wherever l have met with
the first two, l found them occupying na-
tIonal and conservative ground Such Re-
publlcans as l met protested earnestly that
they had nothing in common with aboiition
sm, except opposition TO the extension Of sla-
very In the Territories. In regard TO John
Brown, most OF them disayowed all sympathy
Win nm, but, at the same time ACCOMPANIED |
he disavowal with unfriendly comments anon
me course OF Nirginia and her Governor in
ne crisis, which seemed TO come more from |
he heart than the disavowal find that the |
most prominent pn blic lecturers are such men
Is ward beecher, Chapin, Phillips and ,her
prominent aooiltlorists, and that the fav orile
Y |
ne same time, leading Democrats in New |
ork nave informed me that they do not con.
ider the Republican party in New York AS vet
'ooHtiohiLeo' that, as yet, they are simply
Vaillig z themselves of n popular prejudice to |
et into power, and that the q uestion whe ,her
ney Will become abolitionized, depends sim
ny upon trhether IL ,ciN pay. In fine after |
eeing the people for the first time in twenty
ears, see vast accession of anti.slavery |
en- timent, but think see Just as clearly that
ne nall. at least, of the people of New York
re SOUND upon national questions and pre. |
ared To stand by the South in defence of its
ights. Another fact struck me most forcibly |
nd from the bay of New York 10 the Lakes
was over and over again forced upon nv at.
ention. That fact is the powerful weapon {
'hich the South possesses, If she see tit To
sc II, III manufacturing for herself or pro.
uring all she buys from other sources than |
ne North The business nerve, slightly punc.
urcd by recent movements, has not ceased !
arobbing yeti l could see and feel it's vibra-
ons In every department OF trade. The South
as that weapon, at least, to insure Justice. {
nd used firmly, unitedly and ludiciously. II .
'ould root out abOlitionism from the whole I
lnd, ana make US once more a national and
'iendly people. r..
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.
Affairs IN Lynehbwyg
LYNcHBUEG, Va, March g.
Ine HustlnGs Court has been In session all | =
,e week. The first three days OF the week .
ere cons umed by the Court with An admin. | '