Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-09
iCeuesPonience Of the star chFoniele-J
To Cur Oil Editorial Pine Table.
ALL-ALoyG-HERE, Aug. 23, go.


broke down as two railway trains, going
opposite ways, pressed upon it at once
causing much suffering and the loss OF
many precious lives We cross the Oris-
kauy, Tot far from the bloody defle where
the brave low Dutch General, Herkiner,
received his death-wouud from the Tories
and Indians, and lost SO many men, III the
Revolution. Within fifteen miles Of Iii
CO, We reach the village Of ROME, which
looks as if it might contain nearly U,vOO
inhabitants, on the site Of Fort S,auwix,
OF Revolutionary celebrity built in l.5o
he Mohawk, coming from the north,
here turns square east, AID empties into
. the uujsUa-aud on the west, a short
distaucc, " cod creek runs into Lake On-
eida, which i > / miles long and q or .
broad, and empties into Lake uutarlo
through the Oswcgo riEor. This short
river draius large Tract OF country, em-
braciug Oueiia, Ouondaga, Disco, Skaue-
a,eies, ,Osasco, Cayuga, ,Sene ca, Crooked, , aud
Cauaudaigua Lakes Rome is thus on the
summit level between the Lakes aud The
O.eau, being i35 fact above tide at \ lba-
uy. About 1886, the "Westefu Navlsa-
tion Company" made short canal tie
tween the Mohawk ana v Uud creek. This
was deemed, both before AID after the
Revolution, Dature's own blg hTay for a
water communication, aud was quite a
carrying place for time; but the Os-
wegu and Mohawk rivers are UusuIted and
Insufficient for the immense trade aud
travel OF our day.
Tie region was honcred, in the summer
Of 1853, by visit from the immortal
WASHINGTON, ACCOMPANIED by Governor
GEORGE CLIAToN-"tJ have view, as
: Washington wrote, "of that tract i couu-
r try wh!ch Is - much celebrated for the
= tcrllh,y OF is soil aud The beauty Of il
situation" a. well as 10 see the flr,s aud
the sites Of important battles aud treaties.
They went as far north as TicOuderoga
aud trOwu Point, then to Scheuectada
aud as far west as Wood Creek, thence 10
the O sego Lake (Which Is one head ci
the Susquehanns) aud lis p'E'age with
tie MJh4wk-a journey Of $50 miles,
mostly on horseback, through "a ''uns'ui-
led wilderness" Washington soon after
wrote of this trip that it gave him eulaTg-
ed views Of the importance Of the inland
navigation of the new empire ; and II
doubtless stimulated his wel.-krOwn sub
senueut efforts for the water connection OF
the Chesapeake with the Ohio-etiorts al
most Intellectual when compared with the
vas, success Of New York.
The LONGEST CANAL LEVEL in the
world is said to be that, commencing be-
low Utica, extending ives; near J to Syra-
cuse-almost screny miles without lock-
These figures well illustrate the high, uni
IOTm s'ftlCl OI !dHu utt"Seu tuG cu'ai'O
aud Snsquehanna regions. Most of this
was, as you would suppose, quite swampy
land. 1t was, as we read, the first part Of
the Grand Erie Canal which was compile
ted-that grand work, DOW enlarged and
deepened in its whole length from Albany
to Bufalo, about 325 or $50 miles. The
feasibility and importance Of this marine
union were grasped By the men Of the
Revolutionary era: its results have made
New York the Empire State"-without
it, Pennsylvania and Virginia might both
or either have been its rival. The gigan-
tic mental, personal, political and statis.i.
cal labors Of DEWITT CLINTON, who was
the main agent os its projection and com-
pletion, are difficult to be comprehended,
now that the work has proved SO useful
He was the idol of tie State, and in lSl2
won from the people the Electoral Vote
for President, against james Madison
and yet, one year-eyen as Thaddeus Ste
yaus was once defeated in Adams county
By the enemies of the Common School
Systematic opponents Of "Clinton's Big
Ditch" prevented bis reelection as Cover
nor. But lie manfu.ly per-evered IN his
great work Of wedding the Seaboard navi-
CATION with the Great Western Lakes,
and thus gaining the pioneer artery for
the trade aud travel which bis prophetic
vision at least mcssurably comPrehended
be triumphed over the obstacles OF nature,
of ignorance, and Of personal and political
jealousy and rivalry be saw tie work in
the full tide Of successful operation aad
died serving bis fourth term as Governor
Of the State whose greatest son be was.
Memory seems to embrace the time
when, 10 good sleighiug, the farmers Of
Oaondaga would take loads of wheat $50
miles eastward 10 Albany, for the market
they afterwards found at "Salt Point"
now Syracuse, which, with Rochester &c
g., have all been built mainly By that
Caual. Its completion was al occasion Of
as much rejoicing, perhaps, as any era IN
cur domestic improvements. l recall to