The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-07-25
Chicago.

Having heard so much about Chi
cago, we concluded, last Friday, to
jump on the II A. N. Express, and
pay it a flying visit. The track Of
the P Ft. W. & C. r. r. is exceed
ingly smooth, the coaches comfort
able and attractive, and the con-
ductors obliging and courteous.
We had read of prairies, but had
no idea that such. vast amount of
land, SO much resembling the level
surface of the Atlantic Ocean, con
stituted so large a part of the Great
West. Our opinion of the crops, as
formed from previous reports in our
exchanges, was confirmed
Profuson decks every field
The American traveller sees much
to delight him, in the elaborate ter.
races, sterile hills, and rocky noun
tains of Sunny Italy; we saw much
more to admire in the ever prolific
and ineXhaustable fields and plains
of the West. And yet we only saw
very small speck of it. The Penn
sylvanians call Ohio s'Out W West," we
call Indiana and Illinois 'sOut West" F"
and they in turn call Iowa, Nebraska,
"Out West" There is no limit to
the "Great West" It is q mighty
Pacific of Land.
1t is truly amazing to see the
rapid growth of towns all along the
railway line. Prosperity, activity,
and national greatness is noticeable
everywhere.
Arriving at Chicago at little af-
ter 8 o'clock ?. NJ, we soon retired,
and about y o'clock next morning,
started to see the city of big sights.
We soon met a friend, mentioned
elsewhere, who had one of his horses
hitched to q vehicle, and we were
soon riding over the best streets OF
the. city. Along the lake shore, the
residences are grand beyond des-
cription. In baautyand elegance, they
snrpass those of the ancient. historic
city of Genoa. Magnificent struc.
lures are every where in course OF
rapid construction. The new water
works, which will soon be complet
ed, will long remain as a monument
to the noble enterprise, and public
spirit, of the people Of Chicago -
The water thus secured, is luxury
as compared with that used in New
York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg Oh
Cincinnati. In short, an irrepressi
bic spirit of progress, power anc
future greatness, pervades every
street and alley
There are no mountains to hinder
its expansion, and fearing no inva
sions, spends it's surplus funds fol-
public improvements, instead Of
Genoa-like, building massive walls
around it's limits.
It's Lake Harbor is fine one, anC
the railways centerino in tha-oitp
are very numerous, all of them pour
ing into it the rich products of al
parts of the great prolific West
Were it not for them, Chicago woulo
soon be city of poverty, absolutely
uninhabitable
Although we were but few hours
there, we came away convinced that
ere many years, Chicago will be the
mighty, wealthy, populous London
Of America!
P. .S.-Having heard so much
from Democratic sources, about the
demolition Of the Constitution as il
was and the utter ruin of the gov
ernment, we looked eagerly fol
some fragments and breaches of both
but in vain. But seriously, every
railway seemed to us like a great ar.
terry, infusing vigor and vitality into
our institutions, ar every town like
mighty bolt, holding together
more firmly and indissolubly, the
eternal ribs of our glorious Am eri
can Union.