Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1868-07-10
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C0rYeSb0ndence.
LETTER FRO.u DETROET'.


DETROIT, MICH., jane 9Th, lsGS.
H{tors Te,mom PH~nfr .-llaving been
made the grateful recipient of your mlci-
csiing and we'll conducted paper, after a
little unavoidable delay consequent upon
pressure orbusincss, attempt an ncllnowl-
edeemcnt of the kind favor, hoping to
contribute u few lines of interest for your
pcrusal.
70 say that your neatly printed sheet,
overlowing with news and intelligence,
well calculated to please and attract the
attention of the reading public, compares
lavorably with anything found in the news
paper line in this section of country, would
certainly be paying the PuosNIx no un-
merilcd compliment; although we have in
this Commercial City Of Michigan no less
than six dailes, and a considerable num-
Der of papers, journals, periodicals and
other reading matter flowing in from other
parts, still 1 find yours a welcome visitor.
It's interest and attraction to me are consid-
erably enhanced from the fact that it Is
published in the good old State and County
endeared TO me bya thousand fond and
pleasing rocollections, rs my birth place
and the home Of those early associations
that time and distance seldom oblitcrate
FROM the mind.
Many years have passed, with their great
changes in men and things, since l mingled
in your society, and participated TO great
cr or less extent in the social, political and
educational affairs of Vermont, yet I still
love and vencrate those green-clad hills,
the many unforgotten objects and friends;
where my eyes first looked out upon the
beauties of nature and art, and my soul
drank in its earliest inspirations from croa-
ton around.
With the Great Western or Union Pacific
Railroad betting this mighty continent from
ocean to ocean, opening up the rich mineral
and agricultural resources of the country,
who can predict the future of empire? Fifty
years will hardly pass before the propon-
derance of population, wealth and greatness
will be west Of the mighty Mississippi, geo.
graphically dividing this country into East
and West United States, with its capital
near the junction of the two largest rivers
of this land, whose government, interests
and people must ever be one and insepara-
bic. Those who have ever reclined in
the shadow of their own native hills, and
never by study, observation, or travel ven
tured out of the precincts of their own
State, can form but very inadequate idea
of the extent and greatness of the West as
a grain growing country. To say nothing
of the size of corn, rye, barley and oat
fields, l would state that l have passed
wheat fields waving in rich luxurance ripe
for the harvest, numbering 500 and even
5000 acres in one enclosure. The imple-
ments and facilities for harvesting and gath
ering in these rich crops of western far
mers are on scale equally grand and won-
derful. Machines that will cut, thrash,
clean and put into bags, all at the same
time, ready for market, are now in success
full operation.
| Hoping TO be able on some future occa-
sion to give items of interest connected with
the carly settlement, growth and present
| greatness of Detroit, once the home of Grant,
our future President, l subscribe myself
much Obliged NERMoNTER.