Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-11-04
FROM NORTHERN MICHIGAN.
Correspondence of the S.ar1

leoiEteponuenCe OF the SItr.I
ST. johns, MICH.. Oct. -, IsSs-Ei,t0r Str
This thriving town of twenty-five hundre,
people is we'll mp nor.h In the PeniusuIar
State. as 1 am reminded by the t-ct that
the forest trees are now nearly leafess
My route hither from Cleveland, q. the
hsndsomest city in the West,l was BY the De-
troIt line OF steamers across Lake ErIe 10 De-
troi'. thence by the Detroit and Milwaukee
Railway here. The heeyenIng 4 crossed the Lake
was one OF those October Indian SUNNI reven-
Ings, so lovely in ihis latitude, and cur COM
pany Of passengers We're Graded across this
LiilipuIirn nam, whilst we We're refreshed by
s'tIred natures sweet restorer, bIlmy sleep"
Detroit like all earthly objects il marked by
change. As 1 strolled along from the steamer
20 the cars. many evidences of improvement,
thrift ana business activity Were apparent. II
boasts of three large, able, and enterprisiug
newspapers, al least. The Yo.t. aud TrtJEgs,.
Republican papers, and the Free Press. OF the
other side. Detroit, think. L. the home OF
both OF the Michigan United States Senators.
Messrs. Howard and Chandler.
But the evidences of change are nowhere
more marked than along this H. anc VI X. X
Ia IS6, late IN the autumn, came up the road
10 Its western terminus, then al Owassa, twenty
miles east OF this place, and passed up traIl
or track through the wilderness. some TWENTY
five miles north, to a locality where Were onlv
the mere beginnings of human habItations and
Judgement OF civilization. 1 remember well
That that fail one hunter IN that locality
killed thirty bear. A little later L came over
the road, going further west. aud much of It
penetrated the wilderness, which, so tar as the
traveller could see, was unbroken save by the
railroad. Now the change seems almost mirac-
ulous. The forests nave given way TO smiling,
fruitful fields, to thrifty orchards; aud hand
some human habitauons dot the course over.
whilst home comforts and the refiuements OF
civilized life are already clustering around
them. A swelling tide of travel daily rolls
through this northern region on the rails. The
trains are long and full, and frequent. In This
case the railroad really led the ad vance Of civil
hZation, and but lOr the railroad how else
could the country have been speedily REQ.
Piled and mace productive. Here is fact in
the law of progress and development.
Game Is quite plenty here, such as deer,
turkies and bears, besides the smaller vari, ties,
such as partridges, quail, squIrr-ls, &C, but not
years ago about this date a bear passed up
through the busy main street of this town Just
as the gloamiBg was waning, aEd II was killed
IN the public square. That was wild sports in
Town.
Apples are quie plentiful crop in this State.
Peaches also, IN the peach Localities OF ~.
Joseph andGrand Travis Bay. on the eastern
shore Of Lake Michigan, were very fac and
abundant.
Michigan grows as fine wheat as any State in
the Union. The crop this season was excl
lent one, and IL has been finding its way 10
market all the autumn.
Corn IN same fields is excellent, whilst in
others it was cut off by the early frost.
Potatoes are a failure; they were killed by
the frost. The spring VS. a late one. and. as
my observation runs, always before thIs. a late
spring has been followed by a correspondInCly
with saying. "All signs fail IN a dry time"
The season was very d'y one, ana this coun-
try had the unusual al fortune of u late spring
followed by an early fail.
Michigan, in lie extent OF territory. its rapid
improvement, in the development OF its re-
sources and IN the Increase Of as population. Is
an abiding testimony. in comm on with It, sis
Ter States. Of the unprecedentediy rapid gIo owth.
OSperIty. increasing wealth and * banding
political power of the American Union.
This town boasts a ''walzist" MIR J. II.
Hathaway, about - year old, walked for a
wager, yesterday, OF s'5 thai he could make
100 miles in - consecutive hours,) lOoB miles
m @3R hours, and took has money. L. :. A.
SUICIDE IN BALTIMORE HgH Leaps from
he Roof + tie SUsyUshG,.Rr H9'eI y -sieruay
morning, about halt-psst eIght O'Clock, Lloyd
tel. opposite Calvert Station. ledped from tha
roof of the hotel on Davis street eley atei fJ-ty-
five or fifty feet above the ground, and had tue
back * part Of his skull fractured III such a man.
her as 10 cause almost instant death. Two
persons law the fall, one of them. cOIOr-d
man, previously Observing him on the roof
near the caves, where he appeared - view
twice and drew back, As II hasgtati.g alb 5uf
leaping. He fell with the small Of his back on
the curb. his head resting on the pavement, on
which was found a large pool OF blood that
gusbed from his ears and the fractured skull
The deceased was about forty five years Of az.
and unmarried. He has a mother aud other
relatives residing in this city. There are va
Tious rumors as to the cause OF the suicide The
deceased was member of the firm OF RIdgeIy
Co., merchant tallors.-Bal. lHas5 snertcss,
to-day.