Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-04-29
wAIuAllA SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 90 1870.

side Of the railroad to this placo from, Albany,
up ths Mchs#k Valloy, end is q great and
cost work Of internal Improvement, and was
commenced (and finished, in easy places !
during Governor De Witt 'Clintor's admins.
tration. Other smaller towns of note are
found all along this valley, and the mountain
| streams arc busy turning manufactures of all
kinds Little Falls has at least fifty Of differ.
ent kinds. Ilion has her great gun and pis-
tol ,nnnufactory--is now manufacturing arms
\ for the Prussian Government. Then Frank.
fort has her Snatch manufaotory," where
tho wood is thrown in the machinery in cords
at one end, also tho sulphur and phosphorus
in bulk, and a girl, at tho other end, puts tho
matches into the box, stamped and labeled for
the market But great suffering is found
amongst these operativcs-thc phosphorus is
80 penetrating and searching, that, if hol.
low tooth or ony defective joint is found, it
works its way to the destruction of such
tooth or joint.
Now we are at the Niagara Falls, or, as tho
town is called, "Suspension Bridge" 6 O'clock
a. M, l4th April-a lovely morning, the
"robins' busy with their early mathis, the
sky slear, aud the climate all one could wish
it,. We pass over the magnificent iron
bridge, three to four hundred feet long, and
one hundred feet above the grand Niagara
River. The river is about the size of the
Tugalo. The ice is breaking up, and came
floating down in large pieces. The main full
is about $50 feet high, and just near the
Falls is tho foot of the Suspension Bridge,
and some several hundred yards above the
railroad bridge, but in full view in passing
along the railroad. If we were to write till
doomsday, we could not describe the scenery
around the river, or our feelings on beholding
them. "Now, we over thc,river."
at Clifton, on Canada West The town
is Of some note, as other railroads start out
from hero. On touching Her Majesty Queen
victoria's dominion, we don't know that We
felt any particular freedom, for here We met
the "stamp man." and were not allowed to
proceed until we consented that he should
''stamp" our valise. We did not object, for
that thon, Was our passport (Gpon common
good bchavior that no disturbance would be
met with on our journey through the country.
EWe passed many places, both old and new,
of Importance, on the limo of railway OF
course, the management of the railroad was
in English hands, but mono the worse for
that. AS we could discover, the road is in
fne condition, and is the road for the "trans.
portation of tho freights from ocean to ocean,"
and the amount of its work may be Judged
from the great number of trains you pass
"Colored blue" and marked t'through freight"
from San Francisco and New York, that
passes, without change of bulk, .fue thousand
nine hundred masles, IN ten Days! Canada
is famous for her petroleum oil wells and
manufactures of oil. You smell oily and
feel oily all the time that you arc in the
country. -r
Among tho most noted towns that we passed
was Hamilton. Here the read has her large
machine shops, She makes her railroad iron,
and machinery generally. Here you change
cars for Toronto, &c., and is great shipping
port on Lake Ontario for lumber, wood, coal,
oil, hay, 60. Then you have St. Catharine's
Jordan, (not the thard road Jordan, ~ Lon.
DON, a good dinner house, (you would have
thought it, if you had seen us getting the
worth of our IS cents grecnbacks,) Grimbys,
Dundas--under tho mountains, in beautiful
valley--Beech Gum, Newburg, Sc. At the
latter place, saw an Indian boy intoxicated.
The country is low and cod---now covered
with water where there is no snow. But lit.
tie has been done towards planting but little
remains to be done. The hay crop is the
principle one-the cabbage and potato and
broom corn for share Of attention after awhile
i Many large apple orchards. The stock busi-
! HooS 10 y Boou ouo--yOu Auu many OauautRn
colts on the raise, cattle, sheep, but few hogs.
The farmers, generally, live in cheap log huts,
and many Of them seen, very thriftless and
poor. The timber is generally white and
black oak, birch, beech, and ,tamerach--a spe,
oies Of pine, used for railroad ties. This
railroad was built by an English company, on
speculation, and is, perhaps, paying, but q
great deal of trade is taken off on the Buffalo
4 IN. W road from Detroit, which has its
junction at OF. near Utica, Ny. "s3g
| Tho last place, then, wo., shall notice is
! Windsor, the terminus at Detroit, Michigan,
a large town. We crossed from Windsor to
Detroit in steamboat Detroit is on the St.
Clair River, aud is an old settled place, as
history tlong ago tells" It was an old
French settlemept, and you may see the
traces of that race dominant now, and ID call.
ed the fashiest or gayest town, on the ,conti.
alcnt. i We EXCEPT, perhaps, Baltimore, Nd.
i Leaving Detroit at,7 O'Clock p. IN. We
!, saw but little after va left jackson. and Ann
Harbor, on the Huron Hiyer--the State Unit
yersity blace--and the crowd was so great,
(many of thom emigrants, with their families
Of crying babies and so1sis,.ing boys, that
bat littla rest or sleep was AIKEN last night.
4 The section Of Illinois brought to our, View
this morning, 10, section Of Michigan City;
4 t0,, \, prairie, but moi rief, full Of water.
y As We will stay over here 70 day, for rest aud
1 sleep, will drop yon d few OF our observations
LOT thir city before We 60 ont, !. s, " :,
.lsgf6r 4, Yours, TO-, n IS q s a. I,