The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-08-04

New YORK, July 2S, lS7l.-Competi-
ton for the carrying of passengers be-
tween the East and the West has be-
come so strong, that the different railway
companies spare no pains or expense to
make the transit as comfortable and
agreeable as possible. Without dispar-
aging any other route, / may say have
found the route over the Michigan Cen.
trail and the Great Western, for speed
safety, prompt connections, perfection
of road-bed and equipments, cars, pass
enger and eating houses, attentive con-
ductors and gentlemanly officers, the
most pleasant and desirable one. 1t is
the only route from the West connect
ing directly with Niagara Falls, which
can be reached from Chicago in nine
teen hours. From that point there are
now two through routes to New York,
the New York and Erie Railroad Com
pany having extended their track from
Buffalo, via Niagara Falls, to Suspension
Bridge. This is a great public conve-
nience, as they run many trains day
between Buffalo and Suspension Bridge,
and passengers are not now obliged TO
lie over, or miss connections, either at
the Falls, Suspension Bridge or Buffalo,
as formerly Passengers are now taken
on the fast train from Suspension Bridge
to Buffalo in thirteen and half hours,
making the running time between
Chicago and New York, over the Michi-
gan Central, Great Western and New
York and Erie roads, but thirty-two and
a half hours. This new connection is
mutually beneficial to the public and
the New York and Erie Railroad Com
pany, as so large a portion of Western
people prefer that route for the comfort
of its broad-gauge cars and the unriv-
allied beauty of its scenery.
NEW YORK
is the same Babel as ever, teeming with
life, whose pulses reach all eXtremities
of the Union. | was there just before,
and just after, the riot of the 18th inst.
The demonstrations of the press and
people Of all parties against the pusil-
lanimty Of the city officers, and in favor
of law and order, and in commentator
of the police and military for their firm.
ness and promptitude in suppressing the
mob, proved that the great body of the
people are in favor of good government.
THE NEW COURT HOUSE,
which has already cost ten millions OF
dollars, and which will absorb five or
six millions more before its completion,
is progressing slowly, and will be as long
in building as Solomon's temple, while
two-thirds Of the amount appropriated
for it is stolen by thievish officials and
contractors.
NEW HAVEN, CONN,
is celebrated for its college, elm trees
and pretty women. | attended COM
mencement exercises here, and met my
class after an absence of twenty-four
years. The history of its members was
recited. -Four of them have been
Judges of the Supreme Court of New
York-two of them still are-Larned
and Barnard, some members OF
Congress, quite number OF them pro-
fessors in colleges, goodly number
ministers, one-Curwen. of Pennsylva-
nia,-Superintendent of Insane Asy-
lums, several of them authors-among
them IKE MARVEL donald @. Mitchell)
"A few doctors of laws. grandfathers
and editors. Sixteen out of class Of
seventy-eight, that graduated thirty
years ago, are dead.
THE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
We're not marked by any peculiar origin
atty or brilliancy. few pieces were
of superior merit and well spoken most
of them We're commonplace enough,
and several were quite ante-diluvian.
The Alumni meeting was badly man
aged, and most of the speeches dreary
enough. The chief points of interest
were the retirement speech of President
Woolsey, after presiding over Yale Col
lege twenty-five years, and the speech of
the new President, Noah Porter, indi-
eating the future policy of Yale. There
is strife between Old Yale and Young
Yale, and the Alumni meeting showed
that at present the old fogies have it.
HARTFORD. CONN,
the wealthiest city. Of It's size, in the
Union except Providence, was clothed
in the liveliest green, the houses in some
streets being so shaded as to darken
them. The women-many of them
look as If brought up without sunshine,
and have pale and sickly appearance.
ROCKVILLE.
Sixteen miles east of Hartford. Conn.
manufacturing city of 5000 people,
with waterworks. gas, opera house,
banks. churches, schools, ETC., has every
aspect of Astounding life and thrift.
Schneipsit Lake, raised % feet and GOV.
ering 300 acres, is the immense reser-
voir of motive power for the machinery
of sixteen manufactures grouped within
5000 yards. whose annual product is
S3,000.000.
BELDIYG, Bros. < Co.
Have added large amount of new machin-
cry to their sewing silk factory here, under
the management of A. n. Bedding, so as to in
crease its product to 100000 year, and the
three mills they control in Mansfield will
produce as much more, so that they are ~
far the largest manufacturers and who !esale
dealers of sewing-silk and machine twist in
this country. Their houses are managed,
at 325 Broadway, New York, by NJ. NJ.
Belding and C. D. Wood at 20 West Fourth
street, Cincinnati, by D. w. Belding; and at
SO and SO Wabash avenue, Chicago, by II.
| II. Belding, w. A. Stanton and C. III. Allen.
Their sales have largely increased the past
year. During the past eighteen mon hs
they have distributed to their retail
customers over 5000 of their unrivalled pa
tent silk cases for the display of various
colors, at cost of $751; 900. They are now