The Republican journal., 1871-09-07
Correspondence Of the journal.
Letter from Central New York.

iulhh, | trust, confirms with you of Maine as
with us Of Central New y ork, the fact of a sea-
son of admirable agricultural prosperity There
Is scarcely one exception to the abundant Yield
OF our crops, the cereals, tobacco and hops
forming The most prominent of them. We
have been more blessed with rain. the summer
through, than many sections of the country, So
that our dairy interests have been prosperous
with only the natural inevitable drawbacks |
thai supcrabundance of products has caused di-
minished prices. This section is peculiarly the
nome OF dairy industry, as exhibited i'll the
origination of the system of cheese factories.
one OF the newest and most striking examples
of the wisdom of concentration of material and
labor, by which so much more is accomplished
than by isolated efforts. We have now scream
cries multiplying, by which the same system
Is applied to The production of butter | trust
IN time that the dairy interest of Your section
Of the country will be rs prominent as It is
here.
our canals, those great internal arteries of
commerce, in whose efficiency all sections of
the country and even Europe, have Il material
interest, enjoy 4 greater degree Of prosperity
than for 9 number of Years past. The fact vim
,ieaes the slom of our Democratic legisla- |
tors, who Immediately upon assuming the
the power WreSted from Republican misman- |
| ayers by the people, inaUgurated system OF
reduced tolls, against She bitter representations
of canal debt and ruin from Republican presses
and orators. The new system has produced an |
enormous increase in the amount of products |
carried, successful competition with railroads |
I ami pthnf rivals and given of
unwonled TO the thousands of industrious PEG
pie whose interests are identified with the canal |
Another measure affecting the canals was |
adopted 10y the Legislatures in offering premi- |
UNI of 500 900 to the successful competitor |
who should introduce Il system of propulsion of
boats, 10y which the tedious drawage of horses |
might he avoided, and greater speed achieved |
without iniurng the canal banks, etc. which |
result from ordinary steamboats,. The boats |
competing for this premium are OF course re-
~trictPd to the present size of the locks, must |
convey two hundred tons of cargo and secure |
% degree OF speed superior to that now exhibit
ed. meeting of the official committee to
whom plans and models are to be exhibited. |
has already been held in this city and a num-
Der Of novel and Ingenious plans We're exhibit |
'' -hhtlliNi Ntli 1tiiidlilS lOI inc inception
and testing Of plans and models. A COMPETE
ton is open To the whole country why should
not the ingenious shipwright> OF Maine--wllosc
Occupation is gone" under Republican states
manshp"--tlcyoc some attention to this sub
jet: Whatever may he the result of present
efforts, feel still sanguino, that there viii he
seen accomplished what hundreds of ingenious
minds have for wears been experimenting upon,
The application Of electricity as a motive power,
when steam will he completely supplantet, and
every farm and workshop have 4 cheap and c1-
licient seryitor 10 accomplish al little cost and
with simple machinery all that cumhrou>. dan
@erouS and costly steam now achieves. Minia-
ture locomotives have been worked by electri- |
city. and have seen cold bar iron chiscllcd is
you would white pine shinglc by electric |
power, The STRENGTH is known 10 exist i'll |
electricity-all we want 10 know now il how to |
concentrate It. |
We have inst had the LAYING Of the corner |
stone of the Syracuse University" an cstab- !
i>hment under the discipline of the Methodist |
church. hut whose scope of education is intend |
ed to be wider and more general than merely |
UNCONVENTIONAL; and il is Intended, also. to |
Il
much more than mere academy. Eminent |
men Of all denominations have aided in the en- |
lerpri>e, and one of the prominent speakers at |
the late ceremonies was Hon. A. u. White |
President of Cornell University. resident of |
this city, and believe an Episcopalian This |
city, IN It's corporate capacity, has given $3.50
900 to the University. and individual gifts have |
raised lis endowment already TO near Il million !
oi dollars. Mr.. Remington, Of Hon, whose !
manufacturers Of arms are known the world |
over displayed his liberality towards it by the |
purchase and presentation of the ST. Charles |
hotel property valued at about $1,000 900. This |
binding is TO he converted into an immense |
printing establishment for The University, and |
possibly for the church, in which case the |
- Book Concern in New York city Will prof. |
ably he transferred TO this place While SYRIA |
cllse is thus prospectvely to be another Halle |
Cambridge or New Haven in the republic of |
letters, I rejoice to say that our common |
schools are by no means neglected here. for in |
no section Of our land are there better school !
houses and teachers.
The political world shows now some degree
ot activity, after a somewhat long interre@ mum
Of t0rpiiii}, preparatory to the annual Noycm-
bGt contest. There is no Governor TO be chosen
tins year, and this in some degree diminishes |
the interest of The canvass. The great bone of |
contention WIZ be the Legislature | will not
asSrnne the robes Of a seer, and foreshadow the
inevitable, but may be purdoncd for express
ing the opinion that the State will he true to i-
Democratic interests and instinct The nepul-
li,m~ have cliled their State Convention to be