Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-02-13
Correspondence of THE He RAID
A Letter from Michigan.
DETROIT, Mich. Feb. 3. 1873

Letter from Michigan.
DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 8, 1873.
Editor Rutland Herald The clerk
of the weather at the signal station here
has concluded to modify the int ensity Of
cold, so that to-day the air is more mild.
The river between this city anil Wind
sor, Canada, isfilled with ice, so that the
ferry boat passes with much di ficulty
More than one thousand freight cars $50
says a Detroitpaper) are waiting on each
shore to pass ver, to move on the Michi-
gan Central ad Great Western. railroads.
Last week tn board of trade of this CITY
passed resolutions approving the propO-
sitiOn to bride the river. so as to tacili-
tate the mOing of cars and the vast
amount of teight passing through this
city to and f0m eastern markets The
work of tunelling the ri yer progresses
so slowly tbs it is now aimated that il
viii take fivyears to COZ nplete the main
tunnel Tht drain. or side tunnel, is
more than Alf compile ted, and, | am
told, is world now onl from the Can
ada side. TIE projectors of the enter
prise find sonany obs tacles in the way
of going mae the inn tense body of wa
ter, mile in ength, t lat they now turn
to the plan of making ONE more feasible
passage oce1. the water. If it can be done
without obstructing the commerce of
the nation by boats AMI RATS Congress
will have to be duplicated for the priYi-
will be called in requisition, is not
known. Those who remember the strug-
gle in the Vermont 1egislatu re over the
question of bridging lake Champlain by
the Vermont Centrd and Vermont 4
Canada railroad, viii appreci ate the po-
sition of the Michiga Central and Great
Western railways itheir eff prts to ex-
tend the usefulness d their roi Ids.
Mrs. Jameson, anEngTsh Il ,urist and
writer, who visitei Canada and some
parts of 1.-THE States and pub. lished her
observations therein in 1896, spoke of
this city as being busy and il lportant
point of commercial interest betF jeen the
lakes, and that Jefferson avenue, extend
ing along on a parallel with the river,
was the principal street. A few thou
sand, or even hundred, people only then
constituted the population of the pls ,ce.
She said the wharf afforded excelb MT
landings for steamboats,, and speaks of
the present town. of Windsor, opposite
this city, as Richmond" When our
Canadian cousins changed the name of
their embryo city, | am not advised
Now Detroit claims population of one
hundred thousand and over, though the
census of 1870 shows but about eighty
six thousand. Cleveland, Detroit and
Milwaukee claim to rival each other in
the increase of business, population and
Importance. just now the first-named
city Is in the advance, and Detroit, so
the newspapers say, comes next in the
race From the city, railroads radiate
to all points and parts of the State. and
the pine lands" away up north on the
peninsula, once deemed nearly worth
less, are now the most valuable prODertv
in the market.
Some twenty or thirty old clever GOV
eys here known as the board of trade. 50 I
having plenty of money and time TO /
spare have been acting the mart of +.
Shakespeare this winter at the Opera
House for the benefit of the Detroit I.
psor. Amateur players, they have met +
with great success, and the plays writ /
ten tor the occasion by some of their
number, have so pleased the people that
night after night all the tickets have
been sold and the house crowded. (
Several thousand dollars have thus been
rised for a praiseworthy and benevo-
ent object.
The Legislature is now in session at Ian
sing, and last week sent delegation
about the State to visit the State
Institutions, an Insane Asylum at Kala-
naZoo, state Prison at Jackson. another
at Flint, and some equally
Important here Their advent here as
he evening train came from the west,
vas attended with more ecL1t and cere-
nony, we imagine, than was the well
,ome of the crazy committee" from !
he Vermont Legislature, of which our
riend Henry, of Chester, was the house
lead, at Brattleboro last fall. A mill
airy company in beautiful uniform (such
S we once, before the war of 1916. re-
nember to have heard Major Rounds of
/ueSteI, when member OF the Yer
mont Legislature describe as of the
peacock kind,) with a band of music.
net them at the depot, and long line
4 carriages, like what we see here at am
IRISH funeral, or like an Andrew John
on reception when he was ''swinginU
ound the circle" conducted the mem
ers through the city, and the Cover
or (Bagley) who sresides here. gave
hem a reception at bis mansion later in
he evening.
1t would seemthat the Michiganders are
OF quite such sticklers for location ia
ne matter of their gubernatorial candi-
ates as we Fermonters have of late
ears become. They have no mountain
ne OF division across which to eouipoise
ne merits of men proposed for Office.
lence ii. p. Baldwin of this city, hav-
lg made a fortune as an honest shoe
laker, and being possessed of talents 1
and wealth enough to maintain
he position, was made Governor, and
hen his term of Office expired last fall, 1
he people left him, an humble and wor- s