New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-07

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blances to New York and Brooklyn in the site. On
the only side open to the country rocky height like
Harlem or Gowanus Heights upholds the remnant
OF fort-Fort Howe perhaps named for that
family once fraternally afterward so bloodily,
known to English America, the ablest of whom
lies buried in Albany.
AT Fort Howe William Cobbett was a British
regular soldier and by the half filled well of blasted
stone there he met his wife, the se-geant's da1gh-
ter. Cobbett was the first of dwelling journalists
! precursor of Bennett, Marat, even of Paine whose
| body he dsinterred from admiration. He assaed
| Washingtons Administration and all English Adj
ministrations and awoke two continents with his
sturdy contempt for medocrity. How little is
| remembered of him now, or of any fulmnator
Yet he taught plain men to respect their own
| views and in so far helped democracy onward.
Nearly visible from this old fort the fall of the
ST. John. river $50 miles long which smells of the
and goes Wild till at the turn of the tide the
sea overcomes it like that monarch listening below
who heard La Valiere tell her passion for HIM and
subdued her. At high tide the cascade falls land
ward at low tide seward. Thus does the moon
operate on rivers as on men, changing their conss-
tency The usual fall is a rush of foam making
blacksh water around rocky promontories and
hurry and murder in its expression, like the first
slayer flying before thunder and at gorge in the
confusion, like the protection of heaven to Cain,
fament of suspension bridge Interposes between
A
Twenty-Five years ago. and disappeared and it is the
great sight OF ST. john. The great sound of st.
John is the foghorn.
The foghorn stands on the solitary bold island
two miles IN the O1ing of ST. John harhor where
the Bay of Fundy smokes dampness and ghos tiness
most OF eternity, there, apparently without
seriousness that the weather ever can be good the
nosome autonaton screams aud snores as if in
some demon cream by night and day, in glittcrng
sunset or wde-cyed morn, on holy Sab
baths or in idiotic, tempest raising its ray to
heaven like the ASS foal that snorted the pro-
phetc desolation of Jerusalem. The bride at the
marriage altar in the tremulous sense of perfect
happiness hears the tend chant his terrible appre-
tensions The bowed mourners around the omen
grave of the good man hear the appalling howl
The babe is born in gladdened cottages and the first
welcome to the earth is this monitor of evil His
pipes are ohoked with fogs; but he whcezes and
slumbers of the night you wake and hear him saw:
:" Beware the sbrouded army haunts the world
are coming! Wo to the mariner! Wop
St. John and It's rocky suburbs contain 80 600
people, more than any town in the south except
New Orleans. Yet business is hardly good seafar-
ing excepted. Iron ships have affected New Bruins
wick like Maine: the lumber is leaner; stores for
merly rented for 81 900 now rent for 1900
Scarcely any transactions are recorded in real
estate. The Scotch and the Irish make the new
saw, also, at Loeb Lomond, twelve miles from ST.
John, negro settlement, almost wholly made Of
The very nergoes of New Brunswick are of,Unted
States stock; The people of this provinces are
accustomed to think freely. aud only unfortunate
ny ny Their protrnding situation, away from the
he st
midsummer climate on the Western Continent.
CHESAPEAKE FLOWING INTO THE HUDSON.
Speaking with Mr.. Cramp. the Philadelphia shin
and steamboat builder. he said to me:
" We are building powerful and swift steamer
for the Alexa ndre Line to Havana and Vera Cruz
John Roach, who owns the Ward Line chiefly, is
also building great steamer to race the Alex
andres. and means TO run her to Vera Cruz They
are to make speed in both cases with little regard
to the coal they burn. We also building one of
the fastest steamers on the seas for an opposition
line along the Lower California coast, one of her
owners being the Mayor of San Francisco The
Delaware River now has fleet of seven to ten iron
steamboats,. The iron steamers of the Coney
Island Line four of which built, cost $500, 900
apiece. The Z nnsylvania Railroad is building n
great iron ferry boat with some new features at
Wilmington Baltimore city is going into steam
shipping with remarkable energy now their Boston
Line being of the proportions of a Transatlantic
fleet, and their Ncwlork iron steamers we are
about to launch"
10 tins may add of my personal knowledge that
the new Baltimore ship canal will he built across
the most agreeable portion of the Delaware
peninsula, and where cutting will be attended with
and mari, having rolling surface with frequent
woods ana some bluffs. SaSsatTaS River the Chesa-
peake outlet Is the third considerable river east and
south OF the Susquchanua, first coming northeast
next the Elk and third the Sassafras Then follnw,
the chester: which Is more nearly opposite Balfi-
y
a narrower neck in the peninsula and situated 40
as to ma le ship channel to Philadelphia and the
coal yards rs well as to the sea. By both routes
Newlork is the objective point and this canal viii
open another Hudson and Long Island sound 60 u.s.
ana allow night boats to carry passengers to Balt
more, which VIII hereafter be nearer New-York he |
sea than Philadelphia is. The Lewes, Delaware |
steamer of the Old Dominion Line makes the RIM |
IN about thirteen hours leaving New-York after |
t me banks close and getting into the Delaware |
Breakwatcr at daylight. About forty miles above !
the Breakwater Blackbird Creek the Other ontIet |
OF ne snip canal, enters the Delaware Five hours
ought 10 carry steamer from the BIcakwoter IN |
the wharves of Baltimore. Although limited snceJ |
may be enforced III the canal there will be only egbt
or zen miles OF it, The Old Dominion steamers 90 |
to Norfolk from New York IN abont tvrentv 10 go
hours, which is called 40 miles from Baliimnrn
IL should not, therefore, be out of reason for n |
reach Baltimore, via ship canal at 10 or | 1 oclocIr
next morning with breakfast enioycd IN stiii |
Wa,tr, anu II necessary the passenger can be IN
washington Ivy ny the opening hour of Congress-
TRANSPORTATION TOPICS.
such n line would transport horses and corriogos
from the metropolis to the Capital and open the most
notable short winter excursion route The Cbos,
peake possesses the best winter climate this sdo of
Aiken, Ga Mr. PhDnIxs hotel the New Hype,a buiIt
chlcIY ny samuel Shoemaker, of Baltimore has
been so crowded that it is being nearly douh,el in
size and is nearly tho largest hotel on tbo cooot
Wormey, the Washington caterer, is seel,inT -
hotel site also ut Old Point. This autumn IN t,,,o
for the Yorktown celebration the Chesopeol,o aud
Ohio Railroad will be opened to Newport News
direct from the ONO ltlycr and the Richmond ana
Allegheny Railroad up the James River Canal ,,a.L
will also be finished leading to the Peaks of Ottn
Lexington. White Sulphur Springs and the Natur,I
Bridge. The York River Railroad bo: r,d ~
West~Point, its bay port, "a considerable tow, a;
the war. The cavaliers of Virginia are now oro,,
ing millions of bushels Of peanuts on the sYto of
Pocahontas's wigwams to he made into Oil for th,