Great Miami. It contains seven church- of increase has occurred in the west es, a flourishing female academy, two generally. newspaper printing-offices, three flour- The pork packed at Cincinnati comes mills, three saw-mills, three cotton facto- exclusively from Ohio, Kentucky, and ries, and two machine shops, and had a │Indiana. The supplies from all these population of 2,000 in 1850; since quarters were immense. On one road which it has increased considerably, and leading to Cincinnati from Indiana, seems destined to be a large manufac- about 70,000 hogs crossed the Miamituring town. Large hydraulic works town bridge. There are other bridges have been erected, which rank among over the Miami, on roads leading from the best west of the Alleganies. The Indiana. water is brought four miles, from the Great Miami, by a canal, and is sufficient for two hundred run of four and a half mill-stones. MAUMEE CITY, the capital of Lucas county, is one hundred and twenty-four miles northwest from Columbus, and eight south of Toledo. It was laid out in 1817, in the old reservation of twelve miles square, at the foot of the rapids of the Maumee, which was granted to the Indians in 1795. The site of the town is at the head of navigation opposite Perrysburg and Fort Meigs, on the Wabash and Erie canal. The ground is about one hundred feet above the Maumee, which here makes a fine, broad bend, from which the banks rise like a vast amphitheatre, about two miles long and one mile wide. A beautiful island of two hundred acres, and several smaller ones, ornament the surface of the river. For about two months, the passage of hogs up the leading streets, from the Ohio river, seemed to be almost constant. So, also, the turnpikes coming in from Ohio indicate the same state of facts. That we may have an idea of the capacity of these states to increase the number of hogs brought to market, take the following statement. The first table contains the amount for 1840, the second an estimate for 1850. Total, 6,033,887 101,671,131 bush. In 1840, then, the farmers of these three states had six millions of hogs, and more than a hundred millions of bushels of corn. They could have fatted two millions of those hogs, and sent them to mar 1850. Ohio, Total, Corn. Hogs. 2,500,000 2,500,000 50,000,000 bush. 45,000,000 2,000,000 40,000,000 The French had a trading post a lit-ket, on forty millions of bushels of corn. tle below the town, as early as the year 1680, where the English built a fort in 1794; the place was a favorite resort of Kentucky, the Indians. The ruins of the latter fort still remain. A part of Wayne's battle was fought within the limits of this town; and the British erected several batteries below the town, in the late war, during the siege of Fort Meigs. These were taken by storm by Colonel Dudley, on the 5th of May, 1813; but he was afterward driven back and defeated. The Pork Trade of the West.-More than four hundred thousand hogs had been packed in Cincinnati, up to the month of January, 1848, for the season of 1847-'8—an unprecedented number, even for that place. With the exception of a very few places, the same rate 7,000,000 135,000,000 bush. There are in the United States 30,000,000 of hogs. This is about fifteen times the number usually slaughtered in the whole country for market in one year. Hogs grow upon full size in less than two years. It follows, then, from these facts, that there must be at least five times as many hogs in the country that might be fatted for market, as really are. The west being peculiarly adapted to the cultivation of Indian corn (the best food for fattening hogs), renders the raising of hogs a very profitable business. By this means vessels will load and unload directly from the dépôt, whereas now there is a necessity of carting every barrel and bale somo two hundred rods, involving serious expense and waste. On these works a large number of men are now employed here. The southern railroad (a much ruder and less promising work) has been or is to be sold for half a million of dollars of state liabilities, in order that it likewise may be pressed onward to completion. The usual time of departure from Buf Thus tempted, the state undertook, creed terminus is to occupy, for a conabout the year 1836, the construction | siderable distance, what is now part of of three lines of railroad across the pen- the river, which is to be filled in for the insula―the central, stretching hence to purpose. Lake Michigan near the mouth of the St. Joseph; the southern, from the Maumee near Toledo due westward; and the northern. On the two former a very considerable beginning had been made when the state fell into pecuniary embarrassments, in part owing to the magnitude of her undertaking, and somewhat to a change in the times. The southern road was arrested; the central road was feebly and haltingly prosecuted, fed by the sale of state lands and the issue of treasury warrants, which sold at a ruitous depreciation; and of the rev-falo is in the evening. Lake Erie is travenue accruing on the completed portion ersed in about twenty-four hours, stopof the road or roads, nearly all was ab- ping at Cleveland and Detroit. Passing sorbed. Such was the condition of these the beautiful Detroit and St. Clair rivworks when, more than a year since, the ers, and the wide-spreading and difficult state decided to offer the central road,|flats of the latter, you enter Huron, and just as it stood, for sale for two millions stretching along an unbroken wilderof dollars of her acknowledged debt, ness coast for hundreds of miles, paswhich then was worth in the market sing Saginaw bay and the Thunder bay something less than one million dollars. islands, reach Mackinaw, the resort of The offer was accepted by a club of all who delight to enjoy a glimpse of its Bostonians, the payment made, the road solitary loveliness, or to breathe its pure, transferred, and instantly placed under cool, and invigorating atmosphere. This very different management. The re- (including the time to wood) occupies ceipts of the completed portion rapidly two days and a half. Thence passing increased, expenses were curtailed, and the straits of Michilimackinac, and the the work on the unfinished portion vig- Manitou islands, the boat pushes either orously stimulated, payment therefor across Lake Michigan to Sheboigan, being made promptly and in cash. Al- Milwaukie, &c., or passing up Green bay, ready the road is in operation to Kala- and stopping at, or catching glimpses mazoo, more than half way across the of, its innumerable islands in all their state, and it is to be entirely completed greenness and beauty, reaches Navarino. at farthest within the next year. Al- Returning through the passage called ready the finished portion pays a liberal" Death's Door," and again entering and rapidly increasing profit on its cost Lake Michigan, the voyage is pursued to the company, whose stock is at a high to Chicago, stopping at Milwaukie, Rapremium, and can rarely be bought at cine, and Southport-the populous and rapidly-growing creations of the lake commerce and western settlements: thus terminating the voyage where nature and art combine to fix the seat of a great city-now rapidly rising as such, and combining in a remarkable degree the elements of commerce, business, society, and refinement. In short, nothing can exceed the upspringing vigor of such cities as Buffalo, Milwaukie, Racine, and Chicago; and no one can predict Already preparations are being made for relaying the old track, now very imperfect, with a new and improved rail; while in the city large purchases of real estate have been made by the company, mainly on the river or strait just below the present centre of trade, including a water-front of sixteen hundred feet, on which a gigantic freight and a passenger dépôt are to be erected, while the track of the railroad to its de |