242 INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



NO. 2 

 Logansport, la., Aug. 8, 1841. 



Editors Cultivator — Under the new order of post 

 office regulations, adopted by Postmaster-General Niles, 

 the stage lays over here this day, (Sunday,) and to that 

 you may ascribe the reason why you get a line from 

 me now. 



This town is situated upon the Wabash river, and the 

 Wabash and Erie canal, now in operation from Lafayette 

 (the head of steamboat navigation on the Wabash,) to 

 Fort Wayne, passes directly through the heart of the 

 town. There is also a large mill stream, called Eel river, 

 empties in here, and that and the Wabash afford an 

 immense mill power, which will at some day build up 

 a great manufacturing town at this point. The land 

 in the vicinity is of unsurpassed richness, covered in its 

 native state with heavy timber; and owing to the fact 

 that the land lately owned by the Miami Indians lies 

 immediately across the river, the forest still remains in 

 primeval grandeur. Over the rivers and canal are some 

 fine bridges. The whole is one of the sudden, but here 

 substantial, creations of the west. I find here a few, 

 and compared with the numbers and wealth of the place, 

 too few, subscribers to agricultural papers. The Culti- 

 vator, I believe, has the greatest number of subscribers; 

 but instead of 20 it should be 200; and I most respect- 

 fully suggest to the citizens, that to make the circulation 

 up to that number, would make the county of Cass $2,000 

 richer every year. There is not that attention paid to 

 agriculture here that should be. There is a small society, 

 but little action. Last fall, the society made a most 

 laudable attempt to import a lot of Berkshire pigs. They 

 were very unlucky. The pigs were landed in cold weather 

 on the wharf at Chicago, and afterwards on the beach 

 at Michigan City, and several of them either starved or 

 froze to death, and those that came to hand have not 

 done credit to the breed. The purchasers complain of 

 the breeder, that he did not send a good lot, or else they 



