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THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR, 



December, 1842. 



ii :< >ji ci.ui disuuirp, and others by wiestlint;. 

 foot liires, &<•. Most of these youiis; rascal.- 

 hnvi liiirses of their own, and it was latiirhahlc 

 wliili- iiifialile to see them abuse the poor animals 

 by nnining them from morning till night, sonie- 

 tioRs ill races, and at others without any appa- 

 rant niiuive but to '-ciit a splurge." 



This is the only thing we have against the 

 S.MPs ;iMil Kovos— llu'v have no mercy on horse-. 

 The abuse of these nohio animals is the meanest 

 sin wliich anyone, while, red, or black can com- 

 mit. It is a great niislake that Indians are stoi-.s, 

 misanthropies or any thing of the kind. A more 

 socialile, communii-ative, happy set of (ellows 

 than the Sacs and Foxes do nol exist any where. 



itic to civilize then). Tliey are happier as they 

 are, aiid we should regret any attempt to intir- 

 fere with their doruestic [lolioy. Place them be- 

 yond the corrupting intltiences of the white set- 

 tlements— keep from lliem the destioyer of hn- 

 nian happiness among all colors, the death-deal- 

 ing " fne-water,"and (Jovernment will then have 

 conferred the best blessing upon the Indian, and 

 the only one for which they will feel thankful. 



Chinese Intf.llige.vce extr.40rdi>[ary. — We 

 have received through the hands of Mr. Punch, 

 of Lonilon, the following extraordinary intelli- 

 gence from the Celc'stial Empire. There is 

 another rupture in Cliina, but it is said that the 

 liower of Poo Loo will be riisorted to for ce 

 menting it. It is rumored that an attempt will 

 be made to rivet the different fractions into which 

 the service of China is now divided, but this we 

 think, is impossible. The great Khun wants a 

 handle, and until this is found there can be no 

 reasonable hope of adjustment. Our Indian let- 

 ters put us in possession of Indian ink to the 

 twenty-second, and our news is consequently of 

 the same dark complexion as before. Our Se- 

 ville correspondent sends us oranges to the latest 

 monietit at which oin- express was made up, Iiut 

 we are very sorry to s ;y that we find consider- 

 able asperity in every (piarter. Our letters from 

 F.irypt have not arrived ; bur, on inquiry at the 

 Hall, in Piccadilly, we ascertained that 



uffiiirs in that quarter were going on as smoothly 

 as the best friends of the land of the pyramiili 

 had any reason to anliciiiate. 



The Growth of Bostoa. 



No one who looks about hiai can fail to notice 

 the quiet but rapid strides which our city is mak- 

 ing in those snlistantial improvements which are 

 based upon utility and permanency. We are not 

 of those who are disposed to boast of the she of 

 n stale or a city, for tin' l:uges! bodies often con- 

 tain the elements of the most jiainful ilisorders, 

 if not of the most rapid ilissolution. We love to 

 see the growth of a place constant and whole- 

 some, and it would be no easy task to find a 

 place in ancient or modern times whose advance- 

 ment has trom the ffrst been so steady, so sure, 

 au<l so fnli of pnini:s,. ;is that of Boston. Who- 

 ever Iddlis at the e... h-r maps of Boston, will see 

 that ihi- III igiiial p,>Miii.-iila was but little if any 

 laigi-r liiui the islan<l which constitutes East 

 Bo; 1011. Soon Charles street. Broad street and 

 India Wliarf arose from the sea. The Mill Pond 

 added nliuost a fourth to our territory. South 

 Boston was obliged to come over to"ns. The 

 South Cove was redeemed from the ocean, and 

 the noble wharves stretched forth their arms and 

 seized upon East Boston. All this, too, was the 

 result of private enterjirise, and persevering in- 

 dustry. 



But Boston has not been content with this 

 quiet increase at home. She has sent forth other 

 feelers, and with a foresight that commands ad- 

 miraiion she has <lrauii to herself almost every 

 poriion of this exlcnsive land. She is moored to 

 t!ie continent, by six substantial Bridges, and a 

 remarkable Dam, and sliu has sent her Railroads 

 in every direction. New York city was first ap- 

 proached by the Providence Railroad, and this 

 incidentally opened the way to the Whaling in- 

 terests at New Bedford, Nantucket and Stoning- 

 ton. The next stride was to the centre of the 

 State, and hardly was tliat reached, before Nor- 

 wirh was drawn r!o.-oi-, and the far West was 

 brought to our donr. Meanwhile an arm was 

 extended towards the North, and Lowell and all 

 the region beyond began to feel an attraction 

 which could not be resisted. It only remained 



for Boston to stretch Eastwardly to complete her 

 enlerpi ise, and hardly a week has passed since 

 Portland received the fraternal embrace which 

 hinds her to the common lieart. The opening 

 of the Portsmouth and Portland Railroad may 

 justly be considered the crowning work of the 

 mil Illy plan. 



It would be strange if the opening of so many 

 avenues to this metropolis did not lead to cor- 

 responding movements here, and magnificent 

 Depots have risen almost by magic to receive the 

 influx from the four corners of the land. These 

 Depots have been surrounded by innumerable 

 dwellings and vvareliouses, and hundreds of acres 

 of land, naked since the memory of children, 

 are now teeming with populous streets. But 

 improvement has not been confined to the vicin- 

 ity of Depots ; beautiful streets and places and 

 blocks have arisen in every section. Edinburgh 

 ■treet and the new street next above it, Harrison 

 Avenue and all its cross streets. Garland, Cherry 

 ami Pine streets are hardly seasoned yet. The 

 splendid palaces of Milk and Pearl streets are 

 unrivalled, and one who has not visited West 

 Boston and the North end for years, may easily 

 be lojt among the edifices which have covered 

 vacant lot.s, or, where land was wanted, have 

 superseded the unsightly and inconvenient tene- 

 ments of our fathers. 



But the progress of improvement has not stop- 

 ped at Depots, Warehouses and private dwellings. 

 Taste has gone hand in hand with utility ; Re- 

 ligion lias reared altars corres|>onding to the 

 improved appearance of secular edifices, and the 

 New Exchange and the substantial and elegant 

 Custom House have nobly met our wants and 

 crowned our wishes. We might name the great 

 improvement in the widening, straightening and 

 paving of our streets, the ornamenting of our 

 Common, the greater finish of our buildings, the 

 more showy style of our shops, and the greater 

 facilities for walking and riding which abound; 

 but we iriust stop somewhere, and we cannot 

 pretened to enumerate all that is doing or has 

 just been done. 



We make no cnnqiarison of what Boston has 

 done with what has been done elsewhere. Our 

 object is not to depreciate others, but to give a 

 just idea of the advances which have been made 

 without any of those spasms which convnl.se 

 society, aiuririve an artificial strength, which is 

 till- sure precursor of ji speedy decline. Boston 

 seems desiiiii-d to become the centre ot' immense 

 wealth and immense trade, and all we hope is 

 that her .schools will keep tiace with her wealth, 

 and that her churches will increase and multiply, 

 and enable her to withstand all the temptations 

 which beset and the corruptions which destroy a 

 higldv populous community. — Boston Evening 

 Gazelle. 



REMARKS OF THE MO.VTIILY VISITOR. 



The time when Boston was circumscribed 

 within its ancient limits is within the recollection 

 of our boyhood. Nay we can well i-eiiiember 

 when much of that [lart of Boston now covered 

 with its most costly edifices, nearly the whole 

 west end of the town south of Cambridge street 

 and westerly from Washington street and the 

 Stone Chapel, was little better than the waste 

 spaces surroimdiiig many of our country villages. 

 We remember well when Stale Street, the prin- 

 cipal place of business, was mi.ved in with pri- 

 vate dwellings — when Pearl street, now lined 

 with princely residences, was but as a poor 

 suburb among the narrow allies and sailor houses 

 of the city — when Biiiad street, built on piles 

 .liere the wati'r stood, was constructed as the 

 reat wonder of Auu'rica — wlien all that space 

 overed by the Qiiiiicy market and the splenrlid 

 stores on eithrr hand, from the foot of old Fan- 

 ueil to the distance of half a mile, was a part of 

 iea. Indeed tQ look in any part of Boston — 

 take the space bptvvaen Beacon hill and the old 

 Clr;rlestown bridge, embracing not only the old 

 mill pond but a greater space of Charles river at 

 the west on which land has been made and 

 gnificent stores, warehouses and dwellings 

 have been erected — or go into the southeasterly 

 )art of the city where such encroachmeiits have 

 been made bv the land into the water as nearly 

 to cover the largo cove or bay wliich separated 

 he ancient Dorchester Heights (now South Bos- 

 ton) from the waste marsh lands upon the penin- 

 sula, and see upon this ground, besides numer- 

 ous blocks of buildiugs. a larger Hotel than all 



the united public houses of New York or Phila- 

 delphia at the commencement of the present 

 century, and a Depot for goods and merchandize 

 carried and brought from beyond the mountains 

 with the celerity of the wind, of larger dimen- 

 sions on the ground than any other building in 

 America; we may well conclude that the growth 

 of the capital of New England has been without 

 a precedent in this country. 



To the ancient acquaintance of Boston, the 

 men who lived or visited there forty and fifty 

 years ago, the constant growth of the place has 

 all along been matter of wonder. Merch.ants' 

 row then embraced the most of the wholesale 

 business, and the trade to country merchanta 

 exiendcii only about fifty miles in the interior. 

 A single loutled team of heavy goods sufficed to 

 supply all the foreign merchandize for six months 

 and a year consumed in a common country 

 town. When the more commodious stores in 

 Broad and Kilhy streets moved the merchants 

 out of the " row," the spectator anxious for the 

 prosperity of the town looked for a large vacant 

 space which the increased business of the city 

 might not fill up for years. But soon new houses 

 and new firms filled Broadstreet without dimin- 

 ishing the business in the old spot wiiere mer- 

 chants most did congregate; and within a few 

 years afterwards a new space of salt water is 

 covered with still larger wholesale stores, remov- 

 ing the street first made from the water too far 

 into the interior of the city to continue to be the 

 receptacle and place for vending heavier mer- 

 chandize. 



Ever since our recollection — whatever may 

 have been the times, however defiressed may 

 have been the various business of the countiy, 

 Boston has continued to expand her limits and 

 her business continued to increase. We cannot 

 remember the time when real estate, the terra 

 firma and good buildings erected upon it, did not 

 maintain its value in that city. It might always 

 he counted on as assets in the hands of its own- 

 er as good as money, because at all times it 

 would (ommand money. Many a fine estate has 

 been made in that city solely by the cumulative 

 increase In the value of real jiroperty. This 

 uniform |)ermanence and stability in value has 

 been the cause of that constant investment of 

 capital which has so much promoted the growth 

 of the city. Dwelling houses, stores, nieclianics' 

 shops and warehoiise.s, to their owners have been 

 the source of steady income, ami the great en- 

 terprises of converting water into land and erec- 

 tins upon it additional buildings have been coii- 

 tinnally going on. 



Some thirty-two or three years ago the project 

 was set on foot of a new business street between 

 Court street and Cornhill which met nearly at 

 right aiiiiks: this pi'oji;ct, .■mother wonder of the 



city whii-li i! <:-'i -ind Mie down the Old 



North thil - ; 1 - ■\ lis 111- ciiinterpart of 



the Old I'm ' I ii'il II .-;iliMi(liil avenue 



for busiu: i,^ III \'. I,..; .. iiuiv called .Market street: , 

 the land of this street was purchased, and the J 

 blocks of buildings upon it were built with I 

 money hired on a long or |)erpetual lease from i 

 Harvard University nt five per c<!nt. aniinal In- 

 terest. Previous to the ini|iiovements of that 

 day, almost the sole avenue to the market from 

 the north was out of Back street into Hanover, 

 and from that through Union street diverging 

 into two branches by the Boston store : another 

 way finther east was by the .sl,ip yard all around 

 the North end into Ann street. The entrance 

 from the South was in the single avenue fi-om 

 Roxbniy over the Neck, embracing several names, 

 Cornhill, Marlborough and Newbury streets, &c., 

 very properly now changed into Washington 

 street, because it is one continuous and direct 

 avenue. So much has the city extended upon 

 and near the Neck, that, besides the "six sub- 

 stantial bridges and remarkable Mill dam," there 

 are three several great avenues to the city upon 

 and adjacent to the Neck; and all independent 

 of both the Providence and Worcester Railways, 

 either of which there is more daily ingress 

 and egress than there was over all the avenues to 

 the city thirty years ago. 



Extended .-is is the city pro)ier at every point, 

 the suburbs on either hand unite at this lime 

 nearly as large a population as the city itself. If 

 we uiiite the city of Boston to South and East 

 Boston, a point of the main land and an island 

 recently built upon, we take the places around it, 



