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24 Telescope Lincoln had defeated Peter Cartwright to win election to Congress. A presidential election between Lewis Cass and Zachary Taylor was approaching, and Lincoln had some Taylor speeches to make. He ended his tour in Boston and started for Springfield, Illinois. On the way he visited Niagara Falls, then went to Buffalo and boarded the S. S. Globe....and here we come to a series of facts not so well known. Most biographers know that Lincoln left Buffalo on a boat, but its name or where he left it was not known until the Abraham Lincoln Association discovered a letter in the Illinois State Historical Library and published it in 1944 in a volume of letters Concorning Mr. LincoIn. Levi North, a Kewanee, Illinois lawyer when Lincoln was President, wrote Lyman Trumbull, "-Mr. Lincoln may remember that in October 1848, he came around the lakes on the steamer Globo, and that he and I had a debate for two days on that trip...". Historians have generally written that Lincoln left the boat at Toledo or Detroit and traveled to Springfield by rail and stagecoach. Mr. North said that Lincoln and he "came around the lakes," which seems to square with other known facts. Lincoln left Buffalo September 25; ten days later, on October 5, he was registered at the Sherman House in Chicago. The schedule of the Globe on that trip can be traced in the Dotroit Proo Pros* and other contemporary newspapers. In the Proo Proto of Friday September 29, 1848, it was found that the Globe, "enroute Buffalo to Chicago," had "reported" at Detroit. In the issue of Saturday the 30th., the Proo Proto prints this obscure paragraph, and upon it hangs the nub of this story; "THE CANADA ASHORE ----- This noble steamer in going down the river on Thursday night ran ashore on Fighting Island quite hard, and was there yesterday when the Globe came up. The night was exceptionally dark...". But who gives a hoot about the darkness of the night of September 28, 1848, except that its happenings throw white light upon another fragment of the Lincoln story? We know that Lincoln was aboard the Globe when it passed the stranded Canada, and it seems reasonable to assume that he must have seen the efforts being made to refloat the latter ship. A sketch of Abraham Lincoln's plan for buoying vessels over shoals, filed with his application for patent, March 10, 1849. Dotroit Historical Society Bulletin.