The Demo ratic Watchamn.
BELLE:FONT E. P . , A
tN A GARRET
Thls realm in enema to the silent past,
Within in drowsy shades are I reasures
rare
Of dust and dreamn;—the yearn are lung,
slues last
A stranger's foot-fall pressed the creaking
stair
This remit no housewife's tidy hand
And here, like some strange presence ever
cling.
A homesick smell of dry, forgotit.n herbs—
A musty odor as of tnoulderinK II ings.
II ere stores of wither.' root 4 and leaven re
P. OO .
For hafielettNlrtnes rowed m dap: of yore—
natherAd with thoughtful care, rnayhap by
those
Whose earthly' Ills are healed ' forever more.
Cert. shy Arsehne wind. her cradle.. thread,
And weaves her olMen tapestry unseen,
Veiling the rough-hewn timbers ot c rhead.
And looping gossamer festoons between.
Along the low Joletr of 1110 ',loping roof
Moth-eaten garmente hang, II gloomy row,
Like tall, fanta•ue gliome4 whir h Htsinll aloof
Holding grim r•onverae Ivith 1110 long ago
Here Ile remembrances of eldl.lll.lt Joy.
fair3...torie., conned and conned again
A htwile and n bean of battered toye.
iieloYed by babes who now are bearded Me a
Here In the mummer, nt n brnki n pane,
The oeilow eetTle In, and buzz nod
build
A monk the rafter. ' —wind and ello , Yr And MITI
.A II enter as t h e are ril!hile.l
rhiti 17111 , 1ellfed I•he 4 t I.ollllgh the 1 Itirmtvy
holds,
(Id letter., anti
',how
The fr01...1 ph....te. on the tattered fold.
WWIZ k 'writer.. Or lent - eet—e Ito may
krt.. •
1 turn n png.• like who n.•rim.•.
And hit c + and et ri
gret•—
A tre•ii of cheat nut hair—it love I rn rh. MO
And fragrant dust which onec wan whits.
I wonder if the •rnnit, •leek naon•r•, that •hnp
His winter Dent between (hens Illirged
be•m•,
Ws• lisspter ID+ let Man 11n41 and (Irsp-
With the. bright warp and woof uf out NO
dream.
Here. where the gray, ineeepiant PpliiPt" Ppm
Shrouding from view the "molly world out
lode
A golden tuirotde hee hag blundered
Lo And !opt the way to Itherty, and died
So the lost present 11 rop. Into the peat,
So t h e 10/141 . 171 11i1IIK 11 , 11,1, 11110 1011 , t h e
F1111(11/11,rhntt -
he unresponsive darkness , test
V. Iveh 111111, Time's buried mysteries from
Why roll these shtel.tres or (heir N 11,4,1 u..►t,
Ixt the thiek colirieloi hide the flay lOW,
Lea,. the dead yea, to Pi anti to Bunt,
And t lone again the I. , rig unopened
Ed/ Zabel A Aker. A ilen, an Scram, 's ifooth/v
for March
KENTUCKY IN CONGRESS
Hon. J. P. Knott's Amusing Speech on
the St. Croix and Bayfleld Railroad.
Mr SeIIAAVA If I should lie acme
Led 6 - v ana conevivable inducement to
..ttrav the haired trust reposed in me
tlio-e, to w hose generous confidence
I our indebted for the honor of a neat
on this floor it I could be influenced
by an. possible consideration to be
come instrumental in giving away, in
violation of their own wishes, any por
lion fft their interests in the public do
noon for the mere promotion of an)
railroad enterprise whatever, I should
certainly feel a strong inclination to
gist this measure iny most eitmeel fool
hearty mopport. for I am ammicred that
eureeK. would mntermllt enhance
the peconotry prosperity of 1401111. of
the
I=l
I. lire on earth ; friends ior w Luse nr
C 0111111 0 ,1411 0 11 I wOll.l he willing to
make almost too sacrifice not insole
ing Inv personal horror or toy fidelity
as the trustee of any express trust
And that fart of itself ‘oitild he star;
(nem to counter, ati almost any oilier
tion I might entertain to the passage of
this hill, nut inspired by an tappers
five and inexorable sense ul public
duly.
Rat, independent of the Nedoetive nl
Iluencee of privute triembdop to which
I 11.111111 I RIII, mil.eepulde Hal
aril nt the gentlemen I ace mom,' me,
the intr mem menu; of the meatinre.itt.ell
al wiell 1111 extritordinary character
k commend it in 41.1 Slrongly to the
favrirable cotiniderlition of r‘ery 1110111
be: 11 thin Honor, itiyeell not excepted,
itot,,thninfiding lily
'done I kill acting here
w ou ld not he benefitted by its !waive
one particle more than they aould In
by' a project to cultivate Nall ontkrige
grille on the bleakeet sun% mit uf (rhem
land it icy nuluuuuul.
Now, air, as to those great trunk
-- hnem ot railway, spanning the cowl
n ci
neat trout ocean to ocean, I voni• nay
mind lota never been fully rn e up
It is true they may atlord motile fling
advantages to local traffic, ani they
may e, en ill time become the channels
of a more extended commerce. Yet I
have neuer lwen thoroughly satisfied
either of the necessity or expedieticy of
a privet promising r uck meager remults
to the great holy of our people. But
with regard to
THE TRANFCENDINT MERITS
of the gigantic enterprise contemplated
in this bill 1 never entertained the
shadow ol a doubt. (Laughter.]
Years ago, when I first heard that
there was somew here in the vastlerra
somewhere in the bleak re
gions of the great
,Northwest, a stream
of mater knows to the nomadic inhabi
tants ol tile neighborli - oisi as the river
St Croix, I became satisfied that the
construction of a railroad from the
raging torrent to some point in the civ
}lard world was essential to the happi
ness and prosperity of the American
no' absolutely indispensable
to the perpetuity of republican institu
tions' on this continent. (Great laugh
ter). 1 felt inetinctiVely that the
bout rid less resources of that
PROLI10; RIWION OF SAND AND I'INR
811RILIUDKRY
would never be fully developed without
s railroad constructed and equipped at
the expense of the Government, and
perheps not then. - (Langhter). I had
an abiding presentiment that, some
(lay or other, the people of this whole
country, irrespective - IV party affilia
tions, regardless of sectional prejudices
and "without distinction of race, color
or previous condition of servitiuhr,"
would nee in their majesty and demand
an outlet for the enormous agricultural
;productions of those vast and fertile
pine barrens, drained in the rainy sea
sons by the surging waters of the tur
bid tit. Croix. (Great laughter).
These impressions, derived simply
and sorely from the "eternal fitness of
things," were not only strengthened by
the interesting and eloquent debate OD
this bill, to which I listened with so
much pleasure the other day, but in
tensifled if possible, as I read over this
morning the lively colloquy which
took place on that occasion. I will
ask the indulgence of the house while
I reit'
A FEW BIIORT PASSAGES,'
which are sufticieift, in my judgment,
to place the meritS of the great enter
prise content plate+-inj.he measure now
under discussion beyond all possible
controversy.
The honorable gentlemon from Min
neBota (Mr. Wilson), who I believe is
managing this bill, in speaking of the
character of the country through which
the railroad is to pass, says this .
We want to hate the timber brought
to us as cheaply as possible. Now, if
you tie up the lands in thou way, so
that no ride can be obtained to them--
no settler will go on these lands,
for he cannot make a living --you de
prive us of the benefit of the timber.
Now, sir, I would not %have it by
any means inferred from this that the
gentleman from Minnesota would in
Cl MI ate that the people out in his sec.
lion desire this timber merely for the
purpose of fencing up their farms so
that their stock may not wander off
and die of starvation among the bleak
lolls of the St. Croix. (Laughter). I
read it for no such purpose, sir, and
make no such comment on it tiiself.
In corroboration of this statement of
the gentleman from Minnesota, I find
this testono . py given by the honora
Itlp gentlemen from Wisconsin, (Mr.
ashburn) in speaking of these same
lands he says .
Under the 1011, as amended by my
frigid from Minnesota, nine tenths of
the 'awl is open to actual settlers at
*2,50 per acre; the remaining one
tenth is pine-timbered land, that is not
lit for settlement, anti never will be
settled upon ; but the timber wilt be
cut off. I admit that it is the most
valuable portion of the grant, for most
of the grant is not valuable. It is
quite valueless, and if sou put in this
amendment of the gentleman from In
diana you may as well Just kill the
bill, for no Mall gild no company will
take the grant and build the road.
I simply pause here to ask sonic
gentleman better vented in the science
of mathematics than I and to tell me if
the tonberlayda are in fact the must
valuable portion of that section of
country, and they would be entirely
valueless without the timber that is on
them, what the remainder of the land
is worth -vhieli has no timber on aat
all (Laughter.)
But further on I find a most enter
tainting and instructive interchange of
news between the gentleman from Ar
kannas, (Mr. Rogers,) the gentleman
from Wisconsin, (Mr. Wasliburm) and
:be gentleman froth Maine, (Mr. Pe
tertid 111011 the subject of VIII' 1a1141.4
generally, alnch I %ill tax the Ntitetit e
of the 1101Ise to 11:1141 .
••Mr. Rogers Will the gentleman
allow me to ark hill) a question ?
•'M r Wa.hburn. °I Wisconsin -- Cer
int lily.
"Mr. Rogers Are these pine lands
entirely worthless except for timber?
Mr. Washburn, of Wisconsin—They
are generally worthless for the other
purismes. I am personally tamilltar
with that subject. These lands are
not valuable for purposes of Settlement.
''Mr. Farnsworth—They will be al
ter the timber is taken oil.
"Mr. Washboritiof Wisconsin—Nu,
"Mr. Hogerb—l want to know the
character of these pine lands.
"Mr. burn, of WISCOIIBIII-
They are generally sandy, barren
land. My friend from the Green Bay
41intrict (Mr. Sawyer) is himself per
reedy familiar with this queetion, and
will bear me out in what I eay, that
these pine timber lands are not adapted
to settleiurut
1:0 ; :ers -The pine lands to
which I sin to usil /Melt are generally
very good. What 1 want to know rs
what is the difference tetween our pine
lands and your pine lands.
"Mr. Washburn, of Wisconsin—The
pine tinaier of Wincunrrn generally
grown upon barren, sandy land. The
gentleman from Maine Mr. Peters,'
wWb. is familiar with pine lands, will, I
have no doubt, say that pine timber
grows mostly upon the most barren
lands.
'M r. Peters—As a general thing pine
'mle are not worth much for culti
vation. And lurther on I find this
pregnant question the Joint product ion
of the two gentlemen Irons WISCOIIBIII.
'Mr. Paine—Doee iny friend front
Indianti suppose that in any event set
tlers will occupy and cultivate those
pine lands T
'Mr. Washburn, of Wisconsin—Par
ticularly without a railroad 7.
'Yen, sir, 'particularly without a rail
road.' It will be asked after awhile, I
am afraid, if settlers will ggb anywhere
unless the government b Use railroad
for them to go on. (Lang t )
I desire to call attention to ily one
mope statement, which I thin
eufß
cient to settle the question. It is one
made by the gentleman front Wiscon•
sin,(Mr. Paine,) who says:
"Phese lands will be abandoned for
the present. It may be in some remote
period there will spring up in that re
gion a new kind of agriculture which
will cause a demand for these particu
lar lands ; and thee may then come
Into use and be valuable for agricultu
ral purposes. But I know, and can
not help tbinkiri'g Thai nay friend from
Indiana understands, tiled for the pres
ent, and fur mauy yea.* to oom gj these
pine lands;can have neo; possible value
other thah that arising from the pine
timber which stands on !Jinni.'
Now, sir, who, alter listening to this
emphatic and unequivocal testimony of
these intelligent, ()competent, nod able
bodied witnesses, (laughter,) who that
is not as incredulous as St. Thomas
himself, will doubt for a moment the
Goshen of America is to be found in
the Mindy valleys and upon 010 pine
clad hills of the St. Croix ? [Laugh
ter.]
WHO WILL HAVE THE HARDIHOOD
to rise in his seat on this floor and as
Bert that,excepting the pine bushes, the
entire region would not produce vege
tation in ten years to fatten agrnsshor
per? 14lreat. laughter.l Where is the
patriot who is willing that his noun
try shall incur the peril of remaining
another day without the amplest rail•
road connection with such an inex
haustible mine of agriculturill wealth !
Laughter. Who pill answer for the
conserptences of abandoning a gireat and
warlike people, in possession of a coun
try like that io brood over the indifliT
once and neglect of their Government?
lLaughteri flow !clog v,oold it be
before they would take to studying the
Declaration of Independence and hatch
ing out
1111. I,IMN A ?
How long before the grim 11( . 1111/11 Or
V I di cord %%mild rear again his hor
rid head in our midst, "Qatili loud his
iron fangs and shake hut crest of brig
thing bayonelgr I Laughter I
Then, sir,think of the long and pain
ful ptorems of reconstruction that must
fulluty ttith 118
I=
I=l3
the seventeenth, eighteenth and nine
teenth articles. The sixteenth, it is of
course understood, is to be appropria
ted to tho , e blushing damsels who are,
day after day,beqeeeliing 119 to 111
rote, hold offices, drink coehialls, ride
astraddle, and do everything else the
men do (Itoan+ of laughter.) But
above all, sir, let me implore 3011 to re
fleet for a moment on the deplorable
condition of our country to case ot a
foreign war, with all our ports block
ailed, all our cities in a state of serge,
the gaunt specter of famine brooding
like a hungry vulture over our stars
mg land , our commissary stores all ex
liana d, and our famishing armies
I=l
in the field, a helpless prey to the in
satiate 341411011 of hunger; our navy rot
wig in the docks for the want df pro
visions for our gallant seamen, and we
without any railroad communication
whit, ever with the prolific pine thick
eta of St. Croix. (Great laughter.)
Ah, sir, I could very well understand
why my amiable friends from Pennsyl
vania (Mr. Myers, Mr. Kelley,and Mr.
0 Neal) should he so earnest in their
support of this hill the other day, and
if their honorable colleague, my friend,
Mr Randall, will pardon the remark,
I will say I considered Ii criticism of
their action on that occasion as not on
ly unjust. hut ungenerous I knew they
were looking forward with the far
reaching ken of enlightened stateman
allip to
==
=I
will be left unlesa speedily Pupplted
%still railroad connection in souse way
or oilier wuh this garden spot 01 „the
un i% erme. ( Laugh ter.) And besideti,
sir, this discussion Gas relieved my
mind 01 fl m y stery that 1188 weighed
upon it like an incubus for years I
could never understand before why
there was eu much excitement during
the last Congress over the acquisition
of Alta Vela. I could never under
stand why it wan that some of our
ablest staiesinen and most disinterest
ed patriots should entertain such
=I
of the untold calamities that were to
befall our beloved country unless we
ebould take immediate possession of
that desirable island. But I see now
that they were laboring under the mie
taken impression that the Government
would need the guano to manure the
public lands on the St. Croix. (Great
Laughter.).
Now, sir, I repeat I have been antis
lied for years that it Ahem waenny por
tion of the inhabiteki, globe absolute
ly
LN A 8L /VEILING CONDITION
for want of a railroad, it wan theme
teeming pine barrens ut the St. Croix.
(Laughter.) At what particular point
on the noble stream such a road should
lie commenced I knew wan immaterial,
and no It tieems to have been consider
ed by the draugbtnnuti, of thin bill. It
might be up at the spring or down at.
the loot-log, or the water-gate, or the
fish dam, or anywhere along the bank,
no matter where. (Laughter.) But in
what direction it should run, or where
it should terminate, Were always to my,
mind questions of the moat paint ul per
plexity. I could conceive of no place
on green earth' in such strait
ened circumstancem for railroad facili•
Lien as to be likely to desire or willing
to accept suck a connection. (Laugh
ter ) I knew that
NEITHER HAYFIELD NOR SUPERIOR erry
would have it, for they both indignant
ly P pureed the munificence of the Gov
ernment when coupled with such igno
tninious conditions, and let this very
same land grant die on their hands
years and years ago rather than sub
mit to the degradation of a direct com
munication by railroad with the piny
woods of the fit. Croix; and I knew
that what the enterprising inhabitants
of those giant young cities would re
fuse to take would have few charms
for others, whatever their necessities
OR cupitAity might be. (Laughter.)
Hence, as I have said, sir, I was ut
terly at a loss to determine where the
terminus of this
ORLAT AND INDISPIONBABLE ROAD(
should be, til 1 accidentally over•
heard some is entlennen the other day
Mention the name of 'Duluth.' (Great
laughter.) Duluth. I 'Cho words fell
upon my ear with peculiar a and intle
soribable charm, like the, gentle mur
mur of a low. fountain stealing/grth
the midst of roses, or the soft, s,eet ac
cents of an angel's ,whisper in the
bright. joyous dream of sleeping inner ;
cence.
DVIA TII I
"rwas the name for which my soul
had panted for years,as the heart mull
et!) for the water-brooks! (Renewed
laughter.) But • where was il.hiltilli ?
Never, in all my limited rending, had
my vision been gladdened by seeing
k id,
the celestial word in print. d I felt
a profounder humiliation in )y igno
rance that its dulcet syllables i nev
er before ravished my delighted ear.
(Roars of laughter.) I was certain the
draughtsMan of this bill had never
heard of thiB, or it would have been
designated as one of the termini of thin
road. I asked my friends about tt,but
they knew nothing of it. I rushed to
the library and examined all the maps
I cotild'find. (Ltiitliter ) I discover
ed in one of them a delicate, hairlike
line, diverging from the Mississippi
near a place marked Prescott, which I
supposed was intended to represent the
river St. Croix, but I could nowhere
Lind
ENUOM
Net ertheless, I was confident it ex
isted somett here, and that itn discovery
would constitute the crowning glory of
the present century if not of all mod
ern times. [Laughter.' I knew it was
bound to exist in the vCry nature of
things; that the symmetry and perfect
uon of our planetary system would he
incomplete without it irenewal laugh.
ter; I that the elements of material na
ture would long 8111 Ce havQ resolved
themselves hack into original chaos it
there had been such a hiatus in crea
tom as would have resulted from leav
ing out
1/0131/3
I liiiars of laughter. In fact sir, I
ions overwhelmed with the conviction
that
MEM
not only existed somewhere, hut that
wherever it was, it wax ft great and
glorious place. I was convinced that
the greatest calamity that ever befell
the benighted nations of the ancient
world was in dieir having passed away
without a knowledge of the actual ex
istence of
;
that their fabled Atlantic, never seen
save by the hallowed vision of inspired
poesy, wac, in fact, but another name
fur
UI IA TII
that t he golden orchard of the If emperi
des was but a poetical synonym for the
beer hardens in the vicinity ot.
nut.rrn.
'Great laughter.' I was certain that
Ileepthatis4,4ll (tied a in uterulile death
bedause in all his travels, and with all
his geographical research, he had
never heard ul
DULLTIEL
Laughter I knew that if the im
mortal spirit of Homer could look
down from another heaven than that
crentesl by bin own celestial genius
upon the long lines of pilgriniz from
every nation of the earth to the gush
ing fountain of poesy opened by the
touch of his magic wand, if he could
be permitted to behold the vast as
mutt-binge of grand and glorious pro
ductions of the lyric art called into be
tug by his own inspired strains, he
would weep tears of bitter anguish sisal
instead of lavishing nll the stores of
Lis mighty genius upon the fall of
I Ilion it had not bee, his morelbleseed
tp,erymtalize sti lest Ii less song, the
rjeirig glories of
IMMO
(Great and contitmed laughter.) Yet,
sir, had it not been for this map, kind•
ly furnished me by the Legislature of
Minnesota, I might hate gone down to
my obscure and bumble grave in an
agony of lespair, because I could no•
where find
MEINEI
(Renewed laughter ) Ilad such been
my melancholy fate, I have no doubt
that, with the last feeble pulsation of
my breaking heart, with the last faint
exhalation of my fleeting breath, I
should have whispered, "Where is
IJI LUTHr
[Roars of laughter., But, thanks be
to the beneficence of that band of min
istering angels who ha%e their Lright
abodes in the far-off capital of Ithrine
sota, just as the agony of my agziety
was about to culminate in the Frenzy
of (Impair, this blessed map was placed
in my hands i and ae I unfolded it a
resplendent scene of ineffable glory
opened before me, such as I imagine
burst upon the enraptured vision of
the wandering peri through the open
ing gates of Paradise. [Renewed
laughter.] There, there, fol. the first
time, toy enchanted eye rested upon
the ravishing word
"DULUTII."
This map, air, is intended, as it ap
pears from its title, to illustrate the
position of
DU LUTLI
but the United States • if gentlemen
will examille it, I think they will con
cur with me in the opinion that it is
far too modest in its pretenaione. It
not only illustrates the position of
DULUTH
in the United States, but exhibits its
relations with all created things. IL
even goes thrther than this. It lifts
the shadowy veil of futurity and affords
us a view of the golden prospects of
IhULUTH
far along the dim vista of ages yet to
come.
If gentlemen will examine it they
will find '
MIMI
not only in the centre of the map, but
represented in the centre of a series of
concentrk circles one hundred miles
apart, and some of them' as much as
four thousand mites in diametot, em•
braeing alike in their treMendous
sweep the fregradt . siarannas of the
sunlit South and the eternal solitudes
or snow that mantle the icebound,
North. ( Laughter.)--Sow these circles
were produced is perhaps one of those
primordial mysteries that the most
ekillfnl peleologist will never be able
to explain. (Renewed laughter.)—But
the fact is, sir,
DULUTH
is pre.eminently. a. central place, for I
am told by gentlemen who l have been
so reckless of their personal safety as
to venture away into those awful re•
pions where
I)ULUTII
is supposed to be that it is so exactly
in the centre of the visible universe
that the sky Cornea down at precisely
the 'satiric duitanct all around it. [ Roars
of laughter.
I find by reference to this map, that
EIBEECI
is situated somewhere nepr the western
end of Lake Superior, bur as there ism)
dot or other mark indicating its exact
location I am unable to say whether it
is actually confined to any particular
spot,or whether "It is just lying mound
there loose." Itenei‘,4l4.tigliterd I
really cannot tell whethet it 18 one of
those ethereal creations of intellectual
frostwork, more entangible than the
rose tinted clouds of a summer sunset ;
one of those airy exhalations of the
speculator's brain which I am told are
ever flitting in the form of towns and
cities along those lines of railroad built
with government subsidies, luring the
unwary settler as the mirage of the
desert lures the famishing traveler on,
and ever on, untirlit fades away in the
darkening horizon or whether it is a
real, bona fide, substantial city, all
"staked off," with the lots marked
with the owners' names, like that
proud commercial metropolis recently
discovered on the desirable shores of
San Domingo. F Laughter].
But, however, tl t may be, I am
satisfied,
Del.l,
is there, or there abot , for 1 see it
stated on this map th L it is exactly
thirty-nine hundred and nine miles
from Liverpool llaughter,l though I
have no doubt for the sake of conveni
ence, it will be moved back ten miles,
so as to make the distance an even
four thousand [Laughter.)
Then, sir, there is the climate of
DULUTH,
unquestionably the most salubrious
and delightful to be found anywhe i re on
the Lord's earth. Now, 1 have always
been under the impression as I presume
other gentlemen have, that in the re.
gion around Lake Superior it was cold
enough for at least nine months in the
year to freeze the smoke-stake off a lo
comotive. [Great laughter.] But I
see it represented on this map that r.
MINE
is situated exactly half way between
the latitude% Of Paris and Venice, MO
that gentlemen who have inhaled the
exhilarating airs oh the one or basked
in the golden sunlight of the oilier
may see at a glance that
MEE
must be a place of untold delights
[laughter', a terrestrial paradise, lan
ned by the balmy zephyrs of an eter
nal spring, clothed in the georgeoum
sheen of ever blooming Ilovvers, and
vocal with the silvery melody °filature's
choicest songsters. ( Laughter.) In fact,
sir, since.) have seen this map I have
no doubt that Byron was vainly en•
deavoring to convey some faint con
ception of the delicious charms of
1 DULL TII
When his poetic soul gushed forth in
the rippling strains of that beautiful
rhapsody-,
"Know ye the land vs here the cedar and vine,
Where the flower!, ever blossom, the brains
ever shine,
Where the light wine of Zephyr, oppressed
with perfume,
%az faint o'er the gartienn of (Jul in her
Idnern.
Where the eltrun end nitre nra (street or (Nit,
And the VOW., of the nighing,ao rover Iv
mute ,
Where too tint, of the earth arid LllO 111111 1 , 1
the x4y,
In color though ntrital, to beauty may vie 7"
[Langli her.'
A 8 to the commercial resources ol
MEE
eir, they are mituply illimitabk and in.
'ti II IS 'Mown by this
miti, I it stated here that there In
a % K .] it territory, embracing nu
are Xll 11, r Iwll nilllwn , 4111.4.1.
, 1,11 in c%cry I .“111. 111 10.11,
rut! wealth and .400 rend prieqierity,
all tributary to
MBE@
Loo at ii, nir,(pointing to the map)
Here are inexhitioutble mines awn ,
immeasurable veins of ',liver, impene
trulde of boundless forest, vast
-, wide extended plains of
richest pitstiii,age, all, all etnbraced ut
this vast territory, which must, in the
very nature of things,, empty the un
told treasures of its commerce into the
lap of
=MI
[Laughter.] Look at n , sir, (pointing
to the wish] do you not see from these
broad lines drawn around this im
menee territory that the enterprising
inhabitants of
MEM
intendersonte day to inclose it all in
one vast coral, so that its commerce
will be bound to go there whether it
would or hot. (Great Laughter.) And
here, air, (still pointing to the toap,J 1
and vi ohm ft convenient distance the
PieKui 11/ 41,1110, which, of all the
many accessories to the glory of
DULUTH
I consider by far the nioet inestimable.
For, sir, I have been told that when
the small•ppx breaks out among the
women and children of that famous
tribe, as it sometimes does, they afford
the fittest subjects in the it orld for the
strategical experiments of any enter
prising milittory hero who desires to
Improve himself in the noble art 'cti
war, [laughter;] especially for a ny
valiant Lieutenant General whose
Trenchant blade, Wed° tritely,
For want of lighting has grown rusty,
And eats into lemon for lack
of somebody to how and hack
(Great laughter.)
Sir, the great conflict now raging in
the Old t World has presented a pheno
menon, in the annals of . mankind, a
phenomenon that has reversed all the
traditions of the past as it has dump.
pointed all the expectations of the pres
ent. A great and warlike people, re.
nowned alike for their skill and valor,
have been swept away before the tri
umpliant advances of an inferior foe,
like autumn stubble before a hurricane
of fire. Aught I know the next flash
of electric tire that shimmers along the
ocean cable may tell us that Parisovith
every fiber quivering with the agony
of impotent despair, writhes beneath
the conquering heel of her cursed in
vader. Ere another moon shall wax
and wane the brightest star in the cal
axy of nations may fall from the ze-
Lith oilier glory never to rise again.
Ere the modest violets of early spring
shall ope their beauteous eyes the ge
nius of civilization may chant the wail.
trig requiem of the proudest nationali
ty the world has ever seen, as she seat
teru c luitr withered rind fear moistened
tills o'er the bloody tomb of butcher
ed France. Rut, sir, I wish to ask it
you honestly and candidly believe that
the 'Dutch would have ever overrun the
French in that kind of style if General
Sheridan had not gone over there and
old King William and Von Moltke
how be bad managed to whip the Pie
gnu Indians. (Great laughter.)
And here, sir, recurring to this map,
I find in the immediate vicinity of the
Fiegans 'vast herds of buflalo" 1111.1
‘ll-11IIICTIRC fields of rich Wheat
(Here the hammer fell.)
Many cries, "Do on I (do on I")
The epeaker—ls there objection to
the gentleman from Kentucky contra
uing hie remarks? The Chair has
none. The gentleman may proceed.
Mr. Knott.—! was remarking
upon these vast 'whetcleighejele," repre
serge(' on this map in the immediate
neighborhood of the huflaloes and the
Piegans, and was about to say that the
idea of there being these immense
wheat fields 111 the yell heart of a oil
dernens, hundrege and hundreds of
miles beyond the nttiltret verge of civil
ization, may appear to some gentlemen
rather incongruous—as rather too
great a strain on the "blankke" M
veracity. But, to my mind, there 1.1
ere difficulty in the matter whatever.
The phenomenon is very easily Ile
counted for. It is evident that the Pie
pans sowed that wheat there and pion;
ed it in with buffalo bulls. ((deceit
laughter.) Now, sir , this fortunate
combination of buffaloes and Piegaris,
considering their relative position , i d
each other and to Duluth, as they arc
arranged on this map, satisfies me that
Duluth 18 destined to be
=II
here, you will observe, (pointing to
the rnap,) are the buffaloes, directly be
tween the Pieganm and Duluth, and
here, right on the road to Duluth, are
the Creeks. Now, sir, when the both,
Toes are ell fliriently fat from grazing on
those immense wheat fields, you see it
will be the easiest thing in the world
for the Piegans to drive them on down,
stay all night with their friends, the
Creeks, and go into Duluth in the
morning. (Great laughter ) I think
I see them now, fur, a vast herd of
buffaloes, with their heads down, tlo.ir
eyes glaring, their nostrils dilated,
their tongues out, and
TIIEIR TAILS OVER THEIR tinrkii,
tearing along towards Duluth, with
about a thousand Peigans on their
grass bellied ponies, yelling at their
heels! (Great laughter ) On they
come! And as they sweep past the
Creeks they join in the chsee, and
away they all go, yelling, bellowing,
ripping and tearing along, amid clowli
of duet, until the last buffalo is saltily
penned in the stockyards of Duluth
(Sluiuta of laughter.)
Sir, I might stand here for hours
and hours, and expatiate with rapture
upon the prospects of Duluth, as de
Fumed upon this map. But !minim
life is km short, and the time, of Owl
I louse far too valuable to allow rile to
linger longer upon thedelightful theme.
I think every gentleman on 01/II floor
in as well butislied an I ant that Duluth
is destined to become the cotioneri iii
metropolis of the iiiiivers?" and that
this road should I T built at once. I
am fully purist L l That no patriotic
ieprestintatiie ol the A Airman people,
lots a pro), r appreciation of the
associated glories of Duluth and the t.
Croix, will hesitate a moment to Fay
that every able-bodied female in Ole
land between the ages of IS and 45
who are in fan or of "women's rights'
should be drafted and net to work with
out delay. ( Hoars of laughter.) Never
theless, sir, It grieves my very soul to
be compelled to bay that I cannot tow
for the grant of lands provided lot iii
the bill.
All I sir, your can have no rollrel -
lion of the poignancy of my
that I am deprived of the blessed pro
ilege I (Laughter.) There are two in
superable obstacles in the way. In the
first place my oonstituente, for whom
1 am acting here, have no more inter.
eat to this roatlian they have in the
great question of culinary taste now .
perhaps agitating the public mind id
Dominica, as to whether the inner rion3
commissioners who recently left this
capital for that free and enlightened
republic would be better fricasi-i•- 1
boiled, or toasted, and in the ser.. , I
place these lands, which lam flaked 10
give away, alas, lire riot mine to beetm , !
My relation to them is simply that of
trustee to an express trust. And ehsll
I ever betray that trust? Never, sir!
—Rather perish Duluth I Perish the
paragon of cities! Rather let the
freezing cyclones of the bleak north
west bury it forever beneath the eddy•
lug sands of Lite raging SL. Croix !
A grave mistake.— Aceidetaidly
burying men alive.