6trritson, VubtisD
NATIONAL ANNIVERSARY
LOCVST HILL.
Y . CORRESP ONDE2i CE
- Loecsr aux, July bth,:1338.
E:..P:" WILMOT :- 7 ..Deur Sir :—Will you be
so kind as to favor us with a copy of your Ad
dress of July 3d, for publication%
Yours with highest osteem.
"A. IiVILMOT,
B. R. TUTHILL, Committee
WM. smnn, -
• GREAT BEsn,luly sth, TB5B.
MESSRS. VT ILMOT, TUTHILL AND SMITH
have just Teceived, your Tequest for a copy of
my address for PubliCation: here it is.
Yours, &c.,
E. F. witmoi.
• - ••lAAitea 4$ it .
Delivered at the celebration of our NafiOnal
Anitivemiry, on .Locust Hill, July ad, '5B. -
-
. . • -By--
E. F. WILMOT, - M. D. ' • _
•
- FELLOW .CITIZENS :—Tlie eighty-third year
of our Nation's 'Anniversary is now' dawning
upon us. Thseroll of the muffled drum, the
-deep boom of cannon, the shouts of countless
thousands bt enthusiastic hearts, .greet this
sacred morn, that. ushers in a Nation's conse
crated holiday.. The bird of Liberty:has
spiread,its pinions to the breeze with this morn
ing sun, and proudly , flaps its wings in its
liquid rays-; throughout this vast confederat
ed empire,from the lakes on the north, to the
watrfion the south, from the A tlan tic . on the
east,to the Pacific on the-west,does one geoeral
thrill of enthusiasm- prevail, and actuates the
sons of liberty, with patriotte.zeal to look back
epon the transactions oftheCongrexsassembled
.in Philadelphia eighty two years ago to day;
and he who could not ] commingle in the
general festivities of this d'ay, .who does not
. feel the patriotic fire run - through his;
and thrill his inmost soul, who is not-proud
on this. day to own himself as son,
i•, unworthy the proteetion of the American
flag. When tyranny fell before its. victim,
s erlien proud oppression sank beneath the
wronged. ' %hen.. the- sullen lion quailed
beneatli•the eagle's geze;tis meet to celebrate.:
The Fourth' of July ia bonnected with cir
cumstances momentous in their nature; then
Ni, as signed the Declaration of Independence,
a step that gave birth to scenes, and conflicts
lone, and bloody, : which bathed.our fields in
blood, and stained our lakes and seas, with
human gore. -To the period of the Resolution
that gained our independence, 'and for which
we have this'day met to celebrate, let's turn
our eves, for it affords a theme of eulogy fit
for the poet's _tragic song or artist's pencil.
s That gteat struggle for freedom is doubtless
1t one of the most interesting events that
g s le Iles on modern hi,ton's page. We see
feel4e colonies,without atmies,without navies,
" without revenue, without itilleencee abroad,
or power at_ home, boldly stepping d forth to
meet a powerful and vindictive foe, .proud
in lierstrength, and gloryiree in her might,
0 u ,....,..,, not a war of invasion, led on 6. 7
some ambitions conqueror,who - s7oughtlo en
slave the world to aggrandize liiinself ; but a
war of right against,. wrong - aill violence; a
,war of freedom in oppeiSition to tyranny and
cpp - ession, a war in defence of.onr altars, and
our homes. Three millions of people, yet in
the
, gristle of boyhood ‘ ro-e against the iron
rtoe of Mother En,g),stelot-Temter thitt could
call into the field %' action tlirice twenty
times that number, Mad war, and carnage,
,mid battle's strife,. and all the horrors of in-
human massacre, through a summer's heat,
and winter's withering breath, they struggled
on.till'this maternal foe was from our borders
driven, and owned us conquerers ; struggled
on till our country's flag floated proudly over
.the latid,and waved in triumph over the seas,
and the, sun that arose. this morning has
gladdened the hearts of twenty-sir millions
of inhabitatts t happy in the enjoyment of free
dom,the rich boon- of freedom,vr.th no 'foreign
power to - awe,no mercenary foe to fear. This
prospect of our country at the present day is
indeed such as to call forth a Nation's pride,
and cause the deep lunged cannon to raise
the shout of triumph, as the stare anti stripes•
float proudly 'above us, waved by each breath
of heaven. When we--contrast. the present
glory of our country with her beginning, the
mind is filled with wonder, and the account
seems armost incredible; Three and a half,
centuries ago, and this. , vast western coati
- neat, embracing fifteen millions_ of square
• miles, was never heard of by the. civilized
world. Th - e - s - ame •sup that arose upon us,
this morning in his golden cats then rose and
sat- upon. this land, pursuing his 'trodden
-pavilion of glory along the skies. -The same
mountains hills and that this day tower up in
grandeur among the clouds, then lifted up
their heads toward the sun and received their
light frOtn"hiin. The same waters that wash
our coast the streams and rivers that roll
in sullen grandeur to their'ocean homes, paid
•tribire then, as - they do now, to the king of
- aay,t bey were heard mid storms and tempests,
as the God of the -wind and waves rode -in
_ grandeur upon their bosom. The same moon
and stars that. shine for us, looked' forth then •
from their place in the heavens upon the path
of the dusky, warrior,- as in nature's . garb, be
wended his way along- his nocturnal haunts
with stealthy tread!-invoking the aid of tlj
great Spirit and the .shades of-his depAred
fathers,to enable him to gloat in the blood of
his enemies..:- Here rose the dense towering
forest of trees and rocks, on, on it, ipread,
Over bill,and valley, over mountain and plain,
- one broad, dark wilderness, that never, ad
mitted the sun to kiss_. he „ground, or light
the sullen gloom. Here was beard the war
cry of the brawny
s savage, as he joined in
bloody
. grapple with his deadly foe; here
4 rose the echoing whoop,; the -cry of victory,
the Tell of the vanquished:foe, as be laughed,
at death in the face of his enemy, and chant
ed the death ballad of his sires, as wills bow
and
.euieer he passed to - the bunting ground
of the peaceful dead; to•drink the royal mend
of!glory,frons ;be skull of his enemies in the
preeende of the gieat spirit
,and shades of his
departed fathers., Here blazed the coulicil
fires of chiefs and sachems, here' curled the
smoke of peace.. But ail these have passed
i away I when the great waters were gone over,-
when the immortal Colutnbue• landed `upon'
1 the shore's of this western - world, before un
known, then faded the- powerful' Itribes of
Indian warriops; and fell like the leaves of ex
piring tketuron r when they wither at the north
ind's -breath, is it, blows among their
t'•ranchea. Where curled the smoke of their
\iir
wigwams, now has sprung up, as if Dy magic,
tthe 'crowded cities ,that rear their turrets,
towers,and monuments among the clouds,and
from their dizzy heights look down on towns
walled great and high,- frowning like Thebes
with her hundred gates in days of - chivalry
and blood. Where lightly glanced the,bark
canoe, nowploughs the ocean steamer with
glow. Strength and pride,as it plunges through ,
the main, and sends its whistling shriek like
the yell of a spirit lost, to herald its
comiug-
But one bandied:years ago, in this very
place where. we have - this day Met to cele
brate, rose the black; dark, digital forest, in
which the panther's shriek, and eagle's cry
rose in dismal chaos, and the ravening wolf
howled - his midnight dirge, where the wild
. thytne,.and ivy their tender - branches round
the hawthorn's top- for ages twined unseen,
unnoticed by mortal ke n; where these things.
were a'bundred years ago, now stretches out
your fields with their golden harvest, now
spreads your Meadows enameled with the
choicest tirades and flowers, now smiles your
gardens with 'their delicious dainties ! for
the breath of civilization has bread:tell upon
our borders, the sullen waves of error's. night
have rolled back into chaos, the angel of
peace, and mercy smiles on us now, shedding
a joyouts_haio o'er the land; that lights the
gloom of nature's night, and gladdens every
heart. The: history of the United States
since their revolutionary struggle is•indeed
without a parallel in the history of nations,
and has taught the world this grand political
lessonahat oppression Weakens the oppressor's
power, that tyranny is doomed to fall before
its victim, that Heaven will frown upoii in
justice,and in the issue grant succe s s to those
who war against its powsT. The meager stim
of three milliohs,•ahat joined in the holy war
of Independeoe, bare in eighty-two years
increased to twenty-six ! The thirteen' feeble
States that *tippled in the mighty struggle
'for freedom, have increased to thirty-two.
No longer timorously flutters the bird of
liberty along...the Atlantic coast, -but with
one wing in the Pacific ; and the other in the
Atlantic, the proud eagle hovers o'er us n.iw,
viewing the world with piercing ken. Louis.
iana, ferias and New ':kiesico she has taken
under the protection of her wings, and Cali
fornia, with her golden sands. Upper and
Lower Canada ate moving- to the sh e lter of
bar plumes, and the vast, empire of Mexico,.
with tier- diamond beds. Two bloody wars
a ith foreign powers have
, proven her invine
ible at home and abroad, and thcse,..joined
with her naval triumph on the ocean wave
has emblazoned her name on time's royal
scroll, as the mightiest empire in the world.
She, our Country that eighty-two }ears ago,
hid scarcely a ship at sea to call her own,
now from Maine, to Florida, from Oreg on to
the southern seas,'along the lakes and rivers
that bear uperaft,now rise the-erowded cities,
with' arbors literally filled with ships that'
rear their Masts ibove like dense forests of
pines, Upon' the wide ocean. now ride her
fleets and navies, her flag floats proudly from
every seaport town, as she commands the
commerce the world.- Two-third.
century ago, When the of steam was
womb of time, where the hackney
coach. pledded l its sloW way, and the Indian
traileould yet be marked, now thunders the
loco Motive with giant strength and pride,
over its twentv-six thousand miles of rail
road, and 'could we indulge a prophetic
clause, the time is shert, when the eastern
and western shores will be connected with an
iron band, when the wealth of the Atlantic
will be poured on the Pacific coast, and the
riches of the Indies be transmitted through the
great thoroughfares that connect the two
broad oceans, in - a single day's-time. Well
might the United „States be called "the che
querboard of America," onk account of her
numerous railroad tracks, 'and canals that ,
bisect her itrywhere. Aviay they ,stretch
like the giants magic arm,tbe burning desert
is no barrier, the mountain's dizzy height, '
obstruct them not. The N. Y. &E. R. It.
,can boast of being the longest in the world •
the great western canal almost competes wit h
the
the imperial in China, whilst the lightning
wire; and freedom of the press afford facili
ties for the conveyance of message, and diffu
sion of knowledge,unsurpassed by any country
that the old world can boast. Her numer
ous lakes and rivers are unsurpassed for navi
gation,a new era has dawned on agricultural
science, and is now beginning to be regarded - ,
!as it should' be, as the basis of subsikence,and
population, and the Parent of National
svealth. The arts and sciences are receiving
marked attention, faca:ries are springing up
in -every direction among us, and' bid fair,
soon to rival the old world in the manufac
ture of woolen and - cotton goods. The tide
of prosperity is-yearly flowing broader, and
deeper, giving new interest to, commerce,
energy to industry, vigor to schools and col
leges; a fresh impetus to foreign and domestic
trade, that in two-thirds of a century has
raised her name from poor, bankrupt Colo
-flies tea. mighty Republic swaying, the des
tinies,of the world ! Can you not mark the ,
hand of Providence in till this, and be led to
reflect that our. cause is favored of Heaven !
then on this day of national jubilee, let your
1 .-rejoicings be blended with Thanksgiving and
: gratitude to Him who bids empires yise and
fall, who rolls the world back into chaos and
calls the stars his own. So much . for the
bressinisi bf free institutions;_ for the effects
of republican government, where rulers are
the people's chnice, and the laws we rever
ence, we can call our own. No wonder that
the unexampled prosperity of the United
States should - excite the surprise and jealousy
of crowned heads, that threats of invasion by
a foreign power should be greeted with roars
of laughter—from the American Congress,
when she was. menaced in the name of the
Austrian Cabinet,
,a power that of itself and
•aids commands • a hundred million stapled& !
Contrast repithlican America with Europe,
rotten, cankered, monarchial Europe, and she
sbines,with a double lustre, bringing into
light the axiom that all mankind are created
free ; and to acknowledge none as superior,
but the God. or their existence. - Monarchy
may keep up her standing armies to overawe
internal insurrection, and _sustain her might
with the sword, but cur strength and protec
tion lies in the ballot box, where the vote ofl
the poorest peasant counts equally with the;
richest peer, who rolls in luxury, and gold.l
From the first step of our country in the
wake -of freedem, the eyes - of the world were
fixed upon her, and no sooner was she settled ;
in government thin . her example was followed;
by nations in 'Europe, Central and South'
America, who pought to tbovi off the rule!
of kings, and ostabliSh a government like our
66 WE ARE ALL EQUAL BEFORE GOD AITD TUE CONSTITUTION."--laincs Buchanan.
gtontrini, Suzqueljanna Count a, ,Cfprsbag Darning, '4full 15_, 1858
lown. But anarchy, confusion, and internal
'strife have marked their Mil', and their faint
,
!efforts have proied like an incubus to sink
!them deeper in the pool of bondage. France
!has marked- a bloody drama in the 'epoch of
time's history. Her tray to democracy has
ever been slippery with the blood of her
choicest citizens, whilst:the cry " Republican
ism" has ever been,;4o:signal for the guillo-.
tine to commence its' of butchery, and
death: Mexico, ' Br asil, Bolivia, and the
United • Prorinees have put on the red cap of
ilßepublicanism, whilst the name Democracy
was never known only in 'mockery. But
(when you cast your eyes over these struggling
lerouire, and witness their pining and starving
;under a monarchial government, without
'knowledge of learning or books, and the.
mysteryis no longer a mystery ;' they are in
eapable of understanding the first rudiments
of civil government, or of comprehending the
plainest principle of democtley. Before a
nation can be left to self-government, she
must first be.enlightenened, and made tq un
derstand the dignity of the human mind, the
work of reform must dawn upon her, blunting
'the animal passions for revenge and cruelty,
and bringing into active play, the more ten
,der sentiments of the mind. The syetem of
bornmon schools in the United States , is m
or
al lly and physically exerting an influence
mote potent than standing armies, armed to
the teeth -with steel and lead. The fall of
Popedom, the jingle of crown's, and the crash
of thrones in Europe, proclaim that 'the day
is dawning there, sweeping with irresistless
sway, the corruption of the past ages from
the ‘arth. No long er does superstition stalk
fortkin fatal strides, nor stilted ignorance '
hold an undisputed reign. The light of di-
Vine truth is beginning to - shed its halo of joy
Ind gladness over the world, illuminating the
ark corners of the land, and chasing Egyp
ian night into death's oblivious stream.—
he celestial messenger is seen flying...through
he air, like ¢ herald of ,peace and love,_pro-
!aiming liberty to the world. The wheels
f the ponderous car begin to move heavily
ilong. Jugarnaut'si victims are less fifequent, !
nd soon is the time when heathen gcils shall ,
e coined for cash, when the sword'of the
warrior shall cease to be dyed in the blood of I
is creature, when the sOlis — of`learliti4_shall
ally around the altar of science, and offer
hereon an intellectual sacrifice, which influ
nee shall be borne upon every gale, until the
ow heathen nations will commingle in the
eneral festivity, and t 3 rangy and oppression
booted_ from our globe! There may be
1 s
children sitting here who will one day rise to
khe head of the Keystone State. there may
e children sitting here whose vc.ices will one
ay be heard through the hAlls of Congress,
urveying the destinies of empires. - Let not
he mind grow weary' if in the first attempt
hie way seems difficult and steep, the pros
leeet gloomy, and clouds of ill forboding do
ather over the path. When the son first
..... ,
O ustre, his - ray' ses from the orient hills,liesb;-
r t, feeble
•.„..,, taint, and of languid
l
hues: 13,' ....3 he mounts up the eastern main,
arises at the meridian zenith of his glory,
end shines in his midday splendor, 'tis then ,
its rays are poured ini,fresh profusion,on tfie !
earth, lo cheer the vine, and raise the tender
shoot from the ground to become a mighty
iant among earth's sturdy sons. It is -from
lie little acorn that falls neglected on the'
distant heath, which none would stoop to
iotice, that the proud oak is teared, prince of
the forest that defies the gale, and the gentle
rivulet that at first c es down the gentle
!Undulation with f urtnur, o'er which
the sercade could -7nd the grasihopper
'tinde r goes on, till, with accumulated streams
it becomes a majestic river, upon whose wide
'bosom the loftiest ships do ride, the man-of
lwar does plough, and the distant wake of the
steamboat, greets the eye from afar. No !on
kel-Are the mysteries of learning locked up
n the cloister, and nunnery, no longer are
!they confined to-potentates, and prelates, who
would feign lord it over' us, and showing
themselves as " gods," display mock miracles
'to an igubrant crowd, but the days,of super
tition and error have passed away, the black
hains of ignorance are broken, the dark
hades of moral , night are over and gone, and
the bright sun of knowledge flames upon us
from his midday throne. Learning is not
now confined to the rich, the gay, the popu
lar, and proud, but the poorest plow-boy, or
the neglected shepherd's son may come and
bathe in the Pierian fount, the streams of
,which, make glad a thirsty spirit. When
.wet- think of an immortal Luther, who when a
youth, upon the cold and heartless world for
his support was thrown, who worked and"
starved to get an education, rising - from his
low depths of obscurity to stir up EMpires
with a goose quill, to shake the pagan world,
and make the Pope tremble upon . his pon
tifical throne, when we reflect upon a poor
piper's boy in the army rising to be the
the greatest among astronomers, when we
contemplale a Franklin, snatched from a tal
low chandler's shop to a seat among the no
bles of the land, wliose counsels were heeded
in the Senate chamber, and proclAimed with
enthusiasm through the balls of Congress,
who drew electricity from the clouds, and
played with the forked lightnings, who
helped to plant the tree of• liberty, beneath
whose wide-spreading branches, millions of
happy subjects now repose, I say when we
reflect upon these things, it may not be in=
credible that there may be youths in this as
assembly, whose -minds, if brought to light
by the workman's polish;\ would one day
-shine like stars in the political firmament,
will help to guide the car of Liberty in its
career of greatness, and survey the destinies
c;f . empire. Knowledge, is indeed the - stone
of the alchymist, the chisel of the artist, the
polar star to a nation's fame. Then, with
the motto, "God and Liberty" let Union for
ever, be inscribed on freedom's batmen—
Teach - this to yoUr children, and let your
children teach their children's children .-
1 stamp it on each heart, engrave it on each
1
' mind, write it in the skies. Then shall the
sectional division of north, and south, be a
name forgotten, then shall our glorious Un
ion be preserved from internal -strifes, and
broils, and wars; then shall the 'political fir
=maments ever be arched with the rainbow of
peace, and a halo of joy and gladness rest
] over the land.
tff" A 'young lady, who wore spectacles,
exclaimed in a voice of sentimental entbusi
ams to a young plowman who was walking
along this road : "Do you, sir,-appreciate
the beauty of that landscape 4 Oh, see thoef
dayling.sheep and lambs I"
"Them's hogs, mise,"was tha stentorian reply.
The New-Nevin Hay.
BY CLLARLES M,EKAY.
When swallows dart from cittage eaVe:4, -
And farmehb dream of bane' sheaves ;
When apples peep amid theleaves,
And w (..odbines scent the way—
We love to fly from daily me, -
To breathe the country's btutem air—
To join our hands and form t ring—
To laugh and sport—and duce and sing,
Amid the new-mown-haps
A stranger comes with eyes of blue;
Quoth he, " I'm Love, the young and true";
I wish to pass an hour with you,
This pleasant smuttier day."
" Come in! come in ! you filmy Gli ! [self."
And who's your friendr —" Friendship's
" Come each, come both, our sports to share;
Thire's welcome kind, aad room to spare,
Amid the new-mcvn hay.
The rin g is formed; but who are - these ?
"Cometell your errand if you please ;
You look so sour.and ill at ease;
You dim the face of day:" -
" Ambition!" "Jealousy!" foci Strife I"
And "Scorn t" and "Wearitess of Life
" If such your names, we lute your kin;
The place is full, you can't come in
Amid Ole new.mown hay."
Another guest comes bouniing by,
With brow unwrinkled, fairand high--
With sun-burnt face and roguish eye,
And asks your facet° stay.
Quoth he, "I'm Fun, your right good friend !"
"Come in ! come in ! with you We'll end !"
And thus -we frolic in a ring—
And thug we laugh. and datec, and sing,
Amid the new-mowi hay.
NortEurst--Tahe it trier
region;
THE rich auriferous deposits recently dis
covered in the basin of the Frazer River, and
its vicinity, must soon oereise an influence
in-that region and the North American Ter
ritories, at preseut little understood and ap
preciated._ 'he immediate and unfailing,
tide of immigration that these discoveries will'
stimulate from Europe aid the United States,
and concomitant to it all those positive in
terests which are sure to find permanent
lodgement must add will remove any specu
lation as to the rapid growth of the North
American Territories, not only those lying on
the Pacific- but the entire northern tier—say
Minnesota, Uacotah, Nebraska and Washing
_
ton Territories.
New zeal and vigilance 'will be aroused on
the part of _the inhabitants of Oregon and
Washington' Territories, and practical and
minute explorations be made, to ascertain the
extent of the new found "El Dorado." It is
not unreasonable to infer that gal(' exists in
abundance in Washington and Oregon; if so,
then a new era dans, upon the Northern
Pacific States; if cold is folind to
1: to the British ""e
effect upon the growth of these Territories
may 'not be immediate, but wilt not be less
positive and controlling. The near approxima
tion of - such deposits will-induce immigration
to the rich and 'arable lands that are watered
by the Columbia River and its tributaries,
and ere many_ years will: the Eastern imroi
gratiOn meet its counterpart upon the plains
of Northwestern Nebraska. The link •of
communication, material and social, will
then be cemented between the northwestern
settlements of the Atlantic and those of the
Pacific. If the past growth of the northwest
is a criterion for the future, then surely the
entire area of land lying between Lake Su
perior and the Pacific Ocean, and beunded
by the 49th degree of north ;atitnde, will be
divided into States, and thou States admit
ted into the Union before 1810.
Since the-year 1848, the Stites of Wiscon
sin, lowa, Minne s ota and Oregon; of the
northwest,shave been added to the National
Gallery. The Territories of Nebraska, Da
cotah and Washington have been recognized
as rightful children, and the piotecting arm
of a Teiritorial government now invests, them.
Minnesota was admitted at the last session
of Congress, having been endowed with the
munificent bounty of Fix millions of public
lauds, for the purpose Oenablingser to corn
pletelhe contemplated lines of railroads within
the State. Energetic efforts are dready be- .
irig made by her people, to commence these
projected railroads, and the State his pledged
its faith to the amount of five millions, to
aid these enterprises. •In five years. will the
maiu lines, north and south, and - east and
west be completed, or so tar adverted, as to
insure their 'completion.
The northern line extends as hr 'up as
Pembina Settlement on the Red Rivtr. The
character, of the entire country from ' the
bead-waters of Lake Superior to the eastern
slope of the Rocky Mountains, alternates be
tween prairie and woodland, rich, ara)le and
easy of mature, unsurpassed in • beentiful
streamlefa and picturesque lakes. 411 the
cereals attain great perfection, and escilents
return the husbandman far larger yield than
almost any other part of our land,. Erten
sive beds-of iron and coal are known tosxist
in the Valley of the Red River.
Erroneous impressions prevail as tothe
temperature and character of this nortlastst
ern region, notwithstanding accurate sorter
and elaborate scientific reports respectingits
climate, soil and capacities have been male,
not only by Governmental officers but relia
ble travelers.
The estimated superficial area of Mime
sota, NebTka, Oregon and -Washingon
Territories is 810,559 square miles. Tte
average altitude of the country is far less that
other body of Ihnd of the same magnitude up
on this continent, well watered, well wooded,
generally level, dotted all
_over with small
lakes and living . springs capable of supplyin_
a 'dense population.
We shall speak more particular Minne- .
sots, "Northern- Wisconsin and Northern
Michigan.
In 18,49 Minnesota was organized as a
Territory, and the number of inhabitants in
1850, as per return of U.S. Census, was 6,077.
Including the six counties of Northern Wis
consin and five counties in the Upper Penin
sula of Michigan and -we have a population
0f.0n1y_8,586 souls. 1n.1805 naVigable emir
nection. was made - by the comPlelicrit and
opening 'of the ship canal at the Saut Ste.
Marie. Thereby that vast inland sea, Lake
Superior, was opened to commerce and its
peaceinl triumphs. Anterior to that period,
none but a few small craft that were trans
ported by land around; the rapids of St.
May's navigated this lake. — Now regular
lines of splendid steamers ply regularly be
'tweet) Cleveland, Detroit and points en Lake
Superior; also, a line of steamers from Chica
go, besides a large number of first. class-pro
pellers and sailing craft.
So trifling was the tunnage Engaged on
Lake Superior in 1850, that no mention of it
is made in the able report on the-Colonial
trade, prepared by 4. D. Andrews.....,
Last year there was engaged tunnage
of not less than 20,000 tuns.
The transportation of the iron and copper
ore from Marquette and Ontonagon, find
employinent for a large number of vessels.
Most of the copper and iron ore is sent• to
Cleveland, Detroit, k'ittsburg and Toledo,and
from there sent in a manufactured state to
.the Eastern markets.
Probably there does not exist upon this
continent or elsewhere such prodigal deposits
of these metals as lie upon the south shore
of Lake Superior. The water area Lake
Superior is 52,000 square miles ; 355 miles
in length, atd IGO in. width ; the largest
sheet of fresh water on •the face of the globe.
Its surface is six hundred feet-above the level
of the Atlantic Ocean, and its bottom is three
hundred feet below the level of the sea. Its
mean depth is estimated at nine hundred feet.
The most..capacious and accessible•har bare
are Grand Island, Marquette, Capper Harbor,
Eagle River llarbor♦ ; Lappinto and, Superior.-
The first in order from the eastern end of the
lake is Grand - Island Harbor, known as,Casii
Bay, in honor of our present distinguished
head of foreign affairs,who-,in company with
Schoolcrstft, visited this locality at -the time
the General was Governor of the Northwest.
In the very able and accurate report, made
by Schoolcraft of the,. route west, he alludes
to Grand Island Harbor WI unsurpassed; and
this report has been confirmed subsequently
by Government reports.
In the spring of 185'1, a town was laid
out on Grand Island Bay, called 'Munising,'
signifying, Grand Bay in the Chippewa vet.
nacular. A communication was opened be
tween this point and the head waters of Like
Michigan,distance being but thirty-five miles
front lake to lake ; and by Which a circuitous
navigation by the way of the Saut Ste. Marie
Canal is avoided—and some 'three or four
hundred miles is saved.
This new route will soon attract the entire
travel and light freight business oft pper--11-
linois and -Eastern Wisconsin. Cleveland
and Detroit are contending most earnestly
for the control of the Lake Superior trades,
and thereby a rival*. between, Chicago and
these points been fastened. -- Thradtantages
of this short cut is so apparent and -essential
to Chicago, that the construction of a Rail
road•across this dividing land of thirty-five
miles is a fixed fact, for Chicago merghants
recognize do obstacles when their interests or
city can be promoted, and within a year - or
two an iron link will be forged to connect
these Island seas—Lake Michigan and Lake
Superior.
Marquette, one' of the oldest and most
thriving- towns, is situate Tony-five mites
from Munising West—the focus of the iron
interest and the port of transhipment of. the
ore. The mines, or rather mountains, lie
twelve to twenty miles distant from the lake.
This place was laid out some seven or eight
years ago, and now numbers fifteen hundred
inhabitants. Considerable eastern capital
has been invested in tle minesmikßtherwise.
- Copper Harbor is situate atilllrhorth ex
tremity of a peninsula, called ICeweenaw
This harbor is small but peifectly
landlocked. Several copper mines,- owned
andmorked by French and British capitalists,
are in its vicinity.. Fort Wilkins, one of the
most northern outposts, and famous only for
its beautiful situation, is located some three
miles from Copper Harbor. It is but a few
years ago since this locality was disturbed
by martial Music, and the wild carousal of a
restless soldiery. - Now the old barracks hive
been transformed into a hospital and resort
for the invalid.and pleasure seeker.
This Fort was established to quell the bob.
ligerant Indian tribes that inhabited the
northern peninsula and Northern and West
ern Wisconsin._ The goddess of peace and
good-will reigns now with undisputed sway.
May•this region never know warsdesolating
tyranny.
Ontonagon—the principal point of the
transhipment of Lake Superior Copper—is a
flourishing town of about 2,000 inhabitants;
the 'harbor, an open roadstead, difficult of
access during a- storm.
• Laponte, an old trading post, is situated on
Madeline, the largest of the Apostle's. Islands,
about ninety miles from the west end of the
Lake ; has a most eicellent harbor, deep, ca
pacious, and affords absolute shelter to ves
sels. Oppo.site, on the main land, is the town
of Bay field, of some 2001nhabitants. At the
west end of the Lake is another capacious,
safe and easy harbor in the Bay or Superior.
In 1854 this point attracted the attention of
some parties residing at St. Paul, and was
surveyed and a town laid out called Superior.
The public mind soon became impressed with
its great natural advantages, and now there
are over 2,500 inhabitants in the.C,Onty.
Its growth has been unparalleled ; for the
land was surveyed by the Government in
1854, and in :lime, 1858, the number of
housed was 408, with churches schools and
all the essential comforts of, an old town.—
Situated at the extreme end of Lake Superior,
but sixty miles from the Mississippi, and one
hundred and fifty miles from St. Paul, nearly
two bundred.miles further west than Chicago,.
and not more than fifty miles forth& distant
from - New York, with a region as easy of cul
ture, rewarding the farmer as abundantly as
on the continent: 'A climate that has no su
perior for its uniform temperature and
oratinginvig
effects.' The State of Wisconsin pro
vided for a railroad from St. Pau! to the
head waters of the Lake. Froth this point
the entire northwest must seek a water out
let. The railroad now laid out and provided
'for by the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin,
-- n
the distribution of the public lands foi
,allroadipur poses, all recognize the important
tearing ,this point must exercise upon the
1
tade of the northwest. Its relative geo
gaphical position and advantages are pre.
ei:ii nem, rind the conclusion is irresistable teat
alarge and important city will have its seat
a the west-end - of the AmeriCan Mediter
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iiiean.— NI Y —News. _ _ _
',uzza DISEASES.-A wine glass frill of the
joie of fresh, green hoarbound, taken every
moOng in a half pint of milk, bas in many
iistOces completely eradicated Consumption
in i( first surges. Flannel should be worn
nextle skin, and spirituous liOors avoided
whit using this remedy.
The Bull and the Bees.
BUT LOVEGOOD'S LATEST ADVENTURE
I got about a fox squitril skin oie Wed
corn juice undei my But, an wur aimin for
Bill Kar's on foot, and when I got in site of
ole - Burns', I seed nigh unto fifty bosses s and
mules hitched unto his fence.. It wur Sicily's
weddin. She married Clppshaw, the sukit
rider; the same feller ho's faith fsin at when
he met. me :Lakin soda. • -
Now ole Burns had a big black and white
bull, with a ring in his hose .and the bridle
tied up round his horns. They rid Lim tu
mill. and sich like, with a saddil make °utei
dog wood, forks and clap boards, and kivered j
with ote carpet, rope girth, and leather stir
rups for the foot. Ole Sock, as they called
him, had jist got. back (rem the mill, and
wur turned into the yard, saddil and all, tu I
pick grass. I 'wur slurgin roan too, outside
the house, for they haddent axed me in when
they sot down to eat. Sock - hosed round till
he found a big baskit whiCh hilt sum shatter
ed koria,• an he put in his bead tu git it. I
slipped up au jerked the bandit ever his horns.
Now, George, du yu know the natur of a
cow brute? Theys the-durndestlools ove all
(alleti„septin the Lovegoods,)fur when they gets
inter tsibulation they nos _nothin but to shut
thur eyes, heifer, and back and keep backin.
Well. when tile Sock found himself in dark
ness, he raised his bed and made wun lunge
agin the house that shuck the daubing out,
then he fotched a beller that wont a bin
beam a mile, and then sot inter an onendin
sistim Of backin. A big *craw fish wur no
war. Fust agin wun thing, then over another,
among.which wus the bee bench, an a dOzen
stands ove bee.. This knockin down their
bench fotched out all the bees fitin mad ; the
whole ar war MI ove em, ready to pitch inter
'eny thing that moved. The house sot outer
slopin growl, and the yard door war even
With bit; so Sock jist backed in cinder a.
dubble head of steme, a blowin dna a basylin,
and OA leader (Are the biggist army ove bees
I ever seed at wun time. They filled the
baskit, they lodged unto his tail till hit war
as thick as a waggin tung, and strate up in
the ar at that, lookin sorter like a ded pine
kivered with ivy. They wur in sfac all over
him, and at work with all their mites, a makin
_him feel good and hot, an improvin his
temper mitely. Ove all the durned times ye
ever hearn tell ove, was thar and tharabouts.
He cum tail fust agin the ere two story Dutch
clock and fotched hit, bustin the innards outen
13;ts; the little wheels wur all over the "ffoor.
The next pass he foich'up agin 'the foot ove a
big, doubil engine bedsied an rated hit on eqd,
punching one of the posts through the glass
winder. The, next tail rust expedition wur,
agin a katakornerect cupboard, what soon
kotched darnation. He smashed 'the glass
in, upsettin hit, and then storriped everything
cater th'i shelves all to giblets, a tryin tu
backfurder is that direckshun. Pickil krocks,
preserve jars, vinegar jugs, seed bags, yarb
pa. , "5 , , , . ; 1.6 btatil,, isig
def, were all mixed darned permiskusly, and
not worth n Bonin by about a dollar and a
half. Next he got a fair back across the
rums agin the bord pertishue; be went
thru like hit had been paper, an tuck about
sirfeet square of hit inter splinters an scraps
with him intu the rume what they were eaten,
an now the -fitin ove bees, an dancing an
dodgin begun.
Clapabaw's mam wera,deaf as a del-iron,
and sot at the send of the' table next tu war
Sock burst_ through the wall; tail end on he
-cunt again her cheer, hiten her and bit outer
the tabil. Now the squalin, an cussin„ an
smashin of things, an mixin ove vittils begun.
They, had sot several tabils to make it long,
enuf, so he jist rolled em up a top ore one
anuther. An that sot ole ,Missis Clapshaw a
straddil ove the pile, a &in. bees like unto a
mad windmill s with het: caliker cap in who
hand - fur a wepon, and a cruet frame in,
tutber, an a kicken like she war ridin a lazy'
boss atter the doctur. Taturs, cabidge, meat,
supe, sop, dumplins, an thd.truck you wailer
em in, milk, plates, pies, and every durn fain
yu cud think of in a week; were that mixed
and smashed like hit had been thru a thrashin
masheen. Ole Sock kept a backin; and back
ed the whole pile, ole Oman and all, with
five or six other bee titers and tfew cheers,
-outen the big dove, and .clOwn sev n steps in
ter the lane; an then he torned a fifteen hundred
pound summeiset hisself after em, and lit a top
ove.all the mixed up mess flat on his back.
About the time he.got to his feet, ole man
Burns—you know how fat, stumpy and cross
grained he - is eny how—made a ma& snatch
at the baskit ao kotched hit„ but cudnet let
go qUick enuf, for ole Sock just bldwed;
belleree an bisted the ole feller, heels lust, inter
the ar, and he lit on ole Sock's back and hed,
the—. basktt in his band. .list as soon as ole
blackey cud see, be tore off down the lane
(tryin ,tu outrun the bees) so fast that ole
Burns was a feared to try to get off; so he
jist socked his futs inter the rope -stirrups,
and prepared hisself fur the durndeat fast bull
I ride mortal man or omen ever had..
Sock tuck down atween the hitched - hosses
an rail fence, and ole Burns a fiitin him over
the bed with the baskit-tu stop him, and then
fain the bees. I tell ye he kep that baskit a
moving. I'll jist be durned of I didn't think
be bed - four or five baskits. I cud see that
many at oust ; .well, Burns, baskit and bull,
scared every durned boss and mule loose from
the fence, sum obsarvin bees a stoppin in each
wun to help him start fast from the unquiet
and troublesome place. Most on em, tuck a
fence rail with em, fast onter the bridil rein.
Now I'll jist give you leave to kiss' sister Sall
if ever fiat a site wur seed, ur sieb nises
hearn as wur Li that long lane. A monstous
cloud of dust, a harykane hed cum along, an
hid the bosses;
,and away above bitse cud
see the bosses' tails and end ove fence rails
living about, and now and then a pair of brae
bine shoes would flash in the sun like two
sparks of fire, and away abed war a baskit cirk
lin roan and about at random. A beep of bryin,
sum nickerin, the bellerin ove the- bull, clat
terin ove running hoofs, end a monstrous rush
ing sound made nit' the nise. I sway ole
Burns kin beet eny_mtin on yeartli fitin bees
wit a-bask-it. Jist set him a staddil of a mad
bull and let thar be plenty ove bees so as tu
excite the ole man. Stray bosses and mules
were tuck up all over the country, -and 'fa
Icadent go a mile _Ray —tours and not find
- Stirrups, un sumtin belongin tu a
ridin boss.
Now about that house•that war. , a good
time ginerally. Fellers and gals loped outen
the dors in bunches,. they alum the chimney,
they hid under the house, they tuck to the
thicket, they rolled in the wheat field, lay
down in the kick, and sum tuck it out in
fotumt 15 ) 1 'Num* 20.
. ,
good ole runuin tohrds home. Sicily, 'shit -
squatted in the spring up th her yeais, and -
while' she was droivoin the mess •ove beeS
under hur coats, I went to 'bur, sea I, "Y.Ou've
got another sensashun, haint ye!"-"Oh, Sur r _
the bOminnble insex, they're jist burnin me
up I" "Gin em sody," says I, "in broken
doles—that'll cool e?n off."e She shot fire at •
me outen hers ey4 and thought I best go:
Clapahaw crawled in a chaff pile in the.haria :
and tuck hit out in sighin and grdanin. Thai'
warut an oman or gall at that at weddin'
hitt Whit thar atockin, an frocks war too tits
Cur two or three days. Bees am Wus'on
folks env how, far they
em. Ove all the darned
ilins that has happened
that ole gall who was so
ti_3c an eatin appils, donn
:a Sicily BOrns and Par.
;the durndest, wust wan;
breakin things, akarer; •
fashun ovo spirit. They
and Oat; got too bad a .
witmnin than men
hey a fairer chance a
misfortunes at wed
since Adam married
fond ore talkie to sn'
till now, that won
son Clapshaw's wus
fur nise,disappointm‘
trubil, hurtin and ye
wont gee together,
Start..
stin now how ole Burns
e, and how I cum to du
of runnin. • I'll tell you 1 ,
body axes.arter me, tell
Erin, on my wa% to Dalt- . -
em will kilA e if they
Ye paint time to I
finished his bull rid:
bat lofty specimen
Ef eny
bat agi n
em I'm over iri -Fan
onega, fur sum ore
ketch the
itIT.---A few nightssince,
bung male friend of ours,
2r having his nervous $.44-,
•ved by the information,
If his" great-grandfather,
:portly - become a potter
.s in his first comfortable
:in sound in the ciirec
rolim awoke bins. Ile
s , noise. still continued—
raps of the spirits on the
DECEIVING :Sri
within this week,ay,
yeti red to rest, ufte
tem partially •destrO
through the spirit y
thatlie should very I
ful medium. He svd
snooze, when a tiell
tion of the door of ti
listened intently,, tb
very much like the
tables, indeed.
"Who's there I"
- Thetis was no at
continued.
• "Anybody there
No answer.. _
. "It must have bjt
himself. "It must l
any rate. (Aloud.)
the room it will sigil
that's not what I me
this room will it vapi
inwer, lie queer !Wise,
';n a spirit," - said be td
le a medium: I'll try•at
If (here is a spirit in
,ify it by sayintr
.an. If there's a spirit ia
three times V' . •
in the direction of the
Tined different La
bureau. ,
"Is it the spirit o f
- No answer.
my sistar : ~,,
"Is it my mother " • •
Three raps.
"Are you happy I" , -
Nine rape.
"Do you , want forlanythingl" -
A succession- of kiwi raps. .- . .
"Will you give nau...a communication if I
get up !" I ..
No answer. -
"Shall I hear from you- again to-morq •
:ow !" I'i •
Raps very loud in the direotion of the .
door. . •
"Shall I ever see owl"
The raps came fro the - oub..ide of the door:. '
He waited long fo an antiwar to his • last
question, but none came. The spirit 114'
gone,and after,thin ing on' the extraordinary -
visit, ke turned over and fell kqeep. '
On getting up in the morning ho found
that the spirit of his mother .had carried off
his watch and purse—his pantaloons away
down stairs into the largo hall, and his-great
coat alto
A Qu.s. l!dectitin- ..
ic's Free .kl 3, con
tains the ._.._ ~ng suvc..._ —, which ii
says is copied frbni . a Eats Dayton (Ohio)
paper. It keine' dint greater inducements
were held out to bachelors thirty years ago ;
to enter into the bonds of matrimohy, than, .
are presented in-this progressive age •,
TAKE NOTICE I- lijah Slider a Minister
p
of the Gospel, wish to inform the publio
that he has the au • arity to solemnize•mar
riage, from the ye r 1821, in March, and
desires a part of the patronage. If they - wilt
grant him their cosqnn,lie promises to marry
for One dollar,' if net taken more than five
miles from home, oil seventy-five cents at his
house. He- will be found one mile from
Dayton, on the Cincinnati road, Jefferson
street. Also, the riaid Slider will pay the
highest price for linen and cotton 'Ana de:
livered at'his store, zither in Goods or Cash.
Assuming that rags were worth five cents
per pond at Oaf time, for twenty pounds a ,
linen or cotton cast off garments, two happy
hearts might be uni ed in the silken bonds •
of Hymen. •_. --
lEir 'Good' morning, Mr. Perkin.. .
va
you. some etcellit. mulasses No mud':
Our excellent mu aski.s are all ont., but• we,
some fine old St. Fleming°, . some Ne'w Or
leans, some West Engine, and a sort of mu - .
lasses w Bich is made frommaple sugar, and
which we call reerirtip."Want to know,
Mr. Perkins, if' thisis.eryup is acterly made
from maple stie:fir.' pledge you my word:
of bonor,Mrs. llornby, that it is acterly made
from .the genuine tird's eye maple sugar,'.
Then, Mr. Per-kins, I shall not inteirogatoxy
any more, but without further circtimcutiori
proceed 'to purchase 'half a pound of seerynp' --
.Beg pardon, Mrs. 11Jrnby, we don't sell it by
weight, but by mearr r ire.' 'Oh, by measure
then I'll take half ti yard !" (Evident sett ,
sation troughout theinstitution.) •
zi t A Schoolmaster in a town of' Here,
figdahire, not. havik sufficient employment
as a pedagogue, engitge4, to collect a lamp
P
or lighting rate: s success war not such
as the parish could' !wish ; and on the over--
seer looking.over thei books,therfound several
names to which the letters '0 P.' bad I?een
attached. Inquiry being made of the col
lector, as to the meaning of the caballistie
fetters, his answer las, on't pay. •
A CIIILIA Omuto,
burg schools, not k.
committee asked the!
moats under exaniinat
of the saltness of,
girl raised her head,
ery which had flash
may tell," kaid the
flab, sir;" said the
.—ltt one of the Harris
,
.g ago, a member of tho
mmo:thus_ of a class-which
LOll "What is The cans
e Ocean ?" One little
idwith the disomr
i d upon her Mind. "You
committee -man. "Salt
f'devil" 'agives differebt
1 ,
ster. Ho sny--"Things
ndows for young ladies
men froinbelliod off,"
. .
SIIIITTERB.- • Our '
definition from Wel'
placed in front of w
to peep mt the gent)