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Letter from Chic ago--The IT. S. Agr -
cultural Fair.
Correspondence of rioneer and Democrat.
Chicago, Sept. 12,1859.
I arrived here this evening, just in time to
tell you of it; and mention something about
the crops, the frost, and drouth of Illinois
and southern Wi-coDsin. The rains have
been withheld from the just and unjust alike
in these localities, (if both kinds are to be
found there) and the great garden spot of
the world, as it has been termed, presents
much the appearance of a waste and with
ered desert. The frost cf last June cut
much of the corn to the sod, which set it
far back in its growth, and since that time
the rains have not visited here, and its pro
gress, as a general rule, has been slow and
sickly. Next came the severe frost of 26 th
August, sweeping whole fields, and leaving
the stalks as white and dry as you are ac
customed to see them through the snow
drifts of December. This complete wither
ing and whitening of the stalks is the al
most uniform appearance of the corn fields;
there are a few exceptional cases, however,
in which the corn presents very much the
same phase as in Minnesota, the leaves be
ing about half scorched, and the balance
green, and promising a moderate yield. I
should say from observation and consulta
tion that the average yield of the corn fields
of northern Illinois would not exceed six
bushels to the acre. No rain of conse
quence having fallen since the potatoes were
planted, they are perhaps the sorriest
crop of all, and their sad deficiencies most
deplored by the farmers- The potatoes will
average in size less than the English wal
nut. The scorched and feverish gardens
are anything but pleasing to the eye, and
the once greenest and most fruitful land on
earth, is now almost pastureless, dusty and
drear. The wheat and oat crops, though
well saved and sweet, are wanting in weight,
and the product less in quantity than last
season, but much better saved, and the
wheat will make much better bread.
This is an exciting week in Chicago.
Great preparations have been made for the
Seventh Great National Fair. The entries
in all departments are thus far said to be
very heavy, and it now promises to be the
greatest industrial exhibition of the kind
ever held in America. The city is rapidly
filling up, and the crowd will be immense.
The exhibition of stock will be a great
feature, large droves being on the ground as
early as Saturday last. The Fair grounds
are situated four miles from the river, in a
southeasterly direction, near the Lake, and
are said to be fitted up in a magnificent
style, but I will tell you more about them
when I see them. I notice a large delega
tion of St. Louis gentlemen, advertising in
pamphlet form and orally, the Great State
Fair at St. Louis, to transpire next week.
They are an enterprising go-ahead race,
those business boys of St. Louis. I may
make that point next week, and tell you
more about them. I amicipate the appear
ance of some specimen products of Minne
sota on the grounds, and will mention them
in due course.
Great men from all parts of the Union
are now here, to attend the Fair, as well as
a great convocation of the Moguls of Ma
sonry, to be held this same week. More
when I have a mind for it. H.
Tl»e United States Agricultural Fnlr.
Correspondence of the Pioneer and Democrat
Chicago, Sept. 13,1859.
I have just come from the United States
Fair Grounds. The cars go and return
regularly every half hour to and from the
Fair, seven in a train, crowded to their
utmost; and the Horse Railroad is con
stantly in requisition, with its sixty cars, for
the same purpose. The Illinois Central
Railroad track runs within twenty rods of
the Ground, and the City Horse Railroad
approaches to within about the same
distance. In addition to these facilities, is
the ordinary omnibus, hack and buggy
means of communication.
The enclosure has an area of about
fifty acres, surrounded by a high and firm
fence, through which light cannot penetrate,
and consequently, nothing can be seen of
the show from without. Around the entire
enclosure, on the inside, are stalls for horses
and cattle, and on one side, about five rods
from the fence, are pens and fixings of vari
ous kinds for the accommodation of swine,
fowls, and every living creature, in the rear
ing and culture of which the American
farmer delights to emulate ; and these stalls
pens, etc., numerous as they are, are all
well filled by the living creatures of the
enterprising yeomanry of sixteen different
States of the Union. The cattle and horses
are very fine, and the show will probably
far transcend in interest and magnificence
anything yet produced under the auspices
of the Society.
In the centre of the Grounds is the track
lor the exercise of the rapid stock, being a
circular street (very nearly a circle) bounded
by a large hempen cord drawn through
rings on posts about two and a half feet
from the Grounds. This track is half a
mile round, and kept well rolied and
sprinkled to prevent roughness and dust.
Oa the edge of th track is a neatly deco
rated and well arranged stand, similar in
location to the judges’ stand on a race track,
and opposite it, on the outer side of the
track, is an immense and well furnished row
of tents rising back, high and spacious,
from the ring. Around the circular track,
and a little distance from it, are arranged
large amphitheatres for the exhibition of
the various manufactured articles and the
specimens of all mechanic arts, as well as
paintings, embroidery, pictures of all styles
of art, products of the farm, of the work
shop, of sea and land and atmosphere, in
endless and ever pleasing variety.
The preparations by the Society for this
mammoth exhibition have cost the modest
sum of SIO,OOO, and it is a matter of regret
that the rival interests of the central cities
of the States should prevent the selection of
some spot where the Fair could be held for
all time to come, where permanent and en
during buildings and enclosures could be
erected for the perpetual use of the Society,
and thus obviate this great annual waste of
property.
The Fair was duly inaugurated to day by
a well written speech from the Society’s
President, who closed by a happy allusion
to Senator Crittenden, which introduced
that distinguished man to the multitude,
whom he addressed for half an hour in feel
ing terms, with pleasing reflections on the
bonds of union which bind together the
different sections of this great land, and
which these agricultural and mechanical
demonstrations are calculated to strengthen
and perpetuate. He finished by charging
us to cultivate the sentiments of brotherly
kindness and the relations of kindred to
kindred, as American citizens] of one lan
guage and one blood; avoiding sectional
ism of whatever name, that America might
fulfill, for all time to come, the ardent hopes
of the Fathers, who bled and died to inau
gurate the greatest governmeut on earth.
Mr. Douglas was then called to his feet,
by the most natural demand of the whole
people, and briefly welcomed the masses to
Chicago. He touched the great theme of
the Union of the States, and forcibly re
minded us that we of the West, on these
broad prairies drained by streams which
flow to the East and the South—to the
Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of St. Law
rence—should let our great principles of
American government follow these great
natural currents over all the land and ocean,
unsullied and unbroken by the blight of
sectional discord and ruthless fanaticism.
The Fair was then pronounced fully
opened, and the stock of cattle commenced
to travel round the track; then the horses ;
and in the afternoon the fast-footed coursers
exercised themselves right sharply, not as a
final splurge, but simply for exercise and
general exhibition of their foot.
I cannot now give you all the leading
features of attraction on the Ground, and
perhaps shall not accommodate you to that
extent at all; but I mu9t mention that our
own Minnesota is not entirely unrepresented.
I notice Mr. L. M. Ford, of Groveland,
with his floral products and his garden
specimens, all of which attract attention.
He was honored with several fine premiums
at the Illinois State Fair at Freeport last
week. There are also specimens of wheat
by the 100 bushels from Minnesota to con
tend for the great prize offered by the en
terprising grain merchants of Chicago. I
also notice a fine mare from St. Paul,
yclept “ Minnesota,” entered for a premium.
She has some pretensions of foot, and the
boys who curry her mentioned that they ask
no odds of the liveliest horses here, gathered
together ftom the choicest studs of the
world.
The Society must raise an immense reve
nue from their sale of admission tickets.
They get 25 cents for each admission each
day, aud two dollars is paid for annual
membership. All exhibitors are obliged to
become members. Then there are great
profits made from the Grounds by renting
stalls and places for refreshment; and there
are various other charges made, out of
which, all together, they will realize more
than the $30,000 required to fix the grounds
and pay the premiums. All kinds of side
shows are on hand near the Fair Grounds,
outside the gate.
These annual United States Fairs are be
coming national jubilees over the wonderful
achievements of science, of industry and
skill by the most buoyant, enterprising and
intelligent race of men that have ever lived.
Lettcr from Tamarack,
frogress of Becker and’Cavauaugh—Good Time coming
The Supervisor System Denounced—Strong Reasons
for Voting the Democratic Ticket for Reform—The
new Line of Railroad Packets'a Fizzle—Superiority of
the Galena Line—The Key City, Ac.
Wabashaw, September 16, 1859.
The political atmosphere is clear, and
ominous of a good time, which will make its
advent on the 11th day of October next.
The horoscope of the Democratic party in
dicates a splendid triumph of that glorious
old institution over the corruptionists
and repudiationists of the faction called
Black Republican, and all Gaow-ers of the
rank weeds of infamy and insurrection.
From all parts of Southern Minnesota we
have accounts of good meetings
attendant on the speeches of Becker and
Cavanaugh —such meetings as were never
held in those places before, or at all to be
compared with them as to magnitude, strict
attention to what is said, enthusiasm of the
people, their friendly greeting and warm re
ception of the distinguished men addressing
them, and a seeming determination to vote
the Democratic ticket, under the conviction
that their temporal salvation lies in the suc
cess of the Democratic party, and the crush
ing out of the vital spark of the Know-
Nothings and Do-Nothings who are banded
together by “ the cohesive power of public
plunder,” and dignified with the high-sound
ing title of the “ Republican party 1” Indeed,
so far as I have heard, the mission of
Becker and Cavanaugh has been a grand
triumphal march! May it continue, and
may they and all others on the Democratic
ticket be elected by such a majority as to
render the counting of the Black Republicam
ballots a mere matter of form I
I wish all the voters in the State to read
that part of the Democratic platform num
bered eleven, in regard to Legislative and
county exponses, wherein there is a pledge
of reform, and then go and attend the meet
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT.
ings of the county supervisors and see them
act. They will learn from two hour’s in
spection of their doings that reform is neces
sary, and as tie Democratic party is
pledged to reform, and the do-notbings,
know-nothings, care nothings and heed-noth
ings of the other party are not, they will
find it their duty, if they wish to be relieved
from burdensome taxation, which is followed
by no benefit to them, to vote the Demo
cratic ticket throughout.
In this ccunty there are eighteen Super
visors in the County Board, and the way the
treasury is bored by them is a caution to
prudent and economical men, particularly to
farmers, who at the present time are selling
wheat at fifty cents per bushel, oats at
twenty, corn at a trifle, and potatoes for al
most nothing. The per diem and mileage
of this Board for the last year were more
than SI2OO, but the service they rendered
was nichts cum arttus; the fact is, it has
never been estimated, and never can be.
Three county commissioners used formerly
to do all the county business, in a prompt
and effectual manner, for SIOO per annum,
or less, and they could be approached. But,
amidst the pulling and hauling of this little
county congress, no one can be heard; peti
tions for bridges or roads are laid on the
table, and confused debates carried on amid
“confusion worse confounded,” consume the
time of the body whose duty, according to
law, is “the dispatch of business,” and whose
privilege it is to “hold special meetings at
such times and places (anywhere in the
county, I suppose) as they may find con
venient, and to adjourn from time to time,
as they may deem necessary.”
It is thus that the people’s moneys are
swallowed up and no return received there
from ; it is for this reason that the taxpayers
are made to “groan and fardels bear” during
such a season of financial pressure as they
never saw before; —and now I say, let every
man that is a man and a voter go to work
and elect George L. Becker for Governor,
and secure a Democratic majority in the
Legislature—in short, go the whole figure—
vote the entire Democratic ticket, and give
the cruel system of robbing its quietus;
that is to say, let every man vote for the
party that is pledged to this reform—let the
nigger question go till we can save money
enough to “carry the war into Africa,” and
let the Black Republicans go with it till the
white people are able to protect themselves
against an institution which is good for no
purpose but to “harass them and eat out
their substance.” Men of Minnesota,
strike! Isay, strike!
The La Crosse Railroad line of steamboats
lately put ou is a failure. Two steamboats
called the Blackhawk and Keokuk—krack
boats, I presume, from the multiplicity of
k’s in their names—commenced running in
connection with the La Crosse Railroad to
St. Paul. The Blackhawk went by here
on Wednesday, followed two hours or more
by the Key City. I see by the advertise
ment of Mr. Hill in your paper that the
Key City arrived at St. Paul at one o’clock
A. M., on Thursday, and the Blackhawk at
five o’clock the same morning, making about
seven hours difference in their travel between
here and St. Paul—one hundred miles.
The Blackhawk left St. Paul the same day
at 8 A. M., and arrived here about one
hour ahead of the Key City, which started
at 11 A. M., three hours afterwards, the
Key City having on board over 100 pas
sengers, notwithstanding the opposition was
ahead of her all the way. The Blackhawk
was due at this place at 12 M. yesterday ,
but up to this hour, 2% P. M., has not
arrived. The Keokuk was due here yes
terday at 4 P. M., but did not arrive until
half past two this morning. She left St.
Paul at BA. M. The Milwaukee, of the
Galena line, left St. Paul at 11 A. M., and
arrived here at 8 P. M., same day, making
a difference of nine hours and a half in
favor of the Milwaukee—distance one hun
dred miles, as aforesaid.
Now, if this is the kind of opposition
that is to be carried on against the reliable
and favorite Galena, Dubuque and Dunleith
line, it will not last long; for they have
already run it in the ground and “failed to
connect.” I know of men who will wait
one day for the Key City, and who have
done it many a time and oft, because they
kbow she is swift and sure. In fact all the
boats of that line are to be relied on at all
times, and I am sure the people of this State
will not desert them to build up such an
opposition as has been commenced against
them. That celebrated line has been the
main stay of Minnesota from its infancy,
and it would be base ingratitude to desert
it now, to travel on boats which are aground
about half the time. Speaking of being
aground, the Key City has never had occa
sion to use a spar since she was launched—
three years ago. What do the opposition
think of that ? Let all true Minnesotians
stick to their old friends, and always go by
the way of the bridge that carries them
safe over.
Houston Comity.
Correspondence of the Pioneer and Democrat.
Caledonia, Sept. 13,1857.
In the last issue of that truthful sheet, the
Minnesotian, I find an account of a political
debate having taken place at Brownsville,
between ex-Gov. Ramsey, Messrs. Windom,
Donnelly and Goodrich, and our Senator,
Mr. Streetor. Mr. S., by permission, was
allowed to answer Donnelly, which every
man in the meeting thought was done to
his satisfaction. Goodrich then replied,
and interrogated Streetor, and with his
usual good sense, left politics and pitched
into personal affairs, for which he got sound
ly hissed, even by men professing to belong
to his own party. Streetor again got an
opportunity, and that was the last of Good
rich, or any of his party, speaking. They
left the meeting without adjourning or re
ceiving a cheer, and left Mr. S. speaking,
who, on concluding, was greeted with
thunders of applause.
The Republicans agreed to give Mr. S.
a chance to reply to them in Caledonia, but]
with the usual justice of the party, they
occupied the floor until 1 o’clock, A. M.,
and again broke up without an adjournment,
and even though they had agreed to give
Mr. Streetor an opportunity of replying
to them if he should come to Caledonia.
On reminding them of their promise, Mr.
S. was very positively informed that the
meeting was for Republicans, not Demo
crats ; and when Mr. G. got done speaking,
he and his colleagues left the hall, without
waiting for an adjournment, and amid the
most emphatic silence of the Republicans.
Streetor told them if they would give
him the opportunity of reply, he should
take them all over Southern Minnesota, but
they had enough of him in Brownsville, and
declined the contest. Their own party feel
somewhat ashamed of their lack of pluck.
Cavanaugh and Becker are taking
Southern Minnesota by storm. People of
all denominations meet them with the great
est good feeling. We hardly think the
Republican candidates will face the music
of Southern Minnesota again.
From our Regular New York Correspondent.
The soft skies of Italy offer no tempta
tion to one who can luxuriate in such a cli
mate as that of New York city at this sea
son of the year. Nights, glorious with
moonlight, and days just warm enough to
be cheerful, make up the bill of fare which
Nature offers, to draw back our wandering
citizens to th?ir own home. The summer
has been one of health and prosperity.
Hardly a single case of epidemic disease has
occurred among the proper inhabitants of
the city; an almost unparralelled state of
affairs of late years ; of course, the milder
epidemics have not been extinct, but the
great unsubdued angels of death, cholera
and yellow fever, have let us alone. Fortu
nately, too, for the quarantine troubles, there
has been little occasion for a quarantine.
It is difficult to find any place so far out of
the world that it will be induced by love
or money to admit the State elephant
within its precincts.
Business is very active with the west and
middle States. The dry goods jobbing
streets are obstructed with boxes of goods
to that extent that a corpulent traveller
finds progress impossible except in the mid
dle of the horse path. Murray, Warren,
and Chambers streets are very busy. Here
all is drive and bustle, and a lady is a rare
sight, except an occasional wife or friend in
pursuit of dresses “at wholesale prices.”
Time was, when fashionable promenades
abounded in those regions. No city in the
world, probably, unless some of our western
cities, grows so perceptibly and changes so
rapidly as Gotham. Ten years suffices to
change a locality of fashionable residence
into a retail market, and five or six more to
convert it into a wilderness of wholesale
warehouses.
Business will be large in amount this fall,
but the profits must be slim, owing to the
great competition. The time has passed
when a man’s pecuniary ability could be
measured by the amount of business he does;
in these days of extended credit, a man may
have the handling of vast amounts while he
derives but a limited income from his labor
and invests little capital. The regular lines
of business are paying less at present
than certain specialities in which the compe
tition is small. But some men will make
money, by industry and frugality, when
others could only sink it. A case in point
is that of a cheap restaurant keeper near
the Park, who has made a fortune of over
$40,000, it is said, out of a subterranean
place of refreshment, which he has attended
t» chiefly in person. Now-a-days, having
gained his fortune, the old gentleman does
•not disdain to put on his apron and wait on
successions of men comparatively poor, all
the morning; when afternoon comes, he goes
home to drive out his wife and children with
a span of fast horses, and an elegant turn
out generally. Another man, in the same
vicinity, is said to have made a very good
competency, by selling bread and milk at
sixpence per bowl. Other men have made
large fortunes by the manufacture of articles
of which one would suppose the aggregate
sale to be too insignificant to deserve atten
tion. But all these little things “count up.”
The man who makes or sells an article appa
rently insignificant generally clears a large
per centage, while the “heavy man” of South
or Front streets may have large sums of
money passing through his hands, but very
little indeed sticks to his fingers. The pro
portion men “in business for themselves”
who really Hake fortunes, is much smaller
than is generally supposed ; and, in fact, the
number of lich men is much smaller than
the common estimate. People are judged
rich according to the amount they spend,
which is not a safe criterion in this vincinity.
It is affirmed by those who ought to know,
that there are not more than twenty five
millionaires in the city of New York. S.
P. Townsenl' has been counted a very rich
man, but has been obliged to sell his magni
ficent house <d Fifth Avenue, and is taking
up again the manufacture of “Sarsaparilla.”
The Fifth Avenue mansion, which excited
so much curiosity at its erection, is opened
as a branch of the far-famed “ Spingler In
stitute.” Mr. Abbot, of the prolific family
of Abbots, the well known principal, has
made a very profitable business of “teaching
the young icea how to shoot.” And, in
truth, the fa&ionable boarding schools of
this city “pa 7” very handsomely. Several
middle-aged ladies of imposing manners
and good family, have made themselves
independent, after the death or failure of
male supporters, by setting up institutions
for the instruction of the children of their
fashionable friends. ***
TAMARACK.
Mb. Sicklis, says a correspondent of a
Charleston paper, is unalterably deter
mined to take his seat in the next Congress.
Your Obd’t Serv’t., W. M.
New York Letter,
New York, Sept. 9,1859.
From Fillmore County—Wlndom’k
Know NothlngUm,
Preston, September 12,1859.
To the Editom of the Pioneer and Democrat.
The Democracy held the largest meeting
in point of number and respectability ever
seen in Fillmore County, on Saturday last,
to welcome Messrs. Becker and Cavanaugh
to the County Seat. The meeting was
advertised at 7 P. M., but from an early
hour in the afternoon, the four horse teams
loaded down with the hardy yeomanry of
our beautiful prairie—poured into the town.
By three o’clock over 500 persons were
assembled in front of the Stanwix House,
and were eloquently addressed by Messrs.
Quinn & Morrow. The enthusiasm went
on increasing till six o’clock, when it reached
its height on the arrival of the gallant boys
of Carimona, accompanied by their fine
band, which volunteered in the cause, and
discoursed, most eloquent music at intervals
through the evening.
At the hour appointed, the spacious hall
of the Stanwix, was packed to its utmost
capacity, and many who were unable to
obtain admittance, crowded the stairs from
top to bottom. A great number of ladies
graced the scene. No such meeting has
ever been held in Preston before. It was a
most gratifying contrast to the poor atten
dance which greeted Ramsey & Co{j|pn the
preceding Saturday. On that occasion,‘sixty
three persons, all told, were thinly scattered
over the benches, and when the Democrats
present went to supper, just thirteen persons
were left to listen to the sophistries and false
hoods of our opponents. But to return to
our own meeting. At 7 o’clock, the Hon.
Samuel Hull one of the first settlers of the
county, and who has aften represented it in
the Territorial Legislature was called to the
chair, and introduced audience, the Hon.
Geo. L. Becker, next Governor of Minne
sota!
Mr. Becker, who was received with im
mense applause, then addressed the audience
in what was unanimously pronounced to be
the very best speech ever delivered in Fill
more County.
This bold, open and manly statement of
principles and policy was in most striking
contrast with the evasive and shuffling
coarse of his opponents.
On the great question of State policy, at
issue between the two parties, he showed
conclusively that the course advocated by
the Republicans leads directly and inevita
bly to the sacrifice of the interests of the
State, and to the alternative of either taxa
tion or repudiation, and that the Democratic
policy alone could be relied on, at once, to
save the people from taxation, and secure
the successful prosecution of those internal
improvements which are so essential to our
progress. He exposed the hypocritical and
unfounded complaints of Ramsey expecting
the last election, and vindicated the charac
ter and conduct of Governor Sibley, whose
recent patriotic action in obtaining the
withdrawal of lands occupied by settlers
rom sale, has shed new lustre on his char
acter, and satisfied the people of this District
at least, that it is to the Democratic party
and their leaders, and to them alone, that
the people are to look for any active exer*
tions in their behalf.
Mr. Becker sat down amid the most
enthusiastic applause, and was succeeded by
“our Jim,” whose appearanee was the signal
for loud and long continued eheering. One
must see Mr. Cavanaugh at home, in his
own county, his foot upon his native heath,
to appreciate his popularity.
No need for him here to defend his char
acter against the slanders of the Minnesotian
or the Tribune. He would be a bold man,
indeed, who would dare in any public
gathering of our people, no matter what
their politics, to lisp a syllable of those evil
calumnies. Mr. Cavanaugh’s speech was
one of his happiest efforts, and was received
with the greatest applause. He took occa
sion, in the course of his remarks, to pay
his respects to Mr. William Windom,
exposing his equivocating course in denying
his Know-Knothingism, and his meanness
in obtaining the Republican nomination by
falsely asserting his want of connection with
Railroad Companies.
He proved from the record, that Mr.
Windom had been a prominent member of
the “ Supreme Order of the Star Spangled
Banner,” and exposed his hypocrisy in fish
ing for foreign votes with the bait of “no
proscription ” while his conscience was
bound by the fearful oaths of the order,
binding through life, to proscribe every for
eigner and every Catholic. Among the au
dience was a gentleman who was initiated
with Mr. Windom, into the Knox County
Lodge, and whose affidavit that the Wm.
Windom now running for Congress is the
William Windom, who was a Know Noth
ing delegate in Ohio, is at the service of the
Minnesotian.
At the conclusion of Mr. Cavanaugh’s
remarks, three cheers were given for oar
next Governor, Mr. Becker, and the mem
ber of Congress from Southern Minnesota,
Mr. Cavanaugh, and the crowd unwillingly
dispersed, although a great many had
twenty miles and over to ride. The moon
shone brightly, and as the long procession
of carriages drove off amid the inspiring
strains of martial music, the glancing of the
waving banners, and the ringing of huzzas
for our platform and our candidates, there
was no one who did not feel certain that the
sun of the 11th of October, next would set
on the democracy of Fillmore county, once
more victorious over the cohorts of Black
Republicanism.
From Olmatod County—BrUbtn—Cole.
Correspondence of the Pioneer and Democrat.
Rochester, Minn., Sept. 12, 1859.
The campaign of ’59 has but just opened
with us—the speeches of Messrs. Brisbin
and Cole being the opening up. They ad
dressed a large audience at the Court House
in this place, on Friday night last. Mr.
Brisbin’s clear, concise, and argumentative
remarks, were received with hearty applause,
and fell like molten lead into the ranks of
the Opposition, and served to convince the
wavering that the position occupied by the
Democracy was the correct one, and that
their platform was the only one that could
be stood upon with safety. His remarks
were not of the kind to excite the risibility
of an audience, but were of that character
which carries conviction to the hearer, and
leaves the impression that what the speaker
says he means, and what be means he says.
In justice to Mr. Brisbin, we can but here
remark, that we have seldom heard but few
that leave so favorable an impression behind
them. The Democracy of this county will
give him their hearty support, and in doing
so, will give their votes to an honorable
man, and a firm advocate of truth, right,
and justice, as well as a true Democrat.
Upon the other hand, the speech of Cole
was stale and flat, and in fact the same “ old
yarn,” that has been spun for years—abuse
of Democratic men aud measures. It was
imbecile and puerile, and proved unsatisfac
tory to all. His attempts at wit rendered
his speech odious as well as disgusting, and
his listeners, to a man, returned to their
homes, with the entire consciousness of the
fact, that Mr. C.was any particular,
fit for the office he is striving to gain,
through falsehood and misrepresentation
If Mr. Cole is a fair representation of the
remainder of the Republican ticket, “ God
save the mark ! ”
The Democracy of Olmsted are up in
arms, and ready for the combat—not dis
tracted and divided as heretofore—but as
one man. Their nominations for county
officers were made on Saturday last, and up
on the ticket may be found the names of
the best as well as the hardest working
Democrats in the ranks—men for whom we
feel a pride as well as an honor in support
ing—men whose countenances bear the im
press of reliability and integrity, and just
such men as can and will be elected.
Our prospects of success were never so
bright as now. Every day adds a few more
to our already swelling ranks, and the
leaders of the Opposition begin to trem
ble for the result. They now begin to
see that in their attempt to foist upon this
people a repudiation platform and a repu
diation ticket, they have gone a step too
far. In the place of repudiating the State
debt, they find the people are repudiating
them, (a thing they should have done long
ago.) They now find that as poor as our
honest yeomanry now are, they were not yet
in a condition to do an act of dishonor to
themselves and bring ruin and disgrace to
our fair young State. The treachery of the
Minnesota Republican platform-makers is
now apparent, and a quietus will be put
upon tbem at the ballot-box in October
next, which will consign them to the deep
est depths of infamy and disgrace.
Again, I will say in behalf of the Democ
racy of Olmsted, that they are up and do
ing ; not a sentinel asleep at his post; har
mony is iu their ranks, and that they are
wide awake, and will give a good return of
their ranks in October next.
INDEX.
Everybody “ Come in out of the Wet.”
—The Convention “to overcome evil with
good,” is to meet at Buffalo on the 16th of
September, and continue in session three
days. Among the parties whose signatures
are appended to the call, are Andrew Jack
son Davis and wife, Parker Pillsbury
Henry C. Wright, Stephen S. Foster,
and others, of “ reformatory ” tendencies.
The invitation is comprehensive. It says :
“ Come! Brothers and Sisters, Fathers
and Mothers: Let us have three days of
deliberate consultation, in the spirit of love
and good will, to aid one another in the
search for practical truth. We hold that
the day for Free Conventions has dawned.
The inward fires of truth and reason will
flame forth from the summit of these vol
canic mountains. They agitate and purify
public opinion. A Free Convention is the
mouthpiece of Human Liberty—the plat
form whence issue the mandates of unlim
ited progress. Spiritualists, Materialists,
Jews, Christians, Reformers—all, east, west,
north, south—will hereby consider them
selves cordially invited.”
Why Salt Lake is so Salt.—Grreley
writes from the centre of Mormondom as to
the cause of the saltness of Salt Lake, thus:
That this lake should be salt is no anoma
ly. All large bodies of water into which
streams discharge themselves, while they
have severally no outlet, are or should be
salt. If one such is fresh, that is an anoma
ly indeed? Lake Utah probably receives as
much saline matter as Salt Lake; but she
discharges it through the Jordan and re
mains herself fresh ; while Salt Lake, having
no issue save by evaporation, is probably
the saltest body of water on earth. The
ocean is comparatively fresh; even the
Mediterranean at Leghorn is not half so
salt. lam told three barrels of this water
yield a barrel of salt; that seems rather
strong, yet its intense saltness, no one who
has not had it in* his eyes, his mouth, his
nostrils, can realize. You can no more sink
in it than in a clay bank, but a very little
of in your lungs would suffice to strangle
you. You make your way in from a hot,
rocky beach over a chaos of volcanic basalt
that is trying to the feet; but at the depth
of a yard or more you have a fine sand bot
tom, and here the bathing is delightful.
The water is of a light green color for ten
or twenty rods; then “ deeply, darkly,
beautifully blue.” No fish can live in it;
no frog abides it; few birds are ever seen
dipping into it.