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I N O E E
The dead leaves their rich mosaics,
Of olive and gold and brown,
Had laid on the rain-wet pavements,
Through all the embowered town.
They were washed by the autumn tempest,
They were trod by hurrying feet,
And the maids came out with theirbesoms,
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And swept them into the street.
To be crushed and lost forever
•Neath the wheels, in the black mire lost,—
The summer's precious darlings,
She nurtured at such cost!
O word3 that have fallen from me!
0 golden thoughts and true!
Must I see in the leaves a symbol
Of the fate which awaiteth you?
II—APRIL.
Again has come the spring time,
With the crocus's golden bloom,
WiththesmeUofthefresh-turned earth-mould,
And the violet's sweet perfume.
O Gardner! tell me the secret
Of thy flowers so rare and sweet?
••I have only enriched my garden
With the blachrmire from the gfawefc^
C. 0 Andrews Esq. St. Cloud, responu-
followin* is an extract.
Thus far two maxims have been the
leading feature of our policy in Minnesota.
First, to find out what can and oughtto be
done,—Secondly,to do it. Now we have
ascertained that a railroad can be built on
the Northern route, through Minnesota,
to the Pacific. Thorough and reliable ex
plorations have rendered it comparitively
certain that such a route is most practica
ble. I has long been admitted by states
men of all parties, that a railroad the
Pacific is accessary as a means of defense
to the coast, and as a means of economy in
transporting the mails. I is unnecessary
to speak of the advantage which such a
roadwouldbe to Minnesota. Those who
remember wha tthe overland emigration
to California and Oregon did for western
Missouri, can form some ideaof the results
which would accrue from a great Pacific
route through the State. What I espe
cialy desire in these remarks, is to call at
tention to the fact that far to the north
west of us is a region which will need, and
contribute to support the proposed north
ern road. The vast Territory extending
ten degrees north and west of here, lying
chiefly in British America, is well adapted
to agriculture. I is as far north of us as
north of Tennessee. I is_ larger
we are north ot lennessue.
than all the middle and &
States together, and watered by the Assm-,
through North America in 1 W Alter
exploring the great river, which will carry
his name down to posterity, he ascended
the Peace river. Some of the scenery on
that river, he says, was the most magnifi
cent he ever saw. then found a gar
den, which he states, equaled any vegeta-
ble garden he had ever seen
The great region of wtach I speak, has lor
two centuries been under the jurisdiction!
of a gigantic
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Company. It has been for the interest ot
that company to keep theterntory a wilder-
ness, to promote their for business jand ac
cordingly their combined influence has
been exerted to represent it as unfavora
ble for agriculture. Lately, however,their
affairs have been inquired into by the
House ofComaaone, and testimony was tak
en, showing theamplereirtuTceirofthatcoun
try. There is a jpposiieettliatttwIUawbe
wrested from the retarding influence of
that monopoly, and opened up to settlers.
When this is done, as it should and Will be
done, a great stimulus will be giventoour
northern route.
I have said something of what may con
tribute to our material prosperity. Letme
ravages of time.
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JAH1 0. 8WI88HKLM, "Sptak uto tht children of Israel that tkty gotoward."—EXODUS,CHAP,
say, however, that there is something
greater and higher for a state, than mere
physical resources. W most be imbued
with the spirit which animated our ances
cestors, in die great contest which we com
mence to day, if we would secure tfie
greatest success. I we would build an
empire that shall not decay, we must be
faithful to just principles. The mostsalu
brious climate, the most fertile soil, are in
vain, if we do not ,mantain wise and just
institutions. Many States of antiquity,
now crumbled into ruins, could once 'boast member from Massachusetts, had *rmveu
of as much wealth and elegance as exist in-\ color to the idea that slaves had a right to
$60,001 any nation to-day. But they were false to petition," etc., a phrase on Which Adams
35,001 liberty and they died. Let the principles afterwards roasted him alive, finally the
CONGRESSIONAL BEMINISCENSE
Christianity which alone can give us pro-slavery side began to suspect that
_'zi true niviliintion. em band in hand with nnr ihav VAM mivanincr tb» nocm in the
be directed to the may build up an empire chat shall defy the I more likely to be found in the paling than
The Albany Evening Journal, in an in
teresting sketch of scenes and incidents
that occurred in the old Representatives
llafl, thus describes one of the warmest
and most memorable occasions ever witnes
sed in that Hall:
I The Bight jf Petition was early put in
issue by that persistent ooWy of men, the
radical Abolitionist, whose convictions of
j' luty no fire of persecutions was able to
•r burn out of them. It is a curious fact
that the first modern memorial respecting
Slavery, ever presented to the House of
I Representative?, was the proceedings of a
a meeting in Utica, New York, depreca
ling the agitation of this subject! I was
offered by Judge Beardly, then in Congress,
in the opening days of the session of 1854
5 John Dickson, of Ontario county,
Xew York, in January, 1835—just aftei
the reception of the Utica memorial—pre
sented a petition for the abolition of slav
ery In the District of Columbia. ad-some
vocated its prayer in an able speech.—
This was the first gentle zephyr of the ap
proaching storm which ultimately swelled
I into a tempest that raged in the House
with unabated fury for many years. The
earliest defenders of the right of petition
were Messrs Diokson, of Ne York,
Phillips and
r"r I and Slade, of Vermont. Resort was still
PACIFIC O TE At a celebration, ov Wad to the Gag Rule, which, as the flood
the 5th, at Minneapolis "The northern of memomls began to mcrease in volume,
,. was finally incorporated among the stand
route to the Pacific" was given a* toast.
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Jackson, of Massachusetts,
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ed in a brief but ible speech of which the jre of John Quincy Adams, who soon be-
tyrannical measures aroused the
came the leading champion of the right of
petition. His great age, his eminent ser
vice, his persistent courage, his skill in de
bate, at once elevated the controversey to
a commanding position before the country.
During the session of 1837—8 and '9 his
desk was loaded with heaps of anti-slavery
memorials from all the free States. Every
petition-day witnessed a graphic scene, as
the old man deliberately presented one me
morial after another, taking most provoking
dark cell in the vaults of the Capitol.
On the 18th of January, 1837, the
House adopted the usual rule to lay anti
slavery petitions on the table this being
denominated "Hawes Gag," to disticguish
it from the "Patent Gag/' and the "Ath
erton Gag."
•y ?"^!r The**•
speaker seemed bewildered,
tobl un
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a fime to
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baxA Qn
pains to make a brief statement of each as pliant phillipic by warning his young ad
he iiauded it over to the little page, to be versaries never again to run on an errand
ultimately consigned by the clerk to some! till they knew where they were going—
On Monday, the 6th of February, 1837,
Mr. Adams having occupied an hour or
more in exhausting his pile of anti-slavery
memorials, paused, and looked significant
ly at Mr. Speaker Polk, said, I hold in
my hand a paper purporting to be a peti
tion from certain slaves. I I should pre
sent.it to the House, would was found a printed slip con
aa^e,. something
th gravity of the question, when
he a
eboin, the Athabasca, Saskatchewan and a
Peace rivers. The other day 1 was look- T^t r» screamed a score
ing into Mackenzie's account,£his voyage
E
a
traitor!" shouted
ing five hundred pounds averdupois, came
waddling and wheezing down the aisle
towards the clerk's desk. The whole
corps of Oligarchs were on their -feet,
screaming, swearing, gesticulating like de
mons. Quick as thought resolutions were
prepared for the expulsion of Mr. Adams,
that he had pre-
a a a 8 a
S 5 tion of slavery.
ft
Mr. Waddy Thompson, now demanding
the severest censure rather than
AesUveociaey, whdejLmooln, Cushmg^ E before you spend it.
Phillips, Granger and others, defended
Adam? felt greatanxiety, not only for his Keepyourself innocent, if you would be
fate, in the House, but for his personal PPy
safety. Meonwhile the resolutionV were I
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going on through various modifications,
all tending to soften their terms, and miti
gate their conclusions. All this time the
old Roman sat unmoved in his place,
the calmest man in the chamber, with the
incendiary petition safely locked up in his
desk. A length it began to leak out
tint the paper was-not exactly such a doc
ument as the slaveholders in their hot
haate had imagined it to be. Whereupon
DroomgooleTof Va., still further modified
the resolutions by setting forth that the
in the petition, and so they stopped to take
breath.
Then Mr. Adams rose to address the
House. With great deliberation, his voice
of a shrill key that penetrated to the remo
test corners of the galleries, and with a
frail bit of paper rustling in the speaker's
aged hand, he called the Speakers attention
to the question he had put tohim three days
ago, which still remained unanswered, vis,:
Whether a petition purporting to be from
slaves IF he were to present it, go to the
table under the order of the 18th of Janu
ary? Looking around him with an ex
pression of mingled sarcastic cunning and
lofty scorn, which Lord Chatham would
have envied, he cried in a voice, not of
thunder, but in a sharp, hissing tone, such
as lightening might be supposed to employ
if it spoke at all, A I TO E EXPELLED
FROMTHISLOQUACIOUS,BABBLING HOUSE
FOB SIMPLY ASKING A QUESTION.
For the first time the thought flashed
on foe and friend, that Mr. Adams had
neither presented the paper, nor proposed
to present it. Everybody felt queer, while
grave men looked* like lank sheep
suddenly denuded of their fleeces. It had
now got wind that the paper was a forgery,
the work of some stupid politician in Wash
ington, and purporting to be written by
Scipio, Sambo, and other bogus negroes,
asking the House to expel Mr. Adams
from that bodyv. -.
And now the "old man eloquent" took
his turn in debate, How he demolished
one opponent after another scourging,
flaying, scalping, and impaling to his
heart's content—how rank unon rank of
chivalry went down before his trenchant
blade—how he spitted poor Droomgoole,
and roasted him before a slow fire of sar
casm, when he told him that "giving co
lor to an idea" was not a Northern but a
Southern practice, one of the peculiar in
stitutions of Virginia, with which he
hadsame
no desire to interfere—how the House
screamed with laughter as Droomgoole es
sayed a grim smile in acknowledgement
of his delicate allusion to the bleaching
chemistry employed by the South to era
dicate the dark tints in their variegated
population— how he wound up his trium-
and how the House firmly refused to lay
the resolutions on the table, but brought
their authors to a direct vote, and finally
trampled them down by a decided majority.
Are not all these things written in the
chronicles of the Old Hall of the House of
Representatives.
A Pocket-Piece.
Among the victims of the Henry Clay dis
aster was Stephen Allen, Esq, an aged man,
formerly mayor of New York, beloved and
esteemed by all who knew him. I his
toeing following advice:
Keep good company or none. Never
be idle
I your hands cannot be usefully employ
ed attend to the cultivation of youv mind.
Always speak the truth. Make fe»
promises.
Live up to your engagements
When you speak to a man look him in
the face.
Good character is above all tilings else.
Your character cannot be essentially in
jured except by your own acts.
If any man speaks evil of you, let your
life be such that no one will believe him.
Drink no kind of intoxicating liquors.
Live within your ineomo.
When you retire to bed think over what
you have been doing through the day.
Make no haste to be rich if you would
prosper.
Small and steady gains give competency
trann„nn„
Thereupo the debate beganexpulsion, ofcSaice.
violentfy three days. Thompson, Droom-
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goole. Wise, Underwood, leading off from gm
through fear you may
to
withstand it
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it.
Adams. During the heightof the tempest,
the rotunda, the galleries, the passagestof
the Capitol being filled with an excited
throng, the colleagues and friends of Mr. .„
~X-^???ttT?
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Never speak evil of any one.
before you are generous,
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Be just
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CWb Wittier
XIV, VERSE
ST. CLOUD, STEAMS CO., MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1858. NO. 16.
Northern Route.
W give the following able article from
the PumeerdfDemocMat on the natural land
route from the Atlantic to the Pacific
coast It affords much food for reflection
and presents a very important chain of facts.
W have little doubt'that the first railroad
that-snail connect our eastern and western
seaboards will be this Northern route but
he line now In process oi*construction from*
StUlwao* to Breckinridge on a W
River will be completed in a few years with
connections -iut will given continuous rail
:J.U from the ScauylkUl the Ottei
Tail.
O.ice tli'ire, aa.I awav will soon open to
proceed. One thiog in liiis connection it
worthy of note, ilie present iWt River
fee mtgb' irincipally sionnci
:n
A fcM eaterpviiing mcrchaute with a
aiodevate capital, added to our present bu
si.ioss list would enable St. Cload to iuter
cepttoe Red River trade and to do severe'
other fciun^s which would be veiv* well
worth the doing.
E a a a ad
S a to S
Tlie fact3 developed in the pending con
tent of the Canadian people with the Hud
sou's Bay Company, for the possession of
k,he spl-uidv] territorial prize, which has
been so long locked up under the avariciou
rule of that trading monopoly, has awaken
ed an interest in relation to the part of the
British posessions, which lies contiguous
to the nortb-West boundry of our own State,
scarcely less than if a new Continent had
been discovered.
Fifty years have passed since Lord Sel
kirk, penetrating through the inhospitable
belt of territory which encloses the waters
of Hudsons Bay, and passing along t\
parallels of latitude from the climate
of Lapland, to the climate of Crimea, from
tlie Artie sterility of northern Norway on
Nelson's river to the generous soil and lux
uriant vegetation of Southern Russia on
Red river, declared that he had found in
the basin of the Winnepeg, and islanded by
artic snows on the north and east and by
barren plains in the south, a country with
all the characteristics of the temperate zone
embracing 300,000 square miles, and capa
ble of supporting a population of30,000,000.
St.
Cloud, saving ii cirfci aineiy miles of the
woi 3i. «vv: of one i-o««ij also -.iie expense and
cielay of fe-i-^aga. Xhe aerchante oi our
i.'ii'.'.-.yea-.-ol^.cit/ aave jcen so bns\ accu
Uti-ig lauds an-' wttvl.i^ w\\sites 'hatii«»
t.^iw! employ-.i' in oilier «isl.»e.as is alto
g?- j.sr *a-*u3icieu iro smp]j lie !e*nund
ibr iaerchandise. I it were not so, Sf.
(Jkuti would, iu a £ceat ineasure, relieve
^t. Paid from the •iveseuce of the Red
Rlyer v..-.'as. The »»en Iiave uown a dis
•o-'tiosi, hi- SIM- to ue*ij»^e itere an.l
**e dealt wi'ii our merchants more than
iliif U1 la«t year, although tueir stock of
•rootU quite iiit'erioi- to ,yha' it £xen was.
The effort of the Hudson's Bay and North
west Conpanies to crush the infant colony
planted by him on the Red River, and the
final assertion by these corporations under
the name and charter of the latter of an un
limited monopoly over A Whole region,
with objects adverse to projects ofcoloniza
tion, explain the mystery in which the
physical geography of this country has been
industriously involved and the facts which
the recent contest has developed, often ex
torted from the unwilling witnesses of the
company itself, have all the novelty and, in
view of its economical bearings, all the sub
limity of a continental discovery. The a
gents of the Canadian government have
done for the terra incognita of Rupert"
Land more than Livingston has done fo
the interior of Africa, or than Perry did for
Japan. They have added a aew world to
the domain of Colonial enterprise.
The discovey-for discovory we must call
it since it ceases to be the secret of a cor
poration-of a vast fertile plain stretching
uninteruptedly from the valley of the Red
River to the base of the Rocky Mountains,
watered across the whole expanse by navi
gable streams of noble volume, and which
carries the isothermal zoneof St. Paul to the
sources of the Mackenzie river, opens a new
theatre for the colonization of the'latter
half of this century, and determines defini
tively and unalterably the path of the fii^t
Railway to the Pacific. The level valley of
Saskatchewan, which is navigable for 1400
miles from the Rocky Mountains to Lake
Winnipeg, interlocking there with the wa
ters of the Red River, which forms our
northwestern boundry, and adds 600 miles
more to this splendid chain of inland navi
gation, fixes across these level steppes the
best route in the world tor a Railroad and
the Rocky Mountains which divide this
immense plain from the slopes of the
Pacific shore, afford along the gorges which
connect it with the valley of Frasear»ariver,
the most practicable passes in the whole
chain. The extraordinary deflection of the
isothermal lines which carry the climate of
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St. Paul and Milwaukee along the whole
route, the absence of the deep snows which
encumber the track in the moister climates
of the South, the immense coal fields which
line the course of the Saskatchewan, all con
firm the decrees of physical geography.
The finest and most capacious harbors on the
Pacific afforded by the inlets of Puget's
Sound, add the last link to the chain of geo
giaphical affinities which connect the empo
rium of Pacific commerce in British Oregon,
through the magnificent valleys of the Sas-
Thus while the progress of investigation
and the march of events have been rapidly
jUufold'ag^ one aftev anot'uej, the vast capac
tles of this region, anew development more
lnmediatelv impor .»nt iban all the rest has
arisen at thcPacfic exi. emily of the route,
alreaty fixed by e_U physical conditions'
which fixes it ineveiab'y imh interest* of
political econorov, and. by deieiminiiig the
tendencies of emigration, hastens to an im
mediate issue the solution of ilie g'eat
Noi ikeru Pacific Railway scheme, of which
the Canauy md Minnesota ms are links.
Visiter Correspondence.
15. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
1
the Misissipi at St. Paul on one hand, and
perhaps atsome future day with the basin of
the St, Lawrence at Superior on the other.
At the rceent investigation by the House
of Commons' Committee, to which was re
ferred the claims of the Hudson's Bay
Company for an extension of their Charter
—the whole tendency of the testimony was
to fix St. Paulas the natural outlet of this
whole region. The six hundred carte now
here and on their way-which bring in the
first instalment of our annual trade wilh the
Red River-is proof of this and as a further
evidence of the growing recognition of
this commercial and geographical fact, the
Hudson's Bay Company have this year for
warded over three undred packages ofgoods,
from New York via St. Paul to thair posts in
the British Possessious-^an important tes
timony extorted from the most reluctant of
witnesses to the superiority of this route.
The gold discoveries ou Fraser's river
*rill -vproduce in British Oregou the jhe
uomen. of the growth of California. Thon
Handsare already flocking from the occupied
fields of the latter to the new theatre
opened by the former. The prestige of San
Francisco is about to be lost in the newminus
marvel on Puget's Sound, and the ne*
weight thus thrown into the scales will irre
vocably decide the preponderance of the
Northern route over the combined commer
cial influence of San Francisco, St.Louis,
Memphis and New Orleaas-
These events mark out an important jar
for Minnesota, and especially fo) St. Paul.
An empire lays at their feet. It remains
but to go in and take possession. An ad
journed meeting is to be held on Wednes
day evening, in Concert Hall, when the sub
ject of an emigrant route from St. Paul to
Puget's Sound will be discussed, and the
report of a committee on the subject read.
Of the benefit* that would aeciue to this
city front the establishment of such a route,
it would be superfluous to say anything now.
It would, open a career for St. Paul second
to that of do other city in the Mississipi
valley, and crown her »he commei cial queen
of the Northwest- Pioncer&Democrat.
Paynesville July oth. 1858.
I send you five subscribers for the Visiter
and hope to do more when times will permit
and if I atn^cerfsidered one ofyour several hun
dred local reporters it is perhaps time for me
to make my first effort. I am a farmer, land
agent, surveyor, &c dwell in the land walk
up and down it, and go to and fro in it
as saith your Prospectus. In regardto farming
I report progress, andjudging from present ap
pearances the people of Stearns County will
not starve to death another winter if they did
last for even now there is within half a dozen
miles of here, grain and produce for] sale
which was raised in Stearns County last year.
As land agent I report lots to give away in as
pretty a town as Minnesota affords and good
claims to be had for a song. As surveyor 1
would say the land in this region is surveyed
from rail road incumbrance and subject to pre
emption. Forty varieties of timber, and all
kinds of praries found in the state.
Celebration at Paynesville July the 5th.
I recollect once being asked what day New
Years came on, and some might think we had
mistaken Independence day but as tne
4thwhich
came on Sunday, we had religeous exercises
we concluded to celebrate the 5th. Suftice it
to say,. J. J. Gibson Esq. of Cold Spring, was
President of the day, and Rev. C. S. Harrison
and Doctor E. T. Sedgewick resident minister
and physician of the town of Paynesville,
were) speakers of the day, and did justice to
the occasion. The former delivering a Poem
on the Union of merit, wit and sarcasm, which
will long beremembered whilet he latter after
refering to thefacts in history, fromthe discov
eryof America to the present time, closeod
upon Tea, Coffee, Tobacco and Whiskey said
that the best tea party he ever heard of was at
Boston, when 340 chests of tea were steeped at
one drawing and after fuUy giving the "mo
dus operandi" of making coffee, said, throw it
in the swill pail and take a glass of cold water.
yfter the repast and a ride to the lake, the
Richmond and Cold Spring folks left for home,
aQ satisfied with a cold water celebration.
Tours &c.
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m.^r:
E. B, PAVSE, pcred with mercy.
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St. Cloud June 26th
St. Cloud Vmter,
I returned to this place yester
day from" Breckenridge on Red River being
one of the party who located the State Road to
that place and thinking some of the readers of
the Visiter might wish to know something of
the country which it traverses, I propose to
give them an idea, through your columus. In
the first place. A good road can hemade on the
line located with but very little expense. The
country is far better suited for a road than
that which the "old Pembina I rail" traverses.
Very few bad sloughs are encountered, and
good crossings were found at all the principal
streams. The distance is about 140 miles
which is a saving of at least 30 miles over the
Pembina trail.
The country is as good, if not better than
any other which I have seen in the North West
and, by the way, I have seen a large portios
of it. There is no point on the line until with
in 30 miles of Breckinridge, where timber of
good quality, and in abundant quantity, is not
found at a distance no greater than half a mile]
The soil Is excellent and yields wheat, oats
potatoes, corn &c. abundantly. Any person
whojloubts this I would advi to take a trip
up the Sauk valley and see the fields of wheat,
corn andetctras which there gladden the heart
of the farmer ancHie will doubt no more.
Probably no person has stronger prejudices
against this country than I had before I came
here but they are all removed I intend to
make it my future home.
The road is located through the town^sites of
Sauk Centre, Kandotta, Alaxandria Lapham.
The latter place being at the crossing of the
Otter Tail River which affords a superior nat
ural water power and is likely to make quite a
town, Alaxandria is the county seat of Doug
lass County and is located among some of the
most beautiful lakes I ever saw. There is an
adundance of good timber close to the town
site, with long strips of prarie extending into
it. It is a county which must soon fill up with
setlers, ibr any one who sees it cannot fail to
like it. Breckeuridge is surounded by & fine
agricultural country an«i being at the head of
navigation on the Red River, and also the ter
of Minnesota & Pacific Rail Road can
not fail to make a large town. The timber is
scarce in the immediate vicinityjbut this diffi
culty is obviated by the fact that there is an
inexhaustable supply just above on the Otter
Tail .which can be easily floated dawn and
made into lumber aud fuel. A 'arge "drive"
Is now within a few miles of Breckinridge,
wMcb demonstrates the practicability of thi*
It is designed for the mill which is to be
erected this summer by the town company.
If the necessary exertion is made to cut out
the roadway through the brush and timber,
and to bridge a few of the bad sloughs, so that
the travel wiV be directed iato that channel I
have no doubt but the whole country along the
tiue will be settled within two years.
mf^-iMA^e^t -Ag3fc*-W ST.".rfW1P..MV
0, BBOWN.
DECREASE OF EMIGRATION.—W learn
from the N. Y. Herald that the last report
of the Commissioners of Emigration shown
a great decrease in the number of emigrants
arriving at the port of New York from the
first of January to the 23d inst. The
arrivals ibr that period are, in fact, less
than half those of the same time last year.
The number up to June 23 1857, was
81,608j while that of the present year is
only 30,450. The Herald remarks:
This decrease is, unquestionably, attirbu
table to the late financial revulsion. It is
one of its most natural consequences. The
alarm which our crisis created in Europe
gave this country anew aspect to many Eu
ropean eyes. The demand for work or
bread, the tumultuous scenes of Tompkins
square and the Park—fomented and pro
longed for certain political purposes—deter
ed the emigrating classes from trusting
themselves to the ineretitude of fortune
which seemed to await them here. It will
probably be some years before the. tide of
emigration falls again into its old channel.
Punishment of a Wood Thief.
I.i the depth of a hard winter's night, in
Noitbeva New York,a gentleman heard a
noise at a big wood pile, and sallayuig forth
found a man just leaving, dragging a sled on
were a few sticks, purloined from the
pile The sled was overtaken and he begged
for mercy, averring that his family was iree
2in*. "Come back, you rascal, with that
sled "said the owner of the wood and the
cnlDPt dragsed it back to the pile, and be
gaa to unload. "Stop that you rascal, and
put on a sled full!" said the ownerj and
after piling the sled to its fu 1 capacity^id
ded: "Now pull, you scamp! The cul
m-it could barely suit the load but the
appUcationofswiieh and an oath or two
.fSni the rough but good nainred owner of
the pile the load was got underway, and
fen- hair a mile, with snow knee deejfc,waa
the culprit forced a dog tvot tin-
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