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THEST. CLOUDVISITER
OFFICEON RIVERSTREET, OPPOSITE THE
STEAMBOAT LANDING.
TERMS:
All letters of business to be directed to the
St. Cloud Visiter.
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 theembowered town.
They were washed by the autumntempest,
They were trod by hurrying feet,
And the maids came outwith theirbesoms,
And swept them intothe street.
To be crushed and lost forever
'Neath the wheels, in the Hack mire lost,—
The summer's precious darlings,
She nurtured at such cost!
O words that have fallen from me!
0 golden thoughts and true!
Must I see in the leaves a symbol
Of the fate which aweiteth you?
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II—APRIL.
Again has come the spring time,
With the crocus's golden bloom,
Withthesmellofthefresh-turned earth-mould,
And the violet's sweet perfume.
O Gardner! tell me the secret
Ofthyflowersso rare and sweet?
"I have only enriched my garden
With the black mire frdni the street."
PACIFIC ROUTE At a celebration, on
the 5th, at Minneapolis "The northern
route to the Pacific" was given as a toast.
C. 0. Andrews Esq. of St. Cloud, respond
ed in a brief but able speech of which the
following 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 Miunesota,
to the Pacific. Thorough and reliable ex
plorations have rendered it comparitively
certain that such a route is most practica
ble. It has long been admitted by states
men of all parties, that a railroad to the
Pacific is necessary as a means of defense
to the coast, and as a meansof economy in
transporting the mails. It is unnecessary
to speak of the advantage which such a
roaa would be 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. It is as far north of us as
we are north of Tennessee. It is larger
than all the middle and New England
States together, and watered by the Assin
eboin, the Athabasca, Saskatchewan and
Peace rivers. The other day I was look
in** into Mackenzie's account of his voyage
through North America in 1792. After
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.
eent he ever saw. He then found a gar
den, which he states, equaled any vegeta
ble garden he had ever seen in Canada.—
The great region of which I speak, has for
two centuries been under thejurisdiction
of a gigantic monopoly—the Hudson Bay
Company. It haabWB for the interest of
that company to keeVNheterritory a wilder
ness, to promote their fur 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 ofCommons, and testimony was tak
en, showing the ampleresourcesof thatcoun
try. There is a prospect that itwillsoon be
wrested from'the retarding influence of
that monopoly, and opened up to settlers.
When this is done, as it should and will be
demo, a great stimulus will be given to our
northern route.
I have said something ofwhat may con
tribute to our material prosperity. Letme
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CONGRESSIONAL BEMINISCENSE.
The Albany Evening Journal, in an in
teresting sketch of scenes and incidents
that occurred in the old Representatives
Hall, thus describes one of the warmest
and most memorable occasions ever witnes
sed in that Hall:
The Right of Petition was early put in
issue by that persistent body of men, the
radical Abolitionist, whose convictions of
luty rib fire of persecutions was able to
bum out of them. It is a curious fact
that the first modern memorial respecting
Slavery, ever presented to the House of
Representatives, was the proceedings of a
a meeting in Utica, New York, depreca
ting the agitation of this subject! It was
offered by Judge Beardly, then in Congress,
in the opening days of the session of 1854
—5. John Dickson, of Ontario county,
New York, in Jauuary, 1835—just after
the reception of the Utica memorial—pre
sented a petition for the abolition of slav
ery in the District of Columbia. He ad
vocated its prayer in an able speech.—
This was the first gentle zephyr of the ap
proaehiug storm which ultimately swelled
into a tempest that raged in the House
with unabated fury for many years. The
earliest defenders of the right of petition
were Messrs Dickson, of New York,
Phillips and Jackson, of Massachusetts,
and Slade, of Vermont. Resort was still
had to the Gag Rule, which, as the flood
of memorials began to increase in volume,
was finally incorporated among the stand
ing rules of the House-
These tyrannical measures aroused the
ire of John Quincy Adams, who soon be
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 auother, taking most provoking
Ee
ains to make a brief statement of each as
handed it over to the little page, to be
ultimately consigned by the clerk to some
dark cell in the vaults of the Capitol.
Oa 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."
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. If I should pre
sent it to the House, would it go on the
table under the order of the 18th of Janu
ry?" The speaker seemed bewildered,
and had time to stammer out something
about the gravity of the question, when
the entire pro-slavery side of the chamber
exploded with the most intense wrath.—
"Let him be expelled I" screamed a score
of voices. "Expel the traitor 1" shouted
Dixon H. Lewis, whose huge body, weigh
ing five hundred pounds averdupois, came
waddling and wheezing down the aisle
towards the olerk'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,
based on the assumption that he had pre
sented a petition from slaves for the aboli
tion of slavery.
Ere they were fairly before the House,
they were offered in a modified form by
Mr. Waddy Thompson, now demanding
the severest censure rather than expulsion.
Thereupon the debate began. It raged
violently three days. Thompson, Droom
goole, Wise, Underwood, leading off from
the slaveocraey, while,Linooln,. Cushing,
Phillips, Granger and others, defended
Adams. During the heightof the tempest,
the rotunda, the galleries, the passagestof
the Capitol being filled with an excited
throng, the colleagues and Mends of Mr.
Adams felt great anxiety, not only for his
fate, in the House, but for his personal
safety. Meonwhile the resolutions were
ii 1—[•-• ii raiOTni— ii-"**^-"- rfMgjMKni
JANI 0. 8WISSHXLH, "8ptak unto tht ehildron of Israel that they foforward."—EXODUS,CHAP,
say, however, that .there- is something,
greater and higher for a state, than mere
physical resources. We must be imbued
with the spirit which animated our ances
cestors, in the great contest whichwe com
mence to day, if we would secure ^he
greatest success. If 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
of as much wealth and elegance as exist in
any nation to-day. But they were false to
liberty and they died. Let the principles
of Christianity which alone can give us
true civilization, go hand in hand with our
arts, our laws, our physical growth—then
the land will blossom as the rose—then we
may build up an empire that shall defy the
ravages. of time.
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House. With great deliberation, hisvoice.
test corners of the galleries, and with ai
have envied, he cried in a voice, not of
thunder, but in a sharp, hissing tone, such
as lightening might be supposedto employ
if it spoke at all, "AM I TO BE 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
some grave men looked* like lank sheep
suddenly denuded of their fleeces. It had
now got wind that the paperwas a forgery,
the work ofsome 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 body.
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 upon 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 had
no desire to interfere—how the House
screamed with laughter as Droomgoole es
sayed a grim simile in
of his delicate allusion to the
chemistry employed by the South to era
dicate the dark tints in their variegated
population— how he wound up his trium
phant phillipic by warning his young ad
versaries never again to run on an errand
till they knew whew they were going—
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. In his
pocket-book was found a printed slip con
taining- the following advice:
Keep good company or none. Never
be idle
If your hands cannot be usefully employ
ed attend to the cultivation of your mind.
Always speak the truth. Make few
promises.
Live up to your engagements
When you speak to a man look him in
the face.
Good character is above all things 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 income.
When you retire to bed think over what
you have been doing through the day.
Make no haste tobe rich if you would
prosper.
Small and steady gains give competency
with tranquility of mind.
Never play at any game of chance.
Avoid temptation through fear you may
not be able to withstand it, -„.,....
Earn money before you spend it.
Never borrow, if you can possibly avoid
it.
Never speak evil of any one. Be just
before you are generous.
Keep yourself innocent, if you would be
happy.
Save When you arc, young to spend
when you are old.
VOL I. ST. CLOUD, STEARNS CO., MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 185a NO. 16.
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. At length it began to leak out
that .the paper was not exactly such a doc
ument as the slaveholders in their hot
haste had imagined jt to be. Whereupon
Drbomgoole, of TIT still further modified
the resolutions by setting forth that the
member from Massachusetts had «giveu gfcillwater to Brcokinridge on
color to the idea that slaves had a nght to
petition," etc., a phrase on which Adams
afterwards roasted him alive. Finally the
pro-slavery side began to suspect that
they were pursuing the negro in the
wrong direction that if there was a color
ed individual in the ease at all, he was
more likely to be found in the paling than Proceed. One thing iii this connection
of a shrill key that penetrated to the renio- N *1~ &« expense and
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XIV, VERSE
Norther Route. I
Once (here, »n«l away will soon open to
in the petition, and so they stopped to take worthy of note. The present lied River to lis St. Paul as the natural outlet of this
breath. trade raigM be principally stormed in St. 'whole region. The six hundred carts now
Then Mr. Adams rose to addressthe .Ioil(j .,v
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A few euterpvuing merchants with a
moderate capital, added Io ou»- urgent bt«
sinoss list would eu tlle St. Clo.idto UIIM
eept toe Red River trade and to do several
other things which would be very well
worth the doing.
Emigran and Railroad
from St. Pau to Puget's Sound.
The.lliCaS developed in the (tending con
test of the Canadian people wait the Hud
son's Bay Company, for the possession of
ihe splendid territorial prize, which has
been so long locked up under the avaricious
rule of that trading monopoly, has awaken
ed an interest in relation to the part of the
British posessions, which lies contiguous
to the north-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 lludsons Bay, and passing along the
same parallels of latitude from the climate
of Lapland, to the climate of Crimea, from
t!ie 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 ofthe Winnepeg, and islanded by
artic snows on the north and cast 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 ofsupportingapopulation of30,000,000.
The effortof the Hudson'sBay audNorth
west Conpanics 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 this whole region,
with objects adverse to projects of coloniza
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 ofits economical bearings, all the sub
limity of a continental discovery. The a
gents of the Canadiairgoverumeni have
done for the terra incognita of Rupert?
Laud more than Livingston lias done for
the interior of Africa, or than Perry did for
Japan. They have added a new 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
poratiou-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 expause 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 first
Railway to the Pacific. The level Yalley 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 tonus our
northwestern boundry, and adds 500 miles
more to this splendid chain of inland navi
gation, fixes across these level steppes the
best route in the world for a Railroad and
the Rooky 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's river,
the mostpraoticable passes in the whole
chain. The extraordinary deflection of the
isothermal lines which carry the climate of
St-
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frail bit of paper rustling in the speaker's Ihreo-year-old.ciJy liave hacn so 'may aecu- this commercial and geographical fact, the
aged hand,he calledthe Speakers attention
to the question he had put tohim three days
ago, which stillremainedUnanswered, viz,:
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
litfiug lauds
tiipUal employ*!?
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We giv. the followi»g able article fa. S S S a a S S
the PioneenScDemocaat 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,.
We have little doubrthat the first railroad
that shall connect our eastern and western
seaboards will be this Northern route but
the line now in process of construction from
the Red
River will be completed in a few years with
connections that will give a continuous rail
road from the Schuylkill to the Otter
Tail.
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,,(Ue bere and on their way-which bring in the
first instalment ofour annual trade with the
iv is of is a
yot forryago. iho nerciianb? off our evidence of the growing recognition of
»H\ :iig iOWil Sites i-icti •'.»
in oilier tie^s is alto-
geiher lusumc'eut to sunplv ftte vlemand
for merchandise. If it were nut so, Si.
Cloud would, in a great mvsure, relieve
'r. l\'iil from i.lie :*a.seiice of ihe Re^l
iicii liave iown a dis
rv. io jvieuase Itere an«l
mer-CiiKiiia more than
tii°y did last year!, although their stock of
lioods is quite inferior to v/iiai it then was.
5.is Trie
The gold discoveries ou Fraser's river
tvill rp-produce in British Oregou the phe
aoineu.i of the growth of California. Thon
saadsare already flocking from the occupied
field* of the Litter to the new theatre
opened by the former. The pi^eslige ofSan
Fvanciscois about to be lost in the new
marvel on Pu^ct's Sound, and the new
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 Orleans-
These events mark out an important part
for Minnesota, and especially for 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 Souad will be discussed and the
report of.i committee on the subject read.
Oi'the benefit* that would accrue to this
city from the establishment ofsuch a route,
•t would be superfluous to say anything now.
It would open a career for St. Paul second
to that of no other city in the Mississipi
valley, aud crown her the commercial queen
of the Northwest- Pioiieer&Dcnwcrat.
Visiter Correspondence.
l'ayncsville July oth. 1858.
I send you five subscribers for the Visiter
and hope to do more when times will permit
and if I am considered one ofyourseveral 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 yourProspectus. Inregardto farming
I report progress, and judging frompresent 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, groin and prodi forj 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 I
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 prariee 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 4th
came on Sunday, we had religeous exercises
we concluded to celebrate the 5th. Suffice 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 ihe town of Paynesville,
were) speakers of the day, and did justice to
the occasion. The former delivering a Poem
15. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Milwaukee along the whole
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 mostcapaciousharbors on the
Pacific afforded by the inlets of Puget's
Sound, add the last link to the chain of geo
gaapnical affinities which connect theempo
rium ofPacific commercein British Oregon,
through the magnificent valleys of the Sas
katchewan and Red River, with the basiuof
the Misissipi at St. Paul on one hand, and
perhaps atsome future day with tha 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
as a further
Hudson's Bay Company have this year for
wardedoverthreehnndred packagesofgoods
from New York via St. Paul to their posts in
the British Possessions-an important tes
timony extorted from the most reluctant of
witnesses to the superiority of ibis route.
Thus while the progress of investigation
and the march of events have been rapidly
unfolding, one after anothei, the vast capac
'ticsof this region anew development more
vnmediately impor ant iban all the rest has
arisen at thcPacfic eshemity of the route,
already fixed by all physical conditions'
which fixes it irieveiably in ihe interest* of
political economy, and, by determining the
tendencies of emigration, hastens to an im
mediate issue the solution of tlie great
Northern Pacific Railway scheme, ofwnich
the Canada and Minnesota systems are links.
on the Union of merit, wit andsarcasm, which, "\, "»jr*L
will "long beremembered whilethe latter after
refering to thefocts In history, from the diseov
eryof America to the present time, closeod
upon Tea, Coffee, Tobacco and Whiskey said
that the beat tea party he ever heard of was at
Boston, when 840 chests of tea were steeped at
one drawing and after.fully giving the "m©-,
dus operandi" of making coffee, said, throw
in the swill pail and take a glass of cold wat«^3
vfter the repast and a ride to the lake, tht
Richmond and Cold Spring folks left for home,
an satisfied with a cold water celebration.
Yours &c. E. E. PAY.NE.
n,w««iiiM«aMM
St. Cloud June 26th 1858
St. Cloud Vinter,
I returned to this place yeeter^
day from" Breckenridge oh Bed 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 coinmug. In
the. first place. A. good- road can bemade on the
line located with but very little expense. The
country is far better suited for a road than
that which the "old Pembina trail" travefses.
Very few bod 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 portion
ofit. 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
who^doubts this I would advice to take atrip
up the Sauk valley and see the fields of wheat,
corn and etctras which there gladden the heart
of the farmer andbe 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 quitea
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, for any one who sees it cannot fail to
like it. Breckenridge is surounded by a fine
agricultural country am) being at the head of
navigation on the Red River, and also the ter
minus of Minnesota & Pacific Rail Road can
not fail to make a large town. The timber is
scarce in the immediate vicinity but this diffi
culty is obviated by the fact that there is an
incxhaustable supply just above on the Otter
Tail .which can be vsily floated dawn and
made into lumber and fuel. A large "drive"
is now within a few miles of Breckinridge,
wuich demonstrates the practicability of this.
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 tl.rough the brush and timber,
and to bridge a few of the bad sloughs, so that
ihe travel will be directed into that channel I
have no doubt but the whole country along the
line will be settled within two years.
C, BBOWN.
DECREASE OF EMIGRATION.—We learn
from the^f. Y. Herald that the last report
of the Commissioners of Emigration shows
a great decrease in the numberof emigrants
arriving at the port of New York from the
first of January to the 23d inst. The
arrivals for that period are, in fact, less
than half those of the same time last year.
The number up to June 23, 1857, was
81,608 while that of the present year is
only 30,450. The Herald remarks:
This decrease is, unquestionably, attirbu
tahle 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 manv 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 incretitude of fortune
which seemed to await them here. It will
probably be some years before the tide of
emigration falk again into its old channel.
Punishment of a Wood Thief.
Iu the depth of a hard winter's night, in
Northern New York, a gentleman heard a
aoise at a big wood pile, and sallaying forth
found a manjust leaviug, dragging a sled on
which were a few sticks, purloined from the
pile The sled was overtaken and he begged
for mercy, averring that his family was free
zing ^Come back, you rascal, with that
sled,"said the owner of the wood and the
culprit dragged it back to the pile, and be
gan to unload. "Stop that,you rascal, and
culprit dragged
ga to unload
4
put on a sled full!" said the owner and
fter nilins the sled to its full capacity,ad
after piling
nVi
ou scamp!" The cul-
prit could barely start the load, but the
application of switeh and an oath or two
from the rough but good natured owner of
the pile the load was got under way, and
for half a mile, with snow knee doearwas
&*ulprit forced a dog W
S the deor of hisfirelesscabin, leady
foil down from the labor of hanlm&Uie
wad "There," said the owner, youjebttn
dreli'll teach you to steal my wood «e*t
time a& for wo\d!" That was jus»ee tern
pcrcjj^n inca-cy.
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