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®sr Cmigrnnt Ift Stem®!, Cm OF KIKINCIER, Dakota Co., N. T.« SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1857 Our Paper. We present our readers with the third number of our paper. We are happy to be able to say that our last met with a very cordial reception and we are encouraged to go on energetically in our labors. To our patrons, to our fellow-citizens, to the public at i large, and more particularly to advertisers, we say, that no labor will be left unperformed, no pains will be spared, to make the Emigrant Aid Journal one of the lead- ing papers of Minnesota. We are of those who believe that whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. Our paper has many advantages which those desirous of advertising should reflect on. It has a very large circu- lation both east and west. Our next issue will contain an advertisement in reference to the Nininger and St. Peter Western Railroad Company, and five thousand copies of the paper will be taken by the Company for gratuitous distribution. In the same manner, indepen- dently of the legitimate circulation of the paper, which is large, very many copies are sent around* the country to such points as are deemed important. Numbers find their way East and even to Europe. There are few sheets in which parties desiring to advertise will find greater advantages than in this. From our brethren of the Press we have also received a flattering welcome. Our object and aim in the Journal are hailed as timely. Our efforts are commended as being in the right direction to be productive of incal- culable good to the Territory. With them, shoulder to shoulder, we shall march on in solid column,bearing aloft rhe banner of peace and good will to everything that shall extend the greatness of our chosen land. With them we shall live to rejoice in the rapid growth of our Territory, until it shall enjoy the accumulated blessings of a great, prosperous and virtuous population, happy under a social and educational system that shall extend their advantages to unnumbered millions. We are encouraged to hope that we shall soon be enabled to issue the Journal weekly. In that case the yearly price to those already on our list will not be increased, whatever it may be to others. Our Town. Nothing can be more lovely than the appearance of the town at this time. The fields around are decked with rich and variegated flowers, whose perfumes euliven the healthful breezes as they sweep over the hills. On our outmost bluff we become impressed with the matchless beauty of the green lawn-like slopes that stretch out for miles up, down, and across the placid river, and back into the distant prairie. Improvements are still rapidly going on ; the driving hammer and humming saw echo their cheering sounds as they ply on their busy work. Some twenty buildings are now under way, and many others are projected ; among the latter is a building for the Manufacturing Company, and one for a hardware store. The avenues and streets have been much improved under the vigorous labor of a large gang of workmen, and the plowed lines that indicate their bounds give promise of being marked by the uprising buildings that wild extend along in close array. The contract for cutting and grading Clarke Avenue has been given to Mr. J. Jackson, who is to have the work finished within two months. This is an important feature in the system of improvements that is to build up and beautify our town. If the lot owners on the high ground below the cutting would combine together and adopt some plan to have it levelled off with the Avenue, and have a beautiful and even slope extending along to the Eagle Mill,there is no estimating the ad- vantage that would result from it. With a landing equal to any on the river, and extending almost a mile long, the incomparable beauty Nininger, with all its growing advantages, would then be brought into full view from the river, and an effect produced on every beholder that would be spread abroad as a standard of loveliness and facility. The roads to the back country will likely be under way before the issue of another number ; the ferry boat now on its way hither, willthen also be plying back and forth on its stated mission, bringing accommodating ad- vantages to add to our business prosperity. By that time, too, will the preliminary arrangements of the rail- road be so far advanced as to add strength to the swell- ing tide of prosperity. In regard to the railroad there are matters necessarily withheld from publication for a time, that no hindrance be placed in carrying out the object in view ; but those cognizant of the various movements and influences brought to bear in the matter express themselves perfectly satisfied that the under- taking will be carried right through. We are happy to chronicle the arrival of G. 0. Rob- ertson, Esq., and family, who are now numbered among our permanent population. In their society the town will be rich gainers. From a city life of extensive and honored business relations, Mr. R. has early retired to enjoy the beauties of a residence in this town, whose claims he carefully examined ere he gave it the prefer- ence. We can also announce that Ignatius Donnelly, Esq., is now at St. Paul, and with his family will shortly take rooms at the * Handyside House' until his own mansion, now in course of construction in Nininger, is ready for his reception. Too Much Special Legislation. When the foundations of our institutions were laid, the men who performed the work accepted no model or example to copy from. They cast aside the blind pre- cepts and maxims that bad governed men in establishing codes of laws in all ages, and chose as their standard their own common sense, that they might develope a armo- nious and just system in the machiney of govern- ment that should give to the whole people their equal share in its burdens and blessings. From the time they promulgated their great Declaration of prin- ciples up to the present day, the profound wisdom of their course has been verified as being founded in truth and justice. Precedent they entirely ignored as they reared their Constitutional plan, and regarded the mov- ing influences around them with an outward eye, and sought to adjust them in harmonious action. In this their greatness laid more in their power to resist the influences of the extreme systems that the statesmen and philosophers of the old world at that time considered themselves compelled to choose from, than in working out a new order of things. But the great example thus set has had but little effect in controlling the action of oar modern legislation. Precedent,as of old,still sways in all the Councils of our Constitution and law makers, while they rear monuments to those who ignored such precedent And thus the world finds no progress—no onward movement—from the time of the inauguration of that system that has developed whatever is glorious in our Republican insti- tutions. Democracy is acknowledged to truly underlie the structure of our Government, and yet in rearing our various fabrics of State government the claims of those principles are not properly revered, and power and in- fluence are too often given into the keeping of systems and irresponsible agents, when they might be better left in the hands of tbp people. , The Delegates to our State Convention are chosen their< duty will be to Jay down the fundamental pnnciples upon which the future legislation of the Sjate is to be based. We doubt not but their labors will be creditable to them, as they have been chosen with due deliberation as the men eminently fitted for the duty devolving upon them. What we fear is that the cry of ‘ innovation ’ may impel them to comply too strictly with the customs and habits of thoughts too generally prevailing, that in the State legislation may all the wants of the people be safely confided. We have no more profound reverence for men chosen as legislators than for any other body of men : we be- lieve they are as liable to err, and be injudiciously swayed as other classes of meu, ami therefore would remove from their control all exercise of power where it does not affect the State at large, and leave it entirely with the parties affected. What is needed to do this with safety is some system of general laws to obviate the necessity of special legislation. Provision should be made requiring individuate, families, towns —the community to any extent where the interests are com- mon—to conform to certain preliminaries, and establish their compliance, therewith before some responsible official, and then to be allowed to enter upon the desired privilege in accordance with the true domocratic principle of the majority. What we have to suggest at this time, and what we desire to see followed by the Convention, is to have the Legislative power thus restricted as far as practicable, without interfering with the machinery of the State Government, and open to the people, iu their various communities, the power to legislate for themselves under the general provisions above suggested. Legislative assemblies are but encumbered with ill- understood duties whiclT are impolitic for them to enforce, in having specially to provide for the wants of towns, villages, cities, and other small divisions of territory, iu their local administration, also for banking, manufacturing and other combinations of business. It leaves members open to unpleasant suspicion often, when in good faith they become misled by the sinister designs of arful men, even where they may not be influenced by base motives. at Klnlnger. What can be more useless than the legislative func- tion exercised upon the private affairs of some small remote district, unknown to or understood by men acci- dentally invested with such powers ; or their solemn debate over the change of a name, or some such trivial matter ? In the case of the last winter’s Territorial legislation we may learn how prone such bodies are to over-estimate their importance, and how easily they are led to believe themselves furthering the interests of the Territory, in wrangling over an ill-advised matter, to the neglect of the wants of the honest and industrious settler, whose interests, wide-spread though they were, amounted to many times the importance of the removal of the capital. How much injury is yearly done the Territory in thus hedging in the efforts of those seeking to develope the abundant resources around them—how many towns have their prosperity checked, and the remedy convenient at hand—how many persons have their hopes blasted, themselves discouraged, and disheartened, for the lack of some despotic-like pass withheld—and other unnum- bered evils resulting from the almost necessary neglect of duties that in nO wise should devolve on the State government—no imagination can fathom. Neglecting Opportunities. In our last issue we presented some thoughts in re- gard to the aspects of Minnesota in 1857. We now wish to offer, in connection, some suggestion in review of past emigration in comparison with the present, in order to urge upon those who are aiming to improve their condition out. West, to spare no time iu putting their plan in execution. It is yet but a few years comparatively, since the first hardy pioneer of western life left the sterile lands of the eastern settlements to make himself a home in the richer and more inviting lands of the West. His sole object was to claim undisputed possession of a spot whereon, in manly independence, he could rear his family. His faith was never enlivened by the hope of attaining to wealth or honors by the steady accumulation of numbers around him. Imperceptibly the movement went on at first, for no streams of population from the old world were then breaking upon the shores of the new. But uninviting as such a life of toil and depri- vation must have been, the life of the settler was also one of disquiet and danger. The ferocious beast of the forest disputed with him his right to encroach on his lono'-held domain, and whose numbers made the contest one of doubtful import during many of the early years of his new life. But a worse than brute enemy was the red man of the forest to the emigrant, untamed or spirit- broken as he is now, whose craftiness and cruelty in pertinaciously contesting the white man’s advance into his hereditary wilds, marked every foot with scenes of strife and bloodshed, and clothes the history of that period with scenes of harrowing cruelty and daring ad- venture, that make it seem but a startling romance. Slowly the dangers and difficulties of those days wore away. The trudging, foot-wearied settler was followed by the emigrant wagon on the government road, and that again by the indifferently provided steamer, that now commenced to ascend the large rivers ; he began also to enjoy the fostering care of government, whose pro- tecting arm was thrown around the infant settlement. Swifter and wider, too, under these influences, became the advances of civilization, aided by the rapid improve- ment of steam with all its facilities, until the few acres that were, year by year, at first taken up, increased to wide and extended districts. But the early settler had become stricken with his life’s weary toils aud strifes, ere this picture rose before his eye. No repining thought crossed his mind, how- ever, that his life had thus passed away, while the whole legacy he bequeathed his children was as nothing com- pared to the rich domain that may be possessed at once in our Territory at this day. His children had to .grow eye-dim in looking forward to the day when they should sec their children cujoying the blessings of life’s refine- ments around them. How different all things now : the emigrant with his maps, guides, and government reports, studies the exact spot where he wishes to go ; he reviews all the advan- tages present and prospective—couuts on the railroad and steamer that bring with them to his door all the lux- uries of life—and almost with the certainty of dem- onstration sums up, that by a certain number of years, that leave no mark of care or anxiety on his as- cending life, he will have attained to the enjoyment of easy affluence. In setting forth on the magnificent steamer or luxurious car, to enjoy the well appointed accommodations throughout his line of travel, no fear of forest beast or cruel man to be encountered, interferes with the enlivening pleasure he feels at the happiness prevailing all around him. His accession to his new home is hailed with delight, and he enters upon all the privileges of the place upon an equal footing with the most favored. Schools and churches, now so much con- tributing to the happiness of our race, shed forth their light and comfort with the early advent of the settler ; and he is hardly made to feel the loss of the refinements of early life, so readily are they transferred to his wil- derness home. Here we have slightly sketched the contrast of the early with the present emigration ; the imagination can fill up the picture with like favoring advantages now enjoyed, that rise in unbidden thousands as we dwell on the subject. But broad and extended as is the domain thus offered to the free acceptance of the world, its out- most limits must soon be reached. * Already are we planted on the west bank of the great*) Valley of the Silver Trade. Mississippi by the rushing torrent that pours in from the old world. Accumulating day by day, these down- trodden hosts will, in their children, rule the destinies of this favored land, as lords of the soil, while those whose good the gift of the laud was intended to further, arc content to forego the permanent blessing in the en- joyment of the crumbs that fall to their share. . From this important position as the garden ot the world, the tide begins fast to flow onward west, over lands continually decreasing in value, until on the sterile des- erts at the base of the Itoeky Mountains, it shall meet the surging tide already rapidly setting in this way from the Pacific coast. A few years hence all that is desirable in the goodly heritage will be gone ; the longing regrets that are now wasted because men have not been the heirs of the rich possessions gained with so much suffering and priva- tiou, will be augmented a thousand-fold in having slighted the legacy that will, under their own eyes, at- tain an importance and attractiveness equalling the most favored spots of the old world. Grand Celebration of the Fourth of July As will be seen from the advertisement in another column our citizens have made preparations to celebrate the Fourth on a grand scale in this town. No pains or expense have been spared to have it exceed anything that will come oft' elsewhere in the Territory. This en- tertainment has been got up with especial reference to afford an opportunity to our citizens far and near,around us, to here join in friendly meeting to commemorate the day of our beloved country’s independence. We are happily provided in our citizens with a class whose abilities and accomplishments have graced the public halls in the great eastern cities. Their services will be brought into requisition to give our citizens and visitors an intellectual treat worthy of the day. Besides the oration to be given by I. Donnelly, Esq., who on many like occasions has drawn warm applause from gratified thousands in other places, and the reading of the Declaration of Independence by G.H. Burns Esq. —. whose graceful elocution will be the none less appreciated in having it exercised to give interest to that noble lega- cy of our forefathers—ample provision will be made - to meet every want and gratify every taste. A splendid banquet at the Handyside House willbe spread in the afternoon, and Music,Fire Works with all the pharapha- nalia that so much adds to the zest of that day’s pleasure will be brought to bear on this occasion. In the evening, those who are so diposed may enjoy themselves in the mazy dance, the cheerful song or in listening to the discoursing of sweet music. But what we esteem more than all these sources of en- joyment will.be the auspicious time to form endearing ties and bind in friendship’s silken cords of love, those who from every quarter of the land,have come out hither to hew themselves homes in the great West. We promise all a greeting of open hands and warm hearts from every man, woman and child,who will layby every care to heartily engage in this labor of love. We cordially invite our neighbors from Prescott, Point Douglas, Hastings—all above, below and around—- to join us on this occasion, and come up with glad feelings that here we may commence that cementing of kindly interests that we hope willbring forth glad fruits to us, our children, and children’s children, as our centering interests year by year become molded together. In these towns are many citizens whose names we delight to honor, and on fitting occasions we shall show how we can ap- preciate the acceptance of our kindly greeting. We shall feel that in our mutual endeavors to bring into lively exercise our ennobling faculties of love and friend- ship on that great and sacred day,we shall be made hap- pier for all time, we shall all feel the sustaining arm of friendly sympathy as we go forward to complete the great work so auspiciously begun by us, to make the wilderness blossom like the rose. To those our neighbors, then, one and all, we send out glad welcome to join with us in our celebration of the Natal Day of our country’s blessed and glorious in- stitutions. Important. —We understand that the proprietors of the town on the first Monday of August next, intend calling a public sale here, and selling the lots of all such persons as have not before that time commenced bona fide their improvements in accordance with the stipulations of their deeds. We are glad of this. We are also glad that this sale will include those lots upon which four logs have been left to blacken in the sun as an earnest of a house at some future time, —a’perfect bur- lesque and an imposition both upon the town and the proprietors. When such parties bought lots at the ori- ginal cost, they entered into an undertaking to improve on them—and that undertaking must be carried out in good faith , —the essential element of all contracts ; and certainly good faith is not shown by any such trick or catch upon words. A public sale will however be made and the claimant allowed to settle his claim by a suit at law afterwards. The pleasantness of travel up the Mississippi river is not well understood East; many believe that the voy- age is one of discomfort and poor accommodations on ordinary steamboats. Such people forget the rapidity things have progressed within a fewyears out here; and suppose that the one-horse steamboat that occasionally wended its slow and tedious way into the upper wilder- ness to bear supplies to the Indians and traders ; or con- veyed a company of U. S. troops to some station is still depended on or but little improved. This is very erro- neous —nothing can be found anywhere to excel the mag- nificent accommodations provided for the weary railroad voyager, who, on board of the large and roomy steamer, is regailed with all the elegancies of the season,and retires at night to repose iu luxurious saloons,while he is speeded on his way as fast as on any other river in the country. There are eleven large side-wheeled steamers belonging to ouecompany alone; these were fitted up without regard to expense to equal the best on the river. Besides these there are at least twenty or thirty more, some making regular trips and others only occasionally, going back and forth to various points on the lower part of the river and also up the Ohio. Political Papers. —As our Territorial affairs are so likely to be interesting for a season,some of our Eastern readers may perhaps wish to consult their respective party papers on various points; wo therefore give the names of some of the principal organs of the various parties. St. Paul, of course, being the metropolis, has within herself the leading journals, and they would do credit in their intellectual and mechanical preparation to any of the large cities East. The Pioneer and Democrat stands high in the estima- tion of the Democratic Party and well deseves its charac- ter for great ability; it has access to information through the Territorial officials that gives it importance among all classes. It is no party hack, however, but speaks fairly and candidly on all matters relating to Territorial affairs of a political nature. The Times and the Miancsotian are both Republican, the former being more reformatory in its tendencies than the latter. Both, however, ably and zealously advocate the principles of their party. The Republican , of St. Anthony is awcll conducted weekly paper, sustaining the same party, and is highly esteemed for its fearlessness and ability, and will compare with its metropolitan co- temporaries as a leading journal of that party The Advertiser , although not a political paper, may be mentioned here a» the business orgqj) of St. Paul. Through its columns access is had to a very large plass of business men, who consult it in regard to the specuhk- and adventures of the day. It is much prized as 1 careful collater of interesting information, and is prefeim red by the business community who eschew politics. 1 < —--•» - THE EMIGRANT AID JOURNAL. Modern Spiritualism. Travelers in Minnesota. Notwithstanding all the exposures, attacks and defeats of this modern wonder, it still seems to be progressing not only in this country but throughout the world.— Spiritualism has now been fairly established as a regular system of religion in this country; its preachers are very numerous—among whom rank some of the bright- est intellects of our day. The fierce opposition it has met with has but aided to its spread, until now its vo- taries aro counted by millions. For a long time it met with but littleelse than ridicule from the clergy and the professors of learning, but whenever either of these classes gave the matter a personal examination, they were generally forced at least to admit there was some wonderful phenomena attached to it, which they could not account for. While many of these still vehemently opposed it, others accepted its claims, and became its most active votaries. Doctors of Divinity, Professors, and Judges have each successively advocated the claims of the Spiritual Theory in voluminous books, and in the weekly and monthly periodicals that have sprung up so numerously all over the land to advocate it. There seems at present a more ready ear open to its claims on the part of the literati. At Cambridge College an earnest and thorough investigatiou is going on under the'- supervision of Prof. Agassiz and his colleagues. It was brought about by reason of its spread among the students of that institution. In trance, Louis Napoleon and court have also been paying Spiritual manisfestations attention. A young gentleman from this country was the medium through whom the mysterious phenomena were exhibited, and the journals there say, the effect was convincing to all who witnessed them, that they were supernatural. The Catholic journals are complaining of the great progress the belief is making among their clergy. The Pontiff and his court having endeavored to disprove it, have aided its rapid promulgation throughout Italy. While we may well doubt its claims to spiritual or divine origin, from the fruits it has tints far brought forth j or from any new principles it has enunciated to add to the happiness of the human family, we believe the causes of these modern phenomana must soon be estab- lished to the satisfaction of all minds when once its claims pass through the ordeal of the never-failing tests of natural laws. The Indian Trust Lands.— ln all the Territories there are large tracts of land which been specially reserved to various tribes of Indians. Whenever it be- comes necessary to have these Indians removed, the General Government takes charge of the disposal of their lands, holding them in trust until they can be ad- vantageously disposed of. But emigration often over- strips the calculations of the Government, and the set- tler recognizes no distinction of ownership in the great wilderness whither he has sought himself a home, and bis claims are generally allowed. In Minnesota there are very populous towns that have been built on some of these reservations, as they are called, and the districts around have been thickly settled, long before any title, save that of the squatter’s, can be bad for the land. It is in these districts more particularly, where the squatter laws, heard of so much East, bear such su- preme sway, aud visit such terrible punishment on the infringers of them. It is not beoause of any cruelty of disposition, nor unjust selfishness, that these settlers act in so summary a manner, as they are as anxious to pro- tect those that seek a home in accordance with them as to punish their infractors. Their property can alone be preserved to them by maintaining their own supreme sway. By these squatter laws and customs, very little suffices to make a claim upon these tracts. You find an unoc- cupied quarter section, you lay upon it a foundation consisting of four logs laid across each other, with your name written on one of them. This holds your land a month ; at the end of the month you must build a log cabin, break up a few acres and inclose them, and your title is perfect. Thsse laws do not bind you to hold the land in person ; you may often do it by tenant. You must be careful, however, that your tenant is reliable, for should the claim be deserted for a week or more it becomes liable to be ‘jumped.’ An appeal to your neighbors to protect your claim while you are necessari- ly absent, even for a long period, is sure to be heeded. It often happens that a settler may desire to go East for his family, in which case his cabin is fitted up for him, his crops looked after, and other matters attended to for him, if he is not able to pay for such help, by a concerted action among his neighbors. Our town being on the river enjoys much of the notice of those passing up and down on their tour through our Territory. We could publish extracts laudatory of Minnesota from the letters of these tourists that would fill our paper. must not overlook a late letter in the Philadelphia Bulletin , however, as the writer is pleased to refer to our establishment, in noticing Ninin- ger in his observations on the attractive spots that took his attention while out here. He says : After dinner, as you come on deck picking your teeth, fresh varieties of bluffs and islands please the eye, the timber on the bank grows larger and things have almost a Pennsylvania look. Prescott is the next important town, after which comes Hastings. This latter place lies in a prairie three miles long, and has grown up within three years. It will be an important town, and even now does a lively business. Nininger is the next thriving place you pass. We looked at it with much interest, remembering that a year ago it was nothing, and that, by the enterprise and energy of its proprietors, (Philadelphians and Pennsyl- vanians, among whom are I. Donnelly, John Nininger and George H. Burns, Esqrs.,) it has already taken a front rank in the real, solid river towns of Minnesota. It lies beautifully, just at a bend of the river, though a saw mill which puffs away right on the bank does not add anything to the picturesqueness of the view. Back *of the town, which, as nearly as we could tell from the deck, is well laid out, is a most beautiful rolling plain, which, we should think, extended nearly twenty miles in undulations pleasant t<J the eye; above and below, as far as the eye could reach, were forests of beach, oak and other trees, whose genus we could not distinguish, though they seemed familiar. Subsequently we learned that the lots in Nininger are held very high in St. Paul and that the projected railroad to St Peter (to which the capital may be removed, if the influence of St. Paul is not too powerful,) is a settled thing. A newspaper is about being established there (or may be by this time) the steam press having been ordered some time ago.— The power will be supplied by the saw-mill, so that the same puff of steam which sends out a sawn plank, will aid iu sending out a great number of icise saws, and every puff from the steam pipe may be tallied by a puff from the editorial columns. The California Farmer. —This is one of the most able farm journals in the United States and is equal to any of our eastern papers in point of mechanical ap- pearance. California has been noted from the first for its able and beautiful papers, many of which with the Fanner, we have constantly received during our inter- regnum. No farmer who proposes to leave the East for California should fail to have this instructive journal to post himself thoroughly in all that pertains to the inter- nal wealth of that fine State. We are sorry to learn by our coteraporary that an unexampled drought is like- ly to blast all the hopes of the farmer for this season, and other journals express great fears of having a fam- ine from the total destruction of crops there. The Farmer is published weekly at San Francisco, at $5 a year. We will supply any one with a specimen number, and will receive subscriptions at this office. Dred Scott, whose case caused so much commotion lately on account of the extraordinary decision of the U. S.Supreme Court, has been made free by his owner, to- gether with all his family* We are not yet fully posted iq regard t.Q legal adver- tising, but suppose that journals of large circulation must be the medium for legal notices. Will Some one inform us on this point ? Home Summary. The St. Anthony papers state that both gold and cop- per mines have lately been discovered there. The pro- prietor was offered and refused SIO,OOO for the ore that would be taken up in digging a canal through the mine for a water power on his place. Nininoer and St. Peter Railroad Co. —By a notice in another column it will be seen that the stock books of a railroad from Nininger to St. Peter, Min- nesota, will shortly be opened at St. Paul and Nininger. The raod will be put under contract almost immediately and will be a paying concern, as it runs through one of the best portions of the Territory, which is settling up with marvelous rapidity. The termini are both impor- tant towns, and if the design of moving the State Capital to St. Peter is carried out, that place will rank next to St. Paul.— Philada.Bulletin. A large black bear was killed on an island in Sibley Co., on the 3d. inst. It weighed 500 lbs. A deer that had evidently been chased by dogs pass- ed through the outskirts of Nininger last week. A shot or two was fired at it as it passed through to the river. The poor brute must have been astonished to find a city here where last year it may have roamed at ease. The survey of the road from Winona to St. Peter has been placed on file at the land office in the latter place. The Hutchinson family, of singing celebrity, are all engaged in farming in their new home in this Territory. A gentleman writing to the Minnesotian says of them : In passing through the pleasant village of Hutchinson on Wednesday last, I saw Asa B. of the Hutchinson Family, leading off some six men planting corn. The way Asa used the hoe plainly shows that he knows how to farm. He looks very much like a New Hampshire farmer, withdiis hickory shirt and tow pants. John, of the same family, has also a good crop in ; but not so much as Asa. The three boys, Judson, John and Asa, have expended nine thousand dollars in Hutchinson which is their future home, and by the class of people they are bringing in, any one would suppose that Hutchinson is rather a Yankee settlement. Hon. W. B. Gere, the newly appointed U. S. Mar- will commence taking the census of the Territory as soon as the Constitutional Convention accepts the Con- gressional Enabling Act. Important to Pre-Emptors —We have been shown a copy of a Circular from the General Land Office at Washington, dated June 22d, 1857, and directed to the District Office in Minnesota, instructing them * not to allow any pre-emption claim predicated upon a settle- ment made within four months after the receipt of the Circular, on any of the lands withdrawn from market, in view of the provisions of the law of the 3d of March last, making a grant of lands to the Territory of Minne- sota for Railroad purposes.’ An order to this effect has been made by the Secretary of the Inderior.—Minneso- tian. Severe storms of rain and lightning have visited the Territory throughout, lately. We notice at the same time that at the South and East, from Virginia to Maine, they prevailed to a still greater extent, doing immense damage in many places. The grasshoppers that caused ,so much damage to the spring crops in the northern part of the Territory, have all disappeared- Many of the settlers had prepared to leave"the infested district. This visitation is only occa- sional. Public Land Offices. Land Offices for the sale of the public lands in Minnesota, Nebraska, and Kansas Territories, and the States of Wisconsin and lowa, are situated as follows : Minnesota—At Stillwater, Sauk Rapids, Chatfield, Minneapolis, Farribault, Henderson, Buchanan, and Ojibwa. Nebraska —Omaha City, Brownsville, Nebraska City, and Dakota City. Kansas —Lecompton, Doniphan, Fort Scott, and Ogden. Wisconsin—Mineral Point, La Crosse, Menasha, Hudson, Steven’s Point, and Superior. lowa—Dubuque, Charton, Fort Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Osage, Fort Dodge, and Sioux City. Summary or Hews. The Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada has announced that arrangements have been entered into with the proprietors of the Great Eastern, so that this mammoth steamship, of 22,000 tuns burthen, and 2,700 horse power, will make her first voyage to Portland, State of Maine, in connection with the through booking system instituted by this company for the conveyance of passen- gers to Canada and the Western States. Ex-Gov. James H. Hammond of South Carolina has planted 100 acres of the Imphy, the new Sugar Cane f referred to in last week's J ournal. Mr. Leonard Wray, who has been at Silverton, Gen. Hammond’s place on 1 the Savannah river, is superintending the planting of 1 the ground and will direct the cultivation and process , of manufacture according to his patented process, by which he produces granulated sugar. It is Dr. Holmes who says the sons of New England are deteriorating as a race, and says the reason is the > want of material in the soil to produce muscle and bone. The granite soil does not furnish the proper ingredients, 1 mainly limestone, to form the bones ; or the richness of f materials to form muscle and the softer parts of the body. | In Kentucky, Ohio, and western Vermont men grow to , a large size, because of the limestone formation beneath the soil. Parts of families have emigrated from Massa- -5 chusetts to limestone regions, and the result in the next ¦ generation has been a larger bone deyelGpemeqt in those who left Massachusetts than in those who remained. Kentucky, Ohio, lowa and Minnesota will grow large men. The finest figures in the world will be found iu J the valley of the Mississippi in a few generations. In- . door labor, so unnatural for men, will weaken the vital ' powers and stop the growth in large cities, but the great , and growing West, with its broad prairies, will compen- | sate for the growing feebleness of the Eastern States. Singular Effects of Electricity. —A singular occurrence took place a short time since at the locomo- tive works, illustrating the powerful effects of electricity. A locomotive was being moved from the manufactory to the Central depot, and had arrived in the middle of the street, when suddenly all hands dropped the bars with which they were moving the machine and fell back in amazement. Resuming them at the order of the man in charge,they applied them again and fell back paralyzed the instant they touched the iron. The director of the job caught up one of the bars, making a savage thrust, planted it under a wheel, preparatory to giving a huge lift. No sooner had it touched, however, than he saw it fall from his grasp to the ground, as it had done in every case before. Such singular occurrences excited attention, and an examination was made as to the cause, when it was found that the locomotive, in passing under the telegraph line, had come in contact with a broken wire that hung sufficiently low to reach it. The whole mass of iron composing the locomotive had thus become charged with electricity, which had com- municated itself to the bars that the men held in their hands, and caused the effect above described. The wire was theu removed,and the difficulty obviated in a moment. Detroit Free Press. A steam plow has been invented and put in operation in France ; the working implement consists of eight plowshares, four facing one way and four the Other, and thence placed back to back to obviate thgfnecessity of turning; that these eight shares can plow from 19 to 25 English acres in a day, and this with four men, one acting as stoker to the machine, a second as driver or plowman, seated on the implement, * third at the capstan and a fourth as assistant. When a Mormon Elder or graadee dies, his obituary, in noticing the relatives, refer# to them as follows, as in the case of a late chief J. M. Grant : ‘ He has gone now, leaving seven disconsolate widows and several children, four Qswhom are under eight weeks of age, to mourr? their irreparable loss.’ 100 cents of the new cdin are said to weigh a pound, avoirdupois. They overweigh a little, now, but wear i will bring them down. Nevertheless they will be very i bandy weights. The United Association of Schoolmasters of Great i Britain have offered a prize of $125 for a paper on ‘The i best means of making the schoolmaster’s function more < efficient than it has hitherto been in preventing misery j and crime.' A largo meeting in support of the Maine Liquor Law < was held in Exeter Hall, England. The orator of the 1 night and the tnau who was the principal means of at- j trading the vast assembly together was the Hon. Neal Dow. 1 A Washington paper suggests a reform iu the present «. corrupt system of disposing of the public printing. A i national convention of the Democratic journalists is to 1 be called, w> suggest a fairer n;ode of action, 'fhe cost of the public printing has risen, in a few years, from j sooo,ooo to $1,500,000 per Congress—a monstrous cor* t ruption and fraud. j A Panther Booted to DEATH.-Mr.W. B. Stoek* i.' end, a sinewy, stout, active young SostebmftM associated . : in faming with Mr. T. Linklater, Tenalqnot Plains in t this connty> recently killed a large six feet seven inches in length, in a fair fistana boot light. The 9 circumstances are related as follows: It see ms that at the further end of a large field , about i a quarter of a mile from the house. Mr. Stoekend dis: - covered quite a movement and disturbance among a lot . of hogß that were kept in the field. He at once proceeded . in the direction to ascertain the cause, when, to his sur- r prise, at a short distance from the hogs, he discovered f that a favorite young dog was engaged in a conflict with > a panther. Determined to save the dog at all hazards, . he resolved to interpose in the fight, expecting to frighten 1 the panther up a tree that stood hard by, when he could > return to the house for a rifle and bring it down. He accordingly gave the animal a substantial kick, when it ceased its engagement with the dog, straightened iteelf on its hind legs and pitched into him. In the meantime the young dog made a hasty retreat for some distance. The contest now seemed to be a desperate and unequal t one, but there was no escape from it for our friend Btoek- ‘ end. The panther made a furious dash at hipa, but re- a taining his presence of mind, he met it with' a (qyfcqf kick. The fight now assumed the character ofs *9MMiL and tumblea volley of well directed blows andAjoo s disabled the animal somewhat. He called Ids back, . and the faithful young animal, as if ashamed uuriof 1 deserted its master in the hour of peril, and as if to jMapt amends for its ungrateful conduct, entered into the con- * flict with great fierceness Mr Stoekend snceeeded m : getting one foot firmly upon the neck of hie assailant, a and keeping the other in rapid motion in the direction a of the animal's head, soon brought the contest to a close, e He has no doubt that the long heavy boots that he v had on were the means of saving his life. e The fight lasted, first to last, about fifteen minutes, in f the course of which Mr. Stoekend was somewhat rough* h ly handled. His shoulder was badly scratched—he re- e ceived a severe wound in the thigh from the teeth of the b animal, and was scratched in several places, although by e no meaus dangerously, or by which he will hereafter be s disabled.— Olympus Pioneer. A distinguished sporting character of this country •- lately took out some noted American race-horses to try s them against those of the English. lie found it diffi- cult to bring about a match such as he desired, viz., straight four-mile beats; but eventually agreed to run a match as prescribed by the English rules, which was to a have taken place soon after our last news from there, t This attempt to run against the English racers, was e made the occasion forgreat ridicule by the sporting prints o there, designating American horses and riders as only fit for the common road races. This is not uncommon e treatment for Brother J onathan to meet with, will be remembered in the case of the reaping and other agricul- u tural implements tested at the great Exhibition, but - more particularly in the great yacht race, when the s America left her English competitors “no where " be- - hind. P. T. Barnuin, the world-renowned showman, whose e tide of long-continued good fortune was so suddenly e blasted two years since, has just returned from isurope, t sick and dispirited. He went out with the intention of 3 recruiting his fortunes with the help of the exhibitions that succeeded so well on a former occasion, and had B added other celebrities to his undertaking, but could find “ no encouragement there. Ever since he wrote his own 5 biography the charm has left him, and every attempt to recover himself but makes his case worse. Although not a bad-hearted man, his career and disaster points a moral that should not bo lost. , The grasshoppers in some portion of the Territory 4 north have scourged the farmers excessively. Whole . fields of wheat have been destroyed by them in a few * days. In one town everything was nearly destroyed,and j farmers gave up cultivating. A mob of men and boys got up a mock serenade to annoy ex-Gov. Bibb of Ohio, but now residing in Illi- ’ nois, who had just been married : after giving them fair j warning of his intention, he fired upon them, killing two men, when the rest fled. , Curious Athiospheric Phenomenon A oorres" poudent of The Con gressionalist,[writing from Asbtabu- -1 la County, Ohio, after giving an account of a shock of an earthquake in that vicinity, says : “ The most singu- lar phenomenon connected with it was the falling of large balls of snow. It was snowing heavily at the time, al- s though the snow was slightly moist. The next merniug , several gentleman in different parts of the town noticed s large balls of snow lying scattered around, not only in ) the vieinity of their dwellings, but in the open fields ; ; those who examined them describe them as being i as large as a child’s head, and resembling thin layers of snow, rolled together very lightly and dropped down.’ Where they fell upon the side-hill they had j rolled in some instances, two or three feet. I mention j these facts as scraps for the curious.” ' The operations of the Agricultural Bureau of the i U. S. Patent Office, are spreading themselves over every P part of our extended country. The following is a letter , received from a gentleman in Texas : r You will find cqntaiqed ip this, and ajsg in another package mailed at tlie same time, what we suppose to be the native potato. They were certainly growing ip a , wild state, and are found in several places on the Limpia and elsewhere, in the narrow valleys of the Sierra Dia- bolo. These grew in a gravelly scrtl, with a mixture of rich loam, the gravel greatly prevailing, as if washed upon the loamy soil. Thepe $ great- number of piole > aQ d rat holes in the locality. Perhaps the gravel pro? | tected the potato from them One of the Correspondents of the N. Y. Tribune now t in Kansas, thus speaks of the emigrants who go out there, i Somq of the returned emigrants have assured us the nupi? . ber was nearer nine T tentb§ who eame bapk. Do not imagine that of the Northern hordes now i pouring into Kansas all remain One half return. Of * those who arrive one third come merely to look at the country, with a view to future settlement, to specplptiop. and to selecting lands for companies who are to follow. Of the remainde^ a large number are disappointed in the country, in the climate, or in the facility of taking up claims. Many travel a thousand or fif- teen hundred miles, land at Leavenworth, ride some twelve miles out of the city, find lands as high as in their own neighborhood, and go home and say they have seen Kansas. It is not men like these who build up a new country. -f . A little yacht of 23 tons, started from the port of New York the 15th inst. for a voyage to Liverpool.— The crew will consist of five perrons, and a afore of pro- visions for 90 days will be shipped. She is only 4| fept long, with 13$ feet beam, but can spread 800 yards of oanvass. * A curious table, which is given for the first time in the Irish census, looks like an indication of the approach- ing extinction of the Irish language. Less than five per cent, of the population have returned themselves as ignorant of English, and not a fourth of the whole are able to speak the original language of their country. Chicago and Liverpool Direct. —The Chicago (111.) Press, says that the Canadian bark Chieftaiq has boeu chartered by parties in that city to take out wh<at to Europe, early this season, and bring back salt or pig iron. Charter tor the voyage, $15,000, under penalty of $2,000, in the event of failure to fulfil the contract* Elder Pratt, one of the most noted of the Mormon prophets, was lately murdered at Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation,by a man whose wife he had seduced and taken of with him- It seem? that the woman in question was more than ordinarily intelligent, apd was the mother of several children, and bad nothing to complain of against her husband, who was well off. Elder Pratt first made her acquaintance in St. Francisco, and brought her to be- lieve in his doctrines, and persuaded her to elope with him to the East, although he had already eight wives.— The husband followed the pair up closely,and after a long chase back and forth for thousands of miles, oame across them at the above place, where he had Pratt arrested for the abduction of his wife. The Judge, however, dis- missed the case, when Pratt made off and was followed by the injured husband determined on taking summary yengeance in las own hands. ‘He soon Overtook hiA? and shot him dead. The papers in that neighborhood all justify the act. ' The Mormops must soqn feel tfie power of the {Joi, ted States government, in putting a stop to the outrages said to be prevailing in Utah. But this will not be ac- complished until more bloody scenes than they have yet gone through will be wreaked upon them. Gen. Harney, a well-known Indian fighter and an officer who will gladly avail himself of any good pretext to remind them that they are still subject to the U. 8 government; his just been dispatched do that Territory with an army adequate to enforce his authority. If l s high time. Lately several judges and other government officials were driven out of Utah by Brigham Young.— . As a conflict seems inevitable, the sooner it is settledth* better for the credit of our country. Col. Gumming, a St, Louis gentlemm, has been an- pointed Goyerpor of and has signified his iflcep- tance of the post. He is represent as being ably com- petent for the important trust.

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Page 1: THE EMIGRANT AID JOURNAL. ®sr Ift i

®sr Cmigrnnt Ift Stem®!,Cm OF KIKINCIER, Dakota Co., N. T.«

SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1857

Our Paper.We present our readers with the third number of our

paper. We are happy to be able to say that our lastmet with a very cordial reception and we are encouragedto go on energetically in our labors.

To our patrons, to our fellow-citizens, to the public at

i large, and more particularly to advertisers, we say, thatno labor will be leftunperformed, no pains willbe spared,to make the Emigrant Aid Journal one of the lead-ing papers of Minnesota. We are of those who believethat whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

Our paper has many advantages which those desirousof advertising should reflect on. It has a very large circu-lation both east and west. Our next issue willcontainan advertisement in reference to the Nininger and St.Peter Western Railroad Company, and five thousandcopies of the paper will be taken by the Company forgratuitous distribution. In the same manner, indepen-dently of the legitimate circulation of the paper, whichis large, very many copies are sent around* the countryto such points as are deemed important. Numbers findtheir way East and even to Europe. There are fewsheets in which parties desiring to advertise will findgreater advantages than in this.

From our brethren of the Press we have also receiveda flattering welcome. Our object and aim in theJournal are hailed as timely. Our efforts are commendedas being in the right direction to be productive of incal-culable good to the Territory. With them, shoulder to

shoulder, we shall march on in solid column,bearing aloftrhe banner of peace and good willto everything thatshall extend the greatness of our chosen land. Withthem we shall live to rejoice in the rapid growth of our

Territory, until it shall enjoy the accumulated blessingsof a great, prosperous and virtuous population, happyunder a social and educational system that shall extendtheir advantages to unnumbered millions.

We are encouraged to hope that we shall soon beenabled to issue the Journal weekly. In that case theyearly price to those already on our list will not beincreased, whatever it may be to others.

Our Town.

Nothing can be more lovely than the appearance ofthe town at this time. The fields around are decked withrich and variegated flowers, whose perfumes euliven thehealthful breezes as they sweep over the hills. On our

outmost bluff we become impressed with the matchlessbeauty of the green lawn-like slopes that stretch out formiles up, down, and across the placid river, and backinto the distant prairie.

Improvements are still rapidly going on ; the drivinghammer and humming saw echo their cheering soundsas they ply on their busy work. Some twenty buildingsare now under way, and many others are projected ;

among the latter is a building for the ManufacturingCompany, and one for a hardware store.

The avenues and streets have been much improvedunder the vigorous labor of a large gang of workmen,and the plowed lines that indicate their bounds givepromise of being marked by the uprising buildings thatwild extend along in close array.

The contract for cutting and grading Clarke Avenue

has been given to Mr. J. Jackson, who is to have thework finished within two months. This is an importantfeature in the system of improvements that is to buildup and beautify our town. If the lot owners on thehigh ground below the cutting would combine together

and adopt some plan to have it levelled off with theAvenue, and have a beautiful and even slope extendingalong to the Eagle Mill,there is no estimating the ad-vantage that would result from it. With a landing equalto any on the river, and extending almost a mile long,the incomparable beauty Nininger, with all its growingadvantages, would then be brought into full view fromthe river, and an effect produced on every beholder thatwould be spread abroad as a standard of loveliness andfacility.

The roads to the back country will likely be underway before the issue of another number ; the ferry boatnow on its way hither, willthen also be plying back andforth on its stated mission, bringing accommodating ad-vantages to add to our business prosperity. By thattime, too, will the preliminary arrangements of the rail-road be so far advanced as to add strength to the swell-ing tide of prosperity. In regard to the railroad thereare matters necessarily withheld from publication for a

time, that no hindrance be placed in carrying out theobject in view ; but those cognizant of the variousmovements and influences brought to bear in the matter

express themselves perfectly satisfied that the under-taking will be carried right through.

We are happy to chronicle the arrivalof G. 0. Rob-ertson, Esq., and family, who are now numbered amongour permanent population. In their society the town

willbe rich gainers. From a city life of extensive andhonored business relations, Mr. R. has early retired to

enjoy the beauties of a residence in this town, whoseclaims he carefully examined ere he gave it the prefer-ence.

We can also announce that Ignatius Donnelly, Esq.,is now at St. Paul, and with his family willshortly takerooms at the * Handyside House' until his own mansion,now in course of construction in Nininger, is ready forhis reception.

Too Much Special Legislation.

When the foundations of our institutions were laid,the men who performed the work accepted no model orexample to copy from. They cast aside the blind pre-cepts and maxims that bad governed men in establishingcodes of laws in all ages, and chose as their standard theirown common sense, that they might develope a armo-

nious and just system in the machiney of govern-ment that should give to the whole people theirequal share in its burdens and blessings. From thetime they promulgated their great Declaration of prin-ciples up to the present day, the profound wisdom of

their course has been verified as being founded in truthand justice. Precedent they entirely ignored as theyreared their Constitutional plan, and regarded the mov-ing influences around them with an outward eye, andsought to adjust them in harmonious action. In thistheir greatness laid more in their power to resist theinfluences of the extreme systems that the statesmen andphilosophers of the old world at that time consideredthemselves compelled to choose from, than in workingout a new order of things.

But the great example thus set has had but littleeffect in controlling the action of oar modern legislation.Precedent,as ofold,still sways in all the Councils of our

Constitution and law makers, while they rear monuments

to those who ignored such precedent And thus theworld finds no progress—no onward movement—from

the time of the inauguration of that system that hasdeveloped whatever is glorious in our Republican insti-tutions.

Democracy is acknowledged to truly underlie the

structure of our Government, and yet in rearing our

various fabrics of State government the claims of those

principles are not properly revered, and power and in-fluence are too often given into the keeping of systems

and irresponsible agents, when they might be better left

in the hands of tbp people. ,

The Delegates to our State Convention are chosen

their< duty will be to Jay down the fundamental

pnnciples upon which the future legislation of the Sjate

is to be based. We doubt not but their labors will becreditable to them, as they have been chosen with duedeliberation as the men eminently fitted for the dutydevolving upon them. What we fear is that the cry of‘ innovation ’ may impel them to comply too strictlywith the customs and habits of thoughts too generallyprevailing, that in the State legislation may all the wants

of the people be safely confided.We have no more profound reverence for men chosen

as legislators than for any other body of men : we be-lieve they are as liable to err, and be injudiciouslyswayed as other classes of meu, ami therefore wouldremove from their control all exercise of power whereit does not affect the State at large, and leave it entirelywith the parties affected. What is needed to do thiswith safety is some system of general laws to obviatethe necessity of special legislation. Provision shouldbe made requiring individuate, families, towns —thecommunity to any extent where the interests are com-mon—to conform to certain preliminaries, and establishtheir compliance, therewith before some responsibleofficial, and then to be allowed to enter upon the desiredprivilege in accordance with the true domocratic principleof the majority.

What we have to suggest at this time, and what wedesire to see followed by the Convention, is to have theLegislative power thus restricted as far as practicable,without interfering with the machinery of the StateGovernment, and open to the people, iu their variouscommunities, the power to legislate for themselves underthe general provisions above suggested.

Legislative assemblies are but encumbered with ill-

understood duties whiclT are impolitic for them to

enforce, in having specially to provide for the wants oftowns, villages, cities, and other small divisions ofterritory, iu their local administration, also for banking,manufacturing and other combinations of business. Itleaves members open to unpleasant suspicion often, whenin good faith they become misled by the sinister designsof arful men, even where they may not be influenced bybase motives.

at Klnlnger.

What can be more useless than the legislative func-tion exercised upon the private affairs of some smallremote district, unknown to or understood by men acci-dentally invested with such powers ; or their solemndebate over the change of a name, or some such trivialmatter ?

In the case of the last winter’s Territorial legislationwe may learn how prone such bodies are to over-estimatetheir importance, and how easily they are led to believethemselves furthering the interests of the Territory,in wrangling over an ill-advised matter, to the neglectof the wants of the honest and industrious settler,

whose interests, wide-spread though they were, amountedto many times the importance of the removal of thecapital.

How much injury is yearly done the Territory in thushedging in the efforts of those seeking to develope theabundant resources around them—how many towns havetheir prosperity checked, and the remedy convenient at

hand—how many persons have their hopes blasted,themselves discouraged, and disheartened, for the lackof some despotic-like pass withheld—and other unnum-bered evils resulting from the almost necessary neglectof duties that in nO wise should devolve on the Stategovernment—no imagination can fathom.

Neglecting Opportunities.

In our last issue we presented some thoughts in re-gard to the aspects of Minnesota in 1857. We now

wish to offer, in connection, some suggestion in review

of past emigration in comparison with the present, in

order to urge upon those who are aiming to improvetheir condition out. West, to spare no time iu puttingtheir plan in execution.

It is yet but a few years comparatively, since the first

hardy pioneer of western life left the sterile lands of

the eastern settlements to make himself a home inthe richer and more inviting lands of the West. Hissole object was to claim undisputed possession of a spot

whereon, in manly independence, he could rear hisfamily. His faith was never enlivened by the hope ofattaining to wealth or honors by the steady accumulationof numbers around him. Imperceptibly the movement

went on at first, for no streams of population from theold world were then breaking upon the shores of thenew. But uninviting as such a life of toil and depri-vation must have been, the life of the settler was also

one of disquiet and danger. The ferocious beast of theforest disputed with him his right to encroach on hislono'-held domain, and whose numbers made the contest

one of doubtful import during many of the early yearsof his new life. But a worse than brute enemy was thered man of the forest to the emigrant, untamed or spirit-broken as he is now, whose craftiness and cruelty in

pertinaciously contesting the white man’s advance into

his hereditary wilds, marked every foot with scenes of

strife and bloodshed, and clothes the history of thatperiod with scenes of harrowing cruelty and daring ad-venture, that make it seem but a startling romance.

Slowly the dangers and difficulties of those days woreaway. The trudging, foot-wearied settler was followedby the emigrant wagon on the government road, and that

again by the indifferently provided steamer, that now

commenced to ascend the large rivers ; he began alsoto enjoy the fostering care of government, whose pro-

tecting arm was thrown around the infant settlement.Swifter and wider, too, under these influences, becamethe advances of civilization, aided by the rapid improve-ment of steam with all its facilities, until the few acres

that were, year by year, at first taken up, increased to

wide and extended districts.But the early settler had become stricken with his

life’s weary toils aud strifes, ere this picture rose beforehis eye. No repining thought crossed his mind, how-ever, that his life had thus passed away, while the wholelegacy he bequeathed his children was as nothing com-

pared to the rich domain that may be possessed at once

in our Territory at this day. His children had to .groweye-dim in looking forward to the day when they shouldsec their children cujoying the blessings of life’s refine-ments around them.

How different all things now : the emigrant with hismaps, guides, and government reports, studies the exactspot where he wishes to go ; he reviews all the advan-tages present and prospective—couuts on the railroad andsteamer that bring with them to his door all the lux-uries of life—and almost with the certainty of dem-onstration sums up, that by a certain number of years,that leave no mark of care or anxiety on his as-

cending life, he will have attained to the enjoyment ofeasy affluence. In setting forth on the magnificentsteamer or luxurious car, to enjoy the well appointedaccommodations throughout his line of travel, no fear of

forest beast or cruel man to be encountered, interfereswith the enlivening pleasure he feels at the happinessprevailing all around him. His accession to his new

home is hailed with delight, and he enters upon all theprivileges of the place upon an equal footing with themost favored. Schools and churches, now so much con-tributing to the happiness of our race, shed forth theirlight and comfort with the early advent of the settler ;

and he is hardly made to feel the loss of the refinementsof early life, so readily are they transferred to his wil-derness home.

Here we have slightly sketched the contrast of theearly with the present emigration ; the imagination canfill up the picture with like favoring advantages nowenjoyed, that rise in unbidden thousands as we dwell onthe subject. But broad and extended as is the domainthus offered to the free acceptance of the world, its out-

most limits must soon be reached.*

Already are weplanted on the west bank of the great*) Valleyof the

Silver Trade.

Mississippi by the rushing torrent that pours in fromthe old world. Accumulating day by day, these down-trodden hosts will, in their children, rule the destiniesof this favored land, as lords of the soil, while thosewhose good the gift of the laud was intended to further,arc content to forego the permanent blessing in the en-joyment of the crumbs that fall to their share. .

From this important position as the garden ot theworld, the tide begins fast to flow onward west, over landscontinually decreasing in value, until on the sterile des-erts at the base of the Itoeky Mountains, it shall meet

the surging tide already rapidly setting in this way from

the Pacific coast.

A few years hence all that is desirable in the goodlyheritage will be gone ; the longing regrets that are

now wasted because men have not been the heirs of the

rich possessions gained with so much suffering and priva-tiou, will be augmented a thousand-fold in havingslighted the legacy that will, under their own eyes, at-

tain an importance and attractiveness equalling the most

favored spots of the old world.

Grand Celebration of the Fourth of July

As will be seen from the advertisement in anothercolumn our citizens have made preparations to celebratethe Fourth on a grand scale in this town. No pains or

expense have been spared to have it exceed anythingthat willcome oft' elsewhere in the Territory. This en-tertainment has been got up with especial reference to

afford an opportunity to our citizens far and near,aroundus, to here join in friendly meeting to commemorate theday of our beloved country’s independence.

We are happily provided in our citizens with a classwhose abilities and accomplishments have graced thepublic halls in the great eastern cities. Their serviceswill be brought into requisition to give our citizens andvisitors an intellectual treat worthy of the day. Besidesthe oration to be given by I. Donnelly, Esq., who onmany like occasions has drawn warm applause from

gratified thousands in other places, and the reading ofthe Declaration of Independence by G.H. Burns Esq. —.

whose graceful elocution willbe the none less appreciatedin having it exercised to give interest to that noble lega-cy of our forefathers—ample provision will be made - to

meet every want and gratify every taste. A splendidbanquet at the Handyside House willbe spread in theafternoon, and Music,Fire Works with all the pharapha-nalia that so much adds to the zest of that day’s pleasurewillbe brought to bear on this occasion.

In the evening, those who are so diposed may enjoy

themselves in the mazy dance, the cheerful song or inlistening to the discoursing of sweet music.

But what we esteem more than all these sources of en-

joyment will.be the auspicious time to form endearingties and bind in friendship’s silken cords of love, thosewho from every quarter of the land,have come out hitherto hew themselves homes in the great West. Wepromise all a greeting of open hands and warm heartsfrom every man, woman and child,who will layby every

care to heartily engage in this labor of love.We cordially invite our neighbors from Prescott,

Point Douglas, Hastings—all above, below and around—-to join us on this occasion, and come up with glad feelingsthat here we may commence that cementing of kindlyinterests that we hope willbring forth glad fruits to us,our children, and children’s children, as our centeringinterests year by year become molded together. In thesetowns are many citizens whose names we delight to honor,and on fitting occasions we shall show how we can ap-

preciate the acceptance of our kindly greeting. Weshall feel that in our mutual endeavors to bring intolivelyexercise our ennobling faculties of love and friend-ship on that great and sacred day,we shall be made hap-pier for all time, we shall all feel the sustaining arm

of friendly sympathy as we go forward to complete thegreat work so auspiciously begun by us, to make the

wilderness blossom like the rose.

To those our neighbors, then, one and all, we sendout glad welcome to join with us in our celebration ofthe Natal Day of our country’s blessed and glorious in-stitutions.

Important. —We understand that the proprietors ofthe town on the first Monday of August next, intendcalling a public sale here, and selling the lots of allsuch persons as have not before that time commencedbona fide their improvements in accordance with thestipulations of their deeds. We are glad of this. Weare also glad that this sale will include those lots uponwhich four logs have been left to blacken in the sun as

an earnest of a house at some future time, —a’perfect bur-lesque and an imposition both upon the town and theproprietors. When such parties bought lots at the ori-ginal cost, they entered into an undertaking to improveon them—and that undertaking must be carried out ingoodfaith , —the essential element of all contracts ; andcertainly good faith is not shown by any such trick or

catch upon words. A public sale will however be madeand the claimant allowed to settle his claim by a suit atlaw afterwards.

The pleasantness of travel up the Mississippi river isnot well understood East; many believe that the voy-age is one of discomfort and poor accommodations onordinary steamboats. Such people forget the rapiditythings have progressed within a fewyears out here; andsuppose that the one-horse steamboat that occasionallywended its slow and tedious way into the upper wilder-ness to bear supplies to the Indians and traders ; or con-

veyed a company of U. S. troops to some station is stilldepended on or but little improved. This is very erro-neous —nothing can be found anywhere to excel the mag-nificent accommodations provided for the weary railroadvoyager, who, on board of the large and roomy steamer,is regailed with all the elegancies of the season,and retiresat night to repose iu luxurious saloons,while he is speededon his way as fast as on any other river in the country.

There are eleven large side-wheeled steamers belongingto ouecompany alone; these were fitted up without regardto expense to equal the best on the river. Besides thesethere are at least twenty or thirty more, some makingregular trips and others only occasionally, going backand forth to various points on the lower part of the riverand also up the Ohio.

Political Papers. —As our Territorial affairs are solikely to be interesting for a season,some of our Easternreaders may perhaps wish to consult their respectiveparty papers on various points; wo therefore give thenames of some of the principal organs of the variousparties. St. Paul, of course, being the metropolis, haswithin herself the leading journals, and they would docredit in their intellectual and mechanical preparation to

any of the large cities East.The Pioneer and Democrat stands high in the estima-

tion of the Democratic Party and well deseves its charac-ter for great ability; it has access to information throughthe Territorial officials that gives it importance amongall classes. It is no party hack, however, but speaksfairly and candidly on all matters relating to Territorialaffairs of a political nature.

The Times and the Miancsotian are both Republican,the former being more reformatory in its tendencies thanthe latter. Both, however, ably and zealously advocatethe principles of their party. The Republican , of St.Anthony is awcll conducted weekly paper, sustaining thesame party, and is highly esteemed for its fearlessnessand ability, and will compare with its metropolitan co-temporaries as a leading journal of that party

The Advertiser, although not a political paper, may

be mentioned here a» the business orgqj) of St. Paul.Through its columns access is had to a very large plassof business men, who consult it in regard to the specuhk-and adventures of the day. It is much prized as 1careful collater of interesting information, and is prefeimred by the business community who eschew politics. 1

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THE EMIGRANT AID JOURNAL.

Modern Spiritualism.

Travelers in Minnesota.

Notwithstanding all the exposures, attacks and defeatsof this modern wonder, it still seems to be progressingnot only in this country but throughout the world.—Spiritualism has now been fairlyestablished as aregularsystem of religion in this country; its preachers arevery numerous—among whom rank some of the bright-est intellects of our day. The fierce opposition it hasmet with has but aided to its spread, until now its vo-taries aro counted by millions. For a long time it metwith but littleelse than ridicule from the clergy and theprofessors of learning, but whenever either of theseclasses gave the matter a personal examination, theywere generally forced at least to admit there was somewonderful phenomena attached to it, which they couldnot account for. While many of these still vehementlyopposed it, others accepted its claims, and became itsmost active votaries. Doctors of Divinity, Professors,and Judges have each successively advocated the claimsof the Spiritual Theory in voluminous books, and inthe weekly and monthly periodicals that have sprung upso numerously all over the land to advocate it.

There seems at present a more ready ear open to itsclaims on the part of the literati. At CambridgeCollege an earnest and thorough investigatiou is goingon under the'- supervision of Prof. Agassiz and hiscolleagues. Itwas brought about by reason of its spreadamong the students of that institution.

In trance, Louis Napoleon and court have also beenpaying Spiritual manisfestations attention. A younggentleman from this country was the medium throughwhom the mysterious phenomena were exhibited, andthe journals there say, the effect was convincing to allwho witnessed them, that they were supernatural.

The Catholic journals are complaining of the greatprogress the belief is making among their clergy. ThePontiff and his court having endeavored to disprove it,have aided its rapid promulgation throughout Italy.

While we may well doubt its claims to spiritual ordivine origin, from the fruits it has tints far broughtforth j or from any new principles it has enunciated toadd to the happiness of the human family, we believethe causes of these modern phenomana must soon be estab-lished to the satisfaction of all minds when once itsclaims pass through the ordeal of the never-failing testsof natural laws.

The Indian Trust Lands.— ln all the Territoriesthere are large tracts of land which been speciallyreserved to various tribes of Indians. Whenever it be-comes necessary to have these Indians removed, theGeneral Government takes charge of the disposal oftheir lands, holding them in trust until they can be ad-vantageously disposed of. But emigration often over-strips the calculations of the Government, and the set-tler recognizes no distinction of ownership in the greatwilderness whither he has sought himself a home, andbis claims are generally allowed. In Minnesota thereare very populous towns that have been built on someof these reservations, as they are called, and the districtsaround have been thickly settled, long before any title,save that of the squatter’s, can be bad for the land.

It is in these districts more particularly, where the

squatter laws, heard of so much East, bear such su-preme sway, aud visit such terrible punishment on theinfringers of them. It is not beoause of any cruelty ofdisposition, nor unjust selfishness, that these settlers act

in so summary a manner, as they are as anxious to pro-tect those that seek a home in accordance with them as

to punish their infractors. Their property can alonebe preserved to them by maintaining their own supremesway.

By these squatter laws and customs, very little sufficesto make a claim upon these tracts. You find an unoc-

cupied quarter section, you lay upon it a foundationconsisting of four logs laid across each other, with yourname written on one of them. This holds your land a

month ; at the end of the month you must build a logcabin, break up a few acres and inclose them, and your

title is perfect. Thsse laws do not bind you to hold theland in person ; you may often do it by tenant. You

must be careful, however, that your tenant is reliable,for should the claim be deserted for a week or more itbecomes liable to be ‘jumped.’ An appeal to yourneighbors to protect your claim while you are necessari-ly absent, even for a long period, is sure to be heeded.Itoften happens that a settler may desire to go Eastfor his family, in which case his cabin is fitted up forhim, his crops looked after, and other matters attendedto for him, if he is not able to pay for such help, by a

concerted action among his neighbors.

Our town being on the river enjoys much of thenotice of those passing up and down on their tour throughour Territory. We could publish extracts laudatory of

Minnesota from the letters of these tourists that wouldfill our paper. must not overlook a late letter in

the Philadelphia Bulletin , however, as the writer ispleased to refer to our establishment, in noticing Ninin-ger in his observations on the attractive spots that tookhis attention while out here. He says :

After dinner, as you come on deck picking your teeth,fresh varieties of bluffs and islands please the eye, thetimber on the bank grows larger and things have almosta Pennsylvania look. Prescott is the next importanttown, after which comes Hastings. This latter placelies in a prairie three miles long, and has grown upwithin three years. It will be an important town, andeven now does a lively business.

Nininger is the next thriving place you pass. Welooked at it with much interest, remembering that a

year ago itwas nothing, and that, by the enterprise andenergy of its proprietors, (Philadelphians and Pennsyl-vanians, among whom are I. Donnelly, John Niningerand George H. Burns, Esqrs.,) it has already taken afront rank in the real, solid river towns of Minnesota.It lies beautifully, just at a bend of the river, though asaw mill which puffs away right on the bank does notadd anything to the picturesqueness of the view. Back

*of the town, which, as nearly as we could tell from thedeck, is well laid out, is a most beautiful rolling plain,which, we should think, extended nearly twenty miles inundulations pleasant t<J the eye; above and below, asfar as the eye could reach, were forests of beach, oakand other trees, whose genus we could not distinguish,though they seemed familiar. Subsequently we learnedthat the lots in Nininger are held very high in St. Pauland that the projected railroad to St Peter (to whichthe capital may be removed, if the influence of St. Paulis not too powerful,) is a settled thing. A newspaperis about being established there (or may be by this time)the steam press having been ordered some time ago.—The power willbe supplied by the saw-mill, so that thesame puff of steam which sends out a sawn plank, willaid iu sending out a great number of icise saws, andevery puff from the steam pipe may be tallied by a pufffrom the editorial columns.

The California Farmer. —This is one of the mostable farm journals in the United States and is equal to

any of our eastern papers in point of mechanical ap-pearance. California has been noted from the first forits able and beautiful papers, many of which with theFanner, we have constantly received during our inter-regnum. No farmer who proposes to leave the East forCalifornia should fail to have this instructive journal topost himself thoroughly in all that pertains to the inter-nal wealth of that fine State. We are sorry to learnby our coteraporary that an unexampled drought is like-ly to blast all the hopes of the farmer for this season,and other journals express great fears of having a fam-ine from the total destruction of crops there.

The Farmer is published weekly at San Francisco,at $5 a year. We willsupply any one with a specimennumber, and will receive subscriptions at this office.

Dred Scott, whose case caused so much commotionlately on account of the extraordinary decision of the U.S.Supreme Court, has been made free by his owner, to-gether with all his family*

We are not yet fully posted iq regard t.Q legal adver-tising, but suppose that journals of large circulationmust be the medium for legal notices. WillSome one inform us on this point ?

Home Summary.The St. Anthony papers state that both gold and cop-

per mines have lately been discovered there. The pro-prietor was offered and refused SIO,OOO for the ore thatwould be taken up in digging a canal through the minefor a water power on his place.

Nininoer and St. Peter Railroad Co. —By anotice in another column it will be seen that the stockbooks of a railroad from Nininger to St. Peter, Min-nesota, willshortly be opened at St. Paul and Nininger.The raod willbe put under contract almost immediatelyand will be a paying concern, as it runs through one ofthe best portions of the Territory, which is settling upwith marvelous rapidity. The termini are both impor-tant towns, and if the design ofmoving the State Capitalto St. Peter is carried out, that place will rank next toSt. Paul.— Philada.Bulletin.

A large black bear was killed on an island in SibleyCo., on the 3d. inst. It weighed 500 lbs.

A deer that had evidently been chased by dogs pass-ed through the outskirts of Nininger last week. A shotor two was fired at it as it passed through to the river.The poor brute must have been astonished to find a

city here where last year it may have roamed at ease.The survey of the road from Winona to St. Peter has

been placed on file at the land office in the latter place.The Hutchinson family, of singing celebrity, are all

engaged in farming in their new home in this Territory.A gentleman writing to the Minnesotian says of them :

In passing through the pleasant village ofHutchinsonon Wednesday last, I saw Asa B. of the HutchinsonFamily, leading off some six men planting corn. Theway Asa used the hoe plainly shows that he knows howto farm. He looks very much like a New Hampshirefarmer, withdiis hickory shirt and tow pants. John, ofthe same family, has also a good crop in ; but not so muchas Asa. The three boys, Judson, John and Asa, haveexpended nine thousand dollars in Hutchinson whichis their future home, and by the class of people they arebringing in, any one would suppose that Hutchinson israther a Yankee settlement.

Hon. W. B. Gere, the newly appointed U. S. Mar-will commence taking the census of the Territory as

soon as the Constitutional Convention accepts the Con-gressional Enabling Act.

Important to Pre-Emptors —We have been showna copy of a Circular from the General Land Office atWashington, dated June 22d, 1857, and directed to theDistrict Office in Minnesota, instructing them * not toallow any pre-emption claim predicated upon a settle-ment made within four months after the receipt of theCircular, on any of the lands withdrawn from market,in view of the provisions of the law of the 3d of Marchlast, making a grant of lands to the Territory of Minne-sota for Railroad purposes.’ An order to this effect hasbeen made by the Secretary of the Inderior.—Minneso-tian.

Severe storms of rain and lightning have visited theTerritory throughout, lately. We notice at the sametime that at the South and East, from Virginia to Maine,they prevailed to a still greater extent, doing immensedamage in many places.

The grasshoppers that caused ,so much damage to thespring crops in the northern part of the Territory, haveall disappeared- Many of the settlers had prepared toleave"the infested district. This visitation is only occa-sional.

Public Land Offices.Land Offices for the sale of the public lands in

Minnesota, Nebraska, and Kansas Territories, and theStates of Wisconsin and lowa, are situated as follows :

Minnesota—At Stillwater, Sauk Rapids, Chatfield,Minneapolis, Farribault, Henderson, Buchanan, andOjibwa.

Nebraska —Omaha City, Brownsville, Nebraska City,and Dakota City.

Kansas —Lecompton, Doniphan, Fort Scott, andOgden.

Wisconsin—Mineral Point, La Crosse, Menasha,Hudson, Steven’s Point, and Superior.

lowa—Dubuque, Charton, Fort Des Moines, CouncilBluffs, Osage, Fort Dodge, and Sioux City.

Summary or Hews.The Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada has

announced that arrangements have been entered intowith the proprietors of the Great Eastern, so that thismammoth steamship, of 22,000 tuns burthen, and 2,700horse power, willmake her first voyage to Portland, Stateof Maine, in connection with the through booking systeminstituted by this company for the conveyance of passen-gers to Canada and the Western States.

Ex-Gov. James H. Hammond of South Carolina hasplanted 100 acres of the Imphy, the new Sugar Cane

f referred to in last week's Journal. Mr. Leonard Wray,who has been at Silverton, Gen. Hammond’s place on

1 the Savannah river, is superintending the planting of

1 the ground and will direct the cultivation and process, of manufacture according to his patented process, by

which he produces granulated sugar.It is Dr. Holmes who says the sons of New England

are deteriorating as a race, and says the reason is the> want of material in the soil to produce muscle and bone.

The granite soil does not furnish the proper ingredients,1 mainly limestone, to form the bones ; or the richness of

f materials to form muscle and the softer parts of the body.| In Kentucky, Ohio, and western Vermont men grow to

, a large size, because of the limestone formation beneaththe soil. Parts of families have emigrated from Massa-

-5 chusetts to limestone regions, and the result in the next¦ generation has been a larger bone deyelGpemeqt inthose who left Massachusetts than in those who remained.Kentucky, Ohio, lowa and Minnesota will grow largemen. The finest figures in the world will be found iu

J the valley of the Mississippi in a few generations. In-. door labor, so unnatural for men, will weaken the vital

' powers and stop the growth in large cities, but the great, and growing West, with its broad prairies, willcompen-| sate for the growing feebleness of the Eastern States.

Singular Effects of Electricity. —A singularoccurrence took place a short time since at the locomo-tive works, illustrating the powerful effects of electricity.A locomotive was being moved from the manufactory tothe Central depot, and had arrived in the middle of thestreet, when suddenly all hands dropped the bars withwhich they were moving the machine and fell back inamazement. Resuming them at the order of the manin charge,they applied them again and fell back paralyzedthe instant they touched the iron. The director of thejob caught up one of the bars, making a savage thrust,planted it under a wheel, preparatory to giving a hugelift. No sooner had it touched, however, than hesaw it fall from his grasp to the ground, as it haddone in every case before. Such singular occurrencesexcited attention, and an examination was made as tothe cause, when it was found that the locomotive, inpassing under the telegraph line, had come in contactwith a broken wire that hung sufficiently low to reach it.

The whole mass of iron composing the locomotive hadthus become charged with electricity, which had com-municated itself to the bars that the men held in theirhands, and caused the effect above described. The wirewas theu removed,and the difficulty obviated in a moment.Detroit Free Press.

A steam plow has been invented and put in operationin France ; the working implement consists of eightplowshares, four facing one way and four the Other, andthence placed back to back to obviate thgfnecessity ofturning; that these eight shares can plow from 19 to 25English acres in a day, and this with four men, oneacting as stoker to the machine, a second as driver orplowman, seated on the implement, *third at the capstanand a fourth as assistant.

When a Mormon Elder or graadee dies, his obituary,in noticing the relatives, refer# to them as follows, as inthe case of a late chief J. M. Grant :

‘ He has gone now, leaving seven disconsolate widowsand several children, four Qswhom are under eight weeksofage, to mourr? their irreparable loss.’

100 cents of the new cdin are said to weigh a pound,avoirdupois. They overweigh a little, now, but wear iwillbring them down. Nevertheless they will be very ibandy weights.

The United Association of Schoolmasters of Great iBritain have offered a prize of $125 for a paper on ‘The ibest means of making the schoolmaster’s function more <efficient than it has hitherto been in preventing misery jand crime.'

A largo meeting in support of the Maine Liquor Law <was held in Exeter Hall, England. The orator of the 1night and the tnau who was the principal means of at- jtrading the vast assembly together was the Hon. NealDow. 1

A Washington paper suggests a reform iu the present «.corrupt system of disposing of the public printing. A inational convention of the Democratic journalists is to 1be called, w> suggest a fairer n;ode of action, 'fhe costof the public printing has risen, in a few years, from jsooo,ooo to $1,500,000 per Congress—a monstrous cor* truption and fraud. j

A Panther Booted to DEATH.-Mr.W. B. Stoek*i.' end, a sinewy, stout, active young SostebmftM associated. : in faming with Mr. T. Linklater, Tenalqnot Plains in

tthis connty> recently killed a large six feetseven inches in length, in a fair fistana boot light. The

9 circumstances are related as follows:It see ms that at the further end ofa large field , about

i a quarter of a mile from the house. Mr. Stoekend dis:- covered quite a movement and disturbance among a lot. of hogß that were kept in the field. He at once proceeded

. in the direction to ascertain the cause, when, to his sur-r prise, at a short distance from the hogs, he discoveredf that a favorite young dog was engaged in a conflict with

> a panther. Determined to save the dog at all hazards,. he resolved to interpose in the fight, expecting tofrighten

1 the panther up a tree that stood hard by, when he could> return to the house for a rifle and bring it down. He

accordingly gave the animal a substantial kick, when itceased its engagement with the dog, straightened iteelfon its hind legs and pitched into him. In the meantimethe young dog made a hasty retreat for some distance.

The contest now seemed to be a desperate and unequalt one, but there was no escape from itforour friend Btoek- ‘

end. The panther made a furious dash at hipa, but re-a taining his presence of mind, he met it with' a (qyfcqf

kick. The fight now assumed the character ofs *9MMiLand tumblea volley of well directed blows andAjoo

s disabled the animal somewhat. He called Ids back,.

and the faithful young animal, as ifashamed uuriof1 deserted its master in the hour of peril, and as ifto jMapt

amends for its ungrateful conduct, entered into the con-* flict with great fierceness Mr Stoekend snceeeded m: getting one foot firmly upon the neck of hie assailant,a and keeping the other in rapid motion in the directiona of the animal's head, soon brought the contest to a close,e He has no doubt that the long heavy boots that hev had on were the means of saving his life.e The fight lasted, first to last, about fifteen minutes, inf the course of which Mr. Stoekend was somewhat rough*h ly handled. His shoulder was badly scratched—he re-e ceived a severe wound in the thigh from the teeth of theb animal, and was scratched in several places, although bye no meaus dangerously, or by which he will hereafter bes disabled.— Olympus Pioneer.

A distinguished sporting character of this country•- lately took out some noted American race-horses to trys them against those of the English. lie found it diffi-

cult to bring about a match such as he desired, viz.,straight four-mile beats; but eventually agreed to run amatch as prescribed by the English rules, which was to

a have taken place soon after our last news from there,t This attempt to run against the English racers, wase made the occasion forgreat ridicule by the sporting printso there, designating American horses and riders as only

fit for the common road races. This is not uncommone treatment for Brother J onathan to meet with, willbe

remembered in the case of the reaping and other agricul-u tural implements tested at the great Exhibition, but- more particularly in the great yacht race, when thes America left her English competitors “no where " be-- hind.

P. T. Barnuin, the world-renowned showman, whosee tide of long-continued good fortune was so suddenlye blasted two years since, has just returned from isurope,t sick and dispirited. He went out with the intention of3 recruiting his fortunes with the help of the exhibitions

that succeeded so well on a former occasion, and hadB added other celebrities to his undertaking, but could find“ no encouragement there. Ever since he wrote his own5

biography the charm has left him, and every attempt torecover himself but makes his case worse. Althoughnot a bad-hearted man, his career and disaster points amoral that should not bo lost.

, The grasshoppers in some portion of the Territory4 north have scourged the farmers excessively. Whole. fields of wheat have been destroyed by them in a few* days. In one town everything was nearly destroyed,andj farmers gave up cultivating.

A mob of men and boys got up a mock serenade toannoy ex-Gov. Bibb of Ohio, but now residing in Illi-

’ nois, who had just been married : after giving them fairj warning of his intention, he fired upon them, killing two

men, when the rest fled., Curious Athiospheric Phenomenon A oorres"

poudent of The Con gressionalist,[writing from Asbtabu--1 la County, Ohio, after giving an account of a shock of

an earthquake in that vicinity, says :“The most singu-

lar phenomenon connected with itwas thefalling of largeballs of snow. It was snowing heavily at the time, al-s though the snow was slightly moist. The next merniug

, several gentleman in different parts of the town noticeds large balls of snow lying scattered around, not only in) the vieinity of their dwellings, but in the open fields ;; those who examined them describe them as being

i as large as a child’s head, and resembling thinlayers of snow, rolled together very lightly and droppeddown.’ Where they fell upon the side-hill they had

j rolled in some instances, two or three feet. I mentionj these facts as scraps for the curious.”

' The operations of the Agricultural Bureau of thei U. S. Patent Office, are spreading themselves over everyP part of our extended country. The following is a letter, received from a gentleman in Texas :

r You will find cqntaiqed ip this, and ajsg in anotherpackage mailed at tlie same time, what we suppose to bethe native potato. They were certainly growing ip a

, wild state, and are found in several places on the Limpiaand elsewhere, in the narrow valleys of the Sierra Dia-bolo. These grew in a gravelly scrtl, with a mixture ofrich loam, the gravel greatly prevailing, as if washedupon the loamy soil. Thepe $ great- number of piole

> aQ d rat holes in the locality. Perhaps the gravel pro?| tected the potato from them

One of the Correspondents of the N. Y. Tribune nowt in Kansas, thus speaks of the emigrants who go out there,

i Somq ofthe returned emigrants have assured us the nupi?. ber was nearer nine Ttentb§ who eame bapk.

Do not imagine that of the Northern hordes nowi pouring into Kansas all remain One half return. Of

* those who arrive one third come merely to look at thecountry, with a view to future settlement, to specplptiop.and to selecting lands for companies who are to follow.Of the remainde^ a large number are disappointed inthe country, in the climate, or in the facility oftaking up claims. Many travel a thousand or fif-teen hundred miles, land at Leavenworth, ride sometwelve miles out of the city, find lands as high as intheir own neighborhood, and go home and say they haveseen Kansas. It is not men like these who build up anew country. -f .

A little yacht of 23 tons, started from the port ofNew York the 15th inst. for a voyage to Liverpool.—The crew willconsist of five perrons, and a afore of pro-visions for 90 days will be shipped. She is only 4| feptlong, with 13$ feet beam, but can spread 800 yards ofoanvass. *

A curious table, which is given for the first time inthe Irish census, looks like an indication of the approach-ing extinction of the Irish language. Less than fiveper cent, of the population have returned themselves asignorant of English, and not a fourth of the whole areable to speak the original language of their country.

Chicago and Liverpool Direct. —The Chicago(111.) Press, says that the Canadian bark Chieftaiq hasboeu chartered by parties in that city to take out wh<atto Europe, early this season, and bring back salt or pigiron. Charter tor the voyage, $15,000, under penaltyof $2,000, in the event of failure to fulfil the contract*

Elder Pratt, one of the most noted of the Mormonprophets, was lately murdered at Fort Gibson, CherokeeNation,by a man whose wife he had seduced and taken ofwith him- It seem? that the woman in question wasmore than ordinarily intelligent, apd was the mother ofseveral children, and bad nothing to complain of againsther husband, who was well off. Elder Pratt first madeher acquaintance in St. Francisco, and brought her to be-lieve in his doctrines, and persuaded her to elope withhim to the East, although he had already eight wives.—The husband followed the pair up closely,and after a longchase back and forth for thousands of miles, oame acrossthem at the above place, where he had Pratt arrested forthe abduction of his wife. The Judge, however, dis-missed the case, when Pratt made off and was followedby the injured husband determined on taking summaryyengeance in las own hands. ‘He soon Overtook hiA?and shot him dead. The papers in that neighborhoodall justify the act.

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The Mormops must soqn feel tfie power of the {Joi,ted States government, in putting a stop to the outragessaid to be prevailing in Utah. But this willnot be ac-complished until more bloody scenes than they have yetgone through will be wreaked upon them.

Gen. Harney, a well-known Indian fighter and anofficer who willgladly avail himself of any good pretextto remind them that they are still subject to the U. 8government; his just been dispatched do that Territorywith an army adequate to enforce his authority. If lshigh time. Lately several judges and other governmentofficials were driven out of Utah by Brigham Young.—

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As a conflict seems inevitable, the sooner it is settledth*better for the credit of our country.Col. Gumming, a St, Louis gentlemm, has been an-pointed Goyerpor of and has signified his iflcep-

tance of the post. He is represent as being ably com-petent for the important trust.

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