Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1859 — How Mails are Carried and Judges Travel in Northern Wisconsin. [ARTICLE]

How Mails are Carried and Judges Travel in Northern Wisconsin.

A correspondent of the Springfield Republican, at Hudson, Wisconsin, writes as follows: "The mails are packed from here to Superior and Bayfield, by men. Some of the c rriers walk fifty miles a day during the entire year. Half-breeds are mostly employed in this service, and it is surprising that they can pack such enormous burdens. I have seen one of them pack a barrel of whisky a half mile, up quite a steep hill. The man weighed but one hundred and sixty pounds. 'l’iie Judge of the Eighth Judicial District of Wisconsin, makes two visits annually, to Superior and Bayfield. Besets out wi th two half-breeds, follows the St. Croix one hundred and twenty miles in a canoe, crosses a portage t> n miles On to the headwaters of tiie B:u!e. which he voyages down to Like Superior. I some of your Eastern Judges con’d -e' this heavy burden of legal lure perched on the shou ders of a voyageur,clothed in buckskin breeches and red flannel shirt, with a huge pack on his own hack, wallowing through swamps, miles ia extent, devoured by musqniioes and flies, swimming rivers and fighting Indians; ifthey could behold this scene, their ideas of judicial dignity—‘the majesty □ the law,” &.C., would be lowered a peg.