The Wabash Courier, Volume 17, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 June 1849 — Page 1

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The following little wttig is fell the rage in Par-

JEANNETTE AND JEANNOT.

You are going far away. Far away from poor Jeannette. There is no one left to love me now,

And you, too. may forget tJut my heart will be with you, Wherever you may go, Can you look me in the face

And say the same, Jeannot When you wear the jacket red, And the beautiful cockade, Oh, I fear you will forget

All the promises you made With the gun upon your shoulder. And the bay'net by your side. You'll be taking some proud Indy,

And be making her your bride.

Or when glory leads the way, You'll be msdly rushing on. Never thinking if they kill you,

That my happiness is gone: If you win the day, perhaps, A General you'll be. Though I'm proud to think of that,

What will become of me: Oh! if I were Queen of France, Or still better, Pope of Rome, I would have no fighting men abroad,

No woeping maids at home All the world should bent peace. Or if kingt* must show their might, Why let them who make the quarrels,

DEVOTION.

I never could find a good reason Why sorrow unbidden should stay. And all the bright joys of life's season,

Be driven unheeded away. Our cares would wuke no more omotion, Were we to our lot but resigned, Than pebbles flung Into the ocean,

That leave scarce a ripple behind.

The world has a spirit of beauty. Which looks upon all for the best. And while it discharges its duty,

To Providence leaves all the rest That spirit's the beam of devotion, Which lights us through life to its close, And sets like the sun in the ocean,

More beautiful far thnn it rose.

FAT AND LEAN PEOPU§—Literary men should not bo good livers. Of nil men they should bo most temperate at the table. Rarely will you find a bon vivant who is a good writer. Noarlya'.l great intellectualists have been lean, hatched faced anatomies—men who could distinctly feel and reckon their own ribs. A corpulent thinker would be, in fact, a paradonx—a palpable catachretis, and contradiction in terms. You might as 'well talk of a leaden kite, a brick balloon, *a sedentary will*o'-the wisp, or a lazy lightning. No great deeds are ever

Jono by fat men: they are too sluggish to set the world on fire. It is your spare, spiritualized beings—men in whom tho fiery spirit "has o' erinformod its integument of clay"— Umt stir up revolutions, and set whole nations by the ear». Nearly all the great military heroes,who have aspired at universal conquest, have been of this class—"from Macedonia's madman to the Swede.Even in oth^r matters tho same law holds good: it is the thinnest blade that pierces deepest, •and the leanest horse g^eirerelly wins the race. "Nothing fat," says a writer, "over yet enlightened the world: for even in a tallow candle, the illuminattion springs from the wick." Shakspeare holds the same doctrine:— "Fat paunche* make lean pates, and dainty bits

Make rich tho ribs, but hankrout quite the wite." "A full gorged stomach,"says the eloquent Jeremy Taylor, unover produced a sprightly mind. When the sun gives the sign to spread the tables, and intemperance brings in the messes, and drunkeness fills the bowls, then the man fails away, and leaves a beast in his roonl. A full meal is like Sisera's banquet* at the end of which there is a nail struck into tho head.

"What is the difference between experimental and practical philosophy?" "Experimental philosophy is your asking me to lend you a dollar—practical philosophy is my telling you I won't."

THROWWK PARKER, in a late discourse, said that as much matter was printed in Boston alone, in fourteen llays, as was written in the whole world during the fourteen centuries before the art oi printing was discovered.

Mr. WAUSH, U. S. Consul at Pari* formely editor of the Philadelphia National Gazette, is now prepareing a work on France and the French, which will contain a history of the last revolution.

I George the Second at a masquerade,

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ed a lady whose dress displayed ther a large portion of her shoulders „id chest. Madame," said the monarch, "allow me to place my hand upon that soft bosom!" "Sire," replied the lady, "give me your hand, and 1 will mtx it upon a much softer place." She took' his hand and laid it on—his fere* krad.

June 7ih, 1849.

To THE EDITOR OF THE COURIER.— Sir: I send you herewith enclosed a copy of an excellent address delivered by Prof. D. HEAD at the Rail Road meeting at Blotomington qn the 5th of May 1849, and hope you will make room for it in your paper. It is as nearly applicable to the state of things here, at this particular time, as if it had been prepared for our meridian and delivered in the Court House in Terre Haute to the citizens of Vigo County instead of the citizens of Monroe at Bloomington. The arguments in the address in favor of the proposed enterprise are numerous and well stated but there is one rather of the nature of an argumentum ad hominem, which the well known Urbanity of the Professor induced him to withhold or suppress, and that is in brief, that Bloomington is the seat of the State University. Considering its population and intelligence it is the most inaccessible place in the State, and without the University it would be far less prosperous than it now is. If the people of that county will not connect their town with the inhabited parts of the earth they must not be surprised, at no very distant day, to see the State University, at a dry season of the year, mounted on stilts, and taking long strides to Columbus, where seated in the Rail Road Cars, and within the influence of that central power, which like the attraction of gravity draws every thing in this State to the Capital, it mnjestically moves off, and on the "Governor's Circle," or some more suitable place, takes a permanent position for the diffusion of"light and truth" for all coming time to the remotest corers of Indiana. Respectfully. J.

ADDRESS

Of Prof. D. Read, at the Rail Road .Meeting at Bloomington, May Oth, 1848. FELLOW CITIZENS:—We have before us the consideration of the most important public enterprise to which our attention, as a community, has been called. A ready communication with the thoroughfares of travel and commerce, and nn outlet to market for our surplus products. is emphatically the great tcant of this fine region of country. In regard to this essential drawback to our prosperity as a people, there is but one sentiment. All, in a variety of ways, feel the inconveniences, losses and privations of our remote and disconnected position.

Many excellent citizens have left the country for this sole reason many others have offered their property at a great sacrifice, and have failed to find a purchaser. No man values his property and home as he would if he had a market for the products of his industry, and the facilities of travel and of intercourse with his fellow men.

Fellow citizens, there are many arhong us who are determined that this state of things shall no longer exist, that we will no longer remain destitute of the advantages which others in every part of our country are creating for themselves and there is happily presented to us in the contemplated extension to this place of the New Albany and Salem Rail Road, a work which will afford us the advantages which we need, and which alone are wanting to render this one of the most desirable and inviting regions in the State of Indiana.

The Rail Road, fellow citizens, is the great improvement of our wonder-work-ing age. In Europe and in America, it is the absorbing enterprise, and is rapidly taking the lead of every other mode of inland communication.

W'ithin less than twenty-five years there has been expended in this improvement, not less than a thousand millions of dollars, and it has been estimated that by its instrumentality, the property of the world has, for all practical purposes already been doublea. In England, at the end of 1848, the extent of rail road finished and in operation, was 4,420 miles, constructed at a mean cost of $142,000 per mile. Germany has no* in operation more than 4,000 miles of rail road, France about 2,000, Belgium 500, and Holland 200. Denmark, Italy, Russia, even semi-barbarous Hungary, all have their rail roads. The globe itself will soon be spanned with rails of iron. The ends of the earth will be literally united. Many will run to and fro and knowledge will be increased. There will be to the letter, a verification of the prophecy every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low. By rail roads and the magnetic telegraph, the earth will be made one vast sensorium sending out its nerves of cognition and feeling, just as the nerves and fibres pass from the human brain, and give notice of all that affects any member or organ of the human system. These wonderful instrumentalities will bring together the dissevered parts of humanity, and make a great brotherhod of our race. It is intercourse which breaks down the ignorance, the ill-will, the jealousies, and the hostilities of mankind. McAdam, Fulton and Morse are to be regarded not merely as inventors in the arts and as improvers of the physical condition of men, but as through their improvements great moral regenerators of the world, and missionaries of knowledge, peace and beneficence.

But upon this delightful view we have no time to dwell. Of all portions of the

earth, the United States most need rail roads. We have a country so vast, so illimitable in its extent, that the rail road affords the only practicable means of necessary intercourse for the great purposes of government and commerce or the interchange even of kind offices among scattered kindred. Just think of that almost endless line of rail road which all our public men now admit to be a necessity of our government, beginning at New York, passing onward thousands of miles, through I know not how many degrees of longitude, until it strikes the. bay of San Francisco, binding with iron bars twenty States, whirling over mountains and through mountains, over boundless plains and across rivers, the merchandise of Europe and Asia. Grand as is the conception, it is an achievment which will be executed in our own day. It will cease to excite wonder, and become one of the every day things of life. Such is our age. Wonders are done before our eyes. At first we disbelieve, ridicule, gaze in astonishment bolder spirits persevere, the impossible is acpomplished, passes off, is common and no more thought of. Ten years ago where was the man who, by any process of reasoning could have beet} made to believe, that in 1849, the President's inaugural speech would be printed, as it fell from his lips, at the same instant in New York and New Orleans, in Cincinnati and Charleston, at Boston, St. Louis, and a hundred other places all over the land. Yetthiswas actually accomplished by the instrumentality of the Telegraph, and hardly spoken of.

But the great American Valley in which we reside, abovte every other portion of our country, is the peculiar field of rail roads and is destined to be crossed by them and recrossed, and checkered over with them in every possible direction. Our immense productions require this. The cheapness of their construction in our vast plains and slightly undulating surface, where, too, there is the greatest abundance of the building material, and their ptofiuibleness, also, when built, will render them the common thoroughfares of every neighborhood. The Rail Road is the very improvement which we need for our products. For provisions, our great staple, we need transportation at all seasons of the year. Even our rivers, which in our climate are dried up in summer and frozen over in winter, are entirely inadequate to our wants. We need, also,safe transportation, by means of which the rate of insurance is made the merest infinitesimal we need speedy transportation, and js need transportation for heavy products. The Rail Road answers all these conditions. It neither dries up, nor freezes over, nor overflows. It is attended with fewer accidents and losses than any other kind of thoroughfare. It is best for travel, and best for commerce best in all its effects and influences, no other channel of intercommunication will compare with it. Heretofore, in all the history of the world, the great cities, the seats of commerce and consequently of wealth and refinement, have been either on the banks of rivers, or on the seacoast. Steam applied to locomotion will change this order. It will build up emporiums of trade and commerce in the far interior. It will for all commercial purposes, make the whole country sea coast and river border.

In the United States up to this date, wanting some three months, we have 6,421 miles of rail road completed and in operation, and by the close of the present year, there will be in operation more than 7,000 miles. "Nearly onesixth of the aggregate length, or 1043 miles, is in the little State of Massachusetts alone, whore the obstacles to be overcome are such, that the average cost of construction has been 843,781 per mile, or about four times the cost in the State of Indiana. The earnings of the Massachusetts roads during the past year are stated to be the enormous sum of 85,887,400.

But we need to look in detail at some of the advantages of the contemplated Rail Road as bearing upon our own immediate condition and prospects. And here, Fellow citizens, I know not where to begin, or where to end. It is hardly possible to exaggerate, or overstate these advantages. The strongest language I can use will not reach the whole truth.

In the first place, there will be developed in our midst sources and means of wealth of which we have hardly thought. Let me specify we have for instance, in the greatest abundance an ore far more valuable than that which men are going thousands of miles to seek. I mean iron ore. This is found every where in our county. Hardly a ravine but what exhibits it. and this oftbe richest quality. But what does it do? It slumbers in its native bed unused and useless. Iron is a commodity of a heavy transportation and whatever the abundance or richness of the ore, or the means of cheap manufacture, it must be manufactured in the neighborhood of a river, canal, or rail* way. 1 need not name our quarries of stone, approaching marble in fineness of texture and capacity of polish indeed it is a species of marble. There Is no stone in Indiana thatwill compare with ours— perhaps not in the whole west. That at Dayton and Columbus, Ohio, certainly will sot. I have indicated two sources of wealth, now useless, either of which will yield twice over all the present pro* ducts of our soil, besides in the supply of the worn men, furnishing the best and most certaib market for protisio&s, at our very doors, have myself beat wit ness to the surprising effect of opening an avenue of commerce to a mineral dis­

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trict. The price of land containing the minerals was trebled and quadrupled. The population in the course of five years was doubled. The minerals in the case of which I speak were coal and salt. Our minerals are not less valuable, and the effect will be the same in this county. Iron companies will seek us out. Our quarries of stone will be purchased up, and vast quantities of wrought aild unwrought stone to the worth of thousands of dollars will be exported. These are certainties, to say nothing of the probability of geological explorations developing salt^tone coal and other minerals.

But the present products of our industry will acquire a new value, because all will be marketable. Not an ear of corn, not a blade of grass but will command its price. Our fruits and our vegetables can be sold. Much that now goes to absolute waste will be saved, thus habits of thrift, economy and good management will be promoted. Men act from motive, and not like brutes from instinct. When the motive of a certain market is presented, open at all seasons, industry will be stimulated.— Our farms and our farming will be improved. New lands will brought into cultivation, our fence corners will be cleared out, our fields will be clovered, manured and made more productive.— It is not a high market which we need to produce these results it is a certain and accessible market. Why, fellow citizenr, we have the sources of wealth and comfort all around us, on the earth and under it, in our forest, our soil, our minerals, but to make them available as civilized men ought to make them, we must provide the means of transportation.

Again, there will be thrown into our midst men of capital and enterprise who now pass us by. Men also retiring from business who seek places where they may enjoy the advantages of education, healthful air, and pleasant scenery, will occupy and embellish the beautiful sites, which so much abound in our neighborhood, and will bring wealth and consideration to our community.

Another result 1 will present. There is scarcely a greater evil to a community, than the petty system of barter which prevails among us. It causes waste of time, vexation of spirit, unfair dealing, causes articles to be rated at two prices, one for cash and another for trade. It is a miserable higgling system injurious and vexatious, which always exists where there is no means of transportation to market. This system will not last a day after we have the Rail Road. You will then know exactly whereto go to sell every article there will be a regular price according to the market abroad, which will be immediately known here your produce is delivered, you receive your money, and spend it where you please. It is a short, business like transaction, fair on both sides. You have just now about as much trouble to sell an article as to produce it, and a good deal more vexation.

But says the maker of certain mechanical articles, 1 see that this is true of the farmer. He will have a better price and a ready sale. But the Rail Road injures me. I will get less for my Work and pay more for provisions.— Cabinet furniture, saddlery, &c., will be brought here cheaper than we can make them. The mechanic is mistaken in this, greatly mistaken. All experience every where shows he is mistaken.— The mechanic is just as much benefitted as the farmer, if any difference, more. He is benefitted by the general impulse of business, by the increased ability of farmers to buy and pay the cash. No man in any honest business ever gained by the poverty of the community in which he lives, or lost by its prosperity and thrift. It is easy to conceive how the mechanic with the Rail Road may sell cheaper than he

the same time make more money. He sells more, and sells finer and more expensive articles, he buys his stock cheaper, almost without loss of time, he selects his own stock in the city, he uses machinery wherever it is applicable, lie employs different grades of wofkmen for coarse and fine work. Competion from abroad is much more likely to injure him now, than with the Rail froadAt present with the great disadvantages under which he labors, a fine article can be purchased at the large shops abroad and wagoned here, cheapcr than it can be made. The consequence Is that our mechanics get the cheap jobs, and the barter jobs, rthile those that are expensive and casn come from abroad. No, no, you cannot grow K&h in a poor community. There is not an interest among us but will be favorably affected by the Rail Road. There is not a good and industrious man possessing any degree of skill but will be benefitted.

Through these causes and others that might be named, a further effect of the Rait Road *ill be greatly to enhance the value of our real estate. Land, which no# sells at Jfrom $5 to S15 per acre, or rather which is offered and does not sell at those priees, will command from $25 to tSO per acre, and in choice situations even more. This has been precisely the effect of Rail Roads upon the price of lands wherever they have been Constructed.

Fell&w citizens, in a mere pecuniary point of view, we cannot aford to do without the Rail Road. It will cost us a good deal to build it, but depend upon it, ft costs us a good deal more to do without it. Just think of a trip to Louis* ville or even to Columbus, the wear and tear of wagon and harness, the injury of horses, the toil and trouble to ourselves, and then after deducting enpen*es to &ay noting of the loss of

time, the miserable returns, and here .we afe not in the habit of computing all our expenses. We are obliged to keep up large wagons, and harness for our heavy transportation, and supernumerary horses which consume one half the products of our farms. With the Rdil Road, a light wagon with two horses, taking goml weather and a favorable state of the roads will be sufficient to take our products to the Depot from almost any part of our country, and not a sitaglfe night will be spent from under our own roofs.

Situated also as we are, we can never avail ourselves of any sudden rise of market. We cannot reach it with our products in time for its full benefit, nor perhaps indeed till the news of increased price shall have produced a glut of market, and depressed the prices even lower than before so that in our attempt to find the highest, we get ihe most depressed market of the whole season.

But with the Rail Road there is no such difficulty. We send down our produce in a few hours. We sell to the best advantage and we buy in the same way. We get when we need. If the article we want is not here, it can be had at once, and without trouble.— There is an advantage both in buying and in selling.

Why, in the course of any five years we more than pay for the road, by the extra expense which we encounter for the want of it, and the less price of our produce. What would you think of the farmer who would attempt to do without a most necessary tool, a plough for example, because it will cost something to get it? I repeat we cannot afford to do without tho Rail Road. The want of it costs too much money and too much labor. It makes too hard a way of living. We can stand it no longer. In the general progress of things, the road is not to be looked upon as a mere convenience which we can get along without, but as a necessity which we must have.

But dollars cents and are not the main objects of life. Money is not an end, but a means of good to ourselves and others. We are too, all educated, both ourselves, and our children, by the community in which we live. Our manners, feelings and principles of action are in a great extent formed by those around us. Well, the Rail Road will in every way improve our community. It will

trious, enterprising and intelligent. It will introduce new conveniences and refinements of living. It will enable us to enjoy the advantages of navel and intercourse with our fellow-men, at a small expense of time and money. Females, too, our wives and daughters, who on account of the roads, can scarcely go abroad at all, will enjoy these same advantages, and the improvements resulting from them. Every female among us should upon this ground alone, if no other, be the advocate of the Rail Road, and should be willing to sacrifice something of present indulgence to obtain it.

But can we make the Rail Road 1— This is after all the great question. I lay it down as a postulate which all will grant that any society of men can suffer the absolute and total loss of ten per cent, of all its proporty without serious distress. This has often been done by communities to a far greater extent, for example in wars. W.e are required in order to obtain the proposed improvement, to raise about ten per cent, something less indeed, upon the taxable property of the county, which in fact is always less than the real property. But we are not required to sink any part of it. We retain among ourselves a large proportion of the money expended in the construction of the work, say fifty per cent, or more. We have a better market while the work is in progress created by feeding the workmen. We have all along after the work is commenced the stimulus to all departments of industry, which the certainty of having the Rail Road will give. The farmer, the builder, every person will begin immediately to reap the advantages of the work, so soon as its completion is placed beyond a doubt.

But let us look at this subject in another light. The road will cost us ten per cent on our taxable property. It will add to the value of it, as I believe, fifty per cent, but let us say twenty-five per cent. The stock of the road when reaching a point as far in the interior as Bloomington, will yield a dividend of not less than ten per cent. I have no reasonable doubt but it will yield 15 per cent or even more. In regard to the value of stock, it maybe remarked that all railroad stock in the United Suites has proved profitable. That is true even of the Reading and Philadelphia road, though costing $130,000 per mile. The Massachusetts rail toads where the products are much less than they are here, yield a mean rate of ten per ceant. But let us Compare our road in regard to

irefits with the Madison and Indianaporailroad. That is by its charter limited to a dividend of 15 per cent. But for this limit the dividend would exceed that amount. The stock is selling at •128 on the §100, at least before the late increase of stock was so selling.— Now our Road #ilt be better than the Madison. It penetrates a better agricultural country it strikes the mineral district, the district where stone, irod ore, stone COB!, flee., are to be found, a most important consideration it passes through a country of better timber it strikes the Ohio belo# the Falls, the cost of construction will bo far less.— We have no limit upon the dividends of the road. If they reach 15, 20 or 30

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per cent no part goes to the State: I do not see how any bonsideraie tnan can place the profits df the road at less than those of the Madison. But let us call them ten per cent, upon our subscrip lion.

Well then, now sum ufi the profits of stock to (his road. According to nly estimate, for ten per cent subscribed upon the value of the property of our county, we get in the increase of its mean valtie, 25 per cent. The increased valtie of our property then pays us once. But we have still the whole stock yielding, say, ten per cent, that pays us a second time. But besides both these consider ations, we have comforts and advantages moral and social, and the higher price of our annual products, for which alone it would be worth while to construct the road. We are then three times over paid for it, and in each instance well paid, sd that for any one of these considerations apart from the others the road is a good enterprise. Can our community bear a requisition of the proposed amount under such circumstances? Can we go on with the Mrork jiBut you say we can iffeVery individual will do his duty. It is a *ad* truth that there are inalmost every society men who hardly deserve a place in dny

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ciety, who never will perform the debt they owe the society in which they live, men who ask business of that society, possibly who ask office of tltatsociety and who are always drawbacks upon every public ifnprbvement. Such men are willing to enjoy the hoiiors and profits of the community, but never willing to stand forth by purse and by personal effort the champions of its greai interests. They always have excellent reasons for doing ndthing, or the least possible,—they are never quite ready they have no faith that theWork will ever be done, not in twenty years or in ten at any rate. There is^hu* enterprise enough yes, they will atctually talk of enterprise when it is just sUch enterprise as their own, that is the great hindrance.

It would be very strange, if in this county we should find none of this class And it must not discourage, if we do. But this I will say, I have never in my, life anywhere seen abetter spiritthan that which among the great majority prevails on this subject, in this county. The farmers are exhibiting a resolution and energy in this matter honorable to their intelligence and public spirit. There is too an unanimity suchashas never before existed on any other public topic in this county, and is rarely found anywhere on any subject. There is not one among us,saying, some other vyork. The voice of Monroe is distinctly one. It is for the extension of the New Albany and Salem road to this place and onward. We ire ro enemies to other enterprises. But until this work is done,it must have our undivided support. On this subject our feelings and our interests are united. This is our measure, unless indeed the New Albany and Salem company by Inertness of action or a want of liberality, forfeit our confidence and force us to turn our attention elsewhere. And then we will be equally united upoh whatever enterprise promises the best success. For let it be understood,a railroad to this place from some quarter we are bound to have. This is the word among the good men and true of Monroe.

But there are some who really wish to do their part, but fear to subscribe lest they shall embarrass themselves. Let such remember that the immediate «ad-' vantages which will flow in upon us, will aid greatly to meet the installments of stock as they will fall due.

We cannot wait fur surplus capital to do this work. This is all out of the question. There is no surplus capital in all the west. There is not even in Cincinnati, St. Louis, or Louisville, less indeed for the amount of the business to be done there, than in Monroe county. But they stake their enterprise, their zeal, their individual and their corporate credit for the works they have on hand or which they contemplate. Just so we must do. Every man must do his part, the man that has as his only capital, his industry, and the man that has not fully paid for his property, the man that can subscribe his one hundred shares, and the man who can subscribe his one share. We may have to make some present sacrifice. We may have to work a litle harder and live a little closer. We would do this to double the number of our acres, and shall we not do it for a much better object, to double the value of the acres we have? It would be a great honor to us, to present a whole people where each individual at once comes forward and bears his part ift a great public measure for the common good of the whole. We cannot, fellow citizens, maintain our relative position in lndianii, ithout the road. To stand still is to go backwards. We lose our best citizens, we lose our self respdet, if while all is in progress around us tre tfemain inert and stationary.

There is indeed here end there in ours, as in every community, money to be loaned, l^his is true even where there is the greatest want of money for the business of the country. Those haying it amongst us. in some instances at least, fear to invest it in the railroad. They greatly misjudge, as I think. Railroad stock has every where proved better and safer than bank stock. It Is better and safer far than loaning to individuals evdtl wheh secured by real estaie. The dividend upon the stock is made each six month*. The holder is nottfied of his dividend, and without trouble or expense receives his money. There are no explosions as in banks there are no suits to be brought and mortagages to be foreclosed in individual It

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just the investment for aged pffrson^ out. of business and females. At the easti where this subject is perfectly und&r-y^ stood, there is rio stock which is somuchWf valued, as a secure and safe investment.^ and much" sought fjor ds railroad^, stock. When it is desired to withdraw the stock, it can be sold, 1 dotl^not, as soon as the road is in fair operation, at a large advance upon cost. This is my. view, in which 1 am stire, I am hot mis-' taken.

FellOw citizens, what is the propqr course of action now before us. I. Let the whole required arhountof our sub-# scription be made up at the earliest practicable period. Every man who intends to do anything, let him come forward. The man that intends to do nothing, if any such we have, let him take that ground and let us know it Men among our ablest farmers, vtrho have put down five shares, let them put down twenty. Whatever is done, let it be done at once. If the county of LaWrenco needs to be Stimulated in this Work, let us afford an example worthy of imitation. Butlr know not but fwmi pfeseriffippettrances, Lawrence county will be an exjetfriple to

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be continued until the line is finalfy established, and let us urge the comany to put every rod from Salem to lloomington under contract it the shor- .• test, safe and practicable period^ With energy, the road can be finished so that this harvest and the next atone shall pass by, without the means of transporting our products to market. The work can be completed, if we do our duty, two years from next November. Let us work up tb that mark. The sooner this wtirkisdone, the cheaper it will be done. He mi)stbeudull observer of the signs of the times, who does not see that the prices of labor and agricultural products are greatly to increase. Thero will be no time, as cheap as the present. The commotions in Europe, calling off the attention of men from the pursuits of agriculture,tho mines of California, the vast increase of European emigration now embracing many families of wealth*, European stock which iri the universal upturning of tllo "old world," is seeking investments in our own quist and stable dourttry, these causes will all contribute to produce unparalleled, and almost unheard of prosperity, and of course raise the price of labdr and produce.

Fellow citizens, Providence is showering down upon us blessings such as never fell to the lot of any people, and never before in an equal degree upon ourselves. Let us do our part, and be prepared with other portions of the country to enjoy our share in the coming tide of prosperity. ,7 -v,-- -t

I must tell you a 'good un' which happened this summer on the same day that I went up ftorth rivdr on the Hendrick Hudson. After the passengers had retired to their berths the following didlogue ensued in the ladies' cabin, the door of which had been partly left open to promote the circulation of the air.

A rheumatic old lady and an asthmatic old lady could not be satisfied in reference to the door. They kept singing out ih alternate strains' from their night caps: 'Chambermaid, shut the door. I shall surely die.' tj

The asthmatic tfould shout—' •Chambermaid, open the door! shall surely die.'

So the contest went on for some time, and the yellow maid with the bandanna handkerchief upoh her head as fairly frustrated.

At last an old gentleman distUrbedijy the altercation and not willing to sho^v1 any partiality sung out from his own berth:— 'Chambermaid, for Heaven's sake, open that door and kill one of those la-1 dies, and then shut it and kill t'ttthef.'— Detroit Adv.

BUSINESS MAXIMS.—Hd who wishes to sell should advertise His wares^' He who wishes to buy cheap should!

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of those who advertise. He who wishes to pay twenty per? cent, more for goods than they worth,* should go to those who do not fidvortise. v-v' 'J

The man who wishes his cdrriage ton run well should grease iut wheels, and the man tvho wishes his business to thrive should advertise.

It i« stated in a letter from near St. Louis, that were all the California emigrants that have prissed Independence and the Council Bluffs up to May 1st, to march in one train, the procession would reach three hundred miles in length.

A magistrate in a Pomerariian town cautioned the people not to smoke in the public square, in the following words: 'Smoking is strictly forbidden in this square, under the penalty of ten dollars or twenty lashes, of which the informer shall receive one half.

'Do you understand me now? dered out one of our country pe agogues to an urchin at whose head he threw an

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got an in*ling of what you mean,'

replied the boy. Art exchange teilt a good story of a countryman, who was in one, of outx.ues, on Sunday, and

church. Arriving there, he *aited outside a moment, when to hissurpnse iho organ struck up. and be conclude^ some

to commence. At that moment a g*n-.t tleman Invited him in. "Not wcly,^ ter, ain't used to no such doins day, and besides, don"t dancti