Litchfield enquirer., 1829-04-30
MISCELLANEOUS.
TERRITORY or HURoN.


 From a letter from Mr. Wing, delegate from the. IT Territory of Michigan, to the committee on territories, we derive the fol- lowing particulars respecting the con ,emplated Territory Of Huron, which is that part of the North Western Territory lv;np between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi, and north of the State of llli- nois. ~ which, when Illinois became state' was. for the purpose of civil jurisdiction, attacbed to the territory of Michigan Al tha, time, the inhabitants ofthis district aere few. and therefore little inconven- fence resulted from their union with Mi- ehisan. On the establishment of the mil- itarv hosts at Green Bay, Prairie du Chi- en. and St. Peters, the white population be- 0an grea,lv to increase, and amounted in 1928 to perhaps fifteen hundred persons. Within the last three or-four years, since the asinerGl resources of the country have been developed, and the mineral lands have beer, leased by Government, the enn- ieration thither has been, almost, unpar- alleled, and the country has assumed a quite different aspect. Various esti. mates are made of the present amount of population, varying from ten to twenty thousand souls, the larger portion of whom are on the Mississippi. Onisconsin and Fe- yer rivers, not far remote from each other, whose principal occupation is the digging of ore and the manufacturing of lead. The returns at tho War Office shew that more than twenty million pounds of lead have been made there within the last two or or three years, of which the tentk receiv- d by the U. s. Government amounts to SSO,OOO. The principal part of the re- maining population is at Green Bay, where there is settlement of no little commercial, as well as agricultural impor- Sance: the country around which is rep- resented as rich and beautiful, and emi- nen,ly healthy. That portion of the country which is bounded east by Lake Michigan, south by the state of Illinois, west by the Mississippi. and north by the Ouisconsin aud Fox rivers, distance of about 200 miles from east to west, and l5O from north to south. is generally composed of rich minerals, or good farming land. Of she part lying west of the Mississippi, and morth of the state of Missouri, little infor- nation has been collected. The best is Col, Long's travels, and from the Indian traders, from both of which it would seem that it will ultimately sustain dense pop- ulation. But even that part alone which lies between the Lake Michigan and the Mississippi. and north of Illinois, is likely to become, within short period, rich aud important State of the Union. Such is the Increase of numbers and business, that on the Ouisconsin & Fever, 800 miles north of the seat of government of Illinois, and $50 north of St. Louis, regular post coaches are now running. Having very little connection with the peninsula of Michigan, md tic course of their business, except in the GreenBay settlement being principally down the Mississippi, they begin to find that their municipal concerns require to be arranged at some nearer point than De- troit, from which Green Bay itself near the eastern boundary of Huron Territory, is 500 miles distant, while the principal settlements are 800 or 1000. The diffi- calsy of standardization is interrupted by ice during considerable portion of the year. ,'.s..A.,. ,.. ... q, ,.,
 
 Cobbett on I,dlkqssre L0borers.--Let me here step aside for . moment to ob- serve, that a man can hardly have worse quality than being talkative while at work: or us the country people call t mouthy, which is the proper word to designate the qDality.A man nay be strong; he may bs wiling; he may be handy--bat if he be moatky, he Is distuFber of the peace of the farm house, and you can never em- p.oy him with other men. His sonorous voiee is sure to make all the rest prick up their ears--they talk too, if not in the way 0f emulation, In the way of reply or ob- servation, and if you lot them alone, you have colloquial assembly rivalling in their way the Catholic association in Ireland.- Up 70 tho backs of them all, not that they want to rest themselves, or to slight youI work but they want to reply or ob. serve upon the Interesting points mooted by the orator Iknow gentleman who says there is but one thing worse than writing, that is talking. On a farm, would certainly prefera writer to talker, foF tlaen he would indulge his propensity u times when il would be ms detriment to nie.