Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-09-21
HDefal wages
inined iately.

One of those itnerant scrihblars who are kept in
pay by some of the eastern journals for the purpose
of nnis.ering the morbid appetites OF their read
ers regular supply of scandal, Of marvellous sto-
ries, rumors about India, wars, ssGooay two shoe
tales &c. .or children, has been writing to the N
Y. Journal Of Commerce a description of this Ter
ritory.
This weak effusion is dated St. Louis. and it is
doubtful whether the author was ever any nearer
Wisconsin than the City Hotel, or some other COM
Portable quarter in the city, from which i, purports
to have emanated. The only part sfit,hat we have
seen is the following extract copied with avidty in
TO the sMauinsbsfg tVa.) Gazette''
a correspondent of the New York journal of
Commerce, w1itihg rom 81 Louis, gives the follow
ing description of the morals of the people who in
habit some parts of the new made territory of Wis
consin: "Ihe principal amusement of the people
in the mining county is playing cards-Sunday and
all. There is place called Mineral Point, COM
pletsly paved with them; pack lying out befo
every door. This is i'll Wisconsin Territory, and
Is place little distinguished either for law or Cos
pei The law they carry i'll their pocksts, and are
readyto read achapter at the slightest provocatio,'
Wecan inform this scri5b.er that the principle
amusement. ofsoms people is sca,1aali,ing and a5u-
ting their neighbors. We happen to live in the
centre ofthe mining region, and are well acuua int
ed with the habits, morals, and customs Of the people
OF the mining country. We can assure tho living
correspondent of,he N. Y. Journal Of Commerce
! that they viii not shrink from comparison with
the people of St. Louis or N. Y. City ether. In
country where the facilities for making money are
SO great as they arc here-where the labor of week
viii support man a n1onth-where in MANY cases
the labor of month will render man indenendent
for life, it would indeed be surprising if every man
should be found working every day, as he would be
obliged to do iii less favored country, to save him
self and family from starvation. This produce
some irregularities Of conduct, and there may be
some card-playing, but mona to justify the animad-
version OF the petty correspondent of the Journal of
Commerce, and no more than the editor might see
daily in the city of n York. This nsinuation
mat due respect is not paid to the Sabbath is with
oat warrant or foundation. If the doughty editor
OF DIS correspondent should happen to be in Du
Daiao Oh the Sabbath, we would advise him to vi
st ono OF our Churches, instead Of prying into the
cask haun!s of vice, which, unfortunately, arc
TOO prevalent every whore, he would there seq
chapel well filed with decent orderly, and respect
able people, listening with becoming reverence to
pous and Intelligent Minister of the Gospel.
We know enough of the people Of Mineral Point
70 30 able to say that the writer has given carca
ture instead of a representation of them. We be-
iove the people Of that place are as orderly and as
well behaved, and pay as much Difference and re-
gard 10 the aars, the citizens Of the great metro
polls Of the sccst and perhaps little more orderly
than the Nec Yorkers ticuary on an elcc:ion
day. Asto the Gospel, ifthis correspondent would
pay them visit, they would read him an extract
from the Goth Exodus-ssThou shalt not bear false
witness against tn, neighbor."
OT We inform our fellow-citizcns Of Wiscon- |
sin,that we shall lay the proclamation Of the Co
vernon before them as SOON as tisreceivcd Wemu.t
wait, however, the arrival Of the Gasnion-a ne.
per printed in Minois-which, we believe. ia re
organ Of our Territorial Governor.
Wc had fondly hoped that the Governor az Wis.
consin would not have bcsr under the nece,,;t, NJ
'rayellngto ainois for the purpose of getting HI.
printed, since the establishment Of The
excellent Milwaukee Advertiser, and tho revival az
The Democrat.
OT It is requested tina, the Milwaukee, Advert;.
.es aas she Eornocrat Al Green Bay ANNOYANCE Col.
:. SEs az q candidate for Delegate d Con.a
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