Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1838-04-28

crowded communities in the eastern
and middle portions of the Union, to
seat themselves around this chain OF
waters, and there build up an empire.
They have taken with them the laws,
the habits, the language, and institutions
civiland religious oftheir parent States,
but above all, they have carried into
that vast field, an honest love of labor,
and in the very act of organizing
their government, they testified their
willingness to exert and rely upon their
own energies, by abolishing slavery
forever throughout all their limits.
This group of inland States has two
outlets for its trade to the ocean; one
by the Mississippi, to the Gulf Mexico,
the other through Lake Erie to the
Atlantic. Whether it be attributable
to similarity Of origin, or laws, or hab-
it's, or to ties of consanguinity, or SUI
perior saIubrity of climate, this people
evidently prefer the market on the At
lantic; and they are making prodigious
efforts to reach it. Three great canals,
one ofthem longer than the Erie Cana,
and Embracing in their aggregate length
about one thousand miles, are to con-
meet the Ohio with Lake Erie, while
another deep and capacious channel
excavated for nearly thirty miles
through solid rock, unites Lake Mi
chigan with navigable waters of the
Illinois. In addition to these broad
avenues Of trade, they are also con-
structing lines of rail road, not less than
1900 miles in extent, in order to reach
with more ease and speed the lakes,
through which they seek conveyance
to the sea-board. The undaunted re-
solution of this energetic race of men,
is strikingly evince by the fact, that tie
cost Of the great works which they
have thus undertaken, (and most Of
which are in actual progress) will ex-
coed forty-eight millions of dollars,
a sum far exceeding all that New York,
with two millions of inhabitants and
two hundred years Of accumulated
wealth has ever attempted. The cir
cumstances moreover, is particularly
important, that the public works of
each of these great communities, are
arranged on harmonious plan, each
having main line supported and en-
riched by lateral and tributary branch
es, thereby bringing the industry Of
their whole people into prompt and
profitable action, while the system
themselves are again united on gran
der scale in series ofsystemsc ompris-
ing an aggregate length of more than
$500 miles, with Lake Erie as its COM
mon centre.
The various portions of this vast
work we are now in train of rapid
construction. Indiana alone has 5000
men in her employ, and Ohio, Illinois
and Michigan are making correspond
ent efforts: SO that it may be confident
ly predicted that within seven years
from this time, the whole inland trade
Of that broad region around the lakes
will crowd the entrance of the Erie
Canal, on its way to the Atlantic.
IRELAND.-The following is an ex-
tract Of letter of Sir Walter Scott to
: Joanna Baltic, of October IL, 1919,
: Immediately after his visit to Ireland.
$ Speaking of that country he says:
, 'Her natural gifts are so great that
despite all the disadvantages which
, have hitherto retarded her progress.
she will, l believe, be queen Of the ire
f foil ofkingdoms. I never saw richer
: country, or, to speak my mind, finer
+ People; the worst Of them is the better
and cnvenomed dislike which they
a have to each other. Their factions
r have been so long envenomed, and they
: have such narrow ground to do their
: battlein, that they are like people fight
, ing with daggers in a hogshead. This,
however, is getting better, for as the
, Government tcmporizes between the
t parties, and does not throw, as former
+ ly, its whole weight into the Protestant
, scale, there smore appearance Of things
: setting into concord and good order
HENpERsHor.--We learn that at the
opening Of the District Court, which is
now in session at Pennington true
bill was found against Isaac Hender-
j shot, for the murder Of Col. Nathaniel
! Knapp. We also understand that Hen.
: dershot has made his escape. Officers
are in pursuit Of him.-Patriot.
f The epithets and figures that some
people make use Of in telling story
are truly ridiculous and laughablc. A
person once related what had happened