New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-07-21
The Great West,


Every stupid fool nov -a.days who can string together
half dozen paragraphs fancieS himself competent
duct a newspaper
Thus AYERS the Milwaukee Sentinel and Her
aid, and in the preceding column ah:ordsa garng
example of something far worse than stupidity.
We had spoken our mind frankly OF the Precmp-
ton system and the vast diffusion of our people
emigrating Westward over territories large enough
for kingdom each year, hunting out choice To-
cations ahead of the surveyor, the school-mas!er
and the Clergyman, instead olsettling more COM
pactly as they 90. We sad then, what here
repeat, that this Presumption system, with It's ia
cility of trespassing the Public Lands, is
curse to the West and to the whole country
But the Sentinel chooses TO represent us as hos
hle to anv settlement Of tic West, and as dcpre-
ciating the moral character of the settlers IN
Eastern Wisconsin There is point-blank dis
honesty and lurking malice III this statement.
The Milwaukee Editor well knows that we have
done more TO commend the natural advantages OF
Wisconsin and direct the attention OF our East
eTn People to it than any Editor East of Buffalo.
But, while ever advising our friends 10 emsrate
Westward, privately as well as publicly, we have
uniformly counSeled them not TO wander beyond
the bounds of civilizaton-;o stop this side OF the
end OF the woods, where Post Office is within
reach, a school not impossible, and doctor may
be found in. extremity. So VIC say now; such
was the substance of our former remarks; and
we still advise any friend gong West to stop thus
SIDE of the jumping of. place, select land that is
surveyed, and PAY for il even though you can
buy but forty acres. II you have no, fifty dol
lars, go TO work and earn it, and buy your land
manfulv, adding 10 itas YOU can, but JON no
bowie knife association to cut the throat of any
one who may see Il, to buy 1t before you.-Such
is our language with regard TO TIC West, which
the Sentinel grossly bellies,
u The Wings Of the District composed of
the counties OF Columbiana, Jefferson and Car
roll, in Ohio, have nominated DR.. LEoN,Rp
HANNA as candidate for Congress, and appoint
ed Dr. RosT. S. MchAiG, Us q delegate TO the
National Convention. The New Lisbon Paia-
dunn says that DR.. Nick. Will vote for Mr. CLAY
first and Mr.. CLAY last.
ANOTHER SET-To Al hSINi hiSo->. 4 4ie
Hudson River Chronicle states that one day last
week, convic, sci upon Mr.. Keeper Requa, and
choked him in most horrible manner. de was
relieved from his uncomfortable, ii not perlous
situation, by several other convicts, who inter
posed their assistance 10 relieve hun.
ANOTHER FllcHr.-A notorious and desperate
scoundrel numed Adams, committed for burglary,
escaped from Sing Sing State Prison on Tuesday
evening last, and has not yet been retaSen, Even
the Evening Post intimates a Suspicion that the
new managers of the Prison are either knavishiy
corrupt or culpably negligent
IT President QUlNcr Of Harvard College has
thought proper to contradict the ridiculous runor,
started by the N. Y. Sum- that John Tyler re-
eeiyed the degree of LID. from that institution
during his recent visit TO Boston.