Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, W.T. [i.e. Wis.]) 1843-1844, 1844-07-27
SEEKING DRY PLACES.

I
In these days of floods, sierra frma'' IS
growing desirable. We like water as well
as any temperance man; but do not like 10 have
it too much mixed up with earth. Every
thing in season and in place. We are not
amphibious enough to live in land and water
mixed half and half. A CUES! once said to
the waiter at the table of the hotel "bring your
butter and your hairs onto the table 10 sep.
arafe dishes and will mix them to suit my
self" We don't want things too much mix
cd up. What is to become Of the mul,tudes
who have lately fled from the floods Of the
Mississippi to the bluffs! We are expecting
soon to SEQ general rush OF inhabitants from
below, to the high prairies and "tall timber" of
the North. What is the prolific soil Of the
American bottoms, TO the. proprietor who is in
constant fear at every freshet, that he may
awake in tho morning and find himself en-
baIked for the Balize-afloat in his own house,
surrounded, like Noah, with all his houseb old!
Or even if he escape the inundalion and his
fences be no, washed away nor his fields de.
vastaed by tho resisless freshei; and if in au.
tumn, he finds himself surrounded by DER
shadowing cornfelds aud amid the giant vege.
tation of soil richer than the valley of the
Nile-aud can say 'ihis is all my own";-
what doth all this avail him, if he must annu-
ally shake with ogue fits, or lie for weeks IN.
der burning bilious fever!-or what do all
these things profit him--or what consolation
can he find in, luxdriant harvesis and crowded
gamers and acres of stacks and herds unnum-
bered. as he lo,;eEs 10 the grave fresh dug in
rich aluvion, to see buried there his wife or
4 beloved child, that has fallen victim to "lhe
climatel"
Is soil epery thing and health no,hingl Is the
moral atmosphere Of schools and Of religion no.
hins' Is the inference Of scenery in arous.
ing and aclualing the mental powers. nothlngl
Is On invigorauRg. lite-slrring climate, no
thingl They are erery thingl Think OF these
things, you emigrants. who are raversing halt
the globo with y0uar souls in your pockets. to
plant your families in a rich soil; near-Ano
matter what siagnanislream or sinking bayou:
Give you a rich soil, and you care not if you
DC surrounded by lagoons Of living frogs and
acres Of alligatoTs; and you are conten,ed to sit
there in the summer evenings, and fight in
sects by the smoke of mosquito smudge.
Come away, il it DO only for the sake OF your
children; take them away; though you plant
them amongs, the rocks. Take them to Macki-
naw--taie them any where else. &.
You farmer there. near the Wabash, on the
East Fork Of Muddy Creek! Come on, Of
your handred acre corn field, and Let US sill in
the shade Of the roof between your double-log.
cabins. and converse together.
N Ycu are old deacon Graball, who formerly
lived in New Hampshire, in Coos above uplser
Coosl
Yes.
You left there abou, ten yearsl You had a
farm amOngs. the bOulders Of Gagged Peak;
you had thereon a neat white house and good
barn and ont buildingsl
Yes; bu, came west for more land and
better. WANTED 10 10 something for my eti!.
Gren.
Where is your wifel
Oh; my frs! wife; sho died long ngo Of the
bilious fever. That is my present wife. going
on, yonier TO pail the cows.
We heard no more Of the woman, bat her
loud call TO the cows OF "SaEe~pyed.-Sake
Suke, Suke" the Sake being SUM- 10 az.
, and the 'Pycd' in deep sspraao.
, You are q eOogrssa'iouaHs,. Mr.. G1abaH
: supp ose you have long since built Up ehurct
. ben,
No;IAave Ess.- r,uors2 ~ church ,s9asg
, ~. | am nc; pa'aco'ar myss.; my wiz
. teanS toward ;As Me,.s4.s,s.
g IN leu . .s!,sieaSpr,,:,ssss. suppose We.
o have goo3 school fot yoer ,a.'la.l
e NJ; We have 40 seAoa1 Tasrslsno scAo.
% ,ax les.,1 sete. There ~.si' 20 BE.
. ~ this mcmeoi. " came dance q the dea