Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-10-05
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CoUxoIL HousE, Indian Territory, !
81 July lIth, Is47.


"AIy fortune leads TO traverse realms alone.
And find no spot of the world my own.n
That man is to bepitied upon whose
mind the dawn ofthe Sabbath exerts no
. Influence. awakens no thoughts or feelings
different from those of any other day.S
The tenant Of a rude hut where nature g.
men are wild, whose life may have been
spent IN the enjoymen. of all the social
and religious privileges the Sabbath con.
fers, sadly realizes howmuch is lost when
: the day cangonly be enjoyed in rest. go
IN these wild woods there are no church
going bellies" the spirits departure is not
sighed by the sound ofknell, but wept. oh
how sadly! by the desolate moan of the
winds. The preaching of the gospel i s
seldom performed, except in the winter
when the rivers are low, and the people
have received the returns for their cotton.
There is no section of our country DOS
sessing greater interest than the south.
west. Texas for the last fifteen years.has
= occupied The attention, not only of The
american people, but ofthe principal ma,
lions OF Europe. Its situation, soil and
climate; its commercial Importance and
political institutions give it peculiar and
exciting interest. Let "do to others as
we would be done by" be the motto of
the SIates,a land, ''mind your own busine $50
the principle that shall control the minds
OF american citizens, and the South with
lis valuable products and its peculiar in.
. situations will excite no other feeling than
prloe for Its Importance, and almost un.
limited means ofcontributing to the wealth
and power of the Union. The principal
9. products of this region are of the greatest
Importance to the world. Sugar is regard
ed as necessary of life, and for cotton
there is no substitute. The southern States
already supply the world with the latter,
and can with the former if necessary
Corn grows luxuriantly in all the States,
and north of32 degrees of latitude wheat,
rye and oats are cultivated with success.
The banks of all the rivers are low and
Iiableto overfows, they are often wide &
always extremely fertile. The southern
as portions OF Louisiana and Texas are ira.
Nersed IN everydirection by watercourses,
many OF them are napigable at certain
seasons of the year; the northern is une-
ven and covered with timber.pine and oak.
Steamboats, have assembled the Red river.
mouth, and were it not for the distractions
TO It's navigation, few years would make
II next to the Mississippi in commercial
Importance. Most of the rivers are very
narrow andcrooked, winding often ten or
twenty miles to gain half mile in a di.
~ rect line. The chimnies of steamboats,
are SO constructed that part ofthem can
p be readily taken down, which is often
" done TO prevent them from being knocked
down by the branches OF trees that meet
across the stream. It is said that steam,
boats on the Illinois are often obliged to
stop until a "Hoosier wagon" cross ing
,t the channel, gets out of the way; the de.
j lay is greater at the south where they
carry an ak to cut trees out of the way,
that have fallen across the river. -
Nothing can be imagined more singular
90 than steamboat making its way thou.
- sands OF miles, along a narrow winding
path through this dense dark wilderness of
woods Brushing by day along thick
r. cane breaks, sweeping by vines and over
hanging trees; and by night, with impen.
etrable darkness, beyond the CLEAN of
furnace fires and lamps, or the occasional
gltterlng ofthe water like silvery line.
IS upon. which the stars dance and the trees
cast their spectral shadows. To lie
down and sleep to the music of the echo
hat shouts back from the woody solitude
the hoarse puffofthe scape.pipe, land wake
uPto the ripping up of half The boat by
cotton wood log tearing its way through
Is machinery and berths,is extremely pleas
ss ant and romantic These thin .
are sometimes done and must continue to
De Tor some years yet. Blu: few OF the
rivers emPiying into the Mississippi and
"a heading near the Rocky Mountains have
been explored yet; and "the b'loys' from
Old Erell andcvery other quarter of the
globe, have q smart job before them to
clear up Uncle Sam'e garden patch, living
. between the Mississippi and the Rocky
= Mountains. Time, it is presumed. viii
accomplish this some day, and when the
vast tributes ofthis vast region shall be
81 gatheredupon the bosom ofthe "father of
waters and be poured into NewO orleans.
what must that city be / As it is inpos
slble tocalculate the amount of the pro. |
ducts ofthis mighty realm, SO immensely
= fertile, soswill it be impossible to SET lin.
Its to the extent and population of that
city. Pekin, Jsddo and London, in com.
parison, viii be very pleasant country
owns, 1saSE 5 &C - - R. 4
40 .ssafEFtEg8z -TTTT -7--ss vs. 8 e
An honest man., remarkable for the
/. singuIarity Of his opinions, had been sew
5 eral times on a jury, and always enter
tanned r0tinns If laxv nd 20 tStoils, "a