New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-09-02
Editorial Correspondence.
s.rr Sr HARfy Mich. L. sur

Up the Lakes.
Editorial Correspondence.
sAUr ST. MARIE Mich. L. sup. Aug o. lsi-
A trip b. steam over the Great Lakes IL becom.
ins too common aud humdrum 70 be talked o.
Detroi, River-Litte Lake e. Clair-St Clair
River. aud the Flats, which, not having been
mentioned in the Resolutions OF g. cannot be
daepened under Loco-Foco Administration
Newport-the spacious Lake huron-Ihander
gay Islsnds-Presqu' lse-Bois Bianc-Macki'
nac-the Grand DetoDr-the St. Mays River
the lud.ans-the Saut itsell-it were Idle at ms
day To- say anything new Of them 10 that unlver-
sal traveller, the public. Tho whole IS as trite
now a. Detroit was ten or Buffalo twenty years
ago and the traveller who would be listened to
mus, be able b. discourse freshly and glby OF the
81 Louis the ST Croix Leech Lake, the Lake OF
the Woods, and the Red River Of the North j
might perhaps CLEAN something noteworthy # !
had three weeks TO spare for trip 10 La Pointe.
where the grand Indian Payment is TO take place
next month, and where some new specimens OF
the genuine, uncoutamlnated Indian
The stoc OF the wood.--lhe man without ear-
are 10 make their first appearance this season.
1 have n great mind 10 throw business 10 the
winds for once and waste month among the
wild woods and their human products, where no
babbement Of Taylor, Van Buren,, Cass and his
various lives and lette, or other city noises, are
heard or needed II did not care more for what
. taking place in poor old Ireland than for what
Is TO take place ia this country, should be liz
cined TO risk IT, But no.
A word. how ever, for the genuine Natives-the
a nd The Cavern.
ment s goods for the Annual Indian Payment are
here. and will go up on the Propeller to morrow
90 will the goods OF several traders but the Gov
ernments paymaster and cash have not yet ar
rived. and cannot ROW reach La Ponte TIL well
into September. Meantime many Indians have ar
rived and more are accumulsting there, consuming
their slender stocks Of food wasting the best por
ton Of the year, and contracting bad associations
snd habits. All this is very wrong, and the Gov
eminent is the wrong -doer. Many of the Indians
come FIVE and six hundred milk >, wait two or three
weeks. aud perhaps get five to seven dollars
worth eachol goods and hnery. Unless,hey are very
CAREFUL the clothing they must wear out IN the two
ioarncys is worth more than all they get TO say
nothing of the drunkenness they learn, the laoors
they neglect, aud the preiudices against Christi
anity and Civilization they cannot iail to lmoioe
Now Government only pays them at all because
1t owes them, and it is morally bound TO pay them
40 as TO do them some good. IL should pay each
tribe at some convenient point on its own terri
tory. where it would tender them plows, anvils
aud other needfal articles which cannot be backed
through Ave hundred miles OF Wilderness The
present plan of payment makes aharvest Tor trad
ers, spectators and whisky dealers at the ex
pense Of the Indians rights morals and comfort
Let il be forthwith changed. At all events, let us
have no more Of these cruel delays understand
many were bu, half paid last year.
Il think the fifty or sixty miles of steaming
no the ST. Mays can hardly be surpassed ON the
Co.tinsnt. Such a wealth of islands OF varied
size aud form, rising gently and gracefully from
the clear expasse OF the lordy river none OF them
hish but all dry and beautifully though not heavily
wooded--the pure and bracing breezes even IN
mldsummer-,he rich and diverse iohsge-the
Hudson comes not near it, aud doubt that the
Rhine or the St Lawrence can surpass H. BY
aud BY, when the islands shall have been denuded
Of their timber and inhnity OF charred and
blackencd stumps shall appear instead Of VIII
derness of stately verdurc, the iashionables will
head this way ia shoals to admire and be aston
ished. Now, though but six to ten hours from
M6ckinaw, which is on the high road to every
where, the visiters to the Saul are made up oi
copper-dggers explorers, Indians, Indian traders
Ac.-people utterly unknown IN Bond-street and
unpresentable about I nion-squarc
Not wholly, however. Prot AGasslz aud party
have been spending some time above, coast'ns
almost around Lake Superior, though hardly OF
never looking nj a mine ON their journey. They
have been studying the Geology and Zoology o
the region, and have ascer,ained facts OF th'
highest interest to the scientific world, which Wi
in due season be made public. Prof. a. wen
down yesterday on the Michigan
II gather that the Mining operations above
though lsnguidly pursued this season, have on th'
whole been fairly rewarded, and. there is now 4
prospect that many locations wall resemble
though probably very few will equal, the grei
Cliff Nine. which has already sent to market thu
season 500 tons Of Native Copper, worth at lcas
$4,000. 1t will yet send down to 600 tons, a
the season shall hold out. No other mine has ye
done any worth speaking OF. because "a
other b. fairly opened. The Cliff devOUre,
$1,000 s.. IS stockholders money before It gave
them a 81 ght Of a dividend when any other shs a.
wisely expcnd as much, its stockholders may lool
for results The folly Of expecting to rcAhz
without large outlay, scientific direction and econ
omic management is pretty thoroughly dispelle
by this time; the chance OF prohting by the mer
issue and sale Of Scrip IS wholly over Capita
skill. management. patience, are az essential
Profitable working here and, AFTER AL mining
minine here as everywhere But region reh'
in Copper can hardly be found in the world. tn
best discoveries this year have been made on an
near the Ontonagon River. The prospect OF IN
Minnesota Company hear most commended. b.
lam not yet within a hundred miles OF the LAX
Superior Mines. H. O.
vrKsoxr.-The Loco. Foco Convention OF tn
lid Conversational District have nominated ho'
Isaac f. RsDYIELD as candidate tor Congress
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