Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-02-23


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New Orleans, La
February 18th, 1849.
Nh deer friend
| used to think to myself how much
money and time it was THROWN away for moth
In in larnin me to spell and read and write
and all that sOrter thing, when thar want no
more use of 1t than toad has for pockets
but now | begin to think different the sub
iect as tie great Thomas Jefferson would say
for | can tell you of all the envioas things
see, and so you can be just as wise as if you
had seed them, with your own eyes Some
OF our boys told me as how had better keep
all of my observations, and print them In
book when / cum back, but You know | aint
of that karacter. goes in for the good
of my country and if do know little more
then most people, | amt goin to keep 1t TO
myself or charge them money for 1T, for as
our friend White the fidler sed. when Morriss
offered him fifty sents to play Old dan Tucker
Il don't play for moneys" them's my senti-
ments, and them as knows me knows, 1t, it
want for money that | spent my time and tai
ents in arguing, and supportin home-sted ex-
emtion, and land limitation laws, but from
pure conception of the interests of them delu-
ded victims the people-who wculd'en be-
lieve half the time that / was in ernest
But now | reckon if you Should think best
to have this letter published, that they would
begin 10 believe thing In what L say on
paper, when | am fur away from them, for
you know as Thomas Jefleason has It. SITS
distance lends enchantment to the view
But I amt goin to say emmy thing more
about politics, | will leave that subject alone
until | git to kaleforny, for there are at pre-
ent too many sights to see to leave emmy time
for that.
expect YOU have heard tell of Sante Lewis,
well at that town we got on board of regu-
lar steem boat, there want no ice in the river
nor nothin. she hem'd and hawed and whis-
tied awhile Just like old buck on a frosty
morning in December; she had great big
wheel on each side, an beta Of them common
ced turning around as natural as those
/ Bo5s old oX-cart, and then she turned around
as pretty and put off down the river like
\ hess race. But description is nothing, | cant
I give you an Idea, If you amt never seed
| steem boat-my advice is 10 loose no time in
/ going to Sante Lewis if it costs you all you've
got-for its rich | shant attempt to tell
you Of all the things we seed on the way for
! the steem boat went 50 fast that they all look
/ ed alike
New Orleans is a great place, the river
runs right along side of it like the town branch
does beside Mineral Point and the poles stuck
III the ships are as thick as the trees in Oneals
grove; and the houses are tremendous thick,
as soon as the boat cum near the shore | was
ing to jump of-5ut the captin seed me
and told me to hold on mint and then they
throwed rope to a fellow standing there who
hItched her to post, our ielers showed biz
/ door on the dwarf, and | gethered the trunk
with my clothes and iixins lii under one arm
and the box with my mining tools IN, under
/ the other, and made tall tracks for dry land
/ no sooner had slept on teTrtH TURNER, that
about forty get emen came croudng around
me as If 1 was some great wonder, and they
were as polite as could be, Known | was a
stranger, and recommending all of the best
taverus IN the city to me-offering to carry
my baggage for me; so set down my things
and shook hands with then all round but it
want IN me to impose upon their good nature;
L thanked them very K :ndy and tod them that
l could carry my own traps without troubling
them, with that took Lp m t:ui K and box,
and travelled up town; all the way up to the
! tavern, the FLOWS would come bowin and
scrapin and offering to take me enny where
wanted to g. in their fine carriages; not wish
ing to be troublesome / always declined their
offers as politely as | could. | had often
heard of the hospitality and ettyket of the
S3Utherners, but | dideut expect to find then,
all like brothers even to strangers. Oh its a
great place lis decidedly rich-Its Just like
summer here, every thing is greenland |
nave 0'Oii IS@i o1i4l5e anu leLloH trees CROWN
III the yards
Things a very cheep here, in particular
iuelry- / stopped in a very fine shop to-day.
where they were selling out at auction, the
Teller who was tending to the place was per-
feet gentleman; and took me off to one side
and let me into the whole secret, as how they
was selling off their stock a. great sacrafice
SO as to get of Immediately for kalaforny-L
bought gold watch and chain and everything
fer thirty five dolars-that would cost at least
a hundred dollars IN Mineral Point. If it
hadent been that was goin to Kalaforny nv
self, l would have bought out their whole
stock-enny how ! rather took them for one
watch-As | am going to the play tonight
must close, but | haint told you half what
have seen yet SO | will write to you agin be-
lore leave thus place, the next will be rich,
Very aftectionately,
our friend
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